Jonathan Pryce movie quotes

“We can't start escaping at a time like this. What would future generations think of us?”
Jonathan Pryce - The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson

“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”
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“I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!”
Jonathan Pryce

“I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.”
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“The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.”
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“I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy.”
Jonathan Pryce

“- Charles Halloway: I know who you are. You are the autumn people. Where do you come from? The dust. Where do you go to? The grave.
- Mr. Dark: Yes. We are the hungry ones. Your torments call us like dogs in the night. And we do feed, and feed well.
- Charles Halloway: To stuff yourselves on other people's nightmares.”
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway
Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark

“- Governor Weatherby Swann: I'm told it's the latest fashion in London.
- Elizabeth Swann: Well, women in London must have learned not to breathe.”

Jonathan Pryce - Governor Weatherby Swann
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann

“- Mr. Dark: All that time spent living only through other men's lives. Dreaming only other men's dreams. What a waste.
- Charles Halloway: Sometimes a man can learn more from other men's dreams than he can from his own.”
Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway

“- Lytton Strachey: I tend to be impulsive in these matters like the time I asked Virginia Woolf to marry me.
- Dora Carrington: She turned you down?
- Lytton Strachey: No, she accepted. It was ghastly.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.”
Jonathan Pryce - Governor Weatherby Swann

“What the people can do. True power is yours, not the government's, unless it represents the people!”
Jonathan Pryce - Juan Perón

“Your fun is only limited by your imagination.”
Jonathan Pryce - Marty Bronson

“Soon I'll have reached out to and influenced more people than anybody in the history of this planet, save God himself. And the best he ever managed was the Sermon on the Mount.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver

“- Lytton Strachey: There must be some compensation for having friends in high places.
- Dora Carrington: Don't you like Ottoline?
- Lytton Strachey: I'm devoted to Ottoline. She's like the Eiffel Tower. She's very silly, but, she affords excellent views.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“I must say, I find these new young people wonderfully refreshing, they have no morals and they never speak. It's an enchanting combination.”

Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“- Charles Halloway: You are known in this town. My father knew you.
- Mr. Dark: Your father? The preacher? That half-man?
- Charles Halloway: He lived on goodness.”
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway
Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark

“He won't get far on hot air and fantasy.”

Jonathan Pryce - The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson

“- Lady Ottoline Morrell: The Carrington matter. I take it, you're still working on that.
- Lytton Strachey: Really, Ottoli, must you put things quite so boldly. I prefer to think of myself as an educator, rather than as a...
- Lady Ottoline Morrell: What?
- Lytton Strachey: As a pimp.”

Penelope Wilton - Lady Ottoline Morrell
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“- Dora Carrington: Lytton, I love being with you. You're so cold and wise. These last few months, whenever I know I'm going to see you I get so excited inside. If you want to kiss me again, I don't think I'd mind at all.
- Lytton Strachey: You know, its a strange thing, but, I'd rather like to.”
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“- The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson: We've discussed it. You surrender.
- Sultan: But, we're winning!
- The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson: We surrendered last time! Now, it's your turn.”
Jonathan Pryce - The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
Peter Jeffrey - Sultan

“It's not the company. It's the credibility. My credibility. I can't just sit on the bench and let other people play the game. Not my game. Not with their rules.”

Jonathan Pryce - Henry Kravis

“Idealists are such a problem. You can't convince them there's no such thing as the ideal.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“- Juan Perón: Eva, you are dying.
- Eva Perón: So what happens now? Where am I going to?
- Juan Perón: Don't ask any more.”
Jonathan Pryce - Juan Perón
Madonna - Eva Perón

“Do you think knitting scarfs for the troops will be classified as essential war work?”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey