Leader quotes

“In the beginning, there were seven Primes, our original leaders. They set out with one rule: never destroy a planet with life. Until one of them tried to defy this rule. And his name was, forevermore, the Fallen. He despised the human race, and he wanted to kill you all.”
Mark Ryan - Jetfire

“- Agent Lacey: The CIA would love it if you two could... take him out.
- Dave Skylark: Take him out?
- Aaron Rapaport: For drinks?
- Agent Lacey: No, no, no. Take him out.
- Aaron Rapaport: You want us to assassinate the leader of North Korea.
- Agent Lacey: Yes.
- Dave Skylark: Whaaaaaaaat?”
Lizzy Caplan - Agent Lacey
James Franco - Dave Skylark
Seth Rogen - Aaron Rapaport

“It's like the world is this orchestra and I'm the conductor.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Kimberly Joyce

“You can't run a global network of interconnected cells from a cave.”
Jessica Chastain - Maya

“One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.”
Pete Postlethwaite - Kobayashi

“- Jack Merridew: I guess you just won the election.
- Ralph: It doesn't matter who's in charge. We've just got to work together. First, we build a camp.”
Chris Furrh - Jack Merridew
Balthazar Getty - Ralph

“Yes, we are a team, but I am the team leader. So I made a bold decision: we're playing it safe.”

Amy Poehler - Leslie Knope

“- Peter Pan: You know the rules, Hook. A good captain always goes down with his ship.
- Captain Hook: I don't want to be a good captain!”
Blayne Weaver - Peter Pan
Corey Burton - Captain Hook

“You're not just responsible for the good ones. You've got to be responsible for the bad ones. You've got to be ready to make the shitty call.”

Bruce Greenwood - Commander Robert Iverson

“I think Lou is inspiring all of us to reach a little higher.”
Rene Russo - Nina Romina

“You go to the movies, you read books. A military leader is always portrayed as slightly insane. Very often more than slightly. That's because it is insane to cling to honor in a world where honor is held in contempt.”
George C. Scott - General Harlan Bache

“- Coach Ted Orion: What's the one thing all great teams have in common?
- Lester Averman: Great coaching.”

Jeffrey Nordling - Coach Ted Orion
Matt Doherty - Lester Averman

“People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.”
Evan Rachel Wood

“I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.”
Ray Winstone

“- Paikea: Why doesn't he want me?
- Porourangi: He's just looking for something that doesn't exist anymore.”

Keisha Castle-Hughes - Paikea
Cliff Curtis - Porourangi

“- Dan Evans: You're so sure that your crew's comin' to get you?
- Byron McElroy: They're lost without him; like a pack of dogs without a master.”

Christian Bale - Dan Evans
Peter Fonda - Byron McElroy

“My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?”
Benedict Cumberbatch - Khan

“Number one: if any of you try to screw me, you'll be dead, I'll be looking in on the operation just to make sure. Number two: I'm your senior partner which means last money in, first money out and you will double my investment.”

Andy Garcia - Terry Benedict

“You're not really a leader until you've lost.”
Bruce Greenwood - Commander Robert Iverson

“- Hildy Johnson: You are no longer my husband and no longer my boss. And you're not going to be my boss.
- Walter Burns: All right, take it. Work for somebody else. That's the gratitude I get.”
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Ana: Well, it's nice to see you busting your ass today.
- Steve: Oh, that's sarcasm. That is awesome. Yeah, you know, I would love to help, but a captain never works alongside his men.”

Sarah Polley - Ana
Ty Burrell - Steve

“Alexander the Great, five feet eight exactly. Isn't that incredible! I mean, Alexander the Great, who's empire stretched from India to Hungary, one inch shorter than me. Oliver Cromwell, the only man with any guts in British history, wasn't a big man at all. Louis XIV, five foot two and a half. Charlamagne, dopey little five footer! He's a good...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Ian Holm - Napoleon

“In the old days, the land felt a great emptiness. It was waiting. Waiting to be filled up. Waiting for someone to love it. Waiting for a leader.”
Keisha Castle-Hughes - Paikea

“The people of Earth are different from us. They won't necessarily make the same mistakes we did, but if you guide them, Kal, if you give them hope, that's what this symbol means.”

Russell Crowe - Jor-El

“- Eirig: Can you lead this army with mine against the slayers?
- Prince Colwyn: Whatever army I have I'll lead against them. Till I've won, or am dead.”
Bernard Archard - Eirig
Ken Marshall - Colwyn