Sir Ian Holm movie quotes

“The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.”
Sir Ian Holm

It is never "too much"; it is only "not enough"! Bite your teeth into the ass of life and drag it to you!

Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“You would have to be an idiot of elephantine proportions not to appreciate this '61 Château Latour, and you, Monsieur Linguini, are no idiot. Let us toast your non-idiocy!”

Sir Ian Holm - Skinner

“- Sir William Gull: One day men will look back and say that I gave birth to the twentieth century.
- Inspector Frederick Abberline: You're not going to see the twentieth century.”
Sir Ian Holm - Sir William Gull
Johnny Depp - Inspector Frederick Abberline

“Thrór's love of gold grown too fierce and sickness had begun to grow within him. It was a sickness of the mind. And where sickness thrives, bad things will follow...”
Sir Ian Holm - Old Bilbo

“- Father Vito Cornelius: I'm really sorry to have to resort to these methods, Mr. Willis!
- Korben Dallas: Dallas.”
Sir Ian Holm - Father Vito Cornelius
Bruce Willis - Korben Dallas

“- Francois: What are corn dogs?
- Skinner: Cheap sausages dipped in batter and deep fried. You know, American.”
Julius Callahan - Francois
Sir Ian Holm - Skinner

A guy works all day, he don't want to look at his plate and ask, "What the fuck is this?". He wants to look at his plate, see a steak, and say "I like steak!".
Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“Below the skin of history are London's veins. These symbols, the mitre, the pentacle star, even someone as ignorant and degenerate as you can sense that they course with energy and meaning. I am that meaning. I am that energy.”
Sir Ian Holm - Sir William Gull

“Bullets change governments far surer than votes.”

Sir Ian Holm - Simeon Weisz

“Laudanum is a derivative of opium. Apart from doctors and addicts, not many would be able to detect it. How long have you been chasing the dragon, Inspector?”
Sir Ian Holm - Sir William Gull

“The devil's greatest achievement is that people don't believe he exists. Nowadays, the concept of evil is politically incorrect.”
Sir Ian Holm - Reverend Grissom

“All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another.”
Sir Ian Holm

“As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.”
Sir Ian Holm

“The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.”
Sir Ian Holm

“Listen to me John. How many other white apes have you seen? You're like me, not them. You have another family, far away, one you have never seen.”
Sir Ian Holm - Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

“Alexander the Great, five feet eight exactly. Isn't that incredible! I mean, Alexander the Great, who's empire stretched from India to Hungary, one inch shorter than me. Oliver Cromwell, the only man with any guts in British history, wasn't a big man at all. Louis XIV, five foot two and a half. Charlamagne, dopey little five footer! He's a good...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Ian Holm - Napoleon

“- Bill Lee: You do consciously know it. You just said it. We're discussing it.
- Tom Frost: Not consciously. This is all happening telepathically, non-consciously.
- Bill Lee: What do you mean?
- Tom Frost: If you look carefully at my lips, you'll realize that I'm actually saying something else. I'm not actually telling you about the several...” (continue)(continue reading)

Peter Weller - Bill Lee
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost

“- Mitchell Stevens: One part of me was daddy, singing a lullaby to his little girl. The other part was a surgeon, ready to cut into her throat. I waited for the second that Zoe's breath stopped to make that incision.
- Allison: What happened?
- Mitchell Stevens: Oh, nothing. We made it to the hospital. I didn't have to go as far as I was...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sir Ian Holm - Mitchell Stevens
Stephanie Morgenstern - Allison

“- Marion: Would you ever think of making love to me on the living room floor?
- Ken: Do you want me to?
- Marion: I don't know. Would you want to?
- Ken: I don't know. Actually, I don't think I see you as the hard wood floor type.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
Sir Ian Holm - Ken

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

Sir Ian Holm - Bilbo

“I'm old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel... thin. Sort of stretched, like... butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return. In fact I mean not to.”
Sir Ian Holm - Bilbo

“You despise someone like me because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it.”

Sir Ian Holm - Doctor Murnau

“- Bilbo: You will keep an eye on Frodo, won't you?
- Gandalf: Two eyes, as often as I can spare them.”
Sir Ian Holm - Bilbo
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“- Secondo: Primo, do you know why this night is happening?
- Primo: No.
- Secondo: Because it has to happen.”
Stanley Tucci - Secondo
Sir Ian Holm - Pascal