The Professionals (1966 film) Quotes

The Professionals (1966 film) is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Professionals ended its run in 1970.

It features Richard Brooks as producer, Maurice Jarre in charge of musical score, and Conrad L. Hall as head of cinematography.

The Professionals (1966 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Professionals (1966 film) is 117 minutes long. The Professionals (1966 film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Robert Ryan as Hans Ehrengard, Lee Marvin as Rico, Burt Lancaster as Bill Dolworth, Claudia Cardinale as Maria Grant, Woody Strode as Jake Sharp, Jack Palance as Jesus Raza, Marie Gomez as Chiquita, and Rafael Bertrand as Fierro.

The Professionals (1966 film) Quotes

Robert Ryan as Hans Ehrengard

• (Robert Ryan) "God almighty, I've known heat before, but this is -- I hate the desert. It's got no -- pity."

• (Robert Ryan) "Nine more of their horses are still left. You gonna shoot them, too?"
• (Lee Marvin) "I guess we'll have to. We can't spare the food and water."
• (Robert Ryan) "We could cut them loose."
• (Robert Ryan) "What's so funny?"
• (Burt Lancaster) "People. We just killed ten men, nobody bats an eye. But when it comes to one of God's most stupid animals --"
• (Robert Ryan) "But harmless."
• (Burt Lancaster) "Nothing's harmless in this desert unless it's dead."

• (Robert Ryan) "Could be anybody. Even friendly."

• (Robert Ryan) "Dynamite in the hands of a fool means death."
• (Burt Lancaster) "In this case, it could mean life. Ours. If we're lucky enough to get back to this rat trap, it might be touch and go. All you gotta do is light this fuse. You got ten seconds to run like hell. Then dynamite, not faith, will move that mountain into this pass. Peace, brother."

• (Unnamed) "I'm afraid you'll have to make them do."
• (Robert Ryan) "Mister Grant, I can make them go, but I can't make 'em do."

• (Robert Ryan) "Draw your pay, mister."
• (Horseman) "Well you wanted him broken, didn't ya?"
• (Robert Ryan) "Yeah. But not ruined. Now get outa here."

Lee Marvin as Rico

• (Lee Marvin) "Win or lose, here and now. Final neck like this, one of us might be able to hold 'em off long enough."
• (Burt Lancaster) "Yeah, one of us."
• (Lee Marvin) "If he plays it cool. Hit and run, 'n' stall and retreat."

• (Lee Marvin) "Before you blow a gasket, think you can blow the water tower?"
• (Burt Lancaster) "How do you want it?"
• (Lee Marvin) "Like it was hit by a French 75. Blow it to hell and gone."

• (Lee Marvin) "You're gonna have to get over this nasty habit of always losing your pants. It's not dignified."
• (Burt Lancaster) "It's drafty, too."

• (Lee Marvin) "It takes getting used to."
• (Robert Ryan) "Broiling by day. Freezing by night. Alkali dust choking every hole in your body. How in the name of God does anybody live here long enough to get used to it."
• (Lee Marvin) "Men tempered like steel. Tough breed. Men who learn how to endure."
• (Robert Ryan) "Like you and Dolworth."
• (Lee Marvin) "Oh, no. Men like Raza."

• (Unnamed) "Your hair was darker then."
• (Lee Marvin) "My heart was lighter then."

• (Lee Marvin) "Yeah, me too, Lizzy."

• (Lee Marvin) "So what else is on your mind besides hundred-proof women, 'n' ninety-proof whiskey, 'n' fourteen-carat gold?"
• (Burt Lancaster) "Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph."

• (Unnamed) "You bastard."
• (Lee Marvin) "Yes, Sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man."

Burt Lancaster as Bill Dolworth

• (Burt Lancaster) "That Chiquita. She can lick a whole regiment, but she can't dance worth a lick."

• (Burt Lancaster) "Relax. The stuff you're handling is safe. These beaded sticks are the tricky ones. It's the heat. Makes 'em sweat. Nitro. When they're dry and cool, they're safe and obedient. We'll leave these sweaty ones behind. Ventilate 'em. Cool 'em. Then maybe they'll behave."
• (Woody Strode) "Right now, I don't know if it's me or the dynamite that doin' all that sweatin'."

• (Burt Lancaster) "Maybe there's only one revolution, since the beginning, the good guys against the bad guys. Question is, who are the good guys?"

• (Burt Lancaster) "The cemetery of nameless men. We buried some fine friends there."
• (Lee Marvin) "And some fine enemies."
• (Burt Lancaster) "That was one hell of a fine battle. Out-numbered and out-gunned and still we held that pass."
• (Lee Marvin) "Yeah, but who cares now -- or even remembers?"

• (Burt Lancaster) "What's the proposition?"
• (Lee Marvin) "You won't lose your pants. Your life maybe but, what's that?"
• (Burt Lancaster) "Hardly anything at all."

• (Burt Lancaster) "The revolution? When the shooting stops, and the dead are buried, and the politicians take over, it all adds up to one thing: a lost cause."

• (Burt Lancaster) "That's a lot of woman there. Beautiful, classy, and guts. Hard enough to kill ya and soft enough to change ya."

• (Burt Lancaster) "Do they know who took the woman?"
• (Lee Marvin) "Raza."
• (Burt Lancaster) "Our Raza? A kidnapper?"
• (Lee Marvin) "Grant's got the ransom note to prove it."
• (Burt Lancaster) "Well I'll be damned."
• (Lee Marvin) "Most of us are."

• (Burt Lancaster) "$100,000 for a wife? She must be a lot of woman."
• (Lee Marvin) "Certain women have a way of changing boys into men and some men back into boys."

• (Burt Lancaster) "Nothing is for always. Except death. Ask Fierro. Ask Francisco. Ask those in the cemetery of nameless men."

• (Burt Lancaster) "What's the proposition?"
• (Lee Marvin) "You won't lose your pants. Your life maybe -- but what's that?"

• (Burt Lancaster) "Makes you wonder how we ever beat the Indians."

• (Burt Lancaster) "Rico, buddy. I don't deserve you."
• (Lee Marvin) "I agree. I can understand you getting in a crap game and losing $700 you didn't have, but how'd you lose your pants?"
• (Burt Lancaster) "In a ladies bedroom, trying to raise the cash. Almost had it made, too. Do you realize that people are the only animals that make love face to face?"

• (Burt Lancaster) "We've been had, amigo."

Rafael Bertrand as Fierro

• (Rafael Bertrand) "Eh-smoking is bad for de health."

Woody Strode as Jake Sharp

• (Woody Strode) "Mr. D, whatever got a loving man like you in the dynamite business?"
• (Burt Lancaster) "Well, I'll tell you. I was born with a powerful passion to create. I can't write, can't paint, can't make up a song --"
• (Robert Ryan) "So you explode things."
• (Burt Lancaster) "Well that's how the world was born. Biggest damn explosion you ever saw."

• (Woody Strode) "We could all do with a rest."
• (Robert Ryan) "A shave would be a relief, too."
• (Woody Strode) "So would a bath."
• (Burt Lancaster) "Might as well throw in a woman. Any size, any age, any color. Any woman."

• (Woody Strode) "A cloud o' dust. Could be Mister Raza."
• (Robert Ryan) "Could be most anything. Even a whirling dervish."
• (Lee Marvin) "That, gentlemen, is the whirlingest dervish of them all."

Jack Palance as Jesus Raza

• (Jack Palance) "La RevoluciÛn is like a great love affair. In the beginning, she is a goddess. A holy cause. But -- every love affair has a terrible enemy: time. We see her as she is. La RevoluciÛn is not a goddess but a whore. She was never pure, never saintly, never perfect. And we run away, find another lover, another cause. Quick, sordid affairs. Lust, but no love. Passion, but no compassion. Without love, without a cause, we are -- nothing. We stay because we believe. We leave because we are disillusioned. We come back because we are lost. We die because we are committed."

• (Jack Palance) "You know, of course, one of us must die."
• (Burt Lancaster) "Maybe both of us."
• (Jack Palance) "To die for money -- is foolish."
• (Burt Lancaster) "To die for a woman is more foolish. Any woman. Even her."

Claudia Cardinale as Maria Grant

• (Claudia Cardinale) "Yes?"
• (Burt Lancaster) "Just wondering -- what makes you worth a hundred thousand dollars."
• (Claudia Cardinale) "Go to hell."
• (Burt Lancaster) "Yes ma'am. I'm on my way."

• (Claudia Cardinale) "Raza says you and he were good friends."
• (Burt Lancaster) "That's right."
• (Claudia Cardinale) "And yet you would have killed him."
• (Burt Lancaster) "That's right."
• (Claudia Cardinale) "For money."
• (Burt Lancaster) "That's right."

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