Jeremy Irons movie quotes

View Quote (just before throwing Mufasa into the stampede) Long live the King.

View Quote Life's not fair, is it? You see, I... well, I shall never be king. And you... shall never see the light of another day. Adieu.

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

View Quote I am the general of the Order of the Jesuits.

View Quote But now Louis was King. He was afraid to kill you. His whole claim of power rested on the sancitity of Royal blood. So, instead, he devised a way to keep you forever hidden. For my country... for my king... I bought peace... with your life... and my soul.

View Quote Athos. If we fail in this attempt... and we probably will... I'll be honored to die beside you.

View Quote (To the soldiers) Take care of the little bones, hate to see you choke.

View Quote Magic comes from dragons; it flows through the Riders who command them.

View Quote Our beautiful lands have been ravaged by a ruthless king, and our people live under the shadow of tyranny. [...] But it wasn't always like this, was it? There was a time when the world lived in peace, protected by warriors astride mighty dragons. They are nothing but stories now - all we have is hope that a dragon will be born again, and one will rise to lead us to freedom.

View Quote [while tied to a large bomb]
John McClane: Hey ****head. Yeah you; ****head. There's just one thing I gotta know. You got any aspirins? 'Cause I've had a bad ****in' headache all day long.
Simon Gruber: [laughs and throws him a bottle of aspirin] Must be your lucky day. Keep the bottle!

View Quote [Simon and his henchmen enter the vault]
Simon Gruber: One hundred forty billion dollars! Ten times what's in Kentucky! Fort Knox? HA! It's for tourists! [tosses a gold brick to one of his comrades, who nearly drops it because of the weight]

View Quote [Addressing his men after the bullion theft]
Simon Gruber: Yesterday...Yesterday we were an army with no country. Tomorrow we have to decide which country we want to buy! And remember, this is all due to the g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-gullibility of the New York Police Department!

View Quote Alan Dershowitz: A priest? Well, a priest is the ideal witness: it's like getting the word of God
Claus von Bülow: I checked. God is unavailable.

View Quote Claus von Bülow: What do you call a fear of insulin?
[silence]
Claus von Bülow: Claus-traphobia.

View Quote Claus von Bülow: I'm not afraid, Alan. Let the chips fall where they may.
Alan Dershowitz: That's what an innocent man would say.
Claus von Bülow: I know.

View Quote So falls the house of Wayne.

View Quote In your dreams, Alfred.

View Quote [Observes wine bottle, then to Bruce] Oh. I hope the next generation of Waynes don't inherit an empty wine cellar. [Under breath] Not that there's likely to be a next generation.

View Quote Please, speak as you might to a young child or a Golden Retriever. It wasn't brains that got me here, I can assure you that.

View Quote There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat.

View Quote There's gonna be a lot of money to be made coming out of this mess, and we're gonna need all the brains we can get around here.

View Quote If might is right, then love has no place in the world. It may be so, it may be so. But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that, Rodrigo.

View Quote If you die with blood in your hands, Rodrigo, then you betray everything we have done! You promised your life to God! AND GOD IS LOVE!

View Quote We are not the members of a democracy, Father. We are the members of an order.

View Quote And what is time travel, but your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you?! Your futile effort to have a question answered?! You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories, your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: What if?

View Quote We weren't always like this. After the moon fell from the sky, the Earth could no longer sustain the species. Some managed to stay above; the rest of us escaped underground. Then centuries later, when we tried to re-emerge into the sun again, we couldn't.

View Quote We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories, and those that carry us forward are dreams.

View Quote Alfred Pennyworth: Maybe a man who broods in a cave for a living isn't cut out to be a recruiter, hm?

View Quote Alfred Pennyworth: Well, it's been some time since Luthor's warning. No attacks. No barbarians at the gate.
Bruce Wayne: Maybe these barbarians don't use a gate. Maybe they're already here.

View Quote Alfred Pennyworth: If you can't bring down the charging bull, then don't wave the red cape at it.
Bruce Wayne: You do when it's this red cape. This red cape charges back.

View Quote [To Balian] You're your father's son. He was my friend. I'm yours.

View Quote [To Balian] May God be with you, he's no longer with me.

View Quote Tiberias: Guy de Lusignan and Reynald de Chatillon, with the Templars... have attacked a Saracen caravan.
Crusaders: Liar!
Tiberias: Silence!
Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem: It was no caravan. It was an army headed for Bethlehem to desecrate the birthplace of our Lord!
Tiberias: Reynald, with the Templars, have broken the king's pledge of peace. Saladin will come into this kingdom...
Guy de Lusignan: Tiberias knows more than a Christian should about Saladin's intentions.
Tiberias: [Walks up to him] That I would rather live among men than kill them, is certainly why YOU are still alive.
Guy de Lusignan: [Chuckles] That sort of Christianity has its uses, I suppose...
Tiberias: We must not go to war with Saladin! We do not want it, and we may not win it.
Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem: Blasphemy! [All crusaders burst repeating in unison] An army of Jesus Christ, which bears his holy cross, cannot be beaten!
Hospitaller: Does the count of Tiberias suggest that it could be?
Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem: There must be war. God wills it! [All crusaders burst repeating in unison and King Baldwin IV raises a hand for silence]
Tiberias: Silence!
King Baldwin IV: Saladin has crossed the Jordan with 200,000 men.
Tiberias: He will make first for Kerak and Reynald de Chatillon. [Walks up to King Baldwin IV] My lord...
King Baldwin IV: We must meet him before he reaches Kerak. I will lead the army.
Tiberias: My lord, if you travel, you'll die.
King Baldwin IV: Send word to Balian to protect the villagers. Assemble the army! [Crusaders excitedly roar]