Chiwetel Ejiofor movie quotes

View Quote This is a good death. There's no shame in this, in a man's death. A man who has done fine works. We’re making a better world. All of them, better worlds.

View Quote Abandoning his ambush as the Reaver fleet suddenly emerges, chasing Serenity.

View Quote Waiting with a fleet to destroy Serenity

View Quote Look, I know how this sounds but you gotta understand, it's massive in there.

View Quote All these rooms, this place builds them.

View Quote Okay, I'm gonna come back here with proof.

View Quote [first lines; to the mouse] Life's not fair, is it, my little friend? While some are born to feast, others spend their lives in the dark, begging for scraps. The way I see it, you and I are exactly the same... we both want to find a way out.

View Quote Run. Run away, Simba. Run away, and never return!

View Quote [digs his claws into Mufasa's paws] Long live... the king! [slaps Mufasa off the cliff]

View Quote [Upon meeting his family again after 12 years] I apologize for my appearance. But I have had a difficult time these past several years.

View Quote I will not fall into despair. I will keep myself hardy, till freedom is opportune!

View Quote Burch: Well, my boy, how yah feel now?
Solomon Northup: I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me...
Burch: Yah not any...
Solomon Northup: And I promise you - I promise - upon my liberation I will have satisfaction for this wrong.
Burch: Resolve this. Produce your papers.
[Solomon searches and finds no papers]
Burch: Yah no free man. And yah ain't from Saratoga. Yah from Georgia. Yah ain't a free man. Yah nuthin' but a Georgia runaway. Yah a runaway **** from Georgia.

View Quote Adrian Helmsley: Mr. Curtis, this is Dr. Adrian Helmsley. We met at Yellowstone.
Jackson Curtis: [in a slowly flooding chamber] That's great! Open the goddamned door!

View Quote [Adrian Helmsley defies Anheuser to make his case to the other Arks taking in the people still stranded outside]
Adrian Helmsley: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Dr. Adrian Helmsley, chief science adviser to the late President Wilson.
German Chancellor: Could you please turn up the volume, Mr. Hoffmann?
Helmsley: I know we've all been forced to make difficult decisions to save our human civilization, but to be human means to care for each other and civilization means to work together to create a better life. If that's true, then there's nothing human and nothing civilized about what we're doing here.
Carl Anheuser: Dr. Helmsley's passion is admirable, but I will remind you that we have very limited resources and extremely limited time.
Helmsley: Ask yourselves, can we really stand by and watch these people die? I read a quote two days ago. The author is probably dead by now, but he said: "The moment we stop fighting for each other, [glares at Anheuser] that's the moment that we lose our humanity."
Anheuser: And in order to save the human race, we have an obligation to stick to this plan, which every nation on this flotilla has signed up for.
Helmsley: We have to let these people in-
Anheuser: They're in God's hands now!!! [to comms officer] Officer, you turn that off. That is an order sailor. Turn it off!
Professor West: [aims cane] Don't you dare touch that button, young man!
Anheuser: Have you completely lost your mind? Look at the clock! [points to countdown] We have barely 15 minutes left. Do you wanna be responsible for the extinction of the human race? Can you handle that, Adrian?
Helmsley: There's a young astrophysicist from India who's the reason we're all here.
Anheuser: Oh, for God's sake.
Helmsley: He's the one who discovered it all. He connected all the dots. We all owe him our lives. I just learned that he was killed with his family in a tsunami in eastern India. [gets more emotional] He was my friend, and he died in vain. Everybody out there has died in vain if we start our future with an act of cruelty. What would you tell your children? What will they tell theirs?
Laura Wilson: If my father were here, he would open the gates.
Russian President: The people of Russia [looks to fellow heads of state] along with China and Japan, agree... to open the gates.
German Chancellor: The United Kingdom, Spain, France, Canada, Germany and I believe I may also speak for the Italian prime minister, we vote to let these people come in.
Helmsley: Captain Michaels. Please.
Capt. Michaels: [contemplates, then reaches for radio mike] This is the captain. In a few moments, we will open the gates and get you people in. Please step back and clear the platform. [crowd cheers]

View Quote [The megaquake in LA is assessed]
Scotty: It's been upgraded to a 10.9 by the guys at Harvard.
Adrian Helmsley: What does Caltech have to say?
Professor West: The entire city of Pasadena was wiped out, just a few minutes ago. [turns on map] This is coming in live from Coachella Valley, near Joshua Tree. That huge canyon, wasn't there this morning. [map then zooms to part of the San Andreas Fault] And four hundred miles north, at Point Reyes. Same thing.
Helmsley: The San Andreas Fault is shifting.
West: Yes. And all sister faults in the Bay Area as well. The whole Pacific Plate is destabilizing.

View Quote Strange: [After Mordo hands him a card that reads "Shamballa"] What is this? My mantra?
Mordo: It's the Wi-Fi password. We're not savages.

View Quote [Strange is experimenting with time manipulation using the Eye of Agamotto.]
Mordo: [Bursting in] STOP! Tampering with continuum probability is forbidden!
Strange: I was just doing exactly what it said in the book!
Wong: And what did the book say, about the dangers of performing that ritual?
Strange: I don't know, I hadn't gotten to that part yet.
Mordo: Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings! Spatial paradoxes, time loops! You want to get stuck experiencing the same moment over and over again forever, or never having existed at all?!
Strange: They really should put the warnings before this stuff.

View Quote [Strange regroups with Mordo in the New York Sanctum following the Ancient One's death]
Strange: She's dead.
Mordo: You were right. She wasn't who I thought she was.
Strange: She was complicated.
Mordo: Complicated. The Dark Dimension is volatile, dangerous. What if it overtook her? She taught us it was forbidden while she drew on its power to steal centuries of life.
Strange: She did what she thought was right.
Mordo: The bill comes due. Don't you see? Her transgressions led the Zealots to Dormammu. Kaecilius was her fault, and here we are in the consequence of her deception. A world on fire.

View Quote Vincent Kapoor: How's he doing?
Mindy Park: Uh... He asked us to call him Captain Blondebeard.

View Quote Annie Montrose: What the hell is "Project Elrond?"
Vincent Kapoor: I had to make something up.
Annie Montrose: But "Elrond?"
Mitch Henderson: Because it's a secret meeting.
Annie Montrose: How do you know that; why does Elrond mean secret meeting?
Bruce Ng: The Council of Elrond. It's the... it's... it's... from The Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.
Teddy Sanders: If we are going to call something Project Elrond, I would like my code name to be Glorfindel.
Annie Montrose: Okay, I hate every one of you.

View Quote Annie Montrose: But if something goes wrong?
Vincent Kapoor: Then we lose the crew.
Bruce Ng: So what, we either have a high chance of killing one person, or a low chance of killing six people. How do we make that decision?
Vincent Kapoor: We don't. [pointing to Teddy] He does.
Mitch Henderson: Yeah, bullshit. It should be Commander Lewis' call.
Teddy Sanders: We still have a chance to bring five astronauts home safe and sound. I'm not risking their lives.
Mitch Henderson: Let them make that decision.
Teddy Sanders: Mitch, we are going with option one.
Mitch Henderson: You goddamn coward.

View Quote [his last line] I had a sister...

View Quote I was carrying the baby up the stairs. I started crying. I'd forgotten what they looked like. They're so beautiful. They're so tiny. Julian was wrong! She thought it could be peaceful! But how can it be peaceful when they try to take away your dignity?

View Quote There's an army coming that cannot be beaten.

View Quote General Strickland: There's something else out here!
Dr. Payne: Something else?
Strickland: He said this would happen! I just lost three people!
Dr. Payne: Can you collect any samples?
Strickland: Samples...

View Quote [from a trailer only] Except for the one you literally just broke.