The Equalizer Quotes

Marcus: Hey, yo, Pops. We betting on what you did before you got here.
Jay: Like for a living.
Marcus: I'm saying insurance, claims.
Jay: He was a stock dude, man, on Wall Street.
Robert McCall: I was a Pip.
Jay: Yo, you were a pimp?
Robert

McCall: No, not a pimp. A Pip, P-I-P, Pip.
Jay: What fuck is a Pip?
Robert McCall: Why you curse so much? You know, like Gladys Knight and the Pips. Like this.
[starts dancing]

Robert McCall: Your heart's beating three times the normal rate because you're losing so much blood. About 30 seconds, your body's gonna shut down... and you're gonna suffocate. Alina, the girl you beat half to death, her life will go on. Yours is gonna end right here, on this funky floor... over $9,800. You should have taken the money.
Slavi: Who are you?

Robert McCall: 26 one-thousand... 27 one-thousand... 28 one-thousand... I'm sorry.

Teri: You always read books?
Robert McCall: My wife did. She... She was working through the 100 Books Everybody Should Read. She made it to 97, so I figured... I'd give it a shot... And one day we'd have something to talk about when we get together.
Teri: ...Wow, a hundred books.
Robert McCall: Yeah.

Teri: Holy moly. How many have you read, Robert?
Robert McCall: Ninety-one.
Teri: [cell phone rings] Sorry, this damn thing. Ninety-one books, though. You're almost done.
Robert McCall: Almost.
Teri: What are you gonna do after that?
Robert McCall: Take singing

lessons. Then I'm gonna open a donut factory. I am... What? Why you laughing?

Little John Looney: See, I hate you fucking Russians. You're all crazy and you're arrogant. Now, the Irish, we came here for a piece of the American dream. You people come over here to steal it. So fuck all of you.
Teddy: Well, Mr. Looney, I appreciate your candor. It's refreshing, and that makes me understand that you're not smart enough to have done this.

Little John Looney: What fuck?
Teddy: Which brings me to my next issue. We pay you 15 percent to do business here. The additional 10 percent you steal, we ignore. We anticipated it, as you people are such clichés. The fact that you're a rat to the Feds is also tolerable, Little John.
Little John Looney: What fuck?

Teddy: What we will not tolerate is... getting nothing for our money: no information, no protection... no assurances. You understand, Little Johnny?
Little John Looney: Who fuck do you think you are?
Teddy: Who I am? Or what I am? Who I am is complicated. What I am is easier, I'm a threat. I alter outcomes.
Little John

Looney: Throw this motherf...
[Teddy starts beating him]

Robert McCall: [voiceover] Tomorrow you'll have returned all the money you extorted from those people. You'll tell them it will never happen again. Do that, and this video will never be seen... Don't, and a half an hour later you'll watch the uncut version on every news outlet in the area. Now I'm offering you a chance to do the right thing. Take it.
Detective

Harris: That fucking hurt more than the beating.

Robert McCall: Is it just you, or are we waiting for someone else?
P&E Worker: I'm sorry. What?
Robert McCall: Your hands. If you really work on power lines, your hands wouldn't look like that. We gotta be waiting for somebody else.
P&E Worker: Motherfucker... Hands where I can see them. We're gonna take a

little walk across the street, Black Denali.

Robert McCall: How'd you find me? I paid cash. We did no reservation. How'd you find me?
Teddy: Well, that's what we do, Mr. McCall.
Robert McCall: We who?
Teddy: We find people we need to find.
Robert McCall: We who?
[Teddy walks away]
Teddy: [climbs into

the car] Everything about him is wrong.

Robert McCall: [passing the money to the Pushkin's employees] There you go. Thank you very much. There you go. Mr. Pushkin thanks you very much. We're going out of business. Closing down shop. Mr. Pushkin thanks you very much. There you are, sweetheart. Here you go. You're welcome. Accept these parting gifts on behalf of Mr. Pushkin. There you go. Three, two... Look at that,

perfect... One. Thank you. Thank you, sweetheart.

FBI Operator: FBI. How can I direct your call?
Robert McCall: Agent Mosley, please.
Agent Mosley: Agent Mosley.
Robert McCall: Heard you found some money today.
Agent Mosley: Who is this?
Robert McCall: Concerned citizen. Check your personal e-mail... Make sure you're sitting

down when you do.

Teri: There's no ring.
Robert McCall: Hmm?
Teri: On your wedding finger, there's no ring.
Robert McCall: No.
Teri: No Mrs. Robert at home?
Robert McCall: No.
Teri: Was there ever?
Robert McCall: Once.

Teri: Did you break her heart?
Robert McCall: She broke mine.
Teri: You know, I see a lot of widowed guys. Something in your eyes. You know, it's not sad, It's just kinda... lost, you know.