Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Reaching For The Moon, 2013 (dir. Bruno Barreto)
Elizabeth Bishop: Lota! The New Yorker wants me to write poems for them on a regular basis.
Lota de Macedo Soares: Wow! That’s fantastic, don’t they pay really well too?
Elizabeth Bishop: Yes, yes. It’s marvelous.
Lota de Macedo Soares: So, what’s the problem?
Elizabeth Bishop: I dunno. It’s a commitment.
Lota de Macedo Soares: You don’t like commitments?
Elizabeth Bishop: I already have a commitment to pessimism. A pessimist is never disappointed.
Movie Quote of the Day – Killer Joe, 2012 (dir. William Friedkin)
Dottie Smith: How are you gonna kill my mama?
Killer Joe Cooper: That’s not appropriate dinner conversation, Dottie.
Dottie Smith: Unless you poison her.
Movie Quote of the Day – Rocky IV, 1985 (dir. Sylvester Stallone)
Rocky: Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Little Bit of Heaven, 2012 (dir. Nicole Kassell)
Dr. Julian Goldstein: Hello, Cammie. You look very pretty today.
Marley Corbett: Oh. What do you tell him?
Cammie Blair: And I’m smart!
Marley Corbett: Good girl. Good girl.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Canyons, 2013 (dir. Paul Schrader)
Christian: Would you fuck him?
Tara: What did you just fucking ask me?
Christian: I said, “Would. . .you. . .fuck. . .him?”
Tara: [scoffs] No. . .I. . .wouldn’t. I’ve dated actors in the past and I have two words for them: never again.
Movie Quote of the Day – Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964 (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Miriam: Yes, I told Jewel. And I told your father too. Why wouldn’t I? After all, I wasn’t much more than a child then. And all I ever got in this house was people telling me how lucky I was and your father always favoring you and holding you up as an example! Why wouldn’t I tell him that his pure, darling little girl was having a dirty little affair with a married man?
Charlotte: You’re a vile, sorry little bitch!
Movie Quote of the Day – Three Men and a Baby, 1987 (dir. Leonard Nimoy)
Michael: How can something so small create so much of something so disgusting?
Peter: Beats the shit out of me.
Movie Quote of the Day is Four Years Old!
Another year passes, another celebration of this feature! I was looking back at the post celebrating the feature’s third anniversary and noticed I summed up all the changes that happened in those years, so I think I will do that again. When I started this feature, I was living in the back of my parents’ house watching TCM 16 hours a day, then I lived in San Francisco for two years where I was working towards an MFA in film production/screenwriting, working at a handful of theaters and haunting seat M107 at the Castro Theatre, last year I had just moved to North Hollywood and was working at the Warner Archive Collection and finishing my MFA online, now I have graduated (did so in December!), am working at Rotten Tomatoes and struggle to actually have the time to watch a movie every day. So many changes! But Movie Quote of the Day stays strong and I’ll keep updating the feature for years to come if I can help it! After the cut I have all of this year’s quotes, but if you want to see every single Movie Quote of the Day you can do so here.
Movie Quote of the Day – La grande bellezza, 2013 (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
Jep Gambardella: We’re all on the brink of despair, all we can do is look each other in the face, keep each other company, joke a little. . .Don’t you agree?
Movie Quote of the Day – History of the World: Part I, 1981 (dir. Mel Brooks)
Dole Office Clerk: Occupation?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher.
Dole Office Clerk: What?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher. I coalesce the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension.
Dole Office Clerk: Oh, a *bullshit* artist!
Comicus: [grumbles]
Dole Office Clerk: Did you bullshit last week?
Comicus: No.
Dole Office Clerk: Did you *try* to bullshit last week?
Comicus: Yes!
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