The Equalizer Quotes

Robert McCall: [the Equalizer is spooking out a bad cop in an alley... grabs by the shirt & keeps slamming against the wall as he says... ] I DO NOT... FORGIVE... [slam!]
Robert McCall: I DO NOT... FORGIVE... [slam!]
Robert McCall: I DO NOT... FORGIVE... [slam!]

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Robert McCall: [McCall grabs Joseph Morrison around the neck & thrusts him toward the video camera] You see that, Mr. Morrison? That's a camera! The destruction of your family is FINISHED! It is FINISHED! It is FINISHED! [Police officers charge in & arrest Joseph Morrison]

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[a police detective confronts McCall about a vigilante killing criminals in McCall's name]
Sgt. Oliver Gant: I don't like what you do.
Robert McCall: What is it you think I do?
Sgt. Oliver Gant: You are a hired gun!
Robert McCall: If by that remark you mean that I sometimes help people in trouble, yes I do. But if you mean that I'm anything like this madman out there, then you're wrong again! Let me tell you something, Sergeant: That man is harming my reputation, so if you think you want him, I want him a damn sight more!

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

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

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Robert McCall: Progress. Not Perfection.

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

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Teri: [about his book]What's your new one about?
Robert McCall: 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.

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Robert McCall: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Robert McCall: [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.

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Little John Looney: 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.

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

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

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

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Robert McCall: [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.

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

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

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

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

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Teddy: When you look at me, what do you see.
Robert McCall: [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.

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

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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 McCall: I was a Pip.
Jay: Yo, you were a pimp?
Robert McCall: No, not a pimp. A Pip, P-I-P, Pip.
Jay: What fuck is a Pip?
Robert McCall: Why you curse so much? You know, like Gladys Knight and the Pips. Like this. [starts dancing]

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

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

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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?

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