- Mathilda: Leon, I think I'm kinda falling in love with you.
- [Leon chokes on his milk]
- Mathilda: It's the first time for me, you know?
- Léon: [wiping himself off] How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?
- Mathilda: 'Cause I feel it.
- Léon: Where?
- Mathilda: [stoking her stomach] In my stomach. It's all warm. I always had a knot there and now... it's gone.
- Léon: Mathilda, I'm glad you don't have a stomach ache any more. I don't think it means anything.
- Mathilda: You killed my brother.
- Stansfield: I'm sorry. And you want to join him?
- Mathilda: No.
- Stansfield: It's always the same thing. It's when you start to become really afraid of death that you learn to appreciate life. Do you like life, sweetheart?
- Mathilda: Yes.
- Stansfield: That's good, because I take no pleasure in taking life if it's from a person who doesn't care about it.
- Léon: Stansfield?
- Stansfield: At your service.
- Léon: [handing him something] This is from... Mathilda.
- Stansfield: [sees that it's a pin for a grenade] Shit.
- Léon: The rifle is the first weapon you learn how to use, because it lets you keep your distance from the client. The closer you get to being a pro, the closer you can get to the client. The knife, for example, is the last thing you learn.
- Mathilda: [Mathilda, crying about her brother's murder and her stepmother] I was more of a mother to him than that goddamn pig ever was!
- Léon: Hey, don't talk like that about pigs. They're usually much nicer than people.
- Mathilda: But they smell like shit.
- Léon: Not true. As a matter of fact, right now I have one in my kitchen that's very clean and smells very nice.
- Mathilda: You don't have a pig in your kitchen.
- Léon: Yes, I do.
- Mathilda: I was just in there and I didn't see any goddamned pig.
- Léon: Don't move. I'll get him.
- [Léon goes into the kitchen]
- Léon: Piggy? Piggy? Where are you?
- Léon: [oinking noises are heard in the kitchen] Oink, oink! Ah, there you are.
- Léon: [more oinking, then a cartoon pig pot holder sticks its 'head' around the corner] Hi, Mathilda.
- Mathilda: [she smiles] Hi, piggy.
- Mathilda: I hope you're not lying Leon. I really hope that deep down there's no love in you. And if there is, I think in a few minutes you'll regret you never said anything. I love you Leon.
- Stansfield: You don't like Beethoven. You don't know what you're missing. Overtures like that get my... juices flowing. So powerful. But after his openings, to be honest, he does tend to get a little fucking boring. That's why I stopped!
- [laughs and sighs]
- Stansfield: Toss the apartment.
- Stansfield: I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects. Do you like Beethoven?
- Malky: I couldn't really say.
- Mathilda: I am writing here the name of a girl in the class who makes me sick. If things get hot, she'll take the heat.
- Stansfield: [catching Mathilda in the bathroom with food bags] Special delivery huh... Let me guess... Chinese? Thai, maybe? Ahh, I've got it. Italian food
- [pops a pill and pulls out a gun]
- Stansfield: What's your name angel...
- [Mathilda answers]
- Stansfield: ... Mathilda, I want you to put the sack on the floor... good... Now, I want you to tell me everything you know about Italian food, and don't forget the name of the chef who fixed it for me.
- Mathilda: Nobody sent me.I do business for myself.
- Stansfield: Ahh... so this is... something... personal?... What filthy peice of... shit... did I do now?
- Mathilda: You killed my brother.
- Orphanage Headmistress: Now tell me what happened to you.
- Mathilda: OK. My family they got shot down by D.E.A. officers because of a drug problem. I left with the greatest guy on earth. He was a hitman, the best in town, but he died this morning. And if you don't help me, I'll be dead by tonight.
- Stansfield: You're a Mozart fan. I love him too. I looooove Mozart! He was Austrian you know? But for this kind of work,
- [imitates playing the piano]
- Stansfield: he's a little bit light. So I tend to go for the heavier guys. Check out Brahms. He's good too.
- [to receptionist after being asked about her father (Leon)]
- Mathilda: He's not my father. He's my lover.
- Stansfield: [after the building explodes] Hey, what the fuck is going on up there? I said take the guy out, not the whole fucking building!
- Léon: There was someone a long time ago. Before I came to the States. Her father didn't want her to see me. She was from a very respectable family. Mine was, you know, not so respectable. Her dad went nuts every time she'd take off to see me.
- Mathilda: But she still snuck off to see you, right?
- Léon: Right.
- Mathilda: You see, nothing can stop love, Léon.
- Mathilda: Do you "clean" anyone?
- Léon: No women, no kids, that's the rules.
- Mathilda: How much would it cost to hire someone to get those dirtbags who killed my brother?
- Léon: Five grand a head.
- Mathilda: Wow. How about this: I work for you; in exchange, you teach me how to clean. Hmmm? What do you think? I'll clean your place, I'll do the shopping, I'll even wash your clothes. Is it a deal?
- Léon: He killed her. One shot to the head. They kept him in jail for two days. They let him go free. They said it was an accident. So, one night I waited for him. 500 feet with a lens. He also had an accident.
- Stansfield: I have a lot of respect for your business, Tony. When you've killed for us in the past we've always been satisfied. And that's exactly why today is going to be very, very hard for me. I hope you'll excuse my mood.
- [Shows a crime scene photo]
- Stansfield: My man was killed, right here, on your turf. And the chinks tell me that the hit man was kind of the... Italian type. So we figured that, uh, Tony might know something.
- [Tony motions to speak]
- Stansfield: Wait - there's more. You're gonna love this. A few hours later, a little twelve-year-old girl comes to my office armed to the teeth, with the firm intention of sending me straight to the morgue. And do you know who came and got her in the middle of the afternoon right there in my building? The very... same... Italian hit man.
- [Beat]
- Stansfield: I'm dying to meet him.
- Léon: When it's tough like this, you know it's gonna be ugly. Better make it quick, or else you will be here all day listening to his crap.
- Old Lady: [investigating the noise] What's happening out there?
- Malky: All right, ma'am, go away, DEA. Police.
- Old Lady: Why don't you leave that poor family alone?
- Malky: [to Stansfield] It's all right, everything's al right. Just calm down.
- Stansfield: I am calm.
- [loads his gun, looks at old lady]
- Stansfield: I'm calm.
- Old Lady: Why don't you leave them alone?
- Stansfield: [shoots the window next to her] He said, "Go back inside".
- Tony: Hey, Leon, nothing's gonna happen to you. You're indestructible! Bullets slide off you, you play with 'em.
- Fatman: [on radio] Yeah, what?
- Tonto: This is Tonto downstairs. There's a guy who wants to talk to you.
- Fatman: What's he look like?
- Tonto: [Leon holds gun to his face] Serious.
- Léon: Tell him I'm coming up.
- Tonto: He's coming up.
- [Leon shoots him in the face]
- Fatman: Somebody's coming up. Somebody serious!
- Mathilda: My parents... d-died in a car accident four weeks ago. It was terrible.
- Orphanage Headmistress: You know, we didn't have the time to get to know one another when you first came here, but I want you to know that I'm not the kind of woman who'd let down a child, whatever her situation, whatever her mistake. So I'm going to help you and do my best to welcome you here again. But on one condition: you have to stop lying to me, Mathilda. I want you to take a chance and trust me.
- Mathilda: I've decided what to do with my life. I wanna be a cleaner.
- Léon: You wanna be a cleaner?
- [passes her a gun and bullets]
- Léon: Here, take it. It's a goodbye gift. Go clean. But not with me. I work alone, understand? Alone.
- Mathilda: Bonnie and Clyde didn't work alone. Thelma and Louise didn't work alone. And they were the best.