Film Quotes

You don’t know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do…I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, “It’s in the script.” If he says, “But what’s my motivation?”, I say, “Your salary”.

Stan: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Stan: Don't you oppress me!
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan - you haven't got a womb, where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?

Bridgekeeper: What... is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: What do you mean - an African or European swallow?
Bridgkeeper: I don't know that! Ahhhh....

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

Movie criticism to be of any use whatever must go beyond formal analysis - which in movies is generally a disguised form of subjective reaction to meanings and implications, anyway.

Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation?
The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

You said it, man. Nobody f*cks with the Jesus.

Vizzini: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.
Man in Black: You're that smart?
Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.

They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?

Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No. Have you?

Many moviegoers and video viewers say they do not "like" black and white films. In my opinion, they are cutting themselves off from much of the mystery and beauty of the movies.

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Well, nobody's perfect!

Motion pictures need dialogue as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

When you get right down to it, vegans are just better than other people.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Ron Burgundy: I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.
Veronica Corningstone: Really.
Ron Burgundy: People know me.
Veronica Corningstone: Well, I'm very happy for you.
Ron Burgundy: I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.