Commanding quotes

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

“Don't you ever tell me what I can or can't do! Bent law can be tolerated for as long as they're lubricating, but you have become definitely parched. If I was you, I'd run for cover and close the hatch, because you're gonna wind up on one of those meat hooks, my son.”
Bob Hoskins - Harold

“Your orders are to facilitate the job of this scientific team! This is a civilian team, and we don't have to be subjected to your tyranny.”

John Amplas - Fisher

“- Deputy Lester: What do you want me to do, Will?
- Teasle: I want you to do what I told you to do, Goddammit!”

Alf Humphreys - Lester
Brian Dennehy - Teasle

“- Lieutenant William Bligh: Do you really think you'll be able to command this rabble?
- Fletcher Christian Master's Mate: I'll do my best.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: Well I did my best, and I had the authority of the law. You're a dead man Fletcher.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh
Mel Gibson - Fletcher Christian Master's Mate

“Put your hands on the dashboard like that. Hold em like that. Don't let me see you move them one finger, not one finger move, not one twitch of a move or I'll come back and choke you to death. I swear to God. I'll take a bite out of your cheek and I'll shit you out.”
Vincent Gallo - Billy Brown

“You are not dead until I tell you! Got that Riggs?”
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh

“- Steele: Tell me, Pilla. You understand why we have a chain of command, don't you?
- Pilla: Roger that, sir.
- Steele: 'Cause if I ever see you undermining me again, you'll be cleaning latrines with your tongue 'til you can't taste the difference between shit and french fries. Are we clear?”
Jason Isaacs - Steele
Danny Hoch - Pilla

“- Calculus Entropy: Should I be doing anything?
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: No, not really, um... as soon as you get that trunk upstairs and have finished your nap I guess you could fix that step and jump down, turn around and pick a bale of cotton. And while I'm gone see to it Miss Scarlet stays away from the union army will you?”
Cleavon Little - Calculus Entropy
Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher

“- Charlie Driggs: If you don't turn around and take me back, you're gonna make me do something that I don't wanna do.
- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: I can hardly wait, Charlie.”
Jeff Daniels - Charles Driggs
Melanie Griffith - Audrey Hankel

“- Lieutenant William Bligh: Filth, sir! Filthy, Mr. Christian! Still filthy! Look!
- Fletcher Christian Master's Mate: I see nothing, sir, but your finger.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: I'll not have your vile ways brought aboard my ship, sir! Do you understand? Now you'll call up the swabbing party yet again! And this time you will make bloody...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh
Mel Gibson - Fletcher Christian Master's Mate

“- Tommy Spinelli: I thought I told that little son of a bitch to stay put!
- Fern: So who are you? God? Why the hell should he listen to you?”
Joe Pesci - Tommy
Ernestine Mercer - Fern

“I, King Bob, as my last official act before entering middle school, hereby anoint this boy here King Freddie the second. May you boss around all of the kids with fairness.”

Lane Toran - King Bob

“Six-one-two, this is six. Thirty-second pass over the canopy. Let's burn Charlie's ass. Gunners on your left, you'll notice targets of opportunity. Please fire at will, and thank you for flying Moran Airlines.”
Gary Hershberger - Moran

“Cross that line, kid, I'll cut your little teddy bear in half. Last kid that crossed that line, I had to summon up the Spinach Monster with my rock 'n' roll magic. The Spinach Monster grabbed him, pulled him underground and made him eat spinach all day. Rumor has it, kid... he's still there.”
Jeffrey Falcon - Buddy

“- General Francis X. Hummel: Major Anderson, if you have any concern for the lives of your men, you will order them to safety their weapons and place them on the deck.
- Ernest Paxton: This is not happening...
- Commander Anderson: Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel
William Forsythe - Ernest Paxton
Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson

“My world, my rules.”
Jennifer Lopez - Catharine Deane

“- Curtis Burch, the Cabbie: I am yours to command!
- Elliot Hopper: Command? Command? I command you to go to hell and sit on a red hot coal, and wait for me, until it snows!
- Curtis Burch, the Cabbie: Oh, yes! Yes, evil master! Yes!”
Raynor Scheine - Curtis Burch, the Cabbie
Bill Cosby - Elliot Hopper

“- Razoul: What are you doing outside the palace? And with this street rat?
- Princess Jasmine: That's not your concern. Do as I command. Release him!
- Razoul: Well, I would, Princess, except my orders come from Jafar. You'll have to take it up with him.
- Princess Jasmine: Believe me, I will.”

Jim Cummings - Razoul
Linda Larkin - Princess Jasmine

“- Dallas: Ripley, this is an order. Open that hatch right now, do you hear me?
- Ripley: Yes.
- Dallas: Ripley. This is an order. Do you hear me?
- Ripley: Yes. I read you. The answer is negative.”
Tom Skerritt - Dallas
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley (Alien)

“You know, people will think what I tell them to think. That's how authority works.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Carson

“- Coach Pendleton: Walker how old are you?
- Walker: 18.
- Coach Pendleton: You wanna live to be 19?
- Walker: Yeah.
- Coach Pendleton: Then do what I tell you.”
Murrell Garland - Coach Pendleton

“- Lt. Coffey: Let's get something straight. You people are under my authority.
- Catfish De Vries: Look, partner, we don't work for you. We don't take orders from you. And we don't much like you.”
Michael Biehn - Lt. Coffey
Leo Burmester - Catfish De Vries

“To have someone in your control. To have them know that they are alive only because you have not decided to the contrary. Do you have that power? Ask yourself. It's not an easy question, I think you know that.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“All you have to do is do as you're told. What could be simpler than that? I am the drum on which God is beating out His messages. And right now He is beating so hard, it's splinting my ears!”
Milla Jovovich - Joan of Arc