Motive quotes

“- Roland Yates: Don't worry, son, there'll be extra money for this mission.
- Jake Hayes: Hey, man, first of all, I'm not your son. Second of all, did it ever occur to you that I might want to do something 'cause it's the right thing?”
John Slattery - Roland Yates
Chris Rock - Jake Hayes

“- Wanda: Maybe he had a reason to kill those people.
- Henry: Yeah well most people think they do.”

Faye Dunaway - Wanda Wilcox
Mickey Rourke - Henry

- Miles Massey: "Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard, they make no battery". Mrs. Rexroth, do you know those lines?
- Freddy Bender: Objection, your honor.
- Judge Marva Munson: Grounds?
- Freddy Bender: Uh... poetry recitation.
George Clooney - Miles
Richard Jenkins - Freddy Bender
Isabell O'Connor - Judge Marva Munson

“- Jesus: I saw you looking at me from across the room.
- Nina: I'm blind.
- Jesus: Oh, I knew there was a reason.”
Vincent Laresca - Jesus
Jennifer Tilly - Nina

“- Sera: Why are you killing yourself?
- Ben Sanderson: Interesting choice of words. I don't remember. I just know that I want to.”

Elisabeth Shue - Sera
Nicolas Cage - Ben Sanderson

“Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a reason, there's a why. But nothing, not getting angry, not prayers, and not tears, nothing can make something that happened unhappen.”
Ryan Gosling - Leland P. Fitzgerald

“- Peter: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
- Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
- Peter: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?”
Ron Livingston - Peter
Paul Willson - Bob Porter

“- The Prosecutor: Dr. Venkman, would you please tell the court why you and your co-defendants took it upon yourselves to dig a very big hole in the middle of 1st Avenue?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, there are so many holes in 1st Avenue, we really didn't think anyone would notice.”
Janet Margolin - The Prosecutor
Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman

“- Chick Boyle: So Rebecca, what are you going to tell Mr. Lloyd about shooting Zachery, what are your reasons gonna be?
- Babe Magrath: That I didn't like his looks. That I didn't like his stinking looks! I don't like yours either, Chickie stick.”
Tess Harper - Chick Boyle
Sissy Spacek - Babe Magrath

“- German: You serious about this? I hope you're not wasting my time.
- Vincent: No, I... I'd give 100 percent.
- German: That'll get you half way there.”
Tony Shalhoub - German
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“When you look at the bricks from the right angle, they're as thin as this playing card. His whole case is an illusion, a magic trick. It has to be an illusion, 'cause you're innocent. Nobody - I mean nobody - pulls the wool over the eyes of a Gambini, especially this one. Give me a chance, one chance. Let me question the first witness. If after...” (continue)(continue reading)

Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini

“There's something inside of every man that keeps him going long after he has any reason to. For years I kept going when going didn't seem to make any sense. And now I just had to keep going. I had to have the end come.”
Jason Patric - Kevin 'kid' Collins

“Half these people came here tonight, Jack, to watch you catch ball. The other half came to see you drop it. You drop that damn thing again, Jack, your life is over.”

Kurt Russell - Reno Hightower

“- Det. Davey Sikes: He ain't choosing them just for their congeniality.
- Dr. Alex Cross: Ordinarily, they don't, but I think our guy is a little different.
- Det. Nick Ruskin: How so?
- Dr. Alex Cross: I think killing's not his ulterior motive. This guy's a collector. I bet these women are alive.”

Alex McArthur - Det. Davey Sikes
Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross
Cary Elwes - Det. Nick Ruskin

“Maybe they didn't want to die. Maybe they weren't ready. Maybe they hadn't lived fully yet or they'd lived a long, long time and they still wanted more life. They resist going into that light, however hard the light wants them. They just... hang around. Watch TV, watch their friends grow up feeling unhappy and jealous and those feelings are bad....” (continue)(continue reading)
Beatrice Straight - Dr. Lesh

“- Detective Mark Woods: Why did you kill your friend?
- Bo Richards: Because I had to.”
Christopher McDonald - Detective Mark Woods
Charlie Sheen - Bo Richards

“Most people, when they see something like this, their immediate reaction is to ask how could somebody do this and why. Even when we catch the killer, they want to know the how and why.”
Nick Nolte - Inspector Cray

“You have to play the game, to find out why you're playing the game.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Allegra Geller

“- Diana Murphy: I would never do this for myself. It was all for you.
- David Murphy: Don't lie to me! You were attracted to him!”

Demi Moore - Diana Murphy
Woody Harrelson - David Murphy

“I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. Looks like a giraffe, and I love him. I love him because he's the kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. Love him because he doesn't know how to kiss.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Sugarpuss O'Shea

“- Siddhartha: Why have you lied to me about the existence of suffering, sickness, poverty, old age, and death?
- King Suddhodhana: If I've lied to you, Siddhartha, it has been because I love you.
- Siddhartha: Your love has become a prison.”
Keanu Reeves - Siddhartha
Rudraprasad Sengupta - King Suddhodhana

“This is a manhunt, not your cause. Don't make it personal.”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Preston

“- Seth Brundle: It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living.
- Veronica Quaife: Why?
- Seth Brundle: Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them... I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn.”

Jeff Goldblum - Seth Brundle
Geena Davis - Veronica Quaife

“Fate has left us alone for a reason.”

Alan Cumming - Mr Elton

“- Hoggle: Why did you have to go and do a thing like that for?
- Sarah: Do what? You mean rescue you?
- Hoggle: No! You kissed me!”
Shari Weiser - Hoggle
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah