Fire quotes

“- Col. James M. Montgomery: [ordering the burning of Darien, Georgia] Prepare your men to light torches!
- Col. Robert Gould Shaw: I will not!
- Col. James M. Montgomery: That is an order!
- Col. Robert Gould Shaw: An immoral order, and by the Articles of War, I am not bound to follow it!”
Cliff De Young - Col. James M. Montgomery
Matthew Broderick - Col. Robert Gould Shaw

“- Announcer: Fire: The untamed element, oldest of man's mysteries, giver of warmth, destroyer of forests, right now this building is on fire.
- Woman in corridor: What?
- Announcer: Yes! The building is on fire! Leave the building! Enact the Age Old drama of Self-Preservation!”
Neil Ross - Announcer

“- John Gustafson: I'm cold.
- Max Goldman: Here's some matches. Set yourself on fire.”
Jack Lemmon - John Gustafson
Walter Matthau - Max Goldman

“- Mama Klump: Oh my goodness! Is there a fire?
- Fireman Stripper: Yes, ma'am. I'm afraid there is.
- Mama Klump: I don't smell no smoke.
- Fireman Stripper: There's a fire in my pants, and it's getting muy caliente!”

Eddie Murphy - Mama Klump
George King - Fireman Stripper

“- Milton Fishman: Well guys, we gotta start a fire. Better start looking for pinecones.
- Max Grabelski: Pinecones?
- Milton Fishman: It says in the manual, whenever your camp is surrounded by green wood, always use pinecones to start your fire.
- Max Grabelski: If the manual told you to stick your wiener in a light-socket, would you do it?”
Ari Greenberg - Milton Fishman
Daniel Stern - Max Grabelski

“You ever pull a stunt like that again, I'll kill you.”

Matt Dillon - Dallas Winston

“- Ely Jackson: You guys want to get cremated or buried?
- Pete Kepler: I don't care, what ever. Bury me, burn me, why does it matter?
- Ely Jackson: It matters. I don't want to rot in a box... bugs and worms and weird animals eat out my eyeballs.”
Christina Ricci - Ely Jackson
Casey Affleck - Pete Kepler

“- Richard D. Winters: Harry, fire's not a good idea.
- Harry F. Welsh: Just a couple of minutes. We're in a dell.
- Richard D. Winters: A dell? Like where fairies and gnomes live?”
Richard D. Winters - Himself
Rick Warden - Harry F. Welsh

“- Jack Sparrow: Why is the rum gone?
- Elizabeth Swann: One: because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two: that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me. Do you really think there is even the slightest chance they won't see it?
- Jack Sparrow: But why is...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann

“- Adrian: There is most definitely a hell and you're all gonna go there when you die. Which is in about 15 minutes.
- Deacon: Holy shit! We really are gonna die!
[then he accidentally walks into flames and catches fire]”
Rhys Ifans - Adrian
Quentin Tarantino - Deacon

“- Coretta Keeling, the Cat Lady: I'm not leaving without my kitties!
- Longfellow Deeds: How many do you got?
- Coretta Keeling, the Cat Lady: Seven.
- Longfellow Deeds: Holy shit. Let's get cracking.”

Aloma Wright - Coretta Keeling, the Cat Lady
Adam Sandler - Longfellow Deeds

“During the show I had someone burn newspapers and send it through the vents in the theatre. And well, they freaked out, and 'course the fire Marshall came over and they shut us down for a couple of days.”
Christopher Guest - Corky St. Clair

“Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”

Michael Jayston - Col. Crealock

“People don't like to have fire poked, poked in their noses.”
Christopher Guest - Corky St. Clair

They're talking about banning books again! Really subversive books, like "The Wizard of Oz"... "The Diary of Anne Frank".
Amy Madigan - Annie Kinsella

“- Kitty: If you could have spoken to me the first time in the jungle, what would you have said? Did you, uh... did you feel anything?
- Mowgli: Fire.
- Kitty: Fire?
- Mowgli: Great fire.”
Lena Headey - Kitty
Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

“- Bucum: Shoot out the back tire!
- Reggie: Who do you think I am, Mel Gibson?”
Ice Cube - Bucum
Mike Epps - Reggie

“- Bonnie Rumsfield: Your wife is home!
- Mark Rumsfield: And your house is on fire!
- Art Weingartner: My wife is home?”
Wendy Schaal - Bonnie Rumsfield
Bruce Dern - Mark Rumsfield
Rick Ducommun - Art Weingartner

“- Charlie: Mr. Wonka, they won't really be burned in the furnace, will they?
- Willy Wonka: Hm... well, I think that furnace is only lit every other day, so they have a good sporting chance, haven't they?”
Peter Ostrum - Charlie
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

“The kid shouldn't have been smoking in bed!”

Ruth Gordon - Bernice

“- Cheech: They taught me how to read and write in school before I burned it down.
- David Shayne: You burned down your school?
- Cheech: Yeah, it was Lincoln's birthday. There was nobody there.”
Chazz Palminteri - Cheech
John Cusack - David Shayne

“- Bartleby: What work did you do? You lit a few fires.
- Loki: I rained down sulphur, man, there's a subtle difference.
- Bartleby: Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
- Loki: Hey, you know, fuck you, man. Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Affleck - Bartleby
Matt Damon - Loki

“That's our new computer. We can pinpoint any fire in town with that. It's perfect for us, because, you know, we're the fire department.”
Michael J. Pollard - Andy

“It's a kind of magic. Firelight makes time stand still. When you put out the lamps and sit in the firelight's glow there aren't any rules any more.”

Sophie Marceau - Elisabeth Laurier

“A magnificence that comes out of your eyes, in your voice, in the way you stand there, in the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.”

James Stewart - Macaulay Connor