John Hurt movie quotes

View Quote My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

View Quote [to the cat] You look hungry! Rats getting too clever, I suppose?

View Quote Tell you the truth, I'm getting sick and tired of it. Sometimes I feel like clearing out of the warren altogether. Never mind. Let's forget it, and try to enjoy the evening.

View Quote [In his forbidden diary] April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... greetings.

View Quote Do it to her! Do it to Julia! I don't care what you do to her, but do it to her! Tear her face off! Do it to Julia, not to me! Do it to Julia! Not me!

View Quote [In his forbidden diary] Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted all else will follow.

View Quote Mr. Murphy, Russia, China, the Congo. Oh, I have traveled among unknown people in lands beyond the sea. But nothing, nothing could've prepared me for this godforsaken hole.

View Quote I was, in days gone by, a believer. But, alas, I came to this beleaguered land and the God in me just... evaporated. Let us change our toast, then, to the God that has forgotten us.

View Quote Permit me to introduce myself. My name is Jellon Lamb. Citizen of the world, you might say, an adventurer, and, if I may be so bold, a man of no little education.

View Quote Three wolves should be more than enough for one lion.

View Quote Well, you have our permission to join them in death. All of you, starting with my faithless daughter!

View Quote You failed to save your children, Hercules, but you may yet save him.

View Quote Indy: Why don't you stick around, Junior?
Mutt: I don't know. Why didn't you, "Dad?"
Oxley: [scoffs] Dad... [gives Indy a questioning look] Dad?
Indy: [chuckles, wraps his arm around Marion] Somewhere, your grandpa is laughing.

View Quote Indy: [surrounded by Russian soldiers after getting pulled out of the sandpit by Mutt] Thanks, Ox...
Oxley: [points at the Russians] Help.

View Quote Indy: Where did they go? Into space?
Oxley: Not into space. Into the space between spaces.

View Quote The pit is completely enclosed. And it's full of leathery objects, like eggs or something.

View Quote [after recovering from being facehugged and being impregnated with an alien embryo] Feel like somebody's been beating me with a stick for about six years. [smiles] God, I'm hungry.

View Quote [asked if he remembers being facehugged] Just some horrible dream about smothering.

View Quote My, such a brave and handsome crew! A pig boy, a scullery maid and a broken-down minstrel! Perhaps it may interest you to see what fate has in store for you! [laughs and lifts up a skeleton] Now I call on my army of the dead! The Cauldron-Born! [lowers the skeleton into the Black Cauldron] Arise, my messengers of death! Our time has arrived!

View Quote Oh, yes. Yes, my soldiers. Soon the Black Cauldron will be mine. Its evil power will course through my veins, and I shall make you Cauldron-Born. Yes, yes, oh yes, then you will worship ME! Me. Oh, my soldiers. How long I have thirsted to be a god among mortal men...

View Quote I presume, my boy, you are the keeper of this oracular pig?

View Quote I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I... am... a man!

View Quote People are frightened by what they don't understand.

View Quote My life is full because I know I am loved.

View Quote Sutler: Every day, gentlemen. Every day that brings us closer to November. Every day that man remains free is one more failure! 347 days, gentlemen! 347 failures!
Creedy: Chancellor, we do not have the adequate force to...
Sutler: We are being buried beneath the avalanche of your inadequacies, Mr Creedy!!

View Quote My fellow Englishmen: tonight, our country, that which we stand for, and all we hold dear, faces a grave and terrible threat. This violent and unparalleled assault on our security will not go undefended. Or unpunished. Our enemy is an insidious one, seeking to divide us and destroy the very foundation of our great nation. Tonight, we must remain steadfast. We must remain determined. But most of all, we must remain united. Those caught tonight in violation of curfew will be considered in league with our enemy and prosecuted as a terrorist without leniency or exception. Tonight, I give you my most solemn vow: that justice will be swift, it will be righteous, and it will be without mercy!

View Quote Sutler: I want anyone caught with one of those masks arrested!
Convenience Store V: Give me the money! Give me the **** money!
Dominic: We're under siege here. The whole city's gone mad.
Finch: That's exactly what he wants.
Dominic: What?
Convenience Store V: Anarchy in the UK! [fires shots into the air, then escapes with the money]
Finch: Chaos.
Sutler: Mr Creedy, I am holding you personally responsible for this situation.
[we soon go to a new scene, where Creedy is revealed to have accepted his earlier deal with V.]
Finch: The problem is that he knows us better than we know ourselves. That's why I went to Larkhill last night.
Dominic: That's outside quarantine.
Finch: I had to see it. There wasn't much left. But when I was there it was strange – I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected. It was like I could see the whole thing; one long chain of events that stretched back to before Larkhill. I felt like I could see everything that had happened, and everything that was going to happen. It was like a perfect pattern, laid out in front of me, and I realised that we were all part of it, and all trapped by it.
Dominic: So do you know what's going to happen?
Finch: No. It was a feeling. But I can guess. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty. And then, Sutler will be forced do the only thing he knows how to do. At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word. And then...
[V causes his completed dominoes to fall. During this, a martial-law like world is shown, with people attacking police and military vehicles.]

View Quote As you entered the lobby there was an inscription: "In the absence of light, darkness prevails." (In Absentia Luci, Tenebrae Vin****). There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back.

View Quote [Last words] I know what to call him. Nothing you can do or say can change that. I call him "son". [Puts his rosary on the book] I'm ready. [Grigori Rasputin: [Puts his hand on Broom's] It'll be quick.] [Rasputin walks away, while Kroenen aims his arm blade at the back of Broom's neck and stabs it, Broom collapses to the floor dead]

View Quote What is it that makes a man a man? Is it his origins – the way things start? Or is it something else, something harder to describe?

View Quote Boromir! I don't know what part you've played in this mischief, but help now! Go after Merry and Pippin and guard them!

View Quote Aragorn: [finds Boromir dying] Boromir!
Boromir: I tried to take the Ring from Frodo. I am sorry. I have failed. Aragorn...Aragron. Go to Minas Tirith. Save my people. Aragorn...
Aragorn: I will go. I promise you.
Boromir: The halflings...Orcs took them. I think...they are not dead. [dies]

View Quote Aragorn: There is a hill called Weathertop about halfway between here and Rivendell. We will make for it tomorrow. So will Gandalf...if he can.
Sam: [about Aragorn] I still don't know if we can trust him, Mr. Frodo.
Aragorn: I said you have no choice, Sam! [Sam flinches] Because if I wanted the Ring for myself, I could have it, now. [unsheathes his sword and raises it to the air] My name is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. If by life or death I can save you, I will.

View Quote Control: George! George, get in here! [Smiley enters.] George, sit down. [Smiley sits.] Take a look at this nonsense. Report by Soviet high command on their recent naval exercises in the Black Sea, just what the Admiralty has been begging us for some information on...
Smiley: Where did you get this?
Control: I didn't. Percy and his little cabal walked in with it.
Esterhase: Look, Control...
Control: Shut up!
Haydon: [flicking through document, casually.] Style appalling, blatantly a fabrication from beginning to end. It just could be the real thing.
Smiley: If it's genuine it's gold dust. But its topicality makes it suspect.
Control: Smiley is suspicious, Percy!
Smiley: Where did it come from? What's the access?
Alleline: A new secret source of mine.
Smiley: But how could he possibly have access-
Alleline: He has access to the most sensitive levels of policy making. We've named the operation 'Witchcraft.'
Control: [archly.] Oh, Percy and his pals bypassed us, Smiley. Gone straight to the minister. Percy has been allowed to keep the identity of his new friend TOP secret.
Alleline: The minister agrees with me that too many secrets are blown around here. Too much failure, too many scandals, too little solid intelligence.
Bland: Percy does have a point, Control; we should be fighting Communism, not each other.
Alleline: No, we're losing our reputation, our partners-
Control: Your bloody Yanks!
Alleline: -and we've had enough! There's going to be changes.
Esterhase: We need to decide if we want to be part of the past or part of the future.
Control: I should have left you where I found you.
Esterhase: Look-!
All: Control-!
Control: OUT! ALL OF YOU!
[Alleline, Bland and Esterhase leave. Control glares at Haydon until he too exits, leaving only Smiley and Control.]
Smiley: If Witchcraft is genuine-
Control: Nothing is genuine anymore!

View Quote Control: [Control has just signed an official document of the British Intelligence Service.] Would you witness this for me?
Percy Alleline: I wish I could've done more, Control.
Control: You did all you could, Percy. Well, a man should know when to leave the party.
Toby Esterhase: What about Smiley?
Control: Smiley is leaving with me. [Smiley nods to the affirmative.]
Bill Haydon: [having an inaudible conversation with Esterhase. Esterhase then waves mockingly at Control and Smiley, both of whom are leaving 'The Circus'.] You little prick, Esterhase!

View Quote Control: I know that Moscow has planted a mole, and I know it is one of five men. [starts placing out chess pieces with photos on them.] Alleline: Tinker. Haydon: Tailor. Bland: Soldier. We leave out "Sailor", too much like "Tailor", and "Rich man" doesn't seem to apply. Esterhase: Poor man.
Jim Prideaux: And the fifth?
Control: Smiley.

View Quote I've had a long time to make enemies, doctor. So many governments, business interests, even religious leaders that would like to see me depart this Earth. I'll grant them their wish soon enough. But before I do, I wish to make a small contribution. A final gesture of good will to the people of this little planet who have given—from whom I have taken—so much.

View Quote First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

View Quote They still want an American to go...Wanna take a ride?