Duty quotes

“When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.”
John Patrick Shanley

“- Captain Briggs: In more than 30 years of police work, this is the single, most outrageous transgression of authority I ever heard about. What the hell did you think you were doing?
- Harry Callahan: My job.”

Bradford Dillman - Captain Briggs
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“There's some good and there's some bad news. The good news is you're right - I'm a cop and I've gotta take you in. The bad news is I've been suspended and I don't give a fuck.”
James Woods - Lloyd Hopkins

Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and "trust" in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a "contract", in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a "moral and ethical principal" is? Do you? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future,... (continue)(continue reading)

Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance

“For some time, I have known that in uniting my life to yours, I have made a mistake. But this I must bear for the sake of my public duty and for the sake of my child.”

Basil Rathbone - Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

“- Jill Baker: There's nothing wrong with my marriage. You could go through all Park Avenue and you wouldn't find a happier couple.
- Dr. Vengard: I'm sorry but it's my duty to explore every avenue, especially Park Avenue.”
Merle Oberon - Jill Baker
Alan Mowbray - Dr. Vengard

“- Jack Jordan: It's my duty.
- Marianne Jordan: Your duty's to your family!
- Jack Jordan: My duty's to God.”

Benicio del Toro - Jack Jordan
Melissa Leo - Marianne Jordan

“This is a good death. There's no shame in this, in a man's death. A man who has done fine works. We’re making a better world. All of them, better worlds.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - The Operative

“- Luis Antonio Vargas: Have you no conscience at all? I mean...
- Julia Russell: Yes of course I do. But you see, I don't let it get the best of me. It's just something that happened. It had to be done. And when something has to be done, you do it, right? So here's to us, a short life, but an exciting one.”
Antonio Banderas - Luis Antonio Vargas
Angelina Jolie - Julia Russell

“I joined the army to do my patriotic duty... and... to meet guys.”
Sara Rue - Nurse Martha

“There is widespread disgust in the officer corps toward the crimes committed by the Nazis, the murder of civilians, the torture and starvation of prisoners, the mass execution of Jews. My duty as an officer is no longer to save my country, but to save human lives.”
Tom Cruise - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

“It doesn't matter how this looks to other people. If this is something you gotta do, then you do it. Fighters fight.”
Geraldine Hughes - Marie

“Remember Marine, ours is not to question why, ours is but to do or die. Semper Fi. Over.”
Adam Beach - Ben Yahzee

“You are what you are, Doctor - a son of a bitch, like the rest of us. Now do what needs to be done.”

John Mahoney - Lt. Col. Conroy

“If I have to, I will blast your aero-elastic ass right out of the sky.”
Jamie Foxx - Lt. Henry Purcell

“- Princess Elizabeth: Our country needs us, desperately!
- Princess Margret: Well, you go and fight the Germans then, Ms Lilly Perfect bitch.”
Neve Campbell - Princess Elizabeth
Jessica Oyelowo - Princess Margaret

“I want this mission high and tight. I wanna be home for dinner.”
Stephen Lang - Col. Quaritch

“We have such a responsibility to guide our young so that they don't end up falling apart, falling by the wayside, becoming insignificant.”
Adrien Brody - Henry Barthes

“We must all do what we must do, for if we do not, then what we must do does not get done.”
Ernest Harada - Chung Mee

“Viscount, you may not be aware of what my job entails as the Royal Head of Security. My job is to protect the crown. To make sure no harm comes to the crown. To step in when someone toys with the crown's emotions.”

Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“You are Omaticaya now. You may make your bow from the wood of Hometree. And you may choose a woman.”

Zoe Saldana - Neytiri

“For the lawyer as well as the soldier, there is an equally imperative command. That duty is to shelter from injustice the innocent, to protect the weak from oppression, and when necessity demands, to rally to the defense of those being wronged.”
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“I'm a soldier. My duty is to fight. I'm willing to die on every battlefield.”
Maurice Chevalier - Danilo

“Your job is to craft my doom, so I am not sure how well I should wish you. But I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

Mr. Hunt, this isn't mission difficult, it's mission impossible. "Difficult" should be a walk in the park for you.
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Mission Commander Swanbeck