Religion quotes

“- Molly Bell: Honey what happened? What was that all about?
- Jess Robin: When a Jew mourns somebody dead, they tear a piece of their clothing.
- Molly Bell: Who's dead?
- Jess Robin: I am.”
Lucie Arnaz - Molly Bell
Neil Diamond - Jess Robin

“- Peter: Religion is nonsense.
- Ben Rosen: It's also a gold mine if you know where to dig.”
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Peter
Nicholas Bell - Ben Rosen

“Did you commit sex with a Protestant?”

Catherine O'Hara - Cathleen

“- Ron: Isn't there any way for you to believe that - without calling it God, or religion, or whatever term it is you object to?
- Terry: Yes. I believe that.”
Kenneth Lonergan - Ron
Mark Ruffalo - Terry

“- Michael Beattie: To fight church and state is to fight Goliath.
- Desmond Doyle: David beat Goliath in the book I read.”
Stephen Rea - Michael Beattie
Pierce Brosnan - Desmond Doyle

“- Sid Lidz: Religion is a crutch. Only cripples need crutches.
- Arthur Lidz: A crutch isn't bad if you need it, Sidney.
- Danny Lidz: All of us are cripples in some way.”
John Turturro - Sid Lidz
Maury Chaykin - Arthur Lidz
Michael Richards - Danny Lidz

“- Alicia: Hey Kathy. Have you been over to Brad's?
- Kathy: Yeah, it's nice.
- Alicia: Weird huh? His family seems so normal. You'd never guess they belonged to one of those doomsday cults.”
Susan May Pratt - Alicia
Jacque Gray - Kathy

“I ain't a-going to war. War's killing, and the Book's agin' killing! So war is agin' the Book!”
Gary Cooper - Alvin C. York

“- Isabel Fuentes: It was a sign, Alex.
- Alex Whitman: Of what?
- Isabel Fuentes: That the baby would be Catholic.
- Alex Whitman: Oh, well, then it's a good thing you weren't stopped in front of an IHOP.”

Salma Hayek - Isabel Fuentes Whitman
Matthew Perry - Alex Whitman

“- Dave: Moocher, you're Catholic, right?
- Moocher: Yeah.
- Dave: Did you ever go to confession?
- Moocher: Twice.
- Dave: Did it make you feel better?
- Moocher: Once.”
Dennis Christopher - Dave
Jackie Earle Haley - Moocher

“- Annuka: Is the Blackrobe a demon? He must be. Blackrobes never have sex with women.
- Daniel: It's a promise they make to their God.
- Annuka: Why make a promise like that?
- Daniel: Strange, isn't it?”
Sandrine Holt - Annuka
Aden Young - Daniel

“What, did you rewrite the whole thing, or just the parts that don't suit your needs?”

Peter Horton - Burt

“I break 5 or 6 commandments every day before lunch.”
Anthony LaPaglia - Harry Luce

"Single" he told me. Single, my ass. Not only was he married... oh, no, he had six wives. One of those Mormons, you know. So that night, when he came home, I fixed him his drink as usual. You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic.
Denise Faye - Annie

“- Jack McDermott: We are all naked in the eyes of the Lord.
- Henry Sikorsky: Stop! This man is clinically insane! He is presently undergoing treatment at Cedarbrook hospital under my supervision!”
Peter Boyle - Jack McDermott
Chris Lloyd - Henry Sikorsky

“The Burns family run a general store in a one store town and still managed to do badly. They were Methodists, a denomination my father referred to as Baptists who could read.”
Robert Redford - Narrator

“- Sid Lidz: He doesn't know what he believes. My brothers filled him with all that junk.
- Selma Lidz: Maybe they're right for once. What would you know? You work ten hours a day and then you lock yourself in that workshop.”

John Turturro - Sid Lidz
Andie MacDowell - Selma Lidz

“People pass a bunch of stories around in a tribe and finally someone writes 'em down, and you have religion.”
James Marsden - Derrick Webb

“I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism from the hearts and souls of white Americans.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“- Frank Abagnale Jr.: Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16.
- Brenda Strong: Frank? Frank? You're not a Lutheran?”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Frank Abagnale Jr.
Amy Adams - Brenda Strong

“That perhaps it's just picking up where religious art left off, somehow trying to show you divinity. The modern artist just pares it down to the basic elements of shape and color. But when you look at that Miró, you feel it just the same.”

Dennis Haysbert - Raymond Deagan

- Julie "The Cat" Gaffney: I heard he was a Buddhist. You know, like Kung Fu or Richard Gere.
- Ken Wu: Kung Fu wasn't a Buddhist. He was a Trappist monk.

Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine - Julie "The Cat" Gaffney
Justin Wong - Ken Wu

I'm all for believing whatever it is that you want to believe; but you say "religion" and I'm thinking Da Vinci's "Last Supper". Jesus looks sad, the apostles look miserable. I don't want to go to their party. Shouldn't religion be more like "Dogs Playing Poker"?

Kandyse McClure - Sue Snell

“- Oliver: Now why did you hire a veterinarian?
- Stan: I didn't think his religion would make any difference.”
Oliver Hardy - Oliver
Stan Laurel - Stan

“- Samantha Caine (Charly): What, are you a Mormon?
- Mitch Henessey: Yes, I'm a Mormon. That's why I just smoked a pack of Newport and drank three vodka tonics.”
Geena Davis - Samantha Caine (Charly)
Samuel L. Jackson - Mitch Henessey