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 Michael Gambon Quotation"Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity." Movie Title: The Singing Detective (1986) as Philip E. Marlow / Philip Marlow: Philip E. Marlow : You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their own young. Philip E. Marlow : What's the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in the mouth? In the shape it makes in the page? "E-L-B-O-W" Philip E. Marlow : I've not seriously doubted since that afternoon that any lie will receive almost instant corroboration, and almost instant collaboration, if the maintenance of it results in the public enjoyment of someone else's pain, someone else's humiliation. Reginald Dimps : You must lie there all day, thinking of murdering people. Philip E. Marlow : Yes. Yes, I do. Philip E. Marlow : Into each life some rain must fall. Dr. Gibbon : Metaphysics? Philip E. Marlow : Music. Philip E. Marlow : Why is it when you lose your health the entire medical profession takes it as axiomatic you've also lost your mind? Dr. Gibbon : Now listen to this. A purple passage. Philip E. Marlow : No, a blue one, I hope. Philip E. Marlow : There are songs to sing, there are feelings to feel, there are thoughts to think. That makes three things, and you can't do three things at the same time. The singing is easy, syrup in my mouth, and the thinking comes with the tune, so that leaves only the feelings. Am I right, or am I right? I can sing the singing. I can think the thinking. But you're not going to catch me feeling the feeling. No, sir. Philip E. Marlow : Bastards. I'll wipe you out. Don't you know who I am? I'm the... I'm the Singing Detective! Doctor: I know it's an embarrassing question, even between husbands and wives, but what do you believe in? Philip E. Marlow : Malthusianism. Doctor: Come again? Philip E. Marlow : Malthus, but mandatory. Compulsory depopulation by infanticide, suicide, genocide or whatever other means suggest themselves. AIDS, for example, that'll do. Why should queers be so special? Doctor: I see. Philip E. Marlow : I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit. Philip E. Marlow : Short people shouldn't sit places where their feet don't touch the ground. Philip E. Marlow : Can I go back to the ward now? I lead an exciting and vibrant life there. Philip Marlow : I had on my best pajamas, the ones with red stripes and blue forget-me-nots. I was all dressed up and talcumed under the armpits; a million dollars was about to call. I was ready for it. Philip Marlow : I used to think that all I wanted was the good opinion of honorable men and the ungrudging love of beautiful women. Now I know for sure that all I really want is a cigarette. Philip Marlow : So, psychiatry's not nasty enough for you? You still want to get into literary criticism? Mark Binney : Money's not particularly one of my problems and I'll pay you well. Philip Marlow : Oh, you don't know how much I want yet. And I'm not as cheap as I look. Mark Binney : I'm not paying you to make me feel small, am I? Philip Marlow : Oh, you don't have to do that. That's thrown in without charge. Movie Title: Sleepy Hollow (1999) as Baltus Van Tassel: Ichabod Crane : It was a headless horseman. Baltus Van Tassel : You must not excite yourself. Ichabod Crane : But it was a headless horseman. Baltus Van Tassel : Of course it was. That's why you're here. Ichabod Crane : No, you must believe me. It was a horseman, a dead one. Headless. Baltus Van Tassel : I know, I know. Ichabod Crane : You don't know because you were not there. It's all true. Baltus Van Tassel : Of course it is. I told you. Everyone told you. Ichabod Crane : I... saw him. [faints] Baltus Van Tassel : The horseman was a Hessian mercenary sent to the shores by German Princess to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the horseman came for love of carnage. Ichabod Crane : We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins. Baltus Van Tassel : You are a long way from New York, constable. Baltus Van Tassel : If you are wise, you will leave this place. Baltus Van Tassel : [to Ichabod] Young sir, you are most welcome, even if you are selling something. Movie Title: Bullet to Beijing (1996) as Alexei: Alexei : I'm not being overly dramatic, Mr. Palmer, when I say the fate of the world is in your hands. Movie Title: Toys (1992) as General Leland Zevo: General Leland Zevo : Put this place on red alert. They're as good as dead. Hagenstern : That's your son, sir. General Leland Zevo : War knows no relatives. Movie Title: Path to War (2002) as Lyndon Baines Johnson: Lyndon Baines Johnson : Pack your suitcase, we're goin' to Vietnam. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State : [looking at the fighter jet escort next to Air Force One] Are they ours? Lyndon Baines Johnson : I sure fuckin' hope so. Lyndon Baines Johnson : Haven't you been paing attention? Hell, they got hundred-year-old women re-supplying them! Lyndon Baines Johnson : He doesn't have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot. Movie Title: Samson and Delilah (1996) as Re hamun: Re hamun : This is something Kings must learn and Princes must practice: it's called "listening". Principe Sidqa : He must be stopped. The dignity of your throne is at stake. Re hamun : Do not mistake my throne for your pride. Movie Title: Angels in America (2003) as Prior Walter Ancestor #1: [Prior is talking about his lineage with Ancestor #1] Prior Walter : I'm the thirty-fourth, I think. Prior Walter Ancestor #1 : Actually the thirty-second. Prior Walter : Not according to mother. Prior Walter Ancestor #1 : She's including the two bastards, then. I say leave them out. No room for bastards. The little things you swallow... Prior Walter : Pills. Prior Walter Ancestor #1 : Pills. For the pestilence. I too... Prior Walter : Pestilence... you too what? Prior Walter Ancestor #1 : The pestilence in my time was much worse than now. Whole villages of empty houses. You could work outdoors and see Death walking in the morning, dew dampening the ragged hem of his black robe. Plain as I see you now. Prior Walter : You died of the plague. Prior Walter Ancestor #1 : The spotty monster. Like you, alone. Prior Walter : I'm not alone. Prior Walter Ancestor #1 : You have no wife, no children. Prior Walter : I'm gay. Prior Walter Ancestor #1 : So? Be gay, dance in your altogether for all I care, what's that to do with not having children? Prior Walter : Gay homosexual, not bonny, blithe... never mind. [Ancestor #1 watches Prior and Louis dance] Prior Walter Ancestor #1 : Hah. Now I see why he's got no children. He's a sodomite! Prior Walter Ancestor #2 : Be quiet you medeival gnome. Let them dance. Movie Title: Wives and Daughters (1999) as Squire Hamley: Claire Gibson : I'm sure you will acknowledge that an engagement is an engagement. Squire Hamley : Did I say an engagement was an elephant ma'am? Squire Hamley : Ya know I think it was a strange thing how both you boys picked out girls below you in rank and family, yet neither of you set your fancies on little Molly Gibson. Now there's a lassie who's found her way into my heart. Roger Hamley : Molly's like a sister to me. Squire Hamley : I don't see why you don't put up for her still. Don't you think you could like her if you tried? Roger Hamley : No need for trying to love her, that's already done. But it's too late, it's too late, she's as good as told me so - it's my own fault! Movie Title: The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989) as Albert: Georgina : Yes! He's a man. He's Jewish and he's from Ethiopia! Albert : What?! Georgina : He's as black as the ace of spades and he probably drinks his own pee! Albert : What you've got to realize is that the clever cook puts unlikely things together, like duck and orange, like pineapple and ham. It's called 'artistry'. You know, I am an artist the way I combine my business and my pleasure: Money's my business, eating's my pleasure and Georgie's my pleasure, too, though in a more private kind of way than stuffing the mouth and feeding the sewers, though the pleasures are related because the naughty bits and the dirty bits are so close together that it just goes to show how eating and sex are related. Georgie's naughty bits are nicely related, aren't they, Georgie? Albert : Looks like catfood for constipated French rabbits! Albert : What are you doing in there Georgie? You playin' with yerself? That's not allowed. That's my property you're not allowed to fiddle with it. Albert : I think those Ethiopians enjoy starving. Keeps them thin and graceful. Movie Title: Endgame (2000) as Hamm: Hamm : Why did you engender me? Nagg : I didn't know. Hamm : What? What didn't you know? Nagg : That it'd be you. You'll give me a sugar-plum? Hamm : After the audition. Nagg : You swear? Hamm : Yes. Nagg : On what? Hamm : My honor. [they laugh] [last lines] Hamm : You cried for night; it falls: now cry in darkness. Nicely put, that. And now? Moments for nothing, now as always, time was never and time is over, reckoning closed and story ended. If he could have his child with him... It was the moment I was waiting for. You don't want to abandon him? You want him to bloom while you are withering? Be there to solace your last million last moments? He doesn't realize, all he knows is hunger, and cold, and death to crown it all. But you! You ought to know what the earth is like, nowadays. Oh I put him before his responsibilities! Well, there we are, there I am, that's enough. Yes, truly! [blows the whistle - Clov makes no sound] Hamm : Good. Hamm : Father? Father! Good. We're coming. And to end up with? Discard. [throws away dog] Hamm : With my compliments. [throws away whistle] Hamm : Clov! No? Good. Since that's the way we're playing it, let's play it that way and speak no more about it. Speak no more. Old stancher! You... remain. Movie Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Dumbledore: Professor Snape : Have you any idea as to how Black got in? Dumbledore : Many, each as unlikely as the next. Dumbledore : A word of caution: dementors are vicious creatures. They will not distinguish between the one they hunt and the one who gets in there way. Therefore I must warn each and every one of you to give them no reason to harm you. It's not in the nature of a dementor to be forgiving. But you know happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light. Harry : Professor Dumbledore, we did it! We saved him! Dumbledore : Did what? Good night. Dumbledore : For in dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. Movie Title: Longitude (2000) as John Harrison: John Harrison : It's not just beautiful, it's divine: that's where the beauty lies, you see. Each note on the scale is calculated by mathematical formula, based on the circumference of a circle, you see. Sir Charles Pelham : Uh, almost... John Harrison : The step between each note is composed of larger and lesser intervals, each derived from pi. It is divine because for the first time we are listening to music as the Lord intended. Sir Charles Pelham : How can you tell if a clock is running 5 seconds faster, or slower? John Harrison : My own pendulum clock is adjusted to one second a month. Sir Charles Pelham : O-ho-ho, no clock can be that accurate. John Harrison : Mine can. John Harrison : Impossible, sir. Clock needs a pendulum. Can't take a pendulum to sea. Sir Charles Pelham : Not like you to say "impossible," John. John Harrison : No, sir. Elizabeth Harrison : You've found a way to build this sea-clock, haven't you? John Harrison : With God's help it might be possible. --I mean, why did He encourage me to build a perfect timepiece in the first place? So the blacksmith might start work 5 seconds earlier or later? Or was it to give us the ability to explore His creation in safety, to move without fear in the space He's given us to inhabit? George Graham : One second a month, sir! You're either a liar or a fool. --Who're your makers? John Harrison : Myself, and my brother James. George Graham : Really? Who were you apprenticed to? John Harrison : My father, as was he. I am a carpenter by profession. George Graham : A carpenter?! John Harrison : My timekeepers are made of wood. I've brought some drawings with me. George Graham : I'm sorry, I mistook you. This is a joke, sir, am I right? Mr. Halley seeks to derive some pleasure from this contrivance? Is he here, perhaps, hiding in a corner to watch my performance? John Harrison : It is I who am sorry, sir! The fault is mine. It was my impression I was here to see a clockmaker; I find myself in a toy shop by mistake! William! [turns to leave] George Graham : Mr. Harrison! Summer and winter... how is it done? How is it done, the compensation? John Harrison : I use a pendulum of different metals that work against each other. George Graham : Impossible. Doesn't work. I've tried it. John Harrison : It is possible. It does work. I've built it. John Harrison : I'm afraid you must excuse me, but I should go back on deck. The air in here is... John Campbell : Poisonous? You'll get used to it. Most people don't notice it after the first couple of years. Lieutenant John Campbell : I sailed in the company of 961 men, sir. 203 returned to England. Of the 760 who died, only 48 were killed by enemy action. John Harrison : And the rest? Lieutenant John Campbell : Disease. Despair. We were lost: weeks on end without sight of land, fresh food, water... Although much of the time we were within 6 hours' sailing of Juan Fernandez; but we mistook our position... didn't know it. I saw more men die than any Roman emperor. Men who you'll remember, and who remembered you: John Sprague; Lieutenant Draper; the messboys, Ned and Sed, didn't even make 14. We all heard about the Orford and how your machine performed, as we sailed hopelessly on, heaving man after man over the side. Lieutenant John Campbell : I thought only of one thing: a piece of twisted brass spinning. There, look. Look at its little heart still beating. I thought to myself, this'll never happen again. There'll be a machine to tell us where we are. I swore that if I lived, I'd come and find you. John Harrison : John, when they were dying, who did your men curse for their misfortune? Lieutenant John Campbell : Their God, or their admiral; when you're a foot, there's little difference. John Harrison : And if they'd a clock, and the clock didn't work, and the men still died... who would they curse then? When you're young, you think everything's possible. But as you grow older, you discover that it isn't. Lieutenant John Campbell : Well then, don't grow older, Mr. Harrison. John Harrison : You've seen how the watch has performed in the test. It's not perfect, but what if I could make it so? What if I could make a timepiece no bigger than the span of a man's hand, that could be taken to sea? Now wouldn't that be a practical solution? [cut to 20th century] Rupert Gould : Harrison's fourth machine, by reason alike of its beauty and its accuracy, must take pride of place as the most famous chronometer that ever has been or ever will be made. But the journey from his third machine, which you see behind me, to his fourth (thank you), is one of the most extraordinary mysteries of horology. Faced as he was by a seemingly insuperable problem of centrifugal forces, Harrison took a daring and lateral leap. It is as though an aeronautical engineer suddenly ceased development on a new aircraft and instead adapted the technology to make his bicycle fly to France. John Harrison : It is 25 years since I first had the honor to address this board, under the chairmanship of Dr. Edmund 'Alley. And since that time I've worked with only one ambition: to satisfy your requirements as laid down by Act of Parliament, for the discovery of longitude at sea. It is with both great pride and honor, and humility, that I stand here today with my son, after his great triumph. Dr. Bliss : Thank you, Mr. Harrison, yes, thank you. Now. I have asked you here to inform you of the resolution of the Board: that, firstly, the *brief* calculations of Mr. William Harrison are to be sent for computation; and the instruments used in those observations are also to be sent for examination. The board will then consider these reports at a further meeting, the date of which will be announced in due course. That will be all for now, gentlemen. John Harrison : Sir, I am an old man, and an old man can sometimes find his senses unexpectedly weakened. There is perhaps an element of your argument that I have misunderstood, or even misheard. My watch lost... lost *one minute, 53 and a half seconds* after *81 days at sea*! As witnessed and signed in the, in the papers you have before you, which you seem so keen to put away. I have fulfilled the terms most exactly, as laid down in the Act of Queen Anne, and I demand that you consider the question of my reward. Dr. Bliss : Mr. Harrison, I am not a commissioner of the gaming board, here to settle some bet! I am a scientist bent on investigation of a most serious subject. William Harrison : Would it be possible to set out more explicitly what the Board requires, so that we might be prepared for it? Lord Morton : *No, sir -- it would not*! It is not your business, sir, to limit the inquiry of this board, but to satisfy it! John Harrison : It is not my business, *sir*, to explain the workings of a lifetime to a group of *dog-collared university book-swallowers* who wouldn't know the difference between a *balance spring* and a *bedside pan*! The thirty years I've stood before this board, I've never once had the occasion to talk to anyone who knew anything about what I was actually doing, any sense of the mechanisms I've created! But I carried on... trusting that if I fulfilled the Act of Queen Anne, I'd get my just rewards. *I have* fulfilled that Act... I have made such a mechanism. Give me my prize, and I'll use the money to build a, a factory... make a 'undred watches, a thousand, each one the same. But I will not, as long as I've got a drop of English blood in me body, I'll not dance to the tune of a group of ignorant *schoolboys*! John Harrison : You know, the strange thing is, I want to build another one. Taking it apart and putting it together again, I can see improvements. [The Board, having paid half the reward, takes possession of all the clocks] John Harrison : The machines are ready for collection. I will need a certificate from you that they're in good order. Reverend Nevil Maskelyne : I am not sure I'm a good judge of that, sir. John Harrison : For once I agree with you. Reverend Nevil Maskelyne : I can state that they appear to be in good order; I think that will suffice. John Harrison : I can state as a fact they're in perfect order. Reverend Nevil Maskelyne : That will not be necessary. John Harrison : And I will need it to be understood that when they left my property that was the case. And that you are entirely responsible for their safety from this moment on! Reverend Nevil Maskelyne : I accept that responsibility. Now what is their normal method of transport? William Harrison : Boat! Reverend Nevil Maskelyne : Do not bandy words with me, sir. William Harrison : I am serious. They should go to Greenwich by barge, not some old cart like a butcher'd carry a bag of bones in! John Harrison : I may not be spared to complete another watch, but I've begun one. It will not, gentleman, be a copy, because I am mindful of the Act of Queen Anne, to which I've clung for over 50 years like a, like a shipwrecked sailor to a barrel -- "to be practical," and that's been my gospel and my creed. I have an idea that the heat compensation must be within the balance of the watch and not around it. And this morning I made this. [He shows a heat-compensated balance wheel.] John Harrison : I tried the idea in my first sea clock, over 40 years ago. I failed. I didn't undertand it; so much I didn't understand. A compensating balance wheel will simplify the adjustment of the machine, so others may make my watches more easily... should God grant me the time to complete my labours. Movie Title: A Man of No Importance (1994) as Ivor Carney: Ivor Carney : It's very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only stock brokers do that, aand then merely at dinner parties. Movie Title: Gosford Park (2001) as Sir William McCordle: [at the banquet dinner table] Sir William McCordle : And why shouldn't I be interested in films? You don't know what I'm interested in. Lady Sylvia McCordle : Well, I know you're interested in money and fiddling with your guns. But I admit it: when it comes to anything else, I'm stumped. Elsie (Head Housemaid) : Now, that is not fair, Bill is... [Realizing that she spoke out of turn, Elsie quickly leaves the room] Lavinia Meredith : I don't care what's changed or not changed as long as our sons are spared what you all went through. Lady Sylvia McCordle : Not all. You never fought, did you, William? Sir William McCordle : I did my bit. Lady Sylvia McCordle : Well, you made a lot of money but it's not quite the same as charging into the cannon's mouth, is it? [Many years ago, Sylvia and Louisa cut cards to decide which of them would marry Sir William. Louisa lost] Constance : Anyone care for a game of bridge after dinner? Louisa, how about you? Louisa Stockbridge : Oh, I don't think so. I've rather gone off cards. I've never been very lucky with them. Sir William McCordle : Me too. |
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