Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Key Largo, 1948 (dir. John Huston)
Frank McCloud: You don’t like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don’t you? If it doesn’t stop, shoot it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Double Indemnity, 1944 (dir. Billy Wilder)
Walter Neff: It’s just like the first time I came here, isn’t it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.
Movie Quote of the Day – Murder, My Sweet, 1944 (dir. Edward Dmytryk)
Philip Marlowe: “‘Okay Marlowe,’ I said to myself. ‘You’re a tough guy. You’ve been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you’re crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let’s see you do something really tough – like putting your pants on.'”
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Sleep, 1946 (dir. Howard Hawks)
Carmen Sternwood: Is he as cute as you are?
Philip Marlowe: Nobody is.
Movie Quote of the Day – Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Velda: Do me a favor, will you? Keep away from the windows. Somebody might. . .blow you a kiss.
Movie Quote of the Day – Turner & Hooch, 1989 (dir. Roger Spottiswoode)
Amos Reed: Hooch. Drop him. Drop him, Hooch. I-I’m sorry, Scott. I don’t have the hand strength I used to. You’re okay, aren’t ya ? Huh ?
Scott Turner: Yeah. Yeah, I’m fine. I was lookin’ forward to a nice, quiet cup of coffee. But now I’m awake !
Movie Quote of the Day – Halloween, 1978 (dir. John Carpenter)
Sheriff Leigh Brackett: I didn’t mean to startle you.
Laurie Strode: That’s alright.
Sheriff Leigh Brackett: It’s Halloween, I guess everyone’s entitled to one good scare, huh?
Movie Quote of the Day – Dracula, 1931 (dir. Tod Browning)
Count Dracula: [hears howling wolves] Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Movie Quote of the Day – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, 1992 (dir. David Lynch)
The Log Lady: When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy.
Movie Quote of the Day – Friday the 13th, 1980 (dir. Sean S. Cunningham)
Pamela Voorhees: You let him drown! You never paid any attention. Look what you did to him. [pulls out a large hunting knife] Look what you did to him!
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