Torture quotes

“The torture of the bell: it never stops. Minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day. Seems harmless, doesn't it? Just a bell ringing. But the percussion and the repercussion of sound against your eardrums will soften and destroy them until the sound is magnified a thousand times.”

Boris Karloff - Dr. Fu Manchu

“Speaking of Sarah, I love watching her shave her legs in the tub. Kinda reminds me of these Belgian mercs I met in the Congo. They would skin people... alive... to get them to talk.”
Neal McDonough - Jack Horton

“I abhor torture. But your words just don't match your thoughts. There are too many details you're just not sharing with us. Our little mind-reading device doesn't lie.”

Steve Railsback - Colonel Pryzer

“Sometimes all you got is pride. You got to hold your head up high. You know, I seen this movie once where this guy was being tortured by the Japs. But he wouldn't give them any information. Every time they tortured him, he started singing the Star Spangled Banner.”

Jim Youngs - Buddy

“- Klytus: Should we stop the torture?
- The Emperor Ming: No.
- Princess Aura: Father! Damn you, Father!”

Peter Wyngarde - Klytus
Max von Sydow - The Emperor Ming
Ornella Muti - Princess Aura

“- Brian Cohen: Lay off, I've had a hard time!
- Ben: You've had a hard time? I've been here five years, they only hung me the right way up yesterday.”

Graham Arthur Chapman - Brian Cohen
Michael Palin - Ben

“People like you who try to help have been torturing me, in the full sense of the word, since I was three years old. What did they call it? Oh, yeah. Observed play therapy. Featuring, the marathon 36-hour, can-you-guess-the-next-flash-card game.”
Nicolas Cage - Cris Johnson

“- Lucifer: I gotta burn off these calories fast, before I blow up. Let's go rollerblading or something. You wanna come along, Dark?
- Dark: I'd rather have my ball hairs burned off with an acetylene torch!”
Kathleen Robertson - Lucifer
James Duval - Dark

“- General William Devereaux: The time has come for one man to suffer in order to save hundreds of lives.
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: One Man? What about two, huh? What about six? How about public executions?”

Bruce Willis - General William Devereaux
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard

“Good evening, Otto. This is Agent Rogersz. I'm going to ask you a few questions. Since time is short and you may lie, I'm going to have to torture you. But I want you to know, it isn't personal.”
Susan Barnes - Agent Rogersz

“- Belloq: Who knows. Perhaps the Ark is still waiting in some antechamber for us to discover. Perhaps there's some vital bit of evidence which eludes us. Perhaps...
- Gobler: Perhaps the girl can help us.
- Dietrich: My feeling exactly. She was in possession of the original piece for years. She may know much if... properly motivated.
- Belloq: I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Freeman - Belloq
Anthony Higgins - Gobler
Wolf Kahler - Dietrich

“I know how well you love complete power, Fouquet, but you will never know complete power until you are obeyed in a place like this.”

Louis Hayward - Philippe of Gascony

“Stop torturing me. The Germans are already doing a fine job.”
Robin Williams - Jakob

- Professor Van Helsing: Count Dracula. Hmm, curious. Are you descended from Vlad Tepes? The first Dracula?
- Dr. Seward: Tepes?
- Professor Van Helsing: Ya. It means "the impaler". He was a blood-thirsty butchah. He inflicted unspeakable tortures on the peasants: cutting off their hands and feet, gouging out their eyes and then impaling them on... (continue)(continue reading)

Mel Brooks - Abraham Van Helsing
Harvey Korman - Dr. Seward

“This is how I kiss... and I'm gonna kiss you all over...”

Jerry Lewkowitz - Ed Fanelli

“- Sgt. Filmore: Hey soldier, no one said you could leave.
- Bozz: Why?
- Sgt. Filmore: Why what?
- Bozz: Why would I want to do that to another human?”

Michael Shannon - Sgt. Filmore
Colin Farrell - Pvt. Roland Bozz

“They knew that your tears would be the worst possible torture.”
Anthony Andrews - Sir Percy Blakeney

“I shall invent an entirely new torture, against which there is no possible defense.”
Peter Sellers - Fu Manchu

“- Marion: Wait, wait! I can be reasonable!
- Toht: That time has passed.
- Marion: You don't need that. I'll tell you everything!
- Toht: Yes, I know you will.”

Karen Allen - Marion
Ronald Lacey - Toht

“Hey, man, if this is torture, chain me to the wall.”
Cheech Marin - Tito

“If you fucking beat this prick long enough, he'll tell you he started the goddamn Chicago fire, now that don't necessarily make it fucking so!”

Chris Penn - Nice Guy Eddie

“- Luke/Daedalus: Torture, yes, a woman's face never looked so quite beautiful as when it's distended in pain, witness the beauty of child birth.
- Samantha Caine (Charly): Untie me and I'll make any face you want.
- Luke/Daedalus: Let's not and say we did.”
David Morse - Luke / Daedalus
Geena Davis - Samantha Caine (Charly)

“If love is right, it is the most precious gift in the world. But you must be sure - very sure - that it is right, for if it isn't, there is no worse agony, nothing more bitter, nothing more lonely to be imagined.”
Bette Davis - Henriette Deluzy-Desportes

“- Duc de Praslin: If you're unhappy Frances, I am truly sorry, but I swear I never intended you a minute's pain.
- Duchesse de Praslin: You only say that! In reality you delight in torturing me! As one day, heaven willing, I will torture you!”
Charles Boyer - Duc de Praslin
Barbara O'Neil - Duchesse de Praslin

“I'd torture someone in a second if it was up to me.”
Olivia Barash - Leila