Philip Anthony Hopkins movie quotes

“- Peggy Ann Snow: Were you laughing every second?
- Corky: Peg, I...
- Peggy Ann Snow: Was I funny, you bastard son-of-a-bitch?”
Ann-Margret - Peggy Ann Snow
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Corky

“You can't make a college without breaking egg heads.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Coleman Silk

“- Mason Verger: I guess now you wish you would have fed the rest of me to the dogs.
- Hannibal Lecter: No, Mason, I much prefer you the way you are.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Mason Verger
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“If you can't be polite to your guests, you have to sit at the kiddies' table.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“- Lieutenant William Bligh: I'm no longer surprised myself now that I see the example that's being set by my first officer. Just look at yourself, man, look at the way you're dressed. Come on, you're no better than one of these natives.
- Fletcher Christian Master's Mate: Well, at least I am no worse.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: Mr. Christian, I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh
Mel Gibson - Fletcher Christian Master's Mate

“- Joe Black: While you were shaving this morning, you weren't just shaving, you weren't just shaving.
- William Parrish: What do you mean?
- Joe Black: You were hatching ideas, making plans, arriving at decisions, right?”
Brad Pitt - Joe Black
Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

“- Narrator: The Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
- Grinch: Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...
- Narrator: He thought.
- Grinch: …Means a little bit more.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Narrator
Jim Carrey - Grinch

“The crew is deeply demoralized and I must accept, as every captain must, the inevitable and theoretical responsibility for that. The actual and immediate responsibility, however, I place on you, my fellow officers who met this crisis with lethargy, impudence and flagrant defiance, publicly uttered.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

“Jack, you are a scientist; do you not think there are things in this Universe that you cannot understand and which are true?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing

- Bobby Garfield: Ted, "my father never bought a drunk a drink". What does that mean exactly?
- Ted Brautigan: It means he was a good man, he was honest, and he never added to the troubles of the world. Okay? Good night.
Anton Yelchin - Bobby Garfield
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ted Brautigan

“Build up your resolve, not your genitals!”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

“- John Quincy Adams: [referring to African slaves] What is their story, by the way?
- Theodore Joadson: Sir?
- John Quincy Adams: What is their story?
- Theodore Joadson: Why, they're… they're from west Africa.
- John Quincy Adams: No. What is their story? Mr. Joadson, you're from where originally?
- Theodore Joadson: Why, Georgia, sir.
- John...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John Quincy Adams
Morgan Freeman - Theodore Joadson

“- Miss Kenton: Mister Stevens! Am I to take it that after all the years I have been in this house you have nothing else to say to me?
- Stevens: You have my warmest congratulations.”

Emma Thompson - Miss Kenton
Philip Anthony Hopkins - James Stevens

“Always remember: others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“We live in a primitive time, don't we, Will? Neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it, any rational society will either kill me or put me to some use.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

She lives beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. She is "vampyr", "nosferatu". These creatures do not die like the bee after the first sting, but instead grow strong and become immortal once infected by another nosferatu. So, my friends we fight not one beast but legions that go on age after age after age, feeding on the... (continue)(continue reading)

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing

“Freedom is not just a dream. It's there, on the other side of those fences we build all by ourselves.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ethan Powell

“- Clarice Starling: They were screaming.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: And you ran away?
- Clarice Starling: No. First I tried to free them. I... I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: But you could and you did, didn't you?”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Clarice Starling
Jodie Foster - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“- Alexander Haig: The deadline is today.
- Richard M. Nixon: Can we get around this, Al?
- Alexander Haig: It's the Supreme Court, sir. You don't get around it.”
Powers Boothe - Alexander Haig
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- John Merrick: Would you care to see my mother?
- Frederick Treves: Your mother? Yes please. Oh but she's... Mr. Merrick, she's beautiful!
- John Merrick: Oh, she had the face of an angel!”

Sir John Hurt - John Merrick
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Frederick Treves

“- Reporter #1: Sir, how often should one evacuate one's bowels?
- Dr. John Harvey Kellogg: One should never, ever, interrupt one's desire to defecate. I have inquired at the Bronx and London Zoos as to the daily bowel evacuations of primates. It is not once, twice, or three times, sir, but four. At the end of an average day, their cages are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rich Valliere - Reporter #1
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

“The Royal Navy is not a humorous institution, sir, and insubordination is no laughing matter.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“Mason Verger doesn't want to kill me any more than I want to kill him. He just wants to see me suffer in some unimaginable way.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“We are dealing with forces beyond all human experience, and enormous power. So guard her well. Otherwise, your precious Lucy will become a bitch of the Devil! A whore of darkness!”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing