Motive quotes

“What's wrong with killing? Everyone's got their reasons.”
Ko Shibasaki - Mitsuko Sôma

“- Isaac: You honestly think that I tried to run you over?
- Connie: You just happened to hit the gas as I walked in front of the car?
- Isaac: Did I do it on purpose?
- Jill: Well, what would Freud say?
- Isaac: Freud would say I really wanted to run her over, that's why he was a genius.”
Woody Allen - Isaac
Karen Ludwig - Connie
Meryl Streep - Jill

“- Heather: I've never really known...
- Connor MacLeod: What?
- Heather: Why you stayed.
- Connor MacLeod: Because I love you as much now as the first day we met.”

Beatie Edney - Heather
Christopher Lambert - Duncan McLeod

“Father had just one reason for ever starting this unfortunate enterprise: vanity.”

Mary Field - Miss Totten

“You want a why. Well, maybe there isn't one. Maybe this is just something that happened.”
Ryan Gosling - Leland P. Fitzgerald

“- Alex Jurel: There's nothing worse than a female lawyer with a cause.
- Lisa Hammond: Except a male teacher without one.”
Nick Nolte - Alex Jurel
JoBeth Williams - Lisa Hammond

“- Hannah: Could you have ruined yourself somehow?
- Mickey: How could I ruin myself?
- Hannah: I don't know. Excessive masturbation?
- Mickey: You gonna start knocking my hobbies?”

Mia Farrow - Hannah
Woody Allen - Mickey

“- Isis: You wanna make it right? Then when you go to Nationals... bring it. Don't slack off because you feel sorry for us. That way, when we beat you, we'll know it's because we're better.
- Torrance Shipman: Oh, I'll bring it. Don't worry.
- Isis: I never do.”
Gabrielle Union - Isis
Kirsten Dunst - Torrance Shipman

“The first time I saw you, I hated your guts. I think I even hated you before I met you. I hated you on TV. I hated you in Vietnam. You want to know what's destroying this country? It's not booze. It's not drugs. It's TV. It's media. It's people like you.”

Mickey Rourke - Stanley White

“- Raquel Martinez: Screwing around is second oldest reason to kill someone.
- Emily Bradford Taylor: Oh really, and what would be the first?
- Raquel Martinez: Money, honey!”
Sarita Choudhury - Raquel Martinez
Gwyneth Paltrow - Emily Bradford Taylor

“There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work.”
Anthony Zerbe - Councillor Hamann

“- Dean Corso: I'm not even sure I trust you.
- Rodero Bernie: You know I wouldn't screw you unless there was a good reason: money, women, business. Other than that, you can relax.”
Johnny Depp - Dean Corso
James Russo - Bernie

“- Michael: I didn't kill the man. I didn't even know him!
- The Trickster: There lies the beauty. You had no motive. It was totally random. Like in the animal world, prey doesn't have a name. It was primal.”

Edward Furlong - Michael
T. Ryder Smith - The Trickster

“I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.”

Keanu Reeves - Councillor Hamann

“The Apache go where the best fight is. It's a moral value once you understand it.”
Jason Patric - Lt. Charles Gatewood

“- Rita: Phil, why weren't you like this last night? You just fell asleep.
- Phil: It was the end of a very long day.”

Andie MacDowell - Rita
Bill Murray - Phil

“- Alan Dershowitz: I'm not a hired gun. I've got to feel there's some moral or constitutional issue at stake.
- Claus von Bülow: But I'm absolutely innocent, and my civil liberties have been egregiously violated!
- Alan Dershowitz: I've got two black kids facing the electric chair for a crime they did not commit. They are innocent.”
Ron Silver - Alan Dershowitz
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow

“In movies or television, the killer always explains the how or why. He always has some reason, however crazy, with a mad gleam in his eye. But I've interrogated murderers like this one before, and let me tell you, they are well beyond the need to justify what they do. They just do it.”
Nick Nolte - Inspector Cray

“- Dr. Jake Rainer: You're going to shoot me? How are you going to explain that?
- Sylvie Warden: I'll think of something.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Jake Rainer
Liv Tyler - Sylvie Warden

“- Marge Converse: Why did you carry for John?
- Ray Hicks: Because he asked me to. I don't always have to have a reason for the shit I do.”
Tuesday Weld - Marge Converse
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“It was a tense moment for everybody. I love tense moments. Especially when I'm not the one they're all tense about.”
Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

- Mark: What makes people evil?
- Alice: "Evil" is a word people use when they've given up trying to understand someone. There's a reason for everything if we could just find it.
Elijah Wood - Mark
Jacqueline Brookes - Alice

“Mr. Cross, you're telling me you haven't a clue! Not one clue! The man walked in the fucking room and you shot him.”
Michael Moriarty - Senator Hank Rose

- Admiral Bates: Mr. Strannix... this is Admiral Bates speaking. Would you please tell us why the hell you're doing this?
- William Strannix: Hi, admiral. Six months ago, your boy Tom Breaker cancelled operation "Cleopatra", and shortly thereafter two young men from Langley showed up in Miami tried to cancel me along with it. Now you did receive... (continue)(continue reading)

Andy Romano - Admiral Bates
Tommy Lee Jones - William Strannix

“What's the good of having a life saved when you can't have any fun with it?”

Frank Sinatra - Clarence Doolittle