The Professionals (1966)

Jack Palance: Raza

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• Jesus Raza : La Revolución is like a great love affair. In the beginning, she is a goddess. A holy cause. But, every love affair has a terrible enemy: time. We see her as she is. La Revolución is not a goddess but a whore. She was never pure, never saintly, never perfect. And we run away, find another lover, another cause. Quick, sordid affairs. Lust, but no love. Passion, but no compassion. Without love, without a cause, we are *nothing*! We stay because we believe. We leave because we are disillusioned. We come back because we are lost. We die because we are committed.

• Jesus Raza : Where did the bullet bite you?

  Bill Dolworth : In the ass. You?

  Jesus Raza : [looking at the bullet wound in his thigh]  Oh, another two inches, mamacita!

• Jesus Raza : She is my woman. Before. Now. Always.

  Bill Dolworth : Nothing is for always. Except death. Ask Fierro. Ask Francisco. Ask those in the cemetery of nameless men.

• Jesus Raza : You know, of course, one of us must die.

  Bill Dolworth : Maybe both of us.

  Jesus Raza : To die for money... is foolish.

  Bill Dolworth : To die for a woman is *more* foolish. Any woman. Even her.

• Jesus Raza : How do you come to this dirty business.

  Bill Dolworth : The usual. Money.

  Jesus Raza : Everything is as usual. I need guns and bullets, as usual. The war goes badly, as usual. Only you, you are not as usual.

• Jesus Raza : You want perfection or nothing. You're too romantic, compadre.