Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 2008 (dir. Nicholas Stoller)
Sarah Marshall: It got really hard to keep taking care of you when you stopped taking care of yourself. I tried to get you out of the house. I tried to get you off your little island you love so much – the couch. You didn’t want to see the light of day. God, there was one week when you wore sweatpants. . .every day.
Peter Bretter: Oh, you know what, if they were Sean Jean sweatpants it would have been fine, but because they were Costco brand, it’s the worst thing I could do.
Movie Quote of the Day – Good Morning Vietnam, 1987 (dir. Barry Levinson)
Dickerson: This is not military issue, airman. What sort of uniform is that?
Adrian Cronauer: Cretan camouflage sir. If you want to blend in with a bunch of drunken Greeks there’s nothing better.
Dickerson: That is humor. I recognize that.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cruel Intentions, 1999 (dir. Roger Kumble)
Cecile Caldwell: This sure doesn’t taste like an iced tea.
Sebastian: It’s from Long Island.
Movie Quote of the Day – Camille, 1936 (dir. George Cukor)
Armand: Take it if you can. Only, I warn you, lucky in love, unlucky at cards.
Baron de Varville: That also means lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
Armand: We shall see.
Movie Quote of the Day – Michael Clayton, 2007 (dir. Tony Gilroy)
Michael Clayton: You’re so fucked.
Karen Crowder: What?
Michael Clayton: You’re fucked.
Karen Crowder: What do you mean?
Michael Clayton: Take a wild guess.
Karen Crowder: I don’t understand.
Michael Clayton: Let me get a picture while I’m at it.
Karen Crowder: You don’t want the money?
Michael Clayton: Keep the money. You’ll need it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Stardust Memories, 1980 (dir. Woody Allen)
Sandy Bates: You guys gotta tell me, why is there so much human suffering?
Space Alien: This is unanswerable.
Sandy Bates: Is there a God?
Space Alien: These are the wrong questions.
Sandy Bates: Look, here’s my point, if nothing lasts why am I bothering to make films or do anything, for that matter?
Space Alien: We enjoy your films, particularly the early, funny ones.
Sandy Bates: But the human condition is so discouraging.
Space Alien: There are some nice moments, too.
Movie Quote of the Day – Notorious, 1946 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Alicia: This is a very strange love affair.
Devlin: Why?
Alicia: Maybe the fact that you don’t love me.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Combo, 1955 (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Alicia Brown: I’d rather be insane and alive, than sane. . .and dead.
Movie Quote of the Day – Crossfire, 1947 (dir. Edward Dmytryk)
Ginny: Okay, where were you when he needed you? Maybe you were someplace having beautiful thoughts. Well, I wasn’t. I was in a stinkin’ gin mill, where all he had to do to see me was walk in, sit down at the table and buy me a drink and that’s all I know about it. I didn’t ask him if he killed anybody.
Movie Quote of the Day – Night and the City, 1950 (dir. Jules Dassin)
Phil Nosseross: You don’t know what you’re walking into.
Helen Nosseross: I know what I’m walking out of.
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