Your favorite movie quotes

[Hurricane Jack]

"I'm having an old friend for dinner." — Hannibal Lector, The Silence of the Lambs

 

[Blackthorn]

You want to find garbage, go to a garbage dump. I look for three qualifications. They have to speak a little English. They have to want to make money. And above all, they have to be disposable.

Joe, in Bangkok Dangerous.

 

[Woodtroll]

“He’s an okay guy, if you don’t trust people anyway. Which I don’t. “

A character billed only as The Old Guy in the recent movie Marlowe. Quote may not be exact but it’s as close as I can remember.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“I'm afraid of being forgotten. I'm afraid I'll end up living a life like everyone else's and me being Bob Ford won't matter one way or the other.” — Robert Ford, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“Mighty early for a young person like yourself to be drinking. This hour is reserved for professionals.” — Itchy, Bloodworth

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“You boys thinkin' of gettin' in the skin trade? Well, let me set you straight. The gold I mine from this burg I don't get from diggin'. There ain't a shot of whiskey, a hand of poker, or any fella that wants to dip his wick that I don't get a cut of.”— Big Rump Kate, Broken Trail

 

[GHT]

 

[Fading Fast]

Good quote from a good movie that even had a respectable remake made in 2003, but the original, as almost always, is better.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“They tell me you’re a man with true grit.” — Mattie Ross, True Grit

(truly iconic)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“Oh, you’re the brief little girl with stories of El Dorado.” — Rooster Cogburn, True Grit

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“A man like that ain't worth the food he eats much less the price of a decent rope.” — Prentice Ritter, Broken Trail

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“She was a divorced woman talkin’ about decency.” — Rooster Cogburn, True Grit

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Talking about the war:

“Do you ever give your past life any thought?” — Bob Ford

Jesse squinted at him, “I don’t get your meaning.”

Bob managed a grin and asked, “Do you ever give any thought to the men you’ve killed?”

— The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“Why, by God, girl, that's a Colt's Dragoon! You're no bigger than a corn nubbin, what're you doing with all this pistol?” — Rooster Cogburn, True Grit

 

[Blackthorn]

Tisn't the castle that makes the king.

The Rising of the Moon (1957)

 

[ton312]

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
-JB BTILC

 

[Blackthorn]

Money isn't dirty. Just people.

Lona McLane in Pushover

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.” ― Raymond Chandler

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Framed & hung on the office wall for several yrs:

“Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair, or beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man and give some back.” — Al Swearengen, Deadwood

 

[Trenchfriend]

My favorite moment/line of Predator.

"There's something in those trees..."

I think, they should have bring much more psychological tension like this. Predator would have been awesome.