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.
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.
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?
xenophon41: Yeah, that’s what I meant! I meant Roscoe Lee Browne, in the early70s! 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.
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.
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.
"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 … "
I do like it.