Marlon Brando Quotes

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Introduction of Dr. Moreau's Creatures

Dr. Moreau Mr. Douglas, first of all, for the sake of propriety, I'd like to present my children.

Waggdi Hello, I am Waggdi.

[stands; sits back down]

Azazello How do you do, sir. I'm Azazello.

[stands; sits back down]

M'Ling My name is M'Ling.

[stands; sits back down]

Dr. Moreau You've already met my beautiful daughter Aissa. Majai do present yourself, please.

Dr. Moreau He means you no harm, Mr. Douglas. He's just trying to be polite. He just wants to shake your hand.

Dr. Moreau Thank you.

[to Edward]

Edward Douglas This is the most... outrageous spectacle I have ever witnessed. Look at yourself!

Dr. Moreau I understand that I must be shocking to you. However, I must also point out, that I have an allergy to the sun, and that's why I've put this medication on.

Edward Douglas Look at these people! Look at him!

[pause. Pointing to Majai]

Dr. Moreau Mr. Douglas. I don't think that I have the intellectual ability to condense seventeen years of study and experiment into... seventeen minutes of explanation. For the moment, you will have to suffice to say that the... people that you witness before, living under my care and protection, are animals that have been fused with human genes. In the corse of a series of scientific studies designed by myself.

Edward Douglas Well, has it ever accord to you, you might have totally lost your mind? I mean, this is just satanic.

Dr. Moreau Judge not, Mr. Douglas, that ye be not judge. For by these judgements, shall ye also be judge, and let he who have not sin cast the first stone.

Edward Douglas There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

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The Formula

Responsibility and Blame in Economic Choices

Arthur Clements The people will accept the 12 cents now because we can blame it on the Arabs!

[proposing that Titan Oil can raise its gasoline prices]

Adam Steiffel Ah, Arthur, you're missing the point: We are the Arabs.

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Superman Returns

Legacy of Knowledge and Identity

Jor-El My son. You do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I am your father. By now I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.

Lex Luthor He thinks I'm his son?

Jor-El Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact of dozens of other worlds spanning the twenty-eight known galaxies.

Kitty Kowalski Can he see us?

Lex Luthor No, he's dead.

Jor-El There are many questions to be asked. Here, in this Fortress of Solitude, we will try to find the answers together. So, my son...Kal-El...speak.

Lex Luthor Tell me everything. Starting with crystals.

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On the Waterfront

Ambition and Life Choices Explored in Dialogue

Charlie Malloy You're getting on. You're pushing 30, slugger. You know, it's time to think about getting some ambition.

Terry Malloy I always figured I'd live a little bit longer without it.

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Last Tango in Paris

Consequences of Neglect and Mortality

Paul Well, first you have to take a hot bath and if you don't you're gonna get pneumonia. Right?... and then you know what happens? You get pneumonia... and then you know what happens? You die! And then, you know what happens then when you die? I get to fuck the dead rat!

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Last Tango in Paris

A Toast to Different Lives

Jeanne Let's drink a toast to our life in the hotel.

Paul No fuck all that! Hey listen! Let's drink a toast to our life in the country.

Jeanne You're a nature lover? You didn't tell me that.

Paul Oh, for Christ's sake... I'm nature boy. Can't you see me with the cows and the chickenshit all over me? Huh?

Jeanne Oh, that's right. To the cows!

Paul Cow.

Jeanne I will be your cow too.

Paul I get to milk you twice a day. How about that?

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Last Tango in Paris

The Unknowable Nature of Love and Marriage

Paul Even if a husband lives 200 fucking years, he'll never discover his wife's true nature. I may be able to understand the secrets of the universe, but... I'll never understand the truth about you. Never.

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The Missouri Breaks

A Reflection on Change and Survival

Robert E. Lee Clayton Well, you're about the last of your kind, old man. If I was a better businessman than I am a man hunter, I'd put you in the circus.

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

Pursuit of Perfection and Divine Creation

Dr. Moreau I have almost achieved perfection you see, of a divine creature that is pure, harmonious, absolutely incapable of malice. And if in my tinkering I have fallen short of the human form by the snout, claw or hoof, it really is of no great importance. I am closer that you could possibly imagine sir.

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Superman

Guidance for Kal-El's Purpose and Heritage

Jor-El Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El; they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you...my only son.

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The Score

Intelligence and self-awareness questioned in confrontation

Max You're not smart enough to know where your dick is!

[to Jack]

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On the Waterfront

Humor Amidst Serious Conversations

Big" Mac The only arithmetic he ever got was hearing the referee count up to 10.

Terry Malloy You know you're not too funny today, fat man!

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Superman

Urgent Call for Planetary Evacuation

First Elder ...An unpleasant duty has been masterly performed, Jor-El. They have received the fate they deserve: isolation in the Phantom Zone; an eternal living death.

Jor-El A chance for survival, nonetheless. As opposed to us, if we continue to ignore these facts...It's suicide! No, it's worse. It's genocide!

First Elder Be warned, Jor-El. The Council has already evaluated this outlandish theory of yours.

Jor-El My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive. I'm not given to wild, unsupported statements. And I tell you that we must evacuate this planet immediately!

First Elder Jor-El, you are one of Krypton's greatest scientists.

Second Elder Ah, yes, but so is Vond-Ah.

Vond-Ah It isn't that we question your data. The facts are undeniable. It's your conclusions we find unsupportable.

Jor-El This planet, along with its red sun, will destabilize and burst within thirty days...likely within seven.

Vond-Ah I tell you Krypton is simply shifting its orbit.

Second Elder Jor-El, be reasonable! Let Krypton die? Never! This is just another one of your...mistaken fantasies.

Jor-El My friend, I've never been otherwise. This madness is yours...to do with as you wish.

First Elder This discussion is terminated. The decision of the Council is final...Any attempt by you to create a climate of fear and panic among the populace must be deemed by us...an act of insurrection.

Jor-El You would accuse me of insurrection? Has it now become a crime to cherish life?

First Elder You would be banished to endless imprisonment in the Phantom Zone...the eternal void which you yourself discovered. Will you abide by the Council's decision?

Jor-El I will remain silent. Neither I nor my wife will leave Krypton.

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Last Tango in Paris

Duality of Desire and Happiness

Paul That is your happiness, and my hap-penis.

[as Jeanne puts her hands on his crotch]

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Superman

Urgent Call for Planetary Evacuation

Jor-El My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive. I'm not given...to wild, unsupported statements. And I tell you we must evacuate this planet immediately!

[answering criticism from the Council leader]

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Nature of Humanity and Destruction

Dr. Moreau Well, Mr. Douglas, very good of you to join us. Please tell me, is the Devil still pursuing you?

Edward Douglas Well, perhaps you could explain to me what you mean by the Devil? You seem to be on terms with him.

Dr. Moreau Well, permit me, Mr. Douglas, to tell you something of the Devil as I've come to know him. The Devil is that element in human nature that impels us to destroy and debase.

Edward Douglas And what are you about upon this island but destruction and debasement?

Dr. Moreau Oh well, I can tell you very plainly...

Dr. Moreau No please, don't do that.

Dr. Moreau For seventeen years, I have been striving to create... some measure of refinement in the human species, you see. And it is here, on this very island, that I sir, have found the very essence of the Devil.

Edward Douglas What do you mean?

Dr. Moreau I have seen the Devil, in my microscope, and I have chained him, and I suppose you could say in a sense metaphorically speaking, I have cut him to pieces. The Devil, Mr. Douglas, I've found is nothing more than a tiresome collection of genes, and it is with great assurance that I can tell you, that Lucifer, Son of the Morning, is no more.

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Last Tango in Paris

Love and Jealousy in a Musical Context

Jeanne I fell in love with him when I first heard him play piano.

Paul You mean the first time he got inside your knickers.

Jeanne He was a child prodigy; he was playing with both hands.

Paul I bet he was!

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Last Tango in Paris

Exploring Disconnection in Gender Relationships

Jeanne Why do you hate women?

Paul Because either they always pretend to know who I am, or they pretend I don't know who they are, and that's very boring.

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The Godfather

Barzini Meeting

Don Corleone Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that.

[to Michael]

A Streetcar Named Desire

Reflections on Identity and Relationships

Stanley Kowalski Listen, baby, when we first met — you and me — you thought I was common. Well, how right you was. I was common as dirt. You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you down off them columns, and you loved it, having them colored lights goin. And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here, hoity-toity, describin me like a ape?

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Nature of Law and Pain

Hyena-Swine Tell me. Why you make the pain, if we are your children?

Dr. Moreau Uh... you see, you are my children, but law is necessary.

Hyena-Swine If there is no more pain. Then is there no more law, hm?

[looks at his other associates, turns back to Moreau]

Dr. Moreau There is always law.

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Superman

Consequences of Ignoring Harsh Realities

Jor-El A chance for life, nonetheless...as opposed to us, you cannot ignore these facts! It's SUICIDE! No, it's worse. It's GENOCIDE...!

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Last Tango in Paris

Love and Identity in Last Tango in Paris

Paul You ran through Africa and Asia and Indonesia, and now I found you... and I love you. I want to know your name.

Jeanne Jeanne.

[she shoots him]

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The Score

Negotiating Fair Compensation in Partnerships

Nick Wells If you want me to do this, you gotta pay me what's right. It's gotta be that way.

Max I always pay you what's right.

[Indignant]

Nick You always think you do. I always know what you pay me. It's not always right.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

The Nature of Luck and Belief

Stanley Kowalski You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all... To hold a front position in this rat-race, you've got to believe you are lucky.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Assertion of Dominance and Identity

Stanley Kowalski Don't you ever talk that way to me. "Pig," "Polack," "disgusting," "vulgar," "greasy" — those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are, a pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said — that every man's a king — and I'm the king around here, and don't you forget it.

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The Score

A Last Job and Its Doubts

Nick That's what I have to do. I wanna pay off the club, the mortgage. I wanna own this place free and clear. I want it to be mine. I live the way I want, because after this, no more jobs. This is the last one I'm doing. I'm quitting for good.

Max Yeah? How many times have you told me that in 25 years? I mean, I'm gonna believe that when the pigs eat my brother, right?

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The Missouri Breaks

Acknowledge Granny's Exhaustion

Robert E. Lee Clayton Granny's tired now.

[after killing a man, dressed in a bonnet and shawl]

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Stanley Kowalski's Perspective on Desire and Reality

Stanley Kowalski * Note: ranked #45 in the ] in American cinema.

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Last Tango in Paris

A Question of Purpose in Unconventional Moments

Jeanne What are we doing here?

Paul Let's just say we're taking a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

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On the Waterfront

Conflicted Feelings in a Troubled Relationship

Edie Doyle I want you to stay away from me.

Terry Malloy Edie, you love me... I want you to say it to me.

Edie Doyle I didn't say I didn't love you. I said, "Stay away from me.

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Superman

Father and Son Seek Identity and Answers

Jor-El My son, you do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I am your father. By now, you will have reached your 18th year as it is measured on Earth. By that reckoning, I will have been dead for many thousands of your years. The knowledge that I have, matters physical and historic, I have given you fully on your voyage to your new home. These are important matters, to be sure, but still matters of mere fact. There are questions to be asked, and it is time for you to do so. Here in this...this Fortress of Solitude, we shall try to find the answers together. So, my son, speak.

Clark Kent Who am I?

Jor-El Your name is Kal-El. You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton. Even though you have been raised as a human being, you are not one of them. You have great powers, only some of which you have as yet discovered.

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On the Waterfront

A Brother's Betrayal in Boxing

Charley Malloy Look, kid, I - how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast.

Terry Malloy It wasn't him, Charley; it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson." You remember that? "This ain't your night"! My night? I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors in a ballpark, and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley; you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.

Charley Malloy Oh I had some bets down for you. You saw some money.

Terry Malloy You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley.

[Charley takes it in.]

A Streetcar Named Desire

Stanley's Call to Stella

Stanley Kowalski Stella. Hey, Stella!

On the Waterfront

The Importance of Caring for Others

Edie Doyle Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else?

Terry Malloy Boy, what a fruitcake you are!

Edie Doyle I mean, isn't everybody a part of everybody else?

Terry Malloy And you really believe that drool?

Edie Doyle Yes, I do.

Terry Malloy You wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Edie Doyle I never met anyone like you. There's not a spark of sentiment or romance or human kindness in your whole body.

Terry Malloy What good does it do ya besides get ya in trouble?

Edie Doyle And when things and people get in your way, you just knock them aside, get rid of them, is that your idea?

The Chase

The Fleeting Nature of Change

Sheriff Calder The best thing about turning over a new leaf on Saturday night is that it disappears with a Sunday morning hangover.

Last Tango in Paris

Betrayal and Desperation in Emotional Turmoil

Paul Our marriage was nothing more than a foxhole for you. And all it took for you to get out was a 10 cent razor and a tub full of water. You cheap, goddamn, fucking, godforsaken whore, I hope you rot in hell. You're worse than the dirtiest street pig anybody could ever find anywhere, and you know why? You know why? Because you lied. You lied to me and I trusted you. You lied and you knew you were lying. Go on, tell me you didn't lie. Haven't you got anything to say about that? You can think up something, can't you? Go on, tell me something! Go on, smile, you cunt! Go on, tell me... tell me something sweet. Smile at me and say I just misunderstood. Go on, tell me. You pig-fucker... you goddamn, fucking, pig-fucking liar. Rosa... I'm sorry, I... I just - I can't stand it to see these goddamn things on your face! You never wore make-up... this fucking shit. I'm gonna take this off your mouth, this - this lipstick... Rosa - oh GOD! I'm sorry! I - I don't know why you did it! I'd do it too, if I knew how... I just don't know how... I have to... have to find a way...

[to his dead wife at her wake; crying; sobbing; peels off her fake eyelashes]

Superman

A Father's Legacy to His Son

Jor-El You will travel far, my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you...even in the face of our deaths...the richness of our lives shall be yours. All that I have, all that I've learned, everything I feel...all this, and more I...I bequeath you, my son. You will carry me inside you...all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own, and see my life through your own eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father, the son. This is all I...all I can send you, Kal-El.

[As he bids his infant son farewell before sending him to Earth]

The Godfather

Barzini Business

Don Corleone I hope you don't mind the way I keep going over this Barzini business.

Michael Corleone No, not at all.

Don Corleone It's an old habit. I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

The Score

A Direct Observation of Appearance

Max My God! Let me get a look at you. You know, you look like shit. What's your secret?

[to Nick]

On the Waterfront

The Value of Life and Integrity

Terry Malloy If I spill, my life ain't worth a nickel.

Father Barry And how much is your soul worth if you don't?

On the Waterfront

Terry Malloy Confronts Corruption and Guilt

Terry Malloy You think you're ] Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!

[to Johnny Friendly; [God]

On the Waterfront

Standing Together for What’s Right

Dock workers How about Terry? He don't work, we don't work.

Johnny Friendly Work! He can't even walk!

Longshoreman If Terry walks in, we walk in with him. They're waitin for him to walk in.

[To Father Barry]

Father Barry Do you hear that, Terry?...You lost a battle, but you have a chance to win the war....Can you walk?...Just finish what you started. You can!

[to Terry]

Terry Malloy Get me on my feet.

Father Barry How're you doing?

Terry Malloy Am I on my feet?

Johnny Friendly Where you guys going? Wait a minute! I'll remember this! I'll remember every one of you! I'll be back! Don't you forget that! I'll be back!

The Missouri Breaks

A Desire for Better Than Pain

Robert E. Lee Clayton I'd like almost anythin better n bein burnt up.

On the Waterfront

Struggles with mental strain and pressure

Terry Malloy ]... that stuff can drive you nuts!

[[Conscience]

On the Waterfront

Self-Interest in Conflict and Loyalty

Edie Doyle Which side are you with?

Terry Malloy Me? I'm with me, Terry.

The Godfather

I'm Gonna Make Him an Offer

Don Corleone I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Superman

Council Deliberates Charges Against General Zod

Jor-El This is no fantasy, no careless product of wild imagination. No, my good friends. These indictments that I have brought you today, the specific charges listed herein against the individuals, their acts of treason, their ultimate aim of sedition, these are matters of undeniable fact. I ask you now to pronounce judgment on those accused. On this...this mindless aberration, whose only means of expression are wanton violence and destruction. On the woman Ursa, whose perversions and unreasoning hatred of all mankind have threatened even the children of the planet Krypton. Finally, General Zod. Once trusted by this Council, charged with maintaining the defense of the planet Krypton itself. Chief architect of this intended revolution and author of this insidious plot, to establish a "New Order" amongst us with himself as absolute ruler. You have heard the evidence. The decision of the Council will now be heard.

[referring to Non; referring to Ursa]

Council Member 1 Guilty!

Council Member 2 Guilty!

Council Member 3 Guilty!

Council Member 4 Guilty!

General Zod The vote must be unanimous, Jor-El. It has therefore now become your decision. You alone will condemn us if you wish, and you alone will be held responsible by me. Join us. You have been known to disagree with the Council before. Yours could become an important voice in the new order, second only to my own! I offer you a chance for greatness, Jor-El! Take it! Join us! You will bow down before me, Jor-El! I swear it! No matter that it takes an eternity! YOU WILL BOW DOWN BEFORE ME!! BOTH YOU, AND THEN ONE DAY, YOUR HEIRS!!!

[Jor-El signals the Phantom Zone; screaming with rage]

Memorable Quotes from Marlon Brando