Quotes from Gene Hackman movies and TV shows - page 2 of 5

Avery Tolar: Do you think l'm talking about breaking the law?
Mitch McDeere: No, I'm just trying to figure out how far you want it bent.
Avery Tolar: As far as you can without breaking it.

Jimmy Doyle: Jack Daniel's.
French Barkeeper: Jacques qui?
Jimmy Doyle: Jackie, yeah, Jackie Daniel's.
French Barkeeper:?
Jimmy Doyle: Scotch, right there, El Scotcho.
French Barkeeper: Whisky?
Jimmy Doyle: Here we go.
French Barkeeper: Avec glace? (With ice?).
Jimmy Doyle: Yeah, in a glass.

Chili Palmer: So you make movies, huh?
Harry Zimm: I produce feature motion pictures. No T.V.

Harry Zimm: I once asked this literary agent, uh, what kind of writing paid the best... he said, "Ransom notes."

Coach Norman Dale: If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners.

Coach Norman Dale: I would hope you would support who we are. Not, who we are not. These six individuals have made a choice to work, a choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line 23 nights for the next 4 months, to represent you, this high school. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team.

Coach Norman Dale: Welcome to Indiana basketball.

Wilbur 'Shooter' Flatch: You gotta promise me you won't get kicked outta no more games.
Coach Norman Dale: Scout's honor.

Myra Fleener: A man your age comes to a place like this, either he's running away from something or he has nowhere else to go.
Coach Norman Dale: What I'm doing here has nothing to do with you.
Myra Fleener: Just stay away from Jimmy. I don't want him coaching in Hickory when he's fifty.

Coach Norman Dale: I love you guys.

Coach Norman Dale: What's gotten into you?
Strap Purl: The Lord! I can feel His strength.
Coach Norman Dale: Well... keep His strength in the dribble all right?

Coach Norman Dale: My practices aren't designed for your enjoyment.

Myra Fleener: Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place.
Coach Norman Dale: Why, do you have something against this place?

Coach Norman Dale: You know, if everyone is as nice as you, country hospitality is gonna get an awful name.
Myra Fleener: What a pleasant thing to say.

Coach Norman Dale: What's gotten into you?
Strap Purl: The Lord, I can feel his strength.
Coach Norman Dale: Well keep your strength in the dribble, all right?

Anderson: You know, if I were a Negro, I'd probably think the same way they do.
Ward: If you were a Negro, nobody would give a damn what you thought.

Mrs. Pell: It's not good for you to be here.
Agent Anderson: Why?
Mrs. Pell: It's ugly. This whole thing is so ugly. Have you any idea what it's like to live with all this? People look at us and only see bigots and racists. Hatred isn't something you're born with. It gets taught. At school, they said segregation what's said in the Bible... Genesis 9, Verse 27. At 7 years of age, you get told it enough times, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it... you breathe it. You marry it.

Anderson: Down here they say rattlesnakes don't commit suicide.

Ward: Just don't lose sight of whose rights are being violated.
Anderson: Don't put me on your perch, Mr. Ward.
Ward: Don't drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson.
Anderson: These people are crawling out of the sewer, MR. ward! Maybe the gutter's where we outta be.

Anderson: Make no mistake about it, Deputy. I'll cut your fucking head clean off and not give a shit how it reads in the report sheet.