Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Midnight Cowboy, 1969 (dir. John Schlesinger)
Ratso Rizzo: I’m walking here! I’m walking here!
Movie Quote of the Day – Milk, 2008 (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Dan White: Society can’t exist without the family.
Harvey Milk: We’re not against that.
Dan White: Can two men reproduce?
Harvey Milk: No, but God knows we keep trying.
Movie Quote of the Day – Citizen Kane, 1941 (dir. Orson Welles)
Charles Foster Kane: Don’t go, Susan. You mustn’t go. [beat] You can’t do this to me.
Susan: I see. So it’s you who this is being done to. It’s not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me. [laughs] I can’t do this to you? [beat] Oh, yes I can.
Movie Quote of the Day – Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Sallah: Indy, why does the floor move?
Indiana Jones: Give me your torch.
[Indy takes the torch and drops it in]
Indiana Jones: Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?
Sallah: Asps… very dangerous. You go first.
Movie Quote of the Day – Moonstruck, 1987 (dir. Norman Jewison)
Ronny Cammareri: I lost my hand, I lost my bride! Johnny has his hand, Johnny has his bride! You come in here and you want me to put away my heartbreak and forget?
Movie Quote of the Day – Mildred Pierce, 1945 (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Ida: Personally, Veda’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea. [beat] They eat their young.
Movie Quote of the Day – Chocolat, 2000 (dir. Lasse Hallström)
Roux: I should probably warn ya: you make friends with us, you make enemies with everyone else.
Vianne Rocher: Is that a promise?
Roux: It’s a guarantee.
Movie Quote of the Day – There Will Be Blood, 2007 (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Daniel Plainview: If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that’s a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake. . .I. . .drink. . .your. . .milkshake! [beat] I drink it up!
Movie Quote of the Day – Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, 1939 (dir. Frank Capra)
Jefferson Smith: I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr Paine. All you people don’t know about lost causes. Mr Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for. And he fought for them for the only reason any man ever fights for them. Because of just one plain, simple rule: Love thy neighbour. In this world full of hatred a man who knows that one rule has a great trust. You know that rule, Mr Paine. I loved you for it, just as my father did. You know that you fight harder for the lost causes. You even die for them. Like a man we both knew, Mr Paine. You think I’m licked. You all think I’m licked. Well, I am not licked! I’ll stay and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these – And the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Schindler’s List, 1993 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Oskar Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don’t know. If I’d just… I could have got more.
Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler: If I’d made more money… I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I’d just…
Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
Oskar Schindler: I didn’t do enough!
Itzhak Stern: You did so much.
[Schindler looks at his car]
Oskar Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.
[removing Nazi pin from lapel]
Oskar Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.
[sobbing]
Oskar Schindler: I could have gotten one more person… and I didn’t! And I… I didn’t!
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