Tough Guy Quotes [Archive] - Straight Dope Message Board

Fubaya

03-23-2009, 10:34 AM

Anything Clint Eastwood says toward the end of Unforgiven, and maybe it's not so much that the quotes are tough, but that he is tough in the scenes because he just walks right into the hornet's nest, tells them he's there to kill them, kills them, and walks out. I'll just lift some from the IMDB page:

Will Munny [Eastwood]: Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend.
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Will Munny: I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned.
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Will Munny: Any man don't wanna get killed better clear on out the back.
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Will Munny: All right, I'm coming out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna shoot him. Any sumbitch takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him, but I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down.
...
You better bury Ned right! Better not go cuttin' up, nor otherwise harm no whores. Or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons-o-bitches.

RealityChuck

03-23-2009, 10:37 AM

Eddie Bartlet (in a WWI trench, looking over at the Germans): "I can't shoot that guy. He looked like he's thirteen."
George Hally (takes shot): "He won't get to be fourteen."

Alessan

03-23-2009, 10:45 AM

From Watchmen:

[spoken to the general population of a maximum security prison]

Rorschach: None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. YOU'RE locked up in here with ME.

DrDeth

03-23-2009, 11:22 AM

Here ya go:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092105/quotes

(Quotes from the film "Tough guys")

Soul

03-23-2009, 11:35 AM

Pretty much everything Liam Neeson said in "Taken" was pure bad-assery. I loved that movie.

Scumpup

03-23-2009, 11:41 AM

Charles Bronson, in voiceover, at the end of The Mechanic: "Bang, you're dead!"

tr0psn4j

03-23-2009, 01:08 PM

The obligatory Dirty Harry quote, "I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? "

Or a parody of the quote from Johnny Dangerously.

Danny Vermin: I got something to stop him.
Dutch: They made it for him special. It's an eighty-eight Magnum.
Danny Vermin: It shoots through schools.

cochrane

03-23-2009, 01:13 PM

Curly (Jack Palance) from City Slickers:

"I crap bigger than you!"

Zeldar

03-23-2009, 01:30 PM

For a movie that's riddled with great quotes, I suggest One-Eyed Jacks (1961) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055257/quotes).

Jack Batty

03-23-2009, 01:34 PM

I'm surprised it held out this long:

From Predator:

Poncho: You're bleeding, man. You're hit.
Blain*: I ain't got time to bleed.

*Jesse 'The Body' Ventura.

msmith537

03-23-2009, 03:18 PM

I'm surprised it held out this long:

From Predator:

Poncho: You're bleeding, man. You're hit.
Blain*: I ain't got time to bleed.

*Jesse 'The Body' Ventura.

You got time to duck?

From Ronin

"You ever kill a man?"
"I hurt someone's feelings once."

From Man on Fire

"I wish you had more time."

"Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting."

From Under Siege
"I hate guns"
"Yeah...me too."

"I thought you said you were a cook?"
"I also cook."

From The Rock
"Your best?! Losers always whine about doing their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen!"
"Carla was the prom queen."

From The Running Man
"HERE IS SUB ZERO!! NOW...PLAIN ZERO!!"

MadTheSwine

03-23-2009, 03:28 PM

From the movies or TV.I love this line from Johnny Ringo..

CURLY BILL
Know what I'd do? I'd take the
Deal then crawfish and drill that
Ol' Devil in the ass. How 'bout
You, Johnny? What would you do?

RINGO
I already did it.

What are your favorites?

This scene is from Tombstone ,by the way, and they are talking about selling their souls to the devil.

Another from the same movie

Wyatt Earp-You gonna do something or just stand there and bleed?

Sitnam

03-23-2009, 03:32 PM

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Oswald was a fag. " - McManus

"I have come to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I am all out of gum." - Nada (Roudy Roddy Piper)

"We're on an express elevator to hell; going down!" - Hudson

msmith537

03-23-2009, 03:35 PM

I'm your huckleberry.

carnivorousplant

03-23-2009, 03:48 PM

The scene from Casablanca where Major Strasser interviews Rick Blaine, notably when Strasser asks Blaine about the Germans invading "Your beloved Paris."
Blaine: "It isn't particularly my beloved Paris."
Strasser :"London?"
Blaine: "Ask me when you get there."
Strasser: "New York?"
Blaine: "There are certain areas of New York I wouldn't advise anyone to invade"

River Hippie

03-23-2009, 03:52 PM

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Pyle I'm gonna give you three seconds; exactly three-fucking-seconds to wipe that stupid looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you! ONE! TWO! THREE!

Typo Negative

03-23-2009, 03:54 PM

Malleus, Incus, Stapes!

03-23-2009, 03:58 PM

"I have come to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I am all out of gum." - Nada (Roudy Roddy Piper)

That quote has a special place in my heart. I can think of so many great variations.

Pushkin

03-23-2009, 04:14 PM

Does "I find your lack of faith, disturbing" count as a tough guy quote?

BMax

03-23-2009, 04:17 PM

"Get away from her, you BITCH!"
Not a guy, per se, but Sigourney was pretty tough in that forklift suit.

carnivorousplant

03-23-2009, 04:17 PM

Does "I find your lack of faith, disturbing" count as a tough guy quote?

Oh, yes.

KneadToKnow

03-23-2009, 04:19 PM

A lot of people quote this as a really tough line: I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
But to be honest, I think the reply shows a lot of balls:I gots to know.

Evil Captor

03-23-2009, 04:29 PM

"You're fired!" -- from True Lies.

Sitnam

03-23-2009, 04:44 PM

Does "I find your lack of faith, disturbing" count as a tough guy quote?
I saw a poster somewhere with Vader and the caption read:

"Bringing order to the galaxy, one force choke at a time."

tr0psn4j

03-23-2009, 04:49 PM

"Do or do not, there is no try." From the toughest, green Muppet ever.

Jack Bauer has said "Let's get something straight, kid. The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry you. Now get in the van."
That's complete badassery right there.

Or anything from boot camp in Full Metal Jacket.

MOIDALIZE

03-23-2009, 04:50 PM

Starship Troopers:

C'mon, you apes, you wanna live forever?!

pravnik

03-23-2009, 04:58 PM

My namesake, played by James Coburn in The Magnificent Seven:

Britt: "Nobody throws me my own guns and says run. Nobody."

Zeldar

03-23-2009, 05:07 PM

I contributed this to a recent famous quotes thread. You really need the entire scene for Fuck the Bonus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77uY4FTWwvE) to have its proper effect.

BMax

03-23-2009, 05:10 PM

Pacino had a few in Scarface

"Hey, Sosa. Let's get this straight now. I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one. You understand?"

"You wanna fuck with me? Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!"

pravnik

03-23-2009, 05:18 PM

An unlikely one I saw in "Men's Health" yesterday:

Dwight Schrute: "In the wild, there is no health care. In the wild, health care is, 'Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run. A lion eats me. I'm dead.' Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion. You're dead."

pravnik

03-23-2009, 05:22 PM

From Yojimbo:

Sanjuro: You're all tough, then?
Gambler: What? Kill me if you can!
Sanjuro: It'll hurt.

Jettboy

03-23-2009, 05:29 PM

There's one that stuck with me from an old sci-fi B-movie starring Dolph Lundgren, although I can't remember the title. Lundgren's partner, a tough-ass black dude, is undercover infiltrating this gang of educated, snooty white boys who wear Armani and drive sportscars.

Trying to make small talk, one of them asks the tough black dude, "What college did you attend?" in a Thurston Howell voice.

The tough black dude fires back, "I went to the University of Suck My Dick! You got anymore stupid questions, or are we gonna' do some business?!"

Bryan Ekers

03-23-2009, 05:43 PM

"You're such a tough guy, MacManus..." - Redfoot.

zamboniracer

03-23-2009, 05:45 PM

John Wayne had some good ones:

In "True Grit"
Ned Pepper: What's your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?
Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hands, you son of a bitch.

I don't remember which John Wayne movie this is from maybe "Flame of the Barbary Coast", but Wayne's playing cards and the dealer's cheating. Wayne said to the dealer:

"I'll take the next card off the top."

The Man In Black

03-23-2009, 05:49 PM

From "Man On Fire"
I forget the exact words, but here is the most of it:

Creasey: What did you do?
Bad Guy: I did what the boss told me to do.
Creasey: What the boss told you to do? Did you say good-bye to her?
Bad Guy: No.
Creasey: (Pulls out a picture of the murdered little girl) Here's your chance. Say good-bye.
Bad Guy: Good-bye.
Creasey: (Shoots Bad Guy dead)

tds1273

03-23-2009, 05:54 PM

Silent Bob's only line from Dogma. Said to a wide eyed passenger after throwing one(or both?) of the fallen angels off the train- "No ticket."

Darth Sensitive

03-23-2009, 06:19 PM

Silent Bob's only line from Dogma. Said to a wide eyed passenger after throwing one(or both?) of the fallen angels off the train- "No ticket."

Homage to Indiana Jones, when he tosses the Nazis off the blimp (I think? Maybe a train) - still a badass line.

Biffy the Elephant Shrew

03-23-2009, 06:30 PM

James Bond: "Exceptionally fine shot."

Thug: "I didn't know there was a pool down there."

KneadToKnow

03-23-2009, 06:44 PM

Two great tough-guy replies to "I love you":

Han Solo: "I know."

Bill Adama: "About time."

pravnik

03-23-2009, 06:53 PM

From Sin City:

Dwight: "I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman."

Der Trihs

03-23-2009, 07:27 PM

"Well, if we do fight, I'm only going to use my right thumb. My left thumb is much too powerful for you." : Sean Connery, Presidio

msmith537

03-23-2009, 07:31 PM

"You're fired!" -- from True Lies.

"Have you...killed people?"
"Ya but they were all bad."

I also liked when he explained exactly how he was going to kill everyone while under the truth syrum.

From Starship Troopers
"I'm promoting you to corporal...until you are killed or I find someone better."

No mention of Commando?
"Don't bother my friend...he's dead tired."

"Remember when I said I'd kill you last? I lied."

"What happened to Sully?"
"I let him go."

"Let off some steam, Bennett."

"Well, if we do fight, I'm only going to use my right thumb. My left thumb is much too powerful for you." : Sean Connery, Presidio

From Rising Sun

"I should warn you, I'm a black belt."
"Of course you are dear."
[kicks bouncers ass with his thumb]
"They say if you must resort to violence, you've already lost...what do you think?"

Stranger On A Train

03-23-2009, 07:34 PM

Nobody has yet quoted The Wild Bunch? "If they move, kill 'em!"

"Do you know anything about a guy going around playing the harmonica? He's someone you'd remember. Instead of talking, he plays. And when he better play, he talks." -- Cheyenne, Once Upon A Time In The West

"What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone...'Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this fuckin' line." -- Neil McCauley, Heat

"I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!" -- Vincent Hanna, Heat

"I once removed a guy's appendix with a grapefruit spoon." -- "Sam", Ronin

"You want to talk about an ambush? I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!" -- "Sam", Ronin

"My motherfucker is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him." -- Don 'Pinky' Pincus, Heist

"He ain't gonna shoot me?...Then he hadn't ought to point a gun at me. It's insincere." -- Joe Moore, Heist

"Do you wanna gossip or do you wanna shoot somebody?" -- Jones, Spartan

"Don't you teach 'em knife fighting. Teach 'em to kill. That way, they meet some sonofabitch who studied knife fighting, they send his soul to hell." -- MSgt Robert 'Bobby' Scott, Spartan

"Look, you go home some wave their hats, some turn their backs. It's all the same. None of them know where you've been." -- MSgt Robert 'Bobby' Scott, Spartan

"I'm from the United States of kiss-my-ass." -- Mike, House of Games

"That watch costs more than you car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here - close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave." -- Blake, Glengarry Glen Ross

Stranger

Morbo

03-23-2009, 07:35 PM

Heist

DeVito: "Wait! Don't you want to hear my last words?"

Hackman: "I just did." ::shoots him::

Khadaji

03-23-2009, 07:43 PM

From Watchmen:

[spoken to the general population of a maximum security prison]

Rorschach: None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. YOU'RE locked up in here with ME.

This is my favorite most-recent bad-ass quote. It was a great line.

But IMO, anything Clint Eastwood says in any of his bad-ass roles are still the best.

River Hippie

03-23-2009, 07:55 PM

True Lies reminded me of True Romance which has some good ones:

Coccotti: That smarts, doesn't it? Getting slammed in the nose. Fucks you all up. You get that pain shootin' through your brain, your eyes fill up with water. That ain't any kind of fun, but what I have to offer you, that's as good as it's gonna get. And it won't ever get that good again.

And
Virgil: Now the first time you kill somebody, that's the hardest. I don't give a shit if you're fuckin' Wyatt Earp or Jack the Ripper. Remember that guy in Texas? The guy up in that fuckin' tower that killed all them people? I'll bet you green money that first little black dot he took a bead on, that was the bitch of the bunch. First one is tough, no fuckin' foolin'. The second one... the second one ain't no fuckin' Mardis Gras either, but it's better than the first one 'cause you still feel the same thing, y'know... except it's more diluted, y'know it's... it's better. I threw up on the first one, you believe that? Then the third one... the third one is easy, you level right off. It's no problem. Now... shit... now I do it just to watch their fuckin' expression change.

and
Floyd: Don't condescend me, man. I'll fuckin' kill ya, man.

Plus
Everything Clifford Worley says to Coccotti took a LOT of balls.

Sitnam

03-23-2009, 08:52 PM

[turning a flamethrower on a bad guy]
Action Jackson: How do you like your ribs?

Ferd Burfel

03-23-2009, 08:59 PM

from Cool Hand Luke

Captain, Road Prison 36: What we got here is... failure to communicate.

Captain, Road Prison 36: You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right.

also, pretty much everything Al Swearengen said on Deadwood

AL: I’d say that’s naming horseshit virtue. Purposes butt up against each other, and
the strong call “consolidating” bending the weak to their will. (Captain Turner
steps out) And I’d add that whoever’s behind me is about to study his guts.

Al Swearengen: As damp as your hands are, why do you continuously lick your fuckin’ thumb?
E.B.: Habit, I suppose.
Al Swearengen: Could you learn the habit of lickin’ a fuckin’ stump?

Bayard

03-23-2009, 10:01 PM

There's cool menace in J.B. Books' motto, "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I expect the same in return." (John Wayne, in The Shootist)

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If I'm ever lined up against a wall to be shot, I hope I can come up with something as tough as Breaker Morant's final, "Shoot straight, you bastards." (Edward Woodward, Breaker Morant)

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The Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) is almost bored with his own toughness in the opening card game in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Card Player: "You haven't lost a hand since you got the deal. What's the secret to your success?"
Sundance: "Prayer."
...
Card Player: "I didn't know you was the Sundance Kid when I said you was cheating. If I draw on you, you'll kill me."
Sundance: "There's that possibility."

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Is it OK if I offer one from real life? Winston Churchill had some of the best tough guy lines. I love, "We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes."

Little Nemo

03-23-2009, 10:05 PM

Another Clint Eastwood line, from The Outlaw Josey Wales:

"I wish we had time to bury them fellas."
"To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms."

Isamu

03-24-2009, 12:51 AM

Another one from The Usual Suspects:

Interrogation Cop: You know what happens if you do another turn in the joint?
Hockney: Fuck your father in the shower and then have a snack? Are you going to charge me dickhead?

Argent Towers

03-24-2009, 01:01 AM

Bernard, I want you to know... that I try. When Jean and the kids at the school tell me that I'm supposed to control my violent temper, and be passive and nonviolent like they are, I try. I really try. Though when I see this girl... of such a beautiful spirit... so degraded... and this boy... that I love... sprawled out by this big ape here... and this little girl, who is so special to us we call her "God's little gift of sunshine"... and I think of the number of years that she's going to have to carry in her memory... the savagery of this idiotic moment of yours... I just go BERSERK!

cardinal_fang

03-24-2009, 01:56 AM

From Reservoir Dogs:

Mr. Blonde: Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?

From 300:

Persian General Slaughtered: Spartans, lay down your weapons.
King Leonidas: Persians! Come and get them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe)!

Courtesy IMDB.

cochrane

03-24-2009, 02:39 AM

From Planet of the Apes: "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"

From Rocky III:

Clubber Lang: I'm going to bust you up.
Rocky Balboa: Go for it.

Uncle Brother Walker

03-24-2009, 02:42 AM

Will Riker had one in ST:TNG: Riker participates in an officer exchange program with the Klingons. During a power struggle, Riker punches a Klingon superior officer as a rite of passage. When his replacement comes up to challenge Riker, Will says "...follow my orders. Or do you prefer the title of 'prisoner' to that of 'officer'? "

Okay, it's paraphrased, but I can't remember it all.

Although, I do try to use the this to that of that joke as much as I can. :D

Labdad

03-24-2009, 06:57 AM

One of my favorites from The Maltese Falcon:

Sam Spade: "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it!"

muldoonthief

03-24-2009, 09:18 AM

From Reservoir Dogs:

Mr White: If you shoot this man, you die next. Repeat. If you shoot this man, you die next.

Mr. Pink: I don't wanna kill anybody. But if I gotta get out that door, and you're standing in my way, one way or the other, you're gettin' outta my way.

From Pulp Fiction:

Winston Wolfe: If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Clean the fucking car.

Chefguy

03-24-2009, 09:26 AM

"Call it, friendo."

Zeldar

03-24-2009, 09:28 AM

"Call it, friendo."

Damn straight!

Merijeek

03-24-2009, 09:39 AM

Swayze, Roadhouse: I used to fuck guys like you in prison.

-Joe

pravnik

03-24-2009, 09:42 AM

Swayze, Roadhouse: I used to fuck guys like you in prison.

-JoeI think that was the bad guy character, rather than Swayze's protagonist. :D

Merijeek

03-24-2009, 09:48 AM

I think that was the bad guy character, rather than Swayze's protagonist. :D

Maybe so, but I like to thin of Swayze saying it.

-Joe

Sauron

03-24-2009, 10:01 AM

Also from Roadhouse, Wade Garrett (after kicking a man's knee, causing him to collapse and writhe in pain): "Damn, that hurts, don't it?"

It's not so much the line, but the way Sam Elliott says it; he's got a good-old-boy smile on his face, and he's almost jovial as he leans down to talk to the guy he just put on the ground.

Stranger On A Train

03-24-2009, 10:02 AM

Another from Spartan:
Grace: Nice knife.
Scott: Yeah, I got it off an East German fella.
Grace: He give it to you as a gift?
Scott: No...as I recall, he was rather reluctant to part with it.
Grace: I always knew you Marines were a weepy bunch of motherfuckers.
Scott: I think I got something in my eye.

And from Casino Royale
Dryden: Shame...we barely got to know each other. [drops hammer on an empty chamber]
Bond: I know where you keep your gun. I suppose that's something.[/indent]

Stranger

msmith537

03-24-2009, 10:11 AM

Predator 2
"All right....who's next?"

Air Force One
"GET OFF MY PLANE!"

Army of Darkness
"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me...Blow."

"Yo, she-bitch! Let's go!"

"Good, bad, I'm the one with the gun."

"Alright you Primitive SCREWHEADS, listen up! You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. YOU GOT THAT? "

"Now I swear the next one of you primates even TOUCHES me... "

"You got real ugly"

"Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?"
"Nope. Just me baby... Just me."

"Gimme some sugar, baby."

Passenger 57
"Always bet on black."

Total Recall
"Considah that a divorce!"

Chefguy

03-24-2009, 11:01 AM

Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a knife. This is a knife!"

lost4life

03-24-2009, 11:18 AM

Icerigger

03-24-2009, 11:20 AM

Zeldar

03-24-2009, 11:26 AM

Lucius Vorenus from the HBO series Rome. On being asked how he would go about finding Ceasar's stolen eagle banner.

"I would take captives from all the Gallic tribes, crucify them one-by-one until someone talks."

I guess he knows how to get the job done.

And to think that Lucius Vorenus is now whacking up bodies on Grey's Anatomy. It's sinful, but I guess he has to work.

KneadToKnow

03-24-2009, 11:27 AM

Patsy Parisi: "The last face you see won't be his, it'll be mine. It won't be cinematic."

tr0psn4j

03-24-2009, 11:31 AM

From Pulp Fiction:

Winston Wolfe: If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Clean the fucking car.

Or when he says something to the extent of "It's 45 minutes away, I'll be there in 10."

Doom Slinger

03-24-2009, 11:31 AM

From True Romance:
Vincent Concotti: Do you know who I am, Mr. Worley?
Clifford Worley: I give up. Who are you?
VC: I'm the Antichrist. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven you've never seen evil so singularly personified...as you did in the face of the man who killed you.

From Casino Royale (2006):
Dryden: How did he die?
James Bond: Your contact? Not well.
Dryden: Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn't worry. The second is...
[Bond shoots Dryden]
James Bond: Yes... considerably.

want2know

03-24-2009, 11:33 AM

Gotta have some Sean Connery here (from Last Crusade):

Nazi: "Vhat does the book tell you zat it does not tell us?"

Henry: "It tells me...that goose-stepping morons like yourselves should try reading books instead of BURNING THEM!"

and:

Henry: "I underestimated you, Walter. I knew you'd sell your grandmother for an Etruscan vase, but I never thought you'd sell out your country to the slime of humanity!"

Die Hard (of course):

McLane:

"Awww, no more bullets. Whaddaya think, I'm fuckin' STUPID?"

"WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL!!!"

"I'M GONNA FUCKIN' KILL YOU, THEN I'M GONNA COOK YOU, THEN I'M GONNA EAT YOU!"

Hans:

Holly: "You're nothing but a common thief!"
Hans: "I am an EXCEPTIONAL thief...and since I've graduated to kidnapping, you should be more polite!"

Agent Johnson (no, the other one): "Lose the grid, or you lose your job!"

Hans: "Well, this is not Hollywood, and John Wayne does not ride off into the sunset with Grace Kelly!"
McLane: "That was Gary Cooper, asshole!"

For me, the ultimate TV tough guy was Mick Belker from Hill Street Blues. I could go on and on with his quotes, but one stands out in my mind. Belker has just arrested two rich kids who were goading homeless people to kill themselves. He's got them on the edge of a rooftop scared shitless, and says:

"You see that street? That's Fulton Street! My father was a tailor there. He didn't have two nickels to rub together, but he was a MAN, because he HAD A HEART!"

Robot Arm

03-24-2009, 11:35 AM

Where's the love for Evil Roy Slade?

Girlfriend - I'm sad that there's so much evil in your heart.
Evil Roy- It's in my heart and in my hands, in my eyes - and a lot in my feet, I love kicking...

Girlfriend - Let's try some arithmetic. If you had six apples and your neighbor took three apples. What would you have?
Evil Roy - A dead neighbor and all six apples.

Sidekick (playing poker) - I have kings with an ace!
Evil Roy - I have threes with a gun.
Sidekick - You win!

Evil Roy - I ain't giving up. I've worked hard, it took me years to work my way to the bottom.Good lines, but for all his genius, John Astin is not a tough guy.

The obligatory Dirty Harry quote, "I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? "I've always wanted to ask this. I've seen this movie a few times, but only on TV, so I can't be sure of the editing. In the final chase at the quarry (or whatever it was), Harry fires five times, and kills Scorpio with number six. But at the bank robbery early in the film, I only count about three shots before he faces down the guy. Has anyone who's seen this unedited counted the shots in the earlier shootout, and should Harry's gun really be empty?

I do like how Eastwood varies the line. The first time is casual and confident, and the guy backs down to Harry's bluff. The second time, he's goading Scorpio; he wants him to reach for that gun.

Elendil's Heir

03-24-2009, 11:40 AM

Too late in coming to this thread. A lot of my favorites have been taken:

"Try and kill me!"
"It'll hurt." - Yojimbo

"Honey, did you... kill people?"
"Ja... but they were all bad." - True Lies

"Shoot straight, you bastards - don't make a mess of it!" - said to a firing squad in Breaker Morant

Rather than the usual but overfamiliar quotations from Patton, I give you this (courtesy of IMDB.com):

Translator: The general would like to know if you will drink a toast with him.
Patton: Thank the general and tell him I have no desire to drink with him or any other Russian son of a bitch.
Translator: [Nervous] I can't tell him that!
Patton: Tell him, every word.
Translator: He says he will not drink with you or any Russian son of a bitch.
Russian general: [In Russian] Tell him he is a son of a bitch, too. Now!
Translator: [Very nervous] He says he thinks you are a son of a bitch, too.
Patton: [laughing] All right. All right, tell him I'll drink to that; one son of a bitch to another.

Also [I]In the Line of Fire; Horrigan (Clinton Eastwood) is a Secret Service agent:

Lilly Raines: I heard you and Nixon didn't get along.
Frank Horrigan: Now, that's not true. His chief of staff, though, that was a different story. I remember one time, he wanted me to go out and get rid of some anti-war protestors. I said no, talking about the Bill of Rights and so on. And he says, "Look, when I'm talking to you, I am the President." I said, "The President? That's funny, you look more like a sack of shit in a cheap suit to me, sir!"
Lilly Raines: [laughs] Well, I like the "sir." It's a classy touch.
Frank Horrigan: I thought so.

Frank Horrigan: What to do you see when you're in the dark, and the demons come?
Mitch Leary: I see you, Frank. I see you standing over the grave of another dead President.
Frank Horrigan: That's not going to happen.

"Give me a martini."
"Certainly, sir. Shaken or stirred?"
"Do I look like I give a damn?" - Casino Royale (brilliantly subversive of Bond's catchphrase, IMHO)

"I... have had enough... of you!" - Said by Kirk to Kruge as he kicks him in the face and off a cliff, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

TruCelt

03-24-2009, 11:53 AM

"Do or do not, there is no try." From the toughest, green Muppet ever.

I have to counter that with:

"Piggy, [Gulp] will you marry me?"

I mean really, what could be braver? LOL!

Zeldar

03-24-2009, 11:54 AM

Or when he says something to the extent of "It's 45 minutes away, I'll be there in 10."

Or, "Let's don't start sucking each other's dicks just yet."

Kalhoun

03-24-2009, 11:59 AM

"Say 'what' again, muthafuckah!"

TruCelt

03-24-2009, 12:01 PM

Holly Hunter:

"Give me that Baby you Warthog from Hell!!!"

Zeldar

03-24-2009, 12:04 PM

"Say 'what' again, muthafuckah!"

Kalhoun, if I wasn't already married, and you weren't too, I'd ask you to marry me! Oh, the fun we could have!

Little Nemo

03-24-2009, 12:37 PM

Bolt: I gotta warn ya, going into the belly of the beast - danger at every turn.
Rhino: I eat danger for breakfast!
Bolt: You hungry?
Rhino: Starving!

Southern Yankee

03-24-2009, 12:43 PM

From this season's 24.

Jack Bauer: "With all due respect, Madam President.... ask around."

Elendil's Heir

03-24-2009, 12:57 PM

From this season's 24.

Jack Bauer: "With all due respect, Madam President.... ask around."

Context, please?

Chefguy

03-24-2009, 01:00 PM

(paraphrasing Billy Jack): "In a moment, I'm going to kick you up side your head...and there's nothing you can do about it."

Other guy: "Oh yeah?"

Billy Jack: "Yeah." WHACK!!

Little Bill (as he's kicking the crap out of English Bob): "You probably think I'm kickin' you, Bob!"

HubZilla

03-24-2009, 01:12 PM

Does "I find your lack of faith, disturbing" count as a tough guy quote?

I like this one better:

"Perhaps you think you are being treated unfairly?"

lost4life

03-24-2009, 01:22 PM

Good lines, but for all his genius, John Astin is not a tough guy.

Oh, sorry. I'll just sit over here and keep quiet...carry on.

GargoyleWB

03-24-2009, 01:37 PM

How about some tough girl quotes?

From Crouching Tiger...

Jen Yu: "Who are you?"
Gou Jun Pei: "I'm Shining Phoenix Mountain Gou."
Jen Yu: "Gou? I hate that name. It makes me puke! Too bad you're named Gou. You'll be the first to feel my sword today."

and

Jen Yu: "Who am I? I am the Invincible Sword Goddess, armed with the incredible Green Destiny! Be you Li or Southern Crane, lower your head and ask for mercy. I am the desert dragon. I leave no trace. Today I fly over O Mei. Tomorrow, I'll kick over Wudan Mountain!"

and From Aliens:

Hudson: "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
Vasquez: "No. Have you? "

Kalhoun

03-24-2009, 01:47 PM

Kalhoun, if I wasn't already married, and you weren't too, I'd ask you to marry me! Oh, the fun we could have!

I know!

tr0psn4j

03-24-2009, 01:55 PM

Context, please?

She was questioning Jack's loyalty to protecting the POTUS.

I'm paraphrasing but it was something like "You're a wanted felon blah blah blah, how can I trust that you'll protect me"

"With all due respect, Madame President, ask around."

mbh

03-24-2009, 03:05 PM

From City Slickers:

Billy Crystal: "Hi, Curly. Kill anyone today?"
Jack Palance: "Day ain't over yet."

In one of the Dirty Harry movies, Harry tells a crook to behave. The crook says something to the effect of "Who's going to make me?"
Harry says, "Oh, just me and Smith. And Wesson."

From Patton: "No son of a bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. Wars are won by making the OTHER son of a bitch die for HIS country."

James Earl Jones, in Conan the Barbarian: They shall all drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night.

A lot of people like Schwartzenegger's line about what is best in life: "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." But he was actually quoting Genghis Khan:
Man's highest joy is victory:
To conquer one's enemies and to pursue them,
To make their beloved weep,
To deprive them of their possessions,
To ride on their horses,
And to embrace their wives and daughters.

HoboStew

03-24-2009, 03:07 PM

Another Clint Eastwood line, from The Outlaw Josey Wales:

"I wish we had time to bury them fellas."
"To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms."

One of my alltime favorites:

BH: I'm looking for Josey Wales.
JW: That would be me.
BH: You're wanted, Wales.
JW: Reckon I'm right popular. You a bounty hunter?
BH: Man's gotta do something for a living these days.
JW: Dying ain't much of a living, boy.

Elendil's Heir

03-24-2009, 03:31 PM

She was questioning Jack's loyalty to protecting the POTUS.

I'm paraphrasing but it was something like "You're a wanted felon blah blah blah, how can I trust that you'll protect me"

"With all due respect, Madame President, ask around."

Thanks!

Here's another from Breaker Morant, paraphrased:

"We didn't have fancy courtrooms out in the bush. No, sir, we didn't have motions and objections and briefs. We did what we had to do with our prisoners. We got them and we shot them under Rule .303!"

Der Trihs

03-24-2009, 03:51 PM

"I'm going to let you live . . . longer than you want to." - Spawn, in the HBO ( IIRC ) cartoon version.

KneadToKnow

03-24-2009, 03:52 PM

Mickey: "Don't you wanna hear my last words?"
Joe: "I just did."

Heist

Sauron

03-24-2009, 04:00 PM

Thought of another one, from Sin City:

Cardinal Roark, who has orchestrated some very bad things during the movie, is being threatened by Marv:

Roark: Will that bring you satisfaction, my son? Killing a helpless old fart?

Marv: Killing? No. No satisfaction. Everything up to the killing, though ... that will be a gas.

Lumpy

03-24-2009, 04:33 PM

A couple of Tough Gal quotes:

"I am Death Incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me." -Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5.

"I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eye teeth to end you. I swear it! I'm coming for all of you!" -Laura Roslyn, Battlestar Galactica.

One from the Punisher (comic, not movie): "Only tough guys I know are in the pen or dead"- just before he puts several thugs in the latter category.

Max Torque

03-24-2009, 04:35 PM

"Do or do not, there is no try." From the toughest, green Muppet ever.

I prefer a slightly later line, after Yoda levitates Luke's X-wing out of the swamp:

Luke: Master, I...I don't believe it!
Yoda: That is why you fail.

From the underappreciated Cutthroat Island:

Pirate: We can't leave yet, Captain, we don't have enough food on board.
Dawg Brown: We need less mouths. (shoots the pirate)

pravnik

03-24-2009, 05:08 PM

A couple of gems I ran across...from Errol Flynn's 1937 The Adventures of Robin Hood:

Lady Marian Fitzswalter: Why, you speak treason!
Robin Hood: Fluently.

1950's The Gambling House:

Marc Fury: If you try to stop me you're going to end up in an alley somewhere with the cats licking you.

Argent Towers

03-24-2009, 05:16 PM

Sicilians were spawned by niggers.

Chefguy

03-24-2009, 05:35 PM

How about some tough girl quotes?

"How's about some fire, Scarecrow?"

"And your little dog, too!"

Typo Negative

03-24-2009, 06:14 PM

Charley Partana

If he was so fuckin' smart, how come he's so fuckin' dead?

Elendil's Heir

03-24-2009, 08:12 PM

Sicilians were spawned by niggers.

Um... movie cite?

Beware of Doug

03-24-2009, 08:18 PM

Enginerd

03-24-2009, 08:46 PM

Um... movie cite?

Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken in True Romance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqccyUpnZwA). Hopper's speech starts around 6:10.

Darwin's Finch

03-24-2009, 08:57 PM

My father hung me from a hook once. Once.

Another tough gal quote from Babylon 5: "Only one human captain has ever survived battle with the Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else." -- Delenn

Der Trihs

03-24-2009, 09:49 PM

Another Delenn one, referring to a race that attacked the Minbari : "We tracked them to their homeworld, and taught them the depth of their mistake."

Uncle Brother Walker

03-25-2009, 12:49 AM

DAMMIT! I forgot AOD! :rolleyes:

"Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart."

I feel inadequate.

movingfinger

03-25-2009, 01:11 AM

In "Stick" Burt Reynolds has gotten the albino hitman out on a balcony where he is just barely hanging on to the railing. Below, about ten stories below, is a concrete patio and off a bit is a pool. Since the albino hitman has been trying to kill Reynolds, Burt is not about to do anything to help him , but he offers a bit of advice:

"When you can't hold on any longer, if you push of a bit when you fall, you might just be able to hit the water."

Kalhoun

03-25-2009, 07:18 AM

Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken in True Romance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqccyUpnZwA). Hopper's speech starts around 6:10.

That is the single best performance of Hopper's career. What a great scene!!!

Elendil's Heir

03-25-2009, 08:10 AM

Also from Casino Royale:

Vesper: Now, having just met you, I wouldn't go as far as calling you a coldhearted bastard…
Bond: No, of course not.
Vesper: But it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine. You think of women as disposable pleasures rather than meaningful pursuits. So, as charming as you are, Mr. Bond, I will be keeping my eye on our government's money and off your perfectly formed arse.
Bond: You noticed.
Vesper: Even accountants have imagination. How was your lamb?
Bond: Skewered. One sympathizes.

RiverRunner

03-25-2009, 10:22 AM

Westley: I'm not left-handed either.

Love Rhombus

03-25-2009, 04:53 PM

It's not so much a line as just an expression of emotion: Arnold's roar of challenge near the end of Predator. Just the pure caveman sound of it still gives me chills.

From They Live
Nada: I got news for 'em. There's gonna be hell to pay. 'Cause I ain't Daddy's little boy no more.

From Conan the Destroyer
Conan: Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!

Wakinyan

03-25-2009, 05:29 PM

Can girls play?

You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow.

JCorre

03-25-2009, 05:48 PM

From Conan the Destroyer
Conan: Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!

Sorry to split hairs but this was actually from Conan the Barbarian

Great quote anyway!

Pushkin

03-26-2009, 03:35 AM

A few Ash quotes would surely suffice for this thread?

"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun"
"This is my boomstick"
"Swallow this" :D

Malleus, Incus, Stapes!

03-26-2009, 08:42 AM

Do tough-guy quotes that should have been spoken count?

I've always wanted the tough guy in a story to say

"Hello. My name is X. My friends call me [nickname]. My enemies call me 'Arrrgh!'. You can call me Sir."

Alternatively:

"Hi. My name is X. Your name is mud."

River Hippie

03-26-2009, 09:30 AM

Watched Casino again last night.

(After torturing Tony Dogs for two days)

Nicky Santoro: Listen to me Anthony. I got your head in a fuckin' vise. I'll squash your head like a fuckin' grapefruit if you don't give me a name. Don't make me have to do this, please. Don't make me be a bad guy, come on.
Tony Dogs: Fuck you.
Nicky Santoro: This motherfucker, you believe this? Two fucking days and nights! Fuck me? *Fuck me?* You motherfucker!
[turning the crank]
Nicky Santoro: Give me the fuckin' name!
(Tony's eye pops out)
Tony Dogs: Ch-Charlie M.
Nicky Santoro: Charlie M?
Tony Dogs: Charlie M.
Nicky Santoro: Charlie M? You made me pop your fuckin' eye out of your head to protect that piece of shit? Charlie M? You dumb motherfucker!
Tony Dogs: Kill me.
Nicky Santoro: I'll kill you. You motherfucker you! Frankie, do him a fuckin' favor.

(later to a banker)

Nicky Santoro: I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning I'll get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and, uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your fuckin' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time that I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I'll split your fuckin' head open again. 'Cause I'm fuckin' stupid. I don't give a fuck about jail. That's my business. That's what I do.

The Walking Dude

03-26-2009, 09:44 AM

Not from a tough guy movie, but definitely a tough guy.

Major League - Pedro Cerrano: I look after you. I do a lot for you. If you do not help me now, I say fuck you Jobu, I'll do it myself.

davekhps

03-26-2009, 10:44 AM

As previously noted, anything Ian McShane says on "Deadwood" automatically qualifies.

That said, one of my favorite quotable lines from the show was spoken by ultimate tough guy Powers Boothe

"Why don't you come stand over here by what the Dagos call my sensitive side. . ."

Also, pretty much everything Boothe says in "Red Dawn" is extra-deep-fried awesome.

Jodi

03-26-2009, 11:28 AM

The best tough-guy quote I've heard recently was from Ty Murray, champion bullrider, on Dancing With The Stars. The host asked him "Are you ready??" and he said, "You're never ready; it's just your turn."

msmith537

03-26-2009, 11:29 AM

A few Ash quotes would surely suffice for this thread?

"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun"
"This is my boomstick"
"Swallow this" :D

You can never have enough Ash quotes.

Also, pretty much everything Boothe says in "Red Dawn" is extra-deep-fried awesome.

"Well, who IS on our side?"
"Six hundred million screaming Chinamen."
"Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen."
"There were..."

From The 5th Element
"The object will reach Earth in one hour and 53 minutes."
"I'll call you in two hours."

"ANY ONE ELSE WANT TO NEGOTIATE?"

ArrMatey!

03-26-2009, 02:04 PM

From Heavy Metal:

"Hangin's too good for him. BURNIN's too good for him! He aught to be torn into itty bitty pieces, AND BURRIED ALIVE! I'll kill him! KILL! KILL! KILL!"

Sitnam

03-26-2009, 04:03 PM

Is it OK if I offer one from real life? Winston Churchill had some of the best tough guy lines. I love, "We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes."
Kruschev and JFK are at the White House getting their picture taken and Nikita leans over and says, "History is on our side, we will bury you." Yeah he meant 'we will outlast you', but it's cold blooded the way John heard it.

tr0psn4j

04-02-2009, 01:32 PM

Just remembered this one that has kind of stuck with me even though I don't think it's oen of the well known lines in Pulp Fiction. Anyway, Zed was shot and after Butch asking Marsellus a question he responds, "Naw, I'm far from alright."

Seems like I got the quote a little wrong though. Anyway, I pulled the one below from IMDB.

Butch: You okay?
Marsellus: Naw man. I'm pretty fuckin' far from okay.
Butch: What now?
Marsellus: What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.
Butch: I meant what now between me and you?
Marsellus: Oh, that what now. I tell you what now between me and you. There is no me and you. Not no more.

drm

04-02-2009, 02:04 PM

"Call it, friendo."

I like that, but this is all kinds of badass:

Llewelyn Moss: [talking over phone] Hello?
Anton Chigurh: Yes?
Llewelyn Moss: Is uh, Carson Wells there?
Anton Chigurh: Not in the sense that you mean. You need to come see me.
Llewelyn Moss: Who is this?
Anton Chigurh: You know who it is. You need to talk to me.
Llewelyn Moss: I don't need to talk to you.
Anton Chigurh: I think you do. Do you know where I'm going?
Llewelyn Moss: Why would I care where you're going?
Anton Chigurh: I know where you are.
Llewelyn Moss: Yeah? Where am I?
Anton Chigurh: You're in the hospital across the river, but that's not where I'm going. Do you know where I'm going?
[blood flows on the floor, and so Chigurh lifts his feet and rests them on the bed]
Llewelyn Moss: Yeah, I know where you're going.
Anton Chigurh: Alright.
Llewelyn Moss: You know she won't be there.
Anton Chigurh: It doesn't make any difference where she is.
Llewelyn Moss: So what are you going up there for?
Anton Chigurh: You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?
Llewelyn Moss: Nope.
Anton Chigurh: I think you do. So this is what I'll offer - you bring me the money and I'll let her go. Otherwise she's accountable, same as you. That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.

Crown Prince of Irony

04-02-2009, 02:39 PM

My favs from Big Trouble in Little China:

Jack Burton: Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president.

Jack Burton: Hollow?
Wang Chi: Hollow.
Jack Burton: Fuck it. (Jack whips his trusty boot knife through the wall)

Margo: God, aren't you even gonna kiss her goodbye?
Jack Burton: Nope.

Jack Burton (to Lo Pan): Are you crazy... Is that your problem?

Crown Prince of Irony

04-02-2009, 02:52 PM

One more from a real-life tough guy, Winston Churchill (speaking of his early military career):

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

ElvisL1ves

04-02-2009, 03:22 PM

How did this thread last so long without

"I have HAD it with these motherfuckin' SNAKES on this motherfuckin' PLANE!"

carnivorousplant

04-02-2009, 04:19 PM

The War Wagon.

The bad guys sneak up behind Jackson (John Wayne) and Lomax (Kirk Douglas).
They draw, turn and shoot the bad guys at the same time.

Lomax: "Mine hit the ground first."
Jackson: "Mine was taller."

KneadToKnow

04-02-2009, 04:38 PM

"You humans and your guns."

Lord Ashtar

04-02-2009, 05:05 PM

Assuming the one above me is a Magneto quote from X-Men, let me add another.

Wolverine: I'm not leaving without her.
Magneto: Yes, you are. (flings him about a mile away)

kurilla

04-02-2009, 05:06 PM

From Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns:

It was tough work dragging 250 pounds of sociopath to the top of Gotham Tower, tallest building in the city. The scream alone is worth it.

And (slightly paraphrased): From this height, it will take a full ninety seconds before he hits the ground. Contrary to popular belief, you're likely to stay conscious all the way down. Thoughts like that keep me warm at night.

From Iron Man:
He's all yours.

And from an earlier season of 24 (I can't believe I'm the first one to mention this):
I'm gonna need a hacksaw.

KneadToKnow

04-02-2009, 05:29 PM

And from an earlier season of 24 (I can't believe I'm the first one to mention this):
I'm gonna need a hacksaw.

Oooooooo. Good one.

And you called it, Lord Ashtar. Here's another favorite of mine from the X-Men films:

"When will these people learn how to fly?"

BrainGlutton

04-02-2009, 05:58 PM

From Leather Jackets: (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104696/)

"Those guys [Vietnamese gangsters] have a weird code of honor! If you cross them they don't just kill you, they kill everybody you ever fucking met!"

BrainGlutton

04-02-2009, 06:40 PM

Hellbound: Hellraiser II: Pinhead to Kirsty: "But trick us again, and your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!"

Can't get much tougher than a guy who can make a threat like that and you know he can make it stick.

KneadToKnow

04-02-2009, 06:44 PM

From Oldboy: "Anyone here with an AB blood type, raise your hand."

msmith537

04-08-2009, 11:59 AM

Thought of another one, from Sin City:

"I know eatin' people is pretty fuckin' weird."

RiverRunner

04-08-2009, 12:54 PM

I have one that's sort of inverted, in that the bad guy makes someone else say it. From Die Hard:

Gruber (I think): Who's in charge here?

Management type: I am.

Gruber shoots him.

Gruber: One more time -- who's in charge here?

Other hostages: You are!

RR

Baal Houtham

04-08-2009, 01:34 PM

Westley: I'm not left-handed either.

I think the tough guy quote from that movie is:
We are men of action, lies do not become us.

KneadToKnow

04-08-2009, 02:15 PM

Are you sure that's from Die Hard, RR?

muldoonthief

04-08-2009, 02:26 PM

Are you sure that's from Die Hard, RR?

I was going to ask the same question. It's from Passenger 57 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N6UjnWEy4). Go about 50 seconds into the video.

Lochdale

04-08-2009, 02:45 PM

Walter Jack Palance from Shane:

"Prove it"

He had like 14 lines in that movie and each one was bad ass.

Rufus Xavier

04-08-2009, 02:52 PM

Here's my all time favorite, from Bugsy:

Joey Adonis: You can suck that apology right out of my dick.

Of course, after that, Bugsy beats the crap out of him, but I still think it's an incredibly bad-ass line.

KneadToKnow

04-08-2009, 03:01 PM

I was going to ask the same question. It's from Passenger 57 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N6UjnWEy4). Go about 50 seconds into the video.

Okay, very good. I remembered the exchange and just could not place it in Die Hard. Seeing as I watch Die Hard about three times a year, that suggested strongly to me that there was some confusion somewhere. :)

RiverRunner

04-08-2009, 03:56 PM

Hmmmm. I can accept that it wasn't Die Hard, but I've never seen Passenger 57.

How veddy odd. A mind is a terrible thing.

RR

ElvisL1ves

04-08-2009, 03:59 PM

From Die Hard:
Yippee ki yay, motherfucker.

carnivorousplant

04-08-2009, 04:18 PM

He had like 14 lines in that movie and each one was bad ass.

Wilson had killed the Southern guy who called him "A lowdown Yankee liar."

Shane: So you're Jack Wilson.
Jack Wilson: What's that mean to you, Shane?
Shane: I've heard about you.
Jack Wilson: What have you heard, Shane?
Shane: I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar.
Jack Wilson: Prove it

And Shane kills him.
Cool.

Raguleader

04-08-2009, 04:55 PM

From Due South, "The Deal", after Detective Vecchio has beaten Don Zucco senseless and demanded that he let a shoemaker who sparked his ire go on about his business unhindered, or else Vecchio will tell everyone he comes across how he beat the crap out of Zucco. Zucco agrees, and Vecchio walks out to leave:

Don Zucco: "I didn't say nothin about you being safe!"
Detective Vecchio: "I didn't ask for that."

Bayard

04-08-2009, 05:02 PM

Raguleader

04-08-2009, 05:10 PM

Aw, man, I loved that show. Thanks for reminding me of it. I think I need to revisit my Netflix queue now.

Amazon.com appears to have all three seasons of the show for just a touch over $30.

River Hippie

04-08-2009, 05:24 PM

I rewatched Kill Bill 1&2 this week. A goldmine of tough guy and girl quotes (thanks, IMDb).

KB1
The Bride: Those of you lucky enough to have your lives, take them with you. However, leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now.
The Bride: [in English]Except you, Sofie! You stay right where you are!
[I]later
The Bride: [English] I've kept you alive for two reasons. And the first reason is information.
Sofie Fatale: [French] Burn in hell, blonde bitch! I'll tell you nothing!
The Bride: [English] But I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss. Give me your other arm!
[Sophie screams]

KB2
Elle Driver: Sounds like we got a deal. One condition.
Budd: What?
Elle Driver: She must suffer to her last breath.
Budd: Well, that little darlin', I can pretty much damn well guarantee.
Elle Driver: Then I'll see you in the morning... millionaire.
later
Budd: Looky here, bitch, this is a can of Mace. Now, you're going underground tonight, and that's all there is to it. But, when I bury you, I was gonna bury you with this.
Budd: [holds up a flashlight alongside the can of Mace]
Budd: But if you're gonna act like a horse's ass, I'll spray this whole goddamn can... RIGHT IN YOUR EYEBALLS!
Budd: [holds can of Mace right in front the Bride's right eye]
Budd: I'll burn 'em out of your fuckin' head. Then you'll be blind, burnin', and buried alive. So what's it gonna be, sister?
The Bride: [settles down and nods toward the flashlight]
Budd: That's a wise decision.
later
Elle Driver: [to Budd, as he is dying] Now in these last agonizing minutes of life you have left, let me answer the question you asked earlier more thoroughly. Right at this moment, the biggest "R" I feel is Regret. Regret that maybe the greatest warrior I have ever known, met her end at the hands of a bushwhackin, scrub, alky piece of shit like you. That woman deserved better.

River Hippie

04-08-2009, 06:01 PM

From L.A. Confidential, which I also watched recently (quotes from IMDb):

[White approaches Loew in the bathroom, after he refused to answer Exley's questions]
Ellis Loew: Unless you came in here to wipe my ass, I believe we're through.
[White looks at him, silently]
Ellis Loew: Come on, don't try this "Good Cop-Bad Cop" crap on me. I practically invented it. So what if some homo actor is dead? Boys, girls, ten of them step off the bus to L.A. every day.
[White proceeds to smash Loew's head into the mirror and then sticking it into the toilet]
Ellis Loew: Pull him off me, Exley!
Ed Exley: I don't know how.
Bud White: Now, I know you think you're the A-number one hotshot. Well, here's the juice: if I take you out, there'll be ten more lawyers to take your place tomorrow. They just won't come on the bus, that's all!
[White drags Loew into his office and dangles him out of the window by his legs until he confesses]
Ed Exley: Was that how you used to run the "Good Cop-Bad Cop?"

muldoonthief

04-09-2009, 08:59 AM

Hmmmm. I can accept that it wasn't Die Hard, but I've never seen Passenger 57.

How veddy odd. A mind is a terrible thing.

RR

I've never seen it either, but the commercial showing that scene ran on every channel about every 22 minutes for months when the movie came out.

Wargamer

04-09-2009, 09:49 AM

All the Aliens quotes on page 1 and nobody suggested:

"I say we take off and nuke the place from orbit. It's the only way."?

Or The Godfather: "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."

carnivorousplant

04-09-2009, 10:02 AM

Or The Godfather: "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
Michael says that later, but Don Corleone says, "I'll make him and offer he won't refuse." :)

Paul in Qatar

04-09-2009, 10:19 AM

In one of the Indiana Jones movies the Fat Egyptian Guys drops Indy off on Captain Katanga's ship.

"This is my friend, treat him well or I will hear of it!"

puddleglum

04-09-2009, 01:42 PM

From the Outlaw Josey Wales:
JW is faced with three soldiers who have just recognized him. "You gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?
From Once Upon a Time in the West:
Harmonica is faced with three killers at the train station.
H-"You only brought three horses"
Killer-"One too few"
H-"No, two too many"

Dob

04-09-2009, 04:45 PM

Out for Justice with Steven Segal (and his wife Sharon Stone*, wow did thier paths diverge...)

He had just made like 10 guys drop their wepons in the middle of the street. He has just a pistol...

Bad Guy - Come on! He cant get us all

BAM! - bad guy falls dead

Segal - I'll get an A for effort

* oddly enough IMDB does not have her in the movie..but I know that was her!!

Sitnam

04-09-2009, 06:40 PM

"There are two kinds of people in this world, those with guns and those who dig. <click> You dig."

G0sp3l

04-09-2009, 06:51 PM

Rocky III

Reporter to Clubber Lang: Do you have a prediction for the fight?
Clubber Lang: Pain.

and probably my favorite tough guy qoute ever. From Pro Wrestling, so it's still acting. ;)

Interviewer talking to Jake Roberts about his finisher;

Interviewer: So, what does DDT stand for?
Jake Roberts: The End.

Sitnam

04-09-2009, 07:02 PM

"Leave the gun, take the cannolis"

Elendil's Heir

04-09-2009, 07:16 PM

Kruschev and JFK are at the White House getting their picture taken and Nikita leans over and says, "History is on our side, we will bury you." Yeah he meant 'we will outlast you', but it's cold blooded the way John heard it.

JFK never had ol' Nikita at the White House, although Ike did. In any event, Khruschev said that somewhere else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you

From 300:
Emperor Xerxes: "Our arrows will blot out the Sun!"
Spartan warrior: "Good - then we shall fight in the shade!"

Persian officer: "Give us all your weapons."
Leonidas: "Come and take them!"