Quotes from Gene Hackman movies and TV shows - page 4 of 5

Rankin Fitch: ...the thing of it is, I don't give a shit. What's more... I never have.

Rankin Fitch: Somebody add "class-clown" to Mr. Easter's ever expanding resume.

Rankin Fitch: What do you hope to achieve if you win? You gonna bring Jacob Wood back to life? No. You just ensure that his wife goes to the cemetery in a better car, and that the heel that she snaps on the way to the graveside belongs to a $1,200 shoe. You get your name in the paper. But Jacob Wood and all the other gun violence victims remain rotting in their crypts.

Lex Luthor: We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Lex Luthor: Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Lex Luthor: Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It's your weight and my I.Q.

Lex Luthor: It's kryptonite, Superman. Little souvenir from the old home town. I spared no expense to make you feel right at home.

Superman: Is that how a warped brain like yours gets its kicks? By plotting the deaths of innocent people?
Lex Luthor: By causing the deaths of innocent people.

Lex Luthor: North... Why does he always go north?
Otis: He wants to ski?

Lex Luthor: Why didn't you go before we left?
Eve Teschmacher: That was two days ago.

Lex Luthor: Lenny, I've always considered you the Dutch Elm disease in my family tree.

Lex Luthor: Lenny, let's try and keep your IQ a family secret.

Superman: You'd risk world wide nuclear war for your own personal financial gain.
Lex Luthor: Nobody wants war. I just want to keep the threat alive.

Lex Luthor: You know what I can do with a single strand of Superman's hair?
Lenny: You can make a toupee that flies.

Lex Luthor: Destroy Superman!
Nuclear Man: First, I have fun.

Lex Luthor: He gets his energy from the sun. Without it, he's like you at night - useless.

Jack Ames: Fuck you.
Harry Ross: Just me? Not the horse I rode in on?
Jack Ames: Him too.

Little Bill Daggett: You just shot an unarmed man.
Bill Munny: He should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.

Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... To die like this. I was building a house.
Bill Munny: Deserve's got nothing to do with it.
[Aims gun.]
Little Bill Daggett: I'll see you in hell, William Munny.
Bill Munny: Yeah.
[Fires.].

Nicholas Earp: Remember this, all of you. Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.