Power quotes

“- The Djinn: Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to have unlimited power, and only be able to use it when some worm asks you for something?
- Merritt's Guard: No, I can't say that I do. I can't say that I give a shit, either.”
Andrew Divoff - The Djinn
Kane Hodder - Merritt's Guard

“I have the power! The quickening that empowers me! I feel everything! I know everything! I am everything!”
Christopher Lambert - Duncan McLeod

“- Cochise: When you're president of the biggest gang in the city, you don't have to take any shit.
- Ajax: Ah, fuck him!”
David Harris - Cochise
James Remar - Ajax

“How does the rich get the poor to give them more money? They scare them!”
Willem Dafoe - Senator Larry Lockner

“- Dr. Wynn: Look around you Sam, madness everywhere. Famine, war, a great plague. These are signs we must restore balance to the natural order of things. We merely provide the means.
- Dr. Loomis: Michael?
- Dr. Wynn: We've given him the power, the gift of thorn. I am its deliverer. I follow it, act as its guardian!”
Mitchell Ryan - Dr. Wynn
Donald Pleasence - Loomis

“You don't hold elected office in this town. You run it because people think you do. They stop thinking it, you stop running it.”

Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“- Elizabeth I: She had such power over men's hearts. They died for her.
- Sir Francis Walsingham: They have found nothing to replace her.”

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I
Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham

“Queens don't hiccup.”
Claudette Colbert - Cleopatra

“That's the first time I stopped hugging first. I like that.”

Debra Winger - Emma Horton

“Whoever controls technology controls the world. The Roman empire ruled the world because they built roads. The British empire ruled the world because they built ships. America; the atom bomb. And so on and so forth.”
Kevin Spacey - Lex Luthor

“There's a lot of people out there, and they ain't just gonna go away. They got voices now and they're goin' to be listened to. Putting them in jail is not going to stop them. That's the power of the press, Joe. So thanks for teaching me about it.”
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“- Amazed Kid: How'd you do that?
- Peter Parker: Work out, plenty of rest. You know, eat your green vegetables.
- Amazed Kid: That's what my mom is always saying. I just actually never believed her.”

Marc John Jefferies - Amazed Kid
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker
Roshon Fegan - Amazed Kid

“Jerks like you sail through life, reading about people like me in the newspaper. You're in a different place now, motherfucker! $100,000 might buy you out of North Shore. Here, that means shit. This is my fucking world.”

Denis Colin Leary - Fallon

“My whole body is an engine. This is a fireplug and I'm gonna light him up.”

Sam Scarber - Bosco

“- Secretary Cleary: Once Sack and Claire tie the knot, two of the great American families, the Clearys and the Lodges, will finally unite.
- John Beckwith: And then of course you can challenge the Klingons for interstellar domination.”
Christopher Walken - Secretary Cleary
Owen Wilson - John Beckwith

“Power to walk into the gold vaults of the nations, into the secrets of kings, into the Holy of Holies; power to make multitudes run squealing in terror at the touch of my little invisible finger.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“I am the man with the power to create catastrophe.”
Richard Burton - John Morlar

“An army is power. Its entire purpose is to coerce others. This power can not be used carelessly or recklessly. This power can do great harm.”
Jeff Daniels - Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“- Will Graham: Why does it feel good, Dr. Lecktor?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: lt feels good because God has power.”

William Petersen - Will Graham
Brian Cox - Dr. Hannibal Lecktor

“All I know, Eminence, is that you, for your own purposes, have kindled this fire. All this time, all these years, I have wondered at your high pride and your vain glory. I have abhorred your voluptuous life and had no regard at all for your presumptuous power and your tyranny! I also know your malice against my nephew, the Emperor. You hate him...” (continue)(continue reading)

Maria Doyle Kennedy - Queen Katherine

“We have a weapon more powerful... than any in the whole arsenal of the British Empire! That weapon... is our refusal!”
Liam Neeson - Michael Collins

“I'm the master, and you're the puppet!”
Jimmie F. Skaggs - Neil Gallagher

“- Parmenion: He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. He consulted his peers in council, among equals! The Macedonian way. He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.
- Alexander: I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed! Old man, we're in knew worlds.”
John Kavanagh - Parmenion
Colin Farrell - Alexander

“The mightiest man may be slain by one arrow... and Boromir was pierced by many.”
Billy Boyd - Pippin

“Risking civil war, the very thing Henry fears most. Somehow, I need to make him understand that this will be worth it. When I am his queen, and give him a son.”
Natalie Portman - Anne Boleyn