Usefulness quotes

“Imagine a substance in daily use everywhere. Anyone can lay his hands on it, and within a minute after taking, the victim's beautifully out of the way. Mind you, it's undetectable after death.”

Auriol Lee - Isobel Sedbusk

“This life I live in regal splendor seems a waste. If I could help father, instead of just sitting at his side. If I could help just one person, maybe then he'd understand there's more to me, I'd be doing something useful.”
Jennifer Beals - Princess YumYum

“I mean, what's the point in owning a mace, if you don't use it?”

Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“- Dr. Werner Ernst: If he's going to die, why should we proceed?
- Dr. Butz: Where have you been all your life? It's called revenue!”
James Spader - Dr. Werner Ernst
Albert Brooks - Dr. Butz

“- Clive Candy: I often thought, a fellow like me dies - special knowledge, all to waste. Well, am I dead? Does my knowledge count for nothing? Experience? Skill?
- Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: It is a different knowledge they need now, Clive. The enemy is different, so you have to be different, too.”
Roger Livesey - Clive Candy
Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“- John Connor: Are you ever afraid?
- The Terminator: No.
- John Connor: Not even of dying?
- The Terminator: No.
- John Connor: You don't feel any emotion about it one way or another?
- The Terminator: No. I have to stay functional until my mission is complete. Then it doesn't matter.”
Edward Furlong - John Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator