The Best of Gene Hackman

Harry Caul
"I don't care what they're talking about. All I want is a nice, fat recording."

Royal Tenenbaum
"I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman."

Little Bill Daggett
"I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house."

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle
"All right, Popeye's here! Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!"

Capt. Ramsey
"I expect and demand your very best. Anything less, you should have joined the Air Force."

Avery Tolar
"Being a tax lawyer's got nothing to do with the law. It's a game. We teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich. The IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them. It's a game..."

John Herod
"Like I always say - put a fox in the henhouse and you'll have chicken for dinner every time."

Anderson
"My old man was just so full of hate that he didn't know that bein' poor was what was killing him."

Brill
"You're either very smart... or incredibly stupid."

Harry Zimm
"I once asked this literary agent, uh, what kind of writing paid the best... he said, "Ransom notes.""

Senator Keeley
"Don't leave me. Don't leave me here. I don't want to be the only girl not dancing!"

Joe Moore
"Anybody can get the goods. The hard part's getting away."

Blindman
"Wait. Where are you going? I was going to make Espresso."

Lex Luthor
"Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe."

Rankin Fitch
"Gentlemen, trials are too important to be left up to juries."