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 Burt Lancaster Quotation"Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome." "It's the best job in picture business because when you're a director, you're God. And you know that's the best job in town." "Life is to be lived within the limits of your knowledge and within the concept of what you would like to see yourself to be." [speaking in 1983] "Tits and sand - that's what we used to call sex and violence in Hollywood." "I don't know why Airport was nominated for any Oscars - it's the biggest piece of junk ever." "We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for." "I woke up one day a star. It was terrifying. Then I worked hard toward becoming a good actor." Movie Title: Seven Days in May (1964) as General James Mattoon Scott: General James Mattoon Scott : And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles -- when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States! President Jordan Lyman : And that would be General James Mattoon Scott, would it? I don't know whether to laugh at that kind of megalomania, or simply cry. General James Mattoon Scott : James Mattoon Scott, as you put it, hasn't the slightest interest in his own glorification. But he does have an abiding interest in the survival of this country. President Jordan Lyman : Then, by God, run for office! You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country -- why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect? General James Mattoon Scott : I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naïveté, and at worst an unsupportable negligence. We've stayed alive because we've built up an arsenal, and we've kept the peace because we've dealt with an enemy who knew we would use that arsenal. And now we're asked to believe that a piece of paper will take the place of missile sites and Polaris submarines, and that an enemy who hasn't honored one solemn treaty in the history of its existence will now, for our convenience, do precisely that. I have strong doubts, gentlemen. Movie Title: Apache (1954) as Massai: Nalinle : Why did you come back, Massai? Massai : This is where I belong. Nalinle : Is it? Is this where you plan to die? Massai : Only a warrior chooses a place to die. I am no longer a warrior. Massai : I must hunt with the bow again. I may not be back tonight. Nalinle : You will come back? Massai : You know I would not leave my rifle. Massai : You call that life? If an Apache cannot live in his home mountains like his fathers before him, he is already dead! Massai : You have a woman and yet you carry the water? Clagg : Some of the white man's ways are hard. Massai : If the Cherokee is like the white man, then he is Massai's enemy. Clagg : I am the enemy of no man. Massai : Then the Cherokee is a woman! Clagg : I am no woman! My people have fought the white man many times but have always been driven west. First from a place called Carolina, then the land of Tennessee and then at last to Oklahoma. But there our chiefs grew wise. They did not fight and they did not run. Massai : Neither does the turtle. Clagg : Are you afraid of the turtle? Then put your knife away. Massai : Apaches are warriors, not farmers. Clagg : You have seen the world of the white man...their numbers are like leaves on the trees. That taught you nothing? The warriors' day is over. Once we Cherokees were like the Apaches. We feasted when the hunting was good. We starved when it was bad. But the white man ate all year around...because he raised his own food. We found we could live with the white man...only if we live like him. Nalinle : But will they not say that growing corn is woman's work? Massai : I am a warrior. What I do can never be woman's work. Massai : I cannot stop fighting. I am the last real Apache in all the world...except for the little one to be. Massai : Every white man, every Indian, is my enemy. I cannot kill them all. and someday they will kill me. Nalinle : Then we will live until someday. Massai : And there is no place in Massai's life for love. Love is for men who can walk without looking behind. For men who can live summer and winter in the same place. Massai : You are very silent. Nalinle : There are times when words come hard to a woman. Massai : Not often. Movie Title: The Train (1964) as Labiche: Resistance leader: London agrees the art is important. Anything we can do to save it... but they leave it up to us. Labiche : Why not? What can they lose? This morning we had four men left in this group. Now we have three. One, two, three. Pesquet : Bernard? Labiche : We started with eighteen. Like your paintings, mademoiselle, we couldn't replace them. For certain things we take the risk, but I won't waste lives on paintings. Miss Villard : They wouldn't be wasted! Excuse me, I know that's a terrible thing to say. But those paintings are part of France. The Germans want to take them away. They've taken our land, our food, they live in our houses, and now they're trying to take our art. This beauty, this vision of life, born out of France, our special vision, our trust... we hold it in trust, don't you see, for everyone? This is our pride, what we create and hold for the world. There are worse things to risk your life for than that. Labiche : I'm sorry, mademoiselle, we can't help you. Resistance leader: Right after dawn, all switching tracks and trains in the area will be bombed. The art train is not to be destroyed. Orders are to mark it so that the planes will pass it up. Labiche : Mark it! Resistance leader: White paint, on the top of the first three cars. London has decided the paintings must not be damaged. Labiche : Paint it? For von Waldheim-- make him a present? To hell with London! We started this whole thing for one reason: to stop the train, because the Allies were going to be here! Well, where are they? Every day they've been due, and every day a man has been killed for thinking they were just over the next hill. I say to hell with them. Now they want us to paint the train? Let 'em blow it up! Didont : Paul, it'd be too bad, if it got blown up... that is, if it could be saved. Papa Boule, Pesquet, the others... they wanted it saved. Labiche : And they're dead. And they'll never know! Didont : But we will. Labiche : Thank you. Christine : I don't want your thanks. If they'd caught me helping you, I would have been shot. Labiche : I know. I'm sorry. Christine : You think you can just run in and out of here and make trouble? I run a hotel, not a madhouse. Who's going to pay for the door? Who's going to pay for the lock? Do you think money grows on trees? Labiche : There's a war... Christine : You talk about the war. I talk about what it costs! Labiche : I'll be leaving in a few hours. You can go back to your good customers. Christine : They pay. That's what I'm in business for. Labiche : You should be paid. How much for the damage? Christine : One hundred francs. [He pays her.] Labiche : How much for saving my life? Labiche : Where are the Allies? Resistance leader: It has been arranged for a French division to reach Paris first. A gesture. Labiche : Gesture! They can make gestures! Let them make one for Pesquet, or Jacques! That kid of Lefèvre's... he'd appreciate a gesture. Didont : With luck, no one will be hurt. Labiche : No one's ever hurt. Just dead. Didont : Paul, uh, have you ever seen any of those paintings on that train? I haven't. You know, when it's over, I think maybe we should take a look, hmm? Movie Title: The Hallelujah Trail (1965) as Col. Thaddeus Gearhart: Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : Give a woman an acorn and the next thing you know you're up to your rump in oak trees. Movie Title: The Professionals (1966) as Bill Dolworth: Bill Dolworth : In this desert, nothing's harmless until it's dead Hans Ehrengard : Nine more of their horses are still left. You gonna shoot them, too? Rico : I guess we'll have to. We can't spare the food and water. Hans Ehrengard : We could cut them loose. [Dolworth laughs] Hans Ehrengard : What's so funny? Bill Dolworth : People. We just killed ten men, nobody bats an eye. But when it comes to one of God's most stupid animals . . . Hans Ehrengard : But harmless. Bill Dolworth : Nothing's harmless in this desert unless it's dead. Bill Dolworth : There's only been one revolution since the beginning - the good guys versus the bad guys. The question is - who are the good guys? [Bill Dolworth admires Maria Grant's cleavage] Maria Grant : Yes? Bill Dolworth : Just wondering... what makes you worth $100,000. Maria Grant : Go to hell. Bill Dolworth : Yes ma'am. I'm on my way. Rico : What else is on your mind besides one hundred proof women, ninety proof whiskey and fourteen caret gold? Bill Dolworth : Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph! Bill Dolworth : The cemetery of nameless men. We buried some fine friends there. Rico : And some fine enemies. Bill Dolworth : That was one hell of a fine battle. Out-numbered and out-gunned and still we held that pass. Rico : Yeah, but who cares now... or even remembers? Bill Dolworth : Rico, buddy. I don't deserve you. Rico : I agree. I can understand you getting in a crap game and losing $700 you didn't have, but how'd you lose your pants? Bill Dolworth : In a ladies bedroom, trying to raise the cash. Almost had it made, too. Do you realize that people are the only animals that make love face to face? Bill Dolworth : Do they know who took the woman? Rico : Raza. Bill Dolworth : Our Raza? A kidnapper? Rico : Grant's got the ransom note to prove it. Bill Dolworth : Well I'll be damned. Rico : Most of us are. Jake Sharp : We could all do with a rest. Hans Ehrengard : A shave would be a relief, too. Jake Sharp : So would a bath. Bill Dolworth : Might as well throw in a woman. Any size, any age, any color. Any woman. Jake Sharp : Mr. D, whatever got a loving man like you in the dynamite business? Bill Dolworth : Well, I'll tell you. I was born with a powerful passion to create. I can't write, can't paint, can't make up a song... Hans Ehrengard : So you explode things. Bill Dolworth : Well that's how the world was born. Biggest damn explosion you ever saw. Bill Dolworth : That Chiquita. She can lick a whole regiment, but she can't dance worth a lick. Maria Grant : Raza says you and he were good friends. Bill Dolworth : That's right. Maria Grant : And yet you would have killed him. Bill Dolworth : That's right. Maria Grant : For money. Bill Dolworth : That's right. Jesus Raza : How do you come to this dirty business. Bill Dolworth : The usual. Money. Jesus Raza : Everything is as usual. I need guns and bullets, as usual. The war goes badly, as usual. Only you, you are not as usual. Movie Title: Brute Force (1947) as Joe Collins: Joe Collins : I don't care about everybody else. Gallagher : That's cemetery talk. Joe Collins : Why not, we're buried, ain't we? Only thing is, we ain't dead. Movie Title: The Unforgiven (1960) as Ben Zachary / Ben: Rachel : Ben, what did those Indians want? Ben : They offered to buy you for those five horses. Rachel : Well, did you sell me? Ben : Nope; held out for more horses. [Ben has decided to talk to the Indians] Ben Zachery: All right. I'll go see what they want. Cash, Don't shoot unless you have to. Cash Zachary : When will that be? Ben Zachary : When they break the peace and kill me. Lost Bird: We come in peace. Ben Zachary : My land. My sky. You are welcome. Lost Bird: Young horses. Good for fighting. Good for hunting. You take. Ben Zachary : I am ashamed. I have nothing to offer you. Lost Bird: In house. You have woman. One our women. Ben Zachary : Who told you this. Lost Bird: Old man. One your tribe. Carry long knife. He say you have one our women. Ben Zachary : He is crazy. Lost Bird: Sun speak through him. Talk to dead people. He say woman your house my sister. Ben Zachary : He lies. Woman my house white. Dahkoi. Father white, mother white. Burned to death by you; by Kiowa. Lost Bird: How many horses for woman? Ben Zachary : There are not enough horses in the world. Not as many as you can catch. Not as many as you can steal. [The Zacharys are discussing the rumors about Rachel] Cash : It's out there, Ben. It's layin' on their stomachs and they don't know what to do. Ben : Well, it's still a lie and we've got nothin' to be ashamed of. Cash : What are we goin' to do when one of them says it? What are we goin' to do when one of them says it to Rachel? Ben : Kill 'em, I guess. Cash : That's all I wanted to hear. [Charlie Rawlins has asked Ben for permission to marry Rachel] Rachel : Well, Ben; you ain't goin' to shoot Charlie now are you? Ben : I'm thinkin' about it. If I wasn't so short handed I might. [Cash is advocating killing the Kiowa outside of the house] Ben : Alright, Cash. Let's see if they're after our scalps first. (Shoots the top of one Indian's lance) Ben : I'm going out to talk. Cash, if they start any trouble, kill them. Cash : When will that be? Ben : When they kill me. Movie Title: Atlantic City (1980) as Lou: Lou : You should have seen the Atlantic Ocean in those days. Lou : Don't touch the suit. Movie Title: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) as Ned Buntline: [explaining why Sitting Bull should be in Buffalo Bill's show] Ned Buntline : A rock ain't a rock once it becomes gravel. Crutch : Come here, Mr. Buntline! Come over here and look at Sitting Bull! The son-of-a-bitch must be seven feet tall! Ned Buntline : He's getting smaller every year. Ned Buntline : I bring up this dream business because, well, because things are beginning to take on an unreal shape. Now I was thinking about Sitting Bull. Just put yourself in that Injun's place. You sit in your tepee and dream. And then yu go to wherever the dream may take you... it might come true. And you wait for real life to catch up. Ned Buntline : Injuns gear their lives to dreams. And what an injun dreams, no matter how farfetched, will wait until he dies to come true. The white men - they're different. The only time they dream is when things are going their way. I'm no expert on the subject, but it seems to me that what Sitting Bull does is a hell of a lot cheaper than mounting a wild west show... which is dreaming out loud. Ned Buntline : Bill, any youngster like yourself who figures to set the world on fire best not forget where he got the matches. Nate Salisbury : I'm the only partner Bill Cody ever had who tells him the truth. And in the end, we always agree. Ned Buntline : I was taught that when two partners always agree, one of them ain't necessary. Movie Title: Airport (1970) as Mel Bakersfeld: Mel Bakersfeld : Don't talk to me about consequences! When Congress voted to cut airport appropriations, you never even sent in a letter of protest. And where were you when the airlines and the pilots and the rest of us were... were pleading for... for more airports and better traffic control? You were picking out the colors in the ladies' lounge. So now you've got your consequences! Mel Bakersfeld : They're having a conference now to decide what to do. But I need somebody who knows. A genius. Like Patroni. Mel Bakersfeld : If you're wondering if we had another fight, the answer is no. Just a continuation of the same one. [An elderly woman walks by carrying her luggage] Capt. Vernon Demerest : That's good thinking, Mel; using old ladies as skycaps. You keep it up. Mel Bakersfeld : (to his sister) Why you continue to live with that overaged juvenile delinquent I'll never understand. Mrs. Demorest : I'm his insurance policy. Any time one of the stewardesses gets too serious; he starts waving his wedding ring. Oh well, someday he'll come home to do something other than change his socks. [discussing the effects of the bomb on a 707] Joe Patroni : The sudden decompression at 30,000 feet is something you gotta see to believe. Tanya Livingston : He'll get sucked out, won't he? Joe Patroni : As well as anyone sitting next to him. Until that pressure equalizes, everything within 20 feet to him that's not nailed on or strapped is gonna get sucked right out of that hole. Bert Weatherby : Is it that powerful, are you sure? Joe Patroni : Humph! Yeah, I'm sure. When I was a mechanic in the Air Force, I was being transferred on a MATS plane. At 20,000 feet, one of the windows shattered. The guy sitting next to it was about 170 pounds. He went through that little space like a hunk of hamburger going down the disposal. Right after him coats, pillows, blankets, cups, saucers. Yeah, I'm sure! Mel Bakersfeld : Takes about 3 seconds, doesn't it? Joe Patroni : 3, 4 or 5, depends on the size of the hole. Everything fogs up just like that. [snaps fingers] Joe Patroni : And THEN watch out! At that altitude, you can't breathe. So unless they get on oxygen in 45 seconds, it's good-bye! Movie Title: The Rainmaker (1956) as Bill Starbuck: Noah Curry : We don't believe in rainmakers. Bill Starbuck : What DO you believe in mistah? Dyin' cattle? Movie Title: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) as Ernst Janning: Ernst Janning : Judge Haywood... the reason I asked you to come. Those people, those millions of people... I never knew it would come to that. YOU must believe it, YOU MUST believe it. Judge Dan Haywood : Herr Janning, it came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent. Ernst Janning : There was a fever over the land. A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger. We had a democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within. There was, above all, fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, fear of ourselves. Only when you understand that can you understand what Hitler meant to us. Because he said to us: 'Lift up your heads! Be proud to be German! There are devils among us. Communists, Liberals, Jews, Gypsies! Once the devils will be destroyed, your miseries will be destroyed.' It was the old, old story of the sacrifical lamb. What about us, who knew better? We who knew the words were lies and worse than lies? Why did we sit silent? Why did we participate? Because we loved our country! What difference does it make if a few political extremists lose their rights? What difference does it make if a few racial minorities lose their rights? It is only a passing phase. It is only a stage we are going through. It will be discarded sooner or later. 'The country is in danger.' We will 'march out of the shadows.' 'We will go forward.' And history tells you how well we succeeded! We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. The very elements of hate and power about Hitler that mesmerized Germany, mesmerized the world! We found ourselves with sudden powerful allies. Things that had been denied us as a democracy were open to us now. The world said go ahead, take it! Take Sudetenland, take the Rhineland - remilitarize it - take all of Austria, take it! We marched forward, the danger passed. And then one day, we looked around and found we were in even more terrible danger. The rites began in this courtroom, swept over our land like a raging, roaring disease! What was going to be a passing phase became a way of life. Movie Title: The Crimson Pirate (1952) as Vallo: Vallo : Why did you bolt your cabin door last night? Consuelo : If you knew it was bolted you must have tried it. If you tried it, you know why it was bolted. Vallo : [narrating] Remember, in a pirate ship, in pirate waters, in a pirate world, ask no questions. Believe only what you see. No, believe half of what you see. Vallo : You've sold me Humble Bellows--and to a king's flunky! Humble Bellows : Aye. 'Tis my modest opinion that no man can fly pirate colors who's not willing to sell his friend, his sweetheart, or his mother. Movie Title: Zulu Dawn (1979) as Col. Durnford: [Durnford has commented on the lack of guards around the British camp] Col. Pulleen: Lord Chelmsford assures us that there is no way the Zulu can get around us without our knowing. Col. Durnford : Zulu generals have a nasty habit of doing the unexpected. It might be wise to picket the hills. [The Zulus are about to overrun the British position] Col. Durnford : Sergeant Major! Take my horse. Ride to Natal. Tell the Bishop; that is, tell his daughter, that I was obliged to remain at Isandlawahna with the infantry. Go with God. SMaj. Kambula: I go because you order me; but I leave God here to help you. Movie Title: Field of Dreams (1989) as Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham: Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham : This is my most special place in all the world, Ray. Once a place touches you like this, the wind nevers blows so cold again. You feel for it, like it was your child. Ray Kinsella : Are you Moonlight Graham? Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham : No one's called me Moonlight Graham in fifty years. Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham : Well, you know I... I never got to bat in the major leagues. I would have liked to have had that chance. Just once. To stare down a big league pitcher. To stare him down, and just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That's what I wish for. Chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it. To feel the tingling in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases - stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true? Ray Kinsella : Fifty years ago, for five minutes you came within... y-you came this close. It would KILL some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. God, they'd consider it a tragedy. Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham : Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy. Movie Title: Elmer Gantry (1960) as Elmer Gantry: Elmer Gantry : [repeated] Love is the morning and the evening star. Movie Title: Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) as Henry Stevenson: Henry Stevenson : You can't live on dreams forever. Waiting only weakens you and your dream. My motto is: "If you want something, get it now!" Henry Stevenson : Besides, what does a dame like you want with a guy like me? Movie Title: Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as J.J. Hunsecker: [Holding an unlit cigarette] J.J. Hunsecker : Match me, Sidney. J.J. Hunsecker : You're dead, son. Get yourself buried. J.J. Hunsecker : Everybody knows Manny Davis except for Mrs. Manny Davis. J.J. Hunsecker : President? My big toe would make a better President! J.J. Hunsecker : My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in years. J.J. Hunsecker : I love this dirty town. J.J. Hunsecker : I don't see shooting a mosquito with an elephant gun. J.J. Hunsecker : I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic. J.J. Hunsecker : I'd hate to take a bite out of you, you're a cookie full of arsenic. J.J. Hunsecker : Well son, it looks like we have to call this game on account of darkness. Movie Title: Criss Cross (1949) as Steve Thompson: Steve Thompson : She's all right, she's just young. Mrs. Thompson : Huh! Some ways, she knows more than Einstein. Movie Title: Scorpio (1973) as Cross: Cross : There is no, good there is no bad, but not to win and the only rule is to stay in the game. Movie Title: From Here to Eternity (1953) as Sergeant Milton Warden: Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : A man don't go his own way, he's nothing. Sergeant Milton Warden : Maybe back in the days of the pioneers a man could go his own way, but today you got to play ball. Karen Holmes : Come back here, Sergeant. I'll tell you the story; you can take it back to the barracks with you. I'd only been married to Dana two years when I found out he was cheating. And by that time I was pregnant. I thought I had something to hope for. I was almost happy the night the pains began. I remember Dana was going to an officers' conference. I told him to get home early, to bring the doctor with him. And maybe he would have... if his "conference" hadn't been with a hat-check girl! He was drunk when he came in at 5 AM. I was lying on the floor. I begged him to go for the doctor, but he fell on the couch and passed out. The baby was born about an hour later. Of course it was dead. It was a boy. But they worked over me at the hospital, they fixed me up fine, they even took my appendix out -- they threw that in free. Sergeant Milton Warden : Karen... Karen Holmes : And one more thing: no more children. Sure I went out with men after that. And if I'd ever found one that... Sergeant Milton Warden : Karen, listen to me, listen. Karen Holmes : I know. Until I met you I didn't think it was possible either. [Warden brings papers to Holmes' house for his signature, knowing that only his wife would be there.] Karen Holmes : Are these really important? Sergeant Milton Warden : Yes, but not important they get signed today. Tomorrow's okay. [She rips them up.] Sergeant Milton Warden : I have copies at the office, so it won't be much work to fix 'em up. Karen Holmes : That's what I like about you, Sergeant: you have confidence. It's also what I dislike about you. Sergeant Milton Warden : It's not confidence, ma'am; it's honesty. I just hate to see a beautiful woman going all to waste. Karen Holmes : Waste, did you say? There's a subject I might tell you something about. I know several kinds of waste, Sergeant. You're probably not even remotely aware of some of them. Would you like to hear? For instance, what about the house without a child? There's one sort for you. Then there's another... You're doing fine, Sergeant. My husband's off somewhere, and it's raining outside, and we're both drinking now. You've probably only got one thing wrong. The lady herself. The lady's not what she seems. She's a... washout, if you know what I mean... and I'm sure you know what I mean! Sergeant Milton Warden : You going to cry? Karen Holmes : Not if I can help it. What are you doing? Sergeant Milton Warden : I'm leaving. Isn't that what you want? Karen Holmes : I don't know, Sergeant. I don't know. [He kisses her.] Karen Holmes : Don't try to be gallant, Sergeant. If you think this is a mistake, come right out and say so. ...Well, I guess it's about time for me to be heading home, isn't it? ...Well, isn't it? Sergeant Milton Warden : What's the matter? What started all this, anyway? You think I'd be here if I thought it was a mistake? Taking a chance on 20 years in Leavenworth for making dates with the company commander's wife? And her acting like-- like Lady Astor's horse, and all because I got here on time! Karen Holmes : Well, on the other hand, I've got a bathing suit under my dress... Sergeant Milton Warden : Me too! Karen Holmes : I never knew it could be like this! Nobody ever kissed me the way you do. Sergeant Milton Warden : Nobody? Karen Holmes : No, nobody. Sergeant Milton Warden : Not even one? Out of all the men you've been kissed by? Karen Holmes : [giggling] Now that'd take some figuring. How many men do you think there've been? Sergeant Milton Warden : I wouldn't know. Can't you give me a rough estimate? Karen Holmes : Not without an adding machine. Do you have the adding machine with you? Sergeant Milton Warden : I forgot to bring it. Movie Title: Tough Guys (1986) as Harry Doyle: Harry Doyle : And I ain't goin' to your funeral! Archie Long : You ain't invited! Leon B. Little: I'll shoot a hundred of those coppers! Harry Doyle : There's only fifty of them, Leon. Leon B. Little: Well... I'll shoot 'em all twice! Harry Doyle : I never met so many stupid people in one day. Movie Title: Rocket Gibraltar (1988) as Levi Rockwell: Levi Rockwell : Nothing's as good as a midnight pee in the ocean. Levi Rockwell : Pay attention to Dwayne He's got a new joke he wants to tell us. It's about belly dancers. You're on, Dwayne. Dwayne Hanson : Dad, you're putting me on the spot, here. They're going to put tomatoes on yo-yos so they can hit me twice. Movie Title: The Swimmer (1968) as Ned Merrill: Ned Merrill : Pool by pool, they form a river all the way to our house. Ned Merrill : Here's to sugar on the strawberries! Ned Merrill : Thy belly is like a heap of wheat. Ned Merrill : You loved it. YOU LOVED IT! Ned Merrill : On a scale of one to ten, how good is he in bed? Ned Merrill : I thought you were going to dive. Kevin Gilmartin Jr. : There's no water. Ned Merrill : I thought you were going to dive! Movie Title: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) as Wyatt Earp: Wyatt Earp : There's always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man. Movie Title: Separate Tables (1958) as John Malcolm: Ann Shankland : I didn't mean any harm. John Malcolm : That's when you do the most damage. Ann Shankland : We all make mistakes. John Malcolm : You specialize in them. Ann Shankland : You're making it a bit too obvious, you know, that you hate the very sight of me. John Malcolm : The very sight of you is perhaps the one thing about you I don't hate. Mrs. Railton-Bell : Are you on the side of Mr. Malcolm and his defense advice or are you on the side of the Christian virtues -- like Mr. Fowler and myself? John Malcolm : Never in my life have I heard a question so disgracefully begged. You should be in politics, Mrs. Railton-Bell. John Malcolm : You know something, Ann? No one I know of lies with such sincerity. Movie Title: The Leopard (1963) as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: Prince Don Fabrizio Salina : We were the leopards, the lions, those who take our place will be jackals and sheep, and the whole lot of us - leopards, lions, jackals and sheep - will continue to think ourselves the salt of the earth. Prince Don Fabrizio Salina : Sleep, my dear Chevalley, eternal sleep, that is what Sicilians want. And they will always resent anyone who tries to awaken them, even to bring them the most wonderful of gifts. And, between ourselves, I doubt very strongly whether this new Kingdom has very many gifts for us in its luggage. All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really a wish for death. Our sensuality, wish for oblivion. Our knifings and shootings, a hankering after extinction. Our laziness, our spiced and drugged sheppards, a desire for voluptious immobility, that is... for death again. Prince Don Fabrizio Salina : And you, Don Ciccio, how did you vote on the 21st? Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo : [coughs up drink] Prince Don Fabrizio Salina : What are you afraid of? There's no one else here but us, the wind, the dogs. Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo : Excuse me, Excellency, but that question is useless. You know that everyone in Donnafugata voted, voted 'yes'. They said you, yourself, advised those who couldn't decide to vote like that. Prince Don Fabrizio Salina : I did, indeed. So, you voted 'yes', hmm... Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo : [walks up to the Prince, and then walks away] No, Excellency! I voted absolutely 'no'! No, I swear I voted 'no'! I know, Excellency, I know what you told me: necessity, unity and opportunity, Excellency. And you might be right, afterall. Politics I know nothing about, I leave that to all the others. But Ciccio Tumeo cannot be walked on! An obscure artist... poor and miserable, with holes in his pants, maybe. But benefits he's received, I promise you, he'll never forget! As you know, Excellency, it was Queen Isabella, of Spain, who was Dutchess of Calabria then, who made me study, and allowed me to be who I wanted: Organist of the Mother Church, honored by the benevolence of Your Excellency, and be a respected citizen. The years we were in terrible need, when my poor mother sent a petition up to her court, the money arrived to help us, sure as death every month! And if, today, these holy Kings and lovely Queens, were looking down from Heaven... what would they say? Would they feel that Don Ciccio Tumeo betrayed them? No, Excellency, no! Fortunately they know the truth in paradise. Prince Don Fabrizio Salina : [of the Sicilians] "They never want to improve. They think themselves perfect. Their vanity is greater than their misery." Movie Title: Vera Cruz (1954) as Joe Erin: Joe Erin : Too bad you never knew Ace Hanna. He ran a gambling joint back in Laredo. He shot my old man in a stud game when I was a kid. Ace felt so bad, he gave me a home. Benjamin Trane : What's that got to do with my saving your life? Joe Erin : Ace used to say, 'Don't take any chances you don't have to, don't trust anybody you don't have to trust and don't do no favors you don't have to do.' Ace lived long enough to know he was right. He lived thirty seconds after I shot him. Movie Title: Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) as Lawrence Dell: Lawrence Dell : There are no midgets in the military. Lawrence Dell : If you don't give me what I want, I'll light up the fucking sky!" Movie Title: Rope of Sand (1949) as Mike Davis: Mike Davis : If you ever tried to get away from me, I'd follow you 'til I wore the earth smooth. |
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