Philip Anthony Hopkins movie quotes

“- Don Diego de la Vega: Do you know how to use that thing?
- Alejandro Murrieta: Yes. The pointy end goes into the other man.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [sighs] This is going to take a lot of work.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Don Diego de la Vega
Antonio Banderas - Alejandro Murrieta

“- Hannibal Lecter: Given the chance, you would deny me my life, wouldn't you?
- Clarice Starling: Not your life.
- Hannibal Lecter: Just my freedom.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter
Julianne Moore - Clarice Starling

“I'm sorry, your honor, but what would you call it, legally, when the officer who arrested you was having sexual intercourse with your wife? You know, I think it's objectionable.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ted Crawford

“He had chaos and civil war and hatred between the races. Sometimes I go to the Lincoln room at the White House and just pray. But you know, liberals act like idealism belongs to them. That's not true. My family went Republican because Lincoln freed the slaves. My grandmother was an abolitionist, those Quakers who founded Whittier, my hometown......” (continue)(continue reading)

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - James Stevens

“- Clarice Starling: Do right, and you'll live through this.
- Hannibal Lecter: Spoken like a true protestant.”
Julianne Moore - Clarice Starling
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“- George Hayden: My Charlie, you weren't even thirty. You were the most famous man in the world, with your own studio, named after you. Couldn't you just enjoy it?
- Charlie Chaplin: I can now, but couldn't then. It meant too much.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - George Hayden
Robert Downey Jr. - Charles Spencer Chaplin

“Don't move. You're in shock now. I don't want you to feel any pain. In a moment, you'll begin to feel light-headed, then drowsy. Don't resist, it's so gentle, like slipping into a warm bath. I regret it came to this, Will, but every game must have its ending.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important always to try new things.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“- Geoffrey Shurlock: Is there any improper suggestion of nudity in this, uh, murder in the shower scene?
- Alfred Hitchcock: She won't be nude, she'll be wearing a shower cap.”
Kurtwood Smith - Geoffrey Shurlock
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock

“You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“- Charlie Chaplin: You feel you're getting really close... but you can't make it the rest of the way. You're not good enough. You're not complete enough. And despite all your fantasies you're second rate.
- George Hayden: Charlie.
- Charlie Chaplin: Human. That's very hard.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Charles Spencer Chaplin
Philip Anthony Hopkins - George Hayden

- Fletcher Christian Master's Mate: William, about your decision to go around the Horn.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: "William"? Not "sir", not "captain"; "William"?
- Fletcher Christian Master's Mate: I don't think the men will have it.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: Oh, the men won't have it. Are they in charge of the Bounty?
- Fletcher Christian... (continue)(continue reading)
Mel Gibson - Fletcher Christian Master's Mate
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“- William Parrish: How perfect for you, to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love.
- Joe Black: Then what is it?
- William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging, it's missing everything that matters.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish
Brad Pitt - Joe Black

“A nobleman is nothing but a man, who says one thing and thinks another.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Don Diego de la Vega

“Take no prisoners Mr. Christian!”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ted Crawford

“I am the victor. But what does it all mean when there is not one left to remember, the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela, or the mountains of the Hindu Kush when we crossed a 100,000 man army into India? He was a god, Cadmos. Or as close as anything I've ever seen.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Old Ptolemy

“Your job is to craft my doom, so I am not sure how well I should wish you. But I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“Dear Isabel, how strange to have a cultivated woman in the house again, and how intoxicating. Indeed to have all three of my sons under my roof again fills me with such a deep, quiet satisfaction that I thank God.
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Philip Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow

Mr. Hunt, this isn't mission difficult, it's mission impossible. "Difficult" should be a walk in the park for you.
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Mission Commander Swanbeck

“Meat eaters, sir, are drowning in a tide of gore. What is a sausage? A sausage is an indigestible balloon of decayed beef, riddled with tuberculosis. Eat and die! For I have seen many a repentant meat glutton his body full of uric acid and remorse, his soul adrift on the raft in the ocean of poisonous slime, sloshin' against the walls of the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

“I'd like to offer my condolences to those families. But Nixon can't.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ted Crawford