Quotes from Robert Redford movies and TV shows

Our Man: This is The Virginia Jean with an SOS call, over.

Carl Bernstein: Boy, that woman was paranoid! At one point I - I suddenly wondered how high up this thing goes, and her paranoia finally got to me, and I thought what we had was so hot that any minute CBS or NBC were going to come in through the windows and take the story away.
Bob Woodward: You're both paranoid. She's afraid of John Mitchell, and you're afraid of Walter Cronkite.

Bob Woodward: Well, who is Charles Colson?
Harry Rosenfeld: The most powerful man in the United States is President Nixon. You've heard of him? Charles Colson is special counsel to the President. There's a cartoon on his wall. The caption reads, "When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."

Ben Bradlee: How much can you tell me about Deep Throat?
Bob Woodward: How much do you need to know?
Ben Bradlee: Do you trust him?
Bob Woodward: Yeah.
Ben Bradlee: I can't do the reporting for my reporters, which means I have to trust them. And I hate trusting anybody. Run that baby.

Bob Woodward: Who's Charles Colson?
Harry Rosenfeld: Sit down. You know I'm glad you asked me that question. The reason I'm glad you asked me is because if you had asked Simons or Bradlee they woulda said, "You know we're gonna have to fire this schmuck at once because he's so dumb."

Debbie Sloan: This is an honest house.
Bob Woodward: That's why we'd like to see your husband.
Carl Bernstein: Facing certain criminal charges that might be brought against some people that are innocent, we just feel that it would be.
Bob Woodward: It's really for his benefit.
Debbie Sloan: No, it's not.
Bob Woodward: No. It's not.
Hugh Sloan Jr.: Deborah, tell them to come in.

Paul Bratter: You don't just dive into a black salad. You have to play with it first.

Paul Bratter: Good-bye leaky closet.

Paul Bratter: Well, I'm 26, and cold as hell.

Corie Bratter: My divorce! When do I get my divorce.
Paul Bratter: How should I know? The marriage license hasn't even come in yet.

Corie Bratter: You're almost nearly perfect.
Paul Bratter: That's a rotten thing to say.

Paul Bratter: I'm home, castle.

Henry Brubaker: What happened? What happened to your eye?
Abraham Cook: Oh, got hit.
Henry Brubaker: With what?
Abraham Cook: With a baseball bat, a trace chain, and a rope with knots in it.

Henry Brubaker: I don't see playing politics with the truth.

[After blowing up an entire train car while only intending to blow open the door.]
Sundance: Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?

Butch: Kid, next time I say "Let's go someplace like Bolivia", let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Sundance: Next time.

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Bill McKay: So vote once, vote tuh-wice, for Bill McKay... you middle-class honkies.

Alexander Pierce: Captain, in order to build a better world, that sometimes means tearing the old one down. And that makes enemies.

Jim Grant: Secrets are a dangerous thing, Ben. We all think we want to know them, but if you've kept one to yourself, you come to understand that doing so, you may learn something about someone else, but you also discover something about yourself. I hope you're ready for that.

Mimi Lurie: The struggle doesn't end just because you got tired of it.
Nick Sloan: I didn't get tired of it. I grew up.
Mimi Lurie: Well, we promised each other we weren't going to do that.
Nick Sloan: Yeah, but it happened.