Frank Langella Quotes

Skeletor Stay where you are, He-Man! One more move and your friends will not live to see another day! I give you a choice. Return with me to Eternia as my slave and save their despicable lives, or perish with them on this primitive and tasteless planet. Surrender your sword!

Evil-Lyn After all this time, Grayskull is ours.

Skeletor NO!! Mine.

Sorceress The power of Grayskull has not yet passed to you.

Skeletor Oh. Someone is speaking to me. Yes... Sorceress. My lovely prisoner, my prisoner at last. I've won. I've won. The darkness is rising to embrace you.

Sorceress The dark can embrace the light but never eclipse it. You've not won yet, Skeletor. He-Man is still alive. I can feel it.

Skeletor Really? How sensitive you are. Can you feel... this?!

Richard Nixon Look, when you're in office, you gotta do a lot of things sometimes that are not always, in the strictest sense of the law, legal, but you do them because they're in the greater interests of the nation!

David Frost Right. Wait. Just so I understand correctly, are you really saying that in certain situations, the president can decide whether it's in the best interests of the nation and then do something illegal?

Richard Nixon I'm saying, that when the President does it, that means it's not illegal!

David Frost ...I'm sorry?

Richard Nixon That's what I believe. But I realize... no one else shares that view.

Richard Nixon Whenever I have had my doubts, I remembered the construction worker in Philadelphia because he came up to me and he said "Sir I got only one criticism of that Cambodia thing; if you'd gone in earlier you might've captured the gun that killed my boy three months ago." So you're asking me do I regret going into Cambodia?... No, I don't. You know what, I wish I'd gone in sooner. And harder!

Jimmy Olsen Why don't you guys track down Lex Luthor? I mean, no one's seen him since his fifth appeal and he has more bad history with Superman than anyone, maybe he's got something to say?

Perry White Luthor is yesterday's news.

Clark Kent Jimmy, how did Lex Luthor get out of prison?

Jimmy Olsen Well, the appeals court called Superman as a witness and he wasn't around. How much do you think that pisses off Superman?

Clark Kent A lot?

Jimmy Olsen A lot.

Dr. Jack Seward Count, some wine? You haven't...

Count Dracula No thank you, Doctor. I never drink wine.

Lucy Seward Before you arrived, we were looking at the ship's log.

Count Dracula It wasn't lost at sea?

Lucy Seward No. The very last entry was a strange word, a word that Mina thought meant "undead".

Count Dracula Undead?

Mina Van Helsing Yes. "Nosferatu".

Count Dracula Ah, it means "not dead".

Lucy Seward Then you were right.

Count Dracula No, with your permission and all due respect to Miss Van Helsing. Yes, I'm quite finished, thank you. There is a distinction, the words "not dead" carry the simple meaning.

Mina Van Helsing Dead... undead... I don't care! They all frighten me!

Lucy Seward Oh, I love to be frightened!

Count Dracula Do you?

Skeletor Find them. Trace them! I want them and that key hunted down and brought to me!

Evil-Lyn It looked as if he was punching the keys at random. There's no way of telling where they might have gone.

Skeletor Monitor the frequencies! Wherever they are, they'll use it again. When they do, lock it in. He-Man lives and possesses that key! I must possess all or I possess nothing. Find them.

He-Man Let her go.

Skeletor I don't think so. No. While she remains imprisoned within this field, her powers increase my own. And when the moon reaches its zenith, the Great Eye will open, and all the powers of Grayskull will be bestowed upon me! Your wonderous Sorceress... will die.

Man-At-Arms You dare threaten her life?!

Skeletor I dare anything! I am Skeletor! Throw down your weapons and pledge yourselves to me... or you will join her.

He-Man It's not her you want, it's me. It's always been between us.

Skeletor Silence.

Skeletor Not the way to treat you beloved ruler. Throw down your weapons or you die!

Skeletor Why is there still resistance? The people must know that I am Grayskull. I depend upon you for these things. You know that.

Evil-Lyn The people... wait for He-Man. They believe that he will return to lead them. For you to rule completely, he must be destroyed.

Skeletor He-Man? If I kill him, I make him a martyr, a saint. No, I want him broken.

Skeletor Where is the Key?

Karg We, uh-uh, traced the Key's, uh, signal, uh, but were unable to take possession of it.

Skeletor Is that all?

Karg We-We fought with the Eternians, but, uh, were outnumbered. We thought it wise to return alive and gather a larger force. And--

Skeletor So He-Man's free?! You are all aware of the penalty... for failure?

Blade Give me one more chance, Lord Skeletor, and we will succeed.

Skeletor I am not in the giving vein this day.

Skeletor GET AWAY!!!!

Karg He begs for your forgiveness, as do we all. We-We live only to serve you.

Evil-Lyn It would be a pity to waste their talents.

Skeletor Save your pity for yourself! If you fail. Take them and whatever troops and resources you need.

Evil-Lyn I was not suggesting that I go.

Skeletor Then you should not have spoken. Leave immediately. When you find the Key, send the sourcing signal, an attack force will join you or I will follow.

Milo Renfield I'm a slave, I'm a dog, master. But please don't kill me. For the love of God let me live.

Count Dracula Did I not promise you that you should come to me at your death, and enjoy centuries of life and power over the bodies and souls of others?

Milo Renfield But I don't want human life.

Count Dracula You betrayed me. You sought to warn them all against me.

Milo Renfield Then punish me, torture me, I deserve it. But please don't kill me.

Count Dracula Oh, Renfield, you disappoint me so.

Bob Alexander I'm going to kill him.

Alan Reed You can't kill a President.

Bob Alexander He's not a President. He's an ordinary person. I can kill an ordinary person.

Alan Reed Bob.

Bob Alexander I can kill a hundred ordinary people.

Bob Alexander What do you think you're doing?

Dave What? Oh, you mean the press conference. I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to share with the country.

Bob Alexander Share? Share? You don't call a press conference. I call a press conference. You're nothing. Do you understand? You're nobody.

Dave I'm not nobody.

Bob Alexander You're LINT! You're a FLEA! You're a BLIP!

Dave Well... maybe I am. But you're fired.

Skeletor People of Eternia, I stand before the Great Eye of the galaxy. Chosen by destiny to receive the powers of Grayskull! This inevitable moment will transpire before your eyes, even as He-Man himself bears witness to it. Now, I, Skeletor, am Master of the Universe! Yes! Yes... I feel it, the power... fills me. Yes, I feel the universe within me! I am... I am a part of the cosmos! Its energy flows... flows through me. Of what consequence are you now? This planet, these people - They are nothing to me - the universe is power, pure, unstoppable power - and I am that force, I am that power! Kneel before your master... ... Fool! You are no longer my equal. I am more than man, more than life! I am a god! Now. You... will... kneel! Kneel!

Jimmy Olsen Look who's back?

Perry White Kent?

Clark Kent Hey. Chief! Thank you for giving me my job back.

Perry White Don't thank me. Thank Norm Palmer for dying!

Jimmy Olsen It was his time.

Skeletor Everything comes to he who waits... and I have waited so very long for this moment.

Richard Nixon I let them down. I let down... my friends. I let down... the country. And worst of all... I let down our system of government, and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government, but now they think: "Oh, it's all too corrupt," and the rest. Yeah... I let the American people down. And I'm gonna have to carry that burden with me, for the rest of my life... My political life is over.

Judge Julius Hoffman And the record should reflect, that defendant Hoffman and I are not related.

Abbie Hoffman Father, no!

Judge Julius Hoffman Mr. Hoffman, are you familiar with contempt of court?

Abbie Hoffman It's practically a religion for me, sir.

Richard Nixon I don't blame anybody. I brought myself down. I gave them a sword, and they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I'd been in their place, I'd have done the same thing.

Skeletor He-Man lives and possesses that key. I must possess all, or I possess nothing.

William Kunstler Of course, because you took that black guy and you made him a sympathetic character.

Judge Julius Hoffman Mr. Kunstler, I have lived a a very long time, sir, and you're the first person ever to suggest that I have discriminated against a black man!

Leonard Weinglass Then let the record show that I am the second.

Richard Nixon You know those parties of yours, the ones I read about in the newspapers. Do you actually enjoy those?

David Frost Of course.

Richard Nixon You have no idea how fortunate that makes you, liking people. Being liked. Having that facility. That lightness, that charm. I don't have it, I never did. It kind of makes you wonder why I chose a life that hinged on being liked. I'm better suited to a life of thought, debate, intellectual discipline. Maybe we got it wrong. Maybe you should have been a politician and I the rigorous interviewer.

David Frost Maybe.

Skeletor Where are they? Where are your friends now? Tell me about the loneliness of good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of evil?

Count Dracula Lucy, come! Come to me!

Count Dracula Now, you must go on a bit longer as of a creature of this earth. Only until we have left behind those who would destroy us.

Lucy Seward And then?

Count Dracula Then you will join me on a higher plane feeding on them. We will create more of our kind, Lucy.

Centurian What about them, sir?

Skeletor Leave them alone. He-Man is my slave. As long as I let them live, he is bound by his word. Let them rot. Let them rot.

Count Dracula Jonathan Harker tells me you speak some Romanian.

Lucy Seward Well, hardly, I know...

Count Dracula Mi-ar plăcea să te văd zâmbind.

Count Dracula There, you do understand.

Lucy Seward Not really. I have no idea what you said.

Count Dracula I said it would be nice to see you smile.

Lucy Seward Then you should be pleased.

Count Dracula Oh, I am. But I must warn you to take care.

Lucy Seward Whatever for?

Count Dracula If, at any time, my company does not please you, you will have only yourself to blame for an acquaintance who seldom forces himself but is difficult to be rid of.

Skeletor I'll be back!

Skeletor Where is your strength? Where has it gone, huh? Look at your precious Sorceress. An old crone. Weak, withering, dying. Are you ready to yield now, proud warrior?

Warlord The moon rises to its apex.

Skeletor Ah... Do you hear? The Alpha... and the Omega. Death and Rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn.

Lois Lane But there are dozens of other stories out there!

Perry White Yeah? Name one.

Lois Lane Well, there was a museum robbery last night. Even Superman missed that one. He was too busy saving this hooker.

Alan Reed Bob, at some point we're gonna have to call the Vice President.

Bob Alexander Don't call the Vice President.

Alan Reed What?

Bob Alexander Just don't call him, Al.

Alan Reed The guy's in a coma, Bob.

Bob Alexander I don't give a shit.

Alan Reed Bob.

Bob Alexander This is mine, Alan. All mine. I made him, I built him. And no Boy Scout is going to come in here and take it away from me, just because he happens to be Vice President of the United States.

William Paley There's a Knickerbocker game tonight, I've got front row seats. Are you interested?

Skeletor People of Eternia, the war is over. My forces are victorious. The Sorceress of Grayskull is my prisoner, and her powers are now joined with mine! Let this be my first decree. Those who do not pledge themselves to me, shall be destroyed! The new age begins.

Count Dracula Now it is you, my best beloved one. You will be flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. You shall cross land or sea to do my bidding. I need your blood. I need...

Count Dracula You are a wise man, Professor, for someone who has not yet lived a single lifetime.

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing You flatter me, Count.

Count Dracula But not wise enough to return to Holland at once, now that you have learned what you have learned.

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing I prefer to remain.

Count Dracula In the past 500 years, Professor, those who have crossed my path have all died, and some not pleasantly. Come here!

Count Dracula Your will is strong. Then I must come to you.

Count Dracula Sacrilege! Sacrilege!

He-Man I HAVE THE POWER!!

Skeletor No! You will no longer stand between me and my destiny!

He-Man But I will. I told you that it's always between us.

Skeletor Oh, I ache to smash you out of existence. To drive your cursed face from my memory forever!

He-Man Enough talk!

Skeletor Yes! Let this be our final battle!

He-Man Skeletor... it's over.

Skeletor Yes... For you.

He-Man You promised not to hurt them!

Skeletor I lied! Farewell, He-Man.

Lois Lane Eh.

Perry White Eh? These are iconic, and they were taken by a 12 year-old with a camera phone. What've you got, Olsen?

Jimmy Olsen ...I got those...

Jimmy Olsen Look, in the sky, Chief.

Lois Lane It's a bird.

Perry White It's a plane.

Jimmy Olsen No, look, it's...

Clark Kent Uh, you wanted to see me?

Count Dracula Listen to them, the children of the night. What sad music they make.

Lucy Seward Do you think it's sad?

Count Dracula So lonely, like weeping.

Lucy Seward I think it's a wonderful sound. I really love the night. It's so simple.

Count Dracula So deceptive.

Lucy Seward So exciting.

Count Dracula You take the dawn for granted. The warm hot sunlight. Ah, but the night...

Lucy Seward was made to enjoy.

Count Dracula Yes. Yes, it was. It was made to enjoy life... and love.

William Paley I'm with you today Ed, and I'm with you tomorrow.

Richard Nixon That's our tragedy, isn't it, Mr. Frost? No matter how high we get, they still look down at us.

David Frost I really don't know what you're talking about.

Richard Nixon Yes, you do. Now come on. No matter how many awards or column inches are written about you, or how high the elected office is for me, it's still not enough. We still feel like the little man, the loser they told us we were a hundred times. The smartasses in college, the high-ups, the well-born. The people whose respect we really wanted, really craved. And isn't that why we work so hard now, why we fight for every inch? Scrambling our way up in undignified fashion. If we're honest for a minute, if we reflect privately, just for a moment, if we allow ourselves a glimpse into that shadowy place we call our soul, isn't that why we're here, now? The two of us. Looking for a way back into the sun, into the limelight. Back onto the winner's podium, because we could feel it slipping away. We were headed, both of us, for the dirt. The place the snobs always told us that we'd end up. Face in the dust, humiliated all the more for having tried so pitifully hard. Well, to hell with that! We're not gonna let that happen, either of us. We're gonna show those bums! We're gonna make em choke on our continued success, our continued headlines, our continued awards and power and glory! We are gonna make those motherfuckers CHOKE!... Am I right?

David Frost You are... Except only one of us can win.

Richard Nixon Yes. And I shall be your fiercest adversary. I shall come at you with everything I've got. Because the limelight can only shine on one of us. And for the other, it'll be the wilderness, with nothing and no one for company but those voices ringing in our head... You can probably tell I've had a drink. It's not too many, just one or two. But you believe me, when the time comes, I'm gonna be focused and ready for battle.

Skeletor Witness this moment, He-Man. This moment where the powers of Grayskull will become mine for eternity. Our life-long battle is ending at last in the only way it could.

Warlord Holosphere, standing by.

Skeletor When the Great Eye opens, the people of Eternia shall see you kneeling to me, just before you die.

He-Man I'll never kneel to you!

Skeletor Yes, you will! Yes, you will! Or I shall wreak unforgettable harm upon you.

Skeletor The final moment has come. All the forces of Grayskull, all the powers in the universe will be vested in me! Me! And you will cease to exist.

Sorceress It is not too late to undo this madness.

Skeletor Madness? I demand the destitution, shame, and loneliness of scorn. It is my destiny, it is my right. Nothing will deter me from it.

Sorceress Men who crave power... look back over the mistakes of their lives, pile them all together and call it "destiny".

Skeletor Thank you for that bit of philosophy, Sorceress. Here is my response. Yes, Sorceress. The Sword of Grayskull. Mine! Now and forever. Your champion.

William Paley My cards. You lose, what happens? Five guys find themselves out of work. I'm responsible for a hell of a lot more than five god damned reporters. Let it go. McCarthy will self-destruct.

Count Dracula You fools! Do you think with your crosses and your wafers you can destroy me? Me! You do not know how many men have come against me. I am the king of my kind! You have accomplished nothing, Van Helsing. Time is on my side. In a century, when you are dust, I shall wake and call Lucy, my queen from her grave.