Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – My Girl, 1991 (dir. Howard Zieff)
Shelly DeVoto: You know, Vada, you shouldn’t let those girls upset you.
Vada Margaret Sultenfuss: I’m not upset. I will never play with those girls. I only surround myself with people who I find intellectually stimulating.
Movie Quote of the Day – Three On A Match, 1932 (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Junior: You mustn’t hurt my momma!
Harve: Okay. [mercilessly] I’ll bear that in mind.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Lady Eve, 1941 (dir. Preston Sturges)
Jean Harrington: I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Movie Quote of the Day – Road To Perdition, 2002 (dir. Sam Mendes)
Michael Sullivan, Jr.: So when do I get my share of the money?
Michael Sullivan: Well… how much do you want?
Michael Sullivan, Jr.: Two hundred dollars.
Michael Sullivan: Okay. Deal.
[beat]
Michael Sullivan, Jr.: Could I have had more?
Michael Sullivan: You’ll never know.
Movie Quote of the Day – Catch Me If You Can, 2002 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Carl Hanratty: Well, would you like to hear me tell a joke?
Earl Amdursky: Yeah. Yeah, we’d love to hear a joke from you.
Carl Hanratty: Knock knock.
Earl Amdursky: Who’s there?
Carl Hanratty: Go fuck yourselves.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Social Network, 2010 (dir. David Fincher)
Cameron Winklevoss: What, do you want to hire an IP lawyer and sue him?
Divya Narendra: No, I want to hire the Sopranos to beat the shit out of him with a hammer!
Tyler Winklevoss: We don’t even have to do that.
Cameron Winklevoss: That’s right.
Tyler Winklevoss: We can do that ourselves. I’m 6’5″, 220, and there’s two of me.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Women, 1939 (dir. George Cukor)
Crystal Allen: There’s a name for you, ladies, but it isn’t used in high society. . .outside of a kennel.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dinner At Eight, 1933 (dir. George Cukor)
Kitty Packard: I was reading a book the other day.
Carlotta Vance: Reading a book?
Kitty Packard: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta Vance: Oh, my dear, that’s something you need never worry about.
Movie Quote of the Day – Gilda, 1946 (dir. Charles Vidor)
Ballin Mundson: Gilda, are you decent?
Gilda: Me?
[beat]
Gilda: Sure. I’m decent.
Movie Quote of the Day – Soylent Green, 1973 (dir. Richard Fleischer)
Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You’ve gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We’ve gotta stop them somehow!
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