Legend quotes

“What are legends anyway but stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things? Of course, it takes courage and imagination... not everybody has that.”
Laurence Olivier - Julius

“Let's just go back, and we can write a nice little, boring thesis regurgitating all the usual crap about urban legend. We've got a real shot here, Bernadette. An entire community starts attributing the daily horrors of their lives to a mythical figure.”

Virginia Madsen - Helen Lyle

“- Maleva: Whoever is bitten by a werewolf and lives becomes a werewolf himself.
- Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man: Don't hand me that. You're just wasting your time.
- Maleva: The wolf bit you, didn't he?”
Maria Ouspenskaya - Maleva
Lon Chaney Jr. - Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man

“- Young Jim: Do you think soembody'll ever find Treasure Planet?
- Sarah Hawkins: Sweetheart, I think Treasure Planet is more... like a legend.
- Young Jim: I know it's real.
- Sarah Hawkins: You win. It's real.”
Austin Majors - Young Jim
Laurie Metcalf - Sarah Hawkins

“When I was a child, every rock, every tree had a story. The whole forest was filled with legends.”
Victoria Racimo - Ramona

“- Ocious P. Potter: You've seen this before?
- Exterminator Jeff: No, but I've heard the stories, but that's what I thought they were, just stories: the fly with the human head, the poker-playing rats, the giant radioactive cockroaches.”

John Goodman - Ocious P. Potter
Mark Williams - Exterminator Jeff

“- Sue Snell: You've heard of Carrie White, haven't you?
- Rachel Lang: Supposedly, she set the fire as some sort of revenge-suicide thing, Elvis was her date and they escaped in a UFO.”
Amy Irving - Sue Snell
Emily Bergl - Rachel Lang

“You're Irena, you're here in America. You're so normal you're even in love with me, Oliver Reed, a good plain Americano. You're so normal you're gonna marry me, and those fairytales, you can tell them to our children. They'll love them.”

Kent Smith - Oliver Reed

“Just 'cause it's a tall tale don't mean it ain't true.”
Stephen Lang - Jonas Hackett

“- Norby: Eddie, what else did Mary's little lamb do?
- Eddie: Didn't he put, uh, Humpty Dumpty back together again?
- Veeko: That was Nat King Cole.
- Eddie: Nat King Cole stuck his finger in the pie and yanked out the bird.”
Joe Pantoliano - Norby
Joe Mantegna - Eddie
Brian Haley - Veeko

“The legend started simply, just a boy without a home; taken in by Indians, but still pretty much alone. He had to struggle with strange customs, and his own fears from within. He learned the wisdom of the forrest, he learned the ways of the wind.”
Merle Haggard - Balladeer

“- Katsumoto: I like this General Custer.
- Nathan Algren: He was a murderer who fell in love with his own legend. And his troopers died for it.”
Ken Watanabe - Katsumoto
Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“Those who escaped, the wicked ones, their legend haunts the village where I was born.”

Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed

“- Susan Matthews-Loomis: Just another legend?
- George Loomis: If we let it be.”
Sean Young - Susan Matthews-Loomis
William Katt - George Loomis

“Tears of Allah. The story is that the prophet wept for the barrenness of the desert and his tears made a well. It's a legend, of course. But, like all great legends, it is also the truth.”
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Maximilian Largo

“- Wiglaf: Your legend is known from the high seas and the snow barriers to the Great Island Kingdom - you are the Monster Slayer.
- Beowulf: We men are the monsters now. The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf - the Christ God has killed it, leaving humankind with nothing but weeping martyrs, fear, and shame.”
Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf
Ray Winstone - Beowulf

“- Sartana: I called in a few favors. Look at this. Got you all the right papers. You can start over now, be a real person.
- Machete: [hands back the papers] Why do I want to be a real person when I'm already a myth?”
Jessica Alba - Sartana
Danny Trejo - Machete

“You're nothing but legends. Pretty soon, no one will believe you even existed.”

Ned Beatty - Mayor

“The legend will be revealed when the heir reveals himself.”
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

“You know how legends go; people will believe anything these days.”
Ed Speleers - Eragon

“- Queen Uberta: Where is Derek? Oh, never mind, I know where he is. Working on the mystery of the fat animal.
- Lord Rogers : The great animal, your highness.
- Queen Uberta: Great, fat. It's large and has fur.”
Sandy Duncan - Queen Uberta
Mark Harelik - Lord Rogers

“- Malloy: What about crucifixes?
- Louis: Crucifixes?
- Malloy: Yes, can you look at them?
- Louis: Actually I am quite fond of looking at crucifixes.
- Malloy: What about the old stake through the heart?
- Louis: Nonsense.
- Malloy: Coffins? What about coffins?
- Louis: Coffins. Coffins, I'm afraid, are a necessity.”
Christian Slater - Malloy
Brad Pitt - Louis

“Someone's taking all of these urban legends, and making them reality.”
Alicia Witt - Natalie Simon

“- Malloy: So there are no vampires in Transylvania? No Count Dracula?
- Louis: Fictions, my friend. The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman.”
Christian Slater - Malloy
Brad Pitt - Louis

“Without Goliath, David is just some punk throwing rocks.”
Billy Crystal - Sam 'Sammy' Kamin