Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Strangers on a Train, 1951 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Bruno Antony: Want to hear one of my ideas for a perfect murder?
Movie Quote of the Day – Touch of Evil, 1958 (dir. Orson Welles)
Tanya: Isn’t somebody gonna come and take him away?
Schwartz: Yeah, in just a few minutes. You really liked him didn’t you?
Tanya: The cop did. . .the one who killed him. . .he loved him.
Schwartz: Well, Hank was a great detective all right.
Tanya: And a lousy cop.
Schwartz: Is that all you have to say for him?
Tanya: He was some kind of a man. . . What does it matter what you say about people?
Movie Quote of the Day – Out of the Past, 1947 (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
Jeff Bailey: Nothing in the world is any good unless you can share it.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Terminator, 1984 (dir. James Cameron)
The Terminator: I’m a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?
Desk Sergeant: No, you can’t see her she’s making a statement.
The Terminator: Where is she?
Desk Sergeant: It may take a while. Want to wait? There’s a bench over there.
The Terminator: I’ll be back.
Movie Quote of the Day – Chinatown, 1974 (dir. Roman Polanski)
Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Patriot, 2000 (dir. Roland Emmerich)
John Billings: I say we drink the wine, eat the dogs, and use the paper for musket wading.
Reverend Oliver: [alarmed] Eat the dogs?
Benjamin Martin: [joking] A dog is a fine meal.
Movie Quote of the Day – Born Yesterday, 1950 (dir. George Cukor)
Billie Dawn: All that stuff I’ve been studying, what Paul’s been telling me. It just mixed me up. But when you hit me before it was like everything knocked itself together in my head and made sense. All of the sudden I realized what it means. How some people are always giving and some taking; and it’s not fair. So I’m not gonna let you anymore. [beat] Or anybody else.
Movie Quote of the Day – Paper Moon, 1973 (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Moses Pray: You don’t have to worry. I ain’t about to leave some poor little child stranded in the middle of nowhere. I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?
Addie Loggins: No, I don’t know what it is, but if you got ’em, it’s a sure bet they belong to somebody else!
Movie Quote of the Day – Bringing Up Baby, 1938 (dir. Howard Hawks)
Aunt Elizabeth: Well who are you?
David Huxley: I don’t know. I’m not quite myself today.
Aunt Elizabeth: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.
David Huxley: These aren’t my clothes.
Aunt Elizabeth: Well, where are your clothes?
David Huxley: I’ve lost my clothes!
Aunt Elizabeth: But why are you wearing *these* clothes?
David Huxley: Because I just went gay all of a sudden!
Aunt Elizabeth: Now see here young man, stop this nonsense. What are you doing?
David Huxley: I’m sitting in the middle of 42nd Street waiting for a bus.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Graduate, 1967 (dir. Mike Nichols)
Ben Braddock: Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.
Mrs. Robinson: [laughs]
Ben Braddock: Aren’t you?
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