Sin City Quotes

Priest : ...ask yourself if that corpse of a slut is worth dying for.
Marv : Worth dying for. [ shoots priest ]
Marv : Worth killing for. [ shoots him again ]
Marv : Worth going to hell for. [ shoots him again ]
Marv : Amen.

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Dwight : [ after asking Miho to put Jackie-Boy out of his misery ] She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

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Dwight : [ while being rescued from the Tar Pits ] Miho. You're an angel. You're a saint. You're Mother Teresa. You're Elvis. You're God. And if you'd shown up about ten minutes earlier, we'd still have Jackie-Boy's head.

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Dwight : I tell little Miho what has to be done. Then I'll make the most important phone call in my life.

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Marv : [ while exacting revenge on Kevin ] He never screams. Even after the dog has its fill and his guts are hanging out, he never screams.

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John Hartigan : When it comes to reassuring a traumatized 19-year-old, I'm about as expert as a palsy victim doing brain surgery with a pipe wrench.

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John Hartigan : There's wrong, and there's wrong, and there's *this*.

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Stuka : [ after getting shot with an arrow ] Hey... Will ya look at that? It's right through me. Guys, look. It's cut a hole right through me.
Schutz : There's something wrapped around it. Some kind of note.
Manute : Give it to me.
Stuka : Guys, this is starting to really hurt. Just look at it. It's poked a hole right through me. Guys?
Manute : [ reading the note ] McCarthy, you fool.
Stuka : Guys, don't you think maybe somebody oughta call a doctor for me or something? This isn't the kind of thing you just ignore, guys.
Manute : Out back. Everyone. Bring the women.
Stuka : Guys?

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Marv : Wait a second. Why'd she call you Wendy?
Wendy : Because that's my name, you ape. Goldie was my sister. My twin sister.
Marv : I guess she was the nice one.

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Marv : [ to Kevin ] I got you now, ya little bastard. Let's see you hop around now.

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[ Marv's last line ]
Marv : Is that the best you can do, you pansies?

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Dwight : Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.

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John Hartigan : Aim careful, and look the devil in the eye.

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Jack Rafferty : Come on in the car, baby.
Becky : I'm sorry. I do the day shift and it's been a long day. Besides, I don't do group jobs.
Jack Rafferty : Come on in and we can just have a nice talk.
Becky : I don't do talk jobs either.

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[ after Jackie-Boy's head explodes ]
Manute : No, McCarthy, you shit!

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John Hartigan : Skinny little Nancy Callahan. She grew up. She filled out.

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Marv : I'm on my feet for about ten minutes before the cops kick them out from under me. They don't ask me any questions. They just keep knocking the crap out of me and waving a confession in my face. And I keep spitting blood all over it and laughing at how many fresh copies they come up with. Then along comes this worm assistant district attorney who turns the recorder off and says if I don't sign their confession, they'll kill my mom. I break his arm in three places and I sign it.

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Dwight : First, we gotta rescue Gail. Then comes the kill. The big, fat kill.

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John Hartigan : Nancy's car. Six miles from the farm. "Nobody but me can keep this heap running" she told me. Good girl. The car stalled out on that yellow bastard and you didn't tell him how to start it up again. You kept your mouth shut. I'll bet Junior was furious.

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Senator Roark : Power don't come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big, and gettin' the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you've got e'm by the balls.

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[ first lines ]
The Salesman : [ voiceover ] She shivers in the wind like the last leaf on a dying tree. I let her hear my footsteps. She only goes stiff for a moment.

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Marv : Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

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John Hartigan : [ to Nancy ] Whatever he does to you: don't scream.

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Marv : You can scream now if you want.

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[ Hartigan is on his way to go save a girl from a rapist ]
Bob : I'm gonna get on the horn and wait for back-up. We're gonna wait for back-up!
John Hartigan : Sure, Bob. You'll call for back-up. And we'll sit on our hands while that Roark brat gets his sick thrills from victim number four. Victim number four! Nancy Callahan. Age 11. She'll be raped and slashed to ribbons. And that back-up we're waiting on will just happen to show up late enough to let Roark get back home to his U.S. Senator daddy and everything will be fine until Junior gets the itch again.
Bob : Take a deep breath, Hartigan. Settle down and think straight. You're pushing 60. You've got a bum ticker. You're not saving anybody.
John Hartigan : You've got a great attitude, Bob. You're a great cop. A real credit to the force, you are.
Bob : Eileen's home waiting for you. Think about Eileen.
John Hartigan : Heck, Bob. Maybe you're right.
Bob : I'm glad to hear you're finally talking sense! [ Hartigan punches Bob in the face ]
John Hartigan : [ narrating ] Hell of a way to end a partnership. Hell of a way to start my retirement.

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Cop : Sir! There's no sign of the target.
Marv : Here's a sign. [ comes up behind cop and swings hatchet into the cop's crotch ]

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John Hartigan : [ pounding Yellow Bastard into floor ]
John Hartigan : [ shouts ] Eight long years, you son of a bitch!

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Bob : [ Bob is waiting outside the city prison after Hartigan's release ] It's a lotta miles into town, Hartigan. You care for a ride?
John Hartigan : Long as you stay in front of me.
Bob : Prison's made you paranoid. Talk about water under the bridge. Christ. [ he takes a drag on his cigarette ]
Bob : Eight years.
John Hartigan : [ softly ] Yeah. Eight years.
Bob : Well, if it's any consolation to ya... [ he takes another drag ]
Bob : ... you made me hate myself.

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Marv : [ Marv is walking in the back door to Kadie's ] [ voiceover ]
Marv : Walk down the right back alley in Sin City...
Bouncer : [ the bouncer throws someone out the door ] Leave your hands off Nancy!
Marv : [ voiceover ] ... and you could find anything. [ Marv steps over the man on the ground and walks right up to the bouncer ]
Bouncer : That coat looks like Baghdad. So does your face. Take off! [ Marv jabs his thumbs into the bouncer's eyes and walks him backwards through the door ]
Bouncer : Urrrghh... aaahhhhh! Ahhh! [ Marv throws him into a corner booth ]
Maeve : [ watching the whole thing ] He's new here, Marv, he didn't know.

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Shellie : [ after Dwight dunks Jackie-Boy in his own urine ] Dwight, what did you do to him?
Dwight : I gave him a taste of his own medicine.

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