Murder quotes

“- Inspector Mason: I want another autopsy on Fissue. And be very careful this time. It's possible he was murdered by some obscure drug that you might have overlooked.
- Coroner: I'm very sorry, Inspector. But I can't make another autopsy. Because the body was cremated yesterday.”
Alan Hale - Inspector Mason
John Dilson - Coroner

“Boss, take off your sunglasses when you go in. Palace guards say they can tell assassin by his eyes.”

Domingo Landicho - Hortono

“If Jock could talk, he'd give you a clue. But now that he's dead, what can you do? He deserved what he got, I don't regret it a bit. By the way, you're standing in bull ca-ca.”

Tim Conway - Dr. Tart

“This Dietrichson business. It's murder, and murders don't come any neater. As fancy a piece of homicide as anybody ever ran into. Smart, tricky, almost perfect, but... I think Papa has it all figured out. It's beginning to come apart at the seams already.”

Edward G. Robinson - Barton Keyes

“- Nick: They're tough in Louisiana, Libby. You shoot me, they'll give you the gas chamber.
- Libby: No they won't. It's called double jeopardy. I learned a few things in prison, Nick. I could shoot you in the middle of Mardi Gras and they can't touch me.
- Travis: As an ex-law professor, I can assure you she is right.”
Bruce Greenwood - Nick
Ashley Judd - Libby
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis

“Rape... they'll check to see if she was raped right? Maybe Liz had a friend over, you know, Mommy and Daddy's last night away, maybe he's from school, maybe not. But definitely into kink.”

Rose McGowan - Courtney

“- Carter: Do you know that you're acting exactly like Malcolm?
- Jack Marsden: What's wrong with that?
- Carter: Nothing. It's just kind of creepy.
- Jack Marsden: If I'm acting like Malcolm at all, you should be grateful.
- Carter: Well, Malcolm got himself killed.”
Hank Azaria - Carter
Billy Bob Thornton - Jack Marsden

“- Diego Delgado: How much time do you have?
- George Jung: Oh, let's see. Twenty-six months.
- Diego Delgado: Twenty-six months? For murder? I must meet your lawyer.”
Jordi Mollà - Diego Delgado
Johnny Depp - George Jung

“Of all the people in this city, I can't believe I met the guy whose wife I killed.”
Jeff Bridges - Jack

“- Hans Beckert: I can't help myself! I have no control over this, this evil thing inside of me, the fire, the voices, the torment!
- Schränker: Do you mean to say that you have to murder?
- Hans Beckert: It's there all the time, driving me out to wander the streets, following me, silently, but I can feel it there.”
Peter Lorre - Hans Beckert
Gustaf Gründgens - Schränker

“- Ichabod Crane: We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins.
- Baltus Van Tassel: You are a long way from New York, constable.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Sir Michael Gambon - Baltus Van Tassel

“- Charlie Mackenzie: How many people have you brutally murdered?
- Harriet Michaels: Well, brutal's a very subjective word. I mean, what's brutal to one person might be totally reasonable to somebody else.”
Mike Myers - Charlie Mackenzie
Nancy Travis - Harriet Michaels

“There's murder in nature. Millions are dying right now. Starved, bombed, in camps. Nobody gives a damn. You may deplore it, but it's a fact.”
Keith Buckley - Hugo Van Arkady

“You have broken into our hideout. You have violated the sanctity of our lair. For this we should crush your bones into powder. However, you do pose a very interesting proposition: therefore, heads, we accept, and tails, we blow your damned head off!”

Tommy Lee Jones - Two-Face

“- Rose: You have to help me. I can't take it. What can I do?
- Lucien Cordier: How the hell do I know? Any idiot can see they were shot with your gun.
- Rose: But that's horrible!
- Lucien Cordier: At first it is horrible. But then you start to think about starving kids, little girls sold into slavery, women whose sex is sewn up... God created...” (continue)(continue reading)

Isabelle Huppert - Rose Mercaillou
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are cockroaches. They are murderers.”
Hakeem Kae-Kazim - George Rutaganda

“- Frannie: Whew! Somebody fired the maid!
- Max: Yeah, somebody did. The Hull family maid was killed along with the rest of them. Someone managed to roast her.
- Jay: Great, barbecued maid. No wonder she didn't keep the place clean.”

Jill Terashita - Frannie
Philip Tanzini - Max
Lance Fenton - Jay

“- Clarice Starling: Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I didn't.
- Clarice Starling: No. No, you ate yours.”
Jodie Foster - Clarice Starling
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“I have got proof that this Red Skull guy was closely involved in the murders of Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King... Jesus, you don't even know who I'm talking about, do ya?”

Ned Beatty - Sam Kolawetz

“I've been studying psychopathic criminology and I have a theory. Perhaps this was the work of a sadist or a paranoiac. If I saw it I might be able to tell.”

William Henry - Gilbert Wynant

“Assassination isn't worth the trouble. It took me two years to find Sirhan. Three to find Oswald. The King job alone cost me over twenty million dollars. What do we get for our pains? Saints. Martyrs to the cause.”
Scott Paulin - The Red Skull

“When I was ten-years-old, I killed my best friend, Tommy Hanley. All the folks in town thought he died of falling out a tree. But the fact of the matter is, I beat him with a club and drug him in the woods so's it'd look that way.”
David Dunard - Harry Bob Ferguson

“How do I tell my son that I've served murderers all my life? That this was not a glorious war for national survival, just extermination?”
Rutger Hauer - SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March

“- Willard Gates: Raven, how do you feel when you're doing... this?
- Philip Raven: I feel fine.”

Laird Cregar - Willard Gates
Alan Ladd - Philip Raven

“Murder is my business.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan