Commanding quotes

“Eternal vigilance is the price of duty.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Pvt. David Manning: What is your name?
- Doug Despin: Doug... Despin.
- Pvt. David Manning: Well, Doug Despin, this is the second time I'm telling you to shut up.”
Ron Eldard - Manning
Dan Futterman - Despin

“Let not this deed of refusal travel abroad to all women, making their husbands contemptible in their eyes. Let it not be said that Xerxes commanded his wife to come before him, but she came not.”
John Noble - Prince Admantha

“- James T. Kirk: Close to retirement?
- Picard: I'm not planning on it.
- James T. Kirk: Well let me tell you something. Don't! Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.”
William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“- Neil Bookman: Why won't you let me live in this house and be a part of this family?
- Dr. Finch: Because I am the patriarch! And when the patriarch says jump, you jump, goddamnit! You don't co-operate, Neil, and for that, you're punished!”
Joseph Fiennes - Neil Bookman
Brian Cox - Dr. Finch

“- Lord Malice: Looking glass upon the wall, at my command you will show me all.
- The Looking Glass: Keep it down, you noisy creep. You're ruining my beauty sleep.
- Lord Malice: How dare you!”
Malcom McDowell - Lord Malice
Dom DeLuise - The Looking Glass

“- Rubin's Mother: Why don't you go out and make yourself a friend?
- Rubin Farr: No!
- Rubin's Mom: Yes!
- Rubin Farr: No!
- Rubin's Mom: Well then take out the trash.”
Anna Louise Daniels - Rubin's Mom
Crispin Glover - Rubin Farr

“Long ago, in the early years of the Second Age, the great Elven-smiths forged rings of power. Nine for mortal men, seven for the Dwarf lords, three for the tall Elf Kings. But then, the dark lord learned the craft of ring making and made the Master Ring, the one ring to rule them all.”
William Squire - Gandalf

“- Elizabeth I: When I am queen, I promise... to act as my conscience dictates.
- Queen Mary Tudor: Well do not think to be queen at all!”
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I
Kathy Burke - Queen Mary Tudor

“- 1st Officer Petersen: The lifeboats will hold almost a third of the passengers.
- Sir Bruce Ismay: I order you to secure a lifeboat for me immediately.”

Hans Nielsen - 1st Officer Petersen
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer - Sir Bruce Ismay

“- Oscar: Boss, I think he's telling the truth.
- Zack: I am telling the truth.
- Stuart: Gag him.
- Oscar: You know, boss, I think he's telling the truth. Really I...
- Stuart: You do what I tell you! Now hold his mouth!”
Vincent Bufano - Oscar
John Travolta - Zack
Richard Bright - Stuart

“We all have orders, and we have to follow 'em. That supersedes everything, including your mothers.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“Let me give you a piece of advice here, Beck. You're a big city cop. If I was in the big city I'd listen to you. But this ain't the big city, this is Cottonwood, population twenty two thirty one. I'm the chief of police. This is my town, my territory. I'll make it real simple, nobody is gonna fuck with me here.”
Brad Sullivan - Chief Hillard

“I order you to forgive yourself.”
Liam Neeson - Valjean

“- Lt. Col. H.C. Denny: Do you really believe that Lord Kitchener, a man venerated throughout the world, would be capable of issuing an order of such barbarity?
- Major J.F. Thomas: I do know that orders that one would consider barbarous have already been issued in this war. Before I was asked to defend these soldiers, I spent some months...” (continue)(continue reading)

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell - Lt. Col. H.C. Denny
Jack Thompson - Major J.F. Thomas

“- Willis: I have You in my eye, sir. And I shall keep You in my eye until You learn to behave and do as You're told.
- George III: I am the King. I tell, I am not told. I am the verb, sir, not the object.”
Sir Ian Holm - Willis
Nigel Hawthorne - George III

“Sittin' in an office giving men orders to kill is the same thing as puttin' a bullet in someone's heart yourself. The same. Goddamn. Thing.”
Tom Berenger - Thomas Beckett

“One ring to rule them all; one ring to find them. One ring to keep them all, and in the darkness bind them!”
William Squire - Gandalf

“- Rhodes: I'm callin' a meeting for 7:00 tonight! I want everybody present. Everybody, lady! Including Dr. Frankestein and including your boyfriend!
- Sarah: I gave him a sedative. He won't be awake!
- Rhodes: Look here, woman! I'm short on man power! I won't have you goin' around dopin' up any of my men without orders from me! Is that clear?”
Joseph Pilato - Rhodes
Lori Cardille - Sarah

“- Capt. MacCandless: Get out of my office before I arrest you.
- Villano: You'd need a presidential order to arrest me.
- Capt. MacCandless: I don't give a damn if you're personally giving the president head! Get the fuck out of my office!”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Capt. MacCandless
Sir John Hurt - Villano

“- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Put your right hand in the box.
- Paul Atreides: What's in the box?
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Pain.”
Siân Phillips - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Kyle MacLachlan - Paul Atreides

“Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”

Michael Jayston - Col. Crealock

“- Army Major: Throw down your arms and surrender. This is an order!
- Ursa: General Zod does not take orders. He gives them.”
Sarah Douglas - Ursa

“No one dies in the palace without a command from the Emperor.”
Peter Wyngarde - Klytus

“- Kevin Hollander: Sam Baily! You have 5 minutes to let the hostages go!
- Sam: Damn. I wanted it to be my idea.”

Alan Alda - Kevin Hollander
John Travolta - Sam