Memorable Quotes from Eli Wallach
18 quotesOnly Texans Can Rob Banks
Calvera
Once I rob a bank in Texas. Your government get after me with a whole army. Whole army! One little bank. It's clear to me, the meaning? In Texas, only Texans can rob banks.
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A Question of Choices and Sacrifice
Calvera
(dying words) You came back... to a place like this. Why? A man like you...why?
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The End of Prosperity and Safety
Calvera
The days of good hunting are over. Once there was horses, cattle, gold, fruit from the trees... no more. Now I must hunt with a price on my head, Rurales at my heels.
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Inevitability of Fate and Consequences
Calvera
What happens to these people will happen whether I kill you first or not.
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A Future Encounter with the Rawlings Family
Charlie Gant
One of these days I'm likely to pay you Rawlingses a little visit.
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Floor Sleeping Dilemma Between Friends
Jeffrey Mannus
Are you sure you're gonna be okay sleeping on the floor?
Seymour Warburton
I was thinking you would sleep on the floor.
Jeffrey Mannus
I've got ].
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Seymour Warburton
I have ].
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Jeffrey Mannus
Well, I'm allergic to dust.
Seymour Warburton
I'm ninety-one fuckin years old.
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Power and Control in Calvera's Words
Calvera
(whispering) Just a little gesture, huh? To show these people who the real boss is. You go, then I give you the guns back. I know you won't use those guns against me. Only a crazy-man makes the same mistake twice.
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Treachery and Control in The Godfather Part III
Don Altobello
Treachery is everywhere.
Michael Corleone
You still have your fingers on the strings, even now.
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The Consequences of Generosity in Leadership
Calvera
Generosity. That was my first mistake. I leave these people a little bit extra and they hire these men to make trouble.
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Gangsters Discuss Reputation and Legitimacy
Michael Corleone
You all know Joey Zasa. He is, I admit, an important man. His picture is on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. He gets the Esquire Magazine award for the best dressed gangster. The newspapers praise him because he hires the blacks into his family, which shows he has a good heart. Who knows, maybe someday he will make all of you popular.
[the assembled Dons laugh]
Joey Zasa
It's true, I make more of a bella figura. That is my nature. But I also want to make a move into legitimate enterprises. I also want a pin from the Pope. Sure, I take the blacks and the Spanish into my family, because that's America.
[walks around the table]
Michael
And you guarantee that they don't deal the drugs in those neighborhoods?
Joey
I don't guarantee that. I guarantee that I'll kill anyone who does.
Don Altobello
Let me talk to him.
[to Michael, nervously]
Michael
Who can refuse Don Altobello?
Don Altobello
Joey...
Joey
No! I say to all of you that I have been treated this day with no respect! I've made you all money. And I asked for little. Good. You won't give, I'll take! As for Don Corleone, he has made it very clear today that he is my enemy! You must choose between us.
[angry]
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Calvera's Command to Return for More
Calvera
Enough! We get the rest when we come back.
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The Nature of Peace According to Charlie Gant
Charlie Gant
There's only one kind of peace I know of, Marshal. That's the kind my brother's got.
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Legal Proceedings and Unanswered Questions
Francis Hannah
Isn't it a fact, Mr. Gittes, that you're out on bail, having been arrested at the Green Parrot Bar & Grill?
Cotton Weinberger
Wait a minute. Your Honor, the witness has been charged, not convicted.
Judge Alexander K. Dettmer
What's the charge?
Francis Hannah
The charge?
Judge Alexander K. Dettmer
Yes. The charge.
Francis Hannah
Well, that, uh, Mr. Gittes was fondling... the private parts of a vice officer in the Men's Room of the Green Parrot Bar & Grill.
Cotton Weinberger
Objection, Your Honor.
Judge Alexander K. Dettmer
I'm with you, Mr. Weinberger. I have no idea what you thought you could do with this kind of evidence, Mr. Hannah. It certainly has no place in my court room. Do yourself a favor. The next time, you be sure you've got a case. That's about it for this hearing.
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Consequences of Good Deeds
Calvera
Shows you — sooner or later you must answer for every good deed.
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The Burden of Leadership and Loyalty
Calvera
Your friends, they don't like you very much anymore. You force them to make too many decisions. With me, only one decision: do what I say.
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Love Given is Love Retained
Seymour Warburton
If you're looking for some wise, pithy advice that only an old man with a lifetime of experience can give you, you're barking up the wrong tree. What I can tell you is the love we give away is the only love we can keep.
Jeffrey Mannus
That's actually wise and pithy, Seymour.
Seymour Warburton
I got it off an old ] calendar. I think it was September. And I'm-
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Philosophy of Control and Submission
Calvera
If God didn't want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep.
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Calvera's Desperate Realization of Captivity
Calvera
You hear that? We're trapped! All forty of us!
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