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 Paul Scofield QuotationUpon being notified of his Oscar win, having not been present at the actual ceremony, 1967: "Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple." Movie Title: The Train (1964) as Colonel von Waldheim: [The tracks are being cleared after the deliberate wreck.] Colonel von Waldheim : I asked for two cranes. Major Herren: It took an order from staff headquarters to get this one. With von Runstedt falling back, the army has other uses for railway equipment. Colonel von Waldheim : All von Runstedt can lose is men. This train is more valuable. Colonel von Waldheim : Labiche! Here's your prize, Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? Give you a sense of excitement in just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck: you stopped me without knowing what you were doing, or why. You are nothing, Labiche -- a lump of flesh. The paintings are mine; they always will be; beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it! They will always belong to me or to a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did. Miss Villard : I knew of books being burned, other things... I was terrified that these would be lost. Colonel von Waldheim : A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter. Miss Villard : You won't convince me that you're cynical. I know what these paintings mean to you. Colonel von Waldheim : You are a perceptive woman. [Schmidt enters, with several other soldiers.] Colonel von Waldheim : We're removing the paintings. Pack them carefully. Miss Villard : Where are you taking them?! Colonel von Waldheim : To a safe place. Miss Villard : But no place is as safe as Paris! Movie Title: The Crucible (1996) as Judge Danforth: Judge Danforth : Who weeps for these weeps for corruption. Judge Danforth : Mr. Parris, you are a brainless man! John Proctor : She is a whore! Judge Danforth : This will not pass. Can you prove this? John Proctor : I have known her sir! I have known her. Judge Danforth : In what time? What place? John Proctor : In the proper place where my beasts are bedded. Judge Danforth : To your knowledge, has John Proctor committed the crime of lechary? Answer my question. Is your husband an adulterer? Elizabeth : No sir. Judge Danforth : Remove her. John Proctor : Elizabeth, I've confessed it. Elizabeth : Oh, God. Abigail Williams : A women comes to my bed every night now and tears out my eyes. Judge Danforth : Can you make out who she may be? Abigail Williams : I believe she be Reverend John Hale's wife sir. Judge Danforth : You must be mistaken my child. The wife of a minister be unlikely... Abigail Williams : Satan may reach anyone sir. Judge Sewall : Absolutely no one in the world is safe? Is that your meaning? Judge Danforth : You are mistaken child. Understand me? Movie Title: Quiz Show (1994) as Mark Van Doren: Mark Van Doren : What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages. Man 1: Can I quote you, Mark? Mark Van Doren : Not before I quote me. Dorothy Van Doren : His own quotes are his greatest pleasure. Man 2: Did you hear the market dropped 30 points today. There's a rumor Eisenhower died. Dorothy Van Doren : How could they tell? Mark Van Doren : Oh, please. Don't get Dorothy started on politics. There'll be a raid. Mark Van Doren : Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. Mark Van Doren : If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. Mark Van Doren : Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life. Mark Van Doren : Why don't you just put it in the bank Charlie? That's what I've always done with my prize money. Charles Van Doren : It's just, you don't understand dad, it's, there are all sorts of tax implications Mark Van Doren : You Think I can't understand the concept of taxes. Charles Van Doren : At this level it's a bit more complicated. Mark Van Doren : And at my level? I never thought of myself as having a level. What level might that be? Student At Book Party: Professor Van Doren, I took your course at Columbia - "Hawthorne, Original Sin, and the American Experience". Well, as silly as it sounds, it changed my life. Mark Van Doren : Was it the Hawthorne or the sin? Movie Title: A Man for All Seasons (1966) as Sir Thomas More: King Henry VIII : Thomas. I chose the right man for chancellor! Sir Thomas More : I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. King Henry VIII : Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coincides with my own! The Duke of Norfolk : Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship! Sir Thomas More : And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship? Cromwell : Now, Sir Thomas, you stand on your silence. Sir Thomas More : I do. Cromwell : But, gentlemen of the jury, there are many kinds of silence. Consider first the silence of a man who is dead. Let us suppose we go into the room where he is laid out, and we listen: what do we hear? Silence. What does it betoken, this silence? Nothing; this is silence pure and simple. But let us take another case. Suppose I were to take a dagger from my sleeve and make to kill the prisoner with it; and my lordships there, instead of crying out for me to stop, maintained their silence. That would betoken! It would betoken a willingness that I should do it, and under the law, they will be guilty with me. So silence can, according to the circumstances, speak! Let us consider now the circumstances of the prisoner's silence. The oath was put to loyal subjects up and down the country, and they all declared His Grace's title to be just and good. But when it came to the prisoner, he refused! He calls this silence. Yet is there a man in this court - is there a man in this country! - who does not know Sir Thomas More's opinion of this title? Crowd in court gallery: No! Cromwell : Yet how can this be? Because this silence betokened, nay, this silence was, not silence at all, but most eloquent denial! Sir Thomas More : Not so. Not so, Master Secretary. The maxim is "Qui tacet consentiret": the maxim of the law is "Silence gives consent". If therefore you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied. Cromwell : Is that in fact what the world construes from it? Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it? Sir Thomas More : The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law. Margaret More : Father, that man's bad. Sir Thomas More : There's no law against that. William Roper : There is: God's law. Sir Thomas More : Then God can arrest him. Sir Thomas More : This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast. Man's laws, not God's. And if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Sir Thomas More : You threaten like a dockside bully. Cromwell : How should I threaten? Sir Thomas More : Like a minister of state. With justice. Cromwell : Oh, justice is what you're threatened with. Sir Thomas More : Then I am not threatened. Sir Thomas More : I am commanded by the king to be brief, and since I am the king's obedient subject, brief I will be. I die His Majesty's good servant, but God's first. [to executioner, handing him his wages] Sir Thomas More : I forgive you, right readily. Be not afraid of your office: you send me to God. Minister: You're very sure of that, Sir Thomas? Sir Thomas More : He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to Him. Cardinal Wolsey : That... thing out there; at least she's fertile. Sir Thomas More : She's not his wife. Cardinal Wolsey : No, Catherine's his wife and she's barren as a brick; are you going to pray for a miracle? Sir Thomas More : There are precedents. Sir Thomas More : I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos. Sir Thomas More : Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one. Richard Rich : If I was, who would know it? Sir Thomas More : You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that. Sir Thomas More : I trust I make myself obscure. Sir Thomas More : Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales? Sir Thomas More : They'll think that somewhere along your pedigree a bitch got over the wall! Movie Title: Animal Farm (1999) as Boxer: Jessie : I think it's my time. Boxer : You're dying? Jessie : No, puppies. Boxer : I have no desire to take a life. Even a human life. Movie Title: London (1994) as Narrator: Narrator : Dirty old Blighty. Undereducated, economically backward, bizarre. A catalogue of modern miseries. With its fake traditions, its Irish war, its militarism and secrecy, its silly old judges. It's hatred of intellectuals, its ill health and bad food. Its sexual repression. Its hypocrisy and racism. And its indolence. It's so exotic. So, home-made. Narrator : Robinson lives in the way people were said to live in the cities of the Soviet Union. His income is small but he saves most of it. He isn't poor because he lacks money but because everything he wants is unobtainable. Narrator : Robinson is not a conservationist. But he misses the smell of cigarette ash and urine that used to linger in the Neo-Georgian phone boxes that appear on London postcards. Narrator : London, he says, is a city under siege from a suburban government which uses homeless, pollution, crime, and the most expensive and run down public transport system of any city in Europe as weapons against Londoners' lingering desire for the freedoms of city life. Narrator : [Comments on the general election result] Robinson began to consider what this result would mean for him. His flat would continue to deteriorate and its rent increase. He would be intimidated by vandalism and petty crime. The bus service would get worse. There would be more traffic and noise pollution and an increased risk of getting knocked down crossing the road. There would be more drunks pissing in the street when he looked out of the window and more children taking drugs on the stairs when he came home at night. His job would be at risk and subjected to interference. His income would decrease. He would drink more and less well. He would be ill more often. He would die sooner. For the elderly or anyone with children it would be much worse. For London as a whole, there would now be no new elected metropolitan authority. The public transport system would degenerate into chaos as it was deregulated and privatised. There would be more road schemes. Hospitals would close. As the social security system was dismantled there would be increased homelessness and crime, with police more often carrying guns. The population would continue to decline as those who could would move away and employers followed. Narrator : Robinson credits Stern with the discovery of the cinema in his description of duration as the succession of ideas which follow and succeed each other in our minds like the images on the inside a lantern, turned round by the heat of a candle. Narrator : On June the 4th we passed through Leicester Square again and found it being officially reopened by the queen who was to switch on a new electricity substation which had been built beneath it. We heard that earlier someone in the crowd had shouted "Pay your taxes you scum" but there had been no other incidents. Narrator : He asked me if I find it strange that the largest street festival in Europe should take place in London, the most unsociable and reactionary of cities. I said that I didn't find it strange at all, for only in the most unsociable of cities would there be a space for it. And in any case for many people London was not at all unsociable. Narrator : In the supermarket we found a cafe with friendly staff and pleasant, inexpensive food, but there was no sign of anyone writing poetry. Narrator : He argued that the failure of London was rooted in the English fear of cities, a protestant fear of popery and socialism, the fear of Europe, that had disenfranchised Londoners and undermined their society. He denounced the anachronisms of the City and its constitutional privileges. [...] Narrator : For Londoners, London is obscured. Too thinly spread, too private for anyone to know. Its social life invisible, its government abolished, its institutions at the discretion of either monarchy or state or the City, where at the historic centre there nothing but a civic void, which fills and empties daily with armies of clerks and dealers, mostly citizens of other towns. The true identity of London, he said, is in its absence. As a city it no longer exists. In this alone it is truly modern. London was the first metropolis to disappear. Movie Title: Henry V (1989) as French King: [Delivering a message from King Henry to the French King.] Exeter : This is his claim, his threatening and my message. Unless the Dauphin be in presence here, to whom expressly I bring greeting too. French King : For us, we will consider of this further. Tomorrow shall you bear our full intent back to our brother England. Dauphin : For the Dauphin, I stand here for him. What to him from England? Exeter : Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt and any thing that may not misbecome the mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king. |
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