Ian McKellen movie quotes

View Quote [on the Witch-king] Sauron has yet to reveal his most deadliest servant, the one who will lead Mordor's armies. The one they claim no living man can kill. The Witch-King of Angmar. [to Pippin] You've met him before. He stabbed Frodo on Weathertop. He is the Lord of the Nazgul, greatest of the Nine. Minas Morgul is his lair.

View Quote Our enemy is ready, his full strength gathered. Not only orcs, but men as well. Legions of Haradrim from the south, mercenaries from the coast, all shall answer Mordor's call. This will be the end of Gondor as we know it. Here the hammer stroke will fall hardest. If the river is taken, if the garrison at Osgiliath fails, then the last defence of this city will be gone.

View Quote The wisdom that was borne out of the West was forsaken. Kings made tombs more splendid than the houses of the living, childless lords sat in high halls counting the long names of their ancestors more dear than the names of their sons, or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. The line of Kings failed, the White Tree withered, and the rule of Gondor fell to lesser men.

View Quote (reading the last words of Balin) They have taken the Bridge, and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. Drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. Shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming.

View Quote Bilbo Baggins! Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks! I am not trying to rob you! I'm trying to help you. All your long years we've been friends. Trust me as you once did. Let it go.

View Quote (singing) The road goes ever on and on / Down from the door where it began / Now far ahead the road has gone / And I must follow if I can...

View Quote You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey's end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you; the world is ahead.

View Quote THE DAWN WILL TAKE YOU ALL!

View Quote What do you mean? Do you mean to wish me a good morning, or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not? Or perhaps you mean to say that you feel good this particular morning? Or are you simply stating that it is a morning to be good on?

View Quote [to Roddy, after he calls his collection amusing] I said you'll find it diverting, not amusing!

View Quote [To Spike and Whitey] YOU INCOMPETENT CHEESE-EATERS!!!!!!!!!! YOU LET THEM ESCAPE?!?!?!?!

View Quote Huzzah! A man of quality!

View Quote [Rallying the mutants]They wish to cure us. But I say, we are the cure.

View Quote [holds back Juggernaut and Pyro] In chess, the pawns go first.
[The humans start shooting. Magneto tries to take control of the guns]
Humans and their guns.
[His efforts are useless on the plastic weapons]
Plastic, they've learned.
[Seeing his first wave depowered by the Army's "cure" weapons] That's why the pawns go first.

View Quote [After moving the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz] Charles always wanted to build bridges.

View Quote As long as there has been One True God, there has been killing in His name.

View Quote (After landing in Kent, to local police) I have a medical appointment to go to, sir. If you wish to keep us here longer, you'll just have to shoot us. (Points at Remy) You can start with him.

View Quote We are in the middle of a war. One that has been going on forever to protect a secret so powerful that if revealed it would devastate the very foundations of mankind.

View Quote [From trailer] You have but one question to answer...how shall this day end?!

View Quote You're not making a very splendid figure as King Under The Mountain, are you, Thorin, son of Thrain!

View Quote You're a very fine person, Mr. Baggins. And I'm very fond of you. But you're only quite a little fellow...in a wide world after all.

View Quote Sauron's wrath will be terrible, his retribution swift. The battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle Earth is about to begin. All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits. Somewhere in the wilderness.

View Quote The coming of Merry and Pippin will be like the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche in the mountains.

View Quote I will draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound!

View Quote Boy, be careful. You play with fire.

View Quote Todd Bowden: [about the killings at the death camps] What did it feel like?
Kurt Dussander: It was something that had to be done. A door had been opened and couldn't be shut. It was the end... You don't understand.

View Quote Todd Bowden: Have you lost your mind? What the hell were you thinking, 'Grandpa'?
Kurt Dussander: What are you so excited about?
Todd Bowden: Oh, you've got some **** balls! I could have screwed you up, anything could have happened!
Kurt Dussander: You played it beautifully, boy. I knew you would.
Todd Bowden: Are you **** drunk? I could have busted you right there!
Kurt Dussander: Yes, you could have, but you did not. Now, why was that? Your Edward French is not going to give you any more trouble, so now you are upset because the only way you can make things right is to work.
Todd Bowden: I'm upset because you had that asshole thinking I can do something that can't be done!
Kurt Dussander: Oh, but it can. And it will. You will simply have to work. No more stories. No more screwing around.
Todd Bowden: I don't take orders from you.
Kurt Dussander: [s****] You do now.
Todd Bowden: Oh, you think so? Yeah, well, don't forget I could walk right in there and pick up that phone...
Kurt Dussander: And do what? Do you really think that I would stand aside and let you turn me in without dragging you with me, do you? Your American self confidence is so bloated you've forgotten the reality of the situation. 90,000 died in Patin. To the whole world, I am a monster. And you have known about me all this time. If I'm caught, when those reporters stick their microphones in my face it will be your name that I will repeat over and over again. Todd Bowden, Todd Bowden... Todd Bowden, yes, that was his name. For how long, for months, almost a year, he wanted to know everything. That was how he put it, yes, everything.
Todd Bowden: You're crazy. They'll never believe you.
Kurt Dussander: It doesn't matter. Oh, you're going to be infamous, boy, take my word for it. And do you know what such a scandal can do? It never goes away. Not for you, not for your parents. And besides, lying to judges and reporters isn't as easy as you think. You'd have to be brilliant. Can you do that? I know I can.

View Quote [Gandalf and Radagast are examining an empty tomb in Rhuduar]
Radgast: These are dark spells, Gandalf. Old and full of hate. Who's buried here?
Gandalf: If he had a name, it's long since been lost. He would be remembered as a servant of evil. One of a number. [gestures to the eight other empty tombs] One of Nine.

View Quote [Gandalf has realized that Thorin's company is at risk]
Gandalf: I started this. I cannot forsake them! They are in grave danger.
Radagast: Gandalf, if what you're saying is true, the world is in grave danger. The power in that fortress will only grow stronger.
Gandalf: You want me to cast my friends aside?

View Quote Beorn: So you are the one they call Oakenshield? Tell me, why is Azog the Defiler hunting you?
Thorin: You know of Azog? How?
Beorn: My people were the first to live in the mountains. Before the orcs came down from the North. The Defiler killed most of my family. But some he enslaved. Not for work, you understand, but for sport. Caging skin-changers and torturing them seemed to amuse him.
Bilbo: There are others like you?
Beorn: Once there were many.
Bilbo: And now?
Beorn: Now there is only one. You need to reach to reach the Mountain before the last days of autumn.
Gandalf: Before Durin's Day falls, yes.
Beorn: You're running out of time.
Gandalf: Which is why we must go through Mirkwood.
Beorn: A darkness lies upon that forest. Fell things creep beneath those trees. There is an alliance between the orcs of Moria and the Necromancer in Dol Guldur. I would not venture there, except in great need.
Gandalf: We will take the Elven road. That path is still safe.
Beorn: Safe? The Wood Elves of Mirkwood are not like their kin. They're less wise and more dangerous. But it matters not.
Thorin: What do you mean?
Beorn: These lands are crawling with orcs. Their numbers are growing. And you are on foot. You will never reach the forest alive. I don't like dwarves. They're greedy and blind, blind to the lives of those they deem lesser than their own. [pause] But orcs I hate more. What do you need?

View Quote Turn back into a clock. Turn back into a clock.

View Quote [The Beast lays dying with Belle at his side]
Beast: [weakly as he holds Belle’s hand, breathing heavily] You came back.
Belle: [tearfully] Of course I came back. I’ll never leave you again.
Beast: I’m afraid it's my turn to leave.
Belle: We’re together now. It’s going to be fine.
Beast: At least I got to see you one last time.
[The last petal falls and the Beast dies]
Belle: No. Please, no. [starts crying] Come back.
[the last petal falls, the Beast dies, and the servants began to freeze up; at the entrance the servants celebrate after chasing the mob out]
Lumière: We did it, Plumette! Victory is ours! [realizes she has frozen up into a feather duster] Plumette? Plumette! Oh, my darling Plumette... [sadly sets her down]
[Maestro Cadenza and Madame de Garderobe share their final moments]
Madame de Garderobe: Oh, Maestro... You were so brave... Goodbye, my love... [reverts to a wardrobe]
Maestro Cadenza: Amore?... No! Don't leave me... [he struggles to speak and the effects of the spell overtake him, reverting him to a harpsichord]
[Frou-Frou barks at the now inanimate Wardrobe and Harpsichord, as he lets out a final cry, turning into a footstool. Mrs. Potts frantically jumps around in search for Chip]
Mrs. Potts: Chip? Chip! Have you seen Chip? He ran off! [sobs as she frantically panics unaware of what will happen] Where is my little boy...?! [her faces slowly fades from the teapot as she freezes up, as Chip emerges from the castle]
Chip: Mama!
Cogsworth: Oh, no.
Chip: Mom! [he and his saucer flip upside down as they fly up and fall to the ground. The saucer crashes into the ground as Chapeau barely catches him and places him besides his mother as they both make their final transformation into inanimate objects]
[Lumière and Cogsworth are the only ones left. Knowing their time is up, they share their final goodbyes]
Cogsworth: Lumière, I... I can't speak...!
Lumière: [sadly] It's alright, Cogsworth.
Cogsworth: I can't... Lumière, my friend... it was an honor to serve... with you. [freezes up, into a mantel clock]
Lumière: The honor... was mine. [freezes up, into a candelabra. His flames extinguish.]
[Agathe comes in the West Wing]
Belle: [crying over the Beast's death] Come back. Please don't leave me. I love you. [kisses him]

View Quote Cogsworth: Well, Master, I have had my doubts, but everything is moving like clockwork. True love really does win the day!
Beast: I let her go.
Cogsworth: You... what?!
Lumière: Master, how could you do that?
Beast: I had to.
Cogsworth: But why?
Mrs. Potts: Because he loves her.
Lumière: Then why are we not human?
Cogsworth: Because she doesn't love him and now it's too late.
Plumette: But, she might still come back.
Beast: No. I set her free. I'm sorry I couldn't do the same for all of you. Now, go. Our time is almost past.
[Plumette sighs]
Lumière: Come, my love.
[Lumière, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Plumette sadly leave the West Wing]
Beast: [sings] I was the one who had it all,I was the master of my fate.I never needed anybody in my life,I learned the truth too late.I'll never shake away the pain,I close my eyes but she's still there.I let her steal into my melancholy heart,It's more than I can bear.
Now I know she'll never leave me,Even as she runs away.She will still torment me,Calm me, hurt me,Move me, come what may.Wasting in my lonely tower,Waiting by an open door.I'll fool myself, she'll walk right inAnd be with me for evermore...
I rage against the trials of love,I curse the fading of the light.Though she's already flown so far beyond my reach,She's never out of sight.
Now I know she'll never leave me,Even as she fades from view.She will still inspire me,Be a part of everything I do.Wasting in my lonely tower,Waiting by an open door.I'll fool myself, she'll walk right in,And as the long, long nights begin,I'll think of all that might have been.Waiting here for evermore!

View Quote They ruled for 80 years. But no man can live forever, except he who possesses the heart of a star, and Yvaine had given hers to Tristan completely. When their children and grandchildren were grown, it was time to light the Babylon Candle... and they still live happily ever after.

View Quote A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?" Pointless really. Do the stars gaze back? Now that's a question.