Power quotes

“You are only the boss, Frank. I'm the fucking mayor. Mayors rule.”

Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“- Rayden: As long as I have the power, Kahn, you will never rule this world.
- Shao-Kahn: As long as the portal remains open, your world becomes my world!”
James Remar - Rayden
Brian Thompson - Shao-Kahn

“- Tom Welles: Why would Christian want this? Why would he want a film of a little girl being butchered?
- Daniel Longdale: Because he could!”
Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles
Anthony Heald - Daniel Longdale

“Thousands must die, so that Caesar may become the great.”
Eric Tsang - Hon Sam

“All I hear from you, you spineless cowards, is how poor you are; how you can't afford my taxes. Yet somehow, you managed to find the money to hire a gunfighter to kill me. If ya got so much money, I'm just gonna have to take some more. Because clearly some of you haven't got the message! This is my town! I run everything! If you live to see the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Herod

“If you let yourself be too scared then you let the bad guys take over the country, don't you? And then everybody gets scared.”
Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison

“- Dr. Jonathan Crane: Outside, he was a giant. In here, only the mind can grant you power.
- Rachel Dawes: You enjoy the reversal?
- Dr. Jonathan Crane: I respect the mind's power over the body. It's why I do what I do.”
Cillian Murphy - Dr. Jonathan Crane
Katie Holmes - Rachel Dawes

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

“He's only one man. What can one man do?”
Willem Dafoe - General George Deckert

“That's too much power for one man to have.”

Peter Boyle - Captain Green

“- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Marry me.
- Elizabeth I: On a night such as this, could any woman say no?
- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: On a night such as this, could a queen say no?
- Elizabeth I: Does not a queen sit under the same stars as any other woman?”
Joseph Fiennes - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“- Rex: My wife has me between a rock and a hard place.
- Miles Massey: That's her job. You should respect that.”
Edward Herrmann - Rex Rexroth
George Clooney - Miles

“- 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

“I will exert every possible means in my power for the extermination of the anarchist, the Roman hierarchy and their abettors.”

Humphrey Bogart - Frank Taylor

“- Boromir: What is this? Why do you speak of hiding and destroying? The Ring could save all Middle Earth!
- Elrond: This is Sauron's Ring! To wield it, you would have to become Sauron.”
Michael Graham Cox - Boromir

“There is a power! Greater than all! And it is within us!”

Ryan Bollman - Micah

“I became King on my fifth birthday. By my sixth I learned not to offer encouragement. Sooner or later everyone comes to me.”
Louis Hayward - Philippe of Gascony

“Mr. Mayor, my column gave you this office, and it can take it away.”
Stanley Tucci - Walter Winchell

“- The Penguin: Check it out. We're gonna disassemble his Batmobile and turn it into an H-bomb on wheels.
- Catwoman: No, no, he'd have even more power as a martyr. To destroy Batman, we must first turn him into what he hates the most. Namely us.”
Danny DeVito - Penguin
Michelle Pfeiffer - Catwoman

“- Inspector: You are playing God.
- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Somebody has to.”
William Traylor - Inspector
Steve Martin - Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr

“The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.”
Eli Wallach - Don Altobello

“What did Darth Vader say to Luke Skywalker? Come over to the dark side. Come over, Annibal. You have no idea of the power we have.”
Donald Sutherland - Jack Shaw

“Being Prime Minister, I could just have him murdered. The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away.”

Hugh Grant - The Prime Minister

“True followers of the craft practice their powers for the good, for the Earth, for the occasional love potion, of course, but anyone can learn to use those powers.”

Boti Bliss - Robin

“By sunset, I'll be the new emperor! And I will be the master of the whole universe!”
Joe Spinell - Count Zarth Arn