Peter Cushing movie quotes

View Quote Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances. [just before the Death Star is blown up]

View Quote [to Leia] Charming to the last. You don't know how hard I found it, signalling the order to terminate your life.

View Quote [Luke sees the Millennium Falcon for the first time]
Luke Skywalker: What a piece of junk!
Han Solo: She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've added some special modifications myself. But we're a little rushed, so if you'll just get onboard, we'll get outta here.

View Quote [dictates into grammaphone] Established that victims consciously detest being dominated by vampirism but are unable to relinquish the practice, similar to addiction to drugs. Ultimately, death results from loss of blood. But, unlike normal death, no peace manifests itself for they enter into the fearful state of the undead. Since the death of Jonathan Harker, Count Dracula, the propagator of this unspeakable evil, has disappeared. He must be found and destroyed.

View Quote [to Arthur] Holmwood, the study of these creatures has been my life's work. I've carried out research with some of the greatest authorities in Europe and yet we've only just scratched the surface. You see, a great deal is known about the vampire bat. But details of these reanimated bodies of the dead...the UNdead as we call them...are so obscure that many biologists will not believe they exist. Of course, you're shocked and bewildered. How can you expect to understand in so short a time? But you've read and experienced enough to know that this unholy cult must be wiped out. I hope perhaps that you will help me.

View Quote Van Helsing: [after examining Lucy] Those marks on her neck. When did they first appear?
Mina: Well, I noticed them first shortly after she became ill. I asked her about them, and she said that she thought she'd been stung. It is quite possible, of course. Dr. Seward said she must have plenty of fresh air. The windows were open all the time.
Van Helsing: Between the hours of sunset and sunrise, all the windows in her room, with the possible exception of a small fanlight for ventilation, must be kept shut.
Mina: But Dr. Seward said...
Van Helsing: Mrs. Holmwood. You called me in for a second opinion. If I am to help your sister at all, there are certain things you must do to help me however unorthodox they may appear.
Mina: Yes, I know, but...
Van Helsing: If you love Miss Lucy, be guided by me, I beg you.
Mina: I'll do anything to make her well again.
Van Helsing: You must get some garlic flowers. As many as you can. Place them by her windows and her door and by her bedside. They may be taken out during the day but, under no circumstances even if the patient implores you, must they be removed at night. I cannot impress upon you strongly enough how important it is that you obey my instructions. Do exactly as I say and we may be able to save her. If you don't, she will die. I'll be here in the morning.

View Quote Captain Kazan: Now, anything, anything that moves near that door, kill it!
Dr. Wells: But what if the monk is innocent?
Captain Kazan: Ahhh, we got lots of innocent monks!

View Quote [Wells bribes a clerk to let him on the train]
Dr. Wells: [to Saxton] It's called "squeeze" in China. The Americans call it "know-how".
Professor Alexander Saxton: And in Britain, we call it bribery and corruption.

View Quote Dr. Wells: Miss Jones, I shall need your assistance.
Miss Jones: [eying Wells' dinner companion, a beautiful woman] Yes, well at your age I'm not surprised.
Dr. Wells: With an autopsy!
Miss Jones: Oh, well that's different.