Here are some of my favourite movie speeches and quotes:
"You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send on of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone!"
~Sean Connery as Jim Malone,
The Untouchables
"There is no immunity from me. Every criminal I've put in prison, every cop who owes me a favour, every creeping scumbag who works the streets for a living will know the name of Verbal Kint. You're the lowest form of rat, the prince of snitches, the loudest cooing stool pigeon ever to grab his ankles for the man. Now, you listen to me, or that precious immunity they seemed so fit to grant you won't be worth the paper the contract put out on your life was printed on"
~Chazz Palminteri as Agent Dave Kujan,
The Usual Suspects
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
~Al Pacino as Tony Montana,
Scarface
"Out of order, I'll show you out of order! You don't know what out of order is Mr. Trask! I'd show you but I'm too old, I'm too tired, and I'm too f*****' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a flame-thrower to this place. Out of order, who the hell do you think you're talking to? I've been around you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen, boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit, there is no prosthetic for that. You think you're merely sending this splendid foot-soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs but I say that you are executing his soul. And why? Because he's not a Baird man. Baird men, you hurt this boy, you're going to be Baird Bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, f*** you too. "
~Al Pacino as Col Frank Slade,
Scent of a Woman
"I can't let this go. I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. You're a good person. You're a good and beautiful person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things -- those things about how stupid you are and this and that. I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see? "
~John C Reilly as Jim Kurring in
Magnolia
"Never, never, interrupt me, okay? Not if there's a fire, not even if you hear the sound of a thud from my home and one week later there's a smell coming from there that can only be a decaying human body and you have to hold a hanky to your face because the stench is so thick that you think you're going to faint. Even then, don't come knocking. Or, if it's election night, and you're excited and you wanna celebrate because some fudgepacker that you date has been elected the first queer president of the United States and he's going to have you down to Camp David, and you want someone to share the moment with. Even then, don't knock. Not on this door. Not for ANY reason. Do you get me, sweetheart?"
"People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch."
Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin: Easy. I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
~Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in
As Good as it
Gets
"Sir, I'm retired navy, I know all about classified. But one more thing. The person who finds her [the comet] gets to name her right? I wanna name her Dottie after my wife. She's a vicious life-sucking bitch from which there is no escape.
~John Marlon as Karl in
Armageddon
"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. "
~Woody Allen as Alvy Singer in
Annie Hall
(I have too many Woody faves to list here!)
"I know this sounds silly, and I know that I might sound ridiculous, like this is the scene in the movie where the guy is trying to get hold of the long lost son, you know, but this is that scene. And I think they have these scenes in movies because they are true. You know, because they really happen. And you gotta believe me, this is really happening. I mean, I can give you my number, and you can go check with whoever you gotta check with, and call me back but do not leave me hanging on this. Please. Just...please."
~Philip Seymour Hoffman as Phil Parma in
Magnolia
"I'm the key figure in an ongoing government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a global conspiracy, actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that reaches down into the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet, so, of course, no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the sh*t-storm of all time."
~David Duchovny as Fox Mulder in
The X Files
There's loads of others, including Joe Pesci's many quotes from
Goodfellas and
Casino, plus a great series of quotes from
Do The Right Thing, but they would have to be so censored there wouldn't be a lot left
