Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day

Movie Quote of the Day – White Heat, 1949 (dir. Raoul Walsh)

Cody Jarrett: Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

Movie Quote of the Day – The Third Man, 1949 (dir. Carol Reed)

Holly Martins: Heard of Harry Lime?
Crabbin: Well, I’ve heard of him, of course, but I don’t exactly know him.
Holly Martins: I was going to stay with him, but he died Thursday.
Crabbin: Goodness, that’s awkward.
Holly Martins: Is that what you say to people after death? “Goodness that’s awkward…”

Movie Quote of the Day – Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986 (dir. Woody Allen)

Mickey: And I remember very clearly, I walked the streets. I walked and I walked. I didn’t know what was going through my mind. It all seemed so violent and unreal to me. I wandered for a long time on the Upper West Side, you know. It must have been hours. My feet hurt, my head was pounding and I had to sit down. I went into a movie house. I didn’t know what was playing or anything. I just, I just needed a moment to gather my thoughts and be logical and put the world back into rational perspective. And I went upstairs to the balcony and I sat down. And, you know, the movie was a film that I’d seen many times in my life since I was a kid, and I always loved it. And, you know, I’m watching these people up on the screen and I started getting hooked on the film. And I started to feel: “How can you think of killing yourself? Isn’t it so stupid? I mean, look at all the people up there on the screen. You know, they’re real funny, and what if the worst is true? What if there’s no God, you only go around once, that’s it? Well, don’t you, you know, want to be part of the experience? You know, what the hell, it’s not all a drag. ” And I’m thinking to myself, “Jeez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I’m never going to get and just enjoy it while it lasts. ” And, you know, after, who knows? I mean, you know maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know “maybe” is a slim reed to hang your whole life on but that’s the best we have. And then I started to sit back and I actually began to enjoy myself.

Movie Quote of the Day – Carnal Knowledge, 1971 (dir. Mike Nichols)

Sandy: You can’t make fucking your life’s work.
Jonathan: Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do.

Movie Quote of the Day – Eastern Promises, 2007 (dir. David Cronenberg)

Nikolai Luzhin: Okay. Now I’m going to do his teeth and cut off his fingers. You might want to leave room.

Movie Quote of the Day – Breakfast on Pluto, 2005 (dir. Neil Jordan)

Patrick “Kitten” Braden: If I wasn’t a transvestite terrorist, would you marry me?

Movie Quote of the Day – A Little Princess, 1995 (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)

Miss Minchin: Don’t tell me you still fancy yourself a princess? Child, look around you! Or better yet, look in the mirror.
Sara Crewe: I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses. All of us. Didn’t your father ever tell you that? Didn’t he?

Movie Quote of the Day – Hiroshima Mon Amour, 1959 (dir. Alain Resnais)

Elle: Were you here in Hiroshima?
Lui: Of course not.
Elle: That’s right. How silly of me.
Lui: But my family was in Hiroshima.  [beat] I was off fighting the war.
Elle: Lucky for you, eh?
Lui: Yes.
Elle: Lucky for me, too.

Movie Quote of the Day – The Notebook, 2004 (dir. Nick Cassavetes)

Allie: Now say you’re a bird too.
Noah: If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.

Movie Quote of the Day – Apocalypse Now, 1979 (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinkin’ dink body. [beat] The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like. . .victory. [beat] Someday this war’s gonna end.