Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – The Killing, 1956 (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Johnny Clay: You like money. You’ve got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart.
Movie Quote of the Day – Lady in the Lake, 1947 (dir. Robert Montgomery)
Adrienne Fromsett: Tell Mr Marlowe, do you always fall in love with all of your clients?
Philip Marlowe: Only the ones in skirts.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Blue Dahlia, 1946 (dir. George Marshall)
Leo: Just don’t get too complicated, Eddie. When a man gets too complicated, he’s unhappy. And when he’s unhappy, his luck runs out.
Movie Quote of the Day – Kiss of Death, 1947 (dir. Henry Hathaway)
Tommy Udo: I’m askin’ ya, where’s that squealin’ son of yours? [maniacal laugh] You think a squealer can get away from me? Huh? [maniacal laugh] You know what I do to squealers? I let ’em have it in the belly, so they can roll around for a long time thinkin’ it over.
Movie Quote of the Day – D.O.A., 1950 (dir. Rudolph Maté)
Frank Bigelow: I want to report a murder.
Homicide Captain: Sit down. [beat] Where was this murder committed?
Frank Bigelow: San Francisco, last night.
Homicide Captain: Who was murdered?
Frank Bigelow: I was.
Movie Quote of the Day – This Is Spinal Tap, 1984 (dir. Rob Reiner)
Nigel Tufnel: It’s very, very special. As you can see the numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don’t know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [beat] These go to eleven.
Movie Quote of the Day – Odd Man Out, 1947 (dir. Carol Reed)
Lukey: There’s something to be said about him before he dies.
Tober: And about all of us.
Lukey: I can see it, Tober.
Tober: Take care; you might find something you don’t understand that’ll frighten you.
Lukey: I understand what I see in him.
Tober: What is it?
Lukey: It’s the truth about us all.
Tober: Is that all?
Lukey: He’s doomed.
Tober: So are we all.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Heat, 1953 (dir. Fritz Lang)
Vince Stone: Hey, that’s nice perfume.
Debby Marsh: Something new. It attracts mosquitoes and repels men.
Movie Quote of the Day – Scarlet Street, 1945 (dir. Fritz Lang)
Johnny Prince: And then you gave me a dirty look.
Kitty March: I didn’t give you a dirty look!
Johnny Prince: Listen, any girl that waits two hours in the rain for a guy is gonna give him a dirty look.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dark Passage, 1947 (dir. Delmer Daves)
Dr. Walter Coley: Ever see any botched plastic jobs? If a man like me didn’t like a fellow. . .he could surely fix him up for life. Make him look like a bulldog, or a monkey. I’ll make you look older, but good. I’ll make you look as if you’ve lived.
Vincent Parry: I have, doc.
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