Duty quotes

“It's a man's duty to instruct a woman in all subjects.”
Dennis Morgan - Wyn Strafford

“- Driver: There's a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don't need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that and you're on your own. I don't sit in while you're running it down. I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ryan Gosling - Driver
James Biberi - Cook

“I go to church on Sunday and to prayer meetings three times a week, but when I put on my holster, I put God out of my mind.”
Raymond J. Barry - Captain Fred Gaffney

“For duty and humanity!”

Larry Fine - Dr. Larry Fine
Moe Howard - Dr. Moe Howard
Curley Howard - Dr. Curley Howard

“I'm in love with you already, but I'll nail you anyway.”

Michael Douglas - Detective Nick Curran

“When the SAS is called upon to do what we're trained to do, we have been likened to a surgeon cutting out a cancer. It's a filthy and difficult job. We don't like doing it, but it's our duty.”
Tony Doyle - Colonel Hadley

“Duty. A starship captain's life is filled with solemn duty. I have commanded men in battle. I have negotiated peace treaties between implacable enemies. I have represented the Federation in first contact with twenty-seven alien species. But none of this compares with my solemn duty today... as best man.”

Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“Being fearless was the same as being stupid.That having courage didn't mean that you ain't afraid. Rather having courage meant being afraid but still being able to do what needs to be done inspite of it.”
Joshua Carter Jackson - Earl Crest

“I'm trying to work on my karma. Do you know what karma means? It means that she owes me one.”

John Hawkes - Richard Swersey

“- Le Peron: You can always be bribed.
- Lucien Cordier: I've got no choice. First, I'm underpaid; second, my wife takes all my money; and third, fining you is practically a civic duty.”
Jean-Pierre Marielle - Le Peron
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better.”

Michael Ironside - Jean Rasczak

“Do you really think that any of your predecessors would've dropped everything and gone up to London because a bunch of hysterics carrying candles needed help with their grief?”

Sylvia Syms - Queen Mother

“- Tutor: Princess Teegra, we all have our duty. Your father's duty is to be king and lead. Your brother's duty is to be a soldier. Your duty is to learn.
- Teegra: You mean my duty is to stay shut up... while all the men do the fighting and share all the glory. Well, we think that stinks. Don't we, Shaitan?”
Tamarah Park - Tutor
Cynthia Leake - Teegra

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

“- Mission Commander Swanbeck: Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going. This message will self-destruct in five seconds.
- Ethan Hunt: If I let you know where I'm going, then I won't be on holiday.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Mission Commander Swanbeck
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt

“- Ed Bloom - Senior: Havin' a kid changes everything. There's burping, the midnight feeding, and the changing.
- Will Bloom: You do any of that?
- Ed Bloom - Senior: No. But I hear it's terrible. Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill his head with nonsense, and still it turns out perfectly fine.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“- Johann: I'm sorry, but duty is more important than shrimps.
- Sylvia: Oh. Well, the duty is yours, the house is mine. And in my house, shrimps are more important than duty.”
Otto von Wernherr - Johann
Susan Doukas - Sylvia

“- Luke Harrison: Anna! You do not run out on your mother!
- Anna Harrison: No, that's your job.”
Ed Harris - Luke Harrison
Jena Malone - Anna Harrison

“Never send an adult to do a kid's job.”
Alexa PenaVega - Carmen Cortez

“Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.”
Kurtwood Smith - Federation President

“Why me, Gabriel? It's personal, isn't it? I didn't go to church enough, I didn't pray enough, I... was five bucks short in the collection plate. Why?”

Keanu Reeves - John Constantine

“- Sean Vetter: They call us down here. They take away our weapons? They expect us to go into a building full of drunken cartel gunmen unarmed? I mean, that isn't fun.
- Ty Frost: You're not gettin' paid to have fun. Good luck, gentlemen.”

Vin Diesel - Sean Vetter
Steve Eastin - Ty Frost

“I am not a drug dealer. It's been four years since I've seen any drugs. I'm an architect. I'm a little happy Republican who spends the majority of his time trying to figure out how to pay the fucking bills and how make my wife happy.”

Paulina Porizkova - Casey

“- Todd Bowden: What did it feel like?
- Kurt Dussander: It was something that had to be done. A door had been opened and couldn't be shut. It was the end... You don't understand.”

Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden
Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“- Chev Chelios: I know what I'm going to have to do.
- Orlando: What's that?
- Chev Chelios: I'm going to have to kick some black ass.”
Jason Statham - Chev Chelios
Reno Wilson - Orlando