Cape Fear Quotes

Sam Bowden: Because I knew he brutally beat and raped her!
Max Cady: Talk... TO ME! I'm Right HERE!
[hits Sam in the face]
Sam Bowden: Just because she was promiscuous... didn't give YOU THE RIGHT TO RAPE HER! But YOU BRAGGED about how you beat TWO prior rapes... you were a menace!
Max Cady: [Screams]

YOU WERE MY LAWYER... you were my lawyer! That report could've saved me FOURTEEN YEARS!
Sam Bowden: [begrudgingly] You're probably right.
Max Cady: [Disgusted] YOU SELF-RIGHTEOUS FUCK!

Leigh Bowden: Stop! Stop!
Max Cady: Yes, Leigh?
Leigh Bowden: Listen to me, Max, listen to me. You know, Max, since all this started, I've thought about you all the time. I've tried to imagine what it must have been like for you, all those years locked up in jail... I've tried to imagine you and even your crimes, and how you must

have felt in those moments that you did them... See, I know about loss, Max. I know about losing time, even losing years. And I know it doesn't compare to jail, but I can understand. And I can share this with you. Because of that, whatever it is you've got planned, I want you to do it just with me... not with her... because... we have this connection.

Claude Kersek: [Cady's realised Kersek's tailing him] Hey, Cady! Come here. Wait up a second. You know, I've been in a real bad mood lately. Shame, innit? You know what you can do to brighten my mood?
Max Cady: [takes the time to smoke some of his cigar before answering] No.
Claude Kersek: Get the hell out of here.
[Cady

laughs that off]
Claude Kersek: I don't just mean this whole town. I mean the whole goddam state. I don't want to see you. I don't want to hear you. And I don't want to smell you... now leave.
Max Cady: Now, I like... are you my friend?
Claude Kersek: No, I'm not your friend.
Max Cady: Oh, cause' I

thought maybe you were my friend, cause' I like to plan my comings and goings with friends. But if you're not my friend, you're plannin' my comings and goings, I'd call that presumptuous. In fact, I'd call it downright rude, cause' I ain't your porch-baby, buddy.
Claude Kersek: Well, gee-golly-gosh. I sure am sorry I offended you you white-trash piece of shit.

Max Cady: Ooh, I got the all-over fidgets on that one! And you're really shaken' me up! I'm shiveren' all over! Whew! It's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me, my friend. I could get upset. Things could get out of hand. And then in self-defence, I could do something to you that you would not like... right here.
Claude Kersek: Anytime you feel

squirrely, you just jump.
Max Cady: You threatenin' me? You threatenin' me?
Claude Kersek: You catch on fast.
Max Cady: [the jokey look on Cady's face is dangerous now] Cause' I'm well within my rights to be here, and you know it. And if I stay here what you gonna do?
Claude Kersek: I don't give a rat's

ass about your rights. You just watch your step. And you know what I'm talkin' about.
Max Cady: What you gonna' do? Arrest me? What are you a cop? Or were you a cop? Or were you not good enough to remain on the force? Cause' you know what? That's the feelin' I'm gettin' here.
[Kersek gives nothing away]
Max Cady: Hope you enjoyed your

breakfast.
[Cady saunters off]