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"Don't worry. I'm not going to say anything more than I have to, if that."
"I don't think the producer has to do much, outside of maybe knowing a writer."
"Listen, Touch of Evils playing near my hotel. You wanna go check it out, watch Charlton Heston play a Mexican?"
"Look at me, Leo. I wouldn't think you're that dumb, leave over three hundred grand in the closet, underneath the extra blanket, but I guess you are."
"You know, Welles didn't even wanna do that one. Some studio made him do it. He owed 'em one and all his own movies lost money. But, hey, sometimes that's when you do your best work, you got a gun to your head."
"Rough business, this movie business. I may have to go back to loan sharking for a rest."
"Hey, Bear, look at me. Tell your boss I don't ever want to see him again. He made a deal with Harry and a deal's a deal."
"I mean I could see myself in movies Robert De Niro had been in. Or I could maybe do an Al Pacino movie, play a hard-on. But I couldn't see myself in ones, like say the one where the three guys get stuck with a baby. They don't know how to take care of it and you see these big grown-up assholes acting cute."
"Harry, look at me. You're trying to tell me you fucked up without sounding stupid, and that's hard to do."
"I produce feature motion pictures, no TV. You mentioned Grotesque? That happened to be Grotesque Part Two that Karen Flores was in. She starred in all three of my Slime Creatures releases you might have seen."
"That's half a movie, with holes in it. Maybe forty minutes of screen time. You don't even have a girl, a female lead, and on top of that, there's no one to sympathize with. You don't have a good guy."
"A blockbuster. But quality. No mutants or maniacs. This one's gonna be my Driving Miss Daisy."
"Every day, same time, they come down here and have breakfast. He has the egg white omelet; she has the banana pancakes. He sits facing west so he can see his billboard. She faces east so she has an excuse to wear the shades."
"Anyway, Murray has this shrink, who also happens to be Martin's personal trainer's shrink. Murray gives the shrink the script and the shrink gives it to Martin's trainer who reads it to Martin while they work out, and Martin flips. Loves it."
"What she did not say was, 'I just loved the way the director moved the camera so much it made me fuckin' seasick.' All she cared about was that look. All she remembered was that look. And why do we remember things in movies? Because we can see them. So keep this fuckin' camera down here on the ground and shoot this scene, so we can see what the fuck is goin' on, before I get someone over sixteen to fuckin' shoot it for you!"
"Man's in town two days, thinks he's David O. fucking Selznick."
"When I came upstairs, you stayed to finish your drink. I told you to turn off the TV when you were through. Come to think of it, I also told you you could sleep in the maid's room."
"I spent all day crawling out of a grave. The costumer kept bitching 'cause I was ripping my nylons."
"I know I'm better than what I've been doing the last ten years, walking around in fuck-me pumps and a tank top, waiting till it's time to scream."
"Yeah, well Martin is known for his flipping. He flips over a script, and when the time comes to make a deal, he flips out."
""It" didn't slip away, Martin. You did when you went off to fuck Nicki in the middle of my birthday party."
"Movie stars never pick up the check. They have no idea what things cost. Most of them don't know their zip code and a lot don't even know their own phone number."
"Chili Palmer. Chilly outside. Chili inside. It's a regular fuckin' chili-fest. Hey, waiter, give Mr. Chili Pepper a big fuckin' bowl of chili!"
"Yeah well, I hope you drive better than you fucking spell, jack-off. My name is Barboni, not Barbone, okay!"
"You cut straight hair here or just fags?"
"I'm glad you rejected me ten years ago when I auditioned for Eddie Solomon, the pedophile clown in Birthday Boy. Had I gotten the part. I might've gotten typecast."
"Attitude plays a part"
"John Travolta - Chili Palmer"
"Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm"
"Rene Russo - Karen Flores"
"Danny DeVito - Martin Weir"
"Dennis Farina - Ray "Bones" Barboni"
"Delroy Lindo - Bo Catlett"
"James Gandolfini - Bear"
"David Paymer - Leo Devoe"
"Martin Ferrero - Tommy Carlo"
"Miguel Sandoval - Mr. Escobar"
"Jon Gries - Ronnie Wingate"
"Linda Hart - Fay Devoe"
"Renee Props - Nicki"
"Jacob Vargas - Yayo Portillo"
"Bobby Slayton - Dick Allen"
"It's too bad the doctors at Essex saved so much of my leg. I read that the pension act pays by the pound now."
"When you think about it, which I have been lately, is they weren't paying me to walk away. They were paying me so they could walk away."
"[to Alice] If I don't go, we got to pack up and leave, and God knows where, without a prayer, dirt-poor. Now I'm tired, Alice. I am tired of watching my boys go hungry. I'm tired of the way that they look at me. I'm tired of the way that you don't. I've been standing on one leg for three damn years, waiting for God to do me a favor. And He ain't listening."
"I ain't never been no hero, Wade. The only battle I seen, we was in retreat. My foot got shot off by one of my own men. You try telling that story to your boy. See how he looks at you then."
"Well, would you look at all this? Y'all spared no expense this time, Byron. I gotta say, though, it's probably cheaper just to let me rob the damn thing."
"Well, Tommy... it seems that there was a Pinkerton... inside that coach that wasn't quite dead yet. Now, I know Charlie told you, because... we done got but a few rules in this outfit. And this is what happens when you put us all at risk."
"It's man's nature to take what he wants, Dan. That's how we're born."
"Your conscience is sensitive, Dan. I don't think it's my favorite part of you."
"Now, I always liked you, Byron. But you never knew when to shut up. Even bad men love their mamas."
"You do one good deed for somebody... I imagine it's habit-forming. Something decent. See that grateful look in their eyes, imagine it makes you feel like Christ Hisself."
"Now, you see, Dan... generally, pretty much everyone wants to live."
"You ever read the Bible, Dan? I read it one time. I was eight years old. My daddy just got hisself killed over a shot of whiskey, and my mama said, "We're going back East to start over." So she gave me a Bible, sat me down in the train station, told me to read it. She was gonna get our tickets. Well, I did what she said. I read that Bible from cover to cover. It took me three days. She never came back."
"This town's gonna burn!"
"I hate posses."
"Hey. Hey! Not the black hat! The rancher, you dumb-shits! The rancher!"
"[after killing Dan] For a one-leg rancher...[grins] he's one tough son of a bitch!"
"Before the water touches your land, it resides and flows on mine. And as such, I can do with it as I fuckin' please."
"Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is."
"Railroad's coming, Dan. Your land's worth more with you off it."
"Christian Bale - Dan Evans"
"Russell Crowe - Ben Wade"
"Kevin Durand - Tucker"
"Alan Tudyk - Doc Potter"
"Peter Fonda - Byron McElroy"
"Ben Foster - Charlie Prince"
"Logan Lerman - William Evans"
"Lennie Loftin - Hollander"
"Gretchen Mol - Alice Evans"
"Benjamin Petry - Mark Evans"
"Luce Rains - Marshal Weathers"
"Luke Wilson - Zeke"
"Dallas Roberts - Grayson Butterfield"
"Vinessa Shaw - Emmy"
"Johnny Whitworth - Tommy Darden"