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Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in Léon: The Professional (1994)

Jean Reno: Leon

Léon: The Professional

Jean Reno credited as playing...

Leon

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  • Mathilda: I don't wanna lose you, Leon.
  • Léon: You're not going to lose me. You've given me a taste for life. I wanna be happy. Sleep in a bed, have roots. And you'll never be alone again, Mathilda. Please, go now, baby, go. Calm down, I'll meet you at Tony's in an hour, I love you, now go, go now.
  • Mathilda: Is life always this hard, or is it just when you're a kid?
  • Léon: Always like this.
  • 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.
  • Léon: You need some time to grow up a little.
  • Mathilda: I finished growing up, Léon. I just get older.
  • Léon: For me it's the opposite. I'm old enough. I need time to grow up.
  • Léon: [referring to his plant] It's my best friend. Always happy. No questions.
  • Léon: Mathilda, don't you ever do that again, or I'll break your head. Got that?
  • Mathilda: Okay
  • Léon: I don't work like that. It's not professional. There is rules.
  • Mathilda: Okay
  • Léon: And stop saying "okay" all the time, Okay?
  • Mathilda: Okay.
  • Léon: Good.
  • 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: How old were you when you made your first hit?
  • Léon: Nineteen.
  • Mathilda: Beat you!
  • Mathilda: Sleep well?
  • Léon: I never really sleep well. Got one eye open, always.
  • Mathilda: Yeah, I forgot. You know, I never saw someone with one eye open snore so much.
  • Mathilda: Leon, what exactly do you do for a living?
  • Léon: Cleaner.
  • Mathilda: You mean you're a hit man?
  • Léon: [reluctantly] Yeah.
  • Mathilda: Cool.
  • Léon: Sorry about your father.
  • Mathilda: If somebody didn't do it one day or another, I probably would have done it myself.
  • Léon: Tony... All the money I make, that you keep for me...
  • Tony: You need some money?
  • Léon: No, just curious... Because, I've been working a long time... And I havent done anything with my... I thought maybe someday I could
  • [uncomfortable]
  • Léon: use it.
  • Tony: [Figuring him out] You met a woman.
  • 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.
  • Léon: Revenge is not a good thing, it's better to forget.
  • Mathilda: Forget? After I've seen the outline of my brother's body on the floor, you expect me to forget? I wanna kill those sons of bitches, and blow their fucking heads off!
  • 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.
  • Mathilda: [about Russian roulette] If I win, you keep me with you for life.
  • Léon: And if you lose?
  • Mathilda: Go shopping alone, like before.

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