Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Bullets Over Broadway, 1994 (dir. Woody Allen)
David Shayne: Helen, have you thought about what I said before about the way I feel—
Helen Sinclair: Don’t speak.
David Shayne: But, I. . . I want to express—
Helen Sinclair: Don’t. . .speak. Don’t!
David Shayne: Just a few things that I want to tell you—
Helen Sinclair: Don’t. . .speak!
David Shayne: When we first met—
Helen Sinclair: No, no, don’t speak. Don’t speak. Please don’t speak. Please don’t speak. No. No. No. Go. Go, gentle Scorpio, go. Your Pisces wishes you every happy return.
David Shayne: Just one—
Helen Sinclair: Don’t speak!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Duchess, 2008 (dir. Saul Dibb)
Charles Grey: Please tell me what is wrong.
Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire: I fear I’ve done some things in life too late and others too early.
Charles Grey: No, you haven’t.
Movie Quote of the Day – Freebie and the Bean, 1974 (dir. Richard Rush)
Bean: Apologize about my gun!
Freebie: Apologize to this!
Bean: Apologize about my gun and I’ll apologize about your lip!
Movie Quote of the Day – Possessed, 1931 (dir. Clarence Brown)
Marian Martin: You don’t own me. Nobody does. My life belongs to me.
Al Manning: You’ll make one fine mess of it.
Marian Martin: It’ll still belong to me.
Marian’s mother: Don’t, Marian, you frighten me when you talk like that.
Marian Martin: If I were a man it wouldn’t frighten you! You’d think it was right for me to go out and get anything I could out of life, and use anything I had to get it. Why should men be so different? All they’ve got are their brains and they’re not afraid to use them. Well neither am I!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Tree of Life, 2011 (dir. Terrence Malick)
Mrs. O’Brien: Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
Movie Quote of the Day – Queen Bee, 1955 (dir. Ranald MacDougall)
Carol: What are you talking about?
Eva: I’m talking about men. I know men, and I know Jud.
Carol: You know your men.
Eva: Any man’s my man, if I want it that way.
Movie Quote of the Day – Star Trek: Generations, 1994 (dir. David Carson)
Kirk: You say history considers me dead. Who am I to argue with history?
Picard: You’re a Starfleet officer. You have a duty!
Kirk: I don’t need to be lectured by you. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. Besides which, I think the galaxy owes me one.
Movie Quote of the Day – Basquiat, 1996 (dir. Julian Schnabel)
Albert Milo: Let me tell you something. There’s about ten people on the planet who know anything about painting, and Andy is one of them. You know, your audience isn’t even born yet.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Chill, 1983 (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
Meg: The last time I spoke with Alex, we had a fight. I yelled at him.
Nick: That’s probably why he killed himself. . .What was the argument about?
Meg: I told him he was wasting his life.
Movie Quote of the Day – 12 Monkeys, 1995 (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Jeffrey Goines: There’s no right, there’s no wrong, there’s only popular opinion.
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