John Lithgow movie quotes

“Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.”
John Lithgow

“Character is what you are in the dark.”
John Lithgow - Lord John Whorfin

“- Nick Styles: Jesus Christ.
- Earl Talbot Blake: Almost.”

Denzel Washington - Nick Styles
John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake

“- Parole Board Chairman: The Parole Board's ready, Blake. I hope you remembered to floss.
- Earl Talbot Blake: I did! With your wife's pubic hair!”
Frank Miller - Parole Board Chairman
John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake

“There we were, both of us... at the beginning of our careers. Then all of a sudden, one of us... took off! Lit up the sky like a meteor. And why? Because he met the other.”

John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake

“- Parole Board Chairman: Mr. Blake, what will you do if you get out of prison?
- Earl Talbot Blake: I guess, Mr. Chairman, that first I'll pay a visit to your house.
- Parole Board Chairman: To thank me, I suppose?
- Earl Talbot Blake: No... to fuck your wife. And your daughter. Hell, maybe even your dog.”
Frank Miller - Parole Board Chairman
John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake

“They're not going to allow any men. A man killed her! They're very upset!”

John Lithgow - Roberta Muldoon

“I'm gonna do something far worse than kill you. I'm gonna let you live.”

John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake

“Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.”
John Lithgow - Lord John Whorfin

“- Nick Styles: You killed Farris, didn't you?
- Earl Talbot Blake: You killed my life.
- Nick Styles: So, now we're even, is that it?
- Earl Talbot Blake: We're not even close.”
Denzel Washington - Nick Styles
John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake

“Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.”
John Lithgow

“People have to be angry at someone. But as leader, one cannot simply react to everything.”
John Lithgow - Winston Churchill

“Where there is heroism there will always be hope.”
John Lithgow - Winston Churchill

“No man should be punished for love.”
John Lithgow - Winston Churchill

“We’re all dying. That’s what defines the condition of living.”
John Lithgow - Winston Churchill

“News is like a ship. You take your hands off the wheel and it pulls hard to the left.”
John Lithgow - Roger Ailes

“People don't stop watching when there's a conflict. They stop watching when there isn't one.”
John Lithgow - Roger Ailes

“- Katherine Newbury: Walter, I have invested in precisely two things my entire life, you and this show. I won’t lose it now! I can’t!
- Walter Lovell: Then you have to fight again. Something you haven’t had to do for a long, long time. They want to replace you. But they can’t replace you if everyone loves you.”
Emma Thompson - Katherine Newbury
John Lithgow - Walter Lovell

“- Joe Huxley: We are holding fast at just a hair under 50 rads per hour. I thought that it would have diminished by now. I guess that means we're picking up fallout from... Titan missile bases in Wichita... wherever else out west. That's the way the wind blows - straight toward St. Louis.
- Dr. Russell Oakes: When will it be safe to move people...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Lithgow - Joe Huxley
Jason Robards - Dr. Russell Oakes

“- Operator: I have an emergency phone call from Mrs. Aurora Greenway in Houston, Texas, for Mrs. Emma Horton.
- Sam Burns: Oh no!
- Emma Horton: No, she always does this when the lines busy. It's fine.”
John Lithgow - Sam Burns
Debra Winger - Emma Horton

- Paul Philips: Franny! Watch your mouth!
- Franny Philips: Daddy, you're such a prude!
- Paul Philips: I didn't say "shit" until I was eighteen years old... and no one thought I was retarded.

John Lithgow - Paul Philips
Trini Alvarado - Franny Philips

“You want to kill me, don't you, Tucker? Well, get a number and get in line.”

John Lithgow - Qualen

“- Bud: What is that smell? What am I sitting in?
- Cindy: Relax. It's just urine.”
John Lithgow - Bud Brumder
Catherine O'Hara - Cindy Beugler

“When I was a kid, it seemed like they made something new every day. Some, gadget or idea, like every day was Christmas.”
John Lithgow - Donald

“- Gingerbread Man: You're a monster!
- Lord Farquaad: I'm not the monster here, you are! You and the rest of that fairytale trash, poisoning my perfect world.”
Conrad Vernon - Gingerbread Man
John Lithgow - Lord Farquaad