George C. Scott movie quotes

“Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat.”
George C. Scott - McLeach

“You can't sell a product without first making people feel bad. Because it's a substitution game. You have to remind them that they're missing something from their lives. Everyone's missing something.”

George C. Scott - Roger Swanson

“- Joey Popchik: I'm fighting in the Garden tomorrow night.
- Gloves Malloy: I heard it in the papers.”

Harry Hamlin - Joey Popchik
George C. Scott - Gloves Malloy

“- Juror #8: Ever since we've walked into this room, you've acted like a self-appointed public avenger!
- Juror #3: Shut up...
- Juror #8: You want the boy to die for your own personal reasons, not because of the facts!”
Jack Lemmon - Juror #8
George C. Scott - Juror #3

“- Grandpa Ivan: Superman isn't brave.
- Angus: Did you take your pills this morning?
- Grandpa Ivan: You don't understand. He's smart, handsome, even decent. But he's not brave. No, listen to me. Superman is indestructible, and you can't be brave if you're indestructible. It's people like you and your mother. People who are different, and can be...” (continue)(continue reading)
George C. Scott - Grandpa Ivan
Charlie Talbert - Angus Bethune

“If I didn't have a son that still loved me, I'd blow your fucking brains out all over that wall back there... right here, right now.”
George C. Scott - Barney Caine

“I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.”
George C. Scott - McLeach

“Reasonable doubt! That's nothing but words.”
George C. Scott - Juror #3

“- Kinderman: I have hobbies. In the meantime, we have cancer and mongoloid babies and murderers, monsters prowling the planet, even prowling this neighborhood, Father... right now, while our children suffer... and our loved ones die, and your God goes waltzing blithely through the universe like some kind of cosmic Billie Burke.
- Father Dyer:...” (continue)(continue reading)
George C. Scott - Kinderman
Ed Flanders - Father Dyer

- Ebenezer Scrooge: What are they?
- Ghost of Christmas Present: They are your children! They are the children of all who walk the earth unseen! Their names are Ignorance and Want! Beware of them, for upon their brow is written the word "doom"! They spell the downfall of you and all who deny their existence!

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

“Sit down, relax, enjoy the view. Nothing but abandoned opal mines far as the eye can see. And dead ahead is home sweet home.”
George C. Scott - McLeach

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Why do you show me this? What has it to do with me?
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Are they not of the human race?”

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

“Our problem there... is solved. Dr. Wanless is here.”
George C. Scott - John Rainbird

- Ebenezer Scrooge: I almost went after her.
- Ghost of Christmas Past: "Almost" carries no weight. Especially in matters of the heart.

George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge
Angela Pleasence - Ghost of Christmas Past

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Where are we now? I'm sure I don't know this place.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: The name would mean nothing to you. It's a place, like many in this world.”
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge
Edward Woodward - Ghost of Christmas Present

“The big guy only gives us three acts down here. Play them with style!”

George C. Scott - Gloves Malloy

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Tell me, spirit... will he live?
- Ghost of Christmas Present: I see an empty place at this table. I see a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.”

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

“Spirit, what perversity is this? I've asked to see some emotion connected with that man's death... and you've shown me only greed, and malice, and apathy! Let me see some tenderness, some... depth of feeling!”

George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge