Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – The Mighty, 1998 (dir. Peter Chelsom)
Kevin: It’s the treasure, concealed in the slime of dragons.
Maxwell Kane: It’s a woman’s purse, and it’s covered with crap.
Kevin: And it’s our duty as knights to return it to its rightful owner.
Movie Quote of the Day – Zabriskie Point, 1970 (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Cop: Occupation?
Rebel: Associate professor of history.
Cop: That’s too long. I’ll just put down clerk.
Movie Quote of the Day – La città delle donne, 1980 (dir. Federico Fellini)
Snàporaz: What kind of film is this?!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Thing, 1982 (dir. John Carpenter)
MacReady: How you doin’, old boy?
Dr. Blair: I don’t know who to trust.
MacReady: I know what you mean, Blair. Trust’s a tough thing to come by these days. Tell you what. . .why don’t you just trust in the Lord?
Movie Quote of the Day – Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991 (dir. James Cameron)
John Connor: We’ve got company.
Miles Dyson: Police?
Sarah Connor: How many?
John Connor: Uh, all of them, I think.
Movie Quote of the Day – La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), 2011 (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Norma: I’m sick of these heels! And this jacket, too! All these clothes give me claustrophobia. If I could, I’d go naked all the time!
Movie Quote of the Day – Rango, 2011 (dir. Gore Verbinski)
Rango: Now, remember son: stay in school, eat your veggies, and burn everything but Shakespeare.
Movie Quote of the Day – Forbidden Planet, 1956 (dir. Fred M. Wilcox)
Commander John J. Adams: Whatever you know in here, your other self knows out there.
Dr. Edward Morbius: I’m not a monster, you. . .
Commander John J. Adams: We’re all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!
Movie Quote of the Day – I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932 (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Helen: Jim! Why haven’t you come before?
James Allen: I couldn’t; I was afraid to.
Helen: You could have written! It’s been almost a year since you escaped!
James Allen: But I haven’t escaped. They’re still after me. They’ll always be after me. I’ve had jobs, but I can’t keep them. Something happens. Someone turns up. I hide in rooms all day, travel by night. No friends, no rest, no peace.
Helen: Oh, Jim!
James Allen: Keep moving; that’s all that’s left for me. Forgive me, Helen, I. . .I had to take a chance to see you tonight, just to say goodbye.
Helen: Oh, Jim, it was all going to be so different.
James Allen: It is different. They’ve made it different. I’ve got to go!
Helen: I can’t let you go like this!
James Allen: I have to.
Helen: Can’t you tell me where you’re going?! Will you write? Do you need any money? But you must, Jim! How do you live?!
James Allen: I steal.
Movie Quote of the Day – Caddyshack, 1980 (dir. Harold Ramis)
Carl Spackler: Incredible Cinderella story. This unknown, comes outta nowhere to lead the pack at Augusta. He’s at his final hole. He’s about 450 yards away. He’s gonna hit about a two iron, I think. Oh, he got outta that. The crowd is standing on its feet here at Augusta. The normally reserved Augusta crowd, going wild, for this young Cinderella, who’s come outta nowhere. He’s got about 350 yards left. He’s gonna hit about a five iron, it looks like, dontcha think? He’s got a beautiful back swing. That’s it! Oh! He got outta that one! He’s gotta be pleased with that! The crowd is on its feet here. He’s a Cinderella boy. Tears in his eyes, I guess, as he lines up this last shot. He’s got about 195 yards left. He’s gonna. . .it looks like he’s got an eight iron. This crowd has gone deadly silent. A Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. Former greenskeeper. And now about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac. . .it’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!
the diary of a film history fanatic 