Mystery quotes

“The Lord sure do move in mysterious ways.”
Gary Cooper - Alvin C. York

“- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
- Editor on Studio Lot: You forgot the octopus.
- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: No, no, I'm saving that for my big underwater climax.”
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Patrick Cranshaw - Editor on Studio Lot

“- Buddy Kupfer: I'd sure like to take a look.
- Conal Cochran: Aw, sorry.
- Daniel Challis: Not even a peek for your best salesman?
- Buddy Kupfer: Just one little look?
- Conal Cochran: Well, you see, part of the final processing involves volatile chemicals. They're very dangerous. I wouldn't want to put anybody in any danger.”
Ralph Strait - Buddy Kupfer
Dan O'Herlihy - Conal Cochran
Tom Atkins - Daniel Challis

“Sex, like everything else, is largely a mystery. I mean, there's no such thing as normal sex, normal sex is a matter of statistics. What may be normal for the vast majority is no criterion of behavior for the exceptional person.”
Geneviève Bujold - Nancy

“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.”
Burgess Meredith - Narrator

“Over the mysteries of female life there is drawn a veil best left undisturbed.”
Eric Stoltz - John Brooke

“- Hannay: Beautiful, mysterious woman pursued by gunmen. Sounds like a spy story.
- Miss Smith: That's exactly what it is.”
Robert Donat - Hannay
Lucie Mannheim - Miss Smith

“- Bugatti: There's a rumor that before you joined the precinct you were a priest.
- John Travis: I was a seminary student, I didn't make it as far as priesthood.
- Bugatti: Still, that is some kind of makeover. What happened?
- John Travis: I found another way to fight him... Okay, ready?
- Bugatti: ...Fight who?”
Michael Gaston - Det. Frank Bugatti
Jimmy Smits - John Travis

“The time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe: women!”
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown

“- Preston: He was right. There is still some mystery left in this world, and we can all have a piece of it for the price of an admission ticket.
- Jack Driscoll: That's the thing you come to learn about Carl, his undying ability to destroy the things he loves.”
Colin Hanks - Preston
Adrien Brody - Jack Driscoll

“- Mr. Furious: What's his power?
- The Blue Raja: Well, he's terribly mysterious.
- Mr. Furious: That's it? That's his power? He's mysterious?
- The Blue Raja: Well, terribly mysterious.
- The Shoveller: Plus he can, like, cut guns in half with his mind.”

Ben Stiller - Furious
Hank Azaria - Blue Raja
William H. Macy - Shoveler

“Remember, the shadows are just as important as the light.”
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Jane Eyre

“Life in the wide world goes on much as it has these past age, full of its own comings and goings, scarcely aware of the existence of Hobbits... for which I am very thankful.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf

“Love can never be portrayed the same way as a tree or the sea, or any other mystery.”
Jeremy Davies - Tom Tom

- Velma Dinkley: "Property of Colonel Jackson T. Pettigrew, 8th Louisiana". That sounds like a Civil War regiment.
- Simone Lenoir: There were Confederate barracks on this island.
- Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers: Like... ghost pirates, ghost soldiers, what could be next?

B.J. Ward - Velma Dinkley
Adrienne Barbeau - Simone Lenoir
Billy West - Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers

“They say that when I die, the case will die. They say it will be like a book I close. But the book, it will never close...”
Michael Wincott - Gary Soneji

“To a cop the explanation is never that complicated. It's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right.”
Kevin Spacey - Verbal

“Ladies and gentlemen, Cesare the somnambulist will answer all your questions. Cesare knows every secret. Cesare knows the past and sees the future. Judge for yourselves.”
Werner Krauss - Dr. Caligari

“- Rita Hussman: When I look at it, I see glimpses of a strange world. A world of people who are dead and yet alive.
- Dracula aka Baron Latos: It is the place from which I've just returned.”

Anne Gwynne - Rita Hussman
John Carradine - Dracula aka Baron Latos

- Pnub: "Ant"? They were killed by ants?
- Mick: Please, don't be stupid. Do you have, like, an evil aunt?

Elden Henson - Pnub
Seth Green - Mick

“Numbers are a door to understanding a mystery that is bigger than us.”
Sean Penn - Paul Rivers

“- Carolyn McDuffy: Some people have this mystery about them that you can't get out of your head. Do you know what I mean?
- Chippy McDuffy: No dear, sounds terrible... is this person a boy?
- Carolyn McDuffy: But it's not romantic or anything.
- Chippy McDuffy: Well, I hope this mystery has nothing to do with this young man being from a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christina Ricci - Carolyn McDuffy
Lisa Banes - Chippy McDuffy

“I've always heard that the ideal marriage should be something of a mystery. That your husband should remain a kind of stranger to you. Someone whose acquaintance you'd like to renew every day.”
Merle Oberon - Jill Baker

“- Captain Klaus Woermann: Who built the Keep?
- Alexandru: Some say Turks. Some say the warlords of ancient Wallachia.
- Captain Klaus Woermann: No, no, this is not a fortress. A soldier could walk up the outside wall. Why are the small stones on the outside and the large stones here in the interior? It's constructed... backwards. This place was...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jürgen Prochnow - Woermann
William Morgan Sheppard - Alexandru

“- Clopin: Listen. They're beautiful, no? So many colors of sound, so many changing moods. Because, you know, they do not ring all by themselves.
- Puppet: They don't?
- Clopin: No, you silly boy. Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower, lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?”

Paul Kandel - Clopin