“When the SAS is called upon to do what we’re trained to do, we have been likened to a surgeon cutting out a cancer. It’s a filthy and difficult job. We don’t like doing it, but it’s our duty.”
-Colonel Hadley (Tony Doyle), The Final Option (1982)
“No respectable gentleman is that respectable.”
-Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), The Great Train Robbery (1978)
“Next to me in the blackness lay my oiled blue steel beauty. The greatest Christmas gift I had ever received, or would ever receive. Gradually, I drifted off to sleep, pranging ducks on the wing and getting off spectacular hip shots.”
-Ralphie as an Adult (Jean Shepherd), A Christmas Story (1983)
“I’m to extend to you every facility, short of endangering the lives of the crew. That could include a pint of medicinal whiskey – if you happen to be seasick.”
-Commander Ferraday (Rock Hudson), Ice Station Zebra (1968)
“And that’s why we’re at the top of the food chain!”
-Burt Gummer (Michael Gross), Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
“Listen, just because our governments are behaving like asses doesn’t mean we have to. We’re supposed to be scientists, not politicians.”
-Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
“I tell them you say they no good fighters… and that their mothers have sex with mules…. Oh, make them very angry! Fight hard. Good training.”
-Xian Chow (Dennis Chan), Kickboxer (1989)
“Now the single greatest liability a lawyer can have is pride. Pride… Pride has lost more cases than lousy evidence, idiot witnesses and a hanging judge all put together. There is absolutely no place in a courtroom for pride.”
-Jerome Facher (Robert Duvall), A Civil Action (1998)
Nobody Move! 