Rules quotes

- Elizabeth Swann: According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren...
- Barbossa: First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann
Geoffrey Rush - Barbossa

“Sane people make a lot of crazy rules.”
Dom DeLuise - Marlon Borunki

“Winners make the rules and losers live by them.”
Scott Caan - Bryce

“- Stewardess: Madame, you're supposed to stay in your seat until the plane comes to a complete stop.
- Connie Russo: Honey, forget about it!”
Mercedes Ruehl - Connie Russo

“No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.”
Craig T. Nelson - Mr. Incredible

“Rule number one: never carry a gun. If you carry a gun you may be tempted to use it.”
Sir Sean Connery - Mac

“Oh sweetheart don't. Please don't cry or I will too. I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.”
Dolly Parton - Truvy Jones

“- Neil Bleene: I've been in the theatre. I'm actually a theatre director. Sometimes certain line-readings apply. Like in comedy, it is a rule. Inflections go up at the end.
- Suzanne Vale: That's a comedy rule?
- Neil Bleene: Well, not so much rule as guideline.”
Oliver Platt - Neil Bleene
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale

“There are three rules in the film business - Distribution, distribution, distribution.”
Stanley Kaufman - Older man at Pool Party

- Bartleby: One of the last sacred promises imparted to Peter, the first Pope, by the Son of God before He left was... "Whatever you hold true on earth..."...
- Loki: "I'll hold true in heaven".
- Bartleby: It's dogmatic law. The Catholic Church says it's so, God must adhere, this thing has a papal sanction...
- Loki: Let it never be said that... (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Affleck - Bartleby
Matt Damon - Loki

“For most of my life I made my own rules. You don't do any favors. You don't ask for any. Watch the percentages. But you can know the rules and still do the wrong thing. The only thing I knew for sure was this: Strozzi, Doyle, and every son of a bitch that worked for them... they were all going to be better off dead.”
Bruce Willis - John Smith

- Jane: [reading advertisement for a new nanny] "Wanted: a nanny for two adorable children."
- George Banks: Adorable. Well that's debatable, I must say.
- Jane: [singing] If you want this choice position, have a cheery disposition...
- George Banks: Jane, I don't...
- Jane: Rosy cheeks, no warts...
- Michael: That's the part I put in!
- Jane:... (continue)(continue reading)
Karen Dotrice - Jane Banks
David Tomlinson - Mr. Banks
Matthew Garber - Michael Banks

“True trilogies are all about going back to the beginning and discovering something that wasn't true from the get go. Godfather, Jedi, all revealed something that we thought was true that wasn't true.”
Jamie Kennedy - Randy Meeks

“- Male Heavenly Voice: Those are the rules and that's all there is to it.
- Female Heavenly Voice: On the other hand, dear, rules were made to be broken.
- Male Heavenly Voice: We'll talk about that later.
- Female Heavenly Voice: Which is later?”
Wilfrid Hyde-White - Heavenly Voice - Male
Coral Browne - Heavenly Voice - Female

“Gabrielle goes by her own code; that code doesn't include killing.”
Lucy Lawless - Xena

“He's on his last life, fighting to survive, and as science has shown us over and over: in the fight to survive, there are no rules.”

Paul McGann - The Doctor

“- Jessica: If a guy tells you how many girls he's hooked up with, it's not even close to that. You take that number and divide it by three, then you get the real total. Ok, so if Kevin is saying it's been three girls it's more like one or none.
- Vicky: None?
- Jessica: The rule of three. It's an exact science. Consistent as gravity.”
Natasha Lyonne - Jessica
Tara Reid - Vicky

“Never take your eyes off your opponent, even when you're bowing.”
Bruce Lee - Lee

“- Billy Hitchcock: Stay below the speed limit. And, oh: don't pass on the right.
- Carter: Wait a minute. I'm havin' a vision here: you're the next one man.
- Billy Hitchcock: Hey, man. Why'd you say something like that?
- Carter: Because if you don't shut up, I'm gonna fuckin' kill you!”
Seann William Scott - Billy Hitchcock
Kerr Smith - Carter Horton

“They scattered. They scattered! Give me a civilized war! An enemy I can find and beat! An enemy who fights by the rules!”

Gary Cole - George Armstrong Custer

“- Kinski: If we eat him, we break the law!
- Peloquin: Oh, fuck the law! I want meat!”
Nicholas Vince - Kinski
Oliver Parker - Peloquin

“Harry, you ever hear of Murphy's Law? Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. That law was dedicated to guys like you.”
Eli Wallach - Peck

“I don't think you know what it means to have rules. You gotta have rules and you gotta have discipline. Now I don't know what it was like in your homes and your homelifes, but in my house with my father, there were rules. And if you didn't follow the rules, there was hell to pay. You had rules and you had discipline. Sometimes it wasn't nice,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kevin Bacon - Nokes

- Luc Clairmont: Happy birthday, Grandmama.
- Armande Voizin: The invitation said five o'clock.
- Luc Clairmont: I should have read it more closely.
- Armande Voizin: If you had, you would know there were supposed to be no gifts.
- Luc Clairmont: Don't worry so much about “supposed to”.
Aurelien Parent Koenig - Luc Clairmont
Dame Judi Dench - Armande Voizin

“- Tony Hawes: He doesn't do things by the book. He just doesn't respect the rules. Is he really the kind of person we should be employing at Barings?
- Ron Baker: Fuck the rules. It's barrow boys like Nick who are turning the City of London around. You can't run a modern financial centre with a bunch of Hooray Henries.”

Tim McInnerny - Tony Hawes
Nigel Lindsay - Ron Baker