Persuasion quotes

“- Bernie Mermelstein: Don't you think you're kind of over reacting about a dumb letter? There's a lot of nut cases running around shootin' their mouths off.
- Mel Mermelstein: Yes. And sometimes people listen to them.”

Jason Presson - Bernie Mermelstein
Leonard Nimoy - Mel Mermelstein

“I can convince anyone of anything. I once convinced a man that an empty warehouse was the federal reserve, so I'm good.”
Will Smith - Nicky

“- Hildy Johnson: I suppose I proposed to you?
- Walter Burns: Well, you practically did, making goo-goo eyes at me for two years until I broke down.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Richard Schlichting: You know the stuff they tell you about, you know, chromosome damage and all that stuff?
- Mel Coplin: Yeah, I do!
- Richard Schlichting: That's government propaganda.”

Alan Alda - Richard Schlichting
Ben Stiller - Mel Coplin

“You've got a way of making me feel really good when you want something.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Jack Friar

“I'm pretty terrific on the phones. I could sell prosciutto to a rabbi. And I have.”
Vince Vaughn - Billy McMahon

“- Sheikh Hosein: Are you sure I can't persuade you to stay the night?
- James Bond: When one is in Egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures.”

Edward de Souza - Sheikh Hosein
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“- Jack Edwards: It's the art of bringing people to agree on a certain course of action. If that course of action succeeds, the people are satisfied. If not, they're not. It's as simple as that. If it works, it's good. Period.
- Thomas Harriman: Isn't that exactly what you said 'why politics doesn't work anymore'? That politics, you said, needed...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sam Waterston - Jack Edwards
John Heard - Thomas Harriman

“- Bobby Darin: I want to send 18 yellow roses every day to Mary.
- Charlie Cassotto Maffia: You wanna send roses to the mother?
- Bobby Darin: Charlie, you always make sure the mama dog likes you before you go near her puppy.”

Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin
Bob Hoskins - Charlie Cassotto Maffia

“- Melody Valentine: I want a Big Mac!
- Valerie Brown: But, Mel, you're a vegetarian.
- Melody Valentine: I know, but suddenly I want one!”

Tara Reid - Melody Valentine
Rosario Dawson - Valerie Brown

“- Superman: Look. I'm here to help... but it has to be on my own terms. And you have to convince Washington of that.
- General Swanwick: Even if I were willing to try, what makes you think they'd listen?
- Superman: I don't know, General. Guess I'll just have to trust you.”
Henry Cavill - Superman
Harry Lennix - General Swanwick

“For a moment they had me convinced that I was crazy. But when they came to take me, when they killed your friend, I knew.”
Liam Neeson - Dr. Martin Harris

“- Admiral Hood: It takes more than an infatuated youth to make a mutiny. It takes a discontented crew.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: The crew were anything but discontent, sir. Fletcher Christian corrupted them.
- Captain Greetham: Yes, but what made them so easy to corrupt?
- Lieutenant William Bligh: I don't know.”
Laurence Olivier - Admiral Hood
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh
Edward Fox - Captain Greetham

“- Bill Gambini: At my cousin Ruthie's wedding, the groom's brother was that guy Alakazam. You know who I'm talking about?
- Stan Rothenstein: The magician with the ponytail?
- Bill Gambini: Right. Well, he did his act, and every time he made something disappear, Vinny jumped on him. I mean, he nailed him! It was like, it's in his pocket, or he's...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ralph Macchio - Bill Gambini
Mitchell Whitfield - Stan Rothenstein

“Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch it. Who could have predicted that a free people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a box with pictures?”
James Coburn - John Reston

“Someday, you're going to have to pay for your way of life, Tom. You're a bad man and I know it. And if I let you talk me out of it, I'll be lost forever. So my adventures in this life won't mean anything because you will have seduced my soul... and drawn me into your world. Goodbye, Tom.”
Linda Evans - Glendolene Kimmel

“You can make a great product. But you have to convince people that what you're selling is greater. We're not selling computers. We're selling what they can do with a computer.”
Matthew Modine - John Sculley

- Fanny Ronalds: Lady Colin is endeavoring to persuade us to take up smoking. She's writing an article for the "Saturday Review". She proposes that nicotine is a gift from the gods, and if men may benefit from its soothing qualities, why then may women not also? My poor daughter now believes that smoking is an extension of the... communion... (continue)(continue reading)
Eleanor David - Fanny Ronalds
Allan Corduner - Arthur Sullivan

“I'm a foolish old man who's been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpie in trousers and a nincompoop.”
Jeff Bridges - Rooster Cogburn

“She could talk her way out of a sunburn.”

Gene Hackman - Joe Moore

“- Danny Riordan, Clermont Resident: Well, you know, Alvin, there's a lot of hills bigger than Clairmont's between here and Zion. Even if you get that mower running again, it might still break down.
- Alvin Straight: Well, you're a kind man talking to a stubborn man.”

James Cada - Danny Riordan
Richard Farnsworth - Alvin

“Psychiatrists aren't always preaching. Sometimes it's persuasion.”

“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
Ben Kingsley - Cosmo

“Here I was trying to convince the whole world you existed, but what I was really trying to do was convince them that I exist.”

Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky

“When a country has five percent of the world's population but does fifty percent of its military spending, then the persuasive powers of that country are on the decline.”
Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai