Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Plan 9 from Outer Space, 1959 (dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.)
Col. Edwards: Is the, uh, girl safe?
Lt. Harper: Mrs. Trent you’d better stay with the car.
Mrs. Trent: Stay here alone? Not on your life.
Lt. Harper: Modern women. . .
Col. Edwards: Yeah, they been that way all down through the ages. Especially in a spot like this.
Movie Quote of the Day – Carnival of Souls, 1962 (dir. Herk Harvey)
Mary Henry: It’s funny. . .the world is so different in the daylight. In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand. But in the daylight everything falls back into place again.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931 (dir. Rouben Mamoulian)
Mr. Hyde: Free at last! Mad, Lanyon? Carew? You hypocrites, deniers of life. If you could see me now. . .what would you think? Ahahahahaha!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Hunger, 1983 (dir. Tony Scott)
John: Forever…?
Miriam: What?
John: Forever and ever?
Movie Quote of the Day – Mr. & Mrs. Smith, 1941 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Ann: If you had it all to do over again, would you still have married me?
David: Honestly, no.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Holiday, 2006 (dir. Nancy Meyers)
Arthur Abbott: You know what I’ve been asking myself all night?
Iris: What? Why I’m bothering you with all these questions?
Arthur Abbott: I’m wondering why a beautiful girl like you would go to a strangers’ house for their Christmas Vacation, and on top of that spend Saturday night with an old cock-up like me.
Iris: Well, I just wanted to get away from all the people I see all the time!… Well, not all the people… one person. I wanted to get away from one… guy.[sobs] An ex-boyfriend who just got engaged and forgot to tell me.
Arthur Abbott: So, he’s a schmuck.
Iris: As a matter of fact, he is… a huge schmuck. How did you know?
Arthur Abbott: He let you go. This is not a hard one to figure out. Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: You’re so right. You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god’s sake! Arthur, I’ve been going to a therapist for three years, and she’s never explained anything to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1966 (dir. Richard Lester)
Pseudolus: I say! You are in need of a soothsayer.
Erronius: How did you know?
Pseudolus: I’d be a fine soothsayer if I didn’t.
Movie Quote of the Day – Make Way For Tomorrow, 1937 (dir. Leo McCarey)
Barkley Cooper: In case. . .I don’t see you again. . .
Lucy Cooper: What?
Barkley Cooper: Well, anything might happen. The train could jump off the tracks. If it should happen that I don’t see you again, it’s been very nice knowing you, Miss Breckenridge.
Lucy Cooper: Bark, that’s probably the prettiest speech you ever made. And in case I don’t see you ag. . .well, for a little while. I just want to tell you, it’s been lovely, every bit of it, the whole fifty years. I’d sooner have been your wife, Bark, than anyone else on Earth.
Barkley Cooper: Thank you, Lucy.
Movie Quote of the Day – The End of the Affair, 1999 (dir. Neil Jordan)
Maurice Bendrix: I’m jealous of this stocking.
Sarah Miles: Why?
Maurice Bendrix: Because it does what I can’t. Kisses your whole leg. And I’m jealous of this button.
Sarah Miles: Poor, innocent button.
Maurice Bendrix: It’s not innocent at all. It’s with you all day. I’m not.
Sarah Miles: I suppose you’re jealous of my shoes?
Maurice Bendrix: Yes.
Sarah Miles: Why?
Maurice Bendrix: Because they’ll take you away from me.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Manchurian Candidate, 1962 (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Raymond Shaw: Well, you know, Ben, it’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
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