# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/81 "2009-03-24T16:59:25Z")
_ **"Say ‘what’ again, muthafuckah!"** _ ---
**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, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/82 "2009-03-24T17:01:39Z")
Holly Hunter: “Give me that Baby you Warthog from Hell!!!” ---
**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, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/83 "2009-03-24T17:04:05Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > _ **“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! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/84 "2009-03-24T17:37:12Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/85 "2009-03-24T17:43:47Z")
From this season’s _24_. Jack Bauer: “With all due respect, Madam President… ask around.” ---
**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, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/86 "2009-03-24T17:57:33Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > From this season’s _24_. > > Jack Bauer: “With all due respect, Madam President… ask around.” Context, please? ---
**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, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/87 "2009-03-24T18:00:29Z")
(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!” ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/88 "2009-03-24T18:12:45Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > 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?” ---
**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, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/89 "2009-03-24T18:22:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/90 "2009-03-24T18:37:49Z")
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? " ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/91 "2009-03-24T18:47:05Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > **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! ---
**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, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/92 "2009-03-24T18:55:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/93 "2009-03-24T20:05:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/94 "2009-03-24T20:07:44Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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. ---
**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, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/95 "2009-03-24T20:31:36Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > 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!” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/96 "2009-03-24T20:51:10Z")
“I’m going to let you live . . . _ **longer than you want to** _.” - Spawn, in the HBO ( IIRC ) cartoon version. ---
**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, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/97 "2009-03-24T20:52:37Z")
Mickey: “Don’t you wanna hear my last words?” Joe: “I just did.” _Heist_ ---
**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, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/98 "2009-03-24T21:00:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/99 "2009-03-24T21:33:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456/100 "2009-03-24T21:35:40Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > “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)_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-guy-quotes/490456.md?page=6)