Efficiency quotes

“Escape now, hug later.”
Harrison Ford - Han Solo

“This was one squared-away soldier. Equally prepared for a military ball or the next war in the jungle.”

John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“I'll enter the same calculations using what we like to call: The Right Way.”
Harland Williams - Fred Z. Randall

“The concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.”
Harry Morris Warner

“A ship can't be happy unless she's efficient and she certainly won't be efficient unless she's happy.”
Noel Pierce Coward - Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. (Captain "D")

“Roger: The queen runs the colony. Drones service the queen. The workers do the work.
Mrs. Munro: Isn't it true...”

Milo Parker - Roger
Laura Linney - Mrs. Munro

“What is this mess? An empty desk is an efficient desk.”
Ian Richardson - Mr. Warrenn

“- Mrs. Banks: As a matter of fact, since you hired Mary Poppins, the most extraordinary things seem to have come over the household.
- Mr. Banks: Is that so?
- Mrs. Banks: Take Ellen, for instance. She hasn't broken a dish all morning.
- Mr. Banks: Really? Well, that is extraordinary.”
Glynis Johns - Mrs Banks
David Tomlinson - Mr. Banks

“- Jay Cavendish: All I'm sayin' is there's more to life than just surviving.
- Silas Selleck: Yeah. There's dyin'. Survival ain't just how to skin a jackrabbit. It's knowing when to bluster and when to hush. When to take a beating and when to strike.”
Kodi Smit-McPhee - Jay Cavendish
Michael Fassbender - Silas Selleck

“- Bert: All right, I'll do it myself!
- Mary Poppins: Do what?
- Bert: Bit o' magic!
- Michael: A bit of magic?
- Bert: It's easy! Let's see... You think [he, Jane, and Michael do so], you wink [they do it], you do a double blink [they do it], you close your eyes... and jump [they jump onto the drawing but nothing happens]
- Jane: Is something...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dick Van Dyke - Bert
Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
Matthew Garber - Michael Banks
Karen Dotrice - Jane Banks

“- Annie: Tell me something about my life, Dean, something not horrible.
- Dean Proffitt: Well uh... yeah, there was that time you were working at Burger Boy, and this kid started choking on a French fry and everybody in the place panicked, including me, except you, you knew exactly what to do. You ran over to the kid and you gave him that...” (continue)(continue reading)

Goldie Hawn - Annie
Kurt Russell - Dean Proffitt

“A happy and efficient ship - a very happy and a very efficient ship. Some of you might think I'm being a bit ambitious wanting both but in my experience you can't have one without the other.”
Noel Pierce Coward - Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. (Captain "D")

“- Doc: Do you always carry your medical record around with you?
- Dalton: Saves time.”
Kelly Lynch - Doc
Patrick Swayze - Dalton

“- Boris Pochenko: Do I not intimidate you at all?
- Joy Miller: Is one of your sideburns longer than the other?”
Timothy Dalton - Boris Pochenko
Fran Drescher - Joy Miller

“- Mrs. Banks: I'm sorry, dear, but when I chose Katie Nanna, I thought she would be firm with the children. She looked so solemn and cross.
- George Banks: My dear, never confuse efficiency with a liver complaint.”

Glynis Johns - Mrs Banks
David Tomlinson - Mr. Banks

“- FBI Agent: Don't worry, we'll protect you.
- Dr. Eugene Sands: Yeah, I saw your work at Ruby Ridge.”
Al Ahlf - FBI Agent
David Duchovny - Dr. Eugene Sands

“The blade isn't the only part of the sword.”
Liam Neeson - Godfrey de Ibelin

“- John Connor: You know what you're doing?
- The Terminator: I have detailed files on human anatomy.
- Sarah Connor: I'll bet. Makes you a more efficient killer, right?
- The Terminator: Correct.”
Edward Furlong - John Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator
Linda Hamilton - Sarah Connor

“I work harder than God. If He had hired me, He would have made the world by Thursday.”
Jenna Elfman - Anna Riley

“- Karen B. Brennick: What are you?
- Prison Director Poe: I am enhanced.
- Karen B. Brennick: You're not human. You're...
- Prison Director Poe: A monster? A freak? The Mentel Corporation has transformed me into a more efficient human being.”
Loryn Locklin - Karen B. Brennick
Kurtwood Smith - Prison Director Poe

“- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: What did State Department tell you to do?
- Agent Frank Haddad: Told me to call INS.
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: All right, what did INS say?
- Agent Frank Haddad: Told me to call State.”
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard
Tony Shalhoub - Frank Haddad

“- Karen B. Brennick: You don't sleep, you don't eat... you can't make love, can you?
- Prison Director Poe: But I can love.
- Karen B. Brennick: Are there others like you?
- Prison Director Poe: Not many as advanced, but yes. I was one of Mentel's first babies. It was very special.”
Loryn Locklin - Karen B. Brennick
Kurtwood Smith - Prison Director Poe

“11 million, even half that number, executed in small batches, would be asinine to undertake for the reasons Dr. Meyer mentioned. Inefficient use of time, manpower, bullets. No. As Major Lange will learn, gas is much more efficient, and less public.”

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Reinhard Heydrich

“Not only did I enjoy that kiss last night, I was awed by its efficiency.”

Cary Grant - John Robie

“If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!”
David Warner - Evil