Enter the Dragon (1973)

John Saxon: Roper

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• Roper : Well, well. One more lovely than the next.

  [pause] 

  Roper : What'd you have in mind?

  Tania : Pick one.

  Roper : I already have.

  Tania : Wise decision.

• [Roper sees Tania for the first time] 

  Roper : Would you look at that? A woman like that could teach you a lot about yourself.

• Han : Opium.

  Roper : Uh-oh!

  Han : We are investing in corruption, Mr Roper. The business of corruption is like any other.

  Roper : Oh yeah! Provide your customers with products they need and, uh, charge a little bit to stimulate your market and before you know it customers come to depend on you, I mean really need you. It's the law of economics.

• Roper : Oh, yeah. A lifetime of women, huh. A man's strength can be measured by his appetites. Indeed, a man's strength *flows* from his appetites.

• [repeated line] 

  Roper : You wanna bet?

• Han : Good morning, Mr. Roper. We have been waiting for you.

  Roper : What's going on?

  Han : Would you be good enough to participate in this morning's edification?

  Roper : Edification?

  [Roper sees Lee tied with arms behind his back] 

  Roper : [to Han]  What are you going to do to him?

  Han : Not me, Mr. Roper, you.

• Han : Very few people can be totally ruthless. It isn't easy; it takes more strength than you might believe.

  Roper : [lifting the cat from the guillotine and speaking to it]  Now you've got eight more.

  Han : So! There is a point you will not go beyond.

• Roper : You want me to join this?

  Han : There are certain realities. I want us to have a clear understanding.

  Roper : No. There's no misunderstanding between us.

• Roper : [Roper is betting on insect fighting and loses]  For crying out loud! Do you believe that?

  [to himself] 

  Roper : Dumb shit.

• Roper : What's the matter? You on a diet?

  Williams : I'd like to eat, if I can find something I can keep down.

• Roper : Nobody's as loyal as Daddy's little girl.

• Williams : What you been doing since 'Nam?

  Roper : Hangin' in a little bit.

• Roper : [looking into a mirror, wearing an open robe, drink in hand]  Another fine mess you got me into.

• Roper : Thattababy. Come on. Come on! That's it. Just get him on his back. Get him on his back! Come on. Come on.

• Roper : Well, I can't wait to meet our host. I hear this is only one of his B parties. You ever been to a martial arts tournament like this?

  Williams : Never.

  Roper : I have a funny feeling we're being fattened up for the kill.

• Roper : Faked out again.

• Han : Up here.

  Roper : A guillotine? Eh, no, thanks. This is the only angle I care to see it from.

  Han : If you please, Mr. Roper.

  Roper : You mean you want me to put my head on that thing?

  Han : An act of faith.

  Roper : I'm a man of little faith, Mr. Han.

• Han : You left some rather sizable debts in America.

  Roper : Diners Club hasn't called in my card yet.

• Han : Here we are stimulating quite another need. You wonder why I am exposing so much of myself?

  Roper : I forget what I see very easily.