Quotes from The Professionals (1966)

19 quotes
Woody Strode
Bill Dolworth: 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.
Jake Sharp: Right now, I don't know if it's me or the dynamite that doin' all that sweatin'.
- Woody Strode (as Jake Sharp) in The Professionals (1966)

Burt Lancaster
Bill Dolworth: That Chiquita. She can lick a whole regiment, but she can't dance worth a lick.
- Burt Lancaster (as Bill Dolworth) in The Professionals (1966)

Burt Lancaster
Bill Dolworth: That's a lot of woman there. Beautiful, classy, and guts. Hard enough to kill ya and soft enough to change ya.
- Burt Lancaster (as Bill Dolworth) in The Professionals (1966)

Burt Lancaster
Bill Dolworth: 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 (as Bill Dolworth) in The Professionals (1966)

Robert Ryan
Hans Ehrengard: Could be anybody. Even friendly.
- Robert Ryan (as Hans Ehrengard) in The Professionals (1966)

Robert Ryan
Hans Ehrengard: Draw your pay, mister.
Horseman: Well you wanted him broken, didn't ya?
Hans Ehrengard: Yeah. But not ruined. Now get outa here.
- Robert Ryan (as Hans Ehrengard) in The Professionals (1966)

Burt Lancaster
Hans Ehrengard: Dynamite in the hands of a fool means death.
Bill Dolworth: 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.
- Burt Lancaster (as Bill Dolworth) in The Professionals (1966)

Robert Ryan
Hans Ehrengard: God almighty, I've known heat before, but this is... I hate the desert. It's got no... pity.
[passes out]
- Robert Ryan (as Hans Ehrengard) in The Professionals (1966)

Robert Ryan
Hans Ehrengard: Rico! All clear. By the way, I forgot to bring your wooden cross. Your *upside-down* cross.
[gun battle erupts]
- Robert Ryan (as Hans Ehrengard) in The Professionals (1966)

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