Sir John Hurt movie quotes

“Rabbits will always need tricks!”

Sir John Hurt - Hazel

“- William C. Irvine: James, do you remember the good gone days?
- James Averill: Clearer and better, every day I get older.”
Sir John Hurt - William C. Irvine
Kris Kristofferson - James Averill

“- John Merrick: Would you care to see my mother?
- Frederick Treves: Your mother? Yes please. Oh but she's... Mr. Merrick, she's beautiful!
- John Merrick: Oh, she had the face of an angel!”

Sir John Hurt - John Merrick
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Frederick Treves

“I've had my eye on you a long time, Doctor. I consider you one of my most valuable long-term investments. And when it comes to my investments, I always do my homework.”

Sir John Hurt - S.R. Hadden

“Maybe I'll get lucky and get killed on the race course.”

Sir John Hurt - Bob Champion

“- John Merrick: I must have been a great disappointment to her.
- Mrs. Treves: No, Mr. Merrick, no. No son as loving as you could ever be a disappointment.”

Sir John Hurt - John Merrick
Hannah Gordon - Mrs. Treves

“- Winston Smith: She's beautiful.
- Julia: She's a metre across the hips, easily.
- Winston Smith: That is her style of beauty.”

Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith
Suzanna Hamilton - Julia

“- Sam: I still don't know if we can trust him mister Frodo.
- Aragorn: I said you have no choice Sam!”

Michael Scholes - Sam
Sir John Hurt - Aragorn

“- Mary Hussey: Oh Bob. You're cured, so it's time to face the facts. Riding again was a dream! It helped you through your illness.
- Bob Champion: Don't waste your breath.
- Mary Hussey: The doctor told you your lungs are permanently damaged! You're as weak as a kitten! You've no feeling in your hands or feet! Bob, you can't ride a bicycle!”
Alison Steadman - Mary Hussey
Sir John Hurt - Bob Champion

“In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous.”

Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“- Robert Roy MacGregor: What passes for honor with me is likely the same as what passes with Your Lordship. When my word is given, it is good.
- Montrose: Well, you are to be congratulated on such cheaply-bought nobility.”
Liam Neeson - Rob Roy
Sir John Hurt - Montrose

“- Parker: How ya doin'?
- Kane: Terrific. Next silly question?”

Yaphet Kotto - Parker
Sir John Hurt - Kane

“We are the dead.”
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“- John Merrick: There's something I've been meaning to ask you for some time now.
- Frederick Treves: What's that?
- John Merrick: Can you cure me?
- Frederick Treves: No. We can care for you, but we can't cure you.
- John Merrick: No. I thought not.”
Sir John Hurt - John Merrick
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Frederick Treves

“- Hazel: Lord Frith, I know you've looked after us well and it's wrong to ask even more of you, but my people are in terrible danger! So I would like to make a bargain with you... my life in return for theirs.
- Frith: There is not a day or night that a doe offers her life for her kittens or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sir John Hurt - Hazel
Michael Hordern - Frith

“My, what a brave, handsome group. A pig keeper, a scullery maid, and a broken-down minstrel. Perhaps it would interest you to see what fate has in store for you.”
Sir John Hurt - The Horned King

“- O'Brien: The law of gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
- Winston Smith: I love you.”
Richard Burton - O'Brien
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith