Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Freaks, 1932 (dir. Tod Browning)
Hercules: They’re going to make you one of them, my peeeeeacock!
Movie Quote of the Day – The King and I, 1956 (dir. Walter Lang)
King Mongkut of Siam: When I shall sit, you shall sit. When I shall kneel, you shall kneel. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!
Movie Quote of the Day – Venus, 2006 (dir. Roger Michell)
Maurice: I am about to die and I know nothing about myself.
Ian: You have been loved, though, Maurice. You’ve been adored.
Maurice: Yes. And so have you, Ian, a little bit. Except you didn’t always notice it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Philadelphia, 1993 (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Andrew Beckett: Congratulations, Counselor.
Joe Miller: Congratulations?
Andrew Beckett: You’ve survived what I assume to be your first gay party intact.
Joe Miller: Let me tell you something, Andrew, when you’re brought up the way I am, the way most people are in this country, there’s not a whole lot of discussion about homosexuality or what do you call it, alternate lifestyles. As a kid you’re taught that queers are funny, queers are weird, queers dress up like their mother. That they’re afraid to fight, that they’re a danger to little kids and that all they want to do is get into your pants. [beat] That pretty much sums up the general thinking out there if you want to know the truth about it.
Andrew Beckett: Thank you for sharing that with me.
Joe Miller: You’re very welcome.
Movie Quote of the Day – Prizzi’s Honor, 1985 (dir. John Huston)
Maerose Prizzi: So let’s do it.
Charley Partanna: With all the lights on?
Maerose Prizzi: Yeah. Right here. On the Oriental. With all the lights on.
Charley Partanna: Mama mia!
Movie Quote of the Day – La ciociara (Two Women), 1960 (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Cesira: I’d like to see you living like I did, sleeping in a shed! And we ate once a day, that’s all. So, I went with the first one that said “I will bring you to Rome.” I married Rome, not him.
Movie Quote of the Day – Rocky II, 1979 (dir. Sylvester Stallone)
Rocky Balboa: Do you like having a good time? Then you need a good watch!
Movie Quote of the Day – Dutchman, 1967 (dir. Anthony Harvey)
Lula: What are you prepared for? Huh?
Clay: Well, I’m prepared for anything. How about you?
Movie Quote of the Day – Born on the Fourth of July, 1989 (dir. Oliver Stone)
Ron Kovic: We went to Vietnam to stop communism!. . .We shell women and children!
Mrs. Kovic: You didn’t shoot women and children! What are you saying?
Ron Kovic: That was the war, communism, the insidious evil! They told us to go.
Mrs. Kovic: Yes, yes that’s what they told us.
Ron Kovic: Thou shalt not kill, Mom. Thou shalt not kill women and children! Thou shalt not kill! Remember? Isn’t that what you taught us? Isn’t that what they taught us?
Mrs. Kovic: Stop it! Stop it! I don’t want you in this house. You’re out of this house!
Mr. Kovic: Okay, Ron, you’ve made your point now stop.
Ron Kovic: No! I haven’t made my point. You tell her, dad. They are killing everyone now!
Mrs. Kovic: I didn’t force you to go!
Ron Kovic: Yes you did! Yes you did! And it’s all falling apart! King! Kennedy! Kent State! We all lost this fucking war.
Mrs. Kovic: It’s not my fault!
Ron Kovic: Fucking communism won; it’s all for nothing.
Mrs. Kovic: That’s not true, Ronnie.
Ron Kovic: What do you know?! You tell her dad! Tell her! It’s a lie! It’s a fucking lie! There’s no God. God is as dead as my legs! There’s no God, there’s no country! Nothing. Just me and this fucking wheelchair for the rest of my life. Nothing but me and this dead penis.
Mr. Kovic: Not with the catheter for God’s sake!
Ron Kovic: Penis!
Mrs. Kovic: Eli, I can’t stand it anymore! To hell with you!
Ron Kovic: In church they say it’s a sin if you play with your penis. I just wish I could.
Mrs. Kovic: Don’t say penis in this house!
Ron Kovic: Penis! Penis! Big fucking erect penis, Mom! Penis! Penis!
Movie Quote of the Day – A Face in the Crowd, 1957 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Lonesome Rhodes: I’m not just an entertainer. I’m an influence, a wielder of opinion, a force. . .a force!
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