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Burt Reynolds in Hooper (1978)

Burt Reynolds: Sonny Hooper

Hooper

Burt Reynolds credited as playing...

Sonny Hooper

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Quotes22

  • Max Berns: You guys look like garbage.
  • Sonny Hooper: You should see through my eyes, it's metro color.
  • Cully: I've just got a little headache. If you think we're bad you should see the guys...!
  • Sonny Hooper: [Slaps Cully] Dont yell in my ear! Jesus Christ.
  • [Belches]
  • Cully: [Hears something coming towards them, it's Ski on a motorized skateboard] What the hell is that? Look what's coming.
  • Sonny Hooper: [Covers his ears] Stop that thing! Shoot it! Kill it!
  • Ski: [Holds up a breakfast burrito] Want some breakfast?
  • Sonny Hooper: [Belches] Oh God, get that circumcised will you.
  • Ski: My life is worth more than a piece of film.
  • Hooper: I'll tell you EXACTLY what your life is worth. Your life is worth fifty thousand dollars, that's the price you put on it when you got behind this wheel!
  • Amtrac, SWAT man: [Sonny has smashed the jukebox to get Amtrac's money back] Well, if you wanted to make somebody look like an asshole, boy, you did! That was you.
  • Sonny Hooper: [counting the SWAT guys] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12... six against twelve!
  • Ski: [joins in] Seven.
  • Sonny Hooper: Seven against twelve. Well, that's a little uneven. Looks like you guys'll have to go back to Houston and get some more guys!
  • Sonny Hooper: Nobody's gettin' married!
  • Jocko Doyle: What do you mean, nobody's gettin' married? Name me somebody that ain't gettin' married. Name me two people, for Christ sake, that ain't gettin' married. Everybody's - people get - *faggots* are gettin' married! For Christ sake, what do you mean, nobody's gettin' married.
  • Sonny Hooper: I'm gonna find the guy who invented Xylocaine and kiss his ass on Hollywood and Vine!
  • Adam: There's my man. Make me look great, Sonny.
  • Sonny Hooper: I'll make you look great, Adam.
  • Sonny Hooper: I'll make a deal with you. I'll make a deal with you. I won't do any acting, if you don't do any stunts. Okay?
  • Gwen Doyle: Is your back okay, really?
  • Sonny Hooper: It's fine.
  • Gwen Doyle: Do you want me to walk on it?
  • Sonny Hooper: No, I want you to crawl on me.
  • Cully: Oh - oh, what would you give for a little of that?
  • Sonny Hooper: Two nipples for a dime.
  • Sonny Hooper: Me and Jacko and me, we never turned down a stunt. Never turned down a gag.
  • Sonny Hooper: You have to admit, he's pretty damn good.
  • Cully: Yeah, I have to admit it.
  • Sonny Hooper: Pretty damn young, too.
  • Cully: Yeah, I hate him. I just hate him.
  • Sonny Hooper: Handsome little shit.
  • Sonny Hooper: I gotta do things in my own time in my own way.
  • Jocko Doyle: You're a horny son-of-a-bitch.
  • Sonny Hooper: I gotta do things in my own time and my own way.
  • Sonny Hooper: A little air in the airbag would help, numb nuts.
  • Sonny Hooper: Forget about the risk, Max. Just bring your checkbook.
  • Ski: It was a calculated risk.
  • Sonny Hooper: So was the Edsel.
  • Cully: Are you crazy?
  • Sonny Hooper: What?
  • Cully: I just talked to that helicopter pilot.
  • Sonny Hooper: So?
  • Cully: Well, how high you gonna drop?
  • Sonny Hooper: What's the world's record.
  • Cully: 223.
  • Sonny Hooper: I'll go 224.
  • Sonny Hooper: If my ding dong ain't gonna work, I don't wanna live.
  • Sonny Hooper: This is a big town, isn't it? Los Angelos is a big town. Well, why the hell does a bar close before the bars in Tulsa? Can you answer me that?
  • Ski: What the hell is it about stunt men and their wives and relationships?
  • Sonny Hooper: I don't know. It's a little like - it's a little like drinkin' and drivin'. Eventually, there's gonna be a helluva wreck.
  • Ski: If that happens, there's just one thing to do.
  • Sonny Hooper: What's that?
  • Ski: Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

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