Poll: Heist Film Greats - The Mastermind?

Results of 400 votes:

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   Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (1995)

    

   Character = Verbal Kint? "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist." Year = 1995
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   Paul Newman in The Sting (1973)

    

   Character = Henry "Shaw" Gondorff "Tough luck, Lonnehan. But that's what you get for playing with your head up your ass!" Year = 1973
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   Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception (2010)

    

   Character = Cobb "Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere." Year…
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   Robert De Niro in Heat (1995)

    

   Character = Neil McCauley "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Year = 1995
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   George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven (2001)

    

   Character = Danny Ocean "Because the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you t…
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   Clive Owen in Inside Man (2006)

    

   Character = Dalton Russell "Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself." Year = 2006
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   Jean Servais in Rififi (1955)

    

   Character = Tony "le Stéphanois" "I liked you. I really liked you, Macaroni. But, you know the rules." Year = 1955
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   Sterling Hayden in The Killing (1956)

    

   Character = Johnny Clay "$2,500 is a lot of dough, Maurice. Part of it's for not asking questions." Year = 1956
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   Michael Caine in The Italian Job (1969)

    

   Character = Charlie Croker "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" Year = 1969
10. 10.
    

    #1

     

    Character = Dave Purvis "No loose ends, Baby!" Year = 1950
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    Patrick Swayze in Point Break (1991)

     

    Character = Bohdi "If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love." Year = 1991
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    Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

     

    Character = Henry "Dutch" Holland "Twenty-five thousand pounds. Enough to keep me for one year in the style to which I was, ah, unaccustomed." Year = 1951
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    #18

     

    Character = Joe Cabot "Now listen up, Mr. Pink. There's two ways we can do this job. My way... or the highway!" Year = 1992
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    Alain Delon in The Red Circle (1970)

     

    Character = Corey Year = 1970
15. 15.
    

    Kevin Spacey in Baby Driver (2017)

     

    Character = Doc "Now I don't think I need to give you the speech about what would happen if you say no, how I could break your legs and kill everyone you love because you already know that, don't…
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    Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

     

    Character = Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider "One way or another, we all work for our vice." Year = 1950
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    Peter O'Toole in How to Steal a Million (1966)

     

    Character = Simon Dermott "I'm a society burglar. I don't expect people to rush about shooting me!" Year = 1966
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    Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

     

    Character = Thomas Crown "Do you play?" Year = 1968
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    Ben Affleck in The Town (2010)

     

    Character = Doug MacRay "I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people." Year = 2010
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    Jack Hawkins in The League of Gentlemen (1960)

     

    Character = Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Hyde "Enjoy your meal, gentlemen. You know the old saying, "The rich man eats when you will, a poor man when you can."" Year = 1960
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    "Getaway, The" Steve McQueen 1972 Solar / Fine Art

     

    Character = Carter "Doc" McCoy "Punch it, Baby!" Year = 1972
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    Clint Eastwood in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

     

    Character = John "Thunderbolt" Doherty "Are you all right, kid? You don't look too well." Year = 1974
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    Pablo Schreiber in Den of Thieves (2018)

     

    Character = Ray Merrimen "I ain't cuffin' up" Year = 2018
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    Burt Lancaster in The Train (1964)

     

    Character = Paul Labiche "No one's ever hurt. Just dead." Year = 1964
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    Roger Duchesne in Bob the Gambler (1956)

     

    Character = Robert 'Bob' Montagné "I was born here. It was not so dirty then. And I left to conquer the world." Year = 1956
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    Ian McShane in Sexy Beast (2000)

     

    Character = Teddy Bass "Where there's a will - and there is a fucking will - there's a way - and there is a fucking way." Year = 2000
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    Saffron Burrows in The Bank Job (2008)

     

    Character = Martine Love "Imagine if half the villains in London knew about this, he said. And I thought, I know half the villains in London. I grew up with some of them." Year = 2008
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    Gerard Butler in RocknRolla (2008)

     

    Character = One Two "Bob, that's tomorrow night, okay? So tonight is take-off time. And we have got a party planned for you, my man! We got a couple of grams of "hurry up" and four &quo…
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    Chris Pine in Hell or High Water (2016)

     

    Character = Toby Howard "I've been poor my whole life. So were my parents, their parents before them. It's like a disease passing from generation to generation, becomes a sickness, that's what it…
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    Robert Prosky in Thief (1981)

     

    Character = Leo "You get paid what I say. You do what I say, I run you, there is no discussion. I want, you work, until you are burned-out, you are busted, or you're dead... you get it?" Yea…