Line #18 Quotes/ProfessionalKiller


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3	[[folder:Comic Books]]
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5	->'''Matthew Risman:''' You have the eyes of a ''killer'', girl. Not like ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. No, he's just an animal. But you... you were ''bred'' for murder. And right now, you're thinking of eleven different ways to kill me, aren't you?\
6	'''ComicBook/{{X 23}}:''' No -- ''twenty-seven''.
7	-->-- ''ComicBook/XForce''
8
9	->''"My name's Tommy Monaghan and I kill people for money. It's a living."''
10	-->-- '''Tommy Monaghan''', ''ComicBook/Hitman1993''
11
12	->''"A contract is a contract. Reasons, motivations, goals—everything that makes someone want to off someone else—that's none of my business. Not my problem. The very essence of my job boils down to this: I'm not a detective. Not your priest, not your conscience, not a vigilante. I don't get paid to judge, to think, to have an opinion. Strategy isn't my department. All I do is provide a service. I solve a very specific problem. The choices I make are all practical, logistical. I get paid for being effective and discreet. I get paid to not give a fuck. And I think, in the end, for all these reasons... that's why I love my job."''
13	-->--'''The Killer''', ''ComicBook/TheKiller''
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15	[[/folder]]
16
17	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
18
19	->'''Max:''' You just met him once and you kill him like that?!\
20	'''Vincent:''' What, I should only kill people after I get to know them?
21	-->-- ''Film/{{Collateral}}''
22
23	->'''Joker:''' It's simple: We, uh, kill the Batman.\
24	'''Salvatore Maroni:''' If it's so "simple", why haven't ''you'' done it already?\
25	'''Joker:''' If you're good at something, never do it for free.
26	-->-- ''Film/TheDarkKnight''
27
28	->'''Debi:''' You're a psychopath.\
29	'''Martin:''' No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for ''money''. It's a ''job''. That didn't come out right.
30	-->-- ''Film/GrossePointeBlank''
31
32	->'''Francisco Scaramanga:''' When I was a boy, [[CircusBrat I was brought up in a circus]]. My only real friend was a huge, magnificent African bull elephant. One day, his handler mistreated him and he went berserk. Bleeding, dying, he came and found me, stood on one leg, his best trick, picked me up and put me on his back. The drunken handler came along and emptied his gun into his eye, [[PayEvilUntoEvil I emptied my stage pistol into his]]!\
33	'''Film/JamesBond:''' An eye for an eye.\
34	'''Scaramanga:''' You see, Mr. Bond, [[AnimalLover I always thought I loved animals]]. Then I discovered that [[BloodKnight I enjoyed killing people even more]].
35	-->-- ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''
36
37	->'''Bond:''' I help people with problems.\
38	'''Sanchez:''' Problem solver.\
39	'''Bond:''' More of a problem eliminator.
40	-->-- ''Film/LicenceToKill'', paraphrased from Creator/IanFleming's ''Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''
41
42	->'''Psychologist:''' Sunlight?\
43	'''Bond:''' Swim.\
44	'''Psychologist:''' Moonlight?\
45	'''Bond:''' Dance.\
46	'''Psychiatrist:''' Murder?\
47	'''Bond:''' Employment.
48	-->-- {{Word association test}}, ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''
49
50	->'''Madeleine Swann:''' I see you left this final question blank. What is your occupation?\
51	'''Bond:''' Well, that's not the sort of thing that looks good on a form.\
52	'''Madeleine:''' And why is that?\
53	'''Bond:''' I kill people.
54	-->-- ''Film/{{Spectre}}''
55
56	->''"A sure and steady hand did this. This ain't no squirrelly amateur. This is the work of a salty dog. You can tell by the cleanliness of the carnage. Now, a kill-crazy rampage though it may be, all the colors are kept within the lines."''
57	-->-- '''Sheriff Earl [=McGraw=]''', ''Film/KillBill Pt. 1''
58
59	->''"They cry, they plead, they beg, they piss themselves, they cry for their mothers. [[AintTooProudToBeg It gets embarrassing]]. I like to [[TitleDrop kill 'em softly]]. From a distance."''
60	-->-- '''Jackie Cogan''', ''Film/KillingThemSoftly''
61
62	->''"Murder is only killing without a license."''
63	-->-- '''Arthur Bishop,''' ''Film/TheMechanic1972''
64
65	->''"I do assignments, designated targets. Some jobs need to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like accidents]]. Others must [[FrameUp cast suspicion on someone else]]. A select few need to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem send a clear message]]. Pulling a trigger is easy. The best jobs are the ones nobody even knows you were there."''
66	-->-- '''Arthur Bishop''', ''Film/TheMechanic2011''
67
68	->''"The rifle is the first weapon you learn how to use, because it lets you keep your distance from the client. The closer you get to being a pro, the closer you can get to the client. [[DeviousDaggers The knife]], for example, is the last thing you learn."''
69	-->-- '''Léon''', ''Film/TheProfessional''
70
71	->''"I don't interest myself in 'why'. I think more often in terms of 'when'; sometimes 'where'; always 'how much'."''
72	-->-- '''Joubert''', ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor''
73
74	->'''Dragon:''' Please! That is a distasteful phrase.\
75	'''Hemlock:''' Call it what you want; wet work, terminations, sanction. It all adds up to the same thing. Killing.\
76	'''Dragon:''' It is what you do best.
77	-->-- ''Film/TheEigerSanction''
78
79	->''"The silencer makes a whisper of the gunshot. I hold her close until she's gone. I'll never know what she was running from. I'll cash her check in the morning."''
80	-->-- '''The Salesman''', ''Film/SinCity''
81
82	->''"Your father and I used him three times in twenty years, only when things got totally fucked. Whenever we needed one of our own bumped off, we called this guy in. He had a thing for clipping wiseguys, but only one rule: No women, no kids. Believe me, kid, you don't want this guy unless you are one hundred percent sure you need him. He's a fucking monster."''
83	-->-- '''Augustus [=DiStephano=]''' on '''Il Duce''', ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''
84
85	->'''Gelt:''' I settle disputes... very quickly. I'm very good at it. I don't care who I work for, or with. That's why I've [[ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest collected a lot of enemies along the way]].\
86	'''Shad:''' You kill... for pay?\
87	'''Gelt:''' I have no home, no family, no ideals. What else would I kill for?\
88	'''Shad:''' Pleasure?\
89	'''Gelt:''' No. It's strictly business with me.
90	-->-- ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''
91
92	->''"Think of it as a hobby. Something you do to relax. You're an 'assassination enthusiast'."''
93	-->-- '''Jim Byrd''', ''Film/ConfessionsOfADangerousMind''
94
95	->''"I've got your name on a piece of paper in my pocket. That's all that matters."''
96	-->-- '''Resnick''', ''Film/TheEqualizer2''
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98	[[/folder]]
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100	[[folder:Literature]]
101
102	->''"We do not ''murder''. We do not ''execute''. We do not ''massacre''. We never, you may be very certain, we never ''torture''. We have no truck with crimes of passion or hatred or pointless gain. We do not do it for a delight in inhumation, or to feed some secret inner need, or for petty advantage or for some cause or belief; I tell you, gentlemen, that all these reasons are in the highest degree suspect. Look into the face of a man who will kill you for a belief and your nostrils will snuff up the scent of abomination. Hear a speech declaring a holy war and, I assure you, your ears should catch the click of evil's scales and the dragging of its monstrous tail over the purity of the language.\
103	No, we do it for the money. And, because we above all must know the value of a human life, we do it for a great deal of money. There can be few cleaner motives, so shorn of all pretence. ''[[PretentiousLatinMotto Nil mortifi, sine lucre]].'' Remember. No killing without payment.\
104	And always give a receipt."''
105	-->-- '''Dr. Cruces''' of the Ankh-Morpork [[MurderInc Assassins' Guild]], ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}''
106
107	->''"I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things."''
108	-->-- '''Vin,''' ''[[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy The Well of Ascension]]''
109
110	->''If there was still such a thing as income tax, then every year when Vic filled out his 1040 form he would put down, as his occupation, "sniper".''
111	-->-- ''Literature/SnowCrash''
112
113	->''"Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast... would you do it? Without question?"\
114	"Without question? No." The sellsword rubbed thumb and forefinger together. "I'd ask how much."''
115	-->-- ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
116
117	->''"A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead."''
118	-->-- '''Sandor Clegane''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
119
120	->''"A ''specialist'' in pulling a trigger? You mean...you don't know how to pull a trigger? Four years in the army, you've never learned to pull a trigger? ''Trained'' to do a hit? Who's trained for that? You know a place in Israel they train people for it? It's news to me. How do you train people to do a hit anyway? Practice on dogs first, then say to them, see that old guy crossing Dizengoff Street, now you go ahead and shoot him? We train people to use a gun. We train soldiers to do commando work, to plant a bomb, to use a knife, anything. The way you have been trained. Be we don't train anybody to do a ''hit''. We have no experts in that."''
121	-->-- '''Ephraim''', ''Vengeance'' by George Jonas.
122
123	->''Bradleigh said with unusual heat, "It's a crazy mythology we've created about the [[TheMafia Mob]]. The cold professionals, the never-miss hitmen. All they know is triggers and bombs. More often than not they can't even handle the simplest job without screwing it up."''
124	-->-- ''Recoil'' by Brian Garfield
125
126	->''Decker was an assassin. And he was not just some potbellied CIA reject with contacts to peddle. His skills, courage, and cold-blooded efficiency had been tested in the marketplace. He was a solid product, top of the line. He looked, dressed, talked, and acted like a responsible, dependable, respectable corporate killer. If IBM ever hired a staff assassin, he would be a man much like Michael Decker.''
127	-->-- ''The Underground Empire'' by James Mills
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129	[[/folder]]
130
131	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
132
133	->'''Avon:''' I don't know who he is, how old he is, what he looks like, or where he comes from, but I do know ''what he does''.\
134	'''Tarrant:''' And what's that?\
135	'''Avon:''' He ''kills'' people, for a ''great deal of money''.
136	-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E7Assassin Assassin]]"
137
138	->''"A hitman is like a plumber, a dentist or a mechanic: everybody is always looking for a good one."''
139	-->-- '''Michael''', ''Series/BurnNotice'', "[[Recap/BurnNoticeS1E2Identity Identity]]"
140
141	->''"You wanted to know what I do for a living. I kill people. There's always one who wields the SwordOfDamocles, one self-appointed god. That's me, Alyson. That's me."''
142	-->-- '''Robert [=McCall=]''', ''Series/TheEqualizer'', "Nightscape"
143
144	->''"I am ''not'' a murderer. Murder is petty, it's thuggish. Assassination is a ''tool'', a political statement. I am paid to help others ''make'' their statements."''
145	-->-- '''The Chameleon''', ''Series/TheInvisibleMan''
146
147	->''"The [[SoftSpokenSadist quiet]] type. He spends words like they were ten bucks a syllable. 'Course, he don't have to say much; before he turned 21, he turned up more hits than Hank Aaron."''
148	-->-- '''Sgt. Geno Polucci''', ''Series/{{Kojak}}'', "The Chinatown Murders"
149
150	->''"I killed mothers with their babies. I've killed great philosophers, proud young warriors, and revolutionaries. I've killed the evil, the good, the intelligent, the weak, and the beautiful. I have done this in the service of His Divine Shadow and his predecessors, and I have never once shown any mercy."''
151	-->-- '''Kai''', ''Series/{{Lexx}}''
152
153	->''"You know how much they paid me to kill a man in Kings Landing? ''Seven silvers.'' They told me a man's name and that man never saw daylight again; none of those cocksuckers got away from me."''
154	-->-- '''Karl Tanner''', ''Series/GameOfThrones'', "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E4Oathkeeper Oathkeeper]]"
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156	[[/folder]]
157
158	[[folder:Music]]
159
160	->''He's got the power -- he's like a god\
161	But he's a devil of flesh and blood\
162	A .45 is his religion, code of silence his belief''
163	-->-- '''Music/{{Accept}}''', "Sick, Dirty and Mean"
164
165	->''The Liquidator\
166	Will soon be coming around\
167	You won't feel safer\
168	Until you get out of town\
169	He's an eraser\
170	He'll rub you out like a light\
171	And for a chaser\
172	He'll kiss your woman good-night''
173	-->-- '''Music/ShirleyBassey''', theme song for ''The Liquidator'' (1965)
174
175	->''And then I spend your ransom money\
176	But still I keep your sheep\
177	I peel the mask you're wearing\
178	[[ParanoiaFuel And then rob you of your sleep, rob you of your sleep]]\
179	I choose to steal what you choose to show\
180	And don't you know\
181	I'm making a career of evil''
182	-->-- '''Music/BlueOysterCult''', "Career of Evil"
183
184	->''Yours is not to ask why\
185	Yours is to do and die''
186	-->-- '''Music/{{KMFDM}}''', "Professional Killer"[[note]]Misquoting Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade"
187	[[/note]]
188
189	->''I do the "getting rid of", don't tell me why\
190	Don't need to hear the truth, don't need the lies\
191	Now pay me quickly, and now we're through\
192	It brings me great pleasure to say [[NoHonorAmongThieves my next job is you!]]''
193	-->-- '''Music/{{MEGADETH}}''', "Killing Is My Business"
194
195	->''[[CementShoes Concrete shoes]]...\
196	Cyanide...\
197	TNT! (Done dirt cheap)\
198	Neck ties...\
199	Contracts...\
200	{{High voltage\|Death}}! (Done dirt cheap)''
201	-->-- '''Music/{{ACDC}}''', "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
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203	[[/folder]]
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205	[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
206
207	->''Cursed be he who taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, "Amen."''
208	-->-- '''Deuteronomy 27:25''', [[Literature/TheBible King James Bible]] (Cambridge Edition)
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210	[[/folder]]
211
212	[[folder:Video Games]]
213
214	->''"The numbing cold of the broken night [[EvilIsDeathlyCold had followed me in]]. Upstairs, The Trio tangoed down the Manor halls to the silent rhythm of their murderous hearts, the blood of their victims rust on their lips."''
215	-->-- '''VideoGame/MaxPayne''', "Angel of Death"
216
217	->''"This ain't no fuckin' [[PrivateDetective P.I.]]! This is a ''ghost!'' This is a ''myth!'' This is a fuckin' ''HITMAN!''"''
218	-->-- '''Blake Dexter''', ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution'', "Terminus"
219
220	->''"Ya can't spell assassin without 'sin' -- and twice the ass!"''
221	-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''', ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''
222
223	->''"Sniping's a good job, mate. It's challenging work, out of doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry, 'cause at the end of the day, 'long as there's two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead."''
224	-->-- '''The Sniper''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
225
226	->''"I'm not a 'crazed gunman', Dad, I'm an ''[[InsistentTerminology assassin]]!'' Well the 'difference' bein', one is a [[ConsummateProfessional job]], and the other's mental sickness!"''
227	-->-- '''The Sniper''' on the phone with [[WellDoneSonGuy his father]], ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZDwZbyDus "Meet the Sniper"]]
228
229	->''An independent mercenary who bargained his way into an effortless entry to Rubicon, having anticipated the extraplanetary corporations' forays well before they made their move.\
230	A specialist in corporate wetwork, Coldcall "removes" undesirable elements on the behalf of those who do not wish to be seen getting their hands dirty.\
231	Quick to identify a fellow assassin, he claims that "you can smell a real killer right through their AC."''
232	-->-- '''Coldcall's''' Arena profile, ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon''
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234	[[/folder]]
235
236	[[folder:Web Video]]
237
238	->'''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}:''' What? I kill people. It's a perfectly legitimate business.\
239	'''[[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Green Goblin]]:''' Killing's not "legitimate"!\
240	'''Deadpool:''' It's a ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint business]]''.
241	-->-- ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC''
242
243	[[/folder]]

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