Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – The Rainmaker, 1997 (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Rudy Baylor: Sworn in by a fool and vouched for by a scoundrel. I’m a lawyer at last.
Movie Quote of the Day – Forsaking All Others, 1934 (dir. W.S. Van Dyke)
Eleanor: Oh, I’m so tired of being a bridesmaid. I’d like to get married so I could wear a decent hat.
Shempy: That’s the best reason for getting married I ever heard.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Old Maid, 1939 (dir. Edmund Goulding)
Tina: I’ll go, but before I go, you’ve got to know that I’m sick your spying and fault-finding and meddling–
Delia Lovell: No, Tina!
Tina: You can say what you want to me Mummy, because you understand me and I love you. But she’s just a sour old maid who hates me–
Delia Lovell: Tina!
Tina: –because I’m young and attractive and in love, while she’s old and hideous and dried up and has never known anything about love!
Movie Quote of the Day – Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, 2013 (dir. David Lowery)
Ruth Guthrie: I haven’t slept in four years. And I’m tired. I’m so goddamn tired.
Patrick Wheeler: Then rest.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sayonara, 1957 (dir. Joshua Logan)
Major Gruver: Look, Miss Ogi, I’m not up too good on the Japanese way of doing things. Maybe I’m saying the wrong things. Maybe my American manners are embarrassing. But I figured, as long as you came over here tonight maybe you were interested a little bit in meeting me too.Now, maybe I’m wrong and if I’m wrong, then you’ve got to tell me where we go from here, because I don’t know what to say. I’ve run out of things to say.
Movie Quote of the Day – Our Man In Havana, 1959 (dir. Carol Reed)
Capt. Segura: The engineer does not belong to the torturable class.
Beatrice: Are there class distinctions in torture?
Capt. Segura: Some people expect to be tortured. Others are outraged by it. One never tortures except by mutual agreement.
Beatrice: Who agrees?
Capt. Segura: Usually the poor. In your welfare state you have social security, therefore you have no poor. Consequently there you are untorturable.
Movie Quote of the Day – It Started With A Kiss, 1959 (dir. George Marshall)
Sgt. Joe Fitzpatrick: This is just pure research.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sadie McKee, 1934 (dir. Clarence Brown)
Opal: Feeling better?
Sadie McKee: Yes, thanks to you.
Opal: You’re gonna find out about men – – the tripe.
Sadie McKee: No, thanks. Not interested.
Opal: Swell. They come to my dump to get taken, see? And if you’re smart you — [to woman on subway] Am I talking loud enough?
Sadie McKee: I’m kind of sick of men.
Opal: Oh, you’re crazy. They’ve got what we want, all of it. And every gal has her price. Yours ought to be high. [to woman on subway] Every gal has her price. I don’t know what got, but you sure gyped somebody.
Movie Quote of the Day – My Blueberry Nights, 2007 (dir. Wong Kar-Wai)
Elizabeth: I guess I’m just looking for a reason.
Jeremy: From my observations, sometimes it’s better off not knowing, and other times there’s no reason to be found.
Elizabeth: Everything has a reason.
Jeremy: Hmm. It’s like these pies and cakes. At the end of every night, the cheesecake and the apple pie are always completely gone. The peach cobbler and the chocolate mousse cake are nearly finished. . .but there’s always a whole blueberry pie left untouched.
Elizabeth: So what’s wrong with the blueberry pie?
Jeremy: There’s nothing wrong with the blueberry pie. Just, people make other choices. You can’t blame the blueberry pie, just. . .no one wants it.
Elizabeth: Wait! I want a piece.
Movie Quote of the Day – Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985 (dir. Susan Seidelman)
Cigarette Girl: Susan! My God, we thought you were dead.
Susan: No, just in New Jersey.
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