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April 10, 2026
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"Hardware store customer: So far of those I've used, I haven't had much luck with any of them. Well, let's see what they say about this one. They tell you what it's ingredients are, and how it's guaranteed to exterminate every insect in the world, but they do not tell you whether or not it's painless. And I say, insect or man, death should always be painless."
"Tom Cassidy: You know what I do about unhappiness? I buy it off. Are, uh, are you unhappy? [waving around his $40,000] Now, that's, that's not buying happiness. That's just buying off unhappiness. I never carry more than I can afford to lose."
"Harrison Ford - Jack Ryan"
"David Threlfall - Inspector Robert Highland"
"Alun Armstrong - Sgt. Owens"
"Hugh Fraser - Geoffrey Watkins"
"Alex Norton - Dennis Cooley"
"Richard Harris - Paddy O'Neil"
"James Earl Jones - Vice Admiral Jim Greer"
"J. E. Freeman - Marty Cantor"
"Polly Walker - Annette"
"Samuel L. Jackson - Lieutenant Commander Robby Jackson"
"Ellen Geer - Rose"
"James Fox - Lord William Holmes"
"Thora Birch - Sally Ryan"
"Sean Bean - Sean Miller"
"Patrick Bergin - Kevin O'Donnell"
"Anne Archer - Dr. Caroline Catherine "Cathy" Ryan"
"Let the Games Begin."
"Not for honor. Not for country. For his wife and child."
"SAS could take out any one of these camps in under two minutes. Kill everybody there and be gone before the echo fades. Are you sure this is the same woman? [Jack has a vacant look on his face] Keep at it, then."
"Attention to orders. I have a presentation to make. For service above and beyond the call of duty of a tourist, or even a Marine, we recognize Professor John Patrick Ryan, with the Order of the Purple Target. [he hangs a medal around Jack's neck in the shape of a bulls-eye, with the words "SHOOT ME" on it] And hope that he will duck next time, lest he become part of history, rather than a teacher of it."
"[to Ryan] Bloody proud of yourself, aren't you? You stuck your nose in where it didn't belong. And now you've killed my baby brother."
"Listen! Who are we looking for here, huh? IRA terrorists or some ultra-violent faction of the IRA, fighting the cause their way? Jimmy O'Reardon checked into a hotel with a woman with long red hair. Long red hair! This is who we should be looking for! We find her... we'll find him."
"[showing Marty some pictures of the woman they're after, provided by Paddy O'Neil] Paddy O'Neill can sleep at night. In fact, he probably enjoys the irony. She's not Irish; she's English."
"Wendell Corey - Det. Lt. Thomas J. Doyle"
"Grace Kelly - Lisa Carol Fremont"
"Jimmy Stewart - L. B. Jefferies"
"In deadly danger...Because they saw too much!"
"Seeing isn't always believing."
"It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime."
"The most unusual and intimate journey into human emotions ever filmed !"
"See It! - If your nerves can stand it after Psycho!"
"Suspense of screaming proportions!"
"The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the work house...They got no windows in the work house. You know, in the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker. Any of those bikini bombshells you're always watchin' worth a red-hot poker? Oh dear, we've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes, sir. How's that for a bit of home-spun philosophy?"
"[regarding Thorwald] That's no ordinary look. That's the kind of a look a man gives when he's afraid somebody might be watching him."
"Frank Cady - Husband living above Thorwalds"
"Sara Berner - Wife living above Thorwalds"
"Georgine Darcy - Miss Torso"
"Ross Bagdasarian Sr. - Songwriter"
"Judith Evelyn - Miss Lonelyheart"
"Raymond Burr - Lars Thorwald"
"Thelma Ritter - Stella"
"The rock in the smokehouse, no, the bricks in the grape arbor, no, no, they'll dig for it. Sure. That's the place."
"[to Powell] It ain't in the river, is it, Harry?...Ben never told you he throw'd it in the river, did he?...The children know where it's hid. John knows. Is that it, Harry? Then, it's still here amongst us, taintin' us. You must have known about it all along, Harry? But that ain't the reason why you married me. I know that much...He made you marry me, so you could show me the Way and the Life and the salvation for my soul. Ain't that so, Harry? So you might say that it was the money that brung us together. The rest of it don't matter."
"John, you always make up that lie. There is no money. Why can't you get that through your head?"
"You have all sinned. Which one of you can say, as I can say, that you drove a good man to murder because I kept a-houndin' him, for perfume, and clothes, and face paint? And he slew two human beings. And he come to me, and he said, 'Take this money, and buy yourself the clothes! And the paint!'...But brother-n, brother-n, oh that's where the Lord stepped in, that's where the Lord stepped in...He said, the Lord, to that man, 'You take that money, and you throw it in the river!'"
"I feel clean! My whole body is a'quiver with cleanness!"
"Lord, save little children. You'd think the world would be ashamed to name such a day as Christmas for one of them and then go on in the same old way. My soul is humble when I see the way little ones accept their lot. Lord, save little children. The wind blows and the rain's a-cold. Yet they abide...They abide and they endure."
"There are too many of them. Can't kill the world."