Ben Kingsley movie quotes

View Quote [to Schindler, presenting a ring] It's Hebrew from the Talmud. It says, 'Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.'

View Quote The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.

View Quote Herr Direktor, don't let the things fall apart. I worked too hard.

View Quote I **** Jackie. Dirty cow. During what we were doing, she tried to stick her finger up my bum. I nearly hit the roof, you can imagine. I mean, what have you got to think of a woman who'd want to do that?

View Quote Not this time, Gal. Not this time. Not this **** time. No. No no no no no no no no no! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no! No! Not this **** time! No **** way! No **** way, no **** way, no **** way! You've made me look a right ****!

View Quote You're on two per cent, two and a half, maybe even three. Depends on the usual bumflufferies. It's not about the money with you and me is it, Gal? It's the charge, it's the bolt, it's the buzz, it's the sheer **** off-ness of it all. Am I right?

View Quote If there's one thing I know, is when someone is lying. A man in my position, that's all he has to go on. To know a lie when he hears it: the difference between life and death... your own... someone else's. That being said, he wasn't lying.

View Quote Since we're not friends and you hate baseball, then why the **** are you here?

View Quote Slevin: Listen, I've been hearing that a lot lately--
The Rabbi: [interrupting] My father used to say: "The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose, the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk but the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle."

View Quote Because there is nothing to be afraid of. Death is merely a threshold we must all cross... into the silence, after the final heartbeat... drifting away with our final exhalation... into eternal peace...

View Quote Rob Cole: When the plague came, you were as helpless as a beach is to the advance of the sea. The tide washed over us and dragged our people away, and we could do nothing to stop it.
Ibn Sina: You ask of medicine what only Allah can perform. Or Yahweh.
Rob Cole: Do you never doubt your calling?
Ibn Sina: Every morning and every evening. In between I work too hard to think about it.

View Quote Ibn Sina: This is the burden every physician must learn to bear. You can't look upon death as the enemy.
Rob Cole: Than what? A friend?
Ibn Sina: I've calculated the orbits... of all these stars and planets. Filled volumes... with calculations. I have barely scratched the real secrets of creation.
Rob Cole: Isn't it frustrating there's so much you don't know?
Ibn Sina: No. Fills me with awe. How pale and tedious would this world be without mystery.
Rob Cole: Master. Could you have cured my mother's side-sickness?
Ibn Sina: That's beyond our reach. Maybe in a hundred years. Maybe in a thousand.

View Quote Archibald Snatcher: [Dons a "white hat"] Men, don your white hats. [Mr. Pickles, Mr. Trout, and Mr. Gristle take off their red hats and put on their "white hats".]
Mr.Pickles: [nervously] Are you sure about this, boss?
Archibald Snatcher: Huh?
Mr. Pickles: You know what cheese can do to you...
Archibald Snatcher: Unless you are referring to how cheese brings men of respect and power together in brotherhood, [leans over to Mr. Pickles] no, I do not know what Cheese. Does. To. Me
Mr. Pickles: [gulps] That's what I meant then...
Archibald Snatcher: [delighted] Marvelous. Then let us begin!
[Mr. Trout begins to cut the cheese into normal bits, before cutting the rest into smaller pieces, with Snatcher watching.]
Archibald Snatcher: [impatient, slamming his fists onto the table] ENOUGH!
[Startled, Mr. Trout serves the remaining pieces of cheese onto three plates, which are taken by Mr. Pickles and Mr. Gristle, leaving the smallest piece on the last plate. After setting it down, he slowly rotates the table. Annoyed, Snatcher spins the table around to his side. Grabbing a fork, he tries to pick up the cheese piece, but his plate moves out of reach. Irritated, he looks up at his men, who have turned the table. He lifts the fork again as they move the plate back into place.]
Archibald Snatcher: [eats a tiny bit of cheddar, and swallows. After a moment, he smiles in satisfaction]
Mr. Trout: [surprisingly] Oh!
Archibald Snatcher: I say, old chaps, it's quite, um [pause] It's, um [pauses] It's quite, um
Mr. Trout: [breaking in] Aromatic? Oaky? With an undertone of a mother's smile on a warm spring day? Hmmm [smiling thoughtfully]
Archibald Snatcher: Yes! Those things. Etcetera, ectetera, big words, chummy banter.
[Said as he breaks into an allergic reaction to the cheese]
Mr. Pickles: [Noticing that Snatcher is having an allergic reaction to a piece of cheese he just ate. Whispering to Mr. Trout] Someone's got the cheese fits again.
Mr. Trout: [to Mr. Gristle] Oh, quickly, quietly get the leeches.
Mr. Gristle: [while silently sneaking around Snatcher] Quietly. Quietly.
Archibald Snatcher: [Noticing that Trout's leaving the table] Where's he going?
Mr. Gristle: Quietly.
Archibald Snatcher: Is he getting more cheese?
[Snatcher's lower lip swells up. Making Mr. Pickles and Mr. Trout shocked.]
Archibald Snatcher: What?
Mr. Pickles: I think you've had enough for today, boss.

View Quote Archibald Snatcher: [first line, Snatcher to Butler at the front door] Wake his Lordship. The unspeakable has happened, We must speak of it immediately! [struggles with Butler, trying to slam the door on him]
Lord Portley-Rind: [Frustrated] What is is, Snatcher?
Archibald Snatcher: BOXTROLLS HAVE COME AND STOLEN A CHILD!
Lord Portley-Rind: Gasp, no.
Archibald Snatcher: There's no doubt, picking their teeth with his adorable baby bones, by now.
Lord Portley-Rind: Horribly tragedy. [uninterested] Let's deal with it in the morning.
Archibald Snatcher: [while butler aggressively presses the door on Snatcher] STOP, that's not the worst of it. They'll come after... [Butler slams the door in Snatcher's face, and is now talking through the mail slot of the mansion] Our cheeses!
Lord Portley-Rind: [scared] MY GOUDA?
Archibald Snatcher: They'll stop at nothing.
Lord Portley-Rind: Oh, you're the town exterminator; I'll pay whatever it takes.
Archibald Snatcher: Oh, I don't want money; I want one of those [pointing at Portley Rind's hat]
Lord Portley-Rind: A white hat? You? ABSURD!
Archibald Snatcher: Alright then, by prepare to say bye-bye to your brie, cheerio to your cheddar, goodbye...
Lord Portley-Rind: Hey, have every boxtroll gone, with proof.
Archibald Snatcher: For a white hat? I WILL DESTROY EVERY LAST BOXTROLL IN THIS TOWN! [laughs maniacally]

View Quote Lord Portley-Rind: [after learning that Snatcher was lying about the boxtrolls and the Trubshaws] He lied to us, and to poor Madame Frou Frou. Snatcher...
Archibald Snatcher: [Using Madame Frou Frou's voice] We could have been something special, but you have broken our agreement.
Lord Portley-Rind: Why is he talking like Madame Frou... [realises] Oh my god! I regret so much.

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Bagheera: [narrates] Over the years I have seen many things in the jungle but that night I saw something I will never forget I saw a child without a people come for the first time all over the jungle.

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Bagheera: [narrates] Many strange tales are told of this jungle, but none so strange as the tale of the cub we call Mowgli.
Shere Khan: Everyone comes to Peace Rock, so many smells to catch up on. But, um, I can't help but notice there's this strange odor today... What is it, this scent that I'm on? Almost...almost think it was some kind of man-cub. [spots Mowgli]
Akela: Mowgli belongs to my pack, Shere Khan.
Shere Khan: Mowgli? They've given it a name. When was it we came to adopt man into the jungle?
Akela: He's just a cub.
Shere Khan: [shows his scars] Does my face not remind you of what a GROWN man can do? Shift your hunting grounds for a few years, and everyone forgets how the law works. Well, let me remind you: a man-cub becomes man, and man is FORBIDDEN!!!
Raksha: What do you know about law?
Akela: Raksha.
Raksha: Hunting for pleasure, killing for power, you've never known law. The cub is mine, mine to me. So, go back to where you came from, you burned beast!
Akela: The tiger knows who rules this part of the jungle. I'm sure he doesn't mean to come here and make threats. Especially during a water truce.
Shere Khan: Though I'm deeply respectful of these laws to keep us safe. So, here's my promise. Nothing lasts forever. The rains will return and the river will rise. And when this rock disappears, that truce will end. You want to protect him? Fine. But ask yourselves: How many lives is a man-cub worth?
Bagheera: [softly and urgently] Down!
Mowgli: What, now we have to bow at the buffalo, too?
Bagheera: Listen to me. This is not a game. You're gonna run to that ravine.
Mowgli: What are you talking about?
Bagheera: Go to the north where the sky glows at night. I'll find you on that path.
Mowgli: Bagheera, I'm not taking one more step until...
[Shere Khan leaps roaring from the tall grass. Mowgli ducks and Bagheera deflects the attack. The two cats fight while Mowgli runs to the ravine. Shere Khan knocks Bagheera out, sees Mowgli and pursues]
Bagheera: [calls out, unable to rise] RUN, MOWGLI! RUN!
[Shere Khan visits the wolf pack and learns that Mowgli has left]
Shere Khan: I suppose you know why I've come?
Akela: The man-cub has left the jungle.
Shere Khan: I thought I made myself clear that I wanted him to be handed over to me.
Akela: We no longer harbor him. He's left the pack
Shere Khan: And where may I ask has he gone?
Akela: He's with his own kind now.
Shere Khan: So, the Man Cub has left the jungle.
Akela: [last words before his death] That's right. You and I no longer have to quarrel and, most importantly, we have peace.
Shere Khan: Well, I guess it's done, then... ...unless, I can draw him BACK OUT!!! [crushes Akela's neck with his teeth]
Raksha: AKELA!
[Shere Khan throws Akela's body off the cliff]
Shere Khan: [to the wolves] Have I got your attention now?! I didn't want it to be this way; I made it so simple. All I asked for was one thing, and YOU DENIED me! Well, that ends now. Spread the word! Until I have the mancub, these hills are my hills. You did not respond to reason! So now you will know fear!
Mowgli: It's a honey stash for winter.
Bagheera: Have you lost your mind?!
Mowgli: You said you wouldn't get mad.
Bagheera: Did you listen to anything Akela taught you? There's no place in the jungle for these... tricks! You wanna do this, you do this in the man-village.
Mowgli: But I'm helping Baloo get ready for hibernation.
Bagheera: Bears don't hibernate in the jungle. [to Baloo] What are you teaching him?
Baloo: Not full hibernation, but I nap, a lot.
Bagheera: Listen to me, you con artist! He may not know your game, but I do. He's leaving now.
Mowgli: But I don't wanna leave!
Bagheera: You don't have a choice!
Baloo: Why don't we all just settle down for a minute? Look, it's gotten late. Too late to travel, so why don't we all just have a little honey...?
Bagheera: I don't eat honey.
Baloo: No problem. I'll eat the honey. Let's all get a good night's sleep, and we can talk about this in the morning.
Bagheera: Fine, but we're leaving first thing.
Baloo: "This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky."
Shere Khan: What is this?
Baloo: "The wolf that keeps it may prosper"
Baloo and Bagheera: "... but the wolf that breaks it will die ."
Shere Khan: You fools.
Baloo, Bagheera and Raksha: "Like the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth over and back."
Shere Khan: Fine! Rise up, all of you! You want to put yourselves between me and the man-cub?!
Baloo, Bagheera and Raksha: "For the strength of the pack is the wolf..."
Baloo, Bagheera, Raksha and Mowgli: [further joined by the other wolves] "... and the strength of the wolf is the pack!"
Shere Khan: I will have you ALL IN MY TEETH!
Bagheera: [tackles Mowgli to restrain him from fighting Shere Khan] Stay here!
Mowgli: [trying to push Bagheera's paw away] But I want to fight with the wolves!
Bagheera: You can't fight him like a wolf! You're not a wolf! Fight him like a man!

View Quote Mowgli: Bagheera!
Bagheera: Mowgli? Stay there. We'll come around you.
Mowgli: Is it true?
Bagheera: [shocked] What?
Mowgli: Is Akela dead?!
Begheera: We were going to tell you.
Mowgli: [tearfully enraged] YOU KNEW! YOU BOTH KNEW! AND NOBODY DID ANYTHING ABOUT IT!
Baloo: Kid, just hold on a minute!
Mowgli: SOMEONE'S GOTTA DO SOMETHING! [tearfully runs off]
Bagheera: Mowgli!

View Quote Sanity's not a choice, Marshall. You can't just choose to get over it.

View Quote It's my job to treat the patients, not their victims.

View Quote You ever wonder what the ideology of a Vibrio cholerae bacterium is? Or the belief system of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes Bubonic plague? Well I'll tell ya, Hauser: perpetuation! An infinite succession of generations, immortality on the installment plan. I wish I had that sort of esprit de corps, that bacterial team spirit... talk about legacy, talk about empire...

View Quote Wonderful opportunities here, Hauser, as long as these towel-heads don't actually look up "freedom" in the dictionary. But to use one of your home-spun colloquialisms: let's cut the shit, shall we? You know what your problem is, Hauser? You're a moralist! That's why you're so much fun to **** with. War is the improvement of investment climates by other means. Clausewitz For Dummies. The U.S.A. is a subdivision of Tamerlane. Democracy, the War on Terror, the War on Drugs: these are all focus groups, slogans for Tamerlane!

View Quote Magic tricks and illusion became my speciality. The world of imagination. My beautiful wife was my muse, my star, and we couldn't have been happier. We thought it would never end. How could it? But then the war came. And youth and hope were at an end. The world had no time for magic tricks and movie shows. The returning soldiers, having seen so much of reality, were bored by my films. Tastes had changed, but I had not changed with them. No one wanted my movies anymore. Eventually I... I couldn't pay the actors... or keep the business running, and... and so my enchanted castle fell to ruin. Everything was lost. One night, in bitter despair, I... I burned all my old sets and costumes. I was forced to sell my movies to a company that melted them down into chemicals. These chemicals were used to make shoe heels. With the little money I had from selling my films, I bought the toy booth... and there I have remained. The only thing I couldn't bring myself to destroy was my beloved automaton. So, I gave him to a museum, hoping he would find a home. But they never put him on display. And then the museum burned. It's all gone now. Everything I ever made. Nothing but ashes and fading strips of celluloid. My life has taught me one lesson, Hugo, and not the one I thought it would. Happy endings only happen in the movies.

View Quote You know who I am. You don't know where I am. And you'll never see me coming.