Duty quotes

“- Tom Bishop: Nathan, we killed this man. We used him and we killed him. Okay, then you got to help me understand this one. You got... Nathan, what are we doing here? And don't give me some bullshit about the greater good.
- Nathan Muir: That's exactly what it's about. Because what we do is unfortunately very, very necessary.”

Brad Pitt - Tom Bishop
Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“It's our civic duty to bang the booty.”
Larry B. Scott - Tasty Taste

“- James T. Kirk: You say history considers me dead. Who am I to argue with history?
- Picard: You're a Starfleet officer. You have a duty!
- James T. Kirk: I don't need to be lectured by you. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. Besides which, I think the galaxy owes me one.”
William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“The ship's company will remember that I am your captain, your judge, and your jury. You do your duty and we may get along. Whatever happens, you'll do your duty.”

Charles Laughton - Bligh

“Your mission was to free this army from the enemy cavalry and report any movement by the enemy's main body. That mission was not fulfilled. You left here with no word of your movement or movement of the enemy for several days. Meanwhile, we were engaged here and drawn into battle without adequate knowledge of the enemy's strength or position,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Martin Sheen - Gen. Robert E. Lee

“- Elinor Dashwood: What will your duties be?
- Edward Ferrars: Sword fighting, obviously, administering rum and swabbing.
- Elinor Dashwood: Which of those duties will take precedence?
- Edward Ferrars: Swabbing, I imagine.”

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars

“Comrades, we have good reasons to know our country is at war. In our small village alone, 30 people have been injured. Eleven people have been killed. But his is not a time for mourning - it is time for revenge. We will divide into two groups, each to do his duty from this day until death.”
Carl Benton Reid - Boris Simonov

“- Octopussy: A paid assassin.
- James Bond: When I kill it is on the specific orders of my Government.”
Maud Adams - Octopussy
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“I saw my duty, and I did it.”

Tom Cruise - David Shawn

“A lawyer has a duty to his profession and to himself.”
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“- Athos: You go back and you tell the Cardinal we will continue to perform our sworn duty, which is to protect the King, and we will use every means within our power to fight him.
- Rochefort: Bold words. I look forward to ramming them down your throat.”
Kiefer Sutherland - Athos
Michael Wincott - Rochefort

“- Edmund Walker: He didn't have the goods, this guy. He was like a lot of guys you run into - they want to get rich, they want to do it quick, they want to be there with one score. But they're not willing to do what's necessary. Do you know what I mean?
- Ned: I'm not sure. You mean, lay the groundwork? Earn it?
- Edmund Walker: No. I mean do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Crenna - Edmund Walker
William Hurt - Ned Racine

“- Amon Goeth: Shoot her.
- Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!
- Amon Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine.”
Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth
Elina Löwensohn - Diana Reiter

“- Max Conners: I've assumed my husband always filed the tax return.
- Gloria Vogal: Which one?”
Sigourney Weaver - Max Conners
Anne Bancroft - Gloria Vogal

“- Frollo: So this is the gallant Captain Phoebus, home from the wars.
- Phoebus: Reporting for duty as ordered, sir.
- Frollo: Your service record precedes you, Phoebus. I expect nothing but the best from a war hero of your caliber.
- Phoebus: And you shall have it, sir. I guarantee it.”
Tony Jay - Frollo
Kevin Kline - Phoebus

“Law one: you will obey orders without question. Law two: punishment shall be swift. Law three: mercy is for the weak. Four: terror will defeat reason. Five: your allegiance is to the clan. Six: justice can be dictated. Seven: any clansman may challenge for leadership of the clan. Law eight: there is only one penalty. Death.”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem

“I know what I must do. It's just... I'm afraid to do it.”
Elijah Wood - Frodo

“I do what must be done. That is what I know how to do.”

Paul Lukas - Kurt Muller

“- Mr. Ixnay: He makes love to beautiful women, drinks champagne, enjoys life and never works. He makes speeches to the people promising them plenty, gives them nothing and takes everything. That's a Dictator.
- Curly Gallstone: A parasite. That's for me.”

Richard Fiske - Mr. Ixnay
Curly Howard - Curly Gallstone

“You're not a mother. It is my job to do everything I can to make my children part of a normal world. A world of schools and friends and lovers and families of they're own someday.”

JoBeth Williams - Diane Freeling

- Saunders: Saunders. Head of Section "V" Vienna. You're bloody late. This is a mission, not a fancy dress ball.
- James Bond: We have time.

Thomas Wheatley - Saunders
Timothy Dalton - James Bond

“- Nina Chance: You expect me to violate everything I was ever taught? I have duties.
- Detective Regis: Yeah, and your duties can send an innocent man to jail for the rest of his life. You wanna live with that?
- Nina Chance: Yes, and I think you better leave.”
Diane Lane - Nina Chance
Wesley Snipes - Detective Regis

“- Aktionär Fränklin: I'll give you $150.000 for a place in a lifeboat.
- 1st Officer Petersen: It's useless. Women and children will be saved first.”
Walter Steinbeck - Aktionär Fränklin
Hans Nielsen - 1st Officer Petersen

“- Dr. John Dolittle: You need to relax your mind...
- Compulsive Dog: You're the person. You throw the ball. I'm the dog. I get it.”
Eddie Murphy - Dr. John Dolittle
Gilbert Gottfried - Compulsive Dog

“Those men upstairs, maybe there isn't much point to their lives. Maybe they are doing a great thing for the world. Maybe they are heroes. But they didn't choose to be. You chose for them. And you can't do that, because you're a doctor, and you took an oath. I don't care if you find a cure for every disease on the planet! You tortured and...” (continue)(continue reading)

Hugh Grant - Dr. Guy Luthan