Charles Laughton movie quotes
- Name
- Charles
- Last name
- Laughton
- Born
- July 1, 1899
- Died
- December 15, 1962
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- British
- Profession
- actor, theatre actor, film director
- Zodiac sign
- Cancer
Charles Laughton movie quotes, phrases and lines
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- From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“- Brogan-Moore: Touching isn't it? The way he counts on his wife.
- Sir Wilfrid: Yes, like a drowning man clutching at a razor blade.” - From the movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“Why was I not made of stone - like thee?”
- From the movie: Spartacus
“Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin?”
- From the movie: Spartacus
- From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“- Sir Wilfrid: Your husband loves you very much, does he not?
- Christine Vole: Leonard? He worships the ground I walk on.
- Sir Wilfrid: And you?
- Christine Vole: You want to know too much. Auf wiedersehen, gentlemen.” - From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“I have done an unethical thing. I have taken your cigar and I am not taking your case.”
- From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“- Miss Plimsoll: It's beddy-bye. We better go upstairs now, get undressed and lie down.
- Sir Wilfrid: We? What a nauseating prospect.” - From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“- Leonard Vole: But this is England, where I thought you never arrest, let alone convict, people for crimes they have not committed.
- Sir Wilfrid: We try not to make a habit of it.” - From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“- Miss Plimsoll: Is there too much of a draft? Should I roll up the window?
- Sir Wilfrid: Just roll up your mouth, you talk too much. If I had known how much you talk I'd never have come out of my coma.” - From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“Doctors! They've deprived me of everything: alcohol, tobacco, female companionship!”
- From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders.”
- From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“- Sir Wilfrid: I'd better take that thermos of cocoa with me. It helps me wash down down the pills.
- Miss Plimsoll: Let me see. My learned patient is not above substituting brandy for cocoa.” - From the movie: Witness for the Prosecution
“The question is, Frau Helm, were you lying then, are you lying now, or are you not in fact a chronic and habitual liar?!”
- From the movie: The Paradine Case
- From the movie: The Paradine Case
“I do not like to be interrupted in the middle of an insult.”
- From the movie: The Old Dark House
“Once you started making money it's hard to stop, especially if you're like me. There isn't much else you're good at.”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
“They respect but one law - the law of fear. I expect you to carry out whatever orders I give, whenever I give them.”
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“Every time I walk into a restaurant I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“They can't censor the gleam in my eye.”
- La trovi in Body Obsession
“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.”
“Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting.”
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
“The truth can't be allowed to live under the occupation. It's too dangerous. The occupation lives upon lies!”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
“- Bligh: Mr. Christian, I give you your last chance to return to duty.
- Christian: I'll take my chance against the law. You'll take yours against the sea.” - From the movie: Rembrandt
“I'm not looking at you as a... man looks. I'm a painter. Painters have a different way of looking at things.”
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