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Movie Quote of the Day – Brick, 2006 (dir. Rian Johnson)
Brendan Frye: Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I’ve got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Departed, 2006 (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Lazio: Do you have anyone in with Costello presently?
Dignam: Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself.
Movie Quote of the Day – Children of Men, 2006 (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Theodore Faron: A hundred years from now there won’t be one sad fuck to look at any of this. What keeps you going?
Nigel: You know what it is, Theo? I just don’t think about it.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Devil Wears Prada, 2006 (dir. David Frankel)
Miranda Priestly: By all means move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Failure To Launch, 2006 (dir. Tom Dey)
Kit: I need to buy a gun. How much is this big gun here?
Jim: That’s a 12 gauge shotgun. That’s a pretty powerful weapon. You know for a woman your size I’d recommend, you know, a little something more compact.
Kit: So I just point and then I squeeze the trigger and then BOOM!?
Jim: Yeah. Uh, what did you say you were shooting?
Kit: Twelve-hundred bucks? Wow. How much are the bullets for this?
Jim: [laughs] Shells. Shotguns use shells. Anyway, whatever, they’re 15 bucks for a box of 25.
Kit: Ok. Um, I don’t need a whole box. I just need…hmm…one.
Jim: You know, I get sad sometimes too. So many pressures in life, you know? Can I give you a phone number for some people who can help…
Kit: Ohhhh noooo.
Jim: It’s like a hotline…
Kit: Uhhh listen sunshine, I’m not suicidal…
Jim: No I know…
Kit: I just have a problem with a mockingbird.
Jim: Ok. You can’t kill a mockingbird!
Kit: Why not?!
Jim: Well for one, there’s the book To Kill A Mockingbird.
Kit: Oh! A copy of that too! Right here.
Jim: No, it’s not a manual [laughs] on how to kill a mockingbird! It’s a classic American novel! How do you not know this?
Kit: I know a lot of other things! Give me this gun!
Jim: No!
Kit: Yes!
Jim: I’m not going to sell you this gun! Mockingbirds are protected under the federal migratory birds treaty and killing one is a crime!
Kit: Look, this is insane! I have rights too you know! And maybe you haven’t heard of the 6th amendment!
Jim: The right to a speedy and public trial?
Kit: You! You’re on my list…Jim!
Movie Quote of the Day – V For Vendetta, 2006 (dir. James McTeigue)
V: I can assure you I mean you no harm.
Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I’m not questioning your powers of observation I’m merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person?
Movie Quote of the Day – Stranger Than Fiction, 2006 (dir. Marc Forster)
Harold Crick: [runs to Ana the baker with a box of 10 paper bags in it] I’m glad I caught you. I wanted to give you these.
Ana Pascal: Wait, you can give presents, but not receive them? That sounds awfully inconsistent, Mr. Crick.
Harold Crick: Yes, but…
Ana Pascal: Wait, I know, I’ll purchase them! Yeah, I’ll purchase them.
[reaches into her bag to grab her wallet]
Harold Crick: No, no, no, no.
Ana Pascal: [with wallet in hand, stops to actually look at the box] What are they?
Harold Crick: [quietly] Flours.
Ana Pascal: What?
Harold Crick: I brought you flours.
Ana Pascal: [see the sweetness of the gesture, then realizing he’s carried 10 bags of flours] Wait, you carried them all the way here?
Harold Crick: Miss Pascal, I’ve been odd. I know I’ve been odd, and I know that there are many forces at work telling me to bring these down here to you, but I brought these for you because… I want you.
Ana Pascal: [a bit taken aback, and ready to be really offended] Excuse me?
Harold Crick: I want you.
Ana Pascal: You want me?
Harold Crick: In no uncertain terms.
Ana Pascal: [realizing that he’s really not being a creep and just a guy who’s not used to saying what he feels] But isn’t there some… I don’t rule about fraternization…
Harold Crick: Auditor / Auditee protocols, yes, but I don’t care.
Ana Pascal: Why not?
Harold Crick: Because I want you.
Ana Pascal: [contemplates him for a second, and looks back at the box] Can you carry those a little bit further?
Harold Crick: Okay.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Painted Veil, 2006 (dir. John Curran)
Kitty Fane: It’s raining cats and dogs.
[beat]
Kitty Fane: I said it’s raining cats and dogs.
Walter Fane: Yes, I heard you.
Kitty Fane: You might have answered.
Walter Fane: I suppose I’m not used to speaking unless I’ve something to say.
Kitty Fane: If people only spoke when they had something to say, the human race would soon lose the power of speech.
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