David Morse movie quotes

“- Young Ellie: Dad, do you think there's people on other planets?
- Ted Arroway: I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space.”
Jena Malone - Young Ellie
David Morse - Ted Arroway

“I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies.”
David Morse

“A wolf will starve itself to death rather than make a mistake. You have to lay down a scent that smells real from far away. And the bait has to be fresh and untouched by human hands. Make no mistake about it, we are hunting a wolf.”
David Morse - Edgar Clenteen

“You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”

David Morse - Alien

“You know, when I woke up this morning, I didn't expect to be trading nine millies with my friend.”

David Morse - Frank Nugent

“I really feel oblidged to tell you that I rather enjoy my privacy. You see the world is in a heightened state of paranoia and I tend to think that someone as intelligent and attractive as you doesen't need to be wasting her time... stoking the fire.”

David Morse - Mr. Turner

“- Percy Wetmore: Adios, Chief! Drop us a card from Hell, let us know if it's hot enough...
- Brutus 'Brutal' Howell: He's paid what he's owed; he's square with the house again, so keep your goddamn hands off him!”

Doug Hutchison - Percy Wetmore
David Morse - Brutus 'Brutal' Howell

“It's funny how when you're a kid, a day can last forever. Now, all these years seem just like a blink.”
David Morse - Adult Bobby Garfield

“- Senator: Mr. Clenteen, exactly how many laws are we breaking here?
- Edgar Clenteen: You don't want to know.”
Victor A. Young - Senator
David Morse - Edgar Clenteen

“- Selma: Would it make you feel better if I told you a secret?
- Bill: What secret could you tell me?
- Selma: I'm going blind. Not yet, but... soon. Maybe sometime this year.
- Bill: Blind...
- Selma: It's not as bad as it sounds. It's, uh... It's a family thing.”
David Morse - Bill Houston
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“Though I never again saw what people were thinking, there was an enduring gift that he left me. What Ted did was open my eyes, and let the future in. I wouldn't have missed a minute of it. Not for all the world.”
David Morse - Adult Bobby Garfield

“Fuck the truth!”
David Morse - Frank Nugent

“Film is a very intimate medium.”
David Morse

“I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.”
David Morse

“- Colonel Reed: What's the best way... to... to go about disarming one of these things?
- Staff Sergeant William James: The way you don't die, sir.”

David Morse - Colonel Reed
Jeremy Renner - Staff Sergeant William James

“- Joe Roberts: Were you thinking of living?
- Mr. Roberts: There's a trailer park over on Bright's. They got a pretty good deal there.
- Maria: It's nice there. They have a vegetable garden in the back where you can rent a plot. Grow your own.”

David Morse - Joe Roberts
Charles Bronson - Mr. Roberts
Valeria Golino - Maria

“- Captain Darrow: Excuse me, General... but what about the fucking money?
- General Francis X. Hummel: There is no fucking money. The mission's over.
- Captain Frye: Bullshit it's over!
- Major Tom Baxter: You're talking to a General, soldier! Maintain discipline.
- Captain Darrow: I'm not a soldier, Major. The day we took hostages, we became...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tony Todd - Captain Darrow
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel
Gregory Sporleder - Captain Frye
David Morse - Major Tom Baxter

“When he's served his purpose, when he draws our man out of the shadows, well, you know what happens to bait.”
David Morse - Edgar Clenteen

“- Selma: Isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?
- Bill Houston: Why?
- Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever.”
Björk - Selma Jezkova
David Morse - Bill Houston

“- Peejoe: Uncle Dove, do you really think Aunt Lucille stole that car?
- Dove Bullis: Absolutely. Baby sister wants a car, she's gonna get one!”
Lucas Black - Peejoe
David Morse - Dove

“- Colonel Reed: Yeah. How many bombs have you disarmed?
- Staff Sergeant William James: Uh, I'm... I'm not quite sure.
- Colonel Reed: Sergeant?
- Staff Sergeant William James: Yes, sir.
- Colonel Reed: I asked you a question.
- Staff Sergeant William James: Eight hundred seventy-three, sir.”
David Morse - Colonel Reed
Jeremy Renner - Staff Sergeant William James

“- Luke/Daedalus: Torture, yes, a woman's face never looked so quite beautiful as when it's distended in pain, witness the beauty of child birth.
- Samantha Caine (Charly): Untie me and I'll make any face you want.
- Luke/Daedalus: Let's not and say we did.”
David Morse - Luke / Daedalus
Geena Davis - Samantha Caine (Charly)

“Hey. What are you doing? What are doing? Looking at my garden? Is that it? You looking at my beautiful garden? Well, I caught you now. I got you.”
David Morse - Mr. Turner

“- Peter: In the joint, did you get butt-fucked?
- John Booth: It only hurts the first time.”
David Baerwald - Peter
David Morse - John Booth

“- Brutus 'Brutal' Howell: Do you have anything to say before the sentence is carried out?
- Toot-Toot: Yeah! I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have Mae West sit on my face, because I am one horny motherfucker!”

David Morse - Brutus 'Brutal' Howell
Harry Dean Stanton - Toot-Toot