Behavior quotes

“No good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord'll come for you in his own good time.”

Ivan Kane - Cap. Thomas J. Goree

“- Quint: You gotta think these things through. You don't just come walking in to someplace, waving a gun around, and expect the world to put up with that. It's not acceptable behavior.
- Kid at Grocery Store: You gonna stop me?
- Quint: Hell no, go right ahead. Probably got a minute or two... maybe you don't. Just trying to help you, son. That...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tommy Lee Jones - Quint
David Pressman - Kid at Grocery Store

“Now remember sweet face, zillions of people all over the world are gonna be watching you; and that means no farting, no picking your nose and no playing with little Mr. Peabody.”

Ellen McElduff - Make-Up Woman

“You don't ask a whore. You make her.”
Tim Roth - Cunningham

“- Martin: You'll stay in here 'til you rot! Well, you're free to go!
- Renfield: Why? How?
- Martin: Good behavior.
- Renfield: But I've only been here for a moment.
- Martin: For that moment, you were very good.”
Mark Blankfield - Martin
Peter MacNicol - Renfield

Is this meant to amuse me, Mr Burroughs? Why don't you stop by my office about 8 in the morning? To give you time to think about what you've done and to give me time to think about what I'm going to do. Oh, and... please, invite your "dead" roommate.
James D. O'Reilly - Mr. Bernhardt

“We're not odd, we're just over-expressive.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Helen Schlegel

“- Officer Frank Murphy: Finally made Colonel?
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: If you're a nice guy, nice things happen to you.
- Officer Frank Murphy: I'll try to remember that!”
Roy Scheider - Officer Frank Murphy
Malcom McDowell - Col. F.E. Cochrane

“- Mary: Everything Dr. Raymond said was true. My mother and I were trying to drive you crazy again. I stopped, only she won't.
- Norman Bates: Well, why did you stop?
- Mary: It wasn't right for us to be doing what we were doing to you.
- Norman Bates: Is that the only reason?
- Mary: What do you mean?
- Norman Bates: You know what I mean.”
Meg Tilly - Mary Loomis
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Maggie Ryan: You don't act like a good girl, you don't talk like a good girl, and you don't dress like a good girl.
- Sarah Jane Ryan: I act and talk and dress exactly how I please. But technically I'm still a good girl.”
Una O'Connor - Maggie Ryan
Ann Sheridan - Sarah Jane Ryan

“He's sweet and thoughtful, sane and considerate. I was married to one who was insane and inconsiderate.”

Irene Dunne - Lucy Warriner

“Usually you could reason with a drunk, kids on loco weed, or a couple that was fightin'. You could cool 'em down, next day they'd thank you for it. Not now, boy. They get wired, they stay wired. Smack, snort, pill-poppin' dopes. You take them Luke boys, the one who drew on you and his brother Chub. Runnin' with scum. Christ, I used to fish with...” (continue)(continue reading)
Powers Boothe - Cash Bailey

“I shall write a monograph some day... on the noxious habit of accumulating useless trivia.”
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“We never went to ballgames. The only sport my dad liked was yelling.”
Howard Stern - Himself

“- Captain Marcus A. Reno: The boy general. You'd think they'd have more sense then to reinstate him.
- Captain Myles Keogh: Why not?
- Captain Marcus A. Reno: I've served with him before. Look at him: 28-years-old, arrogant, conceited... never mind, you'll find out.
- Captain Myles Keogh: Aye, I'm lookin' forward to it.”
Alexander Davion - Captain Marcus A. Reno
Grant Woods - Captain Myles Keogh

We have an expression in prize fighting: "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit". Well my friend, you've just been hit. The getting up is up to you.
Michael Douglas - Charles Remington

“- Fein: Back in the 60's, some hippies came here and turned the place into a commune. You know, sex, and drugs, and debauchery.
- Dennis Van Welker: Knew I'd been here before.
- Gaby: Eww! You did that stuff here?
- Dennis Van Welker: No. Not here.”
Burgess Meredith - Fein
Chris Lloyd - Dennis Van Welker
Melody Kay - Gaby Nowicki

“Annie and me. We did some silly things. Who knows why people do what they do? Nobody knows that, but she's... she's a good person.”

Jon Voight - Billy

“Please familiarize and observe the rules while in Fun World. No running, no jumping, no yelling, no cutting in line, no grumbling, no stealing. That means you. No breaking things and putting them back like nothing happened. No sad faces, bad attitudes, introspective moments, irritation at the mindless happiness of the masses, and no littering....” (continue)(continue reading)
Susan Silo - Ticketlady

“I have giving you my best since back when people were laughing at you, and every time we come in there now, you fuck me with this bullshit circus act.”

Edward Norton - Alan Isaacman

“Any chance for getting time off for good behavior?”
Michael J. Fox - Michael Chapman

“- Kitty Packard: That's why I gotta be quiet a good deal and have time to reflect in.
- Dan Packard: Reflect in? What have you got to reflect about? I have to think and act at the same time!”

Jean Harlow - Kitty Packard
Wallace Beery - Dan Packard

“- Alfred Kralik: You treated me like a dog.
- Klara Novak: Yes, but instead of licking my hand, you barked.”
James Stewart - Alfred Kralik
Margaret Sullavan - Klara Novak

“- Ellie Sawyer: What are we going to do?
- Vince Latello: About one to five with good behavior.”

Danielle von Zerneck - Ellie Sawyer
Fisher Stevens - Vince Latello

“- Secret Service agent: Let's pray he doesn't do anything rash.
- President Barbara Adams: He just held a public crucifixion in Wembley Stadium!
- Secret Service agent: Well, he's certainly moved to the right politically.”
John Benfield - Secret Service Agent
Loretta Swit - President Barbara Adams