Jeff Daniels movie quotes

“You know what, life is life, and it's messy, and it's complicated, and you know what it takes guts!”
Jeff Daniels - Dr. Alex Tremor

“I've been ordered to take you men with me, I'm told that if you don't come I can shoot you. Well, you know I won't do that. Maybe somebody else will, but I won't, so that's that. Here's the situation, the Whole Reb army is up that road aways waiting for us, so this is no time for an argument like this, I tell you. We could surely use you fellas,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“- Tim O'Hara: O'Hara here, leave a message, keep it short.
- Mr. Channing: Channing here, you're fired. Short enough for you?”
Jeff Daniels - Tim O'Hara
Michael Lerner - Mr. Channing

“Whether you fight or not, that's up to you, whether you come along is... well, you're coming. You know who we are and what we are doing here, but if you are going to fight alongside us there are a few things I want you to know. This regiment was formed last summer, in Maine. There were a thousand of us then, there are less than 300 of us now....” (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“- Lewis: When I was about your age, me and some friends decided to make some money by opening up a meth lab.
- Luvlee: Oh! Did you blow yourself up?
- Lewis: Does it look like I blew myself up?”

Jeff Daniels - Lewis
Isla Fisher - Luvlee

“- Tom Baxter: Cecilia, it's clear how miserable you are with your husband. And if he hits you again, you tell me. I'd be forced to knock his teeth out.
- Cecilia: I don't think that'd be such a good idea. He's big.
- Tom Baxter: I'm sorry. It's written into my character to do it, so I do it.”
Jeff Daniels - Tom Baxter
Mia Farrow - Cecilia

“An army is power. Its entire purpose is to coerce others. This power can not be used carelessly or recklessly. This power can do great harm.”
Jeff Daniels - Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“- Charlie Driggs: If you don't turn around and take me back, you're gonna make me do something that I don't wanna do.
- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: I can hardly wait, Charlie.”
Jeff Daniels - Charles Driggs
Melanie Griffith - Audrey Hankel

- Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Tell me something, Buster: what do you think of Negroes?
- Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain: If you mean the race, I don't really know. This is not a thing to be ashamed of. The thing is, you can not judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time.
Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Kevin Conway - Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain

“- Roger: I hope 1944 turns out well. They pass so quickly. Where do they all go?
- Biff Baxter: So quickly. Then we get old. And we never knew what any of it was about.”

David Warrilow - Roger
Jeff Daniels - Biff Baxter

“All these thousands of men. Many of them not much more than boys. Each one of them some mother's son, some sister's brother, some daughter's father. Each one of them a whole person loved and cherished in some home far away. Many of them will never return.”
Jeff Daniels - Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“- Harry Dunne: I hate when women do that. She wanted to see you again! And now no? Now... wait a minute! Wait! She must have meant ten o' clock at night!
- Lloyd Christmas: Do you think?
- Harry Dunne: Why would she have you meet her in a bar at ten in the morning?
- Lloyd Christmas: I just figured she was a raging alcoholic.”

Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas

“- Molly Jennings: I'm sure you knew exactly what you were doing when you took Margaret off those pills.
- Ross Jennings: Like I knew what I was doing when I chose this town... with the country doctor from hell!”
Harley Jane Kozak - Molly Jennings
Jeff Daniels - Ross Jennings

“- Lloyd Christmas: Some little filly break your heart?
- Harry Dunne: No, it was a girl.”
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne

“- Aurora Greenway: Why should I be happy about being a grandmother?
- Flap Horton: Does this mean you won't be knitting the baby any booties?”

Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway
Jeff Daniels - Flap Horton

“- Lloyd Christmas: The first time I set eyes on Mary Swanson, I just got that old fashioned romantic feeling where I'd do anything to bone her.
- Harry Dunne: That's a special feeling, Lloyd.”
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne

“- Harry Dunne: I can't believe we drove around all day, and there's not a single job in this town. There is nothing, nada, zip!
- Lloyd Christmas: Yeah! Unless you wanna work forty hours a week.”
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas

“Am I dead? I must be dead because no one's talking to me!”
Jeff Daniels - Lewis

“I'm a rebel. I am! I just channelled my rebellion into the mainstream.”
Jeff Daniels - Charles Driggs

“- Harry Dunne: One time, we successfully mated a bulldog with a Shih-Tzu.
- Mary Swanson: Really? That's weird.
- Harry Dunne: Yeah, we called it a Bullshit.”
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne
Lauren Holly - Mary Swanson

“I smell money.”
Jeff Daniels - Lewis

“Dad was a card. I never met him. He died before the movie began.”
Jeff Daniels - Tom Baxter

“- Charlie Driggs: What are you doing?
- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: I'm setting you free.
- Charlie Driggs: Maybe I don't want to be free.
- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: Maybe you're not.”
Jeff Daniels - Charles Driggs
Melanie Griffith - Audrey Hankel

“I was thinking about some very deep things. About God and his relation with Irving Saks and R.H. Levine. And I was thinking about life in general. The origin of everything we see about us. The finality of death; how almost magical it seems in the real world, as opposed to the world of celluloid and flickering shadows.”
Jeff Daniels - Tom Baxter

“- Harry Dunne: I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.
- Lloyd Christmas: I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full of shit, man.”
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas