Rules quotes

“In order to be a real dame you've got to kneel before a queen!”
Charles Pierce - Bertha Venation

“- Ellen Griswold: Clark, you're driving on the wrong side of the road!
- Clark Griswold: I realize that honey. I'm also on the wrong side of the car.”

Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Jack Byrnes: I'm a realist. I understand it's the 21st century and you've probably had premarital relations with my daughter. But under our roof, it's my way or the Long Island Expressway. Is that understood?
- Greg Focker: Of course, yeah.
- Jack Byrnes: Good. Keep your snake in its cage for 72 hours.”
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes
Ben Stiller - Greg Focker

“No vegetables, no dessert, that's the rules.”
Alice Krige - Mary Brady

“- Daniel: Mr. Miyagi? Was Sato as good as you in karate?
- Miyagi: We had same teacher.
- Daniel: Your father?
- Miyagi: Hai.
- Daniel: But I thought your family's karate was only taught from father to son?
- Miyagi: Father make exception.
- Daniel: If you and Sato had fought, would your father have been the referee?
- Miyagi: Would've been no...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ralph Macchio - Daniel
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Martin: You guys aren't supposed to make fun at me, that's not part of the rules.
- Jason: Martin, why didn't you just listen when I was explaining the rules? You just looked at me with that blank stare of yours, it was like talking to a wax statue.”
Martin Starr - Martin
Jason Segel - Jason

“I'm Cecil B. Demented, and you're in my movie. Do not look into the lens and ruin the shot or you will be shot.”

Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“Men must be governed! Often not wisely, but governed nonetheless.”
Russell Crowe - Capt. Jack Aubrey

“There is a good reason why these rules were created, and they are the only reason we have survived this long!”
Bill Nighy - Viktor

- Jonathan "Snuffy" Bradberry: The first rule of prep school etiquette is to pretend you're asleep when your roommate's beating off.
- Henry "Hank" Giles, III: No, the first rule of prep school etiquette is to wait until your roommate falls asleep before beating off.
Keith Coogan - Snuffy Bradberry
T.E. Russell - Hank Giles

“- Jenny Hayden: Okay? Are you crazy? You almost got us killed! You said you watched me, you said you knew the rules!
- Starman: I do know the rules.
- Jenny Hayden: Oh, for your information pal, that was a yellow light back there!
- Starman: I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.”

Karen Allen - Jenny Hayden
Jeff Bridges - Starman

“- Charlie Kaufman: There are no rules, Donald. And anyone who says there are is just, you know...
- Donald Kaufman: Not rules, principles. McKee writes that a rule says you must do it this way. A principle says, this works and has through all remembered time.”
Nicolas Cage - Charlie Kaufman
Nicolas Cage - Donald Kaufman

“My dear, either you were born on a extremely rustic community, where good manners are unknown, or you suffer from a common feminine delusion that the mere fact of being a woman exempts you from the rules of civilized conduct.”

Clifton Webb - Waldo Lydecker

“Rule one of sex: a person can do anything for ten minutes if they don't breath in.”
Christina Ricci - Dede Truitt

“- Lil: I told ya not to break the rules.
- Violet Sanford: What are you talking about?
- Lil: I'm talking about you and your boyfriend making a scene in my bar. I'm talking about a friend of mine inside with a broken nose. The rules were simple, Jersey. I fired girls for a lot less.”

Maria Bello - Lil
Piper Perabo - Violet Sanford

“- Mowgli: That village was terrible. All you ever hear is rules, rules, rules and work, work, work.
- Baloo: Whoa, kid. Watch your language.”
Haley Joel Osment - Mowgli
John Goodman - Baloo

“I believe there's a possible exception to every rule in a book.”
Sylvester Stallone - Frankie Delano

“You know the golden rule: fuck the gold. He who has a nickel-plated makes the rules.”
Kevin Costner - Murphy

“They outrageous, them rules. Who live in this cider house? Who grindin' up those apples, pressin' that cider, cleanin' up all this mess? Who just plain live here, just breathin' in that vinegar? Someone who don't live here made those rules. Those rules ain't for us. We are supposed to make our own rules. And we do. Every single day.”

Delroy Lindo - Mr. Rose

“The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that some day.”
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow

“We take the shit, we smash the shit, and then we put the shit back.”

Howie Mandel - Maurice

“You got a killer who's going to be super human. Stabbing him won't work. Shooting him won't work. Basically in the third one you gotta cryogenically freeze his head, decapitate him, or blow him up.”

Jamie Kennedy - Randy Meeks

“Jimmy, rule number one, never get involved with a patient. Nurses, that's another story. But patient is no good, it never works out.”

Leo Rossi - Budd

“We followed the rules, and we got screwed.”
Jim Carrey - Dick Harper

“One: never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two: take it outside. Never start anything inside unless it's absolutely necessary. And three: be nice.”
Patrick Swayze - Dalton