Commanding quotes

“Si' down, si' down. That's what chairs are for.”
John Wayne - Sean Thornton

“- Miss Hannigan: I don't know whatever I'd do without you.
- Annie: Scrub the floors yourself?”
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan
Alicia Morton - Annie Bennett

“- Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart: General Lee, there were reasons...
- Gen. Robert E. Lee: Perhaps you misunderstood my orders? Perhaps I did not make myself clear. Well sir, this must be made very clear. You, sir, with your cavalry, are the eyes of this army. Without your cavalry, we are made blind. That has already happened once. It must never, never...” (continue)(continue reading)

Joseph Fuqua - Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart
Martin Sheen - Gen. Robert E. Lee

“If you cannot command, than you must obey.”

Luke Goss - Prince Nuada

“Now I am the ruler of all the ocean! The waves obey my every whim!”
Pat Carroll - Ursula

“- Maj. Warden: You'll go on without me. That's an order. You're in command now, Shears.
- Commander Shears: You make me sick with your heroics! There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills - they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jack Hawkins - Major Warden
William M. Holden - Shears

“- Reverend Clayton: I say we do it my way. That's an order!
- Ethan: Yessir. But if you're wrong don't ever give me another.”
Ward Bond - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton
John Wayne - Ethan Edwards

“Mr. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me that there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: The right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. They do things my way, and we'll get along.”
Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg

Oh, that clock! Old killjoy. I hear you. "Come on, get up," you say, "Time to start another day." Even he orders me around. Well, there's one thing. They can't order me to stop dreaming.

Ilene Woods - Cinderella

“- Big Ed: It ain't safe havin' a crackpot givin' orders. About time somebody took over.
- Cotton: Who, for instance?
- Big Ed: A very good friend of mine. Me.”
Steve Cochran - Big Ed Somers
Wally Cassell - Cotton Valletti

- Virgil: Teacher only reverted to type under provocation. He... he spoke like a slavemaster in the old days of our servitude when we were conditioned to mechanical obedience. He, uh, he uttered a negative, uh, imperative.
- Caesar: Could you put that into words which even Caesar could understand?
- Virgil: Uh, he said, "No, Aldo, no!".
Paul Williams - Virgil
Roddy McDowall - Caesar

“The night is filled with Thy voice. Here am I. What wouldst Thou demand of me?”

George C. Scott - Abraham

“- Isaac: There is nothing that He may not ask of thee?
- Abraham: Nothing.”

Alberto Lucantoni - Isaac
George C. Scott - Abraham

“Never do anything I tell you, without checking with me first.”
Danny DeVito - Max Medici

“- SWAT Captain: Any last minute orders?
- Agent Colin Bates: Yeah, nobody shoot me - unless it's absolutely necessary.”
Kenny Barr - SWAT Captain
Bradley Cooper - Agent Colin Bates

“- Vincent Mancini: I am your son. Command me in all things.
- Michael Corleone: Give up my daughter. That is the price you pay for the life you choose.”
Andy Garcia - Vincent Mancini
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

- Duke Henry the Red: You Sir, are not one of my vassals... who are you?
- Ashley "Ash" J. Williams: Who wants to know?
- Duke Henry the Red: I am Henry the Red. Duke of Shale, Lord of the Northlands and leader of its peoples.
- Ashley "Ash" J. Williams: Well hello Mister Fancypants. Well, I've got news for you pal, you ain't leadin' but two... (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce Campbell - Ashley "Ash" J. Williams (Evil Dead series)
Richard Grove - Duke Henry the Red

“- Willie: How much money we got left?
- Eddie: We got a lot.
- Willie: Count it.
- Eddie: Hey, Willie, why are you always telling me what to do?
- Willie: Seems like if I don't tell you what to do, you don't do anything at all.”
John Lurie - Willie
Richard Edson - Eddie

“- Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: I just don't think you're ready.
- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: What do you mean I'm not ready? Sir, I have worked my tail off on the S-33. I'm qualified in every area and then some. What executive officer has higher marks then I do, Captain?
- Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: Andy! You're just not ready to take on a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Paxton - Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren
Matthew McConaughey - Lt. Andrew Tyler

We're gonna stop this thing, bada-bing, bada-boom. Er... Forget I said "boom".
John Leguizamo - Sid

“Would the General mind stop playing with his choo-choo and tell me what I'm supposed to do?”
Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman

“I feel very strongly that the director is supposed to be the boss. Art was never created by democracy.”
Charlton Heston

“Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t take Lorraine out, that he’d melt my brain.”

Crispin Glover - George McFly

“My destiny is to rule all others.”
Cate Blanchett - Hela

“Captain James Conrad, commander of the air - commander of the sky.”
John Goodman - Bill Randa