Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Thor, 2011 (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Thor: This drink. . .I like it!
Darcy: I know, it’s great right?
[smashes mug on ground]
Thor: Another!
Movie Quote of the Day – ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!), 1990 (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Ricky: I tried speaking to you, but you wouldn’t let me. I had to kidnap you so you’d get to know me. I’m sure you’ll get to love me as I love you. I’m 23 years old, I have 50,000 pesetas, and I’m alone in the world. I’ll try to be a good husband to you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Working Girl, 1988 (dir. Mike Nichols)
Tess McGill: You know, maybe I just don’t like you.
Jack Trainer: Me? Naaah!
Movie Quote of the Day – Last Chance Harvey, 2008 (dir. Joel Hopkins)
Kate: I had a lovely time and I won’t forget it, thank you. But. . .
Harvey: What?
Kate: Well, it’s not exactly real life.
Harvey: It is.
Kate: No, it isn’t, Harvey.
Harvey: It is.
Kate: No, it’s not, Harvey.
Harvey: No, it is real life. It’s real life for me.
Kate: I know, but it’s not just about you, is it? It’s about me as well. You don’t know anything about me. I mean, it’s pathetic. I expected you not to show. In fact, I think I actually almost wanted you not to show because it’s just easier that way. You – you just dive in there, you just woosh anywhere, deep end. I’m not a bloody swimming pool Harvey. And I am not going to do it, I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to do it because it will hurt. Sometime or other there’ll be a “it’s not quite working” or a “I need some space” or whatever it is and it’ll end and it’ll hurt and I won’t do it, I won’t and. . .I. . . [beat] You see, what I think it is, is I think that I am more comfortable with being disappointed. I think I’m angry at you for trying to take that away.
Movie Quote of the Day – They Live By Night, 1949 (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Catherine ‘Keechie’ Mobley: Bowie?
Arthur ‘Bowie’ Bowers: Yeah?
Catherine ‘Keechie’ Mobley: Don’t shut yourself up cold like this. I don’t know what to do.
Arthur ‘Bowie’ Bowers: No?
Catherine ‘Keechie’ Mobley: No, I don’t.
Arthur ‘Bowie’ Bowers: You know just what you’re doing now. Just tell me when I’m doing the wrong thing; I’ll snap out of it.
Catherine ‘Keechie’ Mobley: Alright, Bowie.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Night of the Hunter, 1955 (dir. Charles Laughton)
Rev. Harry Powell: There’s too many of them. I can’t kill the world.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Asphalt Jungle, 1950 (dir. John Huston)
Angela Phinlay: Do I have to talk to him? Can’t I just talk to. . .you?
Movie Quote of the Day – Pushing Tin, 1999 (dir. Mike Newell)
Russell Bell: Thought is the enemy.
Nick Falzone: I know. I’ve gotta think less. I had that thought, actually.
Movie Quote of the Day – Badlands, 1973 (dir. Terrence Malick)
Kit Carruthers: Sir. . .Where’d you get that hat?
Trooper: State.
Kit Carruthers: Boy, I’d like to buy me one of those.
Trooper: You’re quite an individual, Kit.
Kit Carruthers: Think they’ll take that into consideration?
Movie Quote of the Day – My Favorite Year, 1982 (dir. Richard Benjamin)
Alan Swann: Live? Live? What does ‘live’ mean?
Benjy Stone: It means at the exact moment you’re cavorting and leaping around that stage over there, twenty million people are seeing it.
Alan Swann: Wait a minute. Wait. . .a . . .minute.
Benjy Stone: Mr. Swann, you’re white.
Alan Swann: You mean it all goes into the camera lens and then just spills out into people’s houses?!
Benjy Stone: Yeah.
Alan Swann: Why has nobody had the goodness to explain this to me before?
Benjy Stone: It’s nothing to worry about, Mr. Swann. Our audiences are great.
Alan Swann: Audience? What audience?
Benjy Stone: You knew there was an audience. What did you think those seats were for?
Alan Swann: I haven’t performed in front of an audience for twenty-eight years! [nervous laughter] Audience. I played a butler. I HAD ONE LINE! [beat] I forgot it.
Benjy Stone: Don’t worry. This is going to be easy.
Alan Swann: For you maybe. I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!
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