Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Shock, 1946 (dir. Alfred L. Werker)
Nurse Elaine Jordan: You’re not sorry, are you?
Dr. Richard Cross: I wish I’d called the police. I lost my head! I didn’t mean to kill her! There was no premeditation! But now I’ve concealed her body, I’ve shipped the trunk to my lodge. . .you know as well as I do there’s only one answer for that! I shouldn’t have listened to you, Elaine!
Nurse Elaine Jordan: Think darling, what would have happened if you’d called the police? Manslaughter means twenty years. What would that have done to you? To us?
Dr. Richard Cross: I don’t know.
Nurse Elaine Jordan: Would you have wanted it that way? Now no one knows. We’re safe.
Dr. Richard Cross: You’re forgetting Janet Stewart, aren’t you? She knows. What if she talks?
Nurse Elaine Jordan: I haven’t forgotten her. She can’t tell what she’s seen as long as she’s in this condition, can she?
Dr. Richard Cross: The shock will wear off in a couple of weeks at the most.
Nurse Elaine Jordan: It will wear off if you let it, Dick.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Wrong Man, 1956 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Lt. Bowers: How do you explain it?
Christopher Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Balestrero: I made a mistake.
Lt. Bowers: And so did the hold up man. And it happens to be the same mistake.
Movie Quote of the Day – Where Danger Lives, 1950 (dir. John Farrow)
Waiter: Here you are, sir.
Dr. Jeff Cameron: These things are like water!
Waiter: They creep up on you.
Dr. Jeff Cameron: Bring me a couple more.
Waiter: But, sir, you have four and we are only allowed two to a customer.
Dr. Jeff Cameron: Why?
Waiter: That drink makes a guy talk back to his mother-in-law.
Dr. Jeff Cameron: What about his father-in-law?
Waiter: I suppose so.
Dr. Jeff Cameron: You’ve given me an idea.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cape Fear, 1991 (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Max Cady: Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Your daddy too. Every man. . .every man. . .has to go through hell to reach his paradise. You know what paradise is?
Danielle Bowden: No.
Max Cady: Salvation.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Killers, 1964 (dir. Don Siegel)
Earl Sylvester: How’d he die?
Lee: Johnny North choked to death on one question. . .too many.
Movie Quote of the Day – House by the River, 1950 (dir. Fritz Lang)
Stephen Byrne: Don’t you realize, Marjorie, your reading the manuscript has solved everything? You know, I met Emily on the stairs. She was coming down from her bath. She’d used your perfume. She looked rather pretty and I wanted to kiss her, but she got frightened and screamed. I had to stop her screaming! I didn’t mean to kill her. I hardly touched her, but I didn’t realize how easy it would be. So very easy.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cry Danger, 1951 (dir. Robert Parrish)
Darlene LaVonne: You drinkin’ that stuff so early?
Delong: Listen, doll girl, when you drink as much as I do, you gotta start early.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Reckless Moment, 1949 (dir. Max Ophüls)
Martin: She’s lucky to have a mother like you.
Lucia Harper: Everyone has a mother like me. You probably had one, too.
Movie Quote of the Day – Clash By Night, 1952 (dir. Fritz Lang)
Mae Doyle D’Amato: Home is where you come when you run out of places.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Set-Up, 1949 (dir. Robert Wise)
Stoker: Yeah, top spot. And I’m just one punch away.
Julie: I remember the first time you told me that. You were just one punch away from the title shot then. Don’t you see, Bill, you’ll always be just one punch away.
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