Murder quotes

“Certainly there are thirteen bodies in the cellar and there are hundreds more in the attic!”
Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster

“- Harry Angel: How did he die?
- Det. Deimos: Technically? Asphyxiation by his own genitalia.
- Harry Angel: And not so technically?
- Det. Deimos: Somebody cut his dick off, stuffed it in his mouth and choked him to death.”

Mickey Rourke - Harry Angel
Pruitt Taylor Vince - Det. Deimos

“- Lee Phillips: Eddie is not demented. It was a one-time incident. This is a forgive and forget kind of thing.
- Gwen Harrison: He tried to kill me, Lee. Am I the only person who remembers that? Attempted murder doesn't get people's attention anymore?”
Billy Crystal - Lee Phillips
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Gwen Harrison

“Mr. Policeman, don't you know a clown can get away with murder?”
Brian Dennehy - John Wayne Gacy

“- Skip Donahue: I wonder what triggered all that violence? He seems so gentle. I see what it is. Nobody has ever just sat down and honestly talked to that man. Poor kid.
- Rory: I wouldn't sit with him. And I killed my step daddy.”

Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
Georg Stanford Brown - Rory Schultebrand

“I find a murder in a detective story much more sympathetic than a real murder.”
Kurt Katch - Colonel Haki

“Now you're all under arrest. Her Majesty's very touchy about having her subjects strangled.”
Cary Grant - Cutter

“You know what they say? Most murders are committed by someone you know. Family even.”
John Pankow - Arthur Kellogg

“There's no money, there's no weed. It's all been replaced by a pile of corpses.”

Jason Flemyng - Tom

“- Mary: I don't wanna hurt your feelings or anything, but Myrna talked about you on the Diner today. Mrs Spool told her to shut up but she didn't. She said you've been locked up.
- Norman Bates: Did she tell you why? Well, I'll tell you. When I was little, I had a fight with my mother, so I put some poison in her tea, you know. But I'm all right...” (continue)(continue reading)
Meg Tilly - Mary Loomis
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“Serial killers are always guy.”
Jared Padalecki - Tom

“- Dr. Edwards: The assailant is highly sophisticated, yet childlike. Vulnerable but canny. Capable of both tenderness and extreme brutality. The murderer is highly intelligent, yet strangely out of touch with reality. Sexual, yet surprisingly innocent. This individual has an insatiable craving for normalcy, which will make your investigation all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Fancy - Dr. Edwards
Charles Busch - Captain Monica Stark

“You killed my mother! You killed my father, you killed my people! You took my father's sword.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Conan

“I don't see what difference it makes if a man was bushwhacked yesterday, today, or 27 damn years ago. Murder is murder.”

Alec Baldwin - Bobby DeLaughter

“- Dr. Perkins: Anthony said on the phone we got a murder?
- Jesse Stone: Well, you're the crime scene guy, Doc, but there's two bullet holes in his chest.
- Dr. Perkins: Well, that'll be a clue.”
John Beale - Dr. Perkins
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“You have robbed the people of Tombstone of a precious resource. Fred White was a brave lawman, a loving husband and father, a loyal friend and a good man which you, Curly Bill Brocius, are not.”
John Lawlor - Judge Spicer

“No, there are no murders in Africa. Only regrettable deaths. And from those deaths we derive the benefits of civilization, benefits we can afford so easily... because those lives were bought so cheaply.”
Richard McCabe - Arthur Hammond

“- Anne Osborne: Why don't you believe that the killers were cops?
- Remy McSwain: Because if they were cops, they would've stayed right here. And when we arrived, we would've found plants, guns, knives, all kinds of evidence that they resisted arrest. That's somethin' every cop in the world knows how to do.”

Ellen Barkin - Anne Osborne
Dennis Quaid - Remy McSwain

“- Lt. Hollis: What's he doing in Chicago?
- Joel Campbell: I assume he's still strangling young women with piano wire.”

Chris Ellis - Hollis
James Spader - Campbell

“When you saw Lecter's murders, their style, so to speak, were you able perhaps to reconstruct his fantasies? And, if so, did you jot down any impressions?”

Anthony Heald - Dr. Frederick Chilton

“- Sir John Talbot: Larry, Bela the gypsy was killed last night. Your walking stick was found next to the body.
- Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man: You mean, Bela the fortune teller? But... I only saw a wolf.”

Claude Rains - Sir John Talbot
Lon Chaney Jr. - Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man

"It's Halloween, it's prom night, there's a psycho loose, so don't open the door, don't answer the phone, don't look in the attic, don't go to the bathroom, don't go into the ocean, and don't go into space 'cause no one can hear you scream. Signed, a friend".

Stella Stevens - Mrs. Doctor Graves

- "Maxim" de Winter: I knew where Rebecca's body was, lying on that cabin floor on the bottom of the sea.
- Mrs. de Winter: How did you know, Maxim?
- "Maxim" de Winter: Because... I put it there.

Laurence Olivier - "Maxim" de Winter
Joan Fontaine - Mrs. de Winter

“- Hans: Maria... she's drowned.
- The Burgomaster: My poor man, why do you bring her here?
- Hans: She was murdered!”

Francis Ford - Hans
Lionel Belmore - The Burgomaster

“What I do is my job, while the thing I care about is at home... being butchered.”
Sylvester Stallone - Jake Malloy