Murder quotes

“You're not buying this, are you? You're not listening to a word I'm saying. Yeah? Guess what? I don't blame you. After listening to Mr. Blanchard lay out the prosecution's evidence, even I'm convinced my client murdered Victor Taft.”
Robert Redford - Tom Logan

“I now do what other people only dream. I make art until someone dies. See? I am the world's first fully functioning homicidal artist.”
Jack Nicholson - Joker

“If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ray Liotta - Henry Hill

“- Jackie: What's he gonna do, fold under questioning? If he does, they'll kill him. If he doesn't, they'll figure he's lying like last time and they'll kill him. Either way, Markie's dead. So why put the poor bastard through a beating? It's a waste of time - not to mention a really unpleasant experience for Markie. Just put him out of his misery...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Pitt - Jackie
Richard Jenkins - Driver

“Experience teaches unless eyewitness present, every murder case is long shot.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

- Carr's Attorney: Last time I checked, six counts of manslaughter is life in prison.
- Avington Carr: Life in prison. What we in Georgia call "all day long".
Ric Reitz - Carr's Attorney
Peter Gerety - Avington Carr

“The one thing about a murder case is if you just let people talk long enough, sooner or later, somebody will spill the beans.”
Myrna Loy - Nora Charles

“- Martia: You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume.
- Captain James T. Kirk: How did you know that?
- Martia: We don't get many presidential assassins.”
Iman - Martia
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“Do you know what it was like to have witnessed Alan Parrish's murder? Do you think anyone showed up at my 14th birthday party?”
Bonnie Hunt - Sarah Whittle

“My son was torn to pieces! You come in here and talk to these men about private justice? You dare to do that? Why do you go out to Harmony Hill, Sheriff Haller, and dig up what's left of my boy Brady... and explain to him about private justice. Would you want to do that? As for me, I'm gonna go out and hunt up a little private justice.”
Kent Broadhurst - Herb Kincaid

“An on-the-job shooting is still considered a homicide. It's never an easy ride. If you do the right thing, I'll always have your back. Do the wrong thing and cross me - I will personally throw you under the bus.”
Jaime FitzSimons - Captain Reese

“- Mary: Who did it?
- Norman Bates: My mother did, she told me so herself.
- Mary: Oh, Norman... You're mad, don't you know that? You're as mad as a hatter.”

Meg Tilly - Mary Loomis
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Joel Campbell: It's never quite that easy. You go through the door, and they're never just sitting there waiting for you with a welcoming smile on their face. Best you can do is hope they fuck up and do what you can to be there when they do.
- Dr. Polly Beilman: And then blame yourself for the killings?
- Joel Campbell: Oh, no. I blame the...” (continue)(continue reading)

James Spader - Campbell
Marisa Tomei - Polly

“The three Nite Owl suspects, while guilty of kidnapping and rape, were innocent of the multiple homicides at the Nite Owl. The actual gunmen were most likely Los Angeles Police Department officers Michael Breuning and William Carlisle, and a third man who may or may not have been Captain Dudley Smith.”
Guy Pearce - Ed Exley

“- Jones: She's just a conniving little dame who deserves every bit that's coming to her.
- Megan: Including murder, I suppose?”

Walter Connolly - Jones
Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“By his own approximation, Bob assassinated Jesse James over 800 times. He suspected no one in history had ever so often or so publicly recapitulated an act of betrayal.”

Hugh Ross - Narrator

“My favorite statistic is discovering that the murder rate had gone down by 20%. The coverage that is, how many murders are on the evening news it went up by 600%.”
Barry Glassner - Himself

- "Dancer": A guy comes in and buys a drink. He goes out and somebody kills him. What are we supposed to do? Give the customers insurance with the drinks?
- Nick Charles: Not a bad idea.
Joseph Calleia - "Dancer"
William Powell - Nick Charles

“- Ambassador Sarek: Your vessel did destroy the USS Grissom, your men did kill Kirk's son. Do you deny these events?
- Klingon Ambassador: We deny nothing. We have the right to preserve our race.
- Ambassador Sarek: You have the right to commit murder?”
Mark Lenard - Sarek
John Schuck - Klingon Ambassador

“You have no idea what it's like to see somebody you love killed right in front of you.”
Julie Remala - Lisa Stenstrom

“You are going to be late because you are being questioned for murder!”
Aidan Quinn - Detective Scofield

“- Whippet Angel: Welcome to being dead.
- Charlie B. Barkin: What? You mean I'm... I'm...
- Whippet Angel: Stone cold I'm afraid.
- Charlie B. Barkin: I can't believe it, I've been murdered!”
Melba Moore - Whippet Angel
Burt Reynolds - Charlie B. Barkin

“- CIA Officer: He shot Cox.
- CIA Superior: Good. Great! Is he dead?
- CIA Officer: No, sir. He's in a coma.
[CIA Superior grimaces]
- CIA Officer: They don't think he's gonna make it. They don't... they don't think, they're pretty sure he has no brain function.
- CIA Superior: Okay. Okay. If he wakes up we'll worry about it then. Jesus, what a...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Rasche - CIA Officer
J. K. Simmons - CIA Superior

“- Dixie: Somebody's trying to kill me.
- Detective Skinner: If they succeed, I'll come see you again.”
Peter Stormare - Dixie
Mel Gibson - Detective Skinner

“- Judge Halden: Jeff, just standing there, you're accomplice to murder. Are you a murderer, Jeff?
- Jeff: I've been wanting to kill him for two years. Yeah. Maybe I am.”
Barry Flatman - Judge Halden
Angus Macfadyen - Jeff