Murder quotes

“Mozart! Mozart, forgive your assassin! I confess, I killed you...”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“- Harker: Give me the stake. No. No, I can't do it... you do it!
- Professor Van Helsing: It must be done by one who loved her in life!
- Harker: I only liked her!
- Professor Van Helsing: Close enough!”

Steven Weber - Harker
Mel Brooks - Abraham Van Helsing

“- Tom Frost: There are no accidents. For example, I've been killing my own wife slowly over a period of years.
- Bill Lee: What?
- Tom Frost: Well, not intentionally. I mean, on the level of conscious intention, it's insane, monstrous.”
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost
Peter Weller - Bill Lee

“- Belle: Bastard!
- John Slade: Could be. I don't know if my ma and pa were married. I killed my pa before I could ask.”

Ellen Greene - Belle
Ed Lauter - John Slade

“- Dolly: Wolf Fishbein said, in order to hide the bodies, you ate them!
- Max: So, what are you making a fuss? Some bury, some burn, I ate!”
Shifra Lerer - Dolly
Hy Anzell - Max

“- Alan Swann: You see, people like me wear targets. I'm blamed for a lot of things I had absolutely nothing to do with. On the other hand, because of who I am, I get away with murder in other areas. I suppose it all balances out in the end.
- Belle Carroca: Does it really, Swannee?
- Benjy Stone: Ma, he's an actor, not a river.”
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Lainie Kazan - Belle Carroca
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“- Nikki Randall: Splice it together with what you already have. And then you can tell this guy of yours that you not only have the Costume Killer, but you managed to keep him from killing victim number six.
- Tiger: But we could never do that.
- Nikki Randall: I could. I've got all the editing equipment you need to use at school.”
Kristy Swanson - Nikki Randall
Tom Wood - Tiger

“Morning, gentlemen. Nice day for a murder.”
James Cagney - Rocky Sullivan

“Sylvia Pincus. Big fat Jewish broad, had a little tiny husband. She chopped him up with an ax and mailed his pieces all over the country. I don't know what she was tryin' to prove.”
Chazz Palminteri - Cheech

“I'll bury him in the yard. No, the vegetable patch! Easier digging.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“- T-Bird: Tin Tin, somebody stuck his blades in all his major organs in alphabetical order.
- Top Dollar: Well, gentlemen, by all means, I think we oughta have an introspective moment of silence for poor ol' Tin Tin.”
David Patrick Kelly - T-Bird
Michael Wincott - Top Dollar

“- Nancy Thompson: Mother! What's with the bars?
- Marge Thompson: Security.
- Nancy Thompson: Security? Security from what?
- Marge Thompson: Not from what - from whom. Come down to the cellar. You wanna know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least 20 kids in the neighborhood... kids we all knew.”
Heather Langenkamp - Nancy Thompson
Ronee Blakley - Marge Thompson

“Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, The Mafia, keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents 'em from asking the most important question: why? Why was Kennedy Killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?”
Donald Sutherland - X

“My art is in great demand, Mr. Bond. I go all over the world. I am especially good at the celebrity overdose.”
Vincent Schiavelli - Dr. Kaufman

“I'm a songwriter. I wrote this, and I recorded it with a buddy down in Bakersfield. He used to have a studio, but he's dead now. Yeah... somebody killed him for being selfish.”

C. Ernst Harth - Bearded Guy

“- Nicole Horner: Come on, she's not a murderer. She's an ex-nun, for Christ's sake!
- Det. Shirley Vogel: I remember them. They disappeared overnight like dial phones.”

Sharon Stone - Nicole Horner
Kathy Bates - Det. Shirley Vogel

“They had enough of Nicky. They had enough. I mean, how much more were they gonna take? So, they made an example of him and his brother: they buried them while they were still breathing.”

Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“Schneider got wasted last night. He must have been working late. Some maniac came in and sliced him up like a kielbasa, hacked him in the shower. Got bloody footprints all over the place.”

Robert Rusler - Ron Grady

“- Miguel Bain: They look pissed, huh?
- Robert Rath: They get that way when you kill four of them.”

Antonio Banderas - Miguel Bain
Sylvester Stallone - Robert Rath

“The murder rate used to be a thousand a year. Three a day, and that was high. Now it's five. Higher in the summer. Fourteen two Fridays ago. We get the death penalty six, seven times a day, only it's not for murderers, it's for ordinary citizens.”
Vyto Ruginis - Durkin

“Who did the president, who killed Kennedy, fuck man! It's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The fuckin' shooters don't even know!”
Joe Pesci - David Ferrie

“This single-bullet explanation is the foundation of the Warren Commission's claim of one assassin. And once you conclude the magic bullet couldn't create all seven wounds, you must conclude there was a fourth shot and a second rifleman. And if there was a second rifleman, then by definition there had to be a conspiracy.”

Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison

“- Gloria Russell: He saw.
- Allen Richmond: He saw nothing. He saw a drunk woman who liked rough sex too much. He's a burglar. Who's gonna believe him? After all, it's not as if he has any evidence or anything.”

Judy Davis - Gloria Russell
Gene Hackman - President Richmond

“Explanations are just a fiction to make us feel safe. Because if it can't be explained, then it's just meaningless chaos. It could touch any one of us at any moment. Which is exactly what it is.”

Nick Nolte - Inspector Cray

“Don't you understand what he did? He did the identical crime eighteen months before he murdered his wife! He knew it would get him off the hook! He knew Bobby Slade was seeing his wife! That's why he did the first crime in Santa Cruz! He threw us Bobby Slade as a suspect! He picked that woman very carefully! He knew she played tennis with Slade!...” (continue)(continue reading)

Peter Coyote - Thomas Krasny