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 Basil Rathbone Quotation"When you become the character you portray, it's the end of your career as an actor." Movie Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) as Sherlock Holmes: [last line] Sherlock Holmes : Oh, Watson, the needle. Movie Title: The Garden of Allah (1936) as Count Anteoni: Count Anteoni : A man who refuses to acknowledge his god is unwise to set foot in the desert. Movie Title: The Mark of Zorro (1940) as Captain Esteban Pasquale: Don Luis B. Quintero : My dear Esteban is forever thrusting at this or at that. He was a fencing Master in Madrid. Don Diego Vega : Why did you give it up? Captain Esteban Pasquale : I had the misfortune to kill a man of influence. Don Luis B. Quintero : A lady was involved, I believe. Don Diego Vega : The gentleman's wife, no doubt? Captain Esteban Pasquale : Just how did you mean that, Señor? Don Diego Vega : I had hoped to be amusing... Have I failed? Captain Esteban Pasquale : Somewhat. With me. Movie Title: The Woman in Green (1945) as Sherlock Holmes: Professor Moriarty : We've had many encounters in the past. You hope to place me on the gallows. I tell you I will never stand upon the gallows. But, if you are instrumental in any way in bringing about my destruction, you will not be alive to enjoy your satisfaction. Sherlock Holmes : Then we shall walk together through the gates of Eternity hand in hand. Professor Moriarty : What a charming picture that would make. Sherlock Holmes : Yes, wouldn't it. I really think it might be worth it. Professor Moriarty : All that I have to say has already crossed your mind. Sherlock Holmes : Then possibly my answer has crossed yours. Movie Title: We're No Angels (1955) as Andre Trochard: Andre Trochard : Your opinion of me has no cash value. Movie Title: Dressed to Kill (1946) as Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes : The truth can only be found by the painstaking elimination of the untrue Movie Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) as Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes : ...I must confess I shied at the thought of disemboweling a complete set of Charles Dickens. Movie Title: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) as Sherlock Holmes: [Inspector Lastrad is Lost in a secret passage] Inspector Lestrad : I'm lost! I'm all turned around! Sherlock Holmes : You've been like that for years. Get him out of there, will you, Mrs. Howells, a get him a saucer of milk. Movie Title: The Court Jester (1956) as Ravenhurst: Hubert Hawkins : I'd like to get in, get on with it, get it over with, and get out. Get it? Ravenhurst : Got it. Hubert Hawkins : Good. Movie Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) as Sir Guy of Gisbourne: Sir Guy of Gisbourne : You've come to Nottingham once too often! Sir Robin of Locksley : When this is over, my friend, there'll be no need for me to come again. Sir Guy of Gisbourne : [during duel with Robin] Do you know any prayers, my friend? Robin Hood : I'll say one for you! Movie Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) as Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes : I admire your brain, Moriarty. I admire it so much that I'd like to present it pickled to the British Museum. Movie Title: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) as Lord Arthur Dilling: Lord Arthur Dilling : By marrying I can make only one woman miserable. By remaining single I can make so many happy. Movie Title: The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) as Pontius Pilate: Marcus : He still believes in things. Pontius Pilate : And you and I are wiser? Perhaps. ...What is truth? Pontius Pilate : My boy, I've heard such ideas, a long time ago. They are dreams--beautiful dreams, I know, but dreams nonetheless. Flavius: Was it a dream that once I knew a man who said "Love thy neighbor as thyself"? Marcus : There never was such a man, I tell you. Pontius Pilate : Don't lie to him, Marcus. There was such a man. Flavius: What happened to him? Pontius Pilate : I crucified Him. Movie Title: The Comedy of Terrors (1964) as John F. Black, Esq.: John F. Black, Esq. : [repeated line upon waking up from his "death"] What place is THIS? John F. Black, Esq. : [as he's dying again] "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more..." Waldo Trumbull : Oh, I wish... Movie Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) as Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes : I shall write a monograph someday on the noxious habit of accumulating useless trivia. |
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