Charles Laughton quotes
- From the movie: Rembrandt
- From the movie: The Canterville Ghost
“I have roamed these halls for three centuries and I am so tired. If only I could rest...”
- From the movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“I never realized till now how ugly I am, because you're so beautiful... I'm not a man! I'm not a beast! I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon!”
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
“Other men have tried to destroy this book. Maybe this copy will be burned. But they can't burn it out of your memories. You'll have to rewrite it someday. That's why you young people are so important. You're the new nation!”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
“- Ellison: Thomas Ellison, sir. Pressed into service. I've got a wife, a baby!
- Bligh: I asked your name, not the history of your misfortunes.” - From the movie: Rembrandt
“I'm looking at you in the same way as the water with which you wash yourself or the air you move in or the light that shines on you.”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
“The law has the right to forbid only those things that are harmful to society. I must go. I must go, not because I'm harmful to society - which is you - but I am harmful to tyranny.”
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
“I know that for every German killed, many of our innocent citizens are executed. But, the example of their heroism is contagious. And our resistance grows.”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
“I'll live to see you - all of you - hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fleet.”
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
“We must stop saying that sabotage is wrong, that it doesn't pay. It does pay! It makes us suffer, starve, and die. But, though it increases our misery, it will shorten our slavery.”
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
- From the movie: Rembrandt
“When one woman gives herself to you, you possess all women.”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
“The ship's company will remember that I am your captain, your judge, and your jury. You do your duty and we may get along. Whatever happens, you'll do your duty.”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
- From the movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“You ask me why I saved you? Oh, I tried to carry you off, and the next day you gave me a drink of water and little pity.”
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
“Sabotage is the only weapon left to a defeated people.”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
“- Christian: The prisoner is dead, sir!
- Bligh: Never mind, continue with the punishment!”
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