Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Straight To Hell, 1987 (dir. Alex Cox)
Simms: A gun is just a tool; ain’t no better or no worse than the man that uses it.
Leticia: Just like shoes.
Simms: Yeah. [beat] Did you see the World Cup?
Leticia: That suit you’re wearing, it’s got a hole in the sleeve. Don’t you ever change your clothes?
Simms: The desert’s beautiful at night. Beautiful, but lonely.
Leticia: I like my coffee black on Sunday mornings. Black and strong.
Simms: Some people don’t believe in God.
Leticia: Elvis is king.
Movie Quote of the Day – Enchanted, 2007 (dir. Kevin Lima)
Giselle: Nobody has been very nice to me.
Robert: Yeah, well, welcome to New York.
Giselle: Thank you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Star Trek: First Contact, 1996 (dir. Jonathan Frakes)
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race. . .and you’re here to stop them?
Cmdr. William Riker: That’s right.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: Hot damn! You’re heroic. Ahahaha.
Movie Quote of the Day – Road House, 1989 (dir. Rowdy Herrington)
Steve: Being called a cocksucker isn’t personal?
Dalton: No. It’s two nouns combined to elicit a prescribed response.
Steve: What if somebody calls my mama a whore?
Dalton: Is she?
Movie Quote of the Day – Heat, 1995 (dir. Michael Mann)
Neil McCauley: I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I know life is short, whatever time you get is luck. You want to walk? You walk right now. Or on your own. . .on your own you choose to come with me. And all I know is. . .all I know is there’s no point in me going anywhere anymore if it’s going to be alone. . .without you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Barfly, 1987 (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Wanda: I can’t stand people, I hate them.
Henry: Oh yeah?
Wanda: Do you hate them?
Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they’re not around.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976 (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Mary-Lou: You know Tommy, you’re really a freak. I don’t mean that unkindly. I like freaks. And that’s why I like you. I really like you.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Jerk, 1979 (dir. Carl Reiner)
Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 – Johnson, Navin R.! I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity – your name in print – that makes people. I’m in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.
[cut to sniper]
Sniper: Johnson, Navin R. . .sounds like a typical bastard. [cut back to gas station] Die, Navin R. Johnson. Bastard! Random son of a bitch, typical run-of-the-mill bastard.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Birds, 1963 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Annie Hayworth: Did you drive up from San Francisco by the coast road?
Melanie Daniels: Yes.
Annie Hayworth: Nice drive.
Melanie Daniels: It’s very beautiful.
Annie Hayworth: Is that where you met Mitch?
Melanie Daniels: Yes.
Annie Hayworth: I guess that’s where everyone meets Mitch.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shock Corridor, 1963 (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Johnny Barrett: [lets out ear-piercing scream]
Pagliacci: That was *such* a sour note, John. [Chuckling] You were *way* off key!
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