Eureka (1983)
Gene Hackman: Jack McCann
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Quotes
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Jack McCann : Once I had it all. Now I just have everything.
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Frieda : I'm dying, Paris.
Jack McCann : Wait, what happens now?
Frieda : A mystery. The end of the beginning.
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Tracy : What did you do for girls up here.
Jack McCann : I guess we did without. Unlike some people I know.
Tracy : Suppose I'd been here. Would you have given me a second glance?
Jack McCann : No. My darling Tracy, I never would have taken my eyes off you.
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[last lines]
Jack McCann : There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting. It's luring me on as of old. And it isn't the gold that I'm wanting, so much as just finding the gold. It's a great big broad land way up yonder, it's the forest where silence has lease. It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder. It's the stillness that fills me with peace.
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Jack McCann : [said several times in the film] I've never earned a nickel from another man's sweat!
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Jack McCann : At first I thought you wanted my daughter. Then I thought you wanted my gold. Now I think you want my soul.
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Jack McCann : [said to his wife several times] Helen, lay off the sauce, will you?
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Jack McCann : [addressing his dinner guests] There is only one golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The rest is conversation.
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Claude Maillot Van Horn : [at the dinner party] You didn't earn the gold, Jack. You took it from Nature. You raped the earth.
Jack McCann : [defiantly] I found it.
Claude Maillot Van Horn : You *stole* it!
Charles Perkins : [mockingly] And what the hell do you do, pluck chickens for a living?
