Dennis Hopper movie quotes

“I suppose the reason the studios got so powerful is that lots of directors think they don't know anything about business. I'm not sure if I know anything about business or not, but I do believe that they don't know anything about art.”
Dennis Hopper

“Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.”
Dennis Hopper - Benny Chains

“- Feck: I killed a girl, it was no accident. Put a gun to the back of her head and blew her brains right out the front. I was in love.
- Samson: I strangled mine.
- Feck: Did you love her?
- Samson: She was okay.”
Dennis Hopper - Feck
Daniel Roebuck - Samson

“- Huey Walker: You know, Buckner, if it hadn't've been for you, I'd be in a warm cell right now.
- John Buckner: Yeah, being beaten by a nice, warm, rubber hose.”
Dennis Hopper - Huey Walker
Kiefer Sutherland - John Buckner

“Poor people are crazy, Jack. I'm eccentric.”
Dennis Hopper - Howard Payne

“It takes more than going down to your local video store and renting Easy Rider to become a rebel.”
Dennis Hopper - Huey Walker

“- Vincenzo Coccotti: Your son, the cowboy, it's claimed, came in the room blazin' and didn't stop 'till they were pretty sure everybody was dead.
- Clifford Worley: What are you talkin' about?
- Vincenzo Coccotti: Talkin' about a massacre.”
Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti
Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley

“How 'bout a cigarette? Nothing like a good smoke when you miss your mom... Never too young to start!”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

- Harry: Fuck you!
- Howard Payne: Oh! In two hundred years we've gone from "I regret but I have one life to give for my country" to "fuck you"?
Jeff Daniels - Harry
Dennis Hopper - Howard Payne

“The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.”
Dennis Hopper

“I've been a Republican since Reagan.”
Dennis Hopper

“Two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.”
Dennis Hopper

“- Iggy: Between us, Spike doesn't have a thought in his brain, sir!
- Spike: Ha, ha, ha! He's a liar, sir. Between us, Iggy doesn't have a brain in his head!
- King Koopa: I agree.”
Fisher Stevens - Iggy
Richard Edson - Spike
Dennis Hopper - King Koopa

“My leg was right out in the middle of the street. I remember lying in the gutter and bleeding and shit, staring at my leg, right next to a beer can. And I remember thinking, that's my leg... I wonder if there's any beer in that can.”
Dennis Hopper - Feck

“- Clifford Worley: Sicilians were spawned by niggers.
- Coccotti: Come again?
- Clifford Worley: It's a fact. Yeah. You see, Sicilians have black blood pumpin' through their hearts. Hey, if you don't believe me you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, you see, the Moors conquered Sicily. And the Moors are niggers.”
Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley
Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti

“Dryland is not just our destination, it is our destiny!”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“- Huey Walker: That is cold, man. What if the train derails, huh? What if we plunge into a river, huh?
- John Buckner: You drown.
- Huey Walker: Know thy enemy.”
Dennis Hopper - Huey Walker
Kiefer Sutherland - John Buckner

“Don't just stand there, kill something!”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“How 'bout a cigarette? Nothing like a good smoke when you miss your mom... Never too young to start...”

Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“- Iggy: That hardly seems logical, does it? Perhaps we should stay here and formulate our own strategy. Tete-tete, inner circle, that sort of thing.
- King Koopa: Here's what's logical to me: If you do not return with the plumbers and the rock... I shall personally... kill you.
- Iggy: ...We're going.”
Fisher Stevens - Iggy
Dennis Hopper - King Koopa

“- Father: Every now and then, a person comes along, has a different view of the world than does the usual person. It doesn't make them crazy. I mean... an acute perception, man... that doesn't, that doesn't make you crazy.
- Rusty James: Could you talk normal?
- Father: However sometimes... it can drive you crazy, acute perception.”
Dennis Hopper - Father
Matt Dillon - Rusty James

“If you guys ever thought about brightening this place up, like, you know, a few plants, some flowers, you'd attract a better class of criminal. And man, if I can say one other thing, the room service sucks, and so do some of the customers.”
Dennis Hopper - Huey Walker

“Do you know what I love about mud? It's clean and it's dirty at the same time.”

Dennis Hopper - King Koopa

“- FH: You're still alive?
- Bill: Are you kidding?
- FH: No.
- Bill: Well, that is too bad, because it makes you sound awful stupid asking if I'm alive, 'cause obviously I am.
- FH: Well, maybe I mean alive in a deeper sense. You could be talking, but still not be alive in a deeper sense.
- Bill: Well, there's no deeper shit than the kind we're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Billy Crudup - FH
Dennis Hopper - Bill