Laurence Olivier Quotes

Rebecca

Haunting Memories of a Troubled Marriage

Maxim de Winter Do you remember that cliff where you first saw me in Monte Carlo?... That was where I found out about her... She stood there laughing, her black hair blowing in the wind, and told me all about herself — everything. Things I'll never tell a living soul. I wanted to kill her. It would have been so easy. Remember the precipice? I frightened you, didn't I? You thought I was mad. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I am mad. It wouldn't make for sanity, would it, living with the devil. "I'll make a bargain with you," she said. "You'd look rather foolish trying to divorce me now after four days of marriage. So I'll play the part of a devoted wife, mistress of your precious Manderley. I'll make it the most famous showplace in England, if you like. Then people will visit us and envy us and say we're the luckiest, happiest, couple in the country. What a grand show it will be! What a triumph!" I should never have accepted her dirty bargain, but I did.

[to the 2nd Mrs. de Winter]

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Rebecca

Loss of Innocence and Regret

Maxim de Winter But you. I can't forget what it has done to you. I was looking at you, thinking of nothing else all through lunch. It's gone forever, that funny, young, lost look that I loved. It won't come back again. i killed that too, when I told you about Rebecca. ...It's gone, in twenty four hours. You are so much older...

[to the 2nd Mrs. de Winter]

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Clash of the Titans

Consequences of Courage and Imagination

Zeus Perseus has won. My son has triumphed.

Hera A fortunate young man.

Zeus Fortune is ally to the brave.

Thetis What a dangerous precedent. What if there more heroes like him? What if courage and imagination became everyday mortal qualities? What will become of us?

Zeus We would no longer be needed. But, for the moment, there is sufficient cowardice, sloth, and mendacity down there on Earth to last forever.

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Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff's Despair Over Catherine's Death

Ellen Oh my wild heart! Miss Cathy. She's gone! She's gone!

Dr. Kenneth You've done your last black deed, Heathcliff. Leave this house.

Edgar She's at peace now, in Heaven beyond us.

Heathcliff What do they know of Heaven or Hell, Cathy, who know nothing of life? Oh, they're praying for you, Cathy. I'll pray one prayer with them - I repeat til my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest so long as I live on! I killed you. Haunt me, then! Haunt your murderer! I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul!

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Spartacus

Crassus' Vision for a New Empire

Marcus Licinius Crassus I promise you, a new Rome, a new Italy and a new empire. I promise the destruction of the slave army, and the restoration of order. I promise the living body of Spartacus for whatever punishment you may deem fit. That, or his head. This I have sworn, in the name of my fathers, in the temple that guards their bones.

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Spartacus

Longing for Rome and the Divine

Marcus Licinius Crassus If there was no Rome, I'd dream of her. If there were no gods, I'd revere them.

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Wuthering Heights

Love, Revenge, and Emotional Conflict

Cathy Oh Heathcliff, you must not do this...she hasn't harmed you.

[about his plan to marry Isabella and neglect her]

Heathcliff You have.

Cathy Then punish me.

Heathcliff I'm going to. When I take her in my arms, when I kiss her, when I promise her life and happiness.

Cathy Oh Heathcliff, if there's anything human left in you, don't do this! Don't make me a partner to such a crime. It's stupid, it's mad!

Heathcliff If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Cathy, if your heart were only stronger than your dull fear of God and the world, I would live silently contented in your shadow. But no, you must destroy us both with that weakness you call virtue. You must keep me tormented with that cruelty you think so pious. You've been smug and pleased with my vile love of you, haven't you? Haven't you? Well, after this, you can think of me as something else than Cathy's foolish and despairing lover. You can think of me as Isabella's husband. And be glad for my happiness as I was for yours.

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Wuthering Heights

Longing and Heartbreak in Wuthering Heights

Cathy You're very grand Heathcliff, so handsome. Looking at you tonight, I could not help but remember how things used to be.

Heathcliff They used to be better.

Cathy Don't pretend life hasn't improved for you.

Heathcliff Life has ended for me. How can you stand here beside me and pretend not to remember? Not to know that my heart is breaking for you. That your face is the wonderful light burning in all this darkness.

[A long pause]

Cathy Heathcliff no, I forbid it.

Heathcliff Do you forbid what your heart is saying to me now?

Cathy It's saying nothing.

Heathcliff It tis. I can hear the love of the music. Oh Cathy, Cathy.

Cathy I'm not the Cathy that was. Can you understand that? I'm somebody else. I'm another man's wife and he loves me. And I love him.

Heathcliff If he loved you with all the power of his soul for the whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day. Not he, not the world. Not even you Cathy can come between us.

Cathy Heathcliff, you must go away. You must leave this house and never come back to it. I never want to see your face again or listen to your voice again as long as I live.

Heathcliff You lie. I did come here tonight because you willed it. You willed me here to cross the sea.

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Spartacus

Crassus' Intent: Defeating the Spartacus Legend

Marcus Licinius Crassus I'm not after glory, I'm after Spartacus! And gentlemen, I mean to have him. However, this campaign is not about killing Spartacus. It is to kill the legend of Spartacus.

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The Boys from Brazil

Confrontation of Freedom and Captivity

Ezra Lieberman You're not a guard now, madame! You are a prisoner! I may leave here today empty handed. But you... are not going anywhere.

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Wuthering Heights

A Promise of Return and Revenge

Cathy Go on, Heathcliff. Run away. Bring me back the world.

Heathcliff I'm going. I'm going from here and from this cursed country both...But I'll be back in this house one day, Judge Linton, and I'll pay you out. I'll bring this house down in ruins about your heads. That's my curse on you. On all of you.

[He spits downward]

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Clash of the Titans

Divine Justice and Human Betrayal

Poseidon It is done. As we feared, King Acrisius of Argos has abandoned his daughter and her child to the sea.

Zeus And he will be punished. Cruel and ruthless crime! Blasphemy! How dare the tyrant pray to me to forgive his savage jealousy...and cowardly revenge!!

Hera Acrisius has always shown devotion to the gods of Olympus in the past. He has built magnificent temples and dedicated them to you, great Zeus, father of the gods.

Zeus Hundreds of good deeds cannot atone for one murder. Thousands of temples, or statues, or sanctuaries, whether dedicated to me, or to you, Hera, my wife, or to Thetis, lovely goddess of the sea, or to you, Athena, ever wise and full of care, or Aphrodite, the goddess of love, nothing can wipe out or forgive this...one contemptible act of blood!

Hera Does it matter? The death of a girl or her child?

Zeus Girl?! His daughter!!

Hera After a lifetime's respect and devotion...

Zeus Enough! I've decided. Acrisius must be punished...and his people with him. My lord Poseidon, I command you to raise the wind and the sea. DESTROY ARGOS!! And to make certain that not one temple stands, not one creature crawls, I command you to let loose the last of the titans. LET LOOSE THE KRAKEN!! The kingdom of Acrisius must be destroyed!

[to Poseidon]

Poseidon As you command.

Zeus But...be certain no harm befalls Danae or her son. Bring them safe to some remote and peaceful shore. Go now, swiftly.

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Wuthering Heights

Search for Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

Cathy Heathcliff. Is he here?

Ellen Oh yes, he came back one night last week with great talk of lying in a lake of fire without you. How he had to see you to live. He's unbearable. I wonder where he could be, the scoundrel. Heathcliff? Heathcliff?

Heathcliff Cathy!

Cathy Heathcliff!

Heathcliff Why did you stay so long in that house?

Cathy Didn't expect to find you here?

Heathcliff Why did you stay so long?

Cathy Why? Because I was having a wonderful time. A delightful, fascinating, wonderful time. Among human beings. Go and wash your face and hands Heathcliff. And comb your hair so that I needn't be ashamed of you in front of a guest.

[Edgar walks into the room and stands next to Cathy]

Ellen Heathcliff! What are you doing in this part of the house? Go and look after Mr. Linton's horses.

Heathcliff Let him look after his own.

Cathy Heathcliff!

[She is restrained by Edgar]

Edgar I've already done so.

Cathy Apologize to Mr. Linton at once.

[Heathcliff walks out of the room without a word]

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Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff's Noble Heritage Revealed

Edgar Well, what brought about this amazing transformation? Did you, uh, discover a gold mine in the New World, or perhaps you fell heir to a fortune?

Heathcliff The truth is, I remembered that my father was an Emperor of China and my mother was an Indian Queen. And I went out and claimed my inheritance. It all turns out just as you suspected Cathy - that I had been kidnapped by wicked sailors and brought to England, that I was of noble birth.

[He glances at Cathy, watching her reaction to their childhood make-believe]

Cathy Are you visiting here long? I mean, in the village?

Heathcliff For the rest of my life. I've just bought Wuthering Heights - the house, the stock, and the moors.

Edgar You mean that Hindley has sold you the estate?

Heathcliff He's not aware of it as yet. I'm afraid it will be somewhat of a surprise to him when he finds out that his gambling debts and liquor bills were all paid up for him by his former stable boy. Or perhaps he will merely laugh at the irony of it, Mr. Linton.

Cathy Edgar and I have many neighbors whom we receive with hospitality and friendship. And if you are to be one of them, you're welcome to visit our house, but not with a scowl on your face or an old bitterness in your heart.

Heathcliff Thank you. It occurs to me that I have not congratulated you on your marriage. I've often thought of it. Allow me to express my delight over your happiness now.

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Rebecca

Struggles of Love and Memory

2nd Mrs. de Winter How could we be close when I knew you were always thinking of Rebecca? How could I even ask you to love me when I knew you loved Rebecca still?

Maxim de Winter What are you talking about? What do you mean?

2nd Mrs. de Winter Whenever you touched me, I knew you were comparing me with Rebecca. Whenever you looked at me or spoke to me, or walked with me in the garden, I knew you were thinking, "This I did with Rebecca, and this, and this." It's true, isn't it?

Maxim de Winter You thought I loved Rebecca? You thought that? I hated her! Oh, I was carried away by her, enchanted by her, as everyone was. And when I was married, I was told that I was the luckiest man in the world. She was so lovely, so accomplished, so amusing. "She's got the three things that really matter in a wife," everyone said: "breeding, brains, and beauty." And I believed them, completely. But I never had a moment's happiness with her. She was incapable of love or tenderness or decency.

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Rebecca

Questioning Happiness in Marriage

2nd Mrs. de Winter Our marriage is a success, isn't it? A great success? We're happy, aren't we? Terribly happy? If you don't think we are happy, it would be much better if you didn't pretend. I'll go away. Why don't you answer me?

Maxim de Winter How can I answer you when I don't know the answer myself? If you say we're happy, let's leave it at that. Happiness is something I know nothing about.

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Clash of the Titans

Legacy of Perseus Among the Stars

Zeus Perseus and Andromeda will be happy together. Have fine sons... rule wisely... And to perpetuate the story of his courage, I command that from henceforth, he will be set among the stars and constellations. He, Perseus, the lovely Andromeda, the noble Pegasus, and even the vain Cassiopeia. Let the stars be named after them forever. As long as man shall walk the Earth and search the night sky in wonder, they will remember the courage of Perseus forever. Even if we, the gods, are abandoned or forgotten, the stars will never fade. Never. They will burn till the end of the time.

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The Boys from Brazil

The Struggles of a Lonely Childhood

Ezra Lieberman Not ]. Not ]. Not a genius who would enrich the world. But a lonely little boy with a domineering father, a customs officer who was 52 when he was born. And an affectionate doting mother who was 29. The father died when he was 65 when the boy was nearly 14... ].

[[Mozart; [Picasso; [Adolf Hitler]

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Wuthering Heights

Conflict Over Social Interactions and Preferences

Heathcliff You're not gonna sit all evening, simpering in front of him again, listening to his silly talk.

Cathy Oh I'm not?

Heathcliff No.

Cathy Well Heathcliff I am. It's much more entertaining than listening to a stable boy.

Heathcliff Cathy. Don't you talk like that.

Cathy I will. Go away. This is my room. It's a ladies room. Not a room for servants with dirty hands to come into with their insulting complaints. Now let me alone.

Heathcliff Yes. Yes. Tell the dirty stable boy to let go of you. He soiled your pretty dress. But who soiled your heart? Not Heathcliff. Who turns you into a vain, cheap, worldly fool? Linton does. You'll never love him, but you'll let yourself be loved because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity. Loved by that milksop with buckles on his shoes...

Cathy Stop it. Stop it and get out. You had your chance to be something else. The people's servant were all you were born to be, a beggar in the center of the road, begging for favors, not earning them but whimpering for them with your dirty hands.

Heathcliff That's all I've become to you. A pair of dirty hands. Well, have them then. Have them where they belong! It doesn't help to strike you.

[He strikes her across the face with one hand, and then with the other]

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Wuthering Heights

A Dream of Reunion and Longing

Cathy Heathcliff. Come here.

[on her deathbed]

Heathcliff Cathy...

Cathy I was dreaming that I wake up before I die, that you might come and scowl at me once more.

Heathcliff Cathy...

Cathy Oh, Heathcliff. Oh how strong you look. How many years do you mean to live after I'm gone? Don't, don't let me go. If I could only hold you until we were both dead. Will you forget me when I'm in the earth?

[They passionately hug and kiss each other, finally revealing their truest emotions to each other]

Heathcliff I could as soon forget you with my own life, Cathy, if you die.

Cathy Boy, Heathcliff. Come. Let me feel how strong you are.

Heathcliff Strong enough to bring us both back to life, Cathy, if you want to live.

Cathy No, Heathcliff, I want to die.

Heathcliff Oh Cathy, why did you kill yourself?

Cathy Hold me. Just hold me.

Heathcliff Oh, and love comfort you. My tears don't love you, Cathy. They blight and curse and damn you!

Cathy Heathcliff, don't break my heart.

Heathcliff Oh Cathy, I never broke your heart. You broke it! Cathy! Cathy! You loved me! What right to throw love away for the poor fancy thing you felt for him, for a handful of worthiness. Misery and death and all the evils that God and man could have ever done would never have parted us. You'd be better alone. You wandered off like a wanton, greedy child to break your heart and mine.

Cathy Heathcliff, forgive me. We've so little time.

Heathcliff I won't go, Cathy. I'm here. I'll never leave you again.

Cathy I told you, Ellen. When you went away that night in the rain, I told you I belonged to him, that he was my life, my being.

Ellen Don't listen to her ravings.

Cathy It's true. It's true. I'm yours, Heathcliff. I've never been anyone else's.

Ellen She doesn't know what she's saying. You can still get out. Go before they get here.

Cathy Take me to the window. Let me look at the moors with you once more. My darling, once more. Heathcliff, can you see the Crag over there where our castle is? I'll wait for you til you come.

[Heathcliff carries her in his arms to the window]

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A Bridge Too Far

The Cost of War and Human Life

Gen. Karl Ludwig Not possible.

Dr. Jan Spaander If you would just say yes, it would be very possible.

Gen. Ludwig Forgive me, but there is a battle. And we are in the process of winning it.

Dr. Spaander Winning or losing is not a concern. Living or dying is. Cease fire. One hour... two... just to evacuate our wounded. Afterwards you can kill us as much as you want.

Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich General Ludwig. Your request will be met. The ceasefire will begin at three o'clock.

[motions with fingers to come to him. They whisper and Ludwig leaves with his staff; in German to Spaander]

Dr. Spaander Ceasefire at three. I would like to thank you.

[to British officer; to Bittrich in German]

British officer Would you like to thank him, please?

Dr. Spaander I just did.

Bittrich Please, you can go.

[in German; walks out]

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Dracula

Misunderstandings About a Monster's Intentions

Lucy Seward He's no danger to me.

[talking about Dracula]

Jonathan Harker He's a monster, a vampire!

Lucy Seward You fools, all of you!

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing She means to warn him.

Lucy Seward Jonathan, if you try to stop me, I shall kill myself.

Abraham Van Helsing I charge you on your living soul, Lucy Seward, that you do not die or think of death until this great evil which has fouled your life is truly dead himself!

Lucy Seward You dare try to confuse me! Tormenting him who is the saddest, the kindest of all!

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing Kind? If I could send his soul to everlasting, burning hell, I would!

Lucy Seward I despise you, all of you. Get out of my way!

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The Boys from Brazil

The Atrocities of Medical Experimentation in Auschwitz

Ezra Lieberman He was the chief doctor of Auschwitz, who killed 2.5 million people, experimented with children - Jewish and non-Jewish - using twins mostly, injecting blue dyes into their eyes to make them acceptable Aryans... amputating limbs and organs from thousands without anesthetics.

[about Mengele]

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The Boys from Brazil

A Nurse's Kindness Amidst Dark Times

Ezra Lieberman You know, there was a nurse here, an angel of mercy called Miss Hannah, who actually gives me cigarettes. You know what she said to me the other day? She said, "Mr. Lieberman, if you can escape Buchenwald, and you can escape those bullets, then a few cigarettes will not hurt you." (burns the list of Mengele's clones) Isn't that a nice thing to say?

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Wuthering Heights

A Tense Conversation About Choices and Change

Cathy It would be dreadful if Hindley ever found out.

Heathcliff Found out what? Can't you talk to me once in a while?

Cathy Shouldn't talk to you at all. Look at you. You get worse every day. Dirty, unkempt, and in rags. Why aren't you a man? Heathcliff, why don't you run away?

Heathcliff Run away? From you?

Cathy You could come back to me rich and take me away. Why aren't you my prince like we said long ago? Why can't you rescue me Heathcliff?

Heathcliff Cathy, come with me now.

Cathy Where?

Heathcliff Anywhere.

Cathy And live in haystacks and steal our food from the marketplaces? No Heathcliff, that's not what I want.

Heathcliff You just want to send me off. That won't do. I've stayed here and been beaten like a dog, abused and cursed and driven mad, but I stayed just to be near you, even as a dog. And I'll stay til the end. I'll live and I'll die under this rock.

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Nicholas and Alexandra

Consequences of War and National Pride

Count Witte Have I Your Majesty's permission to review the facts again? If Port Arthur falls...

Nicholas No fact begins with "if.

Count Witte Port Arthur has been under siege for six months. It has cost us 30,000 dead. If it ... A student stopped me in the street the other day. "Excuse me, sir, but why are we at war?" "Because, my boy, we want Korea, but the Japanese would insist on fighting us for it." "Thank you, sir, but what does Russia need Korea for?" "Because, my boy, we have no ice-free port on the Pacific." "I see. In that case, sir, it isn't good enough." He's right, sir. It's not good enough at all. Imagine, sire. Imagine that you are a factory worker. You're really poor. Your belly is never full. You freeze eight months of the year. Your children have no school, no doctor. Your country taxes you and sends your sons a continent away to die on a piece of land on the Pacific. Now, sir, Japan is a third-rate power. If she defeats us, if Port Arthur falls, we shall be disgraced in the eyes of the world, and here at home, we shall have an insurrection on our hands.

Nicholas My people love me, Sergei Yulyevich.

Count Witte They want a constitution and the right to vote for an elected duma. They're angry, and they're serious.

Nicholas Are you advising me to give my rights away?

Count Witte I'm advising you to stop a hopeless war.

Nicholas Is it so hopeless, Nikolasha?

Grand Duke Nicholas Well, Nicky, let me put it this way. Here's a bullet, a bullet made in St. Petersburg. I send it off to war. How does it get there? On a single spur of track 4,000 miles long. And in the middle, no track at all. Oh, God help it; it spends three days packed on sleds. And every boot, shell or pound of tea we send. Get out now, Nicky, while there's time.

[holds up a cigarette]

Nicholas The Russia that my father gave me never lost a war. What shall I say to my son when the time comes? That I had no pride, that I was weak? I've always thought... God meant me to rule. He put me here. He chose me. And whatever happens is His will. We shall fight on to victory.

Count Witte There will be no victory. Only strikes and riots. You must give your people a little of what they want, sir. Not all. Just a taste.

Nicholas The English have a parliament. Our British cousins gave their rights away. The Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns too. The Romanovs will not. What I was given, I will give my son.

Nicholas and Alexandra

Reflections on the Meaning of War

Count Witte I'm old, sir. I've seen so many wars. They all seemed so important at the time. Now, I don't even remember what they were called. Millions of dead men. I don't know why. Nobody knows.

Rebecca

Lost Chances for Happiness

Mrs. de Winter Maxim, can't we start all over again? I don't ask that you should love me. I won't ask impossible things. I'll be your friend, your companion. I'll be happy with that.

Maxim de Winter You love me very much, don't you? But it's too late, my darling. We've lost our little chance at happiness.

2nd Mrs. de Winter No, Maxim, no.

Maxim de Winter Yes. It's all over now. The thing has happened, the thing I've dreaded, day after day, night after night.

2nd Mrs. de Winter Maxim, what are you trying to tell me?

Maxim de Winter Rebecca has won. Her shadow has been between us all the time, keeping us from one another. She knew that this would happen.

Wuthering Heights

Desire for Forgiveness and Belonging

Heathcliff I want to crawl to her feet, whimper to be forgiven, for loving me, for needing her more than my own life, for belonging to her more than my own soul.

Nicholas and Alexandra

The Futility of War and Its Consequences

Count Witte None of you will be here when this war ends. Everything we've fought for will be lost. Everything they've loved will be broken. The victors will be as cursed as the defeated. The world will grow old, and men will wander about lost in the ruins and go mad. Tradition, virtue, restraint, they'll all go. I'm not mourning for myself but for the people who will come after me. They will live without hope. And all they will have will be guilt, revenge, and terror. And the world will be full of fanatics and trivial fools.

Rebecca

The Bottled Memories of Life

2nd Mrs. de Winter You know, I, I wish there could be an invention that bottled up a memory like perfume and it never faded, never got stale. Then, whenever I wanted to, I could uncork the bottle and, and live the memory all over again.

Maxim de Winter And what particular moment in your young life would you want to keep?

2nd Mrs. de Winter Oh, all of them. All these last few days. I, I feel as though I've, I've collected a whole shelf full of bottles.

Maxim de Winter Sometimes, you know, those little bottles contain demons that have a way of popping out at you just as you're trying most desperately to forget.

Wuthering Heights

A Moment of Eternal Connection

Cathy Forgive me, Heathcliff. Forgive me. Heathcliff. Make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change, and you and I never change.

Heathcliff The moors and I will never change. Don't you, Cathy.

Cathy I can't. I can't. No matter what I ever do or say Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me forever. Heathcliff, when you went away, what did you do? Where did you go?

Heathcliff I went to Liverpool. One night, I shipped for America on a brigantine going to New Orleans. We were held up by the tide and I lay all night long on the deck, thinking of you, and the years and years ahead without you. I jumped overboard and swam ashore.

Cathy I think I'd died if you hadn't.

Heathcliff Cathy, we're not thinking of that other world now.

Cathy Smell the heather. Heathcliff. Fill my arms with heather. All they can hold. Come on.

[She stands and holds her arms outstretched]

Heathcliff Cathy. You're still my queen.

Dracula

Wisdom and Choices in Unlikely Conversations

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!

[raises his hand to hypnotize Van Helsing]

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

Count Dracula Sacrilege! Sacrilege!

[snarls and turns into a wolf to escape]

Clash of the Titans

Accusations Between Zeus and Thetis

Zeus You set him down half-naked in a strange, despairing city?

Thetis Chance?

Zeus Nothing to do with chance, and you know it. A deliberate and malicious act unworthy of a goddess.

Thetis You accuse me?

Zeus Well, one thing is certain: my son needs more than an actor's cloak and a wooden sword! Provide him with suitable weapons. Weapons of divine temper. A helmet! A sword! A shield! And he must have them with all speed!

[to Athena; to Aphrodite; to Hera; to all]

Clash of the Titans

The Longest Day and the Kraken's Release

Thetis Great Zeus, below on Earth, it is now the eve of the longest day.

Zeus Very well. RELEASE THE KRAKEN.

The Boys from Brazil

A Dark Humor in a Tense Encounter

Ezra Lieberman Did you kill Wheelock?

Dr. Josef Mengele No, he's in the kitchen mixing us some cocktails!

[sarcastically]

Spartacus

The Burden of Patrician Responsibilities

Marcus Licinius Crassus One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

The Boys from Brazil

Confronting the Past and Its Consequences

David Bennet No more deception now. No more blind alleys.

Ezra Lieberman It was Mengele. He's dead. It's over.

David Bennet The Doring boy isn't dead yet. Neither is Simon Harrington or Jack Curry or Bobby Wheelock. It took a little time, a little backtracking, a visit to Dr. Bruckner. But now we know... everything.

Ezra Lieberman And what are you going to do about it?

David Bennet Kill the boys. Brilliant man, that Mengele. I suppose he had all 94 of those names and addresses memorized.

Ezra Lieberman Now you are trying to fool me. You have been searching the room.

David Bennet He must have had a list.

Ezra Lieberman He did, now I have it.

David Bennet Give it to me.

Ezra Lieberman Why?

David Bennet We have the right and we have the duty.

Ezra Lieberman To do what? To kill children?

David Bennet Give me that list.

Ezra Lieberman You will have to take it from me. And when you do, you can add my name to the list.

David Bennet I don't mean you any harm.

Ezra Lieberman You will have to kill me, David. The first of those boys that you touch, I will turn you and your entire organization over to the police. I will do that.

David Bennet You would protect Hitler?!

Ezra Lieberman No. I will not slaughter the innocent, and neither will you. A fanatic you may be, but a murderer of young children you are not.

The Boys from Brazil

Debating the Ethics of Cloning

Professor Bruckner Cloning. What if I were to tell you that I could take a scraping of skin from your finger and create another Ezra Lieberman?

Ezra Lieberman I would tell you not to waste your time on my finger.

Memorable Quotes from Laurence Olivier