50 Best The Equalizer Quotes

Masters: Hey! Hey! Hey. This is my town. Do you understand me? This is my home. You cannot run around like a wild animal. What the fuck was that?
Teddy: It's a message. It says, "I'm here."

Robert: [passing the money to the Pushkin's employees] There you go. Thank you very much. There you go. Mr. Pushkin thanks you very much. We're going out of business. Closing down shop. Mr. Pushkin thanks you very much. There you are, sweetheart. Here you go. You're welcome. Accept these parting gifts on behalf of Mr. Pushkin. There you go. Three, two... Look at that, perfect... One. Thank you. Thank you, sweetheart.

Vladimir: What do you want?
Robert: I want the head of the snake.

Robert: Progress. Not Perfection.

Robert: Is it just you, or are we waiting for someone else?
P&E: I'm sorry. What?
Robert: Your hands. If you really work on power lines, your hands wouldn't look like that. We gotta be waiting for somebody else.
P&E: Motherfucker... Hands where I can see them. We're gonna take a little walk across the street, Black Denali.

Teri: I bought a little machine for making demos.
Robert: Yea, I bet your good.
Teri: What makes you say that?
Robert: Intuition.

Robert: When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too.

Susan: I know a part of you died when Vivian did. But not the part she loved the most... Go be him.
Robert: ...Yep.
Susan: Don't forget to say goodbye.
[walks away]
Robert: ...Goodbye.

Robert: Your heart's beating three times the normal rate because you're losing so much blood. About 30 seconds, your body's gonna shut down... and you're gonna suffocate. Alina, the girl you beat half to death, her life will go on. Yours is gonna end right here, on this funky floor... over $9,800. You should have taken the money.
Slavi: Who are you?
Robert: 26 one-thousand... 27 one-thousand... 28 one-thousand... I'm sorry.

Robert: [telling Teri about his book] Man gotta be the man, fish gotta be the fish.

Teri: There's no ring.
Robert: Hmm?
Teri: On your wedding finger, there's no ring.
Robert: No.
Teri: No Mrs. Robert at home?
Robert: No.
Teri: Was there ever?
Robert: Once.
Teri: Did you break her heart?
Robert: She broke mine.
Teri: You know, I see a lot of widowed guys. Something in your eyes. You know, it's not sad, It's just kinda... lost, you know.

Brian: Is everything alright? Were you able to help him?
Susan: He didn't come for help. He came for permission.

Susan: Your friend here is who Pushkin sends when he's got a problem. Teddy Rensen. Real name, Nicolai Itchenko. Skill set honed in Spetsnaz. He's formidable and smart. Ran a wing of the Secret Police for years. Went private when the Union fell. Basically, he's a sociopath with a business card.

Robert: [to Nicolai] The men I killed, your men... I gave them a chance, they made their decision... Now I'm giving you the opportunity to make yours.

Robert: I know you got an escape plan. Where do you keep it?
Masters: Yeah? What's your fuckin' escape plan, huh?
Robert: It's not about me, Frank. It's about you right now. Where do you keep it?
Masters: You know what? Fuck you, you motherfucker. You have fucked me so fucking bad! You did this, you motherfucker!
Robert: Do you hear yourself? You did it to this badge, Frank. You disrespected this badge. You understand me?
Masters: Fuck you, you motherfucker. I got nothing, all right? I got fuckin' nothing. You hear me? I got fuckin' nothing because of you! You think they're not coming for you? You think you're not fuckin' next? I am a fucking dead man!
Robert: Well, do something about it, Frank.
Masters: You don't know who the fuck these people are! I'm a fucking dead man. I won't last a fucking week.
Robert: Then do the right thing.
Masters: Motherfu...
Robert: Do the right thing, Frank. Police officer for 20 years, I know you didn't get this far and not have an out. Where do you keep it?
Masters: I was a fucking good cop. I was.
Robert: I understand. Do the right thing. Do it for the good cops, Frank. Where do you keep it?

Robert: [Setting his stopwatch before taking down several Russian mobsters] Sixteen seconds.

Ralphie: It's me, Mr. McCall. It's Ralphie. You said not to leave anybody behind.
[lifting him off the floor]
Ralphie: "Buck-ninety" my ass!

Susan: If you've come for help, I can't give you any.
Robert: I understand.
Susan: Do you?
Robert: Just came for tea.

Robert: I don't have a lot of time. Which means you don't have any.

Robert: I'm here for that girl. You gave me that a couple of nights ago.
Slavi: We give out lots of cards. You still can get it up, *dedushka*?
[chuckles]
Robert: I'm here about a certain girl. She got beat up pretty bad.

Robert: I am offering you a chance to do the right thing. Take it.

Robert: [voiceover] Tomorrow you'll have returned all the money you extorted from those people. You'll tell them it will never happen again. Do that, and this video will never be seen... Don't, and a half an hour later you'll watch the uncut version on every news outlet in the area. Now I'm offering you a chance to do the right thing. Take it.
Detective: That fucking hurt more than the beating.

Teri: You and I know what I really am.
Robert: I think you can be anything you wanna be.
Teri: Maybe in your world, Robert. Doesn't really happen that way in mine.
Robert: Change your world.

Masters: Listen, huh? Do me a favor, all right? Whatever you do, don't call him "Little John," okay?

Robert: I've done some bad things in my life, Nicolai... Things I'm not proud of. I promised someone I love very much that I would never go back to being that person... But for you, I'll make an exception.

Susan: You didn't take out five pimps, Robert. You took out the East Coast hub of Vladimir Pushkin.
Robert: Pushkin?
Susan: Mm. He's similar to their oligarch who jumped in bed with Russian mafia, only he funds everything: gasoline, weapons, girls, you name it. He's built an intricate network on both U.S. coasts that are incredibly well-insulated. His money and political ties make him untouchable.

Teri: You always read books?
Robert: My wife did. She... She was working through the 100 Books Everybody Should Read. She made it to 97, so I figured... I'd give it a shot... And one day we'd have something to talk about when we get together.
Teri: ...Wow, a hundred books.
Robert: Yeah.
Teri: Holy moly. How many have you read, Robert?
Robert: Ninety-one.
Teri: [cell phone rings] Sorry, this damn thing. Ninety-one books, though. You're almost done.
Robert: Almost.
Teri: What are you gonna do after that?
Robert: Take singing lessons. Then I'm gonna open a donut factory. I am... What? Why you laughing?

Vladimir: So it's you... and now you've come to kill me.
Robert: Yes.
Vladimir: Then tell me: what do you gain from my death?
Robert: Peace.

Ralphie: I'm not strong enough.
Robert: Don't doubt yourself, son. Doubt kills.

Teddy: I want images from every security camera within a six-block radius. If you have any trouble call that number... and it will be taken care of. Phones charged and on. I tend to call at odd hours. Now, if you could drive me to my residence.
Masters: Hey, wait a second, Mr. Sunshine. What do I look like to you? A chauffeur? This is our town. You're fucking guest.
Teddy: Let me apologize for my conduct. It was a long flight on short notice, and I... I like to focus, to work quickly. The deaths of Mr. Pushkin's men have interrupted his operations here. Imports, movements of goods, have all ceased. That's unacceptable. I am the one Mr. Pushkin calls in when people like you fuck up. I'm accountable now.
Masters: Listen, I don't like your tone...
Teddy: You have taken Mr. Pushkin's money for years. Money that comes with conditions. Non-negotiable conditions. Problem you're having with me is you still think you matter. You don't. I'm all that matters. And so we're clear. I'm not here to say "please." I'm here to tell you what to do.
[walks away]
Teddy: Be ready for business. We open tomorrow.

Susan: Sometimes we make wrong choices to get to the right place.

Vladimir: Who are you?
Robert: Everybody wants to know.

Robert: How'd you find me? I paid cash. We did no reservation. How'd you find me?
Teddy: Well, that's what we do, Mr. McCall.
Robert: We who?
Teddy: We find people we need to find.
Robert: We who?
[Teddy walks away]
Teddy: [climbs into the car] Everything about him is wrong.

Teddy: When you look at me, what do you see.
Robert: [chuckles, shifts in his seat]
Teddy: The answer's nothing. I have no feeling about you one way or the other. You're like... like lint or a bottle cap. You're just a thing to remove.

Robert: [to Slavi] That girl, Alana... She's gonna go on living. You... You're gonna bleed out all over this funky floor... All over 9,800 dollars.

Robert: You gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Teri: [comes to the Robert's table] I'm sorry. I'm breaking protocol, right?
Robert: No, no. Listen, hey, come, come on, sit down. Sit. Sit... Sit.
Teri: Okay.
Robert: Come on, sit down.
Teri: All right... Are you sure I'm not interrupting anything?
Robert: Yeah... So?
Teri: I don't know. You know, I just kind of felt like a quiet voice... before it all goes crazy.
Robert: Okay.
Teri: I'm Teri.
Robert: Bob.
[bump their fists together]
Robert: Ow! It's good.
Teri: You know, you don't look like a Bob.
Robert: Oh, yeah?
[to the waiter]
Robert: Thank you.
Teri: You look like a Robert. Robert reads books like this and Bob watches TV... My real name's Alina.
Robert: What happened to your face?
Teri: Something stupid.

Robert: [Detective Gilly picks up his cell phone] Why waste city services when I got two corrupt cops right in front of me?
Detective: It's that guy.
Detective: This fucking guy?

Teri: I remembered you lived around here, so I've been swinging by the last few days hoping I'd run into you.
Robert: Yeah?
Teri: Yeah. Pretty different, huh?
Robert: Night and day.
Teri: Yeah, well... I get my stitches out next week.
[taking a book out of her bag]
Teri: Um, I'm reading now.
Robert: Oh, no!
Teri: Yeah.
Robert: Very good.
Teri: I know. I got it from a used book store. The guy there recommended it to me. It's good. I got a job, too. Like, a real job with real hours and stuff.
Robert: Okay.
Teri: You know, when they gave me my stuff back at the hospital, there was this envelope with my name on it. Almost $10,000 inside and a ticket out of town. I don't know, probably hush money, right?
Robert: Probably.
Teri: Who cares? A new start.
Robert: Alina the singer.
Teri: Well, someone once told me I could be whoever I wanted to be.
Robert: Body, mind...
Teri: [fist-bumping] Spirit. I'm gonna miss your stories, Robert.
Robert: You got your own now.
Teri: Thank you. For everything.

Marcus: Hey, yo, Pops. We betting on what you did before you got here.
Jay: Like for a living.
Marcus: I'm saying insurance, claims.
Jay: He was a stock dude, man, on Wall Street.
Robert: I was a Pip.
Jay: Yo, you were a pimp?
Robert: No, not a pimp. A Pip, P-I-P, Pip.
Jay: What fuck is a Pip?
Robert: Why you curse so much? You know, like Gladys Knight and the Pips. Like this.
[starts dancing]

[from trailer]
Ralphie: [asking about Robert's hurt hand] What happened?
Robert: I hit it on something stupid.

Teri: I love being up at this hour. You know, everything's so dark. It makes everything seem possible again.

Title: The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain

Teri: [about his book] What's your new one about?
Robert: Oh, it's about a guy who thinks he's a knight in shining armor. The only thing is, he lives in a world where knights don't exist anymore.
Teri: Sound like my world.

FBI: FBI. How can I direct your call?
Robert: Agent Mosley, please.
Agent: Agent Mosley.
Robert: Heard you found some money today.
Agent: Who is this?
Robert: Concerned citizen. Check your personal e-mail... Make sure you're sitting down when you do.

Teri: You know, I see a lot of widowed guys. Something in your eyes. You know, it's not sad. It's just kind of lost, you know?

Little: Who the fuck do you think you are, coming done here talking to me like...
Teddy: Who I am, or what I am? Who I am is complicated. What I am is a little easier. I'm a threat. I alter outcomes.

Little: See, I hate you fucking Russians. You're all crazy and you're arrogant. Now, the Irish, we came here for a piece of the American dream. You people come over here to steal it. So fuck all of you.
Teddy: Well, Mr. Looney, I appreciate your candor. It's refreshing, and that makes me understand that you're not smart enough to have done this.
Little: What fuck?
Teddy: Which brings me to my next issue. We pay you 15 percent to do business here. The additional 10 percent you steal, we ignore. We anticipated it, as you people are such clichés. The fact that you're a rat to the Feds is also tolerable, Little John.
Little: What fuck?
Teddy: What we will not tolerate is... getting nothing for our money: no information, no protection... no assurances. You understand, Little Johnny?
Little: Who fuck do you think you are?
Teddy: Who I am? Or what I am? Who I am is complicated. What I am is easier, I'm a threat. I alter outcomes.
Little: Throw this motherf...
[Teddy starts beating him]

Robert: [offers a cake] Loaded with poison, just like you like it.
Teri: Is it your birthday?
Robert: No, it was some guy at work. I didn't want to waste it.
Teri: Happy birthday, Some Guy at Work... How old are you?
Robert: How old are you?
Teri: Doesn't really matter.

Robert: Thought you were gonna to give up that refined sugar?
Teri: I am.
Robert: When?
Teri: Any day now.
Robert: Yea, it's bad for your vocal cords. Body, mind, spirit. Remember?