Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Dying Young, 1991 (dir. Joel Schumacher)
Victor Geddes: My mother said, “You don’t have to like everything, but you have to try everything.”
Hilary O’Neil: Oh, my mother always said, “Pass the Velveeta.”
Movie Quote of the Day – Racing With The Moon, 1984 (dir. Richard Benjamin)
Henry ‘Hopper’ Nash: In the last few weeks, being around you I think about things.
Caddie Winger: Like what sort of things?
Henry ‘Hopper’ Nash: Coming back.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Bride Came C.O.D., 1941 (dir. William Keighley)
Steve Collins: But, you can’t marry this man you’ve known only four days. You’ve known head waiters longer.
Movie Quote of the Day – Baby Face, 1933 (dir. Alfred E. Green)
Courtland Trenholm: You also told us how hard you had to work. When this thing happened, were you working very hard?
Lily Powers: Yeah, but not at the bank.
Courtland Trenholm: Oh, I see.
Movie Quote of the Day – Iris, 2001 (dir. Richard Eyre)
John: You love words, don’t you?
Iris: If one doesn’t have words, how does one think?
Movie Quote of the Day – Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries), 1957 (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Professor Isak Borg: What is the punishment?
Sten Alman: I don’t know. The usual, I suppose.
Professor Isak Borg: The usual?
Sten Alman: That’s right. Loneliness.
Professor Isak Borg: Loneliness?
Sten Alman: Precisely.
Professor Isak Borg: Is there no mercy?
Sten Alman: Don’t ask me. I don’t know.
Movie Quote of the Day – Alligator, 1980 (dir. Lewis Teague)
Marisa: Yeah, well, what do you need me for?
David: What does anybody need anybody for? You’re the country’s leading herpetologist, you have a wonderful mind, a doctor degree, and beautiful tits.
Movie Quote of the Day – Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, 1983 (dir. Richard Marquand)
Han Solo: Together again, huh?
Luke: Wouldn’t miss it.
Han Solo: How we doin’?
Luke: Same as always.
Han Solo: That bad, huh?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Journey, 1959 (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Major Surov: Anything goes when people meet for the last time.
Diana Ashmore: What do you mean?
Major Surov: Go to any railway station – that’s what I mean. You’ll see people doing things they’d never do, ordinarily. They kiss, they cry, they wave. That’s the sickness of our time: people waving… Nobody waves back.
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