Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – The Parent Trap, 1998 (dir. Nancy Meyers)
Hallie: You wanna know the *real* difference between us?
Annie: Let me see… I know how to fence and you don’t… Or I have class and you don’t. Take your pick.
Hallie: Why I oughta!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Longest Day, 1962 (dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki)
Pvt. Flanagan: Oh the evil of it all! Trying to drown a man before he’s even had a chance to fight!
Movie Quote of the Day – True Grit, 2010 (dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
Mattie Ross: I know you can drink whiskey and snort and spit and wallow in filth and bemoan your station. The rest has been braggadocio. They told me you had grit and that is why I came to you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Zodiac, 2007 (dir. David Fincher)
Templeton Peck: Paul, you wrote the Justice Department asking to be put in charge of the Zodiac investigation?
Paul Avery: I merely suggested–
Templeton Peck: On our letterhead?
Paul Avery: –that those with knowledge of the case create an information clearinghouse to promote an exchange and free flow of ideas.
Templeton Peck: And that you run it.
Paul Avery: Well, who better than me? [beat] The marked man.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Bachelor, 1999 (dir. Gary Sinyor)
Grandad Shannon: As my last surviving descendant, you have a sacred duty to pass on my genetic material.
Jimmie: That’s a lovely sentiment.
Movie Quote of the Day – It Happened One Night, 1934 (dir. Frank Capra)
Ellie Andrews: That, I suppose, makes everything quite all right?
Peter Warne: Oh this? Well, I like privacy when I retire. Yes, I’m very delicate in that respect. Prying eyes annoy me. Behold the walls of Jericho! Uh, maybe not as thick as the ones that Joshua blew down with his trumpet, but a lot safer. You see, uh, I have no trumpet.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Crying Game, 1992 (dir. Neil Jordan)
Deveroux: Does Pat have a tart?
Fergus: She’s not a tart.
Deveroux: No, of course not. She’s a lady.
Fergus: No, she’s not that either.
Movie Quote of the Day – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003 (dir. Gore Verbinski)
Norrington: You are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of.
Captain Jack Sparrow: But you have heard of me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Pierrot le Fou, 1965 (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Ferdinard: Why do you look so sad?
Marianne: Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
Movie Quote of the Day – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004 (dir. Michel Gondry)
Joel: Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?
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