Christopher Plummer Quotes

Chang I am ]...

Leonard McCoy I'd give real money if he'd shut up.

Henrik Vanger You will be investigating thieves, misers, bullies. The most detestable collection of people you will ever meet. My family.

Shitty At my age, I need an hour in the bathroom in the morning! And there's always one of them skinny, titless mannequins in there fluffing up her hair.

Mike Wallace Who are these people?

Lowell Bergman Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?

Mike Wallace Will you tell him that when I conduct an interview, I sit anywhere I damn please!

William Fawcett Robinson Do you actually believe that I have nurtured her, cared for her, molded, taught, developed her for all these years merely to groom a wife?! A star. Only someone with the limit awareness of your age could possibly conceive that my entire passion for this woman is no more than physical! Are you incapable of understanding that she has it within herself to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest actress of her generation?

Mike Wallace Mike"? Try "Mr. Wallace." We work in the same corporation, doesn't mean we work in the same profession. What are you gonna do now? You gonna finesse me? Lawyer me some more? I've been in this profession fifty fucking years. You and the people you work for are destroying the most-respected, the highest-rated, the most-profitable show on this network!

Captain Georg von Trapp My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die. Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me.Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever.Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever.

Jimmy We're broke, we're desperate, we're hopeless... The fag doesn't pay, the Shit doesn't pay.

Chloe Don't call him "the fag!

Daphne Don't call him "the Shit!

Shitty At least I'm "the Shit." You're just A shit.

Mike Wallace In the real world, when you get to where I am, there are other considerations.

Lowell Bergman Like what? Corporate responsibility? What, are we talking celebrity here?

Mike Wallace I'm not talking celebrity, vanity, CBS. I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now, what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is "How will I be regarded in the end?" After I'm gone. Now, along the way I suppose I made some minor impact. I did Iran-Gate and the Ayatollah, ], ], ], Sadat, et cetera, et cetera. I showed them thieves in suits. I've spent a lifetime building all that. But history only remembers most what you did last. And should that be fronting a segment that allowed a tobacco giant to crash this network? Does it give someone at my time of life pause? Yeah.

Simon Wyler Where's your brother?

Alex Wyler I sent him away. He wasn't feeling well. You know how he is, he worries.

Simon Wyler Yeah, I know. He gets that from your mother, I'm afraid. She always worried too much.

Alex Wyler What are you looking at?

Simon Wyler Hmm? Oh, yeah, here, take a gander. It's a proposal for a museum.

Alex Wyler Who is it?

Simon Wyler Someone new.

Alex Wyler Oh, I like the walkways, where the light falls. What are the materials?

Simon Wyler Granite. Aluminum.

Alex Wyler White panels are straight out of Meier... but the interior color coming through the front windows, that's different. It's not new, but it's clean, uncluttered. I like it.

Simon Wyler When was the last time you were in Barcelona?

Alex Wyler Years ago, with you, Mom and Henry.

Simon Wyler Do you remember visiting Casa de la Caritat?

Alex Wyler The almshouse.

Simon Wyler That's right. You mentioned Meier. His Barcelona museum stands in the same area as Casa de la Caritat. It drinks the same light. Meier designed a series of louvered skylights to capture that light and cast it inward to illuminate the art within, but indirectly. And, that was important, because although light enhances art, it can also degrade it. But, you know all that already, you son of a gun. Now, this... where do you suppose this is to be built?

Alex Wyler I have no idea.

Simon Wyler Oh, but you said you liked it.

Alex Wyler Conceptually.

Simon Wyler Now, come on. You know as well as I do that the light in Barcelona is quite different from the light in Tokyo. And, the light in Tokyo is different from that in Prague. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature. He must be captivated by the light. Always the light. Always.

Dean Whiting Are you a king? Can you tell me what you want?

Jimmy Pope Dig six feet, find three bodies. But dig twelve feet, you find forty.

Max Woodman I want pig bacon!

Mussawi Rumors of Bob, but never Bob.

Malcolm X What color were they?

Chaplain Gill Well, I don't think we know that for certain.

Malcolm X But they were Hebrews, were they not?

Chaplain Gill That's right.

Malcolm X As was Jesus. Jesus was also a Hebrew.

Chaplain Gill Why don't you just ask your question.

Malcolm X What color were the original Hebrews?

Chaplain Gill I have told you that we don't know that for certain.

Malcolm X Then you can't believe for certain that Jesus was white.

Chaplain Gill Just... Just a moment. Just a moment. God is white. Isn't it obvious?

Malcolm X Well, that is obvious, but we don't know if it's obvious that God is white. The honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that Jesus did not have blond hair and blue eyes. The honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that the images of Jesus that are on prison walls and churches throughout the world are not historically correct because history teaches us that Jesus was born in a region where the people had color. There's proof in the very Bible you ask us to read, in Revelations, first chapter, verse fourteen and fifteen, that Jesus had hair like wool and feet the color of brass.

Chaplain Gill Now just... just what are you saying?

Malcolm X I'm not saying anything; I'm proving to you that Jesus was not, and I might quote one of my Indian brothers, he was not a pale-face.

Chaplain Gill Uh-huh.

Malcolm X Amen.

Chaplain Gill Isn't that interesting.

Harlan Thrombey I've put all of it in this letter to her. Tomorrow, she gets it.

Richard Drysdale Harlan, I'm warning you.

Harlan Thrombey No. She deserves to know.

Richard Drysdale You stay out of my marriage.

Harlan Thrombey She deserves to know and you're gonna tell her.

Richard Drysdale THE HELL I AM!!!

Harlan Thrombey YOU TELL HER OR I WILL!!!

Henrik Vanger It was then that I noticed Harriet wasn't there. And she wasn't there the next morning, or the next, or the next 40 years.

Mike Wallace You cut it! You cut the guts out of what I said!

Eric Kluster It was a time consideration, Mike...

Mike Wallace Time? Bullshit! You corporate lackey! Who told you your incompetent little fingers had the requisite skills to edit me?

Mike Wallace Fame has a fifteen minute half-life. Infamy lasts a little longer.

Bob Blair How did you get in here?

Alex Gardner It was easy!

William Fawcett Robinson Now, tomorrow night's performance. Remember, stay ahead of them. Keep the ], always mystery. Excess within control.

Arthur Case I need to be assured that certain interests are protected.

Lowell Bergman This news division has been vilified by the New York Times, in print, on television, for caving to corporate interests!

Don Hewitt The New York Times ran a blow-by-blow of what we talked about behind closed doors! You fucked us!

Lowell Bergman NO, YOU FUCKED YOU! Don't invert stuff! Big Tobacco tried to smear Wigand, YOU bought it. The Wall Street Journal, here: not exactly a bastion of anti-capitalist sentiment, refutes Big Tobacco's smear campaign as the lowest form of character assassination! And now, even now, when every word of what Wigand has said on our show is printed, the entire deposition of his testimony in a court of law in the State of Mississippi, the cat TOTALLY out of the bag, you're still standing here debating! Don, what the hell else do you need?

Don Hewitt Mike, you tell him.

Mike Wallace You fucked up, Don.

Mike Wallace Do me a favor, will you - spare me, for God's sake, get in the real world, what do you think? I'm going to resign in protest? To force it on the air? The answer's "no." I don't plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of National Public Radio. That decision I've already made.

Chancellor Gorkon I offer a toast. The undiscovered country...the future.

Everyone The undiscovered country.

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Gorkon You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

Chang taH pagh taHbe "To be or not to be?" That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room.

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Chang I beg your pardon?

Gorkon Well...I see we have a long way to go.

Dean Whiting In this town, you're innocent until you're investigated.

Bob Barnes Innocent until investigated? That's nice. It's got a nice ring to it. Bet you've worn some miles on old sayings like that. Gives the listener the sense of the law being written as it's spoken.

Simon Wyler You know as well as I do that the light in Barcelona is quite different from the light in Tokyo. And, the light in Tokyo is different from that in Prague. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature. He must be captivated by the light. Always the light. Always.

John Adams Gates OK, here we go. It was 1832, on a night much like this. Charles Carroll was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was also a member of a secret society known as the Masons, and... he knew he was dying. He woke up his stable boy in the middle of the night and ordered him to take him to the White House to see Andrew Jackson because it was very urgent that he speak to the President.

Young Ben Gates Did he talk to him?

John Adams Gates No. He never got the chance. The President wasn't there that night, but Charles Carroll had a secret. So he took into his confidence the one person he could: my grandfather's grandfather, Thomas Gates.

Young Ben Gates What was his secret?

John Adams Gates A treasure! A treasure beyond all imagining. A treasure that had been fought over for centuries by tyrants, pharaohs, emperors, warlords. And every time it changed hands, it grew larger. And then, suddenly, it vanished. It didn't reappear for more than a thousand years when knights from the First Crusade found hidden vaults beneath the Temple of Solomon. You see, the knights who found the vaults believed that the treasure was too great for any one man, not even a king. They brought the treasure back to Europe and took the name... the Knights Templar. Over the next century, they smuggled it out of Europe and formed a new brotherhood known as the Freemasons, in honor of the builders of the Great Temple. War followed. By the time of the American Revolution, the treasure had been hidden again. By then, the Masons came to include George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere. They knew they had to make sure the treasure would never fall into the hands of the British, so they devised a series of clues and maps to its location. Over time the clues were lost or forgotten, until only one remained. And that was the secret that Charles Carroll entrusted to young Thomas Gates.

Charles Carroll Charlotte.

Young Ben Gates Who's Charlotte?

John Adams Gates Oh, not even Mr. Carroll knew that. Now, look here, Ben. The Freemasons among our Founding Fathers left us clues like these. The unfinished pyramid, the all-seeing eye. Symbols of the Knights Templar, guardians of the treasure. They are speaking to us through these.

Patrick Gates You mean laughing at us. You know what that dollar represents: the entire Gates family fortune. Six generations of fools... chasing after fool's gold.

John Adams Gates It's not about the money, Patrick. It's never been about the money!

Patrick Gates Come on, son. Time to go. You can say your goodbyes.

Helinger Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes, and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians … like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now, who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.

Dr. Rosen Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?

Dr. Rosen John has schizophrenia, people with this disease are often paranoid.

Alex Gardner You had Tommy Ray kill that woman in the dream link, didn't you?

Bob Blair Yes.

Alex Gardner Why?

Bob Blair I wanted to see if it could be done.

Alex Gardner You're a real humanitarian, Blair.

Bob Blair I'm a realist. We live in a dangerous, hostile world. I will do whatever I have to to keep this country safe.

Alex Gardner Yeah, that's what scares me.

Bob Blair You're a very intelligent young man, Alex. You've mastered an amazing technique. Surely you can see the possibilities. During his dream link with Matusik, Tommy Ray stabbed her with a knife. A dream knife. The shock to Matusik's system caused a coronary and she died. So, the old wives tale comes true after all. When you dream that you die, you die in life at the very same instant. Now we can go into an enemy's dream, kill him, make it look as if he died in his sleep. Do you realize what that means?

Alex Gardner It means no one's safe from you.

Bob Blair The question is whether you're gonna cooperate. I never had any doubts about Tommy Ray.

Alex Gardner Well, why should you? He killed his own father. He's a fucking psychopath.

Bob Blair Alex, it's very simple. Either you work for me or you die.

Dr. Rosen You can't reason your way out of this!

John Why not? Why can't I?

Dr. Rosen Because your mind is where your problem is in the first place!

Henrik Vanger Isn't it interesting how fascists always steal the word "freedom"?