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 Charles Laughton Quotation"They can't censor the gleam in my eye." "I have a face like the behind of an elephant." "It's got so that every time I walk into a restaurant I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh." "Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it. It's the perfect mummers' home. If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there." [on Robert Mitchum] "All the tough talk is blind. He's a literate, gracious, kind man and he speaks beautifully - when he wants to. Bob would make the best Macbeth of any actor living." "Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting." "I have a face that would stop a sundial." Movie Title: Jamaica Inn (1939) as Sir Humphrey Pengallan: [Sir Humphrey admires a figurine] Sir Humphrey Pengallan : What a rare beauty. Lady: But it's not alive! Sir Humphrey Pengallan : More alive than half the people here. Movie Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) as Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : Ohh, you asked me why I saved you. I tried to carry you off, and the next day, you gave me water, and a little pity. Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : [half-laughing, half-weeping] I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon! Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : [to one of the stone gargoyles] Why was I not made of stone -- like thee? Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Movie Title: Island of Lost Souls (1933) as Dr. Moreau: Dr. Moreau : What is the law? Sayer of the Law: Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men? Beasts (in unison): Are we not men? Dr. Moreau : What is the law? Sayer of the Law: Not to go on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men? Beasts (in unison): Are we not men? Dr. Moreau : "What is the law? Sayer of the Law: Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men? Beasts (in unison): Are we not men? Movie Title: It Started with Eve (1941) as Jonathan Reynolds: [Doctor Harvey disposes of Jonathan Sr.'s forbidden cigar] Jonathan Reynolds : Hey, that's a two-dollar cigar! Dr. Harvey : Where'd you get it? Anne Terry : Don't look at me - I smoke a pipe. Jonathan Reynolds : The trouble with being sick is you have to associate with doctors. Roberts : Has Doctor Harvey hidden my cigars? Roberts : Yes, sir. Jonathan Reynolds : Have you hidden my cigars from Doctor Harvey? Roberts : Yes, sir. Dr. Harvey : I have a pleasant surprise! Jonathan Reynolds : Are you leaving? [Jonny tries to convince his father that Anne hates him] Jonathan Reynolds : What did she call me? Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : A pompous, self-indulgent, overbearing imitation of a dictator. [a waiter brings Jonathan Sr. an enormous, fruit-fillled cocktail] Anne Terry : What's that? Jonathan Reynolds : It's a Reynolds Special. Anne Terry : Oh, but you shouldn't be... what's in it? Jonathan Reynolds : Oh, oh, nothing but, ah, coconut milk and, ah, vegetable juices. Doctor Harvey orders it for me. It's horrible. Anne Terry : Then why do you drink it. Jonathan Reynolds : It reminds me of Doctor Harvey and make me hate him and when I hate him, I feel good. Anne Terry : You told me you'd have that picture destroyed! Jonathan Reynolds : Destroyed? If I'd done that, they'd never have seen it. Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : They? Jonathan Reynolds : Those women... those bead-twirlers. They called before they left. Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : They're gone! I mean... they've gone? Jonathan Reynolds : Well, they saw the picture in the paper. They said they were taking the first train to Mexico City. I advised them to take a plane - *quicker*. Movie Title: Witness for the Prosecution (1957) as Sir Wilfrid: Sir Wilfrid : Be prepared for hysterics and even a fainting spell. Better have smelling salts handy and a nip of brandy. Christine Vole : I do not think that will be necessary. I never faint because I am not sure that I will fall gracefully and I never use smelling salts because they puff up the eyes. I am Christine Vole. Leonard Vole : But this is England, where I thought you never arrest, let alone convict, people for crimes they have not committed. Sir Wilfrid : We try not to make a habit of it. Sir Wilfrid : I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders. Miss Plimsoll : Shall we roll up the window, Sir Wilfrid? Sir Wilfrid : Just roll up your mouth, that's all I ask! Movie Title: The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933) as King Henry VIII: [Henry's fourth wedding night] King Henry VIII : My wife? Huh... not yet. Anne of Cleves : Poor mother told me... first he says the marriage is no good, and then he cuts off the head with an ax chopper! King Henry VIII : That is an exaggeration, madam. Anne of Cleves : Then why do you say I am not yet your wife? King Henry VIII : Well, madam, uh, a marriage ceremony doesn't make us one. Anne of Cleves : Mmm? [shows her ring] King Henry VIII : Oh, yes, yes, yes, 's all right, but you, uh, have to, umm, I have to... Anne of Cleves : What? King Henry VIII : Did your mother not talk to you about... Anne of Cleves : What? King Henry VIII : Oh Lord. Ohhhh, well, uh, madam, all that stuff about children being found under gooseberry bushes... that's not true... Katherine Howard : Who's there? King Henry VIII : Henry. Katherine Howard : Henry who? King Henry VIII : The King. Katherine Howard : Oh, the King, not the man. King Henry VIII : Unlock the door. Katherine Howard : Isn't it rather late for a maid to unlock her door to a... man? King Henry VIII : On, come on, unlock the door. Katherine Howard : Is that a command? King Henry VIII : Yes. Katherine Howard : To the King, then, not the man. [lets him in and kneels] King Henry VIII : Don't do that. I'm leaving me crown outside. Katherine Howard : You've left it outside with my reputation, sire. King Henry VIII : No one saw me, Katherine, I swear. Can't you forget the King and forget the crown, forget everything... you told me once I was a man, uh? What do you say if I'm not the King? Katherine Howard : Get out of my room! King Henry VIII : What?! Whyyy... Katherine Howard : That's what I *would* say, if you were not the King. Since you are the King, I expect your command. King Henry VIII : Command? It's a poor thing to command in love. Katherine Howard : Love? Who is in love? King Henry VIII : I am, with you. Katherine Howard : Love eternal, since yesterday afternoon, until tomorrow morning? King Henry VIII : When I say love, I mean love. [Henry's fourth wedding night] King Henry VIII : [shouting] Ah, what am I, what am I going to do with you! Anne of Cleves : Chop my head? King Henry VIII : Probably. Anne of Cleves : You daren't. King Henry VIII : Why not? Anne of Cleves : Because in Europe I will make such a scandal as you never heard. Not the first time you have chopped the head. Henry the wife-butcher, that's what they will call you! King Henry VIII : I don't care what they say, I'm not going to live with you! Anne of Cleves : Well, why don't you divorce me, like a gentleman? King Henry VIII : You would consent to a divorce? Anne of Cleves : I would consent to a divorce. King Henry VIII : You are a very reasonable woman. What are your terms? Thomas Cromwell : Sire, we need more heirs. King Henry VIII : I have given you three, two daughters and a son! I grant you, the daughters show little promise; Mary may grow to wisdom, but Elizabeth'll never learn to rule so much as a kitchen. Ah, but the boy is my second self. King Henry VIII : Diplomacy? Diplomacy, my foot! I'm an Englishman -- I can't say one thing and mean another. What I can do is to build ships, ships, and then more ships! Thomas Cromwell : You mean, double the fleet? King Henry VIII : Treble it! Fortify Dover! Rule the sea! Thomas Cromwell : To do this will cost us money, sire. King Henry VIII : To leave it undone will cost us England! King Henry VIII : No, Thomas, not clever, thanks be to heaven. My first wife was clever, my second was ambitious, but my third... Thomas, if you want to be happy, marry a girl like my sweet little Jane. Marry a stupid woman! Ha ha ha... King Henry VIII : You know, the Germans offered me half of France if I'd join 'em... heh... and the French offered me Flanders. Heh heh heh. They're very generous with each other's territory, heh heh heh. In my youth, in Wolsey's time, I'd have accepted one offer or the other, but what's the use of new territories and wars, wars, wars again? [last line] King Henry VIII : Six wives, and the best of them's the worst. King Henry VIII : There's no delicacy nowadays. No consideration for others. Refinement's a thing of the past! Movie Title: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) as Captain William Bligh: Captain William Bligh : Can you understand this, Mr. Byam? Discipline is the thing. A seaman's a seaman. A captain's a captain. And a midshipman, Sir Joseph or no Sir Joseph, is the lowest form of animal life in the British Navy. Captain William Bligh : I'll live to see you - all of you - hung from the highest yardarm in the British fleet. Captain William Bligh : During the recent heavy weather, I've had the oppurtunity to watch all of you at work on deck and aloft. You don't know wood from canvas! And it seems you don't want to learn! Well, I'll have to give you a lesson Captain William Bligh : What's your name? Seaman Thomas Ellison : Thomas Ellison, sir. Pressed into service. I've got a wife, a baby! Captain William Bligh : I asked your name, not the history of your misfortunes. Movie Title: Spartacus (1960) as Gracchus / Sempronius Gracchus: Gracchus : This republic of ours is something like a rich widow. Most Romans love her as their mother but Crassus dreams of marrying the old girl to put it politely. Gracchus : You and I have a tendency towards corpulence. Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin? Batiatus : Come with us. See to it I don't misuse the money. Gracchus : Don't be ridiculous. I'm a Senator. Lentulus Biatatus : There's one man I hate: Crassus. Sempronius Gracchus : You've grown very ambitious in your hatred. Marcus Licinius Crassus : In every city and province, lists of the disloyal have been compiled. Tomorrow they will learn the cost of their terrible folly... their treason. Gracchus : And where does my name appear on the list of disloyal enemies of the state? Marcus Licinius Crassus : First. Movie Title: Captain Kidd (1945) as Capt. William Kidd: Capt. William Kidd : There's none would be so loyal, nor fight so desperate, as cutthroats under sentence of death...if they knew that at the end of the voyage a royal pardon would be in their pockets. King William III : I shall hold you responsible for their good conduct. Capt. William Kidd : Between their conduct and mine, your majesty, there will be little to choose. Orange Povey : You cold-gutted shark. Capt. William Kidd : Ahh! ...You're a flatterer. Capt. William Kidd : Now then, me bullies! Would you rather do the gallows dance, and hang in chains 'til the crows pluck your eyes from your rotten skulls? Or would you feel the roll of a stout ship beneath your feet again? Movie Title: Rembrandt (1936) as Rembrandt van Rijn: Rembrandt van Rijn : And of a sudden he knew that when one woman gives herself to you, you possess all women. Women of every age and race and kind, and more than that, the moon, the stars, all miracles and legends are yours. Brown-skinned girls who inflame your senses with their play, cool yellow-haired women who entice and escape you, gentle ones who serve you, slender ones who torment you, the mothers who bore and suckled you; all women whom God created out of the teeming fullness of the earth, are yours in the love of one woman. Rembrandt van Rijn : What is success? A soldier can reckon his success in victories, a merchant in money. But my world is insubstantial. I live in a beautiful, blinding, swirling mist. |
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