Witness quotes

In a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying “Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness”.
Susan Sarandon - Beverly Clark

“It's one thing to hear about something but it's another thing to see it.”
Juliet Rylance - Tracy

“- Kemper: I've never seen anybody die before.
- Morgan: Most people never do.”
Eric Balfour - Kemper
Jonathan Tucker - Morgan

“- Rocco: It's nothin' personal. It's just bad luck you were a witness.
- Sally: My whole life, I had bad luck.
- Rocco: Me too.”
Danny Aiello - Rocco
Mia Farrow - Sally White

“- Freddy Bender: Objection, Your Honor: strangling the witness.
- Judge Marva Munson: I'm going to allow it.”
Richard Jenkins - Freddy Bender
Isabell O'Connor - Judge Marva Munson

“- Eddie Dodd: We gotta find some piece of evidence that's been buried, and open the sucker up again.
- Roger Baron: Christ, Eddie, if the guy's really guilty...
- Eddie Dodd: Hey, only Shu and God know if he's guilty, and neither one of 'em's talkin'.”
James Woods - Eddie Dodd
Robert Downey Jr. - Roger Baron

“- Rachel: When can we leave the city?
- John Book: We're trying to get this done as quickly as possible, then you can go. But Samuel's probably gonna have to come back to testify. I'm sorry.
- Rachel: No, you are not, you are glad. Because now you have a witness.”

Kelly McGillis - Rachel
Harrison Ford - John Book

“- Brian Lovell: So why did you leave me all those years ago?
- Karen Knowles: I didn't wanna watch you die.”
Bruce Robinson - Brian Lovell
Juliet Aubrey - Karen Knowles

“Brace yourselves, I think you're about to witness a murder.”
Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin

“- Candi: If they get married, I'll do the shower.
- Jade: I'll do the pictures.
- Roxana: I do groomsmen.”
Sarah Murdoch - Candi
Shalom Harlow - Jade
Ivana Miličević - Roxana

“I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there.”
Dean Stockwell - John Cavil

“- Brenner: Where were you?
- Colonel Robert Moore: Snug in bed.
- Brenner: Witnesses? A wife, girlfriend, roommate, hooker?
- Colonel Robert Moore: I'm divorced. I'm between girlfriends, I live alone and I do not use hookers. I actually have... absolutely no alibi whatsoever. Does that make me a killer?
- Brenner: No. Makes you lonely and...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Woods - Colonel Moore

“- Pastor Arthur Mitchell: Actually, your honor, we have a lot of witnesses here that are willing to testify to a lot of things... like embezzlement.
- Tianna: Misappropriation of funds.
- Sister Doris: Falsifying documents.
- Rickey: Not to mention, wearing an easter suit with a Halloween shirt and tie set!”
Chi McBride - Pastor Arthur Mitchell
Malinda Williams - Tianna
Loretta Devine - Sister Doris
Katt Williams - Rickey

“- Rachel: You have no right to keep us here.
- John Book: Yes I do. Your son's a material witness to a homicide.
- Rachel: You don't understand. We want nothing to do with your laws.
- John Book: Doesn't surprise me. A lot of people I meet are like that.”
Kelly McGillis - Rachel
Harrison Ford - John Book

“The only difference between a witness and a liar is this: one knows what he's doing at all times; the other has no clue.”
Jim Belushi - Det. Frank Divinci

“- Leslie Crosbie: You won't have to show Bob the letter, will you?
- Howard Joyce: I'll do everything possible to prevent him from seeing it. He'll be an important witness and he should be as firmly convinced of your innocence as he is now.”

Bette Davis - Leslie Crosbie
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“- Joe Devine: Have you actually seen a person die, watched them bleed to death, seen them take their last breath? I've seen that... many times.
- Steven Schats: Why have you seen that?
- Joe Devine: I used to produce music videos.”
Alec Baldwin - Joe Devine
Matthew Broderick - Steven Schats

“Jeffrey Wigand, who's out on a limb, does he go on television and tell the truth? Yes. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are we gonna air it? Of course not. Why? Because he's not telling the truth? No. Because he is telling the truth. That's why we're not going to air it. And the more truth he tells, the worse it gets!”

Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman

“- Lt. Theodore 'Ted' Sawyer: You match the description of the intended victim: a man with a baby stroller.
- Det. Sgt. Halsey: And we got us a bag lady that says she saw the man enter this hotel.
- Lt. Theodore 'Ted' Sawyer: And the desk clerk says that man was you.
- Jeff Blue: Well, that certainly narrows it down, doesn't it?”
Obba Babatundé - Sawyer
Larry Miller - Halsey
Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue

“Never witness nuthin'. You live longer.”

Peter Riegert - Aldo

“Silent witness sometimes speaks loudest.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“I have been witness to a world consumed by hatred and bent on self-destruction, watched as we have taken what was to be a paradise and failed in our responsibilites as its steward.”
Laurence Olivier - Dr. Totenkopf

“- Kathryn Murphy: Either you tell me right now what you saw or you can tell it to me on the witness stand.
- Ken Joyce: Why? This isn't my business. I don't care about this.”

Kelly McGillis - Kathryn Murphy
Bernie Coulson - Ken Joyce

“Do not cite the Deep Magic to me Witch. I was there when it was written.”
Liam Neeson - Aslan

“- Michael Kitz: You admit that you very well may have hallucinated this whole thing.
- Ellie Arroway: Yes.
- Michael Kitz: You admit that if you were in our position, you would respond with exactly the same degree of incredulity and skepticism!
- Ellie Arroway: Yes!
- Michael Kitz: Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony, and concede...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Woods - Michael Kitz
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway