Best action movie quotes of 1974

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot picture

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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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry picture

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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The Four Musketeers picture

Headsman: And two more pistoles for rowing the boat. I'm a headsman, not a sailor.

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Earthquake picture

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

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TNT Jackson picture

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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Foxy Brown: What? Link too?
Oscar: Yeah, they say it was those Steve Elias people.
Foxy Brown: Was he dealing again?
Oscar: Yeah, coke.
Foxy Brown: I told him to stay away from them.
Oscar: Yeah, but once those people pull you in, there's only ONE way they'll let you go.

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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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Airport 1975 picture

Joe Patroni: Y'know, sometimes the public's right to know gives me a huge pain in the ass.

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The Yakuza picture

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)

McQ picture

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

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