James Cromwell movie quotes

“There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code, that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light?”
James Cromwell - Dr. Alfred Lanning

“Go back to Jersey, sonny. This is the City of the Angels, and you haven't got any wings.”
James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“It's a wonderful thing, as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face, when you've gotten old, and still sees what you think you look like.”
James Cromwell - The Priest

“If you really want to learn about life, get a cat.”
James Cromwell

“I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.”
James Cromwell

“Elton John wishes to sing at the funeral. Should be a first for Westminster Abbey.”

James Cromwell - Prince Philip

“Who do you think you are, a Kennedy? You're a Bush! Act like one.”

James Cromwell - George H. W. Bush

“- President Nemerov: I ordered no such attack. You must not respond to this action until we have investigated all possibilities.
- President Fowler: Like you did in Chechnya? Mr. President, who is in control of your armed forces?
- President Nemerov: You dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. You dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Do not lecture me on Chechnya!”

Ciarán Hinds - President Nemerov
James Cromwell - President Fowler

“Who do you think we are? We're not the Red Cross. We make weapons, things that kill people.”

James Cromwell - William Donohue

“- Del Spooner: Then why would you build a robot that could function without them?
- Dr. Alfred Lanning: The Three Laws will lead to only one logical outcome.
- Del Spooner: What? What outcome?
- Dr. Alfred Lanning: Revolution.
- Del Spooner: Whose revolution?
- Dr. Alfred Lanning: That, Detective, is the right question. Program terminated.”

Will Smith - Del Spooner
James Cromwell - Dr. Alfred Lanning

“Don't start trying to do the right thing, boy. You haven't the practice.”

James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“Edmund, you're a political animal. You have the eye for human weakness, but not the stomach.”

James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.”
James Cromwell

“If I had words to make a day for you, I’d sing you a morning golden and true, I would make this day last for all time, then fill the night deep in moonshine.”

James Cromwell - Farmer Arthur H. Hoggett

“- The Queen: What did she say?
- Prince Philip: Something about Diana managing to be even more annoying dead than alive.
- The Queen: Just make sure you never let the boys hear you talk like that!”

Helen Mirren - The Queen
James Cromwell - Prince Philip

“I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?”
James Cromwell - Alan Rittenhouse

“- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: You're going to have to decide on this one, Paul - Are you a soldier or a policeman?
- Brenner: I'm a soldier, sir.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: I'm counting on it.”
James Cromwell - General Campbell
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“A chorus line of soap stars and homosexuals.”

James Cromwell - Prince Philip

“You and I have known fear together, shed blood together, battled pain and suffering and all of their foot soldiers. We know there is no glamour in sudden death and that no one ever wins a war, and it is that knowledge that will bind us together forever. That, and a love for this country that no bayonet can pierce, no bullet shatter.”

James Cromwell - General Campbell

“- President Fowler: Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about?
- Bill Cabot: It's the guy with one I'm worried about.”
James Cromwell - President Fowler
Morgan Freeman - DCI William Cabot

“My battle with the world is almost over. Yours I'm afraid has just begun.”

James Cromwell - William Randolph Hearst

“Ah, you college men are all alike: all you think about is getting laid! I almost wish I was enrolling in school with you guys!”
James Cromwell - Mr. Skolnick

“You haven't kept your word once. Not once. In our family, the Bush family, we honor our commitments.”

James Cromwell - George H. W. Bush

“Sleeping in the streets and pulling out their hair for someone they never knew. And they think we're mad!”

James Cromwell - Prince Philip

“We always worked for a living. It's damn time you joined the rest of us and decided just what it is you're gonna do with your life.”

James Cromwell - George H. W. Bush