Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), 1930 (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Lola Lola: Actually, you’re a pretty handsome man.
Movie Quote of the Day – Two Rode Together, 1961 (dir. John Ford)
Belle Aragon: Well, what will you have?
Marshal Guthrie McCabe: What he could use most is a bath.
First Lt. Jim Gary: Now, don’t keep saying things like that to me!
Belle Aragon: I’m sorry, that’s one service we don’t provide. Not that it doesn’t have its possibilities.
Movie Quote of the Day – Hollywood Boulevard, 1976 (dir. Allan Arkush & Joe Dante)
Walter Paisley: You really handle that tray nice.
Robby the Robot: Oh, thank you. Actually, I am not a waiter. I am a robot.
Walter Paisley: Oh, yeah?
Movie Quote of the Day – Dodsworth, 1936 (dir. William Wyler)
Fran Dodsworth: Are you going back to that washed-out expatriate in Naples?
Sam Dodsworth: Yes, and when I marry her, I’m going back to doing things.
Fran Dodsworth: Do you think you’ll ever get me out of your blood?
Sam Dodsworth: Maybe not, but love has got to stop someplace short of suicide.
Movie Quote of the Day – All the Fine Young Cannibals, 1960 (dir. Michael Anderson)
Salome: You gotta love your family.
Chad: Like you love yours?
Salome: Sure, I love ’em.
Chad: Do ya?
Salome: Well, I want to kill them all the time, but that’s only natural. But, sure, I love ’em.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Reader, 2008 (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Michael: Have you spent a lot of time thinking about the past?
Hana: You mean, with you?
Michael: No. No. I didn’t mean with me.
Hana: Before the trial I never thought about the past. I never had to.
Michael: And now? What do you feel now?
Hana: It doesn’t matter what I feel. It doesn’t matter what I think. The dead are still dead.
Michael: I wasn’t sure what you’d learned.
Hana: I have learned, kid. I’ve learned to read.
Movie Quote of the Day – Before Midnight, 2013 (dir. Richard Linklater)
Jesse: I’m okay with you being a complicated human being! I don’t wanna live a boring life where two people own each other, where two people are institutionalized in a box that others created – because that is a bunch of stifling bullshit!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Awful Truth, 1937 (dir. Leo McCarey)
Jerry Warriner: What did you tell him? That our cars broke down and we had to spend the night at your apartment because it was the taxi strike?
Lucy Warriner: No, no, I didn’t tell him that. I told him the truth. And, strangely enough, he believed me.
Jerry Warriner: Oh.
Lucy Warriner: Yes, it was very refreshing.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jarhead, 2005 (dir. Sam Mendes)
D.I. Fitch: What the fuck are you even doing here?
Anthony ‘Swoff’ Swofford: Sir, I got lost on the way to college, sir.
Movie Quote of the Day – I’m Not Rappaport, 1996 (dir. Herb Gardner)
Midge Carter: I just got to hang in till I get my Christmas tips. They just gotta keep me four more
months–
Nat Moyer: Christmas?. Compromises?. How do you think we lost Poland?.
Midge Carter: Poland?.
Nat Moyer: Stalin sits at Yalta with a twinkle in his eye. Who knew?
Midge Carter: Stalin?.
Nat Moyer: Danforth has no right to dismiss you before your time.
Midge Carter: Man, I am eighty-one!
Nat Moyer: After we finish with him, tomorrow we go after the rest of his kangaroo court.
Midge Carter: Why, Lord?. Why are you doing this to me?. Lord, I ask you for help, and you send me a weird, commie, blind man!
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