Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – The Fugitive, 1993 (dir. Andrew Davis)
Dr. Richard Kimble: I didn’t kill my wife!
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: I don’t care!
Movie Quote of the Day – American Graffiti, 1973 (dir. George Lucas)
Debbie: You know, Terry, I had a pretty good time.
Toad: Oh, come on, you’re just. . .
Debbie: No, no, really. I really had a good time. I mean, you picked me up and we got some hard stuff and saw a hold-up and then we went to the Canal and you got your car stolen and then I got to watch you gettin’ sick and then you got in this really bitchin’ fight. . .I really had a good time.
Movie Quote of the Day – Benny & Joon, 1993 (dir. Jeremiah Chechik)
Joon: Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.
Benny: [dryly] Is that a fact?
Movie Quote of the Day – Raising Arizona, 1987 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Nathan Arizona: Who the hell are you?
Leonard Smalls: Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny; but I got no friends.
Movie Quote of the Day – Pleasantville, 1998 (dir. Gary Ross)
George: Where’s my dinner? [searches kitchen] Where’s my dinner? [goes outside] Where’s my dinner?!
Movie Quote of the Day – Bells Are Ringing, 1960 (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Ella Peterson: Susanswerphone.
Larry Hastings: [on the phone] This is Larry Hastings calling; any messages?
Ella Peterson: Just a moment. Blake Barton, the actor, called. He wants to know if there’s a part for him in your new production, “The Midas Touch”.
Larry Hastings: [on the phone] Blake Barton? Never! I’m sick of actors who won’t wear suits and who sound as if they’ve got a mouthful of marbles.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001 (dir. Wes Anderson)
Announcer: That’s 72 unforced errors for Richie Tenenbaum. He’s playing the worst tennis of his life. What’s he feeling, Tex Hayward?
Tex Hayward: I don’t know, Jim, there’s obviously something wrong with him. He’s taken off his shoes and one of his socks and. . .actually, I think he’s crying.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, 1945 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Johnny Nolan: I wonder what people did before they invented coffee?
Movie Quote of the Day – Sabrina, 1995 (dir. Sydney Pollack)
Sabrina Fairchild: You know, you are not exactly what people say you are.
Linus Larrabee: Oh yeah? [beat] What do they say I am?
Sabrina Fairchild: Oh, you know.
Linus Larrabee: No.
Sabrina Fairchild: Well. . .that you’re the world’s only living heart donor.
Linus Larrabee: Oh. That.
Sabrina Fairchild: And. . .how does this one go? Um, “He thinks that morals are paintings on walls and scruples are money in Russia.”
Linus Larrabee: Well, that’s droll.
Sabrina Fairchild: And then there’s my favorite. . .
Linus Larrabee: No, no, no. I get the picture.
Movie Quote of the Day – Blast From The Past, 1999 (dir. Hugh Wilson)
Atkinson: Neighbors over there said the guy spent night and day out here. She’d bring him sandwiches and hot Dr. Pepper.
Levy: He drank it hot?
Atkinson: Yeah.
Levy: Good God.
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