# Tough-Guy One-Liners **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752 "2002-05-25T03:23:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AboveAverage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AboveAverage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboveAverage)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/41 "2002-05-27T03:51:53Z")
I can’t believe this post has gone this long and no one has mentioned ‘Tombstone’. That movie is nothing but great bad-ass one-liners. For example… “Are you gonna do something or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?” “Poker must not be your game, Ike…I know, let’s have a spelling contest” “I’m your huckleberry” (I never really understood that one but it sounds cool) and my favorite…“Tell ‘em I’m comin’…tell ‘em all I’m comin’ and hells comin’ with me!” Damn it, now I have to go watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/42 "2002-05-27T04:01:20Z")
“Nice tuxedo. Nice tuxedo to die in!” (Bonus points to anyone who can identify the movie that’s from. I’m sure a few people here have seen it) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/43 "2002-05-27T04:08:11Z")
“When they execute you. I’ll be there. Look over in the witness window, I’ll be the guy in the front row, jerking off.” ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/44 "2002-05-27T04:23:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sam Stone \* > **I can’t remember the exact line, but in _Evil Dead 2_ doesn’t Ash say say something like, ‘Come on, she-bitch!’.** It’s more along the lines of “Yo, she-b\*tch, pick on someone your own size!” [proceeds to fire about 4 Boomstick rounds into her gut] ---
**Author:** ![NutWrench](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nutwrench/32/20193_2.png) [@NutWrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutWrench)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/45 "2002-05-27T04:33:02Z")
_Predator: Arnold has just impaled a guy against a wooden beam with his machete._ “Stick around” ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/46 "2002-05-27T07:42:08Z")
I like the bad guy lines the best. “Do you expect me to talk?” “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!” ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_peril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ee7513/32.png) [@yellow\_peril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellow_peril)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/47 "2002-05-27T09:50:27Z")
Ringo: What’s in the case? Jules: My boss’s dirty laundry. Ringo: Sounds like a shit job. Jules: Funny - I was thinking the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/48 "2002-05-27T10:31:32Z")
One of my favorites from the classic Sci-Fi B-movie _Freejack_: **You keep lookin’ at me, and you’ll see me kill you.** ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/49 "2002-05-27T13:27:21Z")
Chris Walken _King of New York_ “I never killed anyone that didn’t…deserve it” ---
**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/50 "2002-05-27T14:31:34Z")
This isn’t from a movie, but I read it in two of Michael Connelly’s books: When speculating on something or other, Connelly likes to have a character say or think, “The chances of that happening are somewhere between slim and none, and slim is out of town.” 😃 I do like it. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/51 "2002-05-27T14:58:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > \*\* > > It’s more along the lines of “Yo, she-b\*tch, pick on someone your own size!” [proceeds to fire about 4 Boomstick rounds into her gut] \*\* Maybe I’m thinking of a different scene, but my tape has Ash dead-panning: “Yo! She Bitch. Let’s go.” ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/52 "2002-05-27T15:23:23Z")
Dang Somebody took my Tombstone Quotes! Ok From Miller’s crossing: The Dane: “I’m gonna send you to a deep dark Place” Tom Reagan: If you want me to keep my mouth shut, it’s gonna cost you some dough. I figure a thousand bucks is reasonable, so I want two. Eddie Dane: How’d you get the fat lip? Tom Reagan: Old war welt. Acts up around morons. Leo O’Bannion: So you wanna kill him… Eddie Dane: For starters. Getting a confession from another Thug: Eddie Dane: Where’s Leo? Leo’s thug: If I tell you, how do I know you won’t kill me? Eddie Dane: Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying I wouldn’t get to kill you _then_. Where’s Leo? Leo’s thug: He’s moving around. He’s getting his mob together tomorrow night. Whisky Nick’s. Eddie Dane: You sure? Leo’s thug: Check it. It’s gold. Eddie Dane: You know what, yegg? I believe you. [BANG!] From Good Bad and The Ugly Tuco: There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting Blondie: You may run the risks, my friend, but I do the cutting. We cut down my percentage it’s liable to interfere with my aim. Tuco: But if you miss you had better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco Tuco: God is on our side because he hates the Yanks! Blondie: God is not on our side because he hates idiots also. [Tuco is in the Bath and is surprised by a man he shot in the begining of the film] One Armed Man: I’ve been looking for you for 8 months. Whenever I should have had a gun in my right hand, I thought of you. Now I find you in exactly the position that suits me. I had lots of time to learn to shoot with my left. [Tuco kills him with the gun he has hidden in the foam.] Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk. ---
**Author:** ![Lipid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@Lipid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lipid)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/53 "2002-05-28T05:14:38Z")
How about Sarah Conner in Terminator just before she crushes him? “You’re terminated fucker.” BAM! Down comes the squisher. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/54 "2002-05-28T11:17:47Z")
My favorite from _The Maltese Falcon_: Sam Spade to Joel Cairo: “When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it!” ---
**Author:** ![MrO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MrO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrO)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/55 "2002-05-28T13:31:32Z")
I hope this isn’t a hijack, but I need a little help here. I thought I remembered an old cowboy movie, maybe from the late 70s or early 80s, with Morgan Freeman. Looking through his filmography, though, I can’t find anything that seems right. Maybe I’ve got the wrong guy in mind. Anyway, he (the good guy, whom I think was Morgan Freeman) is about to be hanged, and the guys that are hanging him ask if he’d like a moment to make peace with God, or something. Of course, he’s got it worked out so that he’ll be rescued and they’ll kill the bad guys. So he prays, and asks forgiveness for all his past indiscretions–he mentions cheating at cards, trifling with married women, etc. Then, with one eye open and looking at the bad guys, he says something like, “Especially, I ask forgiveness for those men that I have killed. . . and for those that I am about to.” Did I dream this? Does anyone know what movie and actor I’m thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/56 "2002-05-28T13:45:34Z")
**MrO** : That was Roscoe Lee Browne in _The Cowboys_ (1972). The character was erstwhile trail cook and mentor to the boys, Jebediah Nightlinger. ---
**Author:** ![MrO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MrO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrO)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/57 "2002-05-28T14:10:32Z")
**xenophon41** : Yeah, that’s what I meant! I meant Roscoe Lee Browne, in the _early_70s! All that stuff about Morgan Freeman and the late 70s was just a weird typo. Finger spasm while typing. Anyway, it was a cool line. Thank you for providing the correct names. ---
**Author:** ![buckyogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@buckyogi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckyogi)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/58 "2002-05-28T14:43:36Z")
Skinhead in jail: **"If you want to pop that puppy’s can, you don’t got to grease him so hard, jarhead."** Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood): **"Sounds like you’re a man of experience."** –_Heartbreak Ridge_ In fact, just about every line Eastwood has in this movie should be in the Tough Guy Hall of Fame. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/59 "2002-05-28T16:07:18Z")
For the scenario in the OP, my favorite is from Vlad Taltos to his button-men in _Jhereg_ (Steven Brust novel): “Stay out of sight, in case they get rude.” For other events, we have a selection: “I didn’t know what to say, so I hit him.” “I guess there’s just a time for doing stupid things.” “Do not f\*\*\* with me, gentlemen. I’ll destroy you.” I also want to second the Eric Draven quotes. I love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Riboflavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Riboflavin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riboflavin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752/60 "2002-05-28T17:46:15Z")
My favorite, from _Snatch_: "The fact that youve got Replica written down the side of your gun, and the fact that mine says Desert Eagle 5 0, should precipitate your balls into shrinking along with your presence … " [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-one-liners/110752.md?page=4)