Quotes from Robert Duvall movies and TV shows - page 2 of 4

Felix Bush: I didn't want forgiveness. No. I needed to hold on to what I did, to be sick from it every day of my life.

Jesse James: I can't think of one, can you? I've searched back through the crannies of my mind. I can't think of one single honest man we ever robbed.
Frank James: 'Cause we robbed the robbers, that's why. Just the railroads, the banks, all the damned plughats.
Jesse James: Talk about givin' us amnesty. Hell, it's up to us to give amnesty to them.

Jesse James: We'll make this smug Yankee town weep, or we'll blow it to kingdom come.
Cole Younger: No, we ain't either, Jesse. Only a fool smokes up a town when it ain't necessary.

C.P. Kennedy: Now, what exactly is our target juror?
Judge Joseph Palmer: Intelligent people who will listen to instructions and follow the evidence.
Hank Palmer: Crackpots. Those I can persuade to swallow their own tongue. Anyone who's seen a Sasquatch. Moon-landing deniers. Those are our people.

Judge Joseph Palmer: You and I are finally done.
Hank Palmer: Oh, we're not done.

Judge Joseph Palmer: Lisa played hide the pickle with someone else.

Hank Palmer: Shit happens.
Judge Joseph Palmer: Like your marriage.

Buck Weston: I take a vitamin everyday. It's called a steak.

Buck Weston: You know how hard it's been for me ever since your mom died.
Phil Weston: She didn't die! She divorced you.
Buck Weston: Ehh... tomatoes, tomahtoes.

Phil Weston: Every time you say something back to me, it makes me love you more.
Buck Weston: Heh.

Frank Hackett: Mr. Jensen is unhappy with Howard Beale and wants him discontinued.
Diana Christensen: He may be unhappy, but he isn't stupid enough to withdraw the number one show on television out of pique.
Frank Hackett: Two billion dollars is not pique! That's the Wrath of God! And the Wrath of God wants Howard Beale fired.

Nelson Chaney: The affiliates won't carry it.
Frank Hackett: The affiliates will kiss your ass if you can hand them a hit show.

Frank Hackett: Well, the issue is: Shall we kill Howard Beale, or not? I'd like to get some more opinions on that.
Diana Christensen: I don't see we have any options, Frank. Let's kill the son-of-a-bitch.

Joseph Pulitzer: Know what I was doing at your age, boy? I was in a war. The Civil War.
Jack Kelly: Yeah, I heard of it. So, did ya win?
Joseph Pulitzer: People think war is about right or wrong and not power.
Jack Kelly: Yeah, I heard of that too. I don't just sell your papes, Joe. Sometime I read 'em.

Gally: So, where exactly are we going?
Red: About 200 miles this-a way. Down to old Mexico.
Gally: Mexico? No, I can't go to Mexico.
Red: Why not, you got tickets to the opry or something?

Red: I'm old, see.I'm broke and I'm alone. And I'm more 'scared of dying with somebody spoon feeding me oatmeal, than anything else in the world.

Doc Barlow: I'd say 'to good health, ' gentlemen, but then I'd probably be out of business, wouldn't I?
Boss Spearman: We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming.

Boss Spearman: She ought not to sneak up like that.
Charley Waite: She weren't sneaking. I scared that woman half to death.
Boss Spearman: Scared me a little bit too.

Boss Spearman: Man's got a right to protect his property and his life, and we ain't lettin' no rancher or his lawman take either.

Boss Spearman: It's a shame to go forever without takin' a taste of somethin'.