Disobedience quotes

“Just runnin' reds and killin' peds.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Wilee

“- Arthur Kriticos: I told them not to leave this spot.
- Dennis Rafkin: They're kids - what do you expect?”
Tony Shalhoub - Arthur Kriticos
Matthew Lillard - Dennis Rafkin

“- Rose Zsigmond: I don't suppose your father gave you permission to pierce your ears?
- Vada Sultenfuss: Not exactly.
- Rose Zsigmond: Well, just don't shave your legs. Your father will never let you visit us again if I send you back hairless and full of holes.”
Christine Ebersole - Rose Zsigmond
Anna Chlumsky - Vada Sultenfuss

“- Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: [approaching Highway] Just what the hell do you think you're doing?
- Highway: Just enjoying the view, sir.
- Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: Well, you disobeyed an order. I told you to stay in contact and not take this hill without me. Damn it! Get on your feet, Highway!
- Highway: With all due respect, sir, you're beginning...” (continue)(continue reading)
Everett McGill - Major Powers
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“The fellas say that if you don't wanna go to Nam, you better pray to Jesus or talk to Roland Bozz.”

“- Bartleby: You know, maybe you're wrong about this slaughter thing. How can you even be sure what incurs the Lord's wrath these days? Times change. I remember when eating meat on a Friday was supposed to be a Hell-worthy trespass.
- Loki: The major sins never change. Besides, you know, I can spot a commandment-breaker from, like, a mile away.”
Ben Affleck - Bartleby
Matt Damon - Loki

“You've got a record like a roll of toilet paper. AWOL, desertion of post, striking an NCO, refusing to take orders, drunk on duty, assaulting a superior officer, resulting in his death. And yet you managed to get yourself the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Bronze Star. You've got a lot of talent. You just don't know how to use it. But I do.”

Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman

“You wouldn't pull my leg. It really is the showers you're taking us to, isn't it, Mr. Goebbels?”

Ian Hart - John Lennon

“The law is just a contract. A contract between the rich people who own everything, and the poor people who want to take it away. And the contract says, if you break the law and get away with it fine. But if you break the rules and get caught you got to play by the rules and pay the price. It's no big moral thing, you don't need ideology to knock...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeffrey Howard - Ned Rifle

“- Morton: I'm gonna be watching you, Simms, and the minute you screw up you're gonna be working mail fraud in east Cleveland. You understand me? Or am I yelling at too high a frequency?
- Sam Simms: No, Sir, I got my ear piece in.”
Art LaFleur - Morton
Sinbad - Sam Simms

“- Den: If I refuse?
- Ard: If you refuse, you die; she dies... everybody dies!
- Den: Sounded reasonable to me!”

John Candy - Den
Martin Lavut - Ard

“- Obi-Wan Kenobi: Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?
- Anakin Skywalker: Don't say that, master. You're the closest thing I have to a father.”
Ewan McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi
Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker

“- Scary Spice: I'll move that fairground horse to there. Sort that out!
- Ginger Spice: You can't do that!
- Scary Spice: Says who?
- Ginger Spice: Says Mr. Chess! It's been in the rules for thousands of years!
- Scary Spice: Well I'm gonna break the rules and set this little fairground horse free amonst all these little square fields, like that.”

Melanie Brown - Scary Spice
Geri Horner - Ginger Spice

“- Leigh Brackett: You know, Doctor, I'm just about there.
- Sam Loomis: What?
- Leigh Brackett: The point where I stop taking orders from you.”

Charles Cyphers - Leigh Brackett
Donald Pleasence - Loomis

“- 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)

“- 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

“We are on a course that will alter the history of this country. Men who do not obey orders for the sake of their own personal gains are a clear and present danger to my plan.”

Chris Lloyd - Maj. Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish

“On the battlefield, a soldier can't always obey the General's orders.”

“We Newtons ain't cut out for the wrong side of the law.”
Matthew McConaughey - Willis Newton

“- 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

- Noonan: Pretty intense, huh?
- Lev Andropov: That's why I told you "touch nothing". But you're bunch of cowboys!

Clark Heathcliff Brolly - Noonan
Peter Stormare - Lev Andropov

“- Admiral Morrow: No, absolutely not, Jim. You're my best officer. But I am the Commander of Starfleet, so I don't break rules.
- James T. Kirk: Don't quote rules to me! I'm talking about loyalty and sacrifice. One man who's died for us! Another with deep emotional problems.
- Admiral Morrow: Now wait a minute. This business about Spock and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Hooks - Admiral Morrow
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“- Tess McGill: I know what I'm doing.
- Cyn: Yeah, screwing up your life.
- Tess McGill: No, I'm trying to make it better! I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life working my ass off and getting nowhere just because I followed rules that I had nothing to do with setting up, ok?”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill
Joan Cusack - Cyn

“- Michael Zane: Finish your fries.
- Jesse Waingrow: You can't tell me what to do. You're not my dad.
- Michael Zane: Didn't anybody ever tell you about starving kids in Africa?
- Jesse Waingrow: Why? Are you gonna send them my fries?”
Kurt Russell - Michael Zane
David Kaye - Jesse Waingrow

“Please don't leave the premises. I said please don't leave the premises. Am I speaking in some kind of strange foreign language?”
Alan Arkin - Det. Hugo