Murder quotes

“Your national security advisor has just been executed. He's a very good negotiator. He bought you another half hour.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Ivan Korshunov

“I was born to murder the world.”
Daniel von Bargen - Nix

“You live your life, believing in things like justice and the law. Then someone grabs you off the street in broad daylight. Walks right past the police and tells you that he'll reach out from beyond the grave and kill your son. You don't think about right or wrong, you only think about survival. You do what you have to do.”
Joanne Whalley - Valerie Alston

“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

“- Detective Taylor: Neighbors heard them screaming at each other, like for two hours, and it was nothing new. Then they heard the gun go off, both barrels. Crime of passion.
- Somerset: Yeah, just look at all the passion on that wall.”
Daniel Zacapa - Detective Taylor
Morgan Freeman - Somerset

“I usually hate killing an unarmed man. Cold-blooded murder is a filthy business.”
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“- Elizabeth Hardy: No. Uncle didn't kill himself.
- John Watson: Well, then, what happened to him?
- Sherlock Holmes: He was murdered.”

Sophie Ward - Elizabeth Hardy
Alan Cox - Dr. Watson
Nicholas Rowe - Sherlock Holmes

“This is a white man's knife. The man who owned this knife is a murderer!”
Mark Roberts - Black Arrow

“- Helen Grayle: I hadn't supposed there were enough murders these days to make detecting very attractive to a young man.
- Philip Marlowe: I stir up trouble on the side.”
Claire Trevor - Helen Grayle
Dick Powell - Philip Marlowe

“- Misty: He killed people, mom.
- Beverly R. Sutphin: We all have our bad days.”
Ricki Lake - Misty
Kathleen Turner - Beverly R. Sutphin

“- Constance: How horrid. And who turns out to have done it?
- Morris Weissman: Oh, I couldn't tell you that. It would spoil it for you.
- Constance: Oh, but none of us will see it.”

Maggie Smith - Constance Trentham
Bob Balaban - Morris Weissman

“You're not going upstairs to talk to anyone.”

Ray Liotta - Officer Pete Davis

“- Maid: Do you think he's the murderer?
- Robert Parks: It's worse than that - he's an actor!”

Clive Owen - Robert Parks

“He really wants us to think what he's doing is art.”

Sigourney Weaver - Helen Hudson

“- Libby: Do you think I killed him?
- Bobby: That's the first rule of being a lawyer. What we think doesn't matter.”

Ashley Judd - Libby
Jay Brazeau - Bobby

“- Tom Frost: They say you murdered your wife. Is that true?
- Bill Lee: Who told you that?
- Tom Frost: Word gets around.
- Bill Lee: It wasn't murder. It was an accident.”
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost
Peter Weller - Bill Lee

“- Abe Gorman: But chief I forgot to tell you about...
- Jim Fitzpatrick: Yes you forgot to tell me about hitting an officer over the head. You forgot to tell me about shooting a little girl down in the gutter. You forgot to tell me about killing one of the finest white men that ever lived!”
Nat Pendleton - Abe Gorman
Walter Huston - Jim Fitzpatrick

“You're a marked man. You're wanted for murder.”

Peter Lorre - Nikolai Zaleshoff

“Maybe it's my quaint small town morals, but I don't do murder.”
Peter Berg - Mike Swale

“- James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: You're a smart man, Mr. Gallagher. I'm pretty smart myself. Don't get too smart.
- Michael Colin Gallagher: Everybody in this room is smart, and everybody was just doing their job, and Teresa Perrone is dead. Who do I see about that?
- James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: Ain't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Wilford Brimley - Wells
Paul Newman - Gallagher

“That's Grossberger. The biggest mass murderer in the history of the southwest? My dear, he killed his entire family and all of his relatives in one weekend and then he killed some more people that reminded him of his family!”
Georg Stanford Brown - Rory Schultebrand

“A hundred die so that a thousand may live.”

John Malkovich - General Timms

“Lorraine, you have been in Mr. Smith's arms. Nothing like that must ever happen again, it embarrasses me. You're my wife, and he's a murderer.”
Peter Lorre - Stephen Danel

“There was this boy named Jason Voorhees who drowned in Crystal Lake about 30 years ago. None of the counselors heard him. A bunch of years went by, and everyone forgot about it. And that's when the murders started to happen.”
Todd Caldecott - Jim Miller

“- Dr. Chase Meridian: He'll slaughter them without thinking twice.
- Batman: Agreed. A trauma powerful enough to create an alternate personality leaves the victim...
- Dr. Chase Meridian: In a world where normal rules of right and wrong no longer apply.
- Batman: Exactly.”

Nicole Kidman - Dr. Chase Meridian
Val Kilmer - Batman