Quotes for
Léon (Character)
from Leon: The Professional (1994)

Leon: The Professional (1994)

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

Léon: You need some time to group 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.

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

Mathilda: Leon, what exactly do you do for a living?
Léon: [Leon] Cleaner.
Mathilda: You mean you're a hit man?
Léon: [reluctantly] Yeah.
Mathilda: Cool.

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: I've decided what to do with my life. I wanna be a cleaner.
Léon: You wanna be a cleaner?
[passes her a gun and bullets]
Léon: Here, take it. It's a goodbye gift. Go clean. But not with me. I work alone, understand? Alone.
Mathilda: Bonnie and Clyde didn't work alone. Thelma and Louise didn't work alone. And they were the best.

Léon: 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.

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.

Léon: Stansfield?
Stansfield: At your service.
Léon: [handing him something] This is from... Mathilda.
Stansfield: [sees that it's a pin for a grenade] Shit.

Mathilda: Leon, I think I'm kinda falling in love with you.
[Leon chokes on his milk]
Mathilda: It's the first time for me, you know?
Léon: [wiping himself off] How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?
Mathilda: 'Cause I feel it.
Léon: Where?
Mathilda: [stoking her stomach] 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.

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

Léon: I took a hit. I need a hand now. I know she's young, but she learns fast. Kids need to be shaped into something right?
Tony: Yeah, I know. I taught you that. But ain't there an age limit?
Léon: She's 18.
Tony: Oh, really?

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

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

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, go now, go.

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
[uncomfortable]
Léon: use it.
Tony: [Figuring him out] You met a woman.

Léon: [referring to his plant] It's my best friend. Always happy. No questions.

1st Stansfield man: He was a pro, he was fast, he fucking came out of nowhere.
[Boom]
1st Stansfield man: shoots the chinamen dead in two seconds
Malky: Easy man I am a cop
1st Stansfield man: Then turns around and says something to Malky like
Léon: No women, no kids.
[boom]

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

Pauly: C'mon, asshole! C'mon faggot. C'mon, gun trick.
Léon: Hey, what about the ring trick, you've heard that one?
Pauly: Ring trick? C'mon, asshole. I'm waiting. Show it to me, motherfucker!

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!

Mathilda: How old were you when you made your first hit?
Léon: Nineteen.
Mathilda: Beat you!

Léon: No discussion.

[first lines]
Tony: Allora, come stai, Leone?
Léon: Bene.
[Tony puts out his cigarette in an ashtray]
Tony: OK. OK. Let's talk business.

Léon: 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.

Léon: [Mathilda, crying about her brother's murder, calls her stepmother a pig] Hey, don't talk like that about pigs. They're usually much nicer than people.
Mathilda: But they smell like shit.
Léon: Not true. As a matter of fact, right now I have one in my kitchen that's very clean and smells very nice.
Mathilda: You don't have a pig in your kitchen.
Léon: Yes, I do.
Mathilda: I was just in there and I didn't see any goddamned pig.
Léon: Don't move. I'll get him.
[Leon goes into the kitchen]
Léon: Piggy? Piggy? Where are you?
[oinking heard in the kitchen]
Léon: Ah, there you are.
Léon: [more oinking, then a pig pot holder sticks its 'head' around the corner] Hi, Mathilda.
Mathilda: [she smiles] Hi, piggy.

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

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

Mathilda: [opens rubbing alcohol over drug stash]
Léon: What are you doing?
Mathilda: You said no women, no kids. Who do you think this is gonna kill, junkies and monkeys?

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.

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