Best action movie quotes of 1974

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Melody: I didn't get your name.
Lightfoot: Well, I didn't give it to ya'. My name is Lightfoot.
Melody: "Lightfoot"?
Lightfoot: That's right.
Melody: That's a dumb name. I mean, what kind of person would name a kid that, ya' know?
Lightfoot: What's your name?
Melody: Melody.
Lightfoot: "Melody"? That's not a dumb name?.. Hey, maybe we had the same father?

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Larry Rayder: If a man was smart, you know what he'd do right now?
Deke: What?
Larry Rayder: I don't know. I thought maybe you'd know.

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Doug Roberts: I don't know. Maybe they just oughta leave it the way it is. Kind of a shrine to all the bullshit in the world.

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Athos: Leave now. Leave Paris, leave France. Get as far from that evil woman's grasp as you can.

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Sam Royce: Barbara, take off your pantyhose, damnit! You too, c'mon, take off your pantyhose.

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Goro: Ken is a tormented man. It is Eiko, of course, but it is also Japan. Ken is a relic, a leftover of another age, of another country.

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McQ (1974)

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McQ: Elaine, I need $5000.
Elaine: I hope it's for a woman.

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Diana 'T.N.T.' Jackson: Look, lady, or whoever you are, I accepted a ride from you to Joe's Haven. And that's all you need to know about me.
Elaine: Bitch.

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Terry's Father: Listen my son, TRUST NO ONE! You can count on no-one but YOURSELF. Improve your skills, son, harden your body, become a NUMBER ONE MAN! Do not ever let ANYONE beat you!

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Andrea Anders: I want him dead. Name your price. Anything. I'll pay it. You can have me too, if you like. I'm not unattractive.
James Bond: At last, you're starting to tell the truth.

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Gloria Swanson: Oh. My jewel case. It's bomb proofed, the insurance people insisted upon it. Oh. My idea of heaven is never to have to pack or unpack. Why didn't I think of that before. Here. Here. You know what? The hell with the jewelry let's put my book in here. Thank you. Here you are my darlings, it's all yours - I never wanted to have the damn thing published when I was alive anyway.

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Foxy Brown: I want the name, Link, the name.
Link Brown: Allright, it's Katherine Wall, but don't you go messing with her, baby, she's dangerous.
Foxy Brown: Katherine Wall? What's she got to do with the dope operation?
Link Brown: She's the protection, without her there's nothing. She runs a string of the finest call girls, yeah but they don't go out for just money, you gotta be somebody big, be a big man, a congressman, a judge, or on the grand jury.

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