Myra Hudson: Remember what Nietzsche says "Live dangerously!"
Lester Blaine: You know what happened to Nietzsche?
Myra Hudson: No, what?
Lester Blaine: He's dead.


--Jack Palance (as Lester Blaine) in Sudden Fear

Myra Hudson: Welcome to my home, Lester.
Lester Blaine: It's quite a cozy home.
Myra Hudson: Cozy enough to take your coat off?
Lester Blaine: Delighted.


--Jack Palance (as Lester Blaine) in Sudden Fear

Lily Bonner: Is there anything I can do?
Slade: We must each live with ourselves.


--Jack Palance (as ) in Man in the Attic

Jacob Wade: Take your dead and git. And don't bury 'em on my ground!


--Jack Palance (as Jacob Wade) in The Lonely Man

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.


--Jack Palance (as Jesus Raza) in The Professionals

Jesus Raza: La RevoluciÛn 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 RevoluciÛn 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.


--Jack Palance (as Jesus Raza) in The Professionals

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!


--Jack Palance (as Jesus Raza) in The Professionals

Simon The Magician: A true miracle is nothing but a good trick.


--Jack Palance (as Simon The Magician) in The Silver Chalice

Slade: Sometimes I walk close by the river. The river is like liquid night flowing peacefully out to infinity.


--Jack Palance (as ) in Man in the Attic

Toriano: In my thoughts there have been visions. The Great One put us here on earth first. He is displeased with those who have come second. To please Him, we must rid the earth of the second-comers. The ghosts of our Fathers demand it and they have shown us a way. To please the Great One, we must dance before we kill. We must dance so the ghost of our Fathers know that we obey their wishes. We must dance the Ghost Dance! And I will show you how it is done as it was given to me in my vision.


--Jack Palance (as ) in Arrowhead