Simon Callow movie quotes
- Name
- Simon Phillip Hugh
- Last name
- Callow
- Pseudonym
- Simon Callow
- Born
- June 15, 1949
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- English
- Profession
- actor, film director, scriptwriter
- Zodiac sign
- Gemini
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- From the movie: Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls
“- Vincent Cadby: And my work habits?
- Ace Ventura: Yes, a workaholic; the urine stain on your pants would signify that you're a single shake man, far too busy for the follow-up jiggle.” - From the movie: James and the Giant Peach
“- Centipede: I've sailed all the five seas. From the land of Bora Bora to the icy shores of Tripoli. Commodore Centipede, they used to call me.
- Grasshopper: Seven.
- Centipede: Huh?
- Grasshopper: There are seven seas, and Tripoli is in the Sub-Tropics, Commodore!” - From the movie: James and the Giant Peach
- James: It's like he said: Marvelous things will happen.
- Glowworm: Did he say, "Marvelous pigs in satin"?
- Grasshopper: No, dear lady. “I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.”
“Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.”
“Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.”
- From the movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
“I've got a new theory about marriage. Two people are in love, they live together, and then suddenly one day, they run out of conversation.”
- From the movie: Postcards from the Edge
“I suppose having to do without drugs, she has to do something. Do you think we could get her to start smoking?”
- From the movie: Street Fighter
“- A.N. Official: We think we can deal with General Bison. You're instructed to call off the assault. Contact him. Request an extension of his deadline. We are prepared to pay the ransom demand.
- Colonel Guile: Twenty billion dollars? What will prevent him from taking more hostages next month and asking for fifty billion?” - From the movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
“Scarlotta! Fabulous dress. The ecclesiastical purple and the pagan orange symbolizing the mystical symbiosis in marriage between the heathen and Christian traditions?”
- From the movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
“- George the Boor at The Boatman: If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am as a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
- Gareth: Good point.” - From the movie: James and the Giant Peach
“- Spider: We are in the middle of the, how do you say, the big puddle.
- Centipede: Biggest puddle of 'em all, angel fangs - the Atlantic Ocean.
- Grasshopper: Technically, the Pacific is the biggest.
- Centipede: Well, that goes without saying.” - From the movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
“- Charles: Basically you're saying marriage is just a way of getting out of an embarrassing pause in conversation.
- Gareth: The definitive icebreaker.” - From the movie: Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls
“- Vincent Cadby: Something wrong, Mr. Ventura?
- Ace Ventura: Of course not. This is a lovely room of death.” - From the movie: James and the Giant Peach
“For dinner on my birthday, shall I tell you what I chose?
Hot noodles made from poodles on a slice of garden hose
And a rather smelly jelly made from armadillo's toes
The jelly is delicious, but you have to hold your nose!” - From the movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
- From the movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
“- Gareth: We had the most delightful girl at our table. Carrie, apparently her fiancé's terribly grand and owns half of Scotland. How about you?
- Charles: I seem to be stuck in the wedding from hell, ghosts of girlfriends past at every turn.” - From the movie: James and the Giant Peach
“- Centipede: We're not lost.
- Grasshopper: Then where are we?
- Centipede: Somewhere up north. Or, possibly, very far south.
- Grasshopper: What's your latitude? What's your longitude?
- Centipede: Hey, hey, hey! That's personal, bud!” - From the movie: A Room With A View
“- Reverend Beebe: Looking at Italian art! You see, you talk of coincidence and fate. You're naturally drawn to things Italian, as are we and all our friends, aren't we, Freddy? That narrows the field immeasurably.
- George Emerson: It is fate. But call it Italy if it pleases you, Vicar.” - From the movie: James and the Giant Peach
“- Grasshopper: This is all my fault.
- Earthworm: Hey don't take all the credit, I helped too!” - From the movie: The Scarlet Tunic
“It'd be a bitter disappointment to me to have you lose the stripes from your tunic only to gain those stripes on your skin.”
- From the movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
A toast before we go into battle. True love. In whatever shape or form it may come. May we all in our dotage be proud to say, "I was adored once too".
- From the movie: James and the Giant Peach
“- Grasshopper: No-one is going to squoosh you, old boy. You're six feet long now.
- Earthworm: Bigger targets.” - From the movie: James and the Giant Peach
“- Grasshopper: This is an outrage! You are a disgrace to your Phylum, Order, Class, Genus and Spe...
- Centipede: Say it in English!
- Grasshopper: You, sir, are an asp!”
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