Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Portrait of Jennie, 1948 (dir. William Dieterle)
Miss Spinney: I’m an old maid; and nobody knows more about love than an old maid.
Movie Quote of the Day – Nickelodeon, 1976 (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
H. H. Cobb: All those people going to see the pictures. And a lot of them can’t even talk American. Then they don’t have to because pictures are a language that everybody understands. It’s like music for the eyes. And if you’re good, if you’re really good, then maybe what you’re doing is giving them little tiny pieces of time that they never forget.
Movie Quote of the Day – 42nd Street, 1933 (dir. Lloyd Bacon)
Julian Marsh: Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve *got* to come back a star!
Movie Quote of the Day – Never Let Me Go, 2010 (dir. Mark Romanek)
Kathy H.: What I’m not sure about is if our lives have been so different from the lives we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us understand what we’ve lived through or feel we’ve had enough time.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Blue Gardenia, 1953 (dir. Fritz Lang)
Sally Ellis: I didn’t like Prebble when he was alive. [beat] But now that he’s been murdered, that always makes a man so romantic.
Movie Quote of the Day – You’ve Got Mail, 1998 (dir. Nora Ephron)
George: Well, as far as I’m concerned, the internet is just another way of being rejected by a woman.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Dark Knight, 2009 (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Gambol: Give me one reason why I shouldn’t have my boy here pull your head off.
The Joker: How about a magic trick? [beat] I’m gonna make this pencil disappear. [beat] Ta-daa! It’s. . .it’s gone.
Movie Quote of the Day – Vampire’s Kiss, 1988 (dir. Robert Bierman)
Peter Loew: Alva, there is no one else in this entire office that I could possibly ask to share such a horrible job. You’re the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. The lowest. Do you realize that? Every other secretary here has been here longer than you, Alva. Every one. And even if there was someone here who was here even one day longer than you, I still wouldn’t ask that person to partake in such a miserable job as long as you were around. That’s right, Alva. It’s a horrible, horrible job; sifting through old contract after old contract. I couldn’t think of a more horrible job if I wanted to. And you have to do it! You have to or I’ll fire you. You understand? Do you? Good.
Movie Quote of the Day – My Man Godfrey, 1936 (dir. Gregory La Cava)
Irene: Godfrey loves me! He put me in the shower!
Movie Quote of the Day – House on Haunted Hill, 1959 (dir. William Castle)
Ruth Bridgers: Who would want to mark me?
Fredrick Loren: I would say any self-respecting male ghost.
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