Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day

Movie Quote of the Day – Dog Day Afternoon, 1975 (dir. Sidney Lumet)

 

Sonny: Is there any special country you want to go to?
[long pause]
Sal: Wyoming.
Sonny: No. . .Wyoming. . .that’s not a country.
[beat]
Sal: oh.
Sonny: That’s alright. I’m gonna take care of it.

Movie Quote of the Day – About Schmidt, 2002 (dir. Alexander Payne)

Sister Nadine Gautier: Dear Mr. Warren Schmidt, My name is sister Nadine Gautier, of the order of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. I work in a small village near the town of Embeya in Tanzania. One of the children I care for is little Ndugu Umbu, the boy you sponsor. Ndugu is a very intelligent boy and very loving. He is an orphan. Recently he needed medical attention for an infection of the eye. But he is better now. He loves to eat melon and he loves to paint. Ndugu and I want you to know that he receives all of your letters. He hopes that you are happy in your life and healthy. He thinks of you everyday. And he wants very much your happiness. Ndugu is only 6 years old and cannot read or write. But, he has made for you a painting. He hopes that you will like his painting. Yours sincerely, Sister Nadine Gautier.

Movie Quote of the Day – Closer, 2004 (dir. Mike Nichols)

Alice: Hello, stranger.

Movie Quote of the Day – Shakespeare In Love, 1998 (dir. John Madden)

Philip Henslowe: The show must… you know…
William Shakespeare: [prompting]  Go on!

Movie Quote of the Day – Labyrinth, 1986 (dir. Jim Henson)

Sarah: Give me the child.
Jareth: Sarah, beware. I have been generous up ’til now. I can be cruel.
Sarah: Generous? What have you done that’s generous?
Jareth: Everything! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me,I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me. Isn’t that generous?

Movie Quote of the Day – The Lady From Shanghai, 1947 (dir. Orson Welles)

Michael O’Hara: Bannister’s note to the D.A. fixed it. l’d be innocent, officially. But that’s a big word, innocent. Stupid is more like it. Well, everybody is somebody’s fool. The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old. So I guess l’ll concentrate on that. Maybe l’ll live so long that l’ll forget her. Maybe l’ll die.  . .trying.

Movie Quote of the Day – King Kong, 1933 (dir. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

Police Lieutenant: Well, Denham, the airplanes got him.
Carl Denham: Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.

Movie Quote of the Day – It’s A Wonderful Life, 1946 (dir. Frank Capra)

Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
George Bailey: That’s right, that’s right. [beat] Attaboy, Clarence.

Movie Quote of the Day – How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, 1966 (dir. Chuck Jones, Ben Washam)

Narrator: And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day. And then – the true meaning of Christmas came through, and the Grinch found the strength of *ten* Grinches, plus two!

Movie Quote of the Day – La vita è bella, 1998 (dir. Roberto Benigni)

Guido: Principessa! You’re here as well?
Dora: Please take me away.