James Cromwell movie quotes

“- Brenner: Seven years ago in that hospital room when you told her to just forget about it, you killed her.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: Kent killed her.
- Brenner: No. Kent just put her out of her misery.”

John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Cromwell - General Campbell

“You're a bit of a puzzlement to me these days, Wendell. You don't seem to be your old cruel self anymore. And I had such grand plans for your future.”

James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“- Capt. Elisabeth Campbell: It happened. It happened! I want to hear you say it happened!
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: I don't give a damn what happened to you seven years ago!
- Capt. Elisabeth Campbell: Whatever hurts you makes me stronger. That which does not destroy me makes me stronger!”

Leslie Stefanson - Elisabeth Campbell
James Cromwell - General Campbell

“- Ed Exley: Rollo Tomasi.
- Dudley Smith: Who is he?
- Ed Exley: You are. You're the guy who gets away with it. Jack knew it, and so do I.”

Guy Pearce - Ed Exley
James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“Our justice must be swift and merciless.”
James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“- Brenner: I'm gonna say that in my report, that you knew she was out there, that you went out and talked to her and left her there to die.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: You don't have the balls.
- Brenner: Oh, you're wrong, sir... because that's just about all I have left.”

John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Cromwell - General Campbell

“A teacher educates our children and they become model citizens, the clergymen preaches we find spiritually, my bank gives loans and homes get built but now there's a new darker influence in Cincinnati and we cannot hide from this. Decent people are being corrupted.”

James Cromwell - Charles Keating

“- Bob Gerson: How old are ya, Frank?
- Frank Corvin: Old enough to know your ass is in a sling.”
James Cromwell - Bob Gerson
Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin

“My beautiful wife, Julie, is from New Jersey. 15 electoral votes. And she is, as you know, half Jewish. So we'll take Florida's 25 electoral votes and divide by 2. My daughter, Jeanie, is expecting her first child. If it's a girl, she will be named Virginia. 13 electoral votes. In fact, even if it's a boy, he'll be named Virginia. She reminds me...” (continue)(continue reading)

James Cromwell - President Fowler

“I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whiskey in Ireland.”

James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“- Judge Fielding: That's quite enough horseplay, Nels. Try and act your age.
- Nels Gudmundsson: I think if I did that, Your Honor, I'd be dead.”
James Cromwell - Judge Fielding
Max von Sydow - Nels Gudmundsson

“- Marion Davies: Did you need any of them?
- William Randolph Hearst: I wanted them.
- Marion Davies: And there is the difference between want and need.
- William Randolph Hearst: Not to me.”
Melanie Griffith - Marion Davies
James Cromwell - William Randolph Hearst

“There are those in Washington who believe the West will never be settled, the Northern Pacific Railroad will never breach Nebraska, a hostile Lakota will never submit to providence. And it is that kind of small-minded thinking that who say this horse will never be tamed. Discipline, time, and patience are the three great levelers.”
James Cromwell - The Colonel

“- Zefram Cochran: I've gotta take a leak.
- Geordi: Leak? I'm not detecting any leak.
- Zefram Cochran: Don't you people from the 24th century ever pee?”
James Cromwell - Zefram Cochran
LeVar Burton - Geordi

“If the most powerful weapons ever created are ever unleashed they will be fired not in anger, but fear.”
James Cromwell - President Fowler

“I've got a 4-alarm hangover. It's either from all that whiskey, or your laser beam. Or both. But I'm ready to make history.”
James Cromwell - Zefram Cochran

“Reciprocity, Mr. Hudgens, is the key to every relationship.”

James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“Please! Don't tell me it's all thanks to me! I've heard enough about the great Zefram Cochran! I don't know who writes your history books or where you get your information from, but you people got some pretty funny ideas about me!”
James Cromwell - Zefram Cochran

“I admire you as a policeman - particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job.”
James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“- Jenny Lerner: We know everything.
- Alan Rittenhouse: Nobody knows everything.”
Téa Leoni - Jenny Lerner
James Cromwell - Alan Rittenhouse

“There is nothing to understand. Only this: I am a man who could have been great, but was not.”
James Cromwell - William Randolph Hearst

“One day they'll have secrets... one day they'll have dreams.”

James Cromwell - Dr. Alfred Lanning

- Riker: Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements".
- Zefram Cochran: That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
- Riker: You did, ten years from now.
Jonathan Frakes - William Riker
James Cromwell - Zefram Cochran

“You wanna know what my vision is? Dollar signs, money! I didn't build this ship to usher in a new era for humanity. You think I wanna see the stars? I don't even like to fly! I take trains! I built this ship so I could retire to some tropical island... filled with... naked women. That's Zefram Cochran. That's his vision.”
James Cromwell - Zefram Cochran

“- Riker: Wow! Look at that!
- Zefram Cochran: Don't tell me you've never seen the moon before.
- Riker: It's just looks a lot different, that's all. There are 50 million people living on the moon in my time.”

Jonathan Frakes - William Riker
James Cromwell - Zefram Cochran