Sir Ian Holm movie quotes

“- Simon: I just wish I could have seen him grow up, you know.
- Terry Rapson: The important thing is he will grow up.”

Adrian Lester - Simon
Sir Ian Holm - Terry Rapson

“- Marion: Why have you stopped sleeping with me?
- Ken: We are simply going through a less active period, that's all. Its not uncommon.
- Marion: Why? I just want to know why?
- Ken: Why don't we just go to bed.
- Marion: There was a time that we were dying to be together.
- Ken: Marion, you're still the most desirable woman that I know.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
Sir Ian Holm - Ken

“- Father Vito Cornelius: It's a...
- DJ Ruby Rhod: No. 'Cuz if it was a bomb, the alarms would go off 'cuz all these hotels have bomb detectors, right?
[the alarms go off]”

Sir Ian Holm - Father Vito Cornelius
Chris Tucker - Ruby Rhod

“- Mitchell Stevens: Well, enough rage and helplessness and your love turns to something else.
- Allison: What... does it turn to?
- Mitchell Stevens: It turns to steaming piss.”
Sir Ian Holm - Mitchell Stevens
Stephanie Morgenstern - Allison

“- Ripley: Ash. Any suggestions from you or Mother?
- Ash: No, we're still collating.
- Ripley: You're what? You're still collating? I find that hard to believe.
- Ash: What would you like me to do?
- Ripley: Just what you've been doing, Ash: nothing.”
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley (Alien)
Sir Ian Holm - Ash

“- Ash: It's ad apted remarkably well to our atmosphere considering its nutritional requirements. The only thing we don't know about is temperature.
- Ripley: Okay, what about temperature? What happens if we change it?
- Ash: Let's try it. I mean most animals retreat from fire, yes?
- Dallas: Fire, yeah.”

Sir Ian Holm - Ash
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley (Alien)
Tom Skerritt - Dallas

“- Sam Mussabini: Eric Liddell? He's no real problem...
- Harold M. Abrahams: You could have fooled me.
- Sam Mussabini: Yeah, he's fast! But he won't go any faster. He's a gut runner, digs deep! But a short sprint is run on nerves. It's tailor-made for neurotics.”

Sir Ian Holm - Sam Mussabini
Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams

“- Marion: I feel sorry for you Ken, because, in your way, you've been as lonely as I have.
- Ken: Have you been lonely?
- Marion: At least I've come to recognize it.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
Sir Ian Holm - Ken

“- Sir Evelyn Blount: What are they saying D'Arnot?
- Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot: Dinner is serving. No! Arrived, dinner has arrived is a slightly better translation.
- Sir Evelyn Blount: I don't think that's frightfully funny D'Arnot!”

John Wells - Sir Evelyn Blount
Sir Ian Holm - Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

“I've done everything the loving father of a drug addict is supposed to do... I've sent her to the best hospitals, she's seen all the best doctors. It doesn't matter. Two weeks later she's on the street. New York, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Toronto, L.A. The next time I hear from her, it's a phone call scamming for money. Money for school, or money...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Ian Holm - Mitchell Stevens

"Daddy, just let me come home... Please, daddy, I have to see you...". But she never comes home. I'm always at the airport, but she's never there. Ten years of this, ten years of these lies, of imagining what happens if I don't send the money, of kicking down doors and dragging her out of rat-infested apartments, of explaining why that couldn't... (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Ian Holm - Mitchell Stevens

“Mother. Father. Family.”
Sir Ian Holm - Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

“- Kafka: That's what you're trying to eliminate, isn't it? Everything that makes one human being different from another. But you'll never reach a man's soul through a lens.
- Doctor Murnau: That rather depends on which end of the microscope you're on, doesn't it?”
Jeremy Irons - Kafka
Sir Ian Holm - Doctor Murnau

“I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.”
Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“- Willis: I have You in my eye, sir. And I shall keep You in my eye until You learn to behave and do as You're told.
- George III: I am the King. I tell, I am not told. I am the verb, sir, not the object.”
Sir Ian Holm - Willis
Nigel Hawthorne - George III

“No American should find himself in a foreign land without a pistol.”
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost

“- Ripley: Ash, that transmission... Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S..
- Ash: What is it, then?
- Ripley: I... it looks like a warning. I'm gonna go out after them.
- Ash: What's the point? I mean by the-the time it takes to get there, you'll... they'll know if it's a warning or not, yes?”
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley (Alien)
Sir Ian Holm - Ash

“- Dr. Willis: If the King refuses food, He will be restrained. If He claims to have no appetite, He will be restrained. If He swears and indulges in meaningless discourse... He will be restrained. If He throws off his bed-clothes, tears away His bandages, scratches at His sores, and if He does not strive every day and always towards His own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Ian Holm - Willis
Nigel Hawthorne - George III

“- Simon: Hello, professor. How was India?
- Terry Rapson: You know what these scientific gatherings are. All dancing girls, wine and parties.”
Adrian Lester - Simon
Sir Ian Holm - Terry Rapson

“- Tom Frost: There are no accidents. For example, I've been killing my own wife slowly over a period of years.
- Bill Lee: What?
- Tom Frost: Well, not intentionally. I mean, on the level of conscious intention, it's insane, monstrous.”
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost
Peter Weller - Bill Lee

“- Nicole Burnell: No matter what I'm asked I'll tell the truth.
- Mitchell Stevens: It's not going to be easy Nicole.
- Nicole Burnell: I won't lie.”
Sarah Polley - Nicole Burnell
Sir Ian Holm - Mitchell Stevens

“- Naville: You are going to go to work, my girl.
- Celine Naville: What?
- Naville: You have spent the last quarter of a century watching the tide go in and out, but from tomorrow, you are going to work. Here, under my supervision. You're going to learn the essence of business.”
Sir Ian Holm - Naville
Cameron Diaz - Celine Naville

“- Tom Frost: They say you murdered your wife. Is that true?
- Bill Lee: Who told you that?
- Tom Frost: Word gets around.
- Bill Lee: It wasn't murder. It was an accident.”
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost
Peter Weller - Bill Lee

“Give people what they want, then later you can give them what you want.”
Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“A crowd is easier to control than an individual. A crowd has a common purpose. The purpose of the individual is always in question.”
Sir Ian Holm - Doctor Murnau