Power quotes

“I don't want power. I'm 35 and look 60. I'm tired. I'd like to quit. But first I must end the terror, because I'm partly to blame for it.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“If anyone ever raises the question of quality, they're immediately attacked as an elitist, because at Octopus it's considered morally offensive to talk about anything but money. All so that Mr. Rod McCain can feel a little more powerful every day.”

John Marwood Cleese - Rollo Lee

“You made the world in your image. Now I make it in mine.”
Gerard Butler - Dracula

“This is incredible. With these powers, I could be... A superhero! I could fight crime, protect the innocent, work for World Peace! But first...”

Jim Carrey - Stanley Ipkiss

“- Arvid: I would rather belong to anyone... anyone, than belong to the Nazis like you do.
- Thomas Berger: That's because you have everything backwards. Nazis go anywhere they want, do anything they want, everyone gets out of our way.”
Frank Whaley - Arvid
Christian Bale - Thomas Berger

“I know. It's a free country, I ain't got the right. But I got a badge. What do you got? Things are tough all over. Beat it.”

Simon Oakland - Schrank

“- Cowboy: What do you know about Cyrus?
- Rembrandt: He's the one and only.”
Tom McKitterick - Cowboy
Marcelino Sánchez - Rembrandt

“You're full of shit, man. You just sit there in your office. A scholarship here, no scholarship there. He goes. He stays. Who in the hell gave you that power? You're just a coach. You're just a high school football coach. I mean, I don't know. What, what, I don't know.”

Tom Cruise - Stefen Djordjevic

“Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, The Mafia, keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents 'em from asking the most important question: why? Why was Kennedy Killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?”
Donald Sutherland - X

“Your only power was the power to keep us apart, and now you don't have that power anymore!”
Kimberly J. Brown - Marnie Piper

“Power perceived is power achieved.”
Ernie Hudson - Principal Claude Rolle

“- Anton Maes: Hang on to this woman, Lionel. Loyalty like this doesn't walk through the door every day.
- Lionel: I guess you've noticed that Izzy has featured you in our window for the past three weeks. When is this much-publicized reading to take place?
- Isabelle Grossman: On the 20th. I'm very loyal to neighborhood authors.
- Anton Maes: I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeroen Krabbé - Anton Maes
George Martin - Lionel
Amy Irving - Isabelle Grossman

“- Kalina Oretzia: Who are you to play God?
- Cyrus Kriticos: Playing is for children.”
Embeth Davidtz - Kalina Oretzia
F. Murray Abraham - Cyrus Kriticos

“- Vera Prescott: I'm going to introduce you to the most powerful money men in New York, and if you can do to them what you've done to me...
- Brantley Foster: I can't do that!
- Vera Prescott: I mean bowl them over, darling! You're irresistible when you turn on that boyish charm.”
Margaret Whitton - Vera Prescott
Michael J. Fox - Brantley Foster

“I had no idea that mere domestic power could be so stimulating.”
Peter Sellers - Fu Manchu

“- Crawford Tillinghast: I know your desires, you impotent pig!
- Dr. Edward Pretorius: We are the most powerful being in the universe!
- Crawford Tillinghast: She'll know, Edward, how pathetic you are! How you can't make love!
- Dr. Edward Pretorius: Maybe you can teach me!
- Crawford Tillinghast: Come and get me, eunuch!”
Jeffrey Combs - Crawford Tillinghast
Ted Sorel - Dr. Edward Pretorius

“I'm in charge here. Not them, not Harper; I'm in command. You follow me.”

Sean Bean - Sharpe

“Blood has always been the coin of our realm.”
Gerard Butler - Dracula

“The fascinating thing about power is that what can be given so effortlessly can so easily be taken away.”
Armand Assante - Sanchez

“He's always been king of his world, but we'll teach him fear.”

Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham

“It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Now they will tremble again - at the sound of our silence. The order is: engage the silent drive.”
Sir Sean Connery - Marko Ramius

“- Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
- Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
- Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone
Diane Keaton - Kay Adams

“Men who crave power look back over the mistakes of their lives, pile them all together and call it destiny.”
Christina Pickles - Sorceress of Castle Grayskull

“No earthly power can help those that are marked by the sign of the pentagram.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Larry Talbot

“Christine, you... you are the angel. You are my voice. Together we'll have London at our feet. Christine, come to me, and I will give you everything.”
Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom