# Tough Guy Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456 "2009-03-23T14:32:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/61 "2009-03-24T14:26:50Z")
“Call it, friendo.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/62 "2009-03-24T14:28:13Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > “Call it, friendo.” Damn straight! ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/63 "2009-03-24T14:39:02Z")
Swayze, Roadhouse: I used to fuck guys like you in prison. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/64 "2009-03-24T14:42:58Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Swayze, Roadhouse: I used to fuck guys like you in prison. > > -Joe I think that was the bad guy character, rather than Swayze’s protagonist. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/65 "2009-03-24T14:48:10Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > I think that was the bad guy character, rather than Swayze’s protagonist. 😃 Maybe so, but I like to thin of Swayze saying it. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/66 "2009-03-24T15:01:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/67 "2009-03-24T15:02:19Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/68 "2009-03-24T15:11:58Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/69 "2009-03-24T16:01:20Z")
Crocodile Dundee: “That’s not a knife. _This_ is a knife!” ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/70 "2009-03-24T16:18:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/71 "2009-03-24T16:20:15Z")
\*\*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. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/72 "2009-03-24T16:26:54Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > \*\*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. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/73 "2009-03-24T16:27:52Z")
Patsy Parisi: “The last face you see won’t be his, it’ll be mine. It won’t be cinematic.” ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/74 "2009-03-24T16:31:00Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > 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.” ---
**Author:** ![Doom\_Slinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Doom\_Slinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doom_Slinger)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/75 "2009-03-24T16:31:06Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/76 "2009-03-24T16:33:59Z")
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!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/77 "2009-03-24T16:35:56Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > 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. > [@tr0psn4j](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/78 "2009-03-24T16:40:32Z")
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](http://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: [In Russian] 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 _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_ ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/79 "2009-03-24T16:53:36Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > “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! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/80 "2009-03-24T16:54:53Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > 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.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456.md?page=5)