Best Picture Academy Award winners

"My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This is my life. I am 42 years old. In less than a year, I will be dead. Of course, I don't know that yet, and in a way, I'm dead already. Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It's all downhill from here. That's my wife Carolyn. See the way the handle on those pruning shears match her gardening clogs? That's not an accident. That's our neighbor, Jim, and that's his lover, Jim. Man, I get exhausted just watching her. She wasn't always like this. She used to be happy. We used to be happy. [Jane is researching breast augumentation surgery despite having a large bust] My daughter, Jane. Only child. Janie's a pretty typical teenager–angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser. And they're right. I have lost something. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I know I didn't always feel this... sedated. But you know what? It's never too late to get it back."

"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about."

"Remember those posters that said, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"? Well, that's true of every day but one - the day you die."

"[Lying in bed fantasizing of watching Angela on ceiling partially covered in rose petals with it landing on his face] It's the weirdest thing. I feel like I've been in a coma for about twenty years, and I'm just now waking up."

"[Epilogue after being fatally shot] I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all. It stretches on forever, like an ocean of time. For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout Camp, watching falling stars. [Scene of Jane and Ricky lying bed alerted by gunshot and then gets up] And yellow leaves from the maple trees that lined our street. [Scene of Angela in powder room alerted by gunshot] Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper. [Scene of Carolyn outside in rain unresponsive to faint gunshot] And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird. And Janie, and Janie. And Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry. You will someday."

"[To Jane after halftime basketball performance] Honey, I'm so proud of you. I watched you very closely! You didn't screw up once!"

"[Repeated line, in self-assuring confidence] I will sell this house today. [Later becomes hysterically upset and profusively self-blaming]"

"[To Jane] Do you want to see the most beautiful thing I've ever filmed? It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing, and there was this electricity in the air. You can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just, dancing with me, like a little kid beggin' me to play with it - for fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know that there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember - I need to remember. Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world - I feel like I can't take it, like my heart is just going to cave in."

"Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham"

"Annette Bening - Carolyn Burnham"

"Thora Birch - Jane Burnham"

"Wes Bentley - Ricky Fitts"

"Mena Suvari - Angela Hayes"

"Peter Gallagher - Buddy Kane"

"Allison Janney - Barbara Fitts"

"Chris Cooper - Col. Frank Fitts, USMC"

"Scott Bakula - Jim Olmeyer"

"Sam Robards - Jim Berkley"

"Barry Del Sherman - Brad Dupree"

"There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is."

"Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever…matter."

"Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity."

"I find you very attractive. Your aggressive moves towards me indicates that you feel the same way. However, ritual requires that we engage in a number of platonic activities before we have sex. I am proceeding with those activities when, in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. You going to slap me now?"

"There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun."

"[In his Nobel acceptance speech] I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask: 'What truly is logic?' 'Who decides reason?' My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional…and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. [Looking at Alicia] I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am…you are all my reasons."

"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."

"Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes, and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians … like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now, who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen."

"Dr. Rosen: Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?"

"Dr. Rosen: [to Alicia] John has schizophrenia, people with this disease are often paranoid."

"Russell Crowe – John Forbes Nash"

"Ed Harris – William Parcher"

"Jennifer Connelly – Alicia Larde Nash"

"Christopher Plummer – Dr. Rosen"

"Paul Bettany – Charles Herman"

"Josh Lucas – Martin Hansen"

"The Only Thing Greater Than the Power of the Mind Is the Courage of the Heart"

"He Saw the World in a Way No One Could Have Imagined."

"I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible …"

"It is only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found."

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

"Here's looking at you, kid."

"[repeated line] I stick my neck out for nobody."

"[after inspecting a dossier about himself] Are my eyes really brown?"

"[to Ilsa] I heard a story once. As a matter of fact, I've heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano, playing in the parlor downstairs. 'Mister, I met a man once when I was a kid,' they'd always begin. Well, I guess neither one of our stories is very funny. Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo or were there others in between? Or aren't you the kind that tells?"

"[on Captain Renault] Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so."

"[about Ugarte] I'm making out the report now. We haven't quite decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape."

"Oh, please, monsieur. It is a little game we play. They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient."

"[to Ilsa] Well, Rick is the kind of man that...well, if I were a woman, and I were not around, I should be in love with Rick. But what a fool I am talking to a beautiful woman about another man."

"[to Rick, as the Germans are invading in Paris] I love you so much. And I hate this war so much. Oh, it's a crazy world. Anything can happen. If you shouldn't get away, I mean, if something should keep us apart, wherever they put you and wherever I'll be, I want you to know that...I Love you. Kiss me as if it were the last time."

"Last night, I saw what has happened to you. The Rick I knew in Paris I could tell him, he'd understand. But the one who looked at me with such hatred - I'll be leaving Casablanca soon and we'll never see each other again. We knew very little about each other when we were in love in Paris. If we leave it that way, maybe we'll remember those days and not Casablanca. Not last night."

"You want to feel sorry for yourself, don't you? With so much at stake, all you can think of is your own feelings. One woman has hurt you, and you take your revenge on the rest of the world. You're a coward and a weakling."

"In a concentration camp, one is apt to lose a little weight."

"If I didn't give [the names of Underground leaders] in a concentration camp, where you had more persuasive methods at your disposal, I certainly won't give them to you now. And what if you track down these men and kill them? What if you murdered all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast."

"Play it again, Sam."

"Mysterious City of Sin and Intrigue!"

"They had a date with fate in Casablanca!"

"As big and timely a picture as ever you've seen! You can tell by the cast it's important! Gripping! Big!"

"Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine"

"Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund"

"Paul Henreid - Victor Laszlo"

"Claude Rains - Capt. Louis Renault"

"Conrad Veidt - Maj. Heinrich Strasser"

"Sydney Greenstreet - Signor Ferrari"

"Peter Lorre - Guillermo Ugarte"

"S.Z. Sakall - Carl"

"Madeleine Lebeau - Yvonne"

"Dooley Wilson - Sam"

"Joy Page - Annina Brandel"

"Leonid Kinskey - Sascha"

"Marcel Dalio - Emil the croupier (uncredited)"

"I think I was a pilot."

"A very...plum...plum."

"Its probably none of my business - your wife...do you think it is appropriate to leave her?"

"[to Katherine] I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, Faya! That was a good day."

"[to Katherine] There's really no need. This is just a scrapbook. They are too good. I should feel obliged. Thank you."

"[to Katherine] We planned badly."

"[to Katherine] In a few minutes there'll be no stars - the air is filling with sand."

"[to Katherine] I apologize if I appear abrupt. I am rusty at social graces."

"[to Katherine] Let me tell you about winds. [to Katharine]"

"[to Katherine] Could I ask you, please, to paste your paintings into my book? I should like to have them. I should be honored."

"[to Katherine] Mrs. Clifton...I believe you still have my book."

"K at dawn - silhouetted."

"[to himself in the Cave of Swimmers] My God...they're swimming. Swimming."

"[to Katherine] I can still taste you. I try to write with your taste in my mouth."

"[to Katherine] Swoon, They'll catch you."

"[to Katherine] Maddox knows I think - he keeps talking about Anna Karenina - I think it's his idea of a man to man chat...well it's my idea of a man to man chat."

"[to Hana] I long for the rain on my face."

"[to Katherine] I'm not agreeing. Don't think I'm agreeing, because I'm not."

"[upon seeing Katherine in the plane wreckage] Katherine? My God, Katherine what are you doing here?"

"[to Caravaggio] Thousands of people did die. Just different people."

"[to Caravaggio] No...I was never a spy. [to Caravaggio]"

"The International Sand Club: misfits, buggers, fascists, and fools - God bless us every one. Oops! mustn't say international - dirty word, filthy word."

"[to Katherine] Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again."

"[to Hana] K is for Katherine."

"[to Hana] In that case, I suppose we can't charge."

"[to Hana] Condensed milk - one of the truly great inventions."

"[to Kip] Hana was just telling me that you were indifferent...to her cooking."

"[to Caravaggio] I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. Tap...Tap...Tap."

"[singing the tune of "It's Only a Paper Moon" (by Harold Arlen, Billy Rose, and E.Y. Harburg)] It wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me."

"[last words; to Hana] Read to me will you? Read me to sleep."

"I must be a curse. Anybody who loves me, anybody who gets close to me...or I must be cursed. Which is it?"

"[to Almásy] It's raining."

"There's a war. Where you come from becomes important."

"[reading Almásy's note on the Christmas firecracker] Dec. 22nd [1938] - Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace. New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire. For the heart is an organ of fire - I love that. I believe that."

"[to Almásy] I've been thinking - how does someone like you decide to come to the desert?"

"[to Almásy] And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would."

"I'm not one of the walking wounded. It's only one night. Besides, if I remain it's the most effective method of persuading my husband to abandon whatever he's doing and come and rescue us."

"[to Almásy] This is not very good is it?"

"[to Almásy] Am I a terrible coward to ask how much water we have?"

"[to Almásy] Yes is a comfort. Absolutely is not."

"[to Almásy] You still have sand in your hair."

"[to Almásy] A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn't admit to it."

"[to Almásy] This a different world is what I tell myself; a different life. And here, I'm a different wife."

"[reading from the notes she found in Almásy's book] The neck of K can never be something, not in my mind. And K's clothes always at ease on her. Does he notice? What is the significance of Betrayal? Does K bother with a moral Labyrinth - K's debate - does she debate?"

"[to Almásy] Am I 'K' in your book? I think I must be."

"[to Almásy] You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk."

"[to Almásy] I can't do this anymore."

"[to Almásy] Do you think you are the only one who feels anything? Is that what you think?"

"[to Almásy] Why did you hate me? Don't you know you drove everybody mad?"

"[written in journal] My darling, I'm waiting for you. How long is a day in the dark? Or a week? The fire is gone now, and I'm horribly cold. I really ought to drag myself outside but then there'd be the sun...I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings and on writing these words. We die. We die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we've hidden in, like this wretched cave. I want all this marked on my body. We're the real countries. Not the boundaries drawn on maps, the names of powerful men. I know you will come carry me out into the palace of winds. That's all I've wanted, to walk in such a place with you, with friends. An earth without maps. The lamp's gone out, and I'm writing in the darkness."

"[to Almásy] So. I come across the hospital convoy, I'm looking for this stuff. This nurse, Mary, tells me about you and Hana, hiding in some monastery, in what you call it - retreat - how you'd come in from the desert and you were burned and you didn't remember your name, but you knew the words to every song that ever was and you had one possession - a copy of Herodotus and it was filled with letters and cuttings, and then I know it was you...I'd seen you writing in that book. At the embassy in Cairo, when I had thumbs, and you had a face. And a name."

"In Italy, there's always chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there's eggs, but never chickens. Who separated them?"

"[to Hana] Ask him. Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed."

"[to Almásy] There was a result to what you did!"

"[to Hana after playing the piano] Look. See? Move that - and no more Bach."

"[reading from Kipling to Almásy] It's still there, the cannon, outside the museum. It was made of metal cups and bowls taken from every household in the city as tax, then melted down. Then later they fired the cannon at my people - comma - The natives - full stop."

"[to Almásy] What I really object to, Uncle, is your finishing all my condensed milk - and the message everywhere in your book - however slowly I read it - that the best destiny for India is to be ruled by the British."

"[to Hana] This is what I do. I do this every day."

"[to Almásy, et.al.] Why are you people so threatened by a woman?"

"[to Madox] I'm going to surprise her. It's our anniversary. She's forgotten, of course."

"In case you're still wondering, This is called a supersternal notch. points to notch at base of throat [to Almasy]"

"I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all."

"(?) It's ghastly. It's a witchhunt. Anyone remotely foreign is suddenly a spy."

"We didn't care about countries, did we? Brits, Arabs, Hungarians, Germans... None of that mattered, did it? It was something finer than that."

"In love, there are no boundaries."

"In memory, love lives forever."

"Ralph Fiennes - Count Laszlo de Almásy"

"Juliette Binoche - Hana"

"Willem Dafoe - David Caravaggio"

"Kristin Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton"

"Naveen Andrews - Lt. Kirpal Singh (Kip)"

"Colin Firth - Geoffrey Clifton"

"Julian Wadham - Madox"

"Jürgen Prochnow - Major Muller"

"Conscience... that stuff can drive you nuts!"

"[to Johnny Friendly] You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!"

"But Pop, I've seen things that I know are so wrong. Now how can I go back to school and keep my mind on... on things that are just in books, that-that-that aren't people living?"

"[to the dockworkers] Isn't it simple as one, two, three? One, the working conditions are bad. Two, they're bad because the mob does the hiring. And three, the only way we can break the mob is to stop letting them get away with murder."

"There's one thing we've got in this country and that's ways of fightin' back. Gettin' the facts to the public. Testifyin' for what you know is right against what you know is wrong. Now what's ratting to them is telling the truth for you. Now can't you see that? Can't you see that?"

"Some people think the Crucifixion only took place on Calvary. They better wise up! Taking Joey Doyle's life to stop him from testifying is a crucifixion. And dropping a sling on Kayo Dugan because he was ready to spill his guts tomorrow, that's a crucifixion. And every time the Mob puts the pressure on a good man, tries to stop him from doing his duty as a citizen, it's a crucifixion. And anybody who sits around and lets it happen, keeps silent about something he knows that happened, shares the guilt of it just as much as the Roman soldier who pierced the flesh of our Lord to see if he was dead...Boys, this is my church! And if you don't think Christ is down here on the waterfront, you've got another guess coming!"

"Every morning when the hiring boss blows his whistle, Jesus stands alongside you in the shape-up. He sees why some of you get picked and some of you get passed over. He sees the family men worrying about getting the rent and getting food in the house for the wife and the kids. He sees you selling your souls to the mob for a day's pay...And what does Christ think of the easy-money boys who do none of the work and take all of the gravy? And how does he feel about the fellows who wear hundred-and-fifty dollar suits and diamond rings, on your union dues and your kickback money? And how does He, who spoke up without fear against every evil, feel about your silence? You want to know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of the lousy buck - the cushy job - more important than the love of man! It's forgettin' that every fellow down here is your brother in Christ! But remember, Christ is always with you - Christ is in the shape up. He's in the hatch. He's in the union hall. He's kneeling right here beside Dugan. And He's saying with all of you, if you do it to the least of mine, you do it to me! And what they did to Joey, and what they did to Dugan, they're doing to you. And you. You. ALL OF YOU. And only you, only you with God's help, have the power to knock 'em out for good."

"[to Terry] You'd better get rid of that gun, unless you haven't got the guts. And if you don't, you'd better hang on to it!"

"Marlon Brando - Terry Malloy"

"Eva Marie Saint - Edie Doyle"

"Karl Malden - Father Barry"

"Lee J. Cobb - Michael J. Skelly aka "Big" John "Johnny" Friendly"

"Rod Steiger - Charley "The Gent" Malloy"

"Pat Henning - Timothy J. "Kayo" Dugan"

"Ben Wager - Joey Doyle"

"Fred Gwynne - Slim (uncredited)"

"Martin Balsam - Gillette (uncredited)"

"Pat Hingle - Bartender (uncredited)"

"Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell. I hate it already and it's only been a week. Some goddamn week, Grandma. The hardest thing I think I've ever done is go on point three times this week - I don't even know what I'm doing. A gook could be standing three feet in front of me and I wouldn't know it. I'm so tired. We get up at 5 am, hump all day, camp around four or five, dig a foxhole, eat, then put out an all-night ambush or a three-man listening post in the jungle. It's scary, 'cause nobody tells me how to do anything 'cause I'm new and nobody cares about the new guys. They don't even want to know your name. The unwritten rule is a new guy's life isn't worth as much 'cause he hasn't put his time in yet. And they say if you're gonna get killed in the Nam, it's better to get it in the first few weeks, the logic being you don't suffer that much. If you're lucky, you get to stay in the perimeter at night and then you pull a three-hour guard shift, so maybe you sleep 3, 4 hours a night, but you don't really sleep. I don't think I can keep this up for a year, Grandma. I think I've made a big mistake comin' here. Of course, Mom and Dad didn't want me to come here. They wanted me to be just like them. Respectable, hardworking, a little house, a family. They drove me crazy with their goddamn world, Grandma. You know Mom. I guess I've always been sheltered and special. I just wanna be anonymous like everybody else. Do my share for my country. Live up to what Grandpa did in the first war and Dad did in the second. Well, here I am, anonymous alright, with guys nobody really cares about. They come from the end of the line, most of 'em. Small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee. Brandon, Mississippi. Pork Bend, Utah. Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for 'em back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothin'. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? At the bottom of the barrel, and they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves 'grunts', cause a grunt can take it, can take anything. They're the best I've ever seen, Grandma. The heart and soul. Maybe I finally found it way down here in the mud. Maybe from down here I can start up again and be something I can be proud of, without having to fake it, be a fake human being. Maybe I can see something I don't yet see, or learn something I don't yet know. I miss you. I miss you very much. Tell Mom I miss her too. Chris."

"New Year's Day, 1968. Just another day, stayin' alive. There's been a lot of movement near the Cambodian border, regiments of NVA moving across. A lot of little firefights and ambushes. We drop a lot of bombs and then we walk through the jungle like ghosts in a landscape."

"Day by day I struggle to maintain not only my strength but also my sanity. It's all a blur. I have no energy to write. I don't know what's right or wrong anymore. The morale of the men is low, a civil war in the platoon. Half the men with Elias, half with Barnes. There's a lot of suspicion and hate. I can't believe we're fighting each other when we should be fighting them."

"I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah calls "possession of my soul". There are times since, I've felt like a child, born of those two fathers. But be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life."

"[to a wounded soldier] Shut up! Shut up, and take the pain! TAKE THE PAIN!"

"[pointing to a dead soldier] You all take a good look at this lump of shit. Remember what it looks like. You fuck up in a firefight and I goddamn guarantee you a trip out of the bush, in a body bag! Out here, assholes, you keep your shit wired tight at all times! [turns to Taylor] And that goes for you, shit-for-brains. You don't sleep on no fuckin' ambush! [turns to Junior] And the next sum'bitch I catch coppin' Z's in the bush, I'm personally gonna take an interest in seein' him suffer. I shit you not. Doc, tag him and bag him!"

"You talking about killing? Hmm? Y'all experts? Y'all know about killing? I'd like to hear about it, potheads. [takes pipe and sniffs] Are you smoking this shit so's to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit. I am reality. There's the way it ought to be, and there's the way it is. Elias was full of shit. Elias was a crusader. Now, I got no fight... with any man who does what he's told. But when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that...in any of you. Not one. [hands pipe back and spits] Y'all love Elias. Oh, you wanna kick ass. Yeah. Well, here I am, all by my lonesome. And there ain't nobody gonna know. Six of you boys against me. Kill me. [pause] Huh. I shit on all of you."

"Charlie Sheen - Chris Taylor"

"Tom Berenger - Sgt. Barnes"

"Willem Dafoe - Sgt. Elias"

"Forest Whitaker - Big Harold"

"Francesco Quinn - Rhah"

"John C. McGinley - Sgt. Red O'Neill"

"Richard Edson - Sal"

"Kevin Dillon - Bunny"

"Reggie Johnson - Junior Martin"

"Keith David - King"

"Johnny Depp - Gator Lerner"

"David Neidorf - Tex"

"Mark Moses - Lt. Wolfe"

"Chris Pedersen - Crawford"

"Tony Todd - Sgt. Warren"

"Corkey Ford - Manny"

"Ivan Kane - Tony Hoyt"

"Paul Sanchez - Doc Gomez"

"Corey Glover - Francis"

"Bob Orwig - Gardner"

"Kevin Eshelman - Morehouse"

"James Terry McIlvain - Ace"

"Dale Dye - Capt. Harris"

"Oliver Stone - Alpha Company major in bunker"

"The first casualty of war is innocence."

"The first real casualty of war is innocence. The first real movie about the war in Vietnam is Platoon."

"All right now, I'm comin' out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna kill him. Any son of a bitch that takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends, burn his damn house down!"

"You better bury Ned right! Better not cut up nor otherwise harm no whores, or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches."

"[to English Bob] You been talking about the queen again? [punches him] On Independence Day?"

"I guess you think I'm kicking you, Bob. But it ain't so. What I'm doing is talking. You hear? I'm talking to all those goons down there in Kansas. I'm talking to all those villains in Missouri and all those villains down there in Cheyenne. I'm telling 'em there ain't no whores' gold! Even if there was, well, they wouldn't want to come looking for it anyhow!"

"I suppose you know, Bob, if I ever see you again I'm just going to start shooting and figure it was self-defense."

"Now Ned, them whores are going to tell different lies than you. And when their lies ain't the same as your lies— Well, I ain't gonna hurt no woman. But I'm gonna hurt you. And not gentle like before, but bad!"

"[discussing the assassination of President Garfield] If you were to try to assassinate a king, sir, the — how shall I say it? — the aura of royalty would cause you to miss. But, a president— [chuckles] I mean, why not shoot a president?"

"[accent changing rapidly from plummy English to Cockney] A plague on you. A plague on the whole stinking lot of ya, without morals or laws. And all you whores got no laws. You got no honor. It's no wonder you all emigrated to America, because they wouldn't have you in England. You're a lot of savages, that's what you all are. A bunch of bloody savages. A plague on you. I'll be back."

"Clyde: [about the house the Sheriff's building] You know, he don't have a straight angle in that whole god-damned porch, or the whole house for that matter. He is the worst damn carpenter."

"Skinny Dubois: You know how women lie."

"Strawberry Alice: Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses don't mean we gotta let 'em brand us like horses. Maybe we ain't nothing but whores but we, by god, we ain't horses."

"Clint Eastwood - William Munny"

"Shane Meier - Willam Munny Jr."

"Alice Leavasseaur - Penny Munny"

"Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett"

"Morgan Freeman - Ned Logan"

"Richard Harris - English Bob"

"Jaimz Woolvett - The Schofield Kid"

"Saul Rubinek - W.W. Beauchamp"

"Frances Fisher - Strawberry Alice"

"There's an old joke: two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know, and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. The the other joke important joke for me is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx, but I think it appears originally in Freud's Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. And it goes like this, I'm paraphrasing: Um, I would never wanna belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member. That's the key joke of my adult life in terms of my relationships with women. You know, lately, the strangest things have been going through my mind, 'cause I turned 40, and I guess I'm going through a life crisis or something, I dunno, and I'm not worried about aging, I'm not one of those characters, you know I, well I'm balding slightly on top, that's about the worst you can say about me. I um I think I'm gonna get better as I get older. You know, I think I'm gonna be the balding virile type, you know, as opposed to say, the um distinguished gray, for instance, you know, unless I'm neither of those two. Unless I'm one of those guys with saliva dribbling out of his mouth who wanders into a cafeteria with a shopping bag screaming about socialism. Annie and I broke up, and I still can't get my mind around that, you know, I keep sifting the pieces of the relationship through my mind and and examining my life and trying to figure out where did the screw up come, you know, and mm a year ago, we were in love, you know, and and and I just, and it's funny, I'm not a I'm not a morose type. I'm not a depressive character, you know, I was a reasonably happy kid, I guess, I was brought up in Brooklyn during World War II."

"[voiceover] My analyst says I exaggerate my childhood memories, but I swear, I was brought up underneath the roller coaster in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. Maybe that accounts for my personality, which is a little nervous, I think. You know, I have a hyperactive imagination. My mind tends to jump around a little, and uh I I I have some trouble between fantasy and reality. My father ran the bumper car concession. Th-there he is, and there I am. Right. I I used to get my aggression out through those cars all the time. I remember the staff at our public school. You know, we had a saying, uh but, "Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, teach gym." And uh, of course, those who couldn't do anything, I think, were assigned to our school. I must say, I always thought my schoolmates were idiots. Melvyn Greenglass, you know, his fat little face and Henrietta Farrell, just Miss Perfect all the time and uh Ivan Ackerman, always the wrong answer. Always."

"I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable."

"I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. When I was thrown out, my mother, who was an emotionally high-strung woman, locked herself in the bathroom and took an overdose of Mah-Jongg tiles. I was depressed at that time. I was in analysis. I was suicidal as a matter of fact and would have killed myself; but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss."

"You know, even as a kid, I always went for the wrong women. I think that's my problem. When my mother took me to see Snow White, everyone fell in love with Snow White. I immediately fell for the Wicked Queen."

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

"After that it got pretty late, and, we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I realized what a terrific person she was and how much fun it was just knowing her, and I thought of that old joke. You know, this guy goes to his psychiatrist and says, "Doc, my brother's crazy. He thinks he's a chicken." And the doctor says, "Well why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships– you know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd, but, I guess we keep going through it because most of us need the eggs."

"[repeated line] La-dee-da, la-dee-da."

"Woody Allen - Alvy Singer"

"Diane Keaton - Annie Hall"

"Carol Kane - Allison"

"Tony Roberts - Rob"

"Paul Simon - Tony Lacey"

"Shelley Duvall - Pam"

"Janet Margolin - Robin"

"Colleen Dewhurst - Mrs. Hall"

"Christopher Walken - Duane Hall"

"Joan Neuman - Mrs. Singer"

"Dick Cavett - Himself"

"Jeff Goldblum - Lacey Party Guest"

"Beverly D'Angelo - Actress in Rob's TV Show"

"Sigourney Weaver - Alvy's Date Outside Theatre"

"Mark Lenard - Navy Officer"

"[addressing the troops] I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country. Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooters, the fastest runners, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating. Now, we have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. You know, by God I, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against, by God, I do. We're not just going to shoot the bastards; we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel. Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you will all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do. Now there's another thing I want you to remember: I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass! We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose! Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home. And you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you’re sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you: "What did you do in the great World War II?" You won't have to say, "Well, I shoveled shit in Louisiana." All right, now, you sons-of-bitches, you know how I feel. Oh... I will be proud to lead you wonderful guys into battle anytime, anywhere. That's all."

"[to Omar Bradley while visiting the ruins of Carthage] It was here. The battlefield was here. The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman Legions. The Carthaginians were proud and brave but they couldn't hold. They were massacred. The Arab women stripped them of the tunics and swords and lances. And the soldiers lay naked in the sun. Two-thousand years ago. I was here. You don't believe me, do you, Brad? You know what the poet said:"

"[seeing his troops rout General Erwin Rommel's 21st Panzer Division at El Guettar] Rommel... you magnificent bastard, I read your book!"

"[writing about the death of his favorite aide, Captain Richard N. "Dick" Jenson, at the Battle of El Guettar] Captain Richard N. Jenson was a fine boy. Loyal, unselfish, and efficient. I am terribly sorry. There are no coffins here since there's no wood. We will have a trumpeter and an honor guard, but we will not fire the volleys, as it would make people think an air raid was on. I enclosed a lock of Dick's hair in a letter to his mother. He was a fine man and a fine officer. And he had no vices. I shall miss him a lot. I can't see the reason such fine young men get killed. There are so many battles yet to fight."

"[addressing 7th Army troops in an apology about the soldier-slapping incident] At ease.[Long pause] I thought I would stand up here and let you people see if I am as big of a son-of-a-bitch as some of you think I am. [Troops laugh] I assure you I had no intention of being either harsh or cruel in my treatment of the soldier in question. My sole purpose was to try and to restore him some appreciation of his obligation as a man, and as a soldier. If one can shame a coward, I felt, one might help him regain his self-respect. This was on my mind. Now I freely admit that my method was wrong, but I hope you can understand my motive, and will accept this explanation, and this apology. Dismissed."

"[ranting about being assigned to lead the First United States Army Group I feel I am destined to achieve some great thing — what, I don't know. But this last incident is so trivial in its nature and so terrible in its effect — it can't be the result of an accident. It has to be the work of God. The last great opportunity of a lifetime — an entire world at war and I'm left out of it? God will not permit this to happen! I will be allowed to fulfill my destiny! … His will be done."

"[commenting to an aide, while reviewing a battle site the morning after] Fixed fortifications are man's monument to stupidity. When mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, anything built by man can be overcome. You know how I know that they're finished out there? The carts. They're using carts to lug their supplies and wounded. In my dreams I saw the carts. They kept buzzing around in my head and I couldn't figure out why. Then I remembered: the nightmare in the snow -- the endless, agonizing retreat from Moscow. God the cold! The wounded, and what was left of the supplies, were thrown into carts. Napoleon was finished. No color left, not even the red of blood. Only snow."

"[to staff, noting the obvious lack of German activity as winter sets in] There's absolutely no reason for us to assume the Germans are mounting a major offensive. The weather is awful, Their supplies are low, and the German army hasn't mounted a winter offensive since the time of Frederick the Great — therefore I believe that's exactly what they're going to do."

"[voiceover in the wake of his relief from Third Army] For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph — a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning — that all glory is fleeting."

"The most refreshing thing about "Patton" is that here — I think for the first time — the subject matter and the style of the epic war movie are perfectly matched. War was, for Patton, his destiny and sometimes great fun. Thus the big, magnificently staged battle scenes (photographed in marvelous, clear, deep focus), are not giving the lie to a film that, like "The Longest Day," would have us believe piously that war is hell. … Although the cast is large, the only performance of note is that of Scott, who is continuously entertaining and, occasionally, very appealing. He dominates the film, even its ambiguities, although he never quite convinced me that Patton, by any stretch of the imagination, could be called a rebel against anything except the good, gray, dull forces of bleeding heart liberalism."

"The epic American war movie that Hollywood has always wanted to make but never had the guts to do before."

"The Bradley name gets heavy billing on a picture of [a] comrade that, while not caricature, is the likeness of a victorious, glory-seeking buffoon … Patton in the flesh was an enigma. He so stays in the film. … Napoleon once said that the art of the general is not strategy but knowing how to mold human nature … Maybe that is all producer Frank McCarthy and Gen. Bradley, his chief advisor, are trying to say. And maybe, just maybe, obsequious sycophants should not be allowed to lead armies."

"The war movie for people who hate war movies!"

"George C. Scott as General George S. Patton"

"Karl Malden as General Omar N. Bradley"

"Ed Binns as Major General Walter Bedell Smith ("Beetle")"

"James Edwards as Sergeant William Meeks"

"Michael Bates as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery"

"Richard Muench as Colonel-General Alfred Jodl"

"Karl Michael Vogler as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel"

"Siegfried Rauch as Captain Oskar Steiger"

"I just want to say hi to my girlfriend, OK? Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky."

"Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa"

"Talia Shire - Adrian Pennino"

"Burt Young - Paulie Pennino"

"Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed"

"Burgess Meredith - Mickey Goldmill"

"Thayer David - George Jergens"

"Joe Spinell - Tony Gazzo"

"[sings] I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gay, And I pity, any girl who isn't me today. I feel charming, oh so charming, it's alarming how charming I feel. And so pretty, that I hardly can believe I'm real."

"[sings] I just met a girl named Maria, and suddenly that name Will never be the same to me. Maria - I just kissed a girl named Maria And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be Maria - say it loud and there's music playing Say it soft and it's almost like praying."

"[sings] When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way From your first cigarette to your last dyin' day! When you're a Jet, let 'em do what they can You've got brothers around, you're a family man! You're never alone, you're never disconnected, you're home with your own When company's expected, you're well-protected! Then you are set with a capital J Which you'll never forget till they cart you away When you're a Jet you stay a Jet."

"Unlike other musicals ‘West Side Story’ grows younger!"

"The Screen Achieves One of the Great Entertainments in the History of Motion Pictures"

"Natalie Wood - Maria"

"Richard Beymer - Tony"

"Russ Tamblyn - Riff"

"Rita Moreno - Anita"

"George Chakiris - Bernardo"

"Simon Oakland - Lieutenant Schrank"

"Ned Glass - Doc"

"William Bramley - Officer Krupke"

"Tucker Smith - Ice"

"Tony Mordente - Action"

"David Winters - A-rab"

"Eliot Feld - Baby John"

"Tommy Abbott - Gee-Tar"

"Jose De Vega - Chino"

"John Astin - Glad Hand"

"Got to Chicago, got to this high school. People actually sang the song from West Side Story, “Puerto Rico, my heart’s devotion, let it sink into the ocean,” at me in the halls of the school. I thought I was privileged to come from where I came from. It was made clear to me very quickly that it was an embarrassing thing I shouldn’t talk about, and I saw the distinction between the children of South American engineers and the daughter of a working-class Puerto Rican woman. I hated being in school."

"Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard..."

"To enter the mind of a killer, she must challenge the mind of a madman."

"Prepare yourself for the most exciting, mesmerising and terrifying two hours of your life!"

"When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help."

"May The Silence Be Broken!!"

"Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. – Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer."

"Anthony Hopkins – Dr. Hannibal Lecter"

"Jodie Foster – Clarice Starling"

"Anthony Heald – Dr. Frederick Chilton"

"Kasi Lemmons – Ardelia Mapp"

"Ted Levine – Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb"

"Scott Glenn – Jack Crawford"

"Diane Baker – Senator Ruth Martin"

"Brooke Smith – Catherine Martin"

"Danny Darst – Sergeant Tate"

"Stuart Rudin – "Multiple" Miggs"

"The lesbian community is under siege, we always try to present to the heterosexual community the idealized version, but I do not think that's a good way to do it, even though I can understand where it's coming from. ("Valerie Miner talked about the kinds of self-censorship she finds in her work when she starts thinking she should present only positive images of lesbians or working-class people.") Yes. In that poem and also in the poem "Night Voice" I do that. There's this whole controversy now over media images of lesbians and gays and bisexuals. It's brought out in movies like Basic Instinct and Silence of the Lambs where they are presented as killers. It comes up in the novels of P. D. James, where she has these criminals who are lesbians or gay men. And I hate that. But, at the same time, I want the dirty laundry to be out there, whether it's on the Mexican culture or the lesbian culture or the bisexual. And I'm not sure how you do that."

"I thought The Silence of the Lambs was an absolutely brilliant book. The easiest way for me to understand the huge success of the movie starts with what a great book Thomas Harris wrote to begin with. He created those characters for Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins and Ted Levine to bring to life. As a filmmaker, I had the delicious job of being the moviegoing audience's representative at the place where the film version was now going to happen. Of course, I had my own ideas about the strengths of the book and how best to visualize them for the screen. Same thing with Beloved. In Beloved, there was zero invention: We didn't have to fix anything in the book, no gaping holes, no problems that had to be solved. The film is very faithful to the book, because we were all so inspired by the book that we simply transferred that inspiration to the screen. Silence Of The Lambs was essentially the same situation, except for the ending. Thomas Harris ended the book in a very meditative, poetic sort of way. This being a movie, we needed something a little bit more galvanizing as a sign-off, so we came up with the phone call and a glimpse of Dr. Lecter following Dr. Chilton off into the Caribbean sunset."

"I thought that in that movie The Elephant Man, that he was the ultimate good doctor, just the greatest doctor of all. So my thinking was, what happens if the greatest doctor of all goes wrong?"

"It’s about one young woman trying desperately to save the life of another young woman. And in order to do that, she’s faced with the overwhelming obstacle of all these men"

"A thousand Arabs means a thousand knives, delivered anywhere, day or night. It means a thousand camels. That means a thousand packs of high explosives and a thousand crack rifles. We can cross the whole of Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round. I'll smash his railways. And while he's mending them I'll smash them somewhere else. In thirteen weeks I can have Arabia in chaos."

"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."

"I think you are another of these desert-loving English: Doughty, Stanhope, Gordon of Khartoum. No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees, there is nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing."

"Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men – courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men – mistrust and caution. It must be so."

"In this country, Mr. Bentley, the man who gives victory in battle is prized beyond every other man..."

"(To Lawrence) Dine with Auda, English. Dine with him. (To Harith Envoy) It is my pleasure, that you should dine with me... in WADI RUM!"

"I am Auda Abu Tayi! Does Auda serve? (Tribesmen in tent shout no, turns to ask those gathered outside) DOES AUDA SERVE?!? (Crowd yells angrily no)... I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people! (Audas tribesmen cheer)"

"When we told lies you told half-lies. And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it."

"Big things have small beginnings."

"On the whole, I wish I’d stayed in Tunbridge Wells."

"Peter O'Toole - T.E. Lawrence"

"Omar Sharif - Sherif Ali"

"Alec Guinness - Prince Feisal"

"Anthony Quinn - Auda ibu Tayi"

"Claude Rains - Mr. Dryden"

"Jack Hawkins - General Edmund Allenby"

"Arthur Kennedy - Jackson Bentley"

"Anthony Quayle - Colonel Harry Brighton"

"I was called to the bar in London, and enrolled at the High Court of Chancery. I am, therefore, an attorney. And, since I am in your eyes coloured, I think we can deduce that there is at least one coloured attorney in South Africa."

"In this cause, I too am prepared to die, but my friends, there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Whatever they do to us, we will attack no one, kill no one. They will imprison us; they will fine us; they will seize our possessions; but they cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. I am asking you to fight against their anger, not to provoke it. We will not strike a blow, but we will receive them; and through our pain, we will make them see their injustice. And it will hurt, as all fighting hurts. But we cannot lose. They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience."

"Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always."

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

"We think it is time that you recognized that you are masters in someone else's home. Despite the best intentions of the best of you, you must, in the nature of things, humiliate us to control us. General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle... it is time you left."

"I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you."

"The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law. They are not in control; we are."

"If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."

"(dying words) Oh God."

"Lord Irwin, Viceroy: Mr. Gandhi will find that it takes a great deal more than a pinch of salt to bring down the British Empire."

"Edward R. Murrow: [at Gandhi's funeral] The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not the commander of great armies nor a ruler of vast lands. He could not boast any scientific achievement or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom. In the words of General George C. Marshall, the American Secretary of State, "Mahatma Gandhi had become the spokesman for the conscience of all mankind. He was a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful than empires." And Albert Einstein added, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever, in flesh and blood, walked upon this Earth.""

"His Triumph Changed The World Forever."

"The Man of the Century. The Motion Picture of a Lifetime."

"A WORLD EVENT It took one remarkable man to defeat the British Empire and free a nation of 350 million people. His goal was freedom for India. His strategy was peace. His weapon was his humanity."

"Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi"

"Roshan Seth - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru"

"Candice Bergen - Margaret Bourke-White"

"Edward Fox - Gen. Reginald Dyer"

"John Gielgud - Lord Irwin"

"Trevor Howard - Judge Broomfield"

"John Mills - Lord Chelmsford"

"Martin Sheen - Vince Walker"

"Ian Charleson - Rev. Charlie Andrews"

"Athol Fugard - Gen. Jan Christiaan Smuts"

"Günther Maria Halmer - Dr. Herman Kallenbach"

"Saeed Jaffrey - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel"

"Geraldine James - Mirabehn"

"Alyque Padamsee - Muhammad Ali Jinnah"

"Amrish Puri - Kahn"

"The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast. But my father, James Burbage, had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, and he drew from poets the literature of the age. We must show them that we are men of parts. Will Shakespeare has a play. I have a theatre. The Curtain is yours."

"I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players."

"[to her Nurse] I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play."

"Write me well."

"I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that."

"[to Lord Wessex] Have her then, but you're a lordly fool. She's been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you... it takes a woman to know it."

"Master Kent, as I foretold, Lord Wessex has lost his wife to the theater. Go, make your farewell, and send her out."

"Love denied blights the soul we owe to God."

"You see? The comsumptives plot against me. "Will Shakespeare has a play, let us go and cough through it.""

"[last lines] My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola."

"A Comedy About the Greatest Love Story Almost Never Told..."

"Love is the only inspiration."

"Joseph Fiennes - Will Shakespeare"

"Gwyneth Paltrow - Viola De Lesseps"

"Judi Dench - Queen Elizabeth"

"Geoffrey Rush - Philip Henslowe"

"Colin Firth - Lord Wessex"

"Tom Wilkinson - Hugh Fennyman"

"Ben Affleck - Ned Alleyn"

"Steve O'Donnell - Lambert"

"Tim McMullen - Frees"

"Steven Beard - Makepeace"

"Patrick Barlow - Will Kempe"

"Martin Clunes - Richard Burbage"

"Rupert Everett - Christopher Marlowe"

"Sandra Reinton - Rosaline"

"Simon Callow - Edmund Tylney"

"Imelda Staunton - Nurse"

"Jill Baker - Lady De Lesseps"

"Nicholas Le Prevost - Sir Robert De Lesseps"

"Joe Roberts - John Webster"

"I have always liked movies, and sometimes an image or a scene or a character stays with me for years and inspires me when I write. For example: the magic in Fanny and Alexander or the story within a story of Shakespeare in Love."

"My sister Veronica and I had this double act, and my husband Charlie traveled around with us. Now for the last number in our act, we did these twenty acrobatic tricks in a row. One, two, three, four, five, splits, spread-eagles, backflips, flip-flops, one right after the other. So this one night before the show, we're down at the Hotel Cicero; the three of us, boozin'... having a few laughs. And we ran out of ice, so I go out to get some. I come back... open the door... and there's Veronica and Charlie, doing number seventeen: the spread-eagle. Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out, I can't remember a thing. It wasn't until later...when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead!"

"(Singing) Come on babe, why don't we paint the town? And all that jazz! I'm gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockings down... And all that jazz! Start the car, I know a whoopie spot, where the gin is cold and the piano's hot! It's just a noisy hall where there's a nightly brawl, and all... that... jazz!"

"(Listening to a description of Roxie's trial on the radio) Oh, mama, she stole my garter...(grabs radio and shakes it) She stole my garters! First she steals my publicity, then she steals my lawyer, my trial date, and now she steals my goddamn garter!"

"(Smoking her cigarette and smoke puffs from her red lips) Cicero."

"Look honey, you want some advice? Well, here it is, direct from me to you. Keep your paws off my underwear, 'kay?"

"(Singing) My sister and I had an act that couldn't flop. My sister and I were headed straight for the top! My sister and I made a thou, a week at least- oh yea- but my sister is now unfortunately deceased. I know it's sad, of course, but a fact, is still a fact. And now all that remains, is the remains of a perfect, double, act!"

"(Singing) No, I'm no one's wife, but oh, I love my life!! And all... that... Jazz!!!!"

"(Singing) She'd say, "What's your sister like?" I'd say, "Men.""

"You wanted my advice, right? Well here it is. Don't forget Billy Flynn's number one client is... Billy Flynn."

"I just can't take it anymore! You can't go anywhere without hearing about that dumb tomato! (Mama sits up with her hair dyed like Roxie's) Oh, no, Mama, not you too."

"What's your talent; washing and drying?"

"(After Roxie turns down her idea of doing a double act together saying "It'll never work./'Cause I hate you!") There's only one business in the world where that's no problem at all.....(raises eyebrow and grins slyly...leads into Nowadays)"

"My audience loves me. And I love them. And they love me for lovin' them and I love them for lovin' me. And we love each other. And that's cause none of us got enough love in our childhoods. And that's showbiz, kid."

"(Singing) And that's good, isn't it? Grand, isn't it? Great, isn't it? Swell, isn't it? Fun, isn't it?"

"(Singing) You can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. You can even marry Harry, and mess around with Ike!"

"(At a press conference, protesting her innocence) I bet you want to know why I shot the bastard?"

"(Singing) Who says that murder's not an art?"

"(In a Southern accent) I was born on a beautiful Southern convent... (In a normal voice) Oh, holy shit! I'm never gonna get this straight!!!"

"And then I started foolin' around... and then I started screwin' around, which is foolin' around without dinner."

"This dress makes me look like a Woolworths lamp shade! I'm not wearing this dress!"

"You were mentioned in the paper today, in the back with the obituaries. 'Velma Kelly's trial has been postponed indefinitely.' Seven words."

"Oh, and by the way, here's a piece of advice from me to you: lay off the caramels."

"(Velma just sung "I Can't Do It Alone") So where was the part where you blew her brains out??"

"Boy, what a sap I was!"

"(Singing) A human being's made of more than air? With all that bulk you're bound to see 'em there! ...Unless that human bein' next to you, is unimpressive, undistingushed, you... know... who."

"(Singing) Cellophane, Mr. Cellophane should'a been my name; Mr Cellophane. 'Cause you can look right through me, walk right by me, and never know I'm there."

"(after singing Mr. Cellophane) Hope I didn't take up too much of your time."

"When you came to me, I didn't ask if she was guilty, I didn't ask if she was innocent, I didn't ask if she was a drunk, a dope fiend. No, I asked, did you have five thousand dollars, and you told me yes, but you don't have five thousand dollars so I figure you're a dirty liar and I don't do deals with dirty liars! (Amos reaches out to take back the money) However..."

"(Singing) Give 'em the old razzle dazzle; razzle dazzle 'em. Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it and the reaction will be passionate. Give 'em the old hocus pocus; bead and feather 'em. How can they see with sequins in their eyes? What if your hinges all are rusting? What if, in fact, you're just disgusting? Razzle dazzle 'em, and they'll never catch wise."

"It's all a circus, kid. A three ring circus. These trials - the whole world - all showbusiness. But kid, you're working with a star - the biggest!"

"They'd love you a lot more if you were hanged. You know why? Because it would sell more papers. That's Chicago."

"You're a free woman, Roxie Hart. And God save Illinois."

"This is Chicago, kid. You can't beat fresh blood on the walls."

"I don't like to blow my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently."

"As you know I'm here to take care of you. Now if anything hurts you, or upsets you in any way... don't run your fat-ass mouth off to me cause I don't give a shit. Now move out."

"(Singing) The folks atop the ladder are the ones the world adores. So boost me up my ladder kid, and I'll boost you up yours!"

"(Singing) Let's all stroke together, like the Princeton crew. When you're strokin' Mama, Mama's strokin' you!"

"Sometimes you get a little success, and it's good riddance to who put you there."

"(Singing) Ask any of the chickies in my pen, they'll tell you I'm the biggest mother... hen."

"(Having been asked what the cost of a phonecall is) Come on, Vel, you know how I feel about you. You're like family to me, one of my own. ...I'll do it for fifty."

"In this town, murder's a form of entertainment."

"Miss Velma Kelly in an act...of desperation."

"Mr. Billy Flynn and the press conference rag. Notice how his mouth never moves...almost."

"[Billy Flynn goes to cross-examine Velma Kelly] Ladies and gentlemen...a tap dance."

"Some men just can't hold their arsenic."

"And then he ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times."

"No sense being a grifter if it's the same as bein' a citizen."

"[enters the poker game pretending to be drunk] Sorry I'm late, guys, I was takin' a crap."

"You see that fella in the red sweater over there? His name's Donnie McCoy. Works a few of the protection rackets for Cunnaro when he's waiting for something better to happen. Donnie and I have known each other since we were six. Take a good look at that face, Floyd. Because if he ever finds out I can be beat by one lousy grifter, I'll have to kill him and every other hood who wants to muscle in on my Chicago operation."

"[to Snyder] Sit down and shut up, will ya? Try not to live up to all my expectations."

"Robert Redford — Johnny "Kelly" Hooker"

"Paul Newman — Henry "Shaw" Gondorff"

"Robert Shaw — Doyle Lonnegan"

"Charles Durning — Lieutenant William Snyder"

"Ray Walston — J.J. Singleton"

"Eileen Brennan — Billie"

"Harold Gould — Kid Twist"

"John Heffernan — Eddie Niles"

"Dana Elcar — FBI Agent Polk"

"Jack Kehoe — Erie Kid"

"Dimitra Arliss — Loretta Salino"

"Robert Earl Jones — Luther Coleman"

"Charles Dierkop — Floyd"

"James J. Sloyan — Mottola"

"Everybody has a heart - except some people."

"Autograph fiends, they're not people. Those are little beasts that run around in packs like coyotes...They're nobody's fans. They're juvenile delinquents, they're mental defectives, they're nobody's audience. They never see a play or a movie even. They're never indoors long enough."

"Suddenly, I've developed a big protective feeling for her. A lamb loose in our big stone jungle."

"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

"Enchanté to you, too!"

"I distinctly remember, Addison, crossing you off my guest list. What are you doing here?"

"So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me."

"Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman."

"Lloyd, I am not twenty-ish. I am not thirty-ish. Three months ago, I was forty years old. Forty. Four oh - That slipped out. I hadn't quite made up my mind to admit it. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off."

"Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men."

"[to Bill] This is my house, not a theater. In my house, you're a guest, not a director."

"[responding to Karen's disbelief] In this rat race, everybody's guilty till they're proved innocent!"

"The little witch must have sent out Indian runners, snatching critics out of bars and steam rooms and museums, or wherever they holed up. Well, she won't get away with it, nor will Addison De Witt and his poison pen. If Equity or my lawyer can't or won't do anything about it, I shall personally stuff that pathetic little lost lamb down Mr. De Witt's ugly throat."

"Never have I been so happy...I'm forgiving tonight, even Eve, I forgive Eve...Do you know what I'm going to be?...A married lady...No more make believe off stage or on. Remember, Lloyd? I mean it now...I don't want to play Cora...It isn't the part. It's a great part in a fine play. But not for me anymore. Not for a four-square, upright, downright, forthright married lady...It means I finally got a life to live. I don't have to play parts I'm too old for, just because I've got nothing to do with my nights."

"Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be."

"I've seen every performance...I'd like anything Miss Channing played in...I think that part of Miss Channing's greatness lies in her ability to pick the best plays."

"But somehow, acting and make believe began to fill up my life more and more. It got so I couldn't tell the real from the unreal. Except that the unreal seemed more real to me."

"When you're a secretary in a brewery, it's pretty hard to make-believe you're anything else. Everything is beer."

"And there were theaters in San Francisco. And then one night, Margo Channing came to play in Remembrance and I went to see it. Well, here I am."

"If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights and wrapping you up."

"I'll never forget this night as long as I live, and I'll never forget you for making it possible."

"Lloyd Richards. He's going to leave Karen. We're going to be married...Lloyd loves me, I love him...I'm in love with Lloyd...Oh Addison, won't it be just perfect? Lloyd and I - there's no telling how far we can go. He'll write great plays for me, I'll make them great."

"The Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement is perhaps unknown to you. It has been spared the sensational and commercial publicity that attends such questionable 'honors' as the Pulitzer Prize - and those awards presented annually by that film society. This is the dining hall of the Sarah Siddons Society. The occasion is its annual banquet and presentation of the highest honor our theater knows - the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement...The minor awards, as you can see, have already been presented. Minor awards are for such as the writer and director [playwright Lloyd Richards and director Bill Sampson are briefly viewed] since their function is merely to construct a tower so that the world can applaud a light which flashes on top of it. And no brighter light has ever dazzled the eye than Eve Harrington. Eve. But more of Eve later, all about Eve, in fact."

"To those of you who do not read, attend the theater, listen to unsponsored radio programs or know anything of the world in which you live - it is perhaps necessary to introduce myself. My name is Addison De Witt. My native habitat is the theater. In it, I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theater."

"She is the wife of a playwright, therefore of the theater by marriage. Nothing in her background or breeding should have brought her any closer to the stage than Row E, Center. However, during her senior year at Radcliffe, Lloyd Richards lectured on the drama. The following year, Karen became Mrs. Lloyd Richards."

"There are in general two types of theatrical producers. One has a great many wealthier friends who will risk a tax deductible loss. This type is interested in art. The other is one to whom each production means potential ruin or fortune. This type is out to make a buck."

"Margo Channing is a Star of the Theater. She made her first stage appearance, at the age of four, in Midsummer Night's Dream. She played a fairy and entered - quite unexpectedly - stark naked. She has been a Star ever since. Margo is a great Star. A true star. She never was or will be anything less or anything else."

"We know her humility, her devotion, her loyalty to her art, her love, her deep and abiding love for us, for what we are and what we do, the theater. She has had one wish, one prayer, one dream - to belong to us. Tonight, her dream has come true. And henceforth, we shall dream the same of her. Eve. Eve the Golden Girl, the Cover Girl, the Girl Next Door, the Girl on the Moon. Time has been good to Eve. Life goes where she goes. She's the profiled, covered, revealed, reported. What she eats and what she wears and whom she knows and where she was, and when and where she's going. Eve. You all know all about Eve. What can there be to know that you don't know?"

"Dear Margo. You were an unforgettable Peter Pan. You must play it again soon."

"Every now and then some elder statesman of the theater or cinema assures the public that actors and actresses are just plain folks. Ignoring the fact that their greatest attraction to the public is their complete lack of resemblance to normal human beings."

"I have lived in the theater as a Trappist monk lives in his faith. I have no other world; no other life - and once in a great while, I experience that moment of revelation for which all true believers wait and pray. You were one. Jeanne Eagels another...there are others, three or four. Eve Harrington will be among them."

"We all have abnormality in common. We're a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk; We are the original displaced personalities."

"[confronting Eve] I had lunch with Karen not three hours ago. As always with women who try to find out things, she told more than she learned. Now do you want to change your story about Lloyd beating at your door the other night? ... That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability, but that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also a contempt for humanity, an inability to love and be loved, insatiable ambition - and talent. We deserve each other...and you realize and you agree how completely you belong to me?"

"Your name is not Eve Harrington. It is Gertrude Slescynski... It is also true that you worked in a brewery, But life in the brewery was not as dull as you pictured it. As a matter of fact it got less and less dull - until your boss's wife had your boss followed by detectives! The five hundred dollars you got to get out of town brought you straight to New York. Fourth. There was no Eddie - no pilot - and you've never been married! That was not only a lie, but an insult to dead heroes and to the women who love them... Fifth, San Francisco has no Shubert Theatre. You've never been to San Francisco! That was a stupid lie and easy to expose. Eve cries and admits she had to do something, to say something, be somebody to make her like me. [Margo Channing]"

"Then stop being a star. And stop treating your guests as your supporting cast...It's about time Margo realized that what's attractive on stage need not necessarily be attractive off."

"[to Eve, who is upset] The reason is Margo, and don't try to figure it out. Einstein couldn't."

"Newton, they say, thought of gravity by getting hit on the head by an apple. And the man who invented the steam engine - he was watching a tea kettle. Not me. My big idea came to me just sitting on a couch. That boot in the rear to Margo. Heaven knows she had one coming. From me, from Lloyd, from Eve, Bill, Max, and so on. We'd all felt those size 5's of hers often enough. But how? The answer was buzzing around me like a fly. I had it. But I let it go. Screaming and calling names is one thing, but this could mean...Why not? Why, I said to myself, not? It would all seem perfectly legitimate. And there were only two people in the world who would know. Also, the boot would land where it would do the most good for all concerned. And after all, it was no more than a perfectly harmless joke that Margo herself would be the first to enjoy. And no reason why she shouldn't be told about it - in time."

"That cynicism you refer to I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys."

"Eve would ask Abbott to give her Costello."

"Lloyd never got around somehow to asking whether it was all right with me for Eve to play Cora. Bill, oddly enough, refused to direct the play at first - with Eve in it. Lloyd and Max finally won him over. Margo never came to rehearsal. Too much to do around the house, she said. I'd never known Bill and Lloyd to fight as bitterly and often and always over some business for Eve, or a move, or the way she read a speech. But then I'd never known Lloyd to meddle as much with Bill's directing, as far as it affected Eve, that is. Somehow Eve kept them going. Bill stuck it out. Lloyd seemed happy. And I thought it might be best if I skipped rehearsals from then on. It seemed to me I had known always that it would happen, and here it was. I felt helpless, that helplessness you feel when you have no talent to offer - outside of loving your husband. How could I compete? Everything Lloyd loved about me, he had gotten used to long ago."

"[about Eve] I like that girl, that quality of quiet graciousness."

"It's Addison from start to finish. It drips with his brand of venom. Taking advantage of a kid like that, twisting her words, making her say what he wanted her to say."

"There are very few moments in life as good as this. Let's remember it. To each of us and all of us, never have we been more close, may we never be farther apart."

"The atmosphere is very MacBeth-ish...what has, or is about to, happen?"

"She can play Peck's Bad Boy all she wants and who's to stop her? Who's to give her that boot in the rear she needs and deserves?"

"I haven't got a union. I'm slave labor."

"I'll tell ya how, like, like she's studyin' you, like you was a play or a book or a set of blueprints. How you walk, talk, eat, think, sleep."

"The bed looks like a dead animal act."

"Bill Sampson: Zanuck is impatient. He wants me, he needs me."

"Bill Sampson: The theatah, the theatAh - what book of rules says the theater exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City? Or London, Paris, or Vienna? Listen, junior. And learn. Want to know what the theater is? A flea circus. Also opera. Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band - all theater. Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience - there's theater. Donald Duck, Ibsen, and the Lone Ranger. Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford, Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable, Rex the Wild Horse, Eleanora Duse - they're all theater. You don't understand them, you don't like them all - why should you? The theater's for everybody - you included, but not exclusively - so don't approve or disapprove. It may not be your theater, but it's theater for somebody, somewhere...It's just that there's so much bourgeois in this ivory green room they call the theater. Sometimes it gets up around my chin."

"Max Fabian: She loves me like a father. Also, she's loaded."

"Old Actor: [about Eve] We know her humility, her devotion, her loyalty to her art, her love, her deep and abiding love for us, for what we are and what we do, the theater. She has had one wish, one prayer, one dream - to belong to us. Tonight, her dream has come true. And henceforth, we shall dream the same of her."

"Bette Davis - Margo Channing"

"Anne Baxter - Eve Harrington"

"George Sanders - Addison DeWitt"

"Celeste Holm - Karen Richards"

"Gary Merrill - Bill Sampson"

"Hugh Marlowe - Lloyd Richards"

"Gregory Ratoff - Max Fabian"

"Barbara Bates - Phoebe"

"Marilyn Monroe - Miss Caswell"

"Thelma Ritter - Birdie Coonan"

"In any real city, you walk, you brush past people, and people bump into you. In L.A, nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other just so we can feel something."

"I didn't ask for your help, did I?"

"Sandra Bullock - Jean"

"Don Cheadle - Graham"

"Matt Dillon - Officer Ryan"

"Jennifer Esposito - Ria"

"William Fichtner - Flanagan"

"Terrence Howard - Cameron"

"Ludacris - Anthony"

"Karina Arroyave - Elizabeth"

"Loretta Devine - Shaniqua"

"Thandie Newton - Christine"

"Ryan Phillippe - Officer Hanson"

"Dato Bakhtadze - Lucien"

"Michael Peña - Daniel"

"Shaun Toub - Farhad"

"Keith David - Lt. Dixon"

"Tony Danza - Fred"

"Brendan Fraser - Rick"

"Marina Sirtis - Shereen"

"Nona Gaye - Karen"

"Ken Garito - Bruce"

"Yomi Perry - Maria"

"Ashlyn Sanchez - Lara"

"Daniel Dae Kim - Park"

"Are you taking any prescription medication?"

"If the syrup is on the table after the pancakes, then it will definitely be too late."

"Charlie Babbitt made a joke."

"What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes."

"Charlie and Raymond. They are strangers. They are brothers. They have just met."

"A journey through understanding and fellowship."

"Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt"

"Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt"

"Valeria Golino - Susanna"

"Jerry Molen - Dr. Gerald Bruner"

"Ralph Seymour - Lenny"

"Michael D. Roberts - Vern"

"Bonnie Hunt - Sally Dibbs"

"Beth Grant - Mother at Farm House"

"Lucinda Jenney - Iris"

"Barry Levinson - Doctor"

"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."

"[About his decision to not give away his daughter Meg to William Roper] See here Will. Two years ago you were a loyal Churchman. Now you have fallen in with the Lutherans on account of being persuaded by their logic. I can only hope that when your head stops spinning it is affixed as God intended."

"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Wales?"

"Well, as a spaniel is to water so is a man to his own self. I will not give in because I oppose it—I do- not my pride, not my spleen, nor any of my appetites, but I do– I!"

"When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their own public duties they lead their country by a short route to chaos."

"What is an oath then but words we say to God?"

"Since the Court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how, I will now discharge my mind concerning the indictment and the King's title. The indictment is grounded in an act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the law of God, and his Holy Church, the Supreme Government of which no temporal person may by any law presume to take upon him. This was granted by the mouth of our Saviour, Christ himself, to Saint Peter and the Bishops of Rome whilst He lived and was personally present here on earth. It is, therefore, insufficient in law to charge any Christian to obey it. And more to this, the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and in the king's own coronation oath. — [Cromwell: Now we plainly see you are malicious!] — Not so. I am the king's true subject, and I pray for him and all the realm. I do none harm. I say none harm. I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, then in good faith, I long not to live. Nevertheless, it is not for the Supremacy that you have sought my blood, but because I would not bend to the marriage!!"

"I know a man who wants to change his woman."

"If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man."

"I have no wife! Catherine is not my Queen! No priest can make her so!"

"[last lines of film] Thomas More's head stood on Traitor's Gate for a month until his daughter Meg claimed it in order to give her father a proper funeral. Thomas Cromwell was beheaded five years after More was. Archbishop Cranmer was burned at the stake. The Duke of Norfolk was slated for execution but the King died of syphilis the night before the order was scheduled to be signed. Richard Rich became Lord Chancellor of England and died in his bed."

"[to Christian] They respect but one law - the law of fear...I expect you to carry out whatever orders I give, whenever I give them."

"The ship's company will remember that I am your captain, your judge, and your jury. You do your duty and we may get along. Whatever happens, you'll do your duty."

"During the recent heavy weather, I've had the opportunity to watch all of you at work on deck and aloft. You don't know wood from canvas! And it seems you don't want to learn! Well, I'll have to give you a lesson."

"[to a crewman who begs for water] I'll give you water. Mr. Morrison. Keel haul this man."

"Can you understand this, Mr. Byam? Discipline is the thing. A seaman's a seaman. A captain's a captain. And a midshipman, Sir Joseph or no Sir Joseph, is the lowest form of animal life in the British Navy."

"[about Bligh] I've never known a better seaman, but as a man, he's a snake. He doesn't punish for discipline. He likes to see men crawl. Sometimes, I'd like to push his poison down his own throat."

"[to Bligh] Now you've given your last command on this ship. We'll be men again if we hang for it."

"[to Bligh] I'll take my chance against the law. You'll take yours against the sea."

"[to Byam] When you're back in England with the fleet again, you'll hear the hue and cry against me. From now on, they'll spell mutiny with my name. I regret that."

"[to Bligh]You have obtained degrees from the Navy, but you have not got our admiration"

"To the voyage of the Bounty. Still waters of the great golden sea. Flying fish like streaks of silver, and mermaids that sing in the night. The Southern Cross and all the stars on the other side of the world."

"My lord, much as I desire to live, I'm not afraid to die. Since I first sailed on the Bounty over four years ago, I've known how men can be made to suffer worse things than death, cruelly, beyond duty, beyond necessity. Captain Bligh, you've told your story of mutiny on the Bounty, how men plotted against you, seized your ship, cast you adrift in an open boat, a great venture in science brought to nothing, two British ships lost. But there's another story, Captain Bligh, of ten cocoanuts and two cheeses. A story of a man who robbed his seamen, cursed them, flogged them, not to punish but to break their spirit. A story of greed and tyranny, and of anger against it, of what it cost."

"One man, my lord, would not endure such tyranny. That's why you hounded him. That's why you hate him, hate his friends. And that's why you're beaten. Fletcher Christian's still free. Christian lost, too, my lord. God knows he's judged himself more harshly than you could judge him. I say to his father, 'He was my friend. No finer man ever lived.' I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny, but I condemn the tyranny that drove him to it. I don't speak here for myself alone or for these men you condemn. I speak in their names, in Fletcher Christian's name, for all men at sea. These men don't ask for comfort. They don't ask for safety. If they could speak to you they'd say, 'Let us choose to do our duty willingly, not the choice of a slave, but the choice of free Englishmen.' They ask only the freedom that England expects for every man. If one man among you believe that - one man - he could command the fleets of England. He could sweep the seas for England. If he called his men to their duty not by flaying their backs, but by lifting their hearts, their... That's all."

"A Thousand Hours of Hell For One Moment of Love!"

"Clark Gable as the daring mutineer in the screen's most exciting adventure story!"

"Charles Laughton - Capt. William Bligh"

"Clark Gable - Lt. Fletcher Christian"

"Franchot Tone - Midshipman Roger Byam"

"Herbert Mundin - Smith"

"Eddie Quillan - Seaman Thomas Ellison"

"Dudley Digges - Dr. Bacchus"

"Donald Crisp - Seaman Thomas Burkitt"

"Henry Stephenson - Sir Joseph Banks"

"Francis Lister - Capt. Nelson"

"Why have they used every dirty method known to make sure I'm not elected County Treasurer? Well, I'll tell ya why - because they're afraid of the truth, and the truth is this. They're trying to steal your money. Yeah, I said steal. The County Commissioners rejected the low bid on the schoolhouse. Why? Well, they'll tell ya the reason is the job will be done better. The County Commissioners would have you believe that they're interested in public welfare. They're interested in welfare, sure, but it's their own."

"My friends, my friends, I have a speech here. It's a speech about what this state needs. There's no need in my telling you what this state needs. You are the state and you know what you need. You over there, look at your pants. Have they got holes in the knees? Listen to your stomach. Did you ever hear it rumble for hunger? And you, what about your crops? Did they ever rot in the field because the road was so bad you couldn't get 'em to market? And you, what about your kids? Are they growin' up ignorant as dirt, ignorant as you 'cause there's no school for 'em? [casts his speech away] Naw, I'm not gonna read you any speech. But I am gonna tell ya a story. It's a funny story so get ready to laugh....Get ready to bust your sides laughin', 'cause it's sure a funny story. It's about a hick, a hick like you, if ya please. Yeah, like you. He grew up on the dirt roads and the gully washes of a farm. He knew what it was to get up before dawn and get feed and slop and milk before breakfast, and then set out before sunup and walk six miles to a one-room, slab-sided schoolhouse. Aw, this hick knew what it was to be a hick, all right. He figured if he was gonna get anything done, well, he had to do it himself. So he sat up nights and studied books. He studied law, because he thought he might be able to change things some - for himself and for folks like him. Now I'm not gonna lie to ya. He didn't start off thinkin' about the hicks and all the wonderful things he was gonna do for 'em. Naw, naw, he started off thinkin' of number one. But somethin' came to him on the way. How he could do nothin' for himself without the help of the people. That's what came to him. And it also came to him with the powerful force of God's own lightning back in his home county when the school building collapsed 'cause it was built of politics' rotten brick. It killed and mangled a dozen kids. But you know that story. The people were his friends because he'd fought that rotten brick. And some of the politicians down in the city, they knew that, so they rode up to his house in a big, fine, shiny car and said as how they wanted him to run for Governor....And he swallowed it. He looked in his heart and he thought in all humility, how he'd like to try and change things. He was just a country boy who thought that even the plainest, poorest man can be Governor if his fellow citizens find he's got the stuff for the job. All those fellas in the striped pants, they saw that hick and they took him in..."

"There he is! There's your Judas Iscariot! Look at him! ...Look at him....! [Chaos] Now, shut up! Shut up, all of ya! Now listen to me, ya hicks. Yeah, you're hicks too, and they fooled you a thousand times just like they fooled me. But this time, I'm gonna fool somebody. I'm gonna stay in this race. I'm on my own and I'm out for blood. Now listen to me, you hicks! Listen to me, and lift up your eyes and look at God's blessed and unfly-blown truth. And this is the truth! You're a hick, and nobody ever helped a hick but a hick himself! Alright, listen to me! Listen to me! I'm the hick they were gonna use to split the hick vote. Well, I'm standin' right here now on my hind legs. Even a dog can learn to do that. Are you standin' on your hind legs? Have you learned to do that much yet? Here it is! Here it is, ya hicks! Nail up anybody who stands in your way! Nail up Joe Harrison! Nail up McMurphy! And if they don't deliver, give me the hammer and I'll do it myself!"

"I have nothing to hide - I'll make a deal with the devil if it will help me carry out my program. But believe me, there are no strings attached to those deals. Do you know what good comes out of?...Out of bad. That's what good comes out of. Because you can't make it out of anything else. You didn't know that, did you?"

"I'm going to build a hospital, the biggest that money can buy, and it will belong to you. Any man, woman, or child who is sick or in pain can go through those doors and know that everything will be done for them that man can do. To heal sickness, to ease pain, free - not as a charity but as a right. And it is your right, do you hear me? It is your right. And it is your right that every child should have a complete education. That any man that produces anything can take it to market without paying toll, and no poor man's land or farm can be taxed or taken away from him. And it is the right of the people that they shall not be deprived of hope."

"I'll tell you what you are. You're scared. You sat in that big easy chair of yours for thirty years and played at being a judge. And all of a sudden, I came along and put a bat in your hand and I said, 'Go ahead, judge, start swinging,' and you did, and you had a wonderful time. But now you're scared. You don't want to get your hands dirty. You want to pick up the marbles, but you don't want to get your hands dirty. Look at my whole program, Judge. How do ya think I put that across?"

"Jack, there's something on everybody. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption."

"You know, Judge, dirt's a funny thing. Some of it rubs off on everybody."

"They tried to ruin me but they are ruined. They tried to ruin me, because they did not like what I have done. Do you like what I have done? Remember, it is not I who have won, but you. Your will is my strength, and your need is my justice, and I shall live in your right and your will. And if any man tries to stop me from fulfilling that right and that will, I'll break him. I'll break him with my bare hands, for I have the strength of many."

"[his last words] Could have been whole world - Willie Stark. The whole world - Willie Stark. Why does he do it to me - Willie Stark? Why?"

"[in his newspaper article] As I watched him shake his big fist and listened to his words boom out across that field, I had the feeling that here was a man with a will of iron. I had the feeling that Willie Stark would neither be steered away nor scared away from his purpose. I had the feeling that in Willie Stark, Kanoma County had found that rare thing: an honest man with courage."

"Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds."

"Willie was right. He'd learned how to win. He spent a lot of money doing it. An awful lot of money. I was beginning to wonder where he got it from. There were rumors throughout the state that Willie was making deals with all kinds of people, strange deals...The second time out, it wasn't a campaign, it was a slaughter. It was Saturday night in a mining town. Yup, Willie came back like he said he would. He came back and he took me with him."

"What if it is his bribe? He swept the old gang out of office. What if they hollered like stuck pigs? He jammed through bill after bill and the people got what they wanted...He started to build the roads, schools, power dams, to change the face of the state from one end to the other. His methods? Politics is a dirty game and he played it rough and dirty. Willie's little black book was a record of sin and corruption. And me, Jack Burden, I kept the book and added up the accounts. Clown, show-off, playboy they yelled at him. Building football stadiums, fiercely proud of his son who played...He said he was building up a private army, but he was building, always building, always playing up to the crowd, letting them trample on tradition. Well, tradition needed trampling on. The crowds loved it, and Willie loved it, and so did I."

"The chips were down and Willie knew it. He was fighting for his life. He roared across the state making speech after speech and all of them adding up to the same thing. It's not me they're after, it's you. Willie hollered FOUL. Willie knew if you hollered long enough, hard enough, and loud enough, people begin to believe you. Just in case they didn't, he organized spontaneous demonstrations....In case anyone hollered back, he organized spontaneous slugging. Willie pulled every trick he ever knew - and added a few more...And always the trail led to one place, to Burden's Landing and the Judge."

"And so the eyes of the entire nation are now focused upon Governor Willie Stark. An amazing phenomenon on the American political scene. The whole state is filled with his accomplishments. Each one of them, of course, bearing his personal signature to make sure that no one will ever forget who gave them to the state. This is the way the roads used to be, but there are those who claim that they were adequate for the people's needs, that you don't need a four or six lane highway for a horse and buggy. When Stark boasts of his great school system, his critics say, 'You can't go to school and work in the fields at the same time,' and they question the benefit of these projects, charging that the need and poverty of the people is as great as before. Willie Stark has never forgotten the source of his power - the people who supported him. He still keeps his touch with these people of the backwoods, making periodic trips to such places as Kanoma City, now famous as his birthplace. For those who say that Willie Stark is a man of destiny, there are others who claim that he is a man of evil, a man who cares neither for the people or the state, but only for his own personal power and ambition. Obviously, these ambitions go far beyond the boundaries of the state. Just how far, only time will tell. Meanwhile, he is here, and from the looks of things, he is here to stay. Willie Stark - Messiah or Dictator?"

"He Might Have Been A Pretty Good Guy ... If Too Much Power ... And Women ... Hadn't Gone To his Head !"

"He thought he had the world by the tail - till it exploded in his face, with a bullet attached!"

"Broderick Crawford - Willie Stark"

"John Ireland - Jack Burden"

"Joanne Dru - Anne Stanton"

"John Derek - Tom Stark"

"Mercedes McCambridge - Sadie Burke"

"Shepperd Strudwick - Adam Stanton"

"Ralph Dumke - Tiny Duffy"

"Anne Seymour - Lucy Stark"

"Raymond Greenleaf - Judge Monte Stanton"

"You know what you can do with them dishes. And if you ain't man enough to do it for yourself, I'd be happy to oblige. I really would."

"Lotta rich women back there, Ralph, begging for it, paying for it, too...and the men - they're mostly tutti fruttis. So I'm gonna cash in on some of that, right?...Hell, what do I got to stay around here for? I got places to go, right?"

"Well, sir, I ain't a for-real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud."

"[to himself, in the mirror] You know what you gotta do cowboy."

"[to Ratso] You want me to stay here. You're after somethin'. What are you after? You don't look like a fag."

"We ain't gonna have to steal no more, that's what I'm tryin' to tell ya. I've got eight bucks in my damn pockets, twenty more come Thursday, boy. We're gonna be ridin' easy before very long, I'm gonna tell ya. She went crazy if you want to know the damn truth of it...She turned into a damn alley cat."

"Yours was the only one left with a palm tree on it. The clothes are damn cheap here too, you know that?"

"Everything we got only set us back ten and some... Hey you know, Ratso. Rico, I mean. I got this damn thing all figured out. When we get to Miami, what we'll do is get some sort of job, you know. Cause hell, I ain't no kind of hustler. I mean, there must be an easier way of makin' a living than that. Some sort of outdoors work. What do ya think? Yeah, that's what I'll do. OK Rico? Rico? Rico? Hey, Rico? Rico?"

"[to Joe] Terrific shirt."

"HEY! I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here! [bangs hand on car] Up yours, you son-of-a-bitch! You don't talk to me that way! Get outta here! [to Joe] Don't worry about that. Actually, that ain't a bad way to pick up insurance, you know."

"You know, with proper management, you could be takin' home fifty, maybe a hundred dollars a day, easy."

"The X on the windows means the landlord can't collect rent, which is a convenience, on account of it's condemned."

"Got my own private entrance here. You're the only one who knows about it. Watch the plank. Watch the plank. Break your god-damn skull. No way to collect insurance."

"It's not, not bad, huh? There's no heat here, but you know, by the time winter comes, I'll be in Florida."

"You know, in my own place my name ain't Ratso. I mean, it just so happens that in my own place, my name is Enrico Salvatore Rizzo...At least call me Rico in my own god-damn place."

"The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. Did you know that? That's a fact. In Florida, they got a terrific amount of coconut trees there. In fact, I think they even got 'em in the, uh, gas stations over there. And ladies? You know that in Miami, you got, uh, you listenin' to me? You got more ladies in Miami than in any resort area in the country there. I think per capita on a given day, there's probably, uh, three hundred of 'em on the beach. In fact, you can't even, uh, scratch yourself without gettin' a belly-button, uh, up the old kazoo there."

"End up a hunchback like my old man? If you think I'm crippled, you should have caught him at the end of the day. My old man spent fourteen hours a day down in that subway. He come home at night, two to three hours worth of change stained with shoe polish. Stupid bastard coughed his lungs out from breathin' in that wax all day. Even a faggot undertaker couldn't get his nails clean. They had to bury him with gloves on."

"Not bad, not bad for a cowboy. You're OK. You're OK."

"You want the word on that brother and sister act. Hansel's a fag, and Gretel's got the hots for herself so who cares, right?"

"I don't think I can walk anymore. I've been fallin' down a lot. I'm scared...You know what they do to ya when, when they know you can't, when they find out that you can't walk-walk. Oh Christ."

"[to Joe] I'm gonna use ya. I'm gonna run you ragged...You and me can have fun together. It doesn't have to be joyless."

"I've prayed on the streets. I've prayed in the saloons. I've prayed in the toilets. It don't matter where, so long as He gets that prayer."

"Annie: Do you love me Joe? Do you love me? Love me? You're the only one Joe. You're the only one. You're better Joe. You're better than the rest of 'em. You're better than any of them Joe. You love me Joe. You're better than all of 'em. You're the best Joe."

"Shirley: Like, uh, say, hay, lay, hay, hey, lay, hmmm...gay ends in y. Hmmm? Do you like that?...Gay, fey. Is that your problem, baby?"

"Bus driver: Okay, folks, everything's all right. Nothing to worry about...Okay folks, nothin' to worry about. Just a little illness. We'll be in Miami in just a few minutes."

"Dustin Hoffman - Enrico Salvatore 'Ratso' Rizzo"

"Jon Voight - Joe Buck"

"Sylvia Miles - Cass"

"John McGiver - Mr. O'Daniel"

"Brenda Vaccaro - Shirley"

"Barnard Hughes - Towny"

"Jennifer Salt - Annie"

"[to Linda] I just wanted to say how sorry I am about Nick. And how, I know how much you loved him and I know that it will never be the same. I just wanted to tell you that."

"Okay. Okay!"

"[to Stanley] You wanna play games? All right, I'll play your fucking games."

"Here's to Nick."

"What is there to be afraid of in this war? The war is a joke, a silly thing...I pay my players - cash - American. However, should you prefer German marks or perhaps Swiss francs, that of course can be arranged."

"If you are really brave and lucky, I can make you very, very rich."

"When a man says no to champagne, he says no to life."

"Steven's mother: I still do not believe this. My own boy with a strange girl and not so thin, if you understand my meaning...The next thing you know, he goes to Vietnam...I do not understand, Father. I understand nothing anymore, nothing...Can you explain? Can anyone explain?"

"Steven's mother: You marry this girl, you leave her with me, and you go with these bums to Vietnam."

"Nick: Did you hear about the happy Roman? He was "GLAD HE ATE HER"!"

"Linda: I was hoping, somehow Michael, maybe you had Nick with you...He never wrote to me, he never called me."

"Axel: You're so full of shit, you're gonna float away."

"Steven: The place is great...It's like a resort...I mean they got basketball, bowling...Princess Grace came to see us the other day."

"Robert De Niro - Michael "Mike" Vronsky"

"John Cazale - Stanley "Stan" "Stosh""

"John Savage - Steven Pushkov"

"Christopher Walken - Nikonar "Nick" Chevotarevich"

"Meryl Streep - Linda"

"George Dzundza - John Welsh"

"Chuck Aspegren - Peter "Axel" Axelrod"

"Shirley Stoler - Steven's mother"

"Rutanya Alda - Angela Ludhjduravic-Pushkov"

"Pierre Segui - Julien Grinda"

"Mady Kaplan - Axel's girl"

"Amy Wright - Bridesmaid"

"Mary Ann Haenel - Stan's girl"

"Paul D'Amato - Sergeant"

"It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yes. But what does it do to my mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly, I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent, supremely competent. I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I'm Van Gogh, painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto. I'm John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat. I'm Jesse James and his two brothers — all three of 'em. I'm W. Shakespeare. And out there it's not Third Avenue any longer: it's the Nile, Nat, the Nile — and down it moves the barge of Cleopatra."

"If we let you guys go home alone, a lot of you don't go home. You just hit the nearest bar and bounce right back again. What we call the quick ricochet... This department is sort of a halfway hospital, halfway jail... Listen, I can pick an alkie with one eye shut. You're an alkie. You'll come back. They all do. [gesturing toward other patients] Him, for instance. He shows up every month — just like the gas bill. And the one there with the glasses — another repeater. This is his forty-fifth trip. A big executive in the advertising business. A lovely fellow. Been coming here since 1927 — good ol' Prohibition days. Say, you should have seen the joint then. This is nothing. Back then, we really had a turn-over. Standing-room only. Prohibition. That's what started most of these guys off. Whoopee!"

"There'll happen to be a little floor show later on around here. It might get on your nerves... Ever have the DT's?... You will, brother... After all, you're just a freshman. Wait'll you're a sophomore. That's when you start seeing the little animals. You know that stuff about pink elephants? That's the bunk. It's little animals! Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes. See that guy over there? With him it's beetles. Come the night, he sees beetles crawling all over him. Has to be dark though. It's like the doctor was just telling me: delirium is a disease of the night. Good night."

"That's my novel, Nat...I was to start writing it out in the country. Morbid stuff. Nothing for the Book-of-the-Month Club. A horror story! Confessions of a booze addict. The log book of an alcoholic...You know what I'm gonna call my novel? The Bottle. That's all, very simply, The Bottle. I've got it all here in my mind. Let me tell you the first chapter. It all starts one wet afternoon about three years ago. There was a matinee of La Traviata at the Metropolitan..."

"The Screen Dares To Open The Strange And Savage Pages Of A Shocking Best-Seller!"

"How daring can the screen dare to be? No adult man or woman can risk missing the startling frankness of The Lost Weekend."

"Ray Milland - Don Birnam"

"Jane Wyman - Helen St. James"

"Phillip Terry - Wick Birnam"

"Howard Da Silva - Nat, Bartender"

"Doris Dowling - Gloria"

"Frank Faylen - 'Bim' Nolan, Male Nurse"

"Mary Young - Mrs. Deveridge, Birnam's Landlady"

"Anita Sharp-Bolster - Mrs. Foley, Cleaning Lady"

"Lillian Fontaine - Mrs. Charles St. James"

"Lewis L. Russell - Charles St. James"

"I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more. I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before."

"Women are irrational, that's all there is to that! Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags! They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags!"

"Damn, damn, damn, DAMN! ... I've grown accustomed to her face!"

"Her smiles, her frowns, her ups, her downs are second nature to me now, like breathing out and breathing in."

"Poor Eliza! How simply frightful! How humiliating! How delightful!"

"There even are places where English completely disappears! In America, they haven't used it for years!"

"I have often walked down this street before; But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before. All at once am I Several stories high, Knowing I'm on the street where you live."

"Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you. And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain, even that will remain without you. I can do without you!"

"All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair, Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?"

"Them 'as pinched it, done her in! (1:29:17)"

"Them she lived with would have done her in for a hatpin let alone a hat."

"Not her, gin was mother's milk to her."

"Here, what are you sniggering at? (1:30:08)"

"Come on, Dover! Move yer bloomin' arse! (1:31:18)"

"to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb. I'm a respectable girl: so help me, I never spoke to him 'cept so far as to buy a flower off me."

"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated."

"I sold flowers; I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else."

"You dear friend who talks so well, you can go to Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire!"

"All I want is 'Enry 'Iggins' 'ead."

"She's so deliciously low, so horribly dirty!"

"Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop. At the end of six months you will be taken to an embassy ball in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the king finds out you are not a lady, you will be taken to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls! If you are not found out, you shall be given a present of... uh... seven and six to start life within a lady's shop. If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl, and the angels will weep for you."

"I find the moment that a woman makes friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious and a damned nuisance. And I find the moment that I make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. So here I am – a confirmed old bachelor, and likely to remain so."

"It's about filling up the deepest cut that separates class from class and soul from soul."

"Damn Mrs Pearce, damn the coffee, and damn you! And damn my own folly for having lavished my hard-earned knowledge, and the treasure of my regard and intimacy, on a heartless guttersnipe!"

"If the Higgins oxygen burns up her little lungs, let her seek some stuffiness that suits her! She's an owl sickened by a few days of my sunshine! Very well, let her go - I can do without her. I can do without anyone! I have my own soul, my own spark of divine fire!"

"Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?"

"[to his boss, on the phone] In a pig's eye, you will!...Hey listen monkey face, when you fired me, you fired the best newshound your filthy scandal sheet ever had...That was free verse, you gashouse palooka!"

"[to his boss, who has already hung up] Oh, so you're changing your tune, eh? You're a little late with your apologies. I wouldn't go back to work for you if you begged me on your hands and knees. And I hope this will be a lesson to you."

"I never did like the idea of sitting on newspaper. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants."

"[to Ellie] Now listen, I put up a stiff fight for that seat. So if it's just the same to you - scram!"

"[in a telegram] Am I laughing? The biggest scoop of the year just dropped in my lap. I know where Ellen Andrews is...How would you like to have the story, you big tub of mush...Will try and get it. What I said about never writing another line for you still goes. Are you burning? PETER WARNE"

"[to Ellie] Now that's my whole plot in a nutshell. A simple story for simple people. If you behave yourself, I'll see that you get to King Westley. If not, I'll just have to spill the beans to Papa."

"[to Shapeley] I got a couple of machine guns in my suitcase. I'll let you have one of 'em. May have a little trouble up North. Have to shoot it out with the cops. But if you come through all right, those five G's are as good as in the bag, maybe more. I'll have a talk with the Killer, see that he takes care of ya....yeah, yeah, the big boy, the boss of the outfit. You ever hear of Bugs Dooley?...He was a nice guy, just like you. But he made a big mistake one day. Got a little too talkative. Do you know what happened to his kid?...Well, I can't tell you, but when Bugs heard about it, he blew his brains out."

"[to Peter] There is a brain behind that face of yours, isn't there? You've got everything nicely figured out for yourself."

"[to Peter] You think I'm a fool and a spoiled brat. Well, perhaps I am, although I don't see how I can be. People who are spoiled are accustomed to having their own way. I never have. On the contrary. I've always been told what to do, and how to do it, and when, and with whom. Would you believe it? This is the first time I've ever been alone with a man!...It's a wonder I'm not panic-stricken...Nurses, governesses, chaperones, even bodyguards. Oh, it's been a lot of fun."

"[to King Westley] I admit I'm licked. But it's only because I'm worried. If I don't find her soon, I'll go crazy...if she returns, I won't interfere with your marriage."

"[to Ellie, as she is walking down the aisle] That guy Warne is OK. He didn't want the reward. All he asked for was $39.60, what he spent on you. Said it was a matter of principle. You took him for a ride. He loves you Ellie. He told me so. You don't want to be married to a mug like Westley. I can buy him off for a pot of gold. And you can make an old man happy and you won't do so bad for yourself. If you change your mind, your car's waiting back at the gate."

"Detective: We're wasting our time. Can you imagine Ellie Andrews riding on a bus?"

"Shapeley: Shapeley's the name - and that's the way I like 'em!"

"Shapeley: [to Ellie] Well, shut my big nasty mouth! It looks like you're one up on me. You know, there's nothing I like better than to meet a high-class mama that can snap 'em back at ya. 'Cause the colder they are, the hotter they get. That's what I always say. Yes, sir, when a cold mama gets hot, boy, how she sizzles. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Now, you're just my type. Believe me, sister, I could go for you in a big way. 'Fun-on-the-side' Shapeley they call me, with accent on the fun, believe you me."

"Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies !"

"Together for the first time!"

"Clark Gable - Peter Warne"

"Claudette Colbert - Ellie Andrews"

"Walter Connolly - Alexander Andrews"

"Roscoe Karns - Oscar Shapeley"

"Jameson Thomas - King Westley"

"Alan Hale - Danker"

"Arthur Hoyt - Zeke"

"Blanche Friderici - Zeke's wife"

"Charles C. Wilson - Joe Gordon"

"This is Paris. And I'm an American who lives here. My name Jerry Mulligan. And I'm an ex-GI. In 1945, when the Army told me to find my own job, I stayed on and I'll tell you why. I'm a painter. All my life, that's all I've ever wanted to do. And for a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter. Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French."

"It's not a pretty face, I grant you, but underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. I like Paris. It's a place where you don't run into old friends, although that's never been one of my problems."

"Let's just say I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings."

"Adventures Of An Ex-GI In The City Of Romance."

"Arts Students' Biggest Ball"

"Most Daring Ever Filmed."

"Screen's Most Spectacular Musical!"

"What a joy! It's M-G-M's Technicolor musical!"

"Gene Kelly - Jerry Mulligan"

"Leslie Caron - Lise Bouvier"

"Oscar Levant - Adam Cook"

"Georges Guétary - Henri Baurel"

"Nina Foch - Milo Roberts"

"[about Homer] They [the Navy] couldn't train him to put his arms around his girl - to stroke her hair."

"[to Milly and Peggy] How 'bout we go celebrate the old man's homecoming...I want to do something, see something. I've been in jungles and around savages so long, I gotta find out I'm back in civilization again."

"[to Mr. Novak] You'll get your loan...You look like a good risk to me. And when those tomato plants start producing, I'll come out for some free samples."

"[to the bank president] Novak looked to me like a good bet...You see Mr. Milton, in the Army, I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His collateral is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen."

"I'm sure you'll all agree with me if I said that now is the time for all of us to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks, forget about the war and go fishing. But I'm not gonna say it. I'm just going to sum the whole thing up in one word. [Milly coughs loudly] My wife doesn't think I'd better sum it up in that one word. I want to tell you all that the reason for my success as a Sergeant is due primarily to my previous training in the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. The knowledge I acquired in the good ol' bank I applied to my problems in the infantry. For instance, one day in Okinawa, a Major comes up to me and he says, 'Stephenson, you see that hill?' 'Yes sir, I see it.' 'All right,' he said. 'You and your platoon will attack said hill and take it.' So I said to the Major, 'but that operation involves considerable risk. We haven't sufficient collateral.' 'I'm aware of that,' said the Major, 'but the fact remains that there's the hill and you are the guys that are going to take it.' So I said to him, 'I'm sorry Major, no collateral, no hill.' So we didn't take the hill and we lost the war.' I think that little story has considerable significance, but I seem to have forgotten what it is. And now in conclusion, I'd like to tell you a humorous anecdote. I know several humorous anecdotes, but I can't think of any way to clean them up, so I'll only say this much. I love the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and getting small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you."

"[to Peggy] I think they ought to put you in mass production."

"[to Marie] I don't want to be right back where we started. We can never be back there again. We never want to be back there."

"[to Homer, about Wilma] Take her in your arms, and kiss her. Ask her to marry you. Then marry her. Tomorrow if you can get a license that fast. If you want anybody to stand up for you at your wedding..."

"You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work - get kicked around."

"Marie Derry: [to Fred] Oh, you're marvelous. All those ribbons. You gotta tell me what they all mean."

"Marie Derry: [To Peggy] Never mind the romantic part of it. That takes care of itself. And I'm speaking from experience. They'll tell you money isn't everything. Well, maybe it isn't, but boy how it helps! Do you know that while Fred was away, I was drawing over five hundred dollars a month, I mean, from his Army pay and the job I had. Now the two of us got to live on what Fred gets from being a drugstore cowboy - thirty two fifty a week. Poor Fred. I guess you think he's an awful sourpuss. He didn't used to be that way, though. The Army's had an awful effect on him - knocked all the life out of him...You can't have happy marriages on that kind of dough."

"Milly Stephenson: [to Al] All right Sergeant. Gosh, you got tough."

"Mr. Milton: [to Al] There's considerable uncertainty in the business picture. Strikes, taxes still ruinous...Oh, things will readjust themselves in time. We want you back here in the saddle. You're the man for it...Your war experience will prove invaluable to us here. See, we have many new problems. This GI Bill of Rights, for instance. It involves us in consideration of all kinds of loans to ex-servicemen. We need a man who understands the soldier's problems. And at the same time, who's well grounded in the fundamental principles of sound banking. In other words, you."

"Homer Parrish: [to neighborhood kids] You want to see how the hooks work? Do you want to see the freak? All right, I'll show ya! [He smashes his two hook-fists through the window] Take a good look."

"Peggy Stephenson: [to Milly, about Fred] He said he's sorry for what happened but it was just one of those things. He said it wouldn't be fair to his wife for us to see each other anymore because I'm obviously the kind of girl that takes these things too seriously. Then he said goodbye very politely and hung up. Well, I guess you and Dad don't have to worry about me anymore. That's the end of my career as a homewrecker. Mom, I know you feel sorry for me. You think my poor little heart is broken, but you can save your sympathy. I can see things clearer now. I made a fool of myself. I'm getting some sense hammered into me now. I'm glad I'm out of that mess. I'm glad I'll never see him again."

"Pat Derry: [to his wife, reading Fred's citations] Headquarters, Eighth Air Force. Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross...Despite intense pain, shock, and loss of blood, with complete disregard of his personal safety, Captain Derry crawled back to his bombsight, guided his formation on a perfect run over the objective, and released his bombs with great accuracy. The heroism, devotion to duty, professional skill, and coolness under fire displayed by Captain Derry under the most difficult conditions reflect highest credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of the United States of America. By command of Lieutenant General Doolittle."

"Filled with all the love and warmth and joy. . .the human heart can hold!"

"Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year!"

"Samuel Goldwyn's greatest production"

"Myrna Loy - Milly Stephenson"

"Fredric March - Al Stephenson"

"Dana Andrews - Fred Derry"

"Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson"

"Virginia Mayo - Marie Derry"

"Cathy O'Donnell - Wilma Cameron"

"Hoagy Carmichael - Butch Engle"

"Harold Russell - Homer Parrish"

"For the last six months I've been spitting blood to get this agency one of the biggest account it's ever had. And at five o'clock this afternoon, we got the account. At eight o'clock, I am walking home with the vice president and tells me I'll be the next creative director of this department. I come through this door to share with my wife one of the five best days of my life, and she looks at me and tells me she doesn't want to live with me anymore! Can't you understand what she's done to me?"

"[having lunch with his boss] So the other morning, I'm at the refrigerator... you know, getting Billy ready for school. So I'm just in my underwear and he notices I've lost weight. And he comes in and pats me. He comes up to here... [touches his stomach]... and he says "Daddy, you've really lost a lot of weight", he looks up at me and he says "And it's all gone to your nose." [laughs] He was so cute. You know?"

"[in court] There's a lot of things I didn't understand, a lot of things I'd do different if I could. Just like I think there's a lot of things you wish you could change, but we can't. Some things once they're done can't be undone. My wife, my ex-wife, says that she loves Billy, and I believe she does, but I don't think that's the issue here."

"If I understand it correctly, what means the most here is what's best for our son. What's best for Billy. My wife used to always say to me: 'Why can't a woman have the same ambitions as a man?' I think you're right. And maybe I've learned that much. But by the same token, I'd like to know, what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent simply by virtue of her sex? You know, I've had a lot of time to think about what it is it that makes somebody a good parent? You know, it has to do with constancy, it has to do with patience, it has to do with listening to him. It has to do with pretending to listen to him when you can't even listen anymore. It has to do with love, like, like, like she was saying. And I don't know where it's written that it says that a woman has a corner on that market, that, that a man has any less of those emotions than a woman does."

"Billy has a home with me. I've made it the best I could. It's not perfect. I'm not a perfect parent. Sometimes I don't have enough patience because I forget that he's a little kid. But I'm there. We get up in the morning and then we eat breakfast, and he talks to me and then we go to school. And at night, we have dinner together and we talk then and I read to him. And, and we built a life together and we love each other. If you destroy that, it may be irreparable. Joanna, don't do that, please. Don't do it twice to him."

"Dustin Hoffman – Ted Kramer"

"Meryl Streep – Joanna Kramer"

"Jane Alexander – Margaret Phelps"

"Justin Henry – Billy Kramer"

"Howard Duff – John Shaunessy"

"George Coe – Jim O'Connor"

"JoBeth Williams – Phyllis Bernard (as Jobeth Williams)"

"Bill Moor – Gressen"

"Howland Chamberlain – Judge Atkins"

"Jack Ramage – Spencer"

"Jess Osuna – Ackerman"

"[after Florene storms out when Katie Bell makes a mistake] Don't worry, Katie Bell, it's not quite the end of the world."

"[Calling after Hoke as he drives away with Miss Daisy] Goodbye! Good luck! [To himself] Good God."

"The comedy that won a Pulitzer Prize."

"The funny, touching and totally irresistable story of a working relationship that became a 25-year friendship."

"Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn"

"Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan"

"Dan Aykroyd - Boolie Werthan"

"Patti LuPone - Florine Werthan"

"Esther Rolle - Idella"

"Joann Havrilla - Miss McClatchey"

"William Hall Jr. - Oscar"

"Muriel Moore - Miriam"

"Sylvia Kaler - Beulah"

"Crystal R. Fox - Katey Bell"

"On November 1, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We're one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh... Natchez, Mississippi. I work on the 19th floor. Ordinary Policy Department, Premium Accounting Division, Section W, desk number 861."

"As for myself, I very often stay on at the office and work for an extra hour or two, especially when the weather is bad. It's not that I'm overly ambitious, it's just a way of killing time, until it's all right for me to go home. You see, I have this little problem with my apartment...I live in the West Sixties, just half a block from Central Park. My rent is $85 a month. It used to be eighty until last July when Mrs. Lieberman (Frances Lax), the landlady, put in a second-hand air conditioning unit. It's a real nice apartment - nothing fancy - but kind of cozy - just right for a bachelor. The only problem is - I can't always get in when I want to."

"Y'know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe. I mean shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were."

"How could I be so stupid? You would think I should have learned by now. When you're in love with a married man you shouldn't wear mascara."

"Why do people have to love people anyway?"

"Some people take, some people get took. And they know they're getting took and there's nothing they can do about it."

"I wonder how long it takes to get someone you're stuck on out of your system. They should invent a pump for that."

"Jack Lemmon - Calvin Clifford (C. C.) "Bud" Baxter"

"Shirley MacLaine - Fran Kubelik"

"Fred MacMurray - Jeff D. Sheldrake"

"Ray Walston - Joe Dobisch"

"Jack Kruschen - Dr. Dreyfuss"

"David Lewis - Al Kirkeby"

"Hope Holiday - Mrs. Margie MacDougall"

"Joan Shawlee - Sylvia"

"Naomi Stevens - Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss"

"Johnny Seven - Karl Matuschka"

"Joyce Jameson - The blonde"

"Willard Waterman - Mr. Vanderhoff"

"David White - Mr. Eichelberger"

"Edie Adams - Miss Olsen"

"[opening monologue] I was Sheriff of this county when I was 25 years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman, father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time, him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time Sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough never carried one. That's the younger Jim. Gaston Borkins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can't help but wonder how they'd have operated in these times. There was this boy I sent to the electric chair at Huntsville here awhile back, my arrest and my testimony. He killed a 14 year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been plannin' to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out, he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell, be there in about fifteen minutes. I don't know what to make of that. I surely don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willin' to die to even do this job. but I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin' I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say: "Okay, I'll be part of this world.""

"All the time you spend trying to get back what's been took from you, more is going out the back door."

"There are no clean getaways."

"You can't stop what's coming."

"There are no laws."

"Where's the last man standing?"

"Tommy Lee Jones - Sheriff Ed Tom Bell"

"Josh Brolin - Llewelyn Moss"

"Javier Bardem - Anton Chigurh"

"Kelly Macdonald - Carla Jean Moss"

"Tess Harper - Loretta Bell"

"Woody Harrelson - Carson Wells"

"Stephen Root - Man Who Hires Wells"

"Barry Corbin - Ellis"

"Now listen, hear me good, Mama. Please. Don't make me have to send you to jail... There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time."

"I got the motive which is murder and the body which is dead!"

"They call me Mister Tibbs!"

"They got a murder on their hands... they don't know what to do with it."

"They're going to pin something on that smart cop from Philadelphia... maybe a medal... maybe a murder!"

"Sidney Poitier - Detective Virgil Tibbs"

"Rod Steiger - Police Chief Bill Gillespie"

"Warren Oates - Sergeant (Patrolman) Sam Wood"

"Lee Grant - Mrs. Leslie Colbert"

"Larry Gates - Eric Endicott"

"James Patterson - Lloyd Purdy (Delores's brother)"

"William Schallert - Mayor Webb Schubert"

"Beah Richards - Mama Caleba (Mrs. Bellamy)"

"Peter Whitney - CPL. George Courtney"

"Kermit Murdock - H.E. Henderson (banker)"

"Larry D. Mann - Watkins"

"Quentin Dean - Delores Purdy"

"Anthony James - Ralph Henshaw (diner counterman)"

"Arthur Malet - Ted Ulam (mortician)"

"Scott Wilson - Harvey Oberst (murder suspect)"

"Matt Clark - Packy Harrison"

"Eldon Quick - Charlie Hawthorne (photographer)"

"Harry Dean Stanton- policeman"

"Jester Hairston - Henry (Endicott's butler)"

"What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat. Sleep. Loaf around. Flirt a little. Dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall, and no one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed, and that's the end."

"When a man's collar is an inch too big for him I know he's ill."

"Believe me, Mr. Kringelein, a man who is not with a woman is a dead man."

"The Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come. People go...nothing ever happens."

"I think Suzette, I've never been so tired in all my life.."

"Then we’ll go to Tremezzo. I have a villa there. The sun will shine! […] We’ll be happy and lazy. […] It will be divine ! Divine ! Divine !"

"To life! To the magnificent, dangerous, brief, brief, wonderful life...and the courage to live it! You know, Baron, I've only lived since last night, but that little while seems longer than all the time that's gone before."

"[to Preysing, after he tries to get 'familiar' with her by asking her to call him by his first name] You know I always say that nothing should be left hanging over. And names are like that. Suppose I met you next year and said, 'How do you do Mr. Preysing?' And you said, 'That's the young lady who was my secretary in Manchester.' That's all quite proper. But supposing I saw you and yelled 'Hi baby. Remember Manchester.' [he laughs] Yeah, and you were with your wife. How would you like that?"

"I don't know much about women. I've been married for 28 years, you know."

"Greta Garbo - Grusinskaya, the dancer"

"John Barrymore - the Baron Felix von Gaigern"

"Joan Crawford - Flaemmchen, the stenographer"

"Wallace Beery - General Director Preysing"

"Lionel Barrymore - Otto Kringelein"

"Lewis Stone - Dr Otternschlag"

"Jean Hersholt - Senf, the porter"

"Robert McWade - Meierheim"

"Purnell Pratt - Zinnowitz"

"Ferdinand Gottschalk - Pimenov"

"Rafaela Ottiano - Suzette"

"Morgan Wallace - the chauffeur"

"Tully Marshall - Gerstenkorn"

"Frank Conroy - Rohna"

"Murray Kinnell - Schweimann"

"Edwin Maxwell - Dr Waitz"

"[to Latika] I will wait for you, 5 pm everyday at the train station."

"I wake up every morning wishing I didn't know the answer to that question. If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother."

"Police Inspector: Money and women: the reasons for make most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both."

"Prem Kumar: A few hours ago, you were giving chai for the phone walahs. And now you're richer than they will ever be. What a player!"

"Dev Patel - Jamal K. Malik"

"Freida Pinto - Latika"

"Madhur Mittal - Salim"

"Anil Kapoor - Prem Kumar"

"Saurabh Shukla - Sergeant Srinivas"

"Ankur Vikal - Maman"

"Rajendranath Zutshi - Director"

"Tanay Chheda - Middle Jamal"

"Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala - Middle Salim"

"Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar - Middle Latika"

"Ayush Mahesh Khedekar - Youngest Jamal"

"Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail - Youngest Salim"

"Rubina Ali - Youngest Latika"

"[Vikas Swarup, author of the book on which the movie is based] explained how he had named the protagonist Ram Mohammed Thomas, representing every street kid in India, while Boyle had changed this into Jamal Malik, a fully Muslim name. He communalized the plot, with Jamal’s mother being killed by Hindu communal rioters and a Rama impersonation presiding over the violence. Boyle turned the protagonist into a poor hapless Muslim and the Hindus into the bad guys. In this context, blinding a child-beggar to make him earn more by singing a Hindu religious song (a practice of which even the missionary sister Jeanne Devos says she has never come across an actual case during decades of social work in Mumbai), and of course not a Muslim song, adds to the image of Hinduism as gruesome. Briefly, he turned an innocent story into an anti-Hindu story... The fact that the writer, as a somewhat secularized Hindu, representative for dozens or even hundreds of millions of similar Hindus, fails to see the hostile intention and the very partisan effect of this manipulation, says a lot about the silly and ultimately suicidal mentality prevalent among Hindus. Only a community of sleepwalkers could willingly come to the humiliating situation of the Hindus in India and the flood of anti-Hindu slander in the media."

"[about Flap] He can't even do the simple things, like fail locally."

"[to Vernon] Don't worship me until I've earned it."

"[to Melanie] Gorgeous isn't everything."

"[to Flap] Raising three children, working full-time, and chasing women requires a lot more energy than you have. You know, one of the nicest qualities about you has always been that you recognized your weaknesses. Don't lose that quality now just when you need it the most."

"[to Aurora] Momma, that's the first time I stopped hugging first. I like that."

"[Lying in the surf after being thrown from the car] If you wanted to get me on my back, all you had to do was ask me."

"Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway"

"Debra Winger - Emma Greenway Horton"

"Jack Nicholson - Garrett Breedlove"

"Danny DeVito - Vernon Dahlart"

"Jeff Daniels - Flap Horton"

"John Lithgow - Sam Burns"

"Paul Menzel - Dr. Maise"

"F. William Parker - Doctor"

"David Wohl - Phil"

"I think it's lovely having flowers named after you."

"But in war, time is so precious to the young people."

"I know how comfortable it is to curl up with a nice, fat book full of big words and think you're going to solve all the problems in the universe. But you're not, you know. A bit of action is required every now and then."

"What goes to make a rose, ma'am, is breeding... and budding... and horse-manure, if you'll pardon the expression...And that's where you come in, ma'am."

"She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went."

"I'm sorry to disturb the harmony of this occasion, but our enemies are no respecters of flower shows."

"This is the People's War. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it then. Fight it with all that is in us and may God defend the Right."

"We, in this quiet corner of England, have suffered the loss of friends very dear to us - some close to this church: George West, choir boy; James Bellard, station master and bell ringer and a proud winner, only one hour before his death, of the Belding Cup for his beautiful Miniver rose; and our hearts go out in sympathy to the two families who share the cruel loss of a young girl who was married at this altar only two weeks ago. The homes of many of us have been destroyed, and the lives of young and old have been taken. There is scarcely a household that hasn't been struck to the heart. And why? Surely you must have asked yourself this question. Why in all conscience should these be the ones to suffer? Children, old people, a young girl at the height of her loveliness. Why these? Are these our soldiers? Are these our fighters? Why should they be sacrificed? I shall tell you why. Because this is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people, of all the people, and it must be fought not only on the battlefield, but in the cities and in the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home, and in the heart of every man, woman, and child who loves freedom! Well, we have buried our dead, but we shall not forget them. Instead they will inspire us with an unbreakable determination to free ourselves and those who come after us from the tyranny and terror that threaten to strike us down. This is the people's war! It is our war! We are the fighters! Fight it then! Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right."

"In Her Arms...He Felt A Quiet Peace No Terror Could Disturb."

""Mrs. Miniver" is more than a picture—It's dramatic. It's tender. It's human. It's real."

"Greer Garson - Mrs. Kay Miniver"

"Walter Pidgeon - Clem Miniver"

"Teresa Wright - Carol Beldon"

"Dame May Whitty - Lady Beldon"

"Reginald Owen - Foley"

"Henry Travers - James Ballard"

"Richard Ney - Vin Miniver"

"Henry Wilcoxon - Vicar"

"The boldest book of our time... Honestly, fearlessly on the screen!"

"Pouring out of impassioned pages...brawling their way to greatness on the screen!"

"Burt Lancaster - First Sergeant Milton Warden"

"Montgomery Clift - Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt"

"Deborah Kerr - Karen Holmes"

"Donna Reed - Alma 'Lorene' Burke"

"Frank Sinatra - Private Angelo Maggio"

"Philip Ober - Captain Dana "Dynamite" Holmes"

"Mickey Shaughnessy - Corporal Leva"

"Harry Bellaver - Private First Class Mazzioli"

"Ernest Borgnine - Staff Sergeant James R. "Fatso" Judson"

"Jack Warden - Corporal Buckley"

"George Reeves - Sergeant Maylon Stark"

"Claude Akins - Sergeant 'Baldy' Dhom"

"I won't talk! I won't say a word!"

"If that's the future you can have it!"

"People are tired of old actors mugging at camera to be understood. Out with the old, in with the new. Make way for the young! That's life!"

"There's one thing we could try. Trust me."

"We have to talk, George. Why do you refuse to talk?"

"PLEASE BE BE SILENT BEHIND THE SCREEN."

"WHO'S THAT GIRL? That's The Question On Everyone's Lips. Who Indeed?"

"Here is one of the most entertaining films in many a moon, a film that charms because of its story, its performances and because of the sly way it plays with being silent and black and white. "The Artist" knows you're aware it's silent and kids you about it. Not that it's entirely silent, of course; like all silent films were, it's accompanied by music. You know — like in a regular movie when nobody's talking? … I've seen "The Artist" three times, and each time it was applauded, perhaps because the audience was surprised at itself for liking it so much. It's good for holiday time, speaking to all ages in a universal language. Silent films can weave a unique enchantment. During a good one, I fall into a reverie, an encompassing absorption that drops me out of time."

"The Artist was made as a love letter to cinema, and grew out of my (and all of my cast and crew’s) admiration and respect for movies throughout history."

"I've been looking for a girl every Saturday night of my life."

"All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain."

"Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain't got it."

"[to Angie] You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog and I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees and I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me. If we make a party on New Year's, I got a date for that party. You don't like her? That's too bad! Hey Ang, when are you going to get married? You're 33 years old, and all your kid brothers and sisters are married. You oughta be ashamed of yourself."

"[to Catherine] Where you go, rain go. Someday you gonna smile, we gonna have a big holiday."

"College girls are one step from the street, I tell you. My son Joseph wife, she type on the typewriter - one step from the street!"

"So I'm an old garbage bag put in the street, huh?... These are the worst years, I tell you. It's going to happen to you. I'm afraid to look in a mirror. I'm afraid I'm gonna see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park with little bundles and black shawls waiting for the coffin. I'm fifty-six years old. And what am I gonna do with myself? I've got strength in my hands. I want to clean. I want to cook. I want to make dinner for my children. Am I an old dog to lay near the fire till my eyes close? These are terrible years, Theresa, terrible years... It's gonna happen to you. It's gonna happen to you! What are you gonna do if Marty gets married? Huh? What are you gonna cook? Where's all the children playing in all the rooms? Where's the noise? It's a curse to be a widow, a curse! What are you gonna do if Marty gets married? What are you gonna do?"

"It's the love story of an unsung hero!"

"A wonderful guy . . . once you've met him, you'll never forget him!"

"Ernest Borgnine - Marty Piletti"

"Betsy Blair - Clara"

"Esther Minciotti - Mrs. Piletti"

"Augusta Ciolli - Aunt Catherine"

"Joe Mantell - Angie"

"Karen Steele - Virginia"

"Jerry Paris - Tommy"

"Frank Sutton - Ralph (uncredited)"

"If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit."

"[Explaining the lack of fanfare regarding the awarding of Mendez' Intelligence Star] If we wanted applause, we would have joined the circus."

"[To Tony Mendez] If you're going to do a $20 million Star Wars rip-off, you need somebody who's a somebody to put their name on it. Somebody respectable. With credits. Who you can trust with classified information. Who will produce a fake movie. For free."

"The movie was fake. The mission was real."

"They weren’t making a movie, they were making history."

"The most important movie of all time ... was never made."

"Based on a declassified true story."

"Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez"

"Bryan Cranston - Jack O'Donnell"

"Alan Arkin - Lester Siegel"

"John Goodman - John Chambers"

"Clea DuVall - Cora Lijek"

"Kyle Chandler - Hamilton Jordan"

"Victor Garber - Ken Taylor"

"Tate Donovan - Bob Anders"

"Michael Parks - Jack Kirby"

"Tom Lenk - Rodd"

"Christopher Stanley - Tom Ahern"

"Taylor Schilling - Christine Mendez"

"Sheila Vand - Sahar"

"Chris Messina - Malinov"

"Richard Kind - Max Klein"

"Titus Welliver - Jon Bates"

"Rory Cochrane - Lee Schatz"

"Omid Abtahi - Reza"

"Scoot McNairy - Joe Stafford"

"Kerry Bishé - Kathy Stafford"

"Bob Gunton - Cyrus Vance"

"Adrienne Barbeau - Nina"

"Fouad Hajji - Komiteh"

"Well, don't admire people too much. They"ll disappoint you sometimes."

"You know, I think this can be saved. It's a nice clean break."

"Conrad. Let's have a great Christmas. Let's have … a great year. Let's have the best year of our whole lives. We can, you know … this could be the best one ever.."

"A little advice about feelings, kiddo; don't expect it always to tickle."

"Everything is in its proper place... Except the past."

"Some films you watch, others you feel."

"Donald Sutherland - Calvin "Cal" Jarrett"

"Mary Tyler Moore - Beth Jarrett"

"Judd Hirsch - Dr. Tyrone Berger"

"Timothy Hutton - Conrad "Con" Jarrett"

"M. Emmet Walsh - Salan"

"Elizabeth McGovern - Jeannine Pratt"

"Dinah Manoff - Karen Aldrich"

"Fredric Lehne - Joe Lazenby"

"I will not fall into despair. I will keep myself hardy, till freedom is opportune!"

"[Upon meeting his family again after 12 years] I apologize for my appearance. But I have had a difficult time these past several years."

""And that servant which knew his Lord's will... which knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself... prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes..." D'ye hear that? "Stripes." That nigger that don't take care, that don't obey his lord - that's his master - d'ye see? - that 'ere nigger shall be beaten with many stripes. Now, "many" signifies a great many. Forty, a hundred, a hundred and fifty lashes... That's Scripture."

"My name is John Tibeats, William Ford's chief carpenter. You will refer to me as Master. Mister Chapin is the overseer on this plantation. He is responsible for all of Ford's property. You too will refer to him as Master. This plantation covers many hundreds of acres, and you will traverse the Texas road between the forest site and the sawmill in double time. Any clever nigger on that path that gets a little light-footed, I will remind him that on one side men and bloodhounds patrol the border and on the other the bayou provides a hard living, with alligators and little to eat or drink that won't kill you. No slave has escaped here with his life. You're here to work niggers, so let's commence."

"[singing] Run nigger run, run so fast/Stoved his head in a hornets nest/Run nigger run well the pattyroller'll get you/ Run nigger run well you better get away."

"Clemens: If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. Tell no one who you really are and tell no one that you can read and write. Unless you want to be a dead nigger."

"Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup"

"Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps"

"Lupita Nyong'o - Patsey"

"Sarah Paulson - Mary Epps"

"Benedict Cumberbatch - William Ford"

"Brad Pitt - Samuel Bass"

"Paul Dano - John Tibeats"

"Adepero Oduye - Eliza"

"Paul Giamatti - Theophilus Freeman"

"Garret Dillahunt - Armsby"

"Scoot McNairy - Brown"

"Taran Killam - Hamilton"

"Chris Chalk - Clemens Ray"

"Michael K. Williams - Robert"

"Kelsey Scott - Anne Northup"

"Alfre Woodard - Mistress Harriet Shaw"

"Quvenzhané Wallis - Margaret Northup"

"Cameron Zeigler - Alonzo Northup"

"Rob Steinberg - Parker"

"Jay Huguley - Sheriff Villiere"

"Christopher Berry - James Birch"

"Bryan Batt - Judge Turner"

"Bill Camp - Radburn"

"Dwight Henry - Uncle Abram"

"Ruth Negga - Celeste"

"In 12 Years a Slave, McQueen immerses viewers in the magnolia-scented hell to which Northup was exiled. You will recoil at every whiplash, feel each slur, wonder at man’s inhumanity to men and women he thought animals."

"12 Years a Slave is a scarifying, unblinking portrayal of life as it was for tens of thousands of people less than 200 years ago. It pulls no punches."

"There are so many aspects that often don't [appear in ] depictions of people in those oppressive circumstances. "12 Years a Slave," for example-one thing I missed in that film was some sense of joy, some sense of pleasure, some sense of humanity."

"Wife and mother, stainless woman, hide me... hide me in your love."

"I'll show them first crack that the Oklahoma Wigwam prints all the news all the time - knowing no law except the law of God and the government of the United States. Say, that's a pretty good slogan. Top of the page - just ahead of the editorial column."

"Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country."

"[while addressing the jury, referring to the prosecutor in the case against Dixie Lee] Turn your eye to that figure that has so deservedly held your attention... this gifted person - Mr. Patrick Leary - is the only man in the glorious and brilliant southwest... nay, in this magnificent nation - of whom it may actually be said that he is able to strut sitting down. [laughter from the jury and spectators]"

"Why, we've had enough of this Wichita. We're goin' out to a brand new two-fisted, rip snortin' country full of Indians, rattlesnakes, gun toters and desperados. Whoopee!"

"There's loyalty, Sabra, that money can't buy."

"Dixie Lees have been stoned in the market place for 2,000 years. You've got to drive the devil out first."

"Never is a long time."

"They will always talk about Yancy. He's gonna be part of the history of the great Southwest. It's men like him that build the world. The rest of them, like me... why, we just come along and live in it."

"Richard Dix - Yancey Cravat"

"Irene Dunne - Sabra Cravat"

"Estelle Taylor - Dixie Lee"

"Nance O'Neil - Felice Venable"

"William Collier Jr. - The Kid"

"Roscoe Ates - Jesse Rickey"

"George E. Stone - Sol Levy"

"Stanley Fields - Lon Yountis"

"Robert McWade - Louis Hefner"

"Edna May Oliver - Mrs. Tracy Wyatt"

"Judith Barrett - Donna Cravat"

"Eugene Jackson - Isaiah"

"World's Mightiest Show!"

"Edna Ferber's Mighty Novel Becomes The Towering Colossus Of The Films !"

"Terrific As All Creation"

"Earth-shaking in its grandeur! A titanic canvas sprung to life!"

"You've been lucky, Huw. Lucky to suffer and lucky to spend these weary months in bed. For so God has given you a chance to make the spirit within yourself. And as your father cleans his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit, huh?...By prayer, Huw. And by prayer, I don't mean shouting, mumbling, and wallowing like a hog in religious sentiment. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think. Think well what you're saying. Make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that way, your prayer will have strength, and that strength will become a part of you, body, mind, and spirit. The first duty of these new legs is to get you to chapel on Sunday."

"This is the last time I will talk in this Chapel. I am leaving the Valley with regret toward those who have helped me here, and who have let me help them. But, for the rest of you, those of you who have only proved that I have wasted my time among you, I have only this to say. There is not one among you who has had the courage to come to me and accuse me of wrongdoing. And yet, by any standard, if there has been a sin, I am the one who should be branded the sinner. Will anyone raise his voice here now to accuse me? No. You're cowards, too, as well as hypocrites. But I don't blame you. The fault is mine as much as yours. The idle tongues, the poverty of mind which you have shown mean that I have failed to reach most of you with the lesson I was given to teach. [He walks to the back of the Chapel to where Huw is seated] Huw, I thought when I was a young man that I would conquer the world with truth. I thought I would lead an army greater than Alexander ever dreamed of, not to conquer nations, but to liberate mankind. With truth. With the golden sound of the Word. But only a few of them heard. Only a few of you understood. The rest of you put on black and sat in Chapel. Why do you come here? Why do you dress your hypocrisy in black and parade before your God on Sunday? From love? No. For you have shown that your hearts are too withered to receive the love of your Divine Father. I know why you have come - I have seen it in your faces Sunday after Sunday as I've stood here before you. Fear has brought you here. Horrible, superstitious fear. Fear of divine retribution - a bolt of fire from the skies. The vengeance of the Lord and the justice of God. But you have forgotten the love of Jesus. You disregard His sacrifice. Death, fear, flames, horror and black clothes. Hold your meeting then, but know if you do this in the name of God and in the house of God, you blaspheme against Him and His Word."

"I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return. I am leaving behind me my fifty years of memory. Memory. Strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago - of men and women long since dead. Yet who shall say what is real and what is not? Can I believe my friends all gone when their voices are still a glory in my ears? No. And I will stand to say no and no again, for they remain a living truth within my mind. There is no fence nor hedge round Time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can close my eyes on my Valley as it is today - and it is gone - and I see it as it was when I was a boy. Green it was, and possessed of the plenty of the earth. In all Wales, there was none so beautiful. Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday. In those days, the black slag - the waste of the coalpits - had only begun to cover the side of our hill, not yet enough to mar the countryside nor blacken the beauty of our village. For the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers through the green."

"Someone would strike up a song, and the valley would ring with the sound of many voices - for singing is in my people as sight is in the eye."

"Then came the scrubbing - out in the back yard. It was the duty of my sister Angharad to bring the buckets of hot water and cold. And I performed what little tasks I could as my father and brothers scrubbed the coal dust from their backs. Most would come off them, but some would stay for life. It is the honorable badge of the coal miner - and I envied it on my father and grown-up brothers. Scrub and scrub, and Mr. Coal would lie there and laugh at you."

"After dinner, when dishes had been washed, the box was brought to the table, for the spending money to be handed out. No one in our Valley had ever seen a bank. We kept our savings on the mantelpiece. My father used to say that money was made to be spent, just as men spend their strength and brains in earning it - and as willingly - but always with a purpose."

"Twenty-two weeks the men were out, as the strike moved into winter. It was strange to go out into the street and find the men there in the daytime. It had a feeling of fright in it. And always the mood of the men grew uglier as empty bellies and desperation began to conquer reason. Any man who was not their friend became their enemy. They knew that my father had opposed the strike and now it was they who opposed him."

"Then the strike was settled - with the help of Mr. Gruffydd and my father. Work again. Work, to wipe out the memory of idleness and hardship. The men were happy going up the hill that morning. [The colliery gates are closed by guards, leaving some of the men on the outside and shut out.] But not all of them. For there were too many now for the jobs open, and some learned that never again would there be work for them in their own Valley."

"Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my Valley then."

"Mrs. Beth Morgan: I have come up here to tell you what I think of you all, because you are talking against my husband. You are a lot of cowards to go against him. He has done nothing against you and he never has and you know it well. How some of you, you smug-faced hypocrites, can sit in the same Chapel with him I cannot tell. To say he is with the owners is not only nonsense but downright wickedness. There's one thing more I've got to say and it is this. If harm comes to my Gwilym, I will find out the men and I will kill them with my two hands. And this I will swear by God Almighty."

"Ianto Morgan: We are not questioning your authority, sir, but if manners prevent our speaking the truth, we will be without manners."

"Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!"

"Millions Have Read This Great Novel... Millions more will see an even greater picture!"

"Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd"

"Donald Crisp - Gwilym Morgan"

"Maureen O'Hara - Angharad Morgan"

"Anna Lee - Bronwyn, Ivor's wife"

"Roddy McDowall - Huw Morgan"

"Sara Allgood - Mrs. Beth Morgan"

"John Loder - Ianto Morgan"

"Patric Knowles - Ivor Morgan"

"Barry Fitzgerald - Cyfartha"

"Rhys Williams - Dai Bando"

"Morton Lowry - Mr. Jonas, school teacher"

"Arthur Shields - Mr. Parry, deacon"

"Frederick Worlock - Dr. Richards"

"Richard Fraser - Davy Morgan"

"We got two stories here: a story about degenerate clergy, and a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Which story do you want us to write? Because we're writing one of them."

"This is how it happens, isn't it Pete? Guy leans on a guy. And suddenly the whole town just looks the other way."

"Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this."

"This city, these people... making the rest of us feel like we don't belong. But they're no better than us. Look at how they treat their children. Mark my words, Mr. Rezendes. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one."

"When you're a poor kid from a poor family, religion counts for a lot. And when a priest pays attention to you, it's a big deal. He asks you to collect the hymnals or take out the trash, you feel special. It's like God asking for help. So maybe it's a little weird when he tells you a dirty joke, but now you got a secret together, so you go along. Then he shows you a porno mag, and you go along. And you go along, and you go along, until one day he asks you to jerk him off or give him a blow job. And so you go along with that, too, because you feel trapped, because he has groomed you. How do you say no to God, right? See, it is important to understand that this is not just physical abuse, it's spiritual abuse, too. And when a priest does this to you, he robs you of your faith. So you reach for the bottle or the needle. Or if those don't work, you jump off a bridge. That's why we call ourselves survivors."

"Peter Canellos: They say it's just physical abuse but it's more than that, this was spiritual abuse. You know why I went along with everything? Because priests, are supposed to be the good guys."

"Break the story. Break the silence."

"The true story behind the scandal that shook the world."

"To use “Spotlight” as an occasion to wax nostalgic for the vanishing glory of print would be to miss the point. The movie celebrates a specific professional accomplishment and beautifully captures the professional ethos of journalism. It is also a defense of professionalism in a culture that increasingly holds it in contempt."

"Mr. McCarthy is a solid craftsman. The actors are disciplined and serious, forgoing the table-pounding and speechifying that might more readily win them prizes from their peers. Everything in this movie works, which is only fitting, since its vision of heroism involves showing up in the morning and — whether inspired by bosses or in spite of them — doing the job."

"Mark Ruffalo - Michael Rezendes"

"Michael Keaton - Walter "Robby" Robinson"

"Rachel McAdams - Sacha Pfeiffer"

"Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron"

"John Slattery - Ben Bradlee Jr."

"Brian d'Arcy James - Matt Carroll"

"Stanley Tucci - Mitchell Garabedian"

"Gene Amoroso - Stephen Kurkjian"

"Jamey Sheridan - Jim Sullivan"

"Billy Crudup - Eric MacLeish"

"Richard Jenkins - Richard Sipe"

"Paul Guilfoyle - Peter Conley"

"Len Cariou - Cardinal Bernard Law"

"Neal Huff - Phil Saviano of SNAP"

"Michael Cyril Creighton - Joe Crowley"

"Laurie Heineman - Judge Constance Sweeney"

"[to Strickland] F-U-C-K Y-O-U"

"[To Giles] If we do nothing, neither we are."

"[From Trailer] The Natives in Amazon worshiped it. Like a God. We need to take it apart, learn how it works"

"[After Elisa offers him a towel] Oh, no. No, a man washes his hands before or after tending to his needs. It tells you a lot about man. He does it both times-it points a weakness in character."

"[to Elisa and Zelda; about the Amphibian Man] Let me say this up front: You clean that lab, you get out. The thing we keep in there is an affront. Do you know what an affront is, Zelda? [Zelda: Something offensive?] That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. You may think, "That thing looks Human". Stands on two legs, right? But... we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's how the Lord looks like, do you?"

"There he is. Dr. Fucking Shitbird."

"I do not fail. I deliver."

"[Last words, to the Amphibian Man before being killed by him] Fuck. You are a god."

"If I spoke about it... if I did... what would I tell you? I wonder. Would I tell you about the time? It happened a long time ago, it seems, in the last days of a fair prince's reign. Or would I tell you about the place? A small city near the coast... but far from everything else. Or, I don't know. Would I tell you about her? The princess without voice. Or perhaps I would just warn you about the truth of these facts... and the tale of love and loss... and the monster who tried to destroy it all."

"Get him out? What are you talking about? No! Absolutely not. Because it's breaking the law, that's why. We're probably breaking the law just talking about it."

"[interpreting Elisa] When he looks at me, the way he looks at me, he does not know what I lack... or how... I am incomplete. He sees me for what I am, as I am. He's happy to see me, every time, every day. And now, I can either save him... or let him die."

"You know, sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life."

"He's a wild creature. We can't ask him to be anything else."

"[repeated line] This is some of my best work."

"[to Elisa] Whatever this thing is, you need it."

"If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after? I believe they did. That they were in love, that they remained in love? I'm sure that's true. But when I think of her, of Elisa, the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love hundreds of years ago. Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere."

"Man is as silent as the grave. But if farts were flattery? Honey, he'd be Shakespeare"

"Some of the best minds in the country peein' all over the floor in this facility here"

"Short people are mean. I never met a short man that stays nice all the way through. No sir. Mean little backstabbers, all of 'em. Maybe it's the air down there. Not enough oxygen or somethin'."

"[to Elisa] Oh! Woman, we gon' burn in hell!"

"[to Elisa] Yeah. That's good. Keep that up. Lookin' like you don't know anything."

"Experience a connection beyond words."

"A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times."

"The creature was the most beautiful design I'd ever seen, and I saw him swimming under Julie Adams, and I loved that the creature was in love with her, and I felt an almost existential desire for them to end up together. Of course, it didn't happen."

"When I was in my 30s, I went to Universal and I said, "Can we do the movie from the point of view of the creature?" They didn't go for it. I said, "I think they should end up together." They didn't go for that, either."

"It's not the creature, I don't think that creature is designed in a way that he can be a romantic lead. It's beautiful, but it's not a romantic lead."

"Sally Hawkins — Elisa Esposito"

"Michael Shannon — Colonel Richard Strickland"

"Richard Jenkins — Giles"

"Octavia Spencer — Zelda Fuller"

"Doug Jones — The Anphibian"

"[to Father Fitzgibbons as he goes to chip a golf shot out of a sand trap] Keep your head down now, father. And watch your language."

"I'm sure that the way to say what I'd like to say will occur to me after you've gone."

"A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors."

"Hope? You know, Chuck, when you're young, it's easy to keep the fires of hope burning bright. But at my age, you're lucky if the pilot light doesn't go out."

"You know how to manage these old fussbudgets. Take him out on the golf course. Bring him out in the fresh air."

"Bing's "little angels" - the roughest gang this side of reform school!"

"When the St. Louis Browns lost Bing, the Cardinal got a good singer!"

"Bing Crosby — Father Chuck O'Malley"

"Barry Fitzgerald — Father Fitzgibbon"

"Frank McHugh — Father Timothy O'Dowd"

"James Brown — Ted Haines, Jr."

"Gene Lockhart — Ted Haines, Sr."

"Jean Heather — Carol James/Haines"

"Porter Hall — Mr. Belknap"

"Fortunio Bonanova — Tomaso Bozanni"

"Eily Malyon — Mrs. Carmody"

"Robert Mitchell Boychoir — St. Dominic's Church Choir"

"Risë Stevens — Genevieve Linden (Jenny Tuffel)"

"Stanley Clements — Tony Scaponi"

"William Frawley — Max Dolan"

"Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer — Herman Langer"

"[to his son] You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned. Look around you. Did you think these people made a plan to sleep in the sports hall with you? But here we are now, sleeping together on the floor. So, there's no need for a plan. You can't go wrong with no plans. We don't need to make a plan for anything. It doesn't matter what will happen next. Even if the country gets destroyed or sold out, nobody cares. Got it?"

"What are you, a family of charlatans?"

"Song Kang-ho - Kim Ki-taek, father of the Kim family and Park family chauffeur"

"- Kim Ki-woo, son of the Kim family and Da-hye's English tutor"

"Park So-dam - Kim Ki-jeong, daughter of the Kim family and Da-song's art therapist"

"Jang Hye-jin – Kim Chung-sook, mother of the Kim family and housekeeper"

"- Park Dong-ik, father of the Park family"

"- Choi Yeon-gyo, mother of the Park family"

"- Park Da-hye, daughter of the Park family"

"Jung Hyeon-jun – Park Da-song, son of the Park family"

"- Gook Moon-gwang, the former housekeeper"

"Park Myung-hoon – Geun-sae, Moon-gwang's husband"

"Park Geun-rok – Yoon, the former Park family chauffeur"

"- Min-hyuk, family friend of the Kims"

"[to Holly, as his blood is being transfused into Brad] If he should make love well after this, pay no attention - it will be me."

"[while Buttons is doing first aid] Buttons! If that detective sees you doing this, he won't need fingerprints!"

"Listen, sugar, the only way that you can keep me warm is to wrap me up in a marriage license."

"Narrator: [first lines] We bring you the circus, pied piper whose magic tunes greet children of all ages, from six to 60, into a tinsel and spun-candy world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter and whirling thrills; of rhythm, excitement and grace; of blaring and daring and dance; of high-stepping horses and high-flying stars. But behind all this, the circus is a massive machine whose very life depends on discipline and motion and speed. A mechanized army on wheels, that rolls over any obstacle in its path, that meets calamity again and again, but always comes up smiling. A place where disaster and tragedy stalk the big top, haunt the backyard, and ride the circus train. Where death is constantly watching for one frayed rope, one weak link, or one trace of fear. A fierce, primitive fighting force that smashes relentlessly forward against impossible odds. That is the circus. And this is the story of the biggest of the big tops, and of the men and women who fight to make it "The Greatest Show on Earth.""

"Midway barker: [last lines] That's all, ladies and gentlemen, that's all. Come again to the greatest show on earth. Bring the children. Bring the old folks. You can shake the sawdust off your feet, but you can't shake it outta your heart. Come again, folks. The Greatest Show on Earth. Come again."

"Mightiest of Motion Pictures!"

"Thrill to Cecil B. DeMille's pageantry and excitement!"

"Love! Laughter! Thrills! Wonders! Suspense! Spectacle! Heart!"

"The motion picture for everyone!"

"Betty Hutton - Holly"

"Cornel Wilde - The Great Sebastian"

"Charlton Heston - Brad Braden"

"James Stewart - Buttons the Clown"

"Dorothy Lamour - Phyllis"

"Gloria Grahame - Angel"

"Henry Wilcoxon - FBI Agent Gregory"

"Lawrence Tierney - Mr. Henderson"

"Lyle Bettger - Klaus"

"Bob Carson - Ringmaster"

"John Ridgely - Assistant Manager"

"Frank Wilcox - Circus doctor"

"Brad Johnson - unnamed reporter"

"John Kellogg - Harry"

"Julia Faye - Birdie"

"Lillian Albertson - Buttons' mother"

"Edmond O'Brien - Narrator"