Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Stepping Out, 1991 (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
Mavis: Listen you guys, when you turn around and you face your audience for the first time, bam! It’s gotta have style, boom! It’s gotta have the three Ts. You know what the three Ts are? Teeth, taps and tits.
Rose: You only got two Ts, right Geoffrey?
Sylvia: Don’t worry, Geoffrey, I’ve got plenty. You can have some of mine.
Movie Quote of the Day – Basic Instinct, 1992 (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Assistant District Attorney John Correli: There’s no smoking in this building.
Catherine Tramell: What are you gonna do? Charge me with smoking?
Movie Quote of the Day – Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1985 (dir. Hector Babenco)
Luis Molina: Have some. It’s delicious.
Valentin Arregui: No, thanks.
Luis Molina: What’s the matter? You don’t like it?
Valentin Arregui: Sure, I like it, but, no, thanks.
Luis Molina: Well, then go ahead and have some. It’s a long time till lunch.
Valentin Arregui: Can’t afford to get spoiled.
Luis Molina: Do you really think that eating this avocado will make you spoiled and weak? Enjoy what life offers you.
Valentin Arregui: What life offers me is the struggle. When you’re dedicated to that, pleasure becomes secondary.
Luis Molina: Does your girlfriend think the same thing?
Valentin Arregui: How do you know I have a girl?
Luis Molina: It’s. . .the normal thing. Does she avoid pleasure, too?
Valentin Arregui: She knows what really counts. That the most important thing is serving a cause that is noble.
Luis Molina: What kind of cause is that, one that doesn’t let you eat an avocado?
Valentin Arregui: Molina, you would never understand.
Luis Molina: Well, I understand one thing. I offer you half of my precious avocado and you throw it back in my face.
Valentin Arregui: Don’t act like that! You sound just like a —
Luis Molina: Like a what? Say it. Say it. Like a woman, you mean. What’s wrong with being like a woman? Why do only women get to be sensitive? Why not a man? A dog? Or a faggot? If more men acted like women, there wouldn’t be so much violence like that.
Movie Quote of the Day – Georgy Girl, 1966 (dir. Silvio Narizzano)
James Leamington: Good God girl, what have you got on? A suit of armor, is it?
Georgy: That’s right. Protects my honor.
Movie Quote of the Day – Beaches, 1988 (dir. Garry Marshall)
CC: What do you think?
Hillary: Oh, it’s gorgeous!
CC: Do I look like Marilyn? I don’t look a thing like Marilyn.
Hillary: My turn. How is it?
CC: Hillary, it’s exactly the same color.
Hillary: What’s wrong? No, it isn’t. No.
CC: You just spent two hours dying your hair exactly the same color.
Hillary: It’s a subtle difference.
CC: I don’t think so.
Movie Quote of the Day – Misery, 1990 (dir. Rob Reiner)
Marcia Sindell: Paul, since you brought her up,. . .I have to ask you this or I’ll be drummed out of the agents’ union. How would you feel about a non-fiction book, about what went on in that house?
Paul Sheldon: Gee, Marcia, if I didn’t know you better, I’d think you were suggesting I dredge up the worst horror of my life just so we can make a few bucks.
Marcia Sindell: I thought you were over it.
Paul Sheldon: I don’t know if anyone could totally get over something like that. It’s weird. Even though I know she’s dead, I still think about her once in a while.
Waitress: Excuse me. I don’t mean to bother you, but are you Paul Sheldon?
Paul Sheldon: Yes.
Waitress: I just wanna tell you, I’m your number one fan.
Paul Sheldon: That’s very sweet of you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Compulsion, 1959 (dir. Richard Fleischer)
Judd: To the perfect crime!
Artie: Crime?! Oh, my wealthy fraternity brothers. Sixty-seven dollars! And a secondhand typewriter. I told you to leave it alone. No, you were so scared, you froze to it.
Judd: It was the first time, Artie. The next time, it’ll be all right.
Artie: If there is a next time. When we made the deal, you said you could take orders. You said you wanted me to command you.
Judd: I do. As long as you keep your part of the agreement.
Movie Quote of the Day – Safe In Hell, 1931 (dir. William A. Wellman)
Gilda: Where are you going?
Carl: What’s it to you?
Gilda: Everything!
Movie Quote of the Day – Saratoga, 1937 (dir. Jack Conway)
Carol Clayton: You idiot, I did the one thing that would send him away.
Duke Bradley: You did? What was that?
Carol Clayton: I kissed him.
Duke Bradley: And that sent him away? Oh Carol, you underestimate yourself.
Carol Clayton: You don’t understand, Hartley happens to be a gentleman.
Duke Bradley: Oh, well then I’m glad I’m a mug. Kiss me like that and see if I go home.
Movie Quote of the Day – Paris Blues, 1961 (dir. Martin Ritt)
Ram Bowen: Is your friend as pretty as you are?
Connie Lampson: Yes. She’s a white girl.
Ram Bowen: Might be hard to find. All these white girls look alike.
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