Justification quotes

“Every thief has an excuse.”
Shia LaBeouf - Jake Moore

“- Bridget Jones: I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it. Well, I meant it, but I was so stupid that I didn't mean what I meant... After all, it's only a diary. Everyone knows diaries are just... full of crap.
- Mark Darcy: Yes, I know that. I was just buying you a new one.”

Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones

“- Freddy Shoop: Hey, I remember you. Where have you been?
- Jerome Watkins: Bathroom.
- Freddy Shoop: For the last six weeks?
- Jerome Watkins: My zipper got stuck.”
Mark Harmon - Freddy Shoop
Duane Davis - Jerome Watkins

There's no excuses, Paul. No one has ever, ever paid admission to see an excuse. No one has ever faced a black screen that says: "Well, if we had these set of circumstances, we would've shot this scene... so please forgive us and use your imagination." I've been to the movies hundreds of times. That's never occurred.
Mark Borchardt - Filmmaker

“I was just nowhere near your neighborhood.”
Campbell Scott - Steve Dunne

“- Danny Muldoon: I suppose you're proud of yourself.
- Rose Muldoon: Just telling it like it is.
- Danny Muldoon: That's been your excuse for the last 67 years.
- Rose Muldoon: My excuse?
- Danny Muldoon: Your excuse for hurting people whenever the hell you feel like it!”
John Candy - Danny Muldoon
Maureen O'Hara - Rose Muldoon

Basic principles: no woman wakes up saying "God, I hope I don't get swept off my feet today!”. Now, she might say, "This is a really bad time for me”, or something like "I just need some space” or, my personal favorite, "I'm really into my career right now”. You believe that? Neither does she. You know why? Because she's lying to you, that's why.
Will Smith - Hitch

“I know this is wrong, but do you ever wonder if she just made the whole thing up? I mean, it's a pretty good one. It's not like anyone can ever use virgin birth as an excuse again. I don't really think she made it up, but I can understand why a girl would.”

Jena Malone - Mary

“There are people out there who don't care about money, who don't give a damn about respect. People who believe the killing of innocent men and women is justified. For them it is about rage, frustration, hatred... they feel pain and they're determined to share it with the world.”

Nicole Kidman - Dr. Julia Kelly

“- Jenny Whiteman: Daddy, you work very hard for your money. You don't have to justify anything.
- Dave Whiteman: I know, it's just that, you know... maybe I'm feeling a little guilty.
- Jenny Whiteman: Guilt sucks.”

Tracy Nelson - Jenny Whiteman
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dave Whiteman

“- Shaun: I'm so sorry.
- Phillip: Sorry for what?
- Shaun: Er… nothing.”
Simon Pegg - Shaun

“Alibi have habit of disappearing like hole in water.”
Warner Oland - Inspector Charlie Chan

“Well, nobody's perfect.”
Joe E. Brown - Osgood Fielding III

“I've just got all this time on my hands, and I just sit around and start inventing these, like, intricate scenarios... And then I don't want to have wasted all my time, so I want to believe in them.”

Andie MacDowell - Ann Bishop Mullany

“Blame it on the war - it's everybody's excuse.”
Ed Harris - Jack Walsh

“- Richard 'Dick' Brewer: Rumor has it you killed a man, Billy. You don't seem like the killing sort.
- Dirty Steve Stephens: Yeah, Billy. What'd you kill him for?
- William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney: He was hacking on me.”
Charlie Sheen - Richard 'Dick' Brewer
Dermot Mulroney - Dirty Steve Stephens
Emilio Estevez - William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney

“- Arnold Beckoff: Try and imagine the world the other way around. Imagine every book, every magazine, every TV show, every movie was telling you you should be homosexual. You know you're not, but...
- Ma Beckoff: Stop already, you're talking crazy.
- Arnold Beckoff: You wanna know what's crazy? After all these years I'm still sitting here trying...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff
Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff

“I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny, but I condemn the tyranny that drove him to it.”

Franchot Tone - Byam

“Explanations are just a fiction to make us feel safe. Because if it can't be explained, then it's just meaningless chaos. It could touch any one of us at any moment. Which is exactly what it is.”

Nick Nolte - Inspector Cray

“- Claire Porter: You're really not like a detective at all, Mr. Charles. You don't pound the table or shout or threaten.
- Nick Charles: I'm not really a detective. I just use that as an excuse to get out of the house at night.”
Stella Adler - Claire Porter
William Powell - Nick Charles

“All day long, I listen to people give me excuses why they can't work... 'My back hurts', 'my legs ache', 'I'm only four!'. The sooner he learns life isn't handed to him on a silver platter, the better!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Anna Karenina: Then you will not give me a divorce?
- Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin: Never. Why should I? To permit you to legalize a sin? To justify your conduct and his? Never.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Basil Rathbone - Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

“- Rufus T. Firefly: Where is your husband?
- Mrs. Gloria Teasdale: Why, he's dead.
- Rufus T. Firefly: I bet he's just using that as an excuse.”
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly
Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Gloria Teasdale

“- Steven Grlscz: Am I in trouble?
- Inspector Healey: You had your passport with you. Are you going somewhere?
- Steven Grlscz: I was opening a bank account.”
Jude Law - Steven Grlscz
Timothy Spall - Inspector Healey

“It wasn’t me! Well, it's obvious he's very sorry and he doesn't want to talk about it anymore.”
Harland Williams - Fred Z. Randall