Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – The Bishop’s Wife, 1947 (dir. Henry Koster)
Dudley: The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Christmas Story, 1983 (dir. Bob Clark)
Ralphie: No! No! I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
Santa Claus: You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.
Movie Quote of the Day – Christmas Vacation, 1989 (dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik)
Clark Griswold: Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dumb & Dumber, 1994 (dir. Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly)
Lloyd: The first time I set eyes on Mary Swanson, I just got that old-fashioned romantic feeling. . .where I’d do anything to bone her.
Harry: That’s a special feeling, Lloyd.
Movie Quote of the Day – What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, 1993 (dir. Lasse Hallström)
Momma: You’re my knight in shimmering armor. Did you know that?
Gilbert: I think you mean shining.
Momma: No shimmering. You shimmer, and you glow.
Movie Quote of the Day – Pirate Radio, 2009 (dir. Richard Curtis)
Quentin: So. . .expelled?
‘Young’ Carl: That’s right.
Quentin: What for?
‘Young’ Carl: I suppose smoking was the clincher.
Quentin: Drugs or cigarettes?
‘Young’ Carl: Well, both.
Quentin: Well done! Proud of you. So your mum sent you here in the hope that a little bracing sea air would sort you out?
‘Young’ Carl: Something like that.
Quentin: Spectacular mistake.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Trial, 1962 (dir. Orson Welles)
Inspector A: None of this is going to show up very well in the record, Mr. K. My men say you even tried to stop them from putting this down [points to notebook].
Josef K.: Well, I tried to stop one of them from making a fool of himself. [pointing] Yes, yes: ovular.
Inspector A: What’s that?
Josef K.: Ov-u-lar.
Inspector A: There’s no such word.
Movie Quote of the Day – Lolita, 1962 (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Humbert Humbert: Quilty! Quilty?
Clare Quilty: Ah, wha? Who’s there?
Humbert Humbert: Are you Quilty.
Clare Quilty: No, I’m. . .Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or somethin?
Move Quote of the Day – The Contender, 2000 (dir. Rod Lurie)
Laine Hanson: It seems to me that all you can claim about me. . .claim, is that I had sex.
Shelly Runyon: Deviant sex.
Laine Hanson: Oh, deviant? Who says it was deviant?
Shelly Runyon: I do. What I say the American people will believe. And do you know why? Because I will have a very big microphone in front of me.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Crucible, 1996 (dir. Nicholas Hytner)
John Proctor: Tell them Proctor broke to his knees and wept like a woman. But, my. . .my name. . .I cannot sign.
Judge Thomas Danforth: Why? Do you mean to deny this confession when you are free?
John Proctor: I mean to deny nothing.
Judge Thomas Danforth: Then explain to me why you will not —
John Proctor: Because it is my naaaaaaame! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to liiiiiiies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them you have hanged! I have given you my soul; leave me my naaaaaaame!
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