Property quotes

“We're all just cavemen, Trying to protect our little patch of land. Well now I've got a club, and I'm gonna take what I need.”
Jim Carrey - Dick Harper

“- Mal: Tomorrow we'll go into town and straighten this out once and for all. And then we'll be back here, farming. If I catch any of those cattle on our land after tomorrow, I'm gonna start carvin' them into steaks. And believe me, that's one thing I know about.
- Dawson: Killin' cattle is a hanging offense in these parts! If we shot you down...” (continue)(continue reading)

Danny Glover - Mal
James Gammon - Dawson

“Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.”
Bruce Dern

“You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land.”
Tim Blake Nelson - Delmar O'Donnell

“Maybe I'm not such a high-class piece of property right now. And a 25% slice of something big is better than a 100% slice of nothing.”
Paul Newman - Eddie Felson

“With all this land, why is there no room for the Apache? Why does the White-Eye want all land?”
Wes Studi - Geronimo

“- Eva: You're Frank and this is your place?
- Frank Lucas: That's right. I'm Frank and this is my place.
- Eva: Why is it called Small's? Why don't you call it Frank's?
- Frank Lucas: When you own something, you can call it what you want.”
Lymari Nadal - Eva
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“- Passenger #1: Can't we have some fun?
- Passenger #2: We've had champagne and we're happy...
- Driver - Paris: No, you don't have fun in my taxi! It's my place of business, not your fucking playground!”
Pascal N'Zonzi - Passenger #1
Emile Abossolo M'bo - Passenger #2
Isaach De Bankolé - Driver - Paris

“That's my princess! Go find your own!”

Mike Myers - Shrek

“- Bass: What amused me just then was your concern for my wellbeing in this heat when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers...
- Edwin Epps: The condition of my laborers?
- Bass: It is horrid.
- Edwin Epps: They ain't hired help. They're my property.”
Brad Pitt - Bass
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“Ownership. I hate being owned.”

Ralph Fiennes - Almásy

“- Harcourt: You don't own that property.
- Dell: Ok, who owns the land than old man? You, maybe?
- Harcourt: The Dead.”
Rufus Norris - Harcourt
Bobby Johnston - Dell

“- Basil: An overhead cable? You're mad.
- Alexis Zorba: Why?
- Basil: That forest doesn't belong to us.
- Alexis Zorba: Well, it doesn't, and then it does.
- Basil: What does that mean?
- Alexis Zorba: It belong to the monastery. The monastery belongs to God, and God belongs to everybody. Do you agree?”
Alan Bates - Basil
Anthony Quinn - Alexis Zorba

- Keeper of the Seeds: Where does the water come from?
- Toast: He pumps it up from deep within the earth. He calls it "Aqua Cola" and claims it all for himself.
- The Dag: And because he owns it, he owns all of us.

Melissa Jaffer - Keeper of the Seeds
Zoë Kravitz - Toast the Knowing
Abbey Lee - The Dag

“- Bass: What right have you to your niggers?
- Edwin Epps: I bought 'em. I paid for 'em.”
Brad Pitt - Bass
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“- Solomon Northup: You devil! Sooner or later, somewhere in the course of eternal justice thou shalt answer for this sin!
- Edwin Epps: There is no sin! A man does how he pleases with his property.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“Those of you lucky enough to have your lives, take them with you. However, leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now.”

Uma Thurman - The Bride

“- Amy Rainey: Jesus, Mort. Where'd did you get that old thing? The attic?
- Mort Rainey: It's mine. Wasn't ever anybody else's.”

Maria Bello - Amy Rainey
Johnny Depp - Mort Rainey

“- Max: According to legend it completely surrounds the property, this wall was built right on top of it.
- Jay: A brick wall on top of an underground stream? Now there's a stroke of engineering genius.
- Max: The wall was built to mark the stream, supposedly the evil spirits throughout the land can't cross over running water or something.”
Philip Tanzini - Max
Lance Fenton - Jay

“- James Fitzmaurice: Could you lend me a carriage?
- Thomas Smithers: My dear James, have you nothing of your own?
- James Fitzmaurice: Taste, my dear Thomas. Taste.”
Richard R. Grant - James Fitzmaurice
Pete Postlethwaite - Thomas Smithers

“These boys are now our soldiers! They belong to me now! If you try to get them back, your whole village will burn!
If you ask the Karen Rebels for help, I will cut out your tongues! If you go against me, I will feed you your intestines!
Hear me, believe me, and fear me!”

Maung Maung Khin - Major Pa Tee Tint

“As far as I'm concerned, a woman is like an elephant. I like to look at them, but I don't want to own one.”
Errol Flynn - Doug Lee

“Bumpy was rich, but he wasn't white man rich, you see he wasn't wealthy. He didn't own his own company. He thought he did, but he didn't. He just managed it. White man owned it so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though.”
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“No man would bid so much for a thing he had already taken.”

Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“Listen to me very carefully, Mr. Corso. I think you may already have some idea of the lengths to which I'm prepared to go when I want something. Unless you recover my property in double-quick time, you'll discover just how far that can be.”

Frank Langella - Boris Balkan