History Quotes / NothingPersonal

->'''Steffi:''' Do you have some sort of problem with me?\\
'''Gear:''' Isn't that thinking a little self-centered? I may be here to kill you, but that doesn't mean it's personal.
-->-- ''Webcomic/KiwiBlitz''

-->--'''Tessio''', ''Film/TheGodfather''

-->--'''Sollozzo''', ''Film/TheGodfather''

->"He looked not only anxious, but [[ThisIsGonnaSuck deeply upset]]…I hadn’t meant to upset him. I would have liked very much for us to part in a different mood. But there was nothing I could do to help him…Politics is a merciless business.”
-->--UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev's impressions of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, 1961 Vienna Summit

-> Nothing personal. Just revenge.
-->-- '''Anime/{{Afro Samurai}}'''

->"Nothing personal, but I've got orders."
-->-- '''Sword Man''', ''VideoGame/MegaMan8''

->"But we've [[PunchClockVillain got a job to do, just like they did.]] Business is business."

->''"Always business. Never personal."''
-->-- '''''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'''''

->''"You're a stepping-stone... And I'm moving up. Don't take it personally."''
-->-- '''Caellach''', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones''

->'''Noble Sanfino:''' "And this conscience of yours lets you gain the trust of perfect strangers and screw them over?"\\
'''Jamie Reagan:''' "You're not strangers. You're criminals and I'm a cop."

->"I'm here to kill you, not to judge you."
-->--"Conversations With Dead People," ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

->''"They blow you up today, you blow them up tomorrow. It's just business."''
-->-- '''DJ''', ''Film/TheLastJedi''

->"Nothing personal."\\
"Sure, it is. 'specially when it's me you're trying to kill."
-->-- ''{{Series/Supernatural}}''

->''"Psssh... nothin [[RougeAnglesOfSatin personnel]]... kid..."''
-->-- '''[[Memes/SonicTheHedgehog Coldsteel the Hedgeheg]]''' [sic]

->''"You were a cog in the machine. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge I just hit that machine with a baseball bat.]]"''
-->-- [[spoiler:'''[[PsychoForHire Victor]]''']] to '''Michael Westen''', ''Series/BurnNotice''

->I do not hate you, [[PlayerCharacter Delta]]. Indeed, [[FauxAffablyEvil I care for you in equal measure to any other sentient creature]]. But I cannot sacrifice a thousand of my children for one rebellious son.
-->--'''Sofia Lamb,''' ''VideoGame/Bioshock2''

->'''Ben (as Grey Matter):''' "[[ContinuityNod I thought we were on good terms, Tetrax!]]"\\
'''Tetrax:''' "There is a collector who would pay a lot of money for a human who can change shape! We're hunters! Don't take it personally!"\\
'''Ben:''' "Attacking my person is the ''definition'' of personally!"
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'', episode "Bounty Ball"

->'''Batman:''' "Convince me that you're not a suspect in this matter."\\
'''Ra's Al Ghul:''' "Why in the name of heaven above and hell below would I have attempted to murder your wife, Detective? Tell me."\\
'''Batman:''' "I've put you in jail before."\\
'''Ra's Al Ghul:''' "And I escaped, did I not?"\\
'''Batman:''' "I've wrecked many of your crazy schemes in the past."\\
'''Ra's Al Ghul:''' "And I have hatched many, many more, including some you do not suspect the existence of."
-->-- ''Fanfic/DanceWithTheDemons''

->'''ComicBook/MaryMarvel:''' "I guess that just leaves us."\\
'''Illyria:''' "You shouldn't have taken it personally. I'd have done it to any good-for-nothing American."\\
'''Mary Marvel:''' "But you did it to me."
-->-- ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters''

->"Out of the three gangs, the [[TheYardies Sons of Samedi]] has the more... professional violent relationship between the two gangs. The [[{{Yakuza}} Ronin]] [[ItsPersonal get personal]], the [[BrotherhoodOfEvil Brotherhood]]'s [[ItsPersonal personal right out the gate]], this one here's strictly business. We're just taking their fucking turf and their money from it."
-->-- [[LetsPlay/SuperGamingBros Matthew Metelli]] describing the Sons of Samedi storyline from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''

'''Skye''': God, you might actually believe that! That is the twisted logic they teach you ''[[GodwinsLaw when you sign up to be a Nazi]]''.

->'''Noble Sanfino:''' "And this conscience of yours lets you gain the trust of perfect strangers and screw them over?"
->'''Jamie Reagan:''' "You're not strangers. You're criminals and I'm a cop."

->"Nothing personal."
->"Sure, it is. 'specially when it's me you're trying to kill."

->'''Vila:''' So why did they pick on me?
->'''Avon:''' I doubt if it was personal, Vila.
->'''Vila:''' It felt personal. It always feels personal when someone tries to kill me.

->'''Flick:''' Well, it's been nice knowing you. Like I said, I'm sorry we had to… um, [[DemonicPossession enslave you]]. Seriously, we just… have to save the people that your master's been torturing and experimenting on. It's nothing personal against you.
->'''Ylek:''' It is never personal, because we are not persons to them.
-->-- ''Literature/HereticalEdge''

->'''Flick:''' Well, it’s been nice knowing you. Like I said, I’m sorry we had to… um, [[DemonicPossession enslave you]]. Seriously, we just… have to save the people that your master’s been torturing and experimenting on. It’s nothing personal against you.

->'''Ben (as Grey Matter):''' "[[ContinuityNod I thought we were on good terms, Tetrax!]]"
->'''Tetrax:''' "There is a collector who would pay a lot of money for a human who can change shape! We're hunters! Don't take it personally!"
->'''Ben:''' "Attacking my person is the ''definition'' of personally!"

->'''Ben (as Grey Matter):''' " [[ContinuityNod I thought we were on good terms, Tetrax!]]"
->'''Tetrax:''' " There is a collector who would pay a lot of money for a human who can change shape! We're hunters! Don't take it personally!"
->'''Ben:''' " Attacking my person is the ''definition'' of personally!"

-> "There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! [[MoeGreeneSpecial Someone put a bullet through his eye]]. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew [[HotBlooded he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things]]. [[MuggingAMonster So when he turned up dead]], I let it go. And I said to myself, '''this is the business we've chosen'''; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"

-> "There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! [[MoeGreeneSpecial Someone put a bullet through his eye]]. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew [[HotBlooded he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things]]. [[BullyingADragon So when he turned up dead]], I let it go. And I said to myself, '''this is the business we've chosen'''; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"

-> "There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! [[MoeGreeneSpecial Someone put a bullet through his eye]]. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew [[HotBlooded he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things]]. [[BullingADragon So when he turned up dead]], I let it go. And I said to myself, '''this is the business we've chosen'''; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"

-> "There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! [[MoeGreeneSpecial Someone put a bullet through his eye]]. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew [[HotBlooded he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things]]. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, '''this is the business we've chosen'''; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"

-->-- '''Hyman Roth,''' ''Film/TheGodfatherPart2''

-> "There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! [[MoeGreeneSpecial Someone put a bullet through his eye]]. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, '''this is the business we've chosen'''; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"
-->-- '''Film/TheGodfather'''

-->-- [[spoiler:'''[[PsychoForHire Victor]]''']] to '''Michael Westen'', ''Series/BurnNotice''

->''"You were a cog in the machine. I just hit that machine with a baseball bat."''
-->-- [[spoiler:'''[[PsychoForHire Victor]]''']], ''Series/BurnNotice''

->"Sure it is. 'specially when it's me you're trying to kill."

->''""I know I've betrayed you many times before, but this time, it's'' truly ''nothing personal"''

-->-- '''Loki''', ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''

-> ’’"There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! [[MoeGreeneSpecial Someone put a bullet through his eye]]. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, '''this is the business we've chosen'''; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"’’

-> ’’There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! [[MoeGreeneSpecial Someone put a bullet through his eye]]. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, '''this is the business we've chosen'''; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"’’

-> ’’There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order.* When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, '''this is the business we've chosen'''; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"’’

-> ’’There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order.* When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"’’

''[Steve kicks his ass and [[CeilingSmash throws him into the ceiling]]]''\\
'''Captain:''' [[BondOneLiner It kinda feels personal.]]