George C. Scott movie quotes

“I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. I think all the courage that I may lack personally, I have as an actor.”
George C. Scott

“Directors are supposed to help the audience. Good directors don't direct actors.”
George C. Scott

“The whole world is a homicide victim, Father. Would a God who is good invent something like that? Plainly speaking, it's a lousy idea. It's not popular. It's not a winner.”
George C. Scott - Kinderman

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Why are these people out here? Men and women in rags. Children eating scraps! There are institutions.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Have you visited any of them? These institutions you speak of?
- Ebenezer Scrooge: No! I am taxed for them. Isn't that enough?”
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge
Edward Woodward - Ghost of Christmas Present

- Barney Caine: You trade lives and human dignity for profit.
- Adam Steiffel: "Money, not morality, is the principal commerce of civilized nations". Thomas Jefferson, 200 years ago. That is the philosophy that built this nation.
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
Marlon Brando - Adam Steiffel

“When they're feeling sufficiently incomplete, you convince them your product is the only thing that can fill the void. So instead of taking steps to deal with their lives, instead of working to root out the real reason for their misery, they go out and buy a stupid looking pair of cargo pants.”

George C. Scott - Roger Swanson

“In ten years, you won't even remember what this place looks like.”

George C. Scott - Roger Swanson

“- Spats Baxter: Say, do you think you could write a Broadway score?
- Dick Cummings: Oh, it's been my lifelong dream, for years!”

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

“- Roger Swanson: Starfish for one.
- Donovan: Next time I see a starfish, I'm gonna tell him to go fuck himself.”

George C. Scott - Roger Swanson
Ben Shenkman - Donovan

“- Tiny Tim: Merry Christmas, Sir!
- Ebenezer Scrooge: Humbug.”
Anthony Walters - Tiny Tim
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge

“You're the beneficiary of the cruelest kind of murder... murder for profit!”

George C. Scott - John Russell

“- Barney Caine: What about dinner, Hans?
- Hans Lehman: Impossible. Two terrorists escaped from Moabit Prison. You know, you have been fortunate in America so far. You haven't experienced organized terrorism.”
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
John Van Dreelen - Hans Lehman

“- Meg Bethune: Do you know what they did with his underwear? They ran it up the flag pole just to humilate him. And he gets up and goes back there every single day. Don't you tell me I don't know how strong my son is. I know. And if he wants to go to any God damn school where kids won't slap their belly every time he walks by, then he damn well...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kathy Bates - Meg Bethune
George C. Scott - Grandpa Ivan

“- Roger Swanson: Why give into a slump? Let's go down swinging.
- Nick: Like Michael Jordan.
- Roger Swanson: That's the wrong sport, but I like your enthusiasm.”
George C. Scott - Roger Swanson
Jesse Eisenberg - Nick

“- Barney Caine: Doctor, Mr. Reimeck told us that you had been captured by the Russians.
- Dr. Esau: The Mongolians came into the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. They swarmed into my office still wearing their white winter uniforms in May. They kept flushing my toilet over and over. Can you believe? The German nation defeated by men who have never seen...” (continue)(continue reading)
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
Sir John Gielgud - Dr. Esau

“What do you know about this nation? Don't you ever give a second thought to American citizens? You're the reason their money's worthless. You're the reason old people are eating out of garbage cans, and kids get killed in bullshit wars.”

George C. Scott - Barney Caine

“- Niki: Look, how important do you think sex is?
- Jake VanDorn: Not very.
- Niki: Then we're just alike. I mean, you think it's so unimportant that you don't even do it. I think it's so unimportant that I don't care who I do it with.”
Season Hubley - Niki
George C. Scott - Jake VanDorn

“- Barney Caine: You see, professor, I'm a little tired of being lied to and shot at. And your phony nostalgia about the good old days doesn't impress me.
- Siebold: Don't play the sanctimonious American with me, mister.”
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
Ferdy Mayne - Siebold

“These are garments, Mr. Cratchit. Garments were invented by the human race as a protection against the cold. Once purchased, they may be used indefinitely for the purpose for which they are intended.”
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge

“- Captain DeWitt: I understand you lost your wife and daughter a little while ago. Maybe it shook you up. Maybe too much... maybe, you need help.
- John Russell: I'd like you to leave now...”
John Colicos - Captain DeWitt
George C. Scott - John Russell

“- Tiny Tim: Merry Christmas, Mister Scrooge.
- Ebenezer Scrooge: Don't beg on this corner, boy.
- Tiny Tim: I'm not begging, Sir. I'm Tim Cratchit. I'm waiting for my father.”

Anthony Walters - Tiny Tim
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge

“Natural selection, now that is a principle of nature, selection, something has to lose, something has to be defeated in order for something else to be selected.”
George C. Scott - Roger Swanson

“- Mrs. Clelia: My radio. Aren't you going to fix it? Nothing ever gets fixed round here. Just a whole bunch of pies and anchovies. Go away. I don't ever talk to strangers.
- Kinderman: I'm the radio repairman, Mrs. Clelia.
- Mrs. Clelia: Well then, fix it.
- Kinderman: What's wrong with it?
- Mrs. Clelia: Dead people talking. It's right here. Do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mary Jackson - Mrs. Clelia
George C. Scott - Kinderman

“I know men younger than myself who have taken a pension, put on stupid little white shirts... cut off sleeves, alligator on the tit... and spent the rest of their days beating the hell out of a little white ball with an iron club. My God... the thought of it makes me want to puke.”

George C. Scott - General Harlan Bache

“Mister President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!”
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson