Laurence Olivier movie quotes

22 quotes from 3 movies

Marathon Man (1976) as Dr. Christian Szell

View Quote [to Babe] Oh, please don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive. So I'll just drill into a healthy tooth until I reach the pulp... unless of course you can tell me that it's safe.

View Quote [to Babe] You're weak. Your father was weak in his way. Your brother in his, now you in yours. You are all so predictable.

View Quote [to Janeway] Thus far I find you rather detestable, may I say that without hurting your feelings?

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The Boys from Brazil (1978) as Ezra Lieberman

View Quote You're not a guard now, madame! You are a prisoner! I may leave here today empty handed. But you... are not going anywhere.

View Quote [about Mengele] He was the chief doctor of Auschwitz, who killed 2.5 million people, experimented with children - Jewish and non-Jewish - using twins mostly, injecting blue dyes into their eyes to make them acceptable Aryans... amputating limbs and organs from thousands without anesthetics.

View Quote Not Mozart. Not Picasso. Not a genius who would enrich the world. But a lonely little boy with a domineering father, a customs officer who was 52 when he was born. And an affectionate doting mother who was 29. The father died when he was 65 when the boy was nearly 14... Adolf Hitler.

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Spartacus (1960) as Marcus Licinius Crassus

View Quote If there was no Rome, I'd dream of her. If there were no gods, I'd revere them.

View Quote I promise you, a new Rome, a new Italy and a new empire. I promise the destruction of the slave army, and the restoration of order. I promise the living body of Spartacus for whatever punishment you may deem fit. That, or his head. This I have sworn, in the name of my fathers, in the temple that guards their bones.

View Quote I'm not after glory, I'm after Spartacus! And gentlemen, I mean to have him. However, this campaign is not about killing Spartacus. It is to kill the legend of Spartacus.

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