Harold Shand: (Deflated) Bon voyage then. (He stops at the door then turns
back)
I'll tell you something. (Now cocksure and happy)
I'm glad I found out in time just what a partnership with a pair of wankers
like you would've been like. A sleeping partner's one thing but you're in a
fucking coma! No wonder you got an energy crisis your side of the
water. Us British, we're used to a bit more vitality, imagination, touch of the
Dunkirk spirit, know what I mean? The days when Yanks could come over here and
buy up Nelson's Column, and a Harley Street surgeon and a couple of Windmill
girls are definitely over.
2nd American: Now look...
Shand: Shut up you long streak of paralysed piss. What I'm looking for is
someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world.
Culture, sophistication, genius... a little bit more than an 'ot dog, know what
I mean? We're in the Common Market now, and my new deal is with Europe. I'm
going into partnership with a German organisation. Yeah, the Krauts!
They've got ambition, know-how. And they don't lose their bottle. The Mafia?
Hahahaha. I shit 'em...
-The Long Good Friday
Emcee: Where are your troubles now? Forgotten, I told you so. We have no
troubles here. Here life is beautiful, the girls are beautiful, even the
orchestra is beautiful.
-Cabaret
Susan Vance: There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and
I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.
-Bringing Up Baby
Red narrating: I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were
singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left
unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it
can't expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell
you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares
to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little
cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every
last man in Shawshank felt free.
-The Shawshank Redemption
Well I've wrestled with reality for 35 years Doctor, and I'm happy to state
I finally won out over it.
-Harvey
Do you mind if I take my sweater off? I think, in the confines of one's
house, one should be free of clothing. Inhibitions are always nice because
they're nice to overcome. I'll do anything you ask. Nothing is wrong. I think
the only way any of us can be happy is to let it all hang out. To do it all,
and fuck it.
-Klute
Juliet Hulme: All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's
all frightfully romantic.
-Heavenly Creatures
Louise: How did you get here?
Johnny: Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went
bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter
lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal,
the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento
mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under
the grill till Doomsday.
-Naked
May Robson: Well you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.
Cary Grant: (tired voice) These aren't my clothes
-Well where are your clothes?
-I've lost my clothes
-Well why are you wearing these clothes?
-Because I just went gay all of a sudden!
-Bringing Up Baby
It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything
-Fight Club
-It's alright, that's in every contract, that's what they call a sanity
clause.
-Hahahahaha you can't fool me, there ain't no sanity clause
-A Night At The Opera
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think
one's alright he turns legit.
-The Asphalt Jungle
Johnny: Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was
never weaker.
-Naked
Hannibal Lector: You're so-o ambitious, aren't you? You know what you look
like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A
well-scrubbed, hustling rube, with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you
some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white
trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to
shed - pure West Virginia. What does your father do? Is he a coal miner? Does
he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you. All those
tedious, sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars, while you could only dream
of getting out. Getting anywhere, getting all the way to the F...B...I.
Clarice Starling: You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point
that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? - why don't you, why
don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid
to...
Lector: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava
beans and a nice Chianti.
-Silence of the Lambs
I don't mind if you don't like my manners I don't like them myself they're
pretty bad I greave over them long winter evenings.
-The Big Sleep
Rev. Harry Powell when he notices John staring at the words "love"
and "hate" tattooed across his knuckles: Ah, little lad, you're
staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of
right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this
left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low.
L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run
straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now
watch, and I'll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is
always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t'other. Now watch 'em! Old brother
left hand, left hand he's a fighting, and it looks like love's a goner. But
wait a minute! Hot dog, love's a winning! Yessirree! It's love that's won, and
old left hand hate is down for the count!
-The Night Of The Hunter
[In jail] Susan Vance: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll
let us out.
David Huxley: When they find out who you are they'll pad the cell.
-Bringing Up Baby
I kill firstborns while their mamas watch, I turn cities into salt, rip the
souls from young girls and the only thing you can depend on is never
understanding why.
-The Prophecy
Red narrating: I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be
caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of
you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the
place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I
just miss my friend.
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Oh, you're wasting your time, they can't track us over rock.
-Tell them that. (pause) They're beginning to get on my nerves. Who are
those guys?
-Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
So, I want you to get up now, I want all of you to get up out of your
chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it and stick
your head out and yell "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this
anymore!"
-Network
Juliet Hulme: I'm going to the fourth world. It's sort of like heaven; only
better, because there aren't any Christians
-Heavenly Creatures
Sally Bowles: What good is sitting alone in your room, come hear the music
play. Life is a cabaret old chum, come to the cabaret
-Cabaret
David Huxley: When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond,
he's in no position to run.
-Bringing Up Baby
Johnny: No matter how many books you read, there is something in this world
that you never ever ever ever ever fucking understand.
-Naked
Red narrating: I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a
thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free
man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can
make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope
the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope....
-The Shawshank Redemption
We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world
-Fight Club
Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime
-The King of Comedy