Persuasion quotes

“- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
- Emperor Joseph II: You are passionate, Mozart, but you do not persuade...”
Tom Hulce - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jeffrey Jones - Emperor Joseph II

“- Walter Burns: You persuade Hildy to do the story and you can write out a nice fat insurance policy for me.
- Bruce Baldwin: I refuse to use my wife for business purposes.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Ralph Bellamy - Bruce Baldwin

“- Suicide Blonde: I'm a bad person. I don't wanna make you bad.
- Fingerling: You don't have that power.”
Lynn Collins - Suicide Blonde
Jim Carrey - Fingerling

“You can't convince me if you can't convince yourself.”

Ethan Cohn - Graham

“- Amelia Sedley: This is all just a blessing in disguise.
- Becky Sharp: Well, the disguise is convincing.”
Romola Garai - Amelia Sedley
Reese Witherspoon - Becky Sharp

“- Nicholas Garrigan: You want me to tell you what to do?
- Idi Amin: Yes, you are my advisor. You are the only one I can trust in here. You should have told me not to throw the Asians out, in the first place.
- Nicholas Garrigan: I did!
- Idi Amin: But you did not persuade me, Nicholas. You did not persuade me!”
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“I offer you immortality, my child. Think of it: in a thousand years you shall be as lovely as you are now!”
Lionel Atwill - Ivan Igor

“You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“October 21st, 1492. I think we have returned to Eden. Surely this is how the world was in the beginning of time. If the natives are to be converted to our ways, then it will be by persuasion and not by force. I believe no man will ever see this land again as we do, for the fist time.”
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“- Kay Chandler: You're not a Democrat, are you?
- Dutch Van Den Broeck: What if I am?
- Kay Chandler: We talk, I give you books to read.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Kay Chandler
Harrison Ford - Dutch Van Den Broeck

“What you are, Barry, is a fuckin' suit salesman with a big mouth. Let's call a spade a spade.”
Alec Baldwin - Dan

“We didn't know when the Doc was going to be giving the Sheik his physical but it was our one and only opportunity to take him out. So I didn't have the usual time to butter him up. Which means we needed twice the sex with half the foreplay.”
Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“I love it when you talk like a beer commercial.”

Victoria Tennant - Terry Hoskins

“- Amanda Kirby: Dr. Grant, you have no idea how important it is to us that you come along. It would make all the difference.
- Dr. Grant: Mrs. Kirby, I...I...
- Paul Kirby: And of course, we'd love to make a contribution to your research here. So... I could write all kinds of numbers on this check, Dr. Grant. Tell me, what's it gonna take?”
Téa Leoni - Amanda Kirby
Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant
William H. Macy - Paul Kirby

“- Newsvendor: What can I do you for?
- Luisa: I would like to buy this newspaper.
- Newsvendor: Well now, you should buy this one here as well. The Tri-State Defender.
- Luisa: No, thank you. I think I need only this one.
- Newsvendor: Well, you know, you only need one leg to get around on if that's all you got. But it sure helps having two, now...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sy Richardson - Newsvendor
Nicoletta Braschi - Luisa

“- Captain Hook: The chief's daughter. She'll know where Pan is hiding.
- Mr. Smee: But-But will she talk, Captain?
- Captain Hook: Oh, a little persuasion might be in order. Now let me see... Boiling in oil? Uh, keelhauling? Eh, marooning?”
Hans Conried - Captain Hook
Bill Thompson - Mr. Smee

“- Sam Spade: If you kill me, how are you going get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you going to scare me into giving it to you?
- Kasper Gutman: There are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade
Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

- Mel Horowitz: You mean to tell me that you argued your way from a "C+" to an "A-"?
- Cher: Totally based on my powers of persuasion, you proud?
- Mel Horowitz: Honey, I couldn't be happier than if they were based on real grades.
Dan Hedaya - Mel Horowitz
Alicia Silverstone - Cher

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

Sigourney Weaver - Helen Hudson

“What I say the American people will believe. And do you know why? Because I will have a very big microphone in front of me.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Shelly Runyon

“The truth has nothing to do with reality. You have to deal with reality. In reality, any one of these people, with a little persuasion, will say what I want them to say, because I am reality.”
Jackie Gleason - U.S. Bates

“I don't know what you think you're doing, but turn this plane around. Dorinda, you never would listen to me and you always did just fine, but this isn't the same. This is Ted's mission, and you're not good enough. You're not good enough, and you won't make it! Is that what you want? That's not my girl!”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Pete Sandich

“You don't have to trust me as long as you can persuade me to trust you.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“In 1539, these crusading knights persuaded the Emperor Charles V to give them the island of Malta. He made them but one condition: they were to pay him, each year, the tribute of one falcon, in acknowledgment that Malta was still under Spain.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“- Carlos: Don't worry, buddy. I won't kill her unless you approve.
- McKussic: And if I don't approve?
- Carlos: Then we'll talk until you do...”

Raul Julia - Carlos
Mel Gibson - McKussic