Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Notting Hill, 1999 (dir. Roger Michell)
Spike: Hey, you couldn’t help me with an incredibly important decision, could you?
William: This is important in comparison to, let’s say, whether they should cancel third world debt?
Spike: That’s right. . .I’m at last going out on a date with the great Janine and I just want to be sure I’ve picked the right t-shirt.
William: What are the choices?
Spike: Well. . .wait for it. . .first there’s this one. . .Cool, huh?
William: Yes. . .might make it hard to strike a really romantic note.
Spike: Point taken. Don’t despair! If it’s romance we’re looking for, I believe I have just the thing!
William: Well, there again, she might not think you have true love on your mind.
Spike: Right. Just one more. [beat] True love, here I come!
William: Well, yeah, that’s, that’s perfect.
Spike: Thanks. Great. Wish me luck.
William: Good luck.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jane Eyre, 1996 (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)
Jane Eyre: It’s a long way off.
Mr. Rochester: No matter; a girl of your sense will not object to the voyage.
Jane Eyre: Not the voyage, but the distance. And then the sea is such a barrier.
Mr. Rochester: From. . .what, Jane?
Jane Eyre: From England, sir, and from Thornfield . . .and. . .
Movie Quote of the Day – Love with the Proper Stranger, 1963 (dir. Robert Mulligan)
Rocky Papasano: Man, do you look wild.
Angie Rossini: Thank you.
Rocky Papasano: No, I mean it – I really mean it.
Angie Rossini: Look how surprised he sounds.
Rocky Papasano: You look so – what am I gonna tell ‘ya? You look like a woman.
Angie Rossini: How can you manage to make even a compliment sound like a slap in the face?
Rocky Papasano: What did I say? You look like a woman! I apologise – excuse me. You look like a man.
Movie Quote of the Day – September Affair, 1950 (dir. William Dieterle)
David Lawrence: That was entirely premeditated.
Manina Stuart: I didn’t think it was gravity. [beat] And I don’t think we should make a habit of it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Starship Troopers, 1997 (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Johnny Rico: I want to join up. I think I’ve got what it takes to be a Citizen.
Jean Rasczak: Good for you. Go find out.
Johnny Rico: Well, my parents are against it. And I know it’s my choice. I was wondering, what would you do, if you were me ?
Jean Rasczak: Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom that anyone really has. Use that freedom. Make up your own mind, Rico.
Movie Quote of the Day – Footlight Parade, 1933 (dir. Lloyd Bacon)
Nan Prescott: I’ve got an idea.
Chester Kent: Keep it to yourself, or the wife’ll cash in on it.
Nan Prescott: And when I’ve got an idea, I do something about it.
Chester Kent: Most dames do.
Movie Quote of the Day – Gentleman’s Agreement, 1947 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Anne Dettrey: Every morning, I ask my mirror who’s the most brilliant of all.
Phil Green: And what does the mirror say?
Anne Dettrey: Well, that mirror ain’t no gentleman.
Movie Quote of the Day – Moon, 2009 (dir. Duncan Jones)
GERTY: I hope life on Earth is everything you remember it to be.
Sam Bell: Thanks, GERTY. [beat] Are you going to be OK?
GERTY: Of course.
Movie Quote of the Day – Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata), 1978 (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Eva: A mother and a daughter–what a terrible combination of feelings and confusion and destruction! Everything is possible and everything is done in the name of love and solicitude. The mother’s injuries are to be handed down to the daughter, the mother’s disappointments are to be paid for by the daughter, the mother’s unhappiness is to be the daughter’s unhappiness. It’s as if the umbilical cord had never been cut. The daughter’s grief is the mother’s secret pleasure.
Movie Quote of the Day – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Sallah: Please, what does it always mean, this. . .this “Junior”?
Professor Henry Jones: That’s his name. . .[points to self] Henry Jones. . .[points to Indy] Junior.
Indiana Jones: I like “Indiana.”
Professor Henry Jones: We named the *dog* Indiana.
Marcus Brody: May we go home now, please?
Sallah: The dog? [laughing] You are named after the dog? AHAHAHA!
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