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 Jeremy Irons QuotationMovie Title: Tales from Hollywood (1992) as Odon von Horvath: Bertolt Brecht : It's this disgusting passivity... You people don't realize that it's not enough in the theatre to interpret the world anymore. You have to change it! Odon von Horvath : I really think you underestimate the people's intelligence. They don't want blue-prints, they don't want instructions... They've been told everyday what to do; they don't want to go to the theatre and be told what to do all over again: they want to be shown who they are! Odon von Horvath : I never understood why the love of humanity in general should so often be accompanied by a profound dislike of the individual. Odon von Horvath : After all, civilization depends - does it not? - upon the awareness of the sufferings of others? Bertolt Brecht : Civilization? No! Civilization is four kinds of wine, three kinds of forks. It's a device to maintain the bourgeoisie's sense of superiority. Odon von Horvath : No, that's snobbery. That's something different. Bertolt Brecht : Listen, I've got people to see. I can't stand around here all day quibbling over vocabulary. Odon von Horvath : Then, perhaps it's best if we agree to respect our differences. Bertolt Brecht : Well, that's the most boring suggestion I've heard all week. You can respect my differences if you like. I despise yours. Odon von Horvath : I see you like winning arguments. Bertolt Brecht : I just did, didn't I?... Certainly no point in coming second. Odon von Horvath : Well, that's the American way... Movie Title: M. Butterfly (1993) as Rene Gallimard: Rene Gallimard : You made me see the beauty of the story, of her death. It's, it's pure sacrifice. He's not worthy of it, but what can she do? She loves him so much. It's very beautiful. Song Liling : Well, yes, to a Westerner. Rene Gallimard : I beg your pardon? Song Liling : It's one of your favorite fantasies, isn't it? The submissive Oriental woman and the cruel white man. Song Liling : Well, education has always been undervalued in the West, hasn't it? Rene Gallimard : I wouldn't say that. Song Liling : No, of course you wouldn't. After all, how can you objectively judge your own values? Rene Gallimard : I think it's possible to achieve a little distance. Song Liling : Do you? Song Liling : The Oriental woman has always held a certain fascination for you Caucasian men. Is that not true? Rene Gallimard : Yes, but that fascination is imperialist, or so you tell me. Song Liling : Yes, it is always imperialist. Sometimes... sometimes it is also mutual. Song Liling : I am slightly afraid of scandal. Rene Gallimard : What are we doing that's scandalous? Song Liling : I'm entertaining you in my parlor. Rene Gallimard : Where I come from, that would hardly be construed as ... Song Liling : You come from France. France is a country living in the modern era, perhaps even ahead of it. China is a nation whose soul is firmly rooted 2000 years in the past. What I do - even pouring tea for you now - it has implications. Please go. Please, Monsieur Gallimard ... Song Liling : Now that we embark on the most forbidden of loves, I'm so afraid of my destiny. Rene Gallimard : There is no destiny, except the one we make for ourselves. Rene Gallimard : Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore - correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings? Rene Gallimard : The Oriental woman: when she's good, she's very very very good. But when she's bad, she's Christian! Song Liling : Under the robes, beneath everything, it was always me. Tell me you adore me. Rene Gallimard : How could you, who understood me so well, make such a mistake? You've shown me your true self, and what I love was the lie, perfect lie, that's been destroyed. Song Liling : You never really loved me. Rene Gallimard : I'm a man who loved a woman created by a man. Anything else simply falls short. Movie Title: Reversal of Fortune (1990) as Claus von Bülow / Claus: Alan Dershowitz : You are a very strange man. Claus von Bülow : You have no idea. Alan Dershowitz : I'm not a hired gun. I've got to feel there's some moral or constitutional issue at stake. Claus von Bülow : But I'm absolutely innocent, and my civil liberties have been egregiously violated! Alan Dershowitz : I've got two black kids facing the electric chair for a crime they did not commit. THEY are innocent. Claus von Bülow : Well, before you assume I'm guilty, won't you hear my story? Alan Dershowitz : No. Never let defendants explain; puts most of them in an awkward position. Claus von Bülow : How do you mean? Alan Dershowitz : Lying. Alan Dershowitz : You do have one thing in your favor: everybody hates you. Claus von Bülow : Well, that's a start. Claus von Bülow : Oh, I've been meaning to mention. Our understanding about... my extracurricular activities... Sunny von Bülow : Mmm? Claus von Bülow : I've been involved with someone who... falls outside the parameters of our agreement. Claus von Bülow : Well, so much for the first coma. The second, of course, was much more theatrical. Alan Dershowitz : Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game? This is life and death; your wife is lying in a coma. You, you don't even make a pretense of caring, do you? Claus von Bülow : 'Course I care, Alan. It's just, I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. Sunny von Bülow : Well, just because she had all the money before I had all the money does not mean she is my lord and master. Claus von Bülow : 'Course not. I am your lord and master. [Sunny glares at him.] Claus von Bülow : Just kidding. Alan Dershowitz : This is the most dangerous case I have ever worked on. Claus von Bülow : You find that exhilarating? Alan Dershowitz : No, I do not. I am breaking every rule. 'Cause the best way to win is to proclaim your innocence, and I have never done that for anybody. And the problem I got is, I see who you are. You'd do anything to win. Claus von Bülow : So would you. Alan Dershowitz : Yeah, but you don't trust the legal system. Claus von Bülow : You're saying I'd manufacture... witnesses? Affidavits? Alan Dershowitz : No. But you would sacrifice me. Claus von Bülow : Oh, please. Alan Dershowitz : See, the more I believe that you are innocent, the more nervous I am. I go out on a limb for you, you're proven guilty, I look like an asshole. My reputation, my credibility, my career, destroyed. Claus von Bülow : That's the risk you're taking, isn't it? Alan Dershowitz : Well, fuck you, fuck you, man... I'm glad we understand one another. Alan Dershowitz : All right, my friend... Claus von Bülow : "Friend"? I like that. Alan Dershowitz : Nothing personal. Alan Dershowitz : A priest? Well, a priest is the ideal witness: it's like getting the word of God. Claus von Bülow : I checked. God is unavailable. [last lines] Store clerk: Anything else? Claus von Bülow : Yes, a vial of insulin... Just kidding. Claus : I'm not afraid, Alan. Let the chips fall where they may. Alan : That's what an innocent man would say. Claus : I know. Claus von Bülow : What do you give a wife that has everything? [silence] Claus von Bülow : A shot of insulin. Claus von Bülow : What do you call a fear of insulin? [silence] Claus von Bülow : Claus-traphobia. [seating Claus and Alan] Waiter: Professor Dershowitz, Dr. von Bulow. [he leaves] Claus von Bülow : When I was married to Sunny, we never got this table. Now, two injections of insulin and I'm a doctor. Alan Dershowitz : Claus, did you hear what I just said? Claus von Bülow : Of course I did! Did you hear the judge sentence me? Alan Dershowitz : Uh, yeah, thirty years, that's tough. Claus von Bülow : Twice trying to murder one's wife? Anything less would be monstrous. Movie Title: The Mission (1986) as Gabriel: Gabriel : If might is right, then love has no place in the world. It may be so, it may be so. But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that, Rodrigo. Altamirano : Tell them they must leave the missions. They must submit to the will of God. Gabriel : They say it was the will of God that they came out of the jungle and built the mission. They don't understand why God has changed his mind. Mendoza : Are you laughing at me? Gabriel : I am laughing because what I see is laughable. I see a coward, a man running from the world. Mendoza : For me there is no redemption, no penance great enough. Gabriel : There is. But do you dare to try it? Mendoza : Do you dare to see it fail? [Mendoza is repeatedly dragging a load of armor up a cliff as penance for killing his brother] Fielding : How long must he carry that stupid thing? Gabriel : God knows. Gabriel : We are not the members of a democracy, Father. We are the members of an order. Movie Title: The Time Machine (2002) as Über-Morlock: Über-Morlock : We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. Über-Morlock : Come a little closer, I don't bite. Über-Morlock : You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived it would never have existed, so how could you use your time machine to go back and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the inescapable result of you. Hartdegen : This is a perversion of every natural law! Über-Morlock : [grabs him by the throat] And what is time travel? But your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you! Über-Morlock : You think I don't know you Alexander? I can look inside your memories, Your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words, What If? Über-Morlock : Who are you, to question 800,000 years... of evolution? Movie Title: Dungeons & Dragons (2000) as Profion: Profion : Not so talented eh, Mr Ridley! Movie Title: The Lion King (1994) as Scar: Young Simba : Hey, Uncle Scar. Guess what? Scar : I despise guessing games. Young Simba : I'm going to be King of Pride Rock. Scar : Oh Goodee. Young Simba : My dad just showed me the whole kingdom. And I'm gonna rule it all. Heheh. Scar : Yes, well forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know. Young Simba : Hey Uncle Scar, when I'm King, what'll that make you? Scar : A monkey's uncle. Young Simba : You're so weird. Scar : You have no idea. Zazu : As the King's brother you should've been first in line. Scar : I was first in line, until the little hair ball was born. Zazu : [singing] Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. / Nobody knows my sorrow. / Nobody knows... Scar : Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little bounce in it. Zazu : (singing) It's a small world after all... Scar : No, no, anything but that. Zazu : I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. There they are just standing in a row. Big ones, small ones, Some as big as your head. [Whispering] Zazu : Oh, I would have never had to do this with Mufasa. [Scar catches a mouse] Scar : Life's not fair, is it? You see, I... well, I shall never be king. And you... shall never see the light of another day. Adieu. Zazu : Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food? Scar : I'm TEN times the king Mufasa was. Scar : Just remember, it's our little secret. Young Simba : What will I do? Scar : Run away Simba... Yes, run away and never return. [Simba leaves and Hyenas come out of the mist] Scar : Kill him. [Above the stampeding wildebeasts] Mufasa : Scar! Brother, help me! [Scar puts his claws into Mufasa's paws] Scar : Long live the King. [throws him into the stampede] Movie Title: Chinese Box (1997) as John: John : Money, money, money. That's all you hear. John : Just a week ago all I wanted was to tell Vivian how much I loved her. But now I see that's the one thing I mustn't do. I can't offload my illness onto her, or Jim, or Mary and the kids. I don't want the look in their eyes to remind me I'm dying. I wonder if I can hold out longer than the British. Not that I could be described as an empire. Movie Title: Dead Ringers (1988) as Beverly Mantle: Beverly Mantle : Pain creates character distortion, it's simply not necessary. Claire Niveau : I'm often in a lot of pain. Beverly Mantle : What kind of pain? Claire Niveau : I think... psychosexual. Claire Niveau : I've heard that you live together in the same apartment. Beverly Mantle : We both like Italian furniture. Beverly Mantle : I was hiding from the wrong person. Beverly Mantle : There's nothing the matter with the instrument, it's the body. The woman's body is all wrong! Movie Title: Lolita (1997) as Humbert: Humbert : I missed you. I missed you a lot. Lolita : Well I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you. But it doesn't matter, because you don't care about me anymore anyway. Humbert : What makes you think I don't care about you? Lolita : Well you haven't kissed me yet, have you? Humbert : What I heard then was the melody of children at play. Nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus. Humbert : She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo... Lee... Ta. Humbert : We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. Humbert : Lo, plain Lo in the morning, standing four-feet-ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks... Dolly at school... Dolores on the dotted line. In my arms, she was always Lolita. Light of my life. Fire of my loins. My sin. My soul. Lo-lee-ta. Humbert : A normal man, given a group photograph of school girls and asked to point out the loveliest one, will not necessarily choose the nymphet among them. Lolita : I feel like we're grown-ups. Humbert : Me, too. Lolita : We get to do whatever we want, right? Humbert : Whatever we want. Humbert : I was not quite prepared for the reality of my dual role. On the one hand, the willing corruptor of an innocent, and on the other, Humbert the happy housewife. Humbert : How are the piano lessons going? Lolita : Fine. Great. Excellent. Wonderful. Perfect. Humbert : Especially since you missed the last two. [Of his childhood love, Annabel] Humbert : The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved was gone, but I kept looking for her - long after I had left my own childhood behind. The poison was in the wound, you see. And the wound wouldn't heal. Lolita : Wait a sec. You're telling me we're sleeping in one room? With one bed? Humbert : Why, my darling? Lolita : Because, my darrr-ling, when my darrr-ling mother finds out she'll divorce you and strangle me. Humbert : Lo, listen a moment. I am your father. I am responsible for your welfare. We are not rich, and while we travel, we shall be - we shall be thrown together a good deal. Two people sharing one room inevitably enter into a kind of - how shall I put it - a kind of... Lolita : The word is incest. Humbert : I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face. Humbert : From here to that old car you know so well is a stretch of twenty-five paces. Make those twenty-five steps. With me. Now. Lolita : You're saying you'll give us the money if I go to a motel with you? Humbert : No, no, no. I mean leave here now, and come live with me. And die with me, and everything with me. Lolita : You're crazy. Humbert : What are you eating? Lolita : It's called a jawbreaker. It's supposed to break your jaw. Want one? Clare Quilty : Who is the girl? Humbert : She is my daughter. Clare Quilty : You lie, she is not. Humbert : I beg your pardon? Clare Quilty : I said "July was hot." Clare Quilty : Where the Devil did you get her? Humbert : What? Clare Quilty : I said, "The weather is getting better." Humbert : Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me. Movie Title: And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (2002) as Valentin: Jane : Et ensuite comme au cinéma, vous m'avez embrassé comme jamais personne ne m'avait embrassé. [...] Valentin : C'est un beau film, d'ailleurs si il repasse ce soir, j'aimerai bien le revoir Movie Title: Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) as Simon: Simon : As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives? Zeus : Didn't I hear you say you didn't even like your brother? Simon : There's a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window. Zeus : Ain't no riddle gonna solve this motherfucker? Simon : No riddle, no code, no fancy little countdown. Simon : You just interfered with a very well laid plan. Zeus : Well, you can stick that well laid plan in your well laid ass. John McClane : They told me to stay on the line. Simon : Ha! God I love this country! John McClane : You know, your brother was an asshole. Simon : [Pauses and smiles] Yeah, he was an asshole. You got his number. Zeus : What does this all have to do with killing McClane. Simon : Life has its little bonuses. Simon : I'm a soldier, not a monster. Even though I do work with monsters. Simon : I want you and the Samaritan at the corner of 72nd and Broadway in fifteen minutes. You understand? John McClane : Yeah, I understand. I understand that you're a fucking wacko who likes to play kids' games. Simon : Hardly. John McClane : Hardly? Well what have you got against me anyway? What did I bring you in for? Shoplifting? Purse-snatching? [pauses] John McClane : Cross-dressing? Simon : You c... c... couldn't c... c... catch me if I stole your ch... ch... chair with you in it! John McClane : My ch... ch... chair with me in it? Well Simon, why are you trying to k... k... k... kill me? Simon : Said Simple Simon to the pieman going to fair, "Give me your pies... or I'll cave your head in." Simon : I think he's dead my dear. Simon : Is there a lieutenant named McClane there? Inspector Cobb : He's on suspension. Simon : No, Arthur, he's not. Not today. Inspector Cobb : Who is this? Simon : Call me Simon. I want to play a game. Inspector Cobb : What kind of game? Simon : "Simon Says". Simon is going to tell Lt. McClane what to do, and Lt. McClane is going to do it. Noncompliance will result in a penalty. Inspector Cobb : What kind of penalty? Simon : Another big bang in a very public place. Simon : Money means shit to me. I would not give up McClane for all the gold in your Fort Knox. Simon : Where are my pigeons now? Inspector Cobb : Pigeons? Simon : I had two pigeons, bright and gay, fly for me the other day. Why is it they did go? You cannot tell, you do not know. Inspector Cobb : You mean McClane? Simon : No, I mean Santa Claus. [Simon is in one of the dumptrucks driving gold through the unfinished aqueduct] Simon : [on a phone] Rear guard, you can close up now. [pauses, not getting an answer] Simon : We've reached the dam, you can come up now... [pauses again, no answer] Simon : Nils? You can close in now. Nils? John McClane : [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, fuck-head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late. Simon : [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question? John McClane : [on the phone] I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under and I'll drive this truck up your ass. Simon : [on the phone] How colorful. Simon : Yesterday we were an army with no country, tomorrow we must decide which country we want to buy! Simon : [addressing his troops] And remember. This was all made possible thanks to the g-g-g-g-gullibility of the New York Police Department! Movie Title: The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) as Aramis: Louis : D'Artagnan, I am not angry with you. I knew you would leave me to them, and so you have. Lay down your sword and I will not punish you. I will let you retire in peace, and I will give your friends a swift execution, if you surrender NOW! Aramis : Perhaps you should take his offer. We're dead anyway. Porthos : He's right, D'Artagnan. Phillippe : Wait, bargain me to Louis for all your lives. You've done your best. Please let me go. D'Artagnan : No, I can not do it. Even if I could give up my king, I could never give up my son. Phillippe : Your son? D'Artagnan : I loved your mother. I love her still. You are my son. I never knew you existed and I never felt pride as a father until this moment. Aramis : [soldiers begin knocking at the door] D'Artagnan, they're young muskateers. They've been weened on our legends. They revere us. It is an advantage. Porthos : Yes, why don't we charge them? D'Artagnan : I have trained these men. They will fight to the death. But if we must die, if WE must die, let it be like this. Athos : [they put their swords together] One for all, all for one. Louis : [the muskateers charge along with Phillipe] Shoot! Lt. Andre : Magnificent valor. Aramis : We are offering you the chance to be King. Phillippe : No, you are offering me the chance to pretend to be King. Aramis : You are surrounded by beauty, by intrigue, by danger, what more can a man want? Aramis : Sometimes there are more important things in life than a good pair of tits. Porthos : Really? If you can name me one thing that is more sublime than the feel of a plump, pink nipple between my lips, I'll build you a new cathedral. Athos : What gives you the right to judge me, to play God with the lives of others? Is it because you're so much holier than anyone else? Aramis : Well yes, also because I'm more intelligent than anyone else. Queen Anne : Bless me Father, for I have sinned. Aramis : So have I. Aramis : I'm a genius, not an engineer. Aramis : Athos, if we fail in this - and we probably will - it will be an honor to die beside you. Movie Title: Longitude (2000) as Rupert Gould: Rupert Gould : Sir Frank, I'm not asking to mechanically alter the Harrison machines; I just want to bring them back to their proper condition. If they're left as they are much longer, I fear they may become unrecoverable. I know my qualifications appear unlikely; I can only plead that they're no more so than Harrison's own. Muriel Gould : I want you to give up the clock. Rupert Gould : I will... when it's finished. Muriel Gould : Yes, I knew you'd say that. Silly of me, really. 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. Rupert Gould : The watch beats five to the second, a slight recoil being perceptible at each beat, and goes for 30 hours. The plates are of brass, polished but not gilt. The pivot holes are jeweled as far as the third wheel, that is to say, those of the balance, staff, detente, contrate wheel, fly, fifth, fourth, and third wheels. The jewels are rubies, and the end stones diamonds. It is a masterpiece, weighing only slightly less than the brain that conceived it. Nurse Grace Ingram : They're going to kick you out soon, you know. Rupert Gould : Oh, they can't possibly. I'm feeling particularly mad at the moment. Nurse Grace Ingram : I don't think they cure that kind of madness here. What will you do? Rupert Gould : Don't know. Pitch a tent outside the gates, I suppose. Do you have any objections to life under canvas? Nurse Grace Ingram : Not more than... a couple of thousand. [on the BBC-TV show "Brains Trust"] Rupert Gould : What makes a man great? A man may be great in his aims, or in his achievements, or in both, but I think that man is truly great who makes the world his debtor... who does something for the world which the world needs and which nobody before him has done or known how to do. |
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