Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Blow-Up, 1966 (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Thomas: Don’t let’s spoil everything, we’ve only just met.
Jane: No, we haven’t met. You’ve never seen me.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Stepford Wives, 1975 (dir. Bryan Forbes)
Joanna Eberhart: Am I crazy? Aren’t they good? Please say something. I don’t care. No, I do care. Don’t say anything bad.
Mr. Atkinson: These are, um, really quite good.
Joanna Eberhart: You’re not just saying that be cause you’re frightened I, I might be a crazy lady?
Mr. Atkinson: Clearly you are a crazy lady, but clearly again, these are nice.
Joanna Eberhart: Wait a minute. You said ‘Good’. ‘Really quite good’ you said. ‘Good’ is better than ‘nice’. You’re not changing your mind, are you?
Mr. Atkinson: No, the results are lovely. Don’t get upset again. ‘Lovely’ is better than ‘good’. But, um, what fascinates me is: What is it you want from it all? Do you know?
Joanna Eberhart: I want – somewhere, someday, someone to look at something and say ‘Hey, that reminds me of an Ingalls’. ‘Ingalls’ was my maiden name. I guess I want to be remembered.
Mr. Atkinson: Yes, don’t we all?
Movie Quote of the Day – Trouble in Paradise, 1932 (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
Gaston Monescu: I know all your tricks.
Madame Mariette Colet: And you’re going to fall for them.
Gaston Monescu: So you think you can get me?
Madame Mariette Colet: Any minute I want.
Gaston Monescu: You’re conceited.
Madame Mariette Colet: But attractive.
Gaston Monescu: Now let me say. . .
Madame Mariette Colet: Shut up. Kiss me.
Movie Quote of the Day – X2: X-Men United, 2003 (dir. Bryan Singer)
Nightcrawler: You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn’t hate them. I pitied them. Do you know why? Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
Movie Quote of the Day – Harper, 1966 (dir. Jack Smight)
Lew Harper: The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert. Only cream and bastards rise.
Movie Quote of the Day – Billy Bathgate, 1991 (dir. Robert Benton)
Billy Bathgate: Are you Mr. Schultz’s girl?
Drew Preston: I’m not his girl, he’s my gangster.
Movie Quote of the Day – 1941, 1979 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: The Japs tried to bomb San Francisco last night. Two squadrons of Jap Zeroes. I’ve been trackin’ them ever since. I lost them somewhere over Fresno.
Patron: Radio says that’s not true about San Francisco. It was just a case of war nerves.
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: War nerves? Who said, “war nerves”?
Patron: I heard it on that radio there.
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Radio’s wrong.
Movie Quote of the Day – Who’s That Girl, 1987 (dir. James Foley)
Prison Oficer: One black leather jacket, one plastic comb – blue, two studded leather bracelets – black, and one lipstick – fire engine red.
Donovan: All your worldly possessions.
Nikki Finn: Don’t knock it, Donovan. You can’t get this shade’a red anymore.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, 1982 (dir. Lou Adler)
Corinne Burns: You are so jealous of me. I’m everything you ever wanted to be.
Billy: A cunt?
Corinne Burns: Exactly.
Movie Quote of the Day – Thelma & Louise, 1991 (dir. Ridley Scott)
Thelma: You’re a real live outlaw, aren’t ya?
J.D.: Well I may be an outlaw, darlin’, but you’re the one stealing my heart.
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