When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his
ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.
- The Hunt For Red October
Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions
and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it
hard to believe there is no paperwork involved
when your house lands on a witch.
- Dave James
"You see, eventually your music will help put an end to war
and poverty, it will align the planets and bring them into
universal harmony, allowing meaningful contact with all
forms of life."
--George Carlin (Rufus) in Bill 'n' Teds Excellent Adventure
I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years.
When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just
tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial
period, get the movie out, and put my things in
order.
- Francis Ford Coppola
In films murders are always very clean. I show how
difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to
kill a man.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
MAXIMUS
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North,
General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife.
And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
- Russell Crowe from Gladiator
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise
terrific people--if only they'd stop writing.
- Laura Miller
from a salon.com review of the movie Finding Forrester
People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan'
movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies
all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too]
watch television and listen to the radio and go to
dances and fall in love.
- Miriam Makeba
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but
it's the middle that counts the most.
- Sandra Bullock
Hope Floats
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
- William Wallace
From the movie Braveheart
I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking
him to love her.
- Anna Scott (Julia Roberts)
Notting Hill
"If you were waiting for the oppurtune moment ... that was it."
- Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Carribean"
Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end.
- Spock
Star Trek VI Final Frontier
No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space.
- Kirk
Star Trek IV Voyage Home
Life is pain, princess. . . anyone who says
differently is selling something
- Westley
The Princess Bride
I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the
psychology of why she liked to get strangled and
tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low
self-worth.
- Tatjana Patitz
Never judge a book by its movie.
- J. W. Eagan
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know
what you're going to get.
- Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
Forrest Gump
Why is New Jersey called the Garden State? Cause
it's too hard to fit 'Oil and Petro-Chemical Refinery
State' on a license plate.
- Sandra Bullock
Miss Congeniality
Scientists are complaining that the new Dinosaur
movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't
evolve for another million years. They're afraid
the movie will give kids a mistaken impression.
What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing
and dancing?
- Jay Leno
My family is really boring. They have a coffee
table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up
the Rest of the Film.'
- Penelope Lombard
I live my life a quarter mile at a time.For those
ten seconds or least I'm free nothing else matter
- Vin Diesel (The Fast & The Furious)
White. A blank page or canvas. So many
possibilities.
- Sunday in the Park with George, by Stephen Sondhiem and James Lapine
My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the
principle that the one thing which is more
important than peace is music. It is because I
believe that I am poor.
- Tempest-Tost, by Robertson Davies
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are
starving to death.
- Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis
Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss
that when we leave Casablanca.
- Ingrid Bergman