Sanchez Quotes in Licence to Kill (1989)

Truman-Lodge: [after two of the tanker trucks are destroyed] BRILLIANT! Well done, Franz! Another eighty-million dollar *write-off*!

Sanchez: Then I guess it's time to start cutting overhead.

[shoots him]

[Heller takes an arsenal case, only to be caught by a suspicious Sanchez]

Heller: Hey. I was making sure these were secure.

Sanchez: It's a good idea. Take them up to my car.

Heller: Of course.

Tom Beck: What the hell is that?

Sanchez: A flame-thrower man, can you believe it? Patrol picked this up off some homeboy on the street.

Sanchez: C... Z... E... C... H... O...

Sanchez: [after landing a plane on the moving bus and crawling through the a window] And you thought I would not arrive!

T.J. Christian: The airplane? On the roof?

[turns to Cliff Taylor]

T.J. Christian: You knew man!

Sanchez: [Columbus stops Sanchez after he leaves an audience with the Queen. Sanchez looks at him, disgusted] You're a dreamer.

Columbus: [shooting a glance out of a window] Tell me, what do you see?

Sanchez: [pausing to look] I see rooftops, I see palaces, I see towers, I see spires that reach... to the sky! I see civilisation!

Columbus: All of them built by people like me.

[Sanchez doesn't respond - shocked]

Columbus: No matter how long you live, Sanchez, there is something that will never change between us. I did it. You didn't.

Queen Isabella I.: [referring to Columbus' proposed expedition] The costs would be ruinous.

Sanchez: No more than the costs of two state banquettes.

Queen Isabella I.: [During her last audience with Columbus] I have looked for a reason why I should allow you to go back and although I've tried I couldn't find one. Help me find one.

Columbus: All my life I have dreamt of reaching the continent. I thought my dreams grandiose. But reality was beyond my expectations. Far beyond. And now I want to explore that land before I die.

Queen Isabella I.: I allow you to undertake another voyage. But without your brothers. Nor for you to return to Santo Domingo or any other colonies. The New World is a disaster.

Columbus: And the old one an achievement?

Queen Isabella I.: [after Columbus leaves] I know. I shouldn't tolerate his impertinence.

Sanchez: Then why?

Queen Isabella I.: Because he is not afraid of me.

Arojaz: [Looking at Columbus from a distance after the discovery of America is attributed to Amerigo Vespucci] What a tragedy. What a waste of a life.

Sanchez: A waste? Well, if your name or mine is ever remembered it will only because of his.

Columbus: I have waited too long. Fought too hard. And now you expect me to take all the risks while you take the profits? No. I am not a servant.

Sanchez: Signor Columbus, you're in no position to bargain with me.

Columbus: I'm not bargaining.

Sanchez: Then you are too ambitious.

Columbus: And were you never ambitious? Or is ambition only a virtue among nobles and a fault for the rest of us?

Sanchez: If you won't accept this proposal we can simply find someone who will.

Columbus: If you can do that, Excellency, I'll become a monk.

Sanchez: You seem to have a special talent for making enemies.

Columbus: Why? Do I have so many already?

Sanchez: Don't you think to rise so high in so short of time is a dangerous occupation?

Sanchez: The state has its reasons to be interested in this man's proposition, Your Eminence!

Arojaz: With all due respect, the judgement is ours.

Sanchez: Naturally. But what if he is right?

Arojaz: I've always found that the independent mind is dangerous. If the man had wings, no doubt he would return from the skies to tell us the Heavens are empty.

Sanchez: I would deplore the loss of such a potential opportunity for Spain, though. Especially over this point of geography.

Arojaz: It is not the point of geography. It is the point of reality. This man is a mercenary.

Sanchez: The state often uses mercenaries if it is for the benefit and the stability of Spain. Shouldn't it be as much of your concern as it is mine?

Arojaz: Am I to understand that you would use your influence to assist this heretic?

Sanchez: You know, Your Eminence, the fascinating thing about power is that what can be given so effortlessly can so easily be taken away.

Arojaz: [During the celebration of Columbus' return] It won't be easy to get rid of your prophet now.

Sanchez: On the contrary. It seems to me the man is preparing his own cross.

Quinlan: I don't speak Mexican. Let's keep it in English, Vargas.

Vargas: That's all right with me. I'm sure he's just as unpleasant in any language.

Sanchez: Unpleasant? Strange. I've been told I have a very winning personality. The very best shoe clerk the store ever had.

Sanchez: What are you trying to do?

Quinlan: We're trying to strap you to the electric chair, boy.

Sanchez: So, Riv, what was it like watching the Babe play?

Jimmy: You sure you wanna start this?

Sanchez: How many fans did you lose when they raised ticket prices to 50 cents?

Jimmy: Almost as many as we lose when you pitch!

Brooks: Oooh! And this game is over, baby!

Mickey Wright: There we are, me and Miss Ohio, about a mile high, looking down on all these incredible lights, full moon above us, a crowd of people below.

Sanchez: Yeah, keep goin'...

Mickey Wright: She looks into my eyes and there's this really heavy vibe going on. Next thing I know the sash comes off, she's unzipping her dress, and her hands are all over me - I mean like *all* over.

Burns: That's my boy!

Franklin: I've been on the Ferris wheel back home a thousand times. How come nothing like that ever happened to me?

Mickey Wright: Oh, sure it did. It was your *own* hands all over you.

Sanchez: She died when she was over 80 years old...

Judas: I'd still do her!

Tigrero, a.k.a. Loco: [to his gang] Now, in Snow Hill... we can't miss a couple of opportunities. First, all those outlaws in the mountains are headin' there. There's a modest price on their heads. Still, it's a powerful lot... when you add 'em all together, and it's nice and legal, too. But then we have this other one...

Sanchez: Who's that?

Tigrero, a.k.a. Loco: The mute who shoots thumbs off. The one who hates bounty killers...

Sanchez: Uh-uh. Since you murdered Sheriff Burnett, I don't go for that.

Tigrero, a.k.a. Loco: But it was the mute who killed your brother...

Sanchez: The *hell* did you say?

Tigrero, a.k.a. Loco: He had no chance to defend himself.

Sanchez: [to the others] C'mon!

[the killers ride to Snow Hill]

Tigrero, a.k.a. Loco: [to his gang] Calm down, friends. Since when are wolves afraid of wolves?

Sanchez: Never, Loco.

[laughs]