Jonathan Pryce movie quotes

“I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.”
Jonathan Pryce

“We are seeing a globalization of indifference. There is a culture of conflict, which makes us think only of ourselves. Makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are also insubstantial. We've become used to the suffering of others. It doesn't affect me. No one in our world feels responsible. Who is responsible for the blood of our...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“Truth may be vital, but without love, it is unbearable. Caritas in veritate.”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“We all suffer from spiritual pride. We all do. You must remember that, uh... you are not God. In God, we move, and live, and have our being. We live in God, but we are not of it. You're only human.”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Our whole church is in need of forgiveness. Where is our humility? Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“- Pope Benedict: In 1978, we had three popes.
- Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio: Yeah, but they weren't at the same time.
- Pope Benedict: I was making a little joke.
- Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio: A joke?
- Pope Benedict: A German joke. It doesn't have to be funny.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict
Jonathan Pryce - Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio

“We have spent these last years disciplining anyone who disagrees with our line on divorce, on birth control, on being gay. While our planet was being destroyed, while inequality grew like a cancer. We worried whether it was alright to speak the Mass in Latin, whether girls should be allowed to be altar servers. We built walls around us, and all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“- Mr. Dark: It's a thousand years to Christmas, Mr. Holloway.
- Charles Halloway: You're wrong. It's here, in this library tonight, and can't be spoiled.
- Mr. Dark: Did Will and Jim bring it with them on the soles of their shoes? Then, we shall have to scrape them.”

Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver

“- Pope Benedict: This is your ego talking. You think you know better.
- Pope Francis: I'm Argentinian. How does an Argentinian kill himself? He climbs to the top of his ego, and jumps off.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“- Pope Francis: Speaking English is exhausting.
- Pope Benedict: Terrible language - so many exceptions to every rule”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict

“It's not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy. I know He has a very special capacity for forgetting our mistakes. God forgets, but I don't.”
Jonathan Pryce - Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio

“- Pope Benedict: You talk about walls as if they are bad things. A house is built of walls. Strong walls.
- Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio: Ah... Did Jesus build walls? His face is a face of mercy. The bigger the sinner, the warmer the welcome. Mercy is the dynamite that blows down walls.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict
Jonathan Pryce - Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio

“When no one is to blame, everyone is to blame.”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“- Joan Castleman: I can't take the humiliation of holding your coat and arranging your pills and picking the crumbs out of your beard and being shoved aside with all the other wives to talk about some goddamn shopping trip while you, while you say to all the, the gathering sycophants that your wife doesn't write! Your wife, who just won the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Glenn Close - Joan Castleman
Jonathan Pryce - Joe Castleman

“People in love should never live together. When they do, the inevitable result is that they either fall out of love or drive one another insane.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“- Harry Tuttle: Bloody paperwork. Huh!
- Sam Lowry: I suppose one has to expect a certain amount.
- Harry Tuttle: Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.”
Robert De Niro - Harry Tuttle
Jonathan Pryce - Sam Lowry

“If this is dying, I don't think much of it.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“When I was sixteen, I went to work for a newspaper in Hong Kong. It was a rag, but the editor taught me one important lesson. The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver

“Semen. What is it about that ridiculous white secretion that pulls down the corners of an Englishman's mouth?”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“- Lytton Strachey: I know it was an obscene and ridiculous war, but, I suppose its quite convenient to have one.
- Lady Ottoline Morrell: Now we shall see some real progress, Lytton. We're on the threshold of a golden age.
- Lytton Strachey: You know, Ottili, given the circumstances, I really think we ought to dance.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Penelope Wilton - Lady Ottoline Morrell

“- Elliot Carver: Mr. Wallace, call the president. Tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we will release the video of him with the cheerleader in the Chicago motel room.
- Tom Wallace: Inspired, sir.
- Elliot Carver: And after he signs the bill, release the tape anyway.
- Tom Wallace: Consider him slimed.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver
Michael G. Wilson - Tom Wallace

“- Lytton Strachey: I'm so busy nowadays. I've been learning German, as well. I must say its the most disagreeable language.
- Dora Carrington: Then why learn it?
- Lytton Strachey: Oh, my dear... suppose they win?”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Sam Lowry: Excuse me, Dowser, can you put me through to Mr. Helpmann's office?
- Dowser: I'm afraid I can't sir. You have to go through the proper channels.
- Sam Lowry: And you can't tell me what the proper channels are, because that's classified information?
- Dowser: I'm glad to see the Ministry's continuing its tradition of recruiting the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Derrick O'Connor - Dowser
Jonathan Pryce - Sam Lowry

“It isn't easy remaining calm in the face of excessive praise from The Daily Telegraph.”

Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey