F. Murray Abraham movie quotes

- Jamal Wallace: You said that my skills reached "farther" than basketball. "Farther" relates to distance, "further" is a definition of degree. You should have said "further".
- Prof. Robert Crawford: Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace?
- Jamal Wallace: Not any more than you challenged Coleridge.
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
F. Murray Abraham - Prof. Robert Crawford

“Why? Why would God choose an obscene child to be His instrument? It was not to be believed! This piece had to be an accident. It had to be!”

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you all.”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“- Harold Leacher: Quid pro quo Mr Colt.
- Jack Colt: What does that mean?
- Harold Leacher: It means I'm pretentious.”
F. Murray Abraham - Harold Leacher
Emilio Estevez - Jack Colt

“Mozart! Mozart, forgive your assassin! I confess, I killed you...”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“The only thing that worried me was the actual killing. How does one do that? Hmmm? How does one kill a man? It's one thing to dream about it; very different when, when you, when you have to do it with your own hands.”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“From now on, we are enemies, You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature as far as I am able. I will ruin Your incarnation.”

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“- Kalina Oretzia: Who are you to play God?
- Cyrus Kriticos: Playing is for children.”
Embeth Davidtz - Kalina Oretzia
F. Murray Abraham - Cyrus Kriticos

“- Antonio Salieri: My plan was so simple. It terrified me. First I must get the death mass and then, I must achieve his death.
- Father Vogler: What?
- Antonio Salieri: His funeral! Imagine it, the cathedral, all Vienna sitting there, his coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle, and then, in that silence, music! A divine music bursts out...” (continue)(continue reading)
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri
Richard Frank - Father Vogler

“All I wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If He didn't want me to praise him with music, why implant the desire? Like a lust in my body! And then deny me the talent?”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“Astounding! It was actually, it was beyond belief. These were first and only drafts of music, but they showed no corrections of any kind. Not one. He had simply written down music already finished in his head!”

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“Evolution has a way of keeping things alive.”
F. Murray Abraham - Dr. Gates

“The handicapped are always cranky.”
F. Murray Abraham - Greek Chours Leader

“- Antonio Salieri: Mozart, it was good of you to come!
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: How could I not?
- Antonio Salieri: How... did my work please you?
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I never knew that music like that was possible!
- Antonio Salieri: You flatter me.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: No, no! One hears such sounds, and what can one say but......” (continue)(continue reading)
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri
Tom Hulce - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“It's simple in here. An insane place with insane rules. It all ends up being logical. If you're white, you hang white. Otherwise, the niggers are gonna eat you alive.”

F. Murray Abraham - Virgil Cane

“After I die, let people speak my name forever with love for what I wrote. In return, I will give You my chastity, my industry, my deepest humility, every hour of my life, Amen. And do you know what happened? A miracle!”

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“- Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano: I don't have a wife, because emotion is dangerous.
- Arnold Rothstein: Aren't you human?
- Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano: Would it help?”
Christian Slater - Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano
F. Murray Abraham - Arnold Rothstein

“What's the secret of America? Money! Everything is money, Charlie. But you'll never make any money, because you dress like a schmuck.”
F. Murray Abraham - Arnold Rothstein