Happy New Year! Here are some of my favorite movie quotes. Anyone who wishes to add, please do so by comment or email.
Sherif Ali: Truly, for some men nothing is written unless THEY write it
— Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Eleanor of Aquitaine: Love, in a world where carpenters get resurrected, anything is possible.
— The Lion in Winter (1969) Lt. General Frank Benson: Never tell a soldier that he does not know the cost of war.
— Eye in the Sky (2015)James Donovan (lawyer: I have a mandate to serve you. Nobody else does. Quite frankly, everybody else has an interest in sending you to the electric chair.
Rudolf Abel (Soviet Spy)l: All right…
James Donovan: You don’t seem alarmed.
Rudolf Abel: Would it help?
— Bridge of Spies (2015)Leslie Benedict: Money isn’t everything, Jett.
Jett Rink: Not when you’ve got it.
Jett Rink: Bick. I’m a rich ‘un. I’m a rich boy. Me, I’m gonna have more money than you ever thought you could have – you and all the rest of you stinkin’ sons of… Benedicts.
Uncle Bawley: Bick, you shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he’s too rich to kill.
— Giant (1956)
Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.
— The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)[News paper reporter]: No, sir. This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
— The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) [Zhivago’s father-in-law]: [A] committee of Rvvolutionary Justice has expropriated my house in the name of the people. Very well, I’m one of the people too!
— Doctor Zhivago (1965) [Other gangster]: Rules? In a knife fight?!
— Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)Luke: Yeah, well… sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool hand
Captain: You gonna get used to wearin’ them chains afer a while, Luke. Don’t you never stop listenin’ to them clinking. ‘Cause they gonna remind you of what I been saying. For your own good.
Luke: Wish you’d stop being so good to me, Captain.
— Cool Hand Luke (1967)Corporal Miller: There’s always a way to blow up explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off.
— The Guns of Navarone (1961)Didont: With luck, no one will be hurt.
Labiche: No one’s ever hurt. Just dead.
— The Train (1964) Thomas More: Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!
— A Man for All Seasons (1966)Eleazar ben Yair: You say you will catch us, and kill us? I invite you to try.
Cornelius Flavius Silva: You invite me to try? Your country is one long and narrow graveyard already; your cities are flatter than your deserts, your temple has been destroyed and most of the survivors are slaves, all for seven years of our ‘trying’. Give us our due, man, we know how to kill.
— Masada (1981) TV seriesMartin Howe: People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don’t care. They just don’t care.
— High Noon (1952)Julia: The German public toilets are always so clean. So much cleaner than ours in America.
— Julia (1977)Harmonica: The reward for this man is 5000 dollars, is that right?
Cheyenne: Judas was content for 4970 dollars less.
Harmonica: There were no dollars in them days.
Cheyenne: But sons of bitches… yeah.
— Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)Little Bill Daggett: I don’t deserve this… to die like this. I was building a house.
Will Munny: Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
Will Munny: It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
— Unforgiven (1992) Alma as a Girl: My name is Alma and Alma is Spanish for soul. Did you know that?
— Summer and Smoke (1961)Alva Starr: New Orleans is certainly not a place where a person needs to feel the pain of separation for long.
— This Property is Condemned (1966)Shane: A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.
— Shane (1953)Senator: Fred Van Ackerman: What I did was for the good of the country.
Senator: Bob Munson: Fortunately, our country always manages to survive patriots like you.
Senator Seabright Cooley: Haven’t had this much fun since the cayenne pepper hit the fan!
— Advise and Consent (1962)Devlin Warren: [dusting himself off] Ah, I don’t know what to say. Never begged before. Turned my stomach. I suppose I should have been grateful you gave me the job.
George Washington McLintock: “Gave?” Boy, you got it all wrong. I don’t give jobs, I hire men.
— McLintock (1963)Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
—To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
