Léon: The Professional Quotes

What, what, what? You're 200 men and you cant find one man and a girl?

When it's tough like this, you know it's gonna be ugly. Better make it quick, or else you will be here all day listening to his crap.

I take no pleasure in taking a life if it's from a person who doesn't care about it.

You still have your gun, so use it. Just do me a favor, don't shoot it out the window.

Ey. What about the ring trick. You know that one?

Relax. Everything's fine. Sleep well? I never really sleep. Got one eye open always.

Stansfield: Bring me everyone.
3rd Stansfield man: What do you mean "everyone"?
Stansfield: EVERYONE!

Stansfield: You're a Mozart fan. I love him too. I looooove Mozart! He was Austrian you know? But for this kind of work,
Stansfield: he's a little bit light. So I tend to go for the heavier guys. Check out Brahms. He's good too.

Stansfield: I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects. Do you like Beethoven?
Malky: I couldn't really say.

Death is... whimsical... today.

Mathilda: Do you "clean" anyone?
Léon: No women, no kids, that's the rules.
Mathilda: How much would it cost to hire someone to get those dirtbags who killed my brother?
Léon: Five grand a head.
Mathilda: Wow. How about this: I work for you; in exchange, you teach me how to clean. Hmmm? What do you think? I'll clean your place, I'll do the shopping, I'll even wash your clothes. Is it a deal?

Mathilda: How are we getting out of here now?
Léon: Leave it to me. We're checking out.

Can we try with real bullets now?

Léon: Revenge is not a good thing, it's better to forget.
Mathilda: Forget? After I've seen the outline of my brother's body on the floor, you expect me to forget? I wanna kill those sons of bitches, and blow their fucking heads off!

Léon: There was someone a long time ago. Before I came to the States. Her father didn't want her to see me. She was from a very respectable family. Mine was, you know, not so respectable. Her dad went nuts every time she'd take off to see me.
Mathilda: But she still snuck off to see you, right?
Léon: Right.
Mathilda: You see, nothing can stop love, Léon.

Léon: What are you doing?
Mathilda: You said no women, no kids. Who do you think this is gonna kill, junkies and monkeys?

He's not my father. He's my lover.

Léon: Sorry about your father.
Mathilda: If somebody didn't do it one day or another, I probably would have done it myself.

I am writing here the name of a girl in the class who makes me sick. If things get hot, she'll take the heat.

Mathilda: If I win, you keep me with you for life.
Léon: And if you lose?
Mathilda: Go shopping alone, like before.

Mathilda: There's no doorbell.
Léon: So knock on the door.

Léon: You need some time to grow up a little.
Mathilda: I finished growing up, Léon. I just get older.
Léon: For me it's the opposite. I'm old enough. I need time to grow up.

I think we'll be OK here, Leon.

You know a girl's first time is very important. It determines the rest of her life sexually. I read that once in one of my sister's magazine. My girlfriends told me they hated their first experience. That's because they didn't love the guys. They just did it to show off. Afterwards, they started liking it. Like cigarette. Will i like it the first time?

Léon: Tony... All the money I make, that you keep for me...
Tony: You need some money?
Léon: No, just curious... Because, I've been working a long time... And I havent done anything with my... I thought maybe someday I could
Léon: use it.
Tony: You met a woman.

Hey, Leon, nothing's gonna happen to you. You're indestructible! Bullets slide off you, you play with 'em.

Tony: Check it. Make sure it's the right thing.
Léon: I trust you.
Tony: One thing has nothin' to do with the other - remember that Léon.
Léon: I will.

Change ain't good, you know Léon?
Tony: Allora, come stai, Leone?
Léon: Bene.
Tony: OK. OK. Let's talk business.

What filthy piece of shit did I do now?

The rifle is the first weapon you learn how to use, because it lets you keep your distance from the client. The closer you get to being a pro, the closer you can get to the client. The knife, for example, is the last thing you learn.

He killed her. One shot to the head. They kept him in jail for two days. They let him go free. They said it was an accident. So, one night I waited for him. 500 feet with a lens. He also had an accident.

No discussion.

I like these quiet little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven.

I haven't got time for this Mickey Mouse bullshit.

Stansfield: You don't like Beethoven. You don't know what you're missing. Overtures like that get my... juices flowing. So powerful. But after his openings, to be honest, he does tend to get a little fucking boring. That's why I stopped!
Stansfield: Toss the apartment.

Hey, what the fuck is going on up there? I said take the guy out, not the whole fucking building!

Stansfield: I have a lot of respect for your business, Tony. When you've killed for us in the past we've always been satisfied. And that's exactly why today is going to be very, very hard for me. I hope you'll excuse my mood.
Stansfield: My man was killed, right here, on your turf. And the chinks tell me that the hit man was kind of the... Italian type. So we figured that, uh, Tony might know something.
Stansfield: Wait - there's more. You're gonna love this. A few hours later, a little twelve-year-old girl comes to my office armed to the teeth, with the firm intention of sending me straight to the morgue. And do you know who came and got her in the middle of the afternoon right there in my building? The very... same... Italian hit man.
Stansfield: I'm dying to meet him.

I hope you're not lying Leon. I really hope that deep down there's no love in you. And if there is, I think in a few minutes you'll regret you never said anything. I love you Leon.

Mathilda: Leon, I think I'm kinda falling in love with you.
Mathilda: It's the first time for me, you know?
Léon: How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?
Mathilda: 'Cause I feel it.
Léon: Where?
Mathilda: In my stomach. It's all warm. I always had a knot there and now... it's gone.
Léon: Mathilda, I'm glad you don't have a stomach ache any more. I don't think it means anything.

Mathilda: Is life always this hard, or is it just when you're a kid?
Léon: Always like this.

Mathilda: I don't wanna lose you, Leon.
Léon: You're not going to lose me. You've given me a taste for life. I wanna be happy. Sleep in a bed, have roots. And you'll never be alone again, Mathilda. Please, go now, baby, go. Calm down, I'll meet you at Tony's in an hour, I love you, now go, go now.

It's my best friend. Always happy. No questions.

Léon: And stop saying "okay" all the time. Okay?
Mathilda: Okay.
Léon: Good.

I think we'll be ok here, Leon.

Mathilda: Sleep well?
Léon: I never really sleep well. Got one eye open, always.
Mathilda: Yeah, I forgot. You know, I never saw someone with one eye open snore so much.

I don't give a shit about sleeping, Leon. I want love, or death. That's it.