Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Quotes

  • Marv: [takes a punch] Just another Saturday night...

  • Mort: You keep asking for it, and asking for it!

  • Marv: [observes Ava] That right there is a dame to kill for...

  • [from trailer]

    Johnny: Sin City's where you go in with your eyes open, or you don't come out at all.

  • Marv: [waking up next to a crashed car and a group of dead bodies] How did I get here? What have I done?

  • Nancy Callahan: Looks like trouble.

    Marv: Looks like Christmas.

  • Johnny: You'd be smart to kill me now.

  • Nancy Callahan: You're the only man I ever loved.

  • Dwight McCarthy: This time they've crossed a fatal line.

  • Senator Roark: Now, who wants to play?

  • John Hartigan: Death is just like life in Sin City. It always wins.

  • Wallenquist: You're starting a gang war. And the gang are professionals.

  • Dwight McCarthy: Never lose control. Never let the monster out.

  • Ava Lord: You've made me a very rich woman.

  • John Hartigan: Don't avenge me, Nancy. It'll be the death of you.

  • Gail: You have ten seconds to tell us what your doing bringing COPS to Old Town!

  • Marv: [to Dwight] Here we are pal. All of sudden this doesn't look like the brightest idea you ever had, huh?

  • [pointing a gun at Sally]

    Joey: You're gonna suck me dry, and you'll never ever stop!

  • Dwight McCarthy: Nobody's killing anybody. Not while I'm around.

  • Marv: [seeing Nancy covered in scars] Just give me a name.

    [long pause]

    Nancy Callahan: ...Roark.

  • Bertha: [as Johnny turns to leave] Just a second, you. You don't stink of anything I don't like, and you kind of remind me of an old boyfriend, okay?

    [she offers him one dollar]

    Bertha: This won't take you very far.

    Johnny: [taking the money] Sweetheart, it's gonna take me to the moon.

  • [first lines]

    Marv: Metal screams. Something hits me square in the chest. There's no up or down. I don't weigh a thing.

  • [repeated line]

    Dwight McCarthy: Ava. Damn.

  • Marv: How did I get here? What have I done, and why? I can't remember for the life of me.

  • Marv: Why'd he call me "Bernie"?

  • Dwight McCarthy: [getting beaten by Manute] An atom bomb goes off between my legs.

  • Nancy Callahan: This rotten town. Those it can't corrupt it soils. It soiled you, John Hartigan.

  • [last lines]

    Nancy Callahan: This rotten town... It soils everybody.

  • Ava Lord: What does it feel like?

    Dwight McCarthy: What?

    Ava Lord: Murdering an innocent man. Just wanna know what it felt like. Must have been beautiful.

    Dwight McCarthy: What are you talking about innocence?

    Ava Lord: I knew I could count on you. Sex always made you stupid, ready to believe anything.

    [chuckles]

    Ava Lord: You've just made me a very rich woman.

    [points a gun at Dwight]

    Ava Lord: Do me one last favor, lover? Stay still long enough for me to blow your brains out.

  • Johnny: You'd be smart to kill me now.

    Senator Roark: [laughs] I'll do far worse than kill you boy.

  • Kroenig: [injecting his arm with heroin] Steady as a rock.

  • Dwight McCarthy: She owns me. Body and soul.

  • Dwight McCarthy: Ava...

    [gets shot out of window]

    Ava Lord: [looks out window and sees that he is still alive] Damn.

  • Johnny: I'm ready for your worst.

    Senator Roark: Boy, you don't even want to dream about my worst.

  • Manute: You'll have to beat the goddess.

    Dwight McCarthy: She's no goddess. She's a monster.

  • John Hartigan: Let's tear him to pieces.

  • Ava Lord: I own Sin City.

  • [from the movie on Nancy's television]

    Sam: You shot me in the gut.

    Sam's Friend: It wasn't me, Sam. It was the babe.

    Sam: This rotten town... it soils everybody it touches.

  • Nancy Callahan: And this one's for John Hartigan, fucker!

    [shoots]

  • Senator Roark: [poker scene] I favored your mother, she was a whore, and not a very good one.

    Johnny: She was an angel.

    Johnny: - I'm all in...

    Senator Roark: - Call...

    Senator Roark: [shows: Four Kings]

    Johnny: [shows: Four Aces]

    Johnny: See, I told you, I never lose.

    Johnny: I beat you, twice. That means I'm better than you are, and everybody knows it because I beat you again. Every time somebody tells this story - and they'll all say they won't tell it but they will - That's the story that will be told, again and again until you're dead... and after you're dead. I beat you forever.

    Johnny: And they all know what happens when you do.

    Senator Roark: [pulls out gun] Say hello to your mama. She always was a stupid bitch.

    [shoots Johnny in the center of his forehead]

    Senator Roark: If I could give any young man advice it'd be this: Always wear a rubber.

    Senator Roark: Now take out the trash! Let's get back to the game!

  • Marv: What have I done, and why? I must have forgotten my medicine. I've got a condition. It's bad to forget your medicine when you've got a condition.

  • Marcie: We're we goin', Johnny?

    Johnny: Everywhere.

  • Senator Roark: Power is a fragile thing. It tolerates no threat. Defiance must be met with an example of the wages of defiance.

    [thugs maim his hands]

    Johnny: You'd be smart to kill me now.

    Senator Roark: I'll do far worse than kill you.

  • Sally: Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!

    Dwight McCarthy: [stops punching Joey] Nobody's killing anyone.

    Sally: Then can I have a ride?

  • Dwight McCarthy: I've taken a beating before, but never anything like this. Never like this.

    [punch echoes]

    Dwight McCarthy: The sounds go wet. Maybe he keeps hitting me, I don't know. I'm gone. Gone to that place where there's no pain or thought. I wake up in mid air. The pavement rushes up to give me a big sloppy kiss.

  • Dwight McCarthy: You're insane.

    Ava Lord: No, Dwight. A crazy person would be anyone who belives me. And that would be you.

  • Senator Roark: Power is as power does.

  • John Hartigan: No one ever really guessed what hell is. It's watching the people you love, in pain.

  • Senator Roark: I'm holding a gun on you, young lady. The rules are, you pretend there's a chance I *won't* shoot you.

  • Marv: Remember when you did, remember what you did.

  • Marv: [to Nancy] I hope you don't mind me saying this, but... you look hot.

  • Senator Roark: Frankly, between you and me, I've finally accepted that Ethan was not presidential material. I'd have had a hard time buying him an election in an insane asylum. But he was my son, honey. He was my son. And now... he's gonna hear you scream. Scream.