Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – The Mouse That Roared, 1959 (dir. Jack Arnold)
Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: We must declare war on the United States.
Benter: But we can never win such a war!
Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: Of course not, but we could win the peace. I’ve given this a lot of thought gentlemen and I’m perfectly positive that I am right. You must remember, the Americans are a very strange people. Whereas other countries rarely forgive anything, the Americans forgive anything. There isn’t a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and to be defeated.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Arrangement, 1969 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Gwen: OK, yes, I know, I’m nothing, I never was, but you! You could have been…
Eddie Anderson: What? What?!
Gwen: . . .What you could have been. . .What happened to you, Eddie? Must kill you to think what you might have been.
Movie Quote of the Day – Antz, 1998 (dir. Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson)
Bala: Why are you stalking me? Don’t you realize that I’m out of your league?
Z: You’re the one who was cruising the worker bar looking for a little action. And you just happened to find it. . .the swarthy, earthy, sensual worker.
Bala: Please. I was slumming it. Don’t you get it? I chose you because you were the most pathetic little bug in the joint.
Z: I was gonna let you become part of my most erotic fantasies. But now, you can forget that.
Movie Quote of the Day – Mr. Mom, 1983 (dir. Stan Dragoti)
Jack Butler: Listen, Ace, we need to talk here about your woobie. Your woobie’s lookin’ bad, bud. Now wait a minute. Listen to me, I understand that you little guys start out with your woobies and you think they’re great… and they are, they are terrific. But pretty soon, a woobie isn’t enough. You’re out on the street trying to score an electric blanket, or maybe a quilt. And the next thing you know, you’re strung out on bedspreads Ken. That’s serious.
Movie Quote of the Day – Raintree County, 1957 (dir. Edward Dmytryk)
Bobby Drake: Sam, one thing you must understand, John is a poet. It’s taken me two months to discover it and therefore he loves his silence.
Cousin Sam: I’m not so sure he proves it.
Bobby Drake: That’s because he’s a moralist. You won’t get a straight answer from him. He’s storing up his opinions for another day. He’s also a dreamer. A seeker for the meaning of life with capital letters.
Movie Quote of the Day – Frances Ha, 2013 (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Waitress: Sorry, but the card didn’t go through. Do you have another card you want to try?
Frances: Oh, shit, sorry. Um, uhh this is a debit card.
Waitress: Only credit cards or cash.
Frances: Okay. I’m so embarrassed. I’m not a real person yet.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Landlord, 1970 (dir. Hal Ashby)
Elgar Winthrop Julius Enders: You know what NAACP means, don’t you?
Joyce Enders: You tell me what it means.
Elgar Winthrop Julius Enders: It means “Niggers Ain’t Always Colored People”!
William Enders Sr.: What did he mean by that?
Joyce Enders: He just called us niggers.
William Enders Sr.: Us?
Movie Quote of the Day – Short Cuts, 1993 (dir. Robert Altman)
Doreen Piggot: Honey, yesterday I hit a kid.
Honey Bush: What?
Doreen Piggot: I hit an eight-year-old kid. He wasn’t hurt. I just kind of brushed him, knocked him down. But it was so close. He’s such a little sweetie too. I tried to give him a lift to his house. He told me his mom and dad told him never to get into the car with anybody unless they said it was okay.
Honey Bush: You’re very lucky, you know that?
Doreen Piggot: If I’d been going faster, I would’ve killed him. Imagine. How could you get over that? You couldn’t. I came home. I told Earl our whole life could change. Earl tells me to go on a diet. That’s all he could think of to say.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946 (dir. William Wyler)
Milly Stephenson: Didn’t think you’d be up for hours.
Al Stephenson: You know, I had a dream. I dreamt I was home. I’ve had that same dream hundreds of times before. This time I wanted to find out if it’s really true. Am I really home?
Milly Stephenson: Looks like it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952 (dir. Daniel Mann)
Lola Delaney: Remember the first time you kissed me? You were scared as a young girl. You trembled so. We’d been going together almost a year. And you’d always been so shy. That night, for the first time, you grabbed me and kissed me. There was tears in your eyes, Doc. You said you’d love me forever and ever. Remember? You said if I didn’t marry you, you just wanted to die. I remember because it scared me to have anybody say anything like that.
Doc Delaney: Yes, baby.
Lola Delaney: Then, when it got dark, we stretched out on the cool grass. You kissed me all night long.
Doc Delaney: You’ve got to forget those things. It was 20 years ago.
Lola Delaney: Those years have vanished. Just vanished into thin air.
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