Motive quotes

“- Babe Magrath: Chick's hated us ever since we had to move here from Dixieville to live here with old grandmama and old granddaddy.
- Meg Magrath: She's an idiot.”
Sissy Spacek - Babe Magrath
Jessica Lange - Meg Magrath

“I've had speechwriters write for me all of my career and advisors telling me what positions to take. I can't even remember why I wanted to get into politics to begin with. I think it's because my mom wanted me to, to show my dad any idiot could do it.”
Dennis Quaid - President Staton

“- Carlos Delgado: Excuse me, but your boss... he invited both of us to dinner, man.
- Joel Keefer: That's because he thinks we're friends.
- Carlos Delgado: But we are friends.
- Joel Keefer: We are not friends!”
Fisher Stevens - Carlos Delgado
Daniel Stern - Joel Keefer

“- Lee Donley: I believe this is how the Chicago fire got started.
- Gloria Anderson: The Chicago fire was started by a cow.
- Lee Donley: History repeats itself.”

Ann Sheridan - Lee Donley
Helen Vinson - Gloria Anderson

You really are the very monster I created, aren't you? But you won't find out the "why" of this if you kill me. Fifteen years of being curious would go to waste.
Ji-tae Yu - Woo-jin Lee

“What makes the sunset? What makes the moon rise? Is it my love for you?”
Frank Sinatra - Clarence Doolittle

“Nobody would do anything if they knew what they were in for.”
Carlos Riquelme - Amarante Cordova

“No wonder you're a nervous wreck. You're not going crazy. You're just becoming a mother.”

Todd Allen - Jim Morar

“- Student #1: Come on, Mr. Nixon. It's a civil war between Vietnamese.
- Young Student: You don't want the war, we don't want the war, the Vietnamese don't want the war, so why does it go on?”
Peter Carlin - Student #1
Joanna Going - Young Student

“I knew there was a reason she didn't like me!”

Dabney Coleman - Ron

“- Samuel Gerard: Why did Richard Kimble kill his wife?
- Detective Kelly: He did it for the money.
- Samuel Gerard: What do you mean, he did it for the money? He's a doctor. He's already rich.
- Detective Kelly: But she was more rich.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard
Ron Dean - Detective Kelly

“- Chief Painter: What are you doing here?
- Michael Shayne: Ask me later. I haven't thought of an answer yet.”

Donald MacBride - Chief Painter
Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne

“I don't know what they want from you half the time. What they start off liking you for, they end up hating you for. Don't like you if you're strong. Don't like you if you're weak. Hate you if you're clever, hate you if you're stupid. They don't know what they want.”
Katrin Cartlidge - Sophie

“- Seymour Krelborn: You don't know what you're saying.
- Audrey: But I do! It's the one gift I can give you. And if I'm in the plant, then I am part of the plant, so in a way... we'll always be together.”

Rick Moranis - Seymour Krelborn
Ellen Greene - Audrey

“- Sam: You're scared, Benny.
- Benny Pearl: I'm what?
- Sam: You're scared. I can see it and I know why. I used to look up to you. But now I can't look at you at all.”
Johnny Depp - Sam
Aidan Quinn - Benny Pearl

“- Wes Luger: York was a friend of mine. She was onto something. I think that's what got her killed.
- Capt. Doyle: You don't think it was the bullets?”

Samuel L. Jackson - Wes Luger
Frank McRae - Capt. Doyle

“- Chemistry teacher: Did you do that on purpose?
- Chris Townsend: You think I'm trying to blind myself on purpose? No, I'm not.”

Carolyn Tomei - Chemistry Teacher
Keanu Reeves - Chris Townsend

“- Ordell Robbie: Let me give you the reason, motherfucker! The reason is your ass ain't worth a shit no more!
- Louis Gara: You better fucking back off, man!
- Ordell Robbie: What the fuck happened to you, man? Your ass used to be beautiful.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie
Robert De Niro - Louis Gara

“- Seymour Krelborn: We started doing business, and making money and you liked me.
- Audrey: You really think I liked you because of that? I liked you from the day I came to work here!”
Rick Moranis - Seymour Krelborn
Ellen Greene - Audrey

“- Sunhill: Why was she murdered?
- Brenner: Well, possible motives for murder are profit, revenge, jealousy, to conceal a crime, to avoid humiliation & disgrace or plain, old homicidal mania. Right there in the manual.”

Madeleine Stowe - Sara Sunhill
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“- Dr. Charles Nichols: You never give up, Richard, do you? You never give up!
- Dr. Richard Kimble: Why Helen?”

Jeroen Krabbé - Dr. Charles Nichols
Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Kimble

“Rollo Tamasi is the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It's supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way, I lost sight of that.”

Guy Pearce - Ed Exley

“- Captain Louis Renault: I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me.
- Rick Blaine: It was a combination of all three.”
Claude Rains - Captain Louis Renault
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine

“I'm gonna meet Herr Siletsky at Gestapo headquarters. And after I've killed him I hope you'll be kind enough to tell me what it was all about!”

Jack Benny - Joseph Tura

“- Max: I crashed into electrical towers and my star charts were erased. I need the ones in your head to complete my mission.
- David Freeman: So you need me and my inferior brain to fly that thing?
- Max: Correction, I need the superior information in your inferior brain to fly this... thing.”
Paul Reubens - Max
Joey Cramer - David Freeman