George C. Scott movie quotes

“Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

“This I believe in... I believe in death. I believe in disease. I believe in injustice and inhumanity, torture and anger and hate... I believe in murder. I believe in pain. I believe in cruelty and infidelity. I believe in slime and stink and every crawling, putrid thing... every possible ugliness and corruption, you son of a bitch. I believe......” (continue)(continue reading)
George C. Scott - Kinderman

“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.”
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

“You're not in the oil business; you're in the oil shortage business!”

George C. Scott - Barney Caine

“- Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
- Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add...” (continue)(continue reading)
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
Peter Bull - Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky

- Captain Hollister: What's to stop me from having you erased right here and now?
- John Rainbird: My word - that I've already made certain provisions that should I "disappear", The Shop will cease to exist within six weeks.
Martin Sheen - Captain Hollister
George C. Scott - John Rainbird

“- Bert Gordon: I don't think there's a pool player alive shoots better pool than I saw you shoot the other night at Ames. You got talent.
- Fast Eddie: So I got talent. So what beat me?
- Bert Gordon: Character.”
George C. Scott - Bert Gordon
Paul Newman - Eddie Felson

“The ways of the Lord are not our ways. And what He hath intended or how it shall be perfected is not in our power to know. Only in the trust of what is to come can we prosper. And in that trust shall we pitch our tents.”
George C. Scott - Abraham

“The night is filled with Thy voice. Here am I. What wouldst Thou demand of me?”

George C. Scott - Abraham

“- Isaac: There is nothing that He may not ask of thee?
- Abraham: Nothing.”

Alberto Lucantoni - Isaac
George C. Scott - Abraham

“- Brian Moreland: Sir, how could they do this?
- General Harlan Bache: With the stroke of a pen, sir. Their field of honor was a desktop.”

Timothy Hutton - Brian Moreland
George C. Scott - General Harlan Bache

“- Spats Baxter: Can you play the piano?
- Dick Cummings: Like a mink.”

George C. Scott - Spats Baxter
Barry Bostwick - Dick Cummings

“Who do you think you're messing with, you dumb animal? My mental facilities are twice what yours are, you pea brain!”
George C. Scott - McLeach

“You just start your countdown, and old Bucky'll be back here before you can say... Blast Off!”
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

“Alcohol has been a social lubricant for thousands of years. What do you think, you're going to sit here tonight and reinvent the wheel?”

George C. Scott - Roger Swanson

“Good Spirit, your nature intercedes for me and pities me. Assure me that I may yet change these shadows, by an altered life. I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge

“You go to the movies, you read books. A military leader is always portrayed as slightly insane. Very often more than slightly. That's because it is insane to cling to honor in a world where honor is held in contempt.”
George C. Scott - General Harlan Bache

- Ghost of Christmas Present: If he is to die, then let him die! "And decrease the surplus population!".
- Ebenezer Scrooge: You use my own words against me?
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Yes! So perhaps, in the future, you will hold your tongue until you have discovered where the surplus population is, and who it is.

Edward Woodward - Ghost of Christmas Present
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Who are you?
- Jacob Marley: Ask me who I was.
- Ebenezer Scrooge: You're particular for a ghost. Who were you then.
- Jacob Marley: In life I was your partner. Jacob Marley.”
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge
Frank Finlay - Jacob Marley

“Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.”
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

“- Mr. Poole: Mr. Scrooge, I presume?
- Ebenezer Scrooge: Indeed you do, sir.
- Mr. Poole: You don't know us?
- Ebenezer Scrooge: Nor do I wish to.”
Michael Gough - Mr. Poole
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge

“It's my understanding... that there are, uh... twenty-three students registered... for this series of lectures on advanced musical form. Now, we all know it's not raining outside, and unless there's a fire in some other part of the building that we don't know about, there's an awful lot of people here with nothing better to do.”
George C. Scott - John Russell

“As for what anybody else thinks, always remember these words and live by them: screw 'em!”
George C. Scott - Grandpa Ivan

“Acting is just a matter of observation, imitation and communication. That's what it's all about.”
George C. Scott

“My violent behavior is some sort of aberration, a character defect I'm not particularly proud of.”
George C. Scott