Philip Anthony Hopkins movie quotes

“Do not let your eyes see or your ears hear that which you cannot account for.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing

“- Henry Kissinger: If a Rockefeller can't be the President of the United States then what is the point of democracy?
- Richard M. Nixon: The point of democracy is that even the son of a grocer can become President.”
Paul Sorvino - Henry Kissinger
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Agent Katherine Cowles: The agency's changed the guidelines for the way we break down the cases. It makes them more readable.
- John Clancy: Hm. Well, that's a relief.”
Abbie Cornish - Agent Kathrine Cowles
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John Clancy

“- Hannibal Lecter: Have you met my friend Mason Verger?
- Clarice Starling: Yes.
- Hannibal Lecter: Face to face, so to speak?
- Clarice Starling: Face to face.
- Hannibal Lecter: Attractive, isn't he?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter
Julianne Moore - Clarice Starling

“Presidents don't threaten. They don't have to.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“The only worse than a visit to the dentist is a visit to the censor.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock

“- Saturnius: What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?
- Titus Andronicus: Killed her, for whom my tears had made me blind.”
Alan Cumming - Saturninus
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Titus Andronicus

“- Alfred Hitchcock: I'm under extraordinary pressures on this picture and the least you can do is give me your full support.
- Alma Reville: Full support! We've mortgaged our house! I'm your wife! I celebrate with you when the reviews are good. I cry for you when they are bad! I put up with all those people who look through me as if I were...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock
Helen Mirren - Alma Reville

“Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Jack Lewis

“Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“- Officer Oaks: I'm not married.
- Jake Hayes: What, there's no Mrs. Spy?
- Officer Oaks: No, relationships and attachments are useless in this business.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Officer Oakes
Chris Rock - Jake Hayes

“Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Jack Lewis

“- Tim Cornell: You never trusted me before. You have to trust me now.
- Michael Bosworth: I blow her head off, Timmy.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Tim Cornell
Mickey Rourke - Michael Bosworth

“- Harry: She's not...
- Jack Lewis: Not my wife. No, how could she be? I'd have to love her, wouldn't I? She'd have to be more important to me than anything in the world. I'd have to be suffering the torments of the damned. The thought of losing her.”
Michael Denison - Harry Harrington
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Jack Lewis

“You think I'm harsh with you, hey? I've been at sea many years Fletcher, since I was 12, and in that time I've seen many men, many good men fall for island women in these waters. I've never once seen it come out well.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“- Pat Nixon: I just wish you knew how much I love you, that's all. It took me a long time to fall in love with you, Dick. But I did. And it doesn't make you happy. You want them to love you...
- Richard M. Nixon: No, I don't. I'm not Jack...
- Pat Nixon: But they never will, Dick. No matter how many elections you win, they never will.”

Joan Allen - Pat Nixon
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

- Peggy: MGM wants you to do the Ian Fleming book "Casino Royale" with Cary Grant. Definitely your style.
- Alfred Hitchcock: Doesn't she know I just made that movie? It was called "North by Northwest". And "style", my dear, is mere self-plagiarism.
Toni Collette - Peggy
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock

“- Alfred Hitchcock: I will never find a 'Hitchcock' blonde as beautiful as you.
- Alma Reville: Oh, Hitch. I've waited thirty years to hear you say that.
- Alfred Hitchcock: And that my dear, is why they call me the Master of Suspense.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock
Helen Mirren - Alma Reville

“Don't talk at me boy as if I've never seen a war!”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow

“Would they give you a medal, Clarice, do you think? Would you have it professionally framed and hang it on your wall to look at and remind you of your courage and incorruptibility? All you would need for that, Clarice, is a mirror.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“I have followed with enthusiasm the course of your disgrace and public shaming.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“I don't think you can measure sorrow.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Coleman Silk

“When I introduce you, and I tell them who you are, I don't think anyone will stay for dinner.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

“All greatness comes from loss.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Old Ptolemy

“When you make a move out of stress or anger, it always ends in catastrophe.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John