Stanley Tucci movie quotes

View Quote Alright everyone. Gird your loins!

View Quote [To Andrea] ...this place, where so many people would die to work, you only deign to work.

View Quote [To Andrea] Yes, because that's really what this whole multibillion-dollar industry is all about, isn't it? Inner beauty.

View Quote Nina, this is my house, you work for me, and I want to suck your toes.

View Quote Morning, douchebag.

View Quote I need a missile.

View Quote [Laughing hysterically] I can’t… This is really happening. A man, me, who is worth over 20 billion dollars is now being chased by CIA assassins. That’s the truth. And in the middle of a robot uprising. And I’m carrying what is, in essence, a tactical nuke. And the great thing is I… The great thing is that I’m… I’m barely feeling any jet lag.

View Quote We can make you now. Don’t you get it? We don’t need you anymore.

View Quote Let’s show these alien terrorist what an upgrade looks like.

View Quote [After Iverson questions him about the core] Yes, yes, yes, yes, and what if the core is made of cheese? This is all best guess commander. That's all science is, is best guess.

View Quote Let me smoke a cigarette first and I'll tell you.

View Quote Col. Robert Iverson: People. Doctors Zimsky and Keyes? You guys are our resident geophysicists, so what do you make of this?
Dr. Conrad Zimsky: The mantle is a chemical hodgepodge of, a, variety of elements...
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Say it with me: "I don't know."

View Quote Herb: He's got your mom's eyes and my dad's nose. I knew we were smart to save those parts.

View Quote [first lines]
Children: Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing...
Baker: There you go.
Child: Thanks.
Herb: Wa-hoo! I'm gonna be a dad! I just talked to my wife. My baby's gonna be delivered any minute.
Robot on truck: Hey! Get out of the way!
Herb: Hey, hey! I'm going to be a dad! Congratulate me.
Robot #1: Huh?
Robot #2: Hmm?
Fire Hydrant: Good for you, Herb. Don't even think about it.
[Herb has just been running through the town]
Herb: Whoo-hoo!
Beer Delivery Robot: Hey!
Herb: Sorry. How are you? Nice to see you. I'm gonna be a dad!
Beer Delivery Robot: Congrats!
Herb: Hey, Mr. Nuts, did you hear the news?
Mr. Nuts: Yeah.
Herb: Beautiful day, isn't it?
[Herb runs into his house, where Lydia is standing next to a window]
Herb: I'm here. I'm here. I'm here.
Lydia: Oh, honey, I'm so sorry. You missed the delivery.
Herb: Oh!
Lydia: [holds up a box with a picture of a robot on it] But it's okay. Making the baby's the fun part.

View Quote [After Herb and Lydia assembled baby Rodney]
Lydia: Honey?
Herb: What?
Lydia: What's that extra piece?
Herb: Oh. Oh, no, they always put in an extra... [takes a good look at the piece; chuckles] We did want a boy, right? [takes the piece and a hammer; clears throat] This won't hurt a bit, son. [hammers the piece in, and baby Rodney wails]

View Quote Caesar Flickerman: What did you say to your sister when you volunteered at the Reaping?
Katniss Everdeen: I told her I would try to win. That I would try to win, for her.
Flickerman: Of course you did. And try you will.

View Quote Caesar Flickerman: So Peeta. Tell me. Is there a special girl back home?
Peeta Mellark: No. No, not really.
Flickerman: No? I don't believe it it for a second, look at that face! Handsome man like you! Peeta. Tell me.
Peeta: Well, there, uh... There is this one girl that I've had a crush on forever.
Flickerman: Well, I'll tell you what Peeta. You go out there, and you win this thing, and when you get home- she'll have to go out with you!
Peeta: Thanks, but I, uh. I don't think winning's gonna help me at all.
Flickerman: And why not?
Peeta: Because... she came here with me.
Flickerman: [Dismayed] Well, that's bad luck.
Peeta: Yeah....
Flickerman: And I wish you all the best of luck. Peeta Mellark! District 12!

View Quote Caesar Flickerman: [after seeing Katniss’s flaming dress] That was really something. Katniss, that was something. That was something. Thank you for that. I have one more question for you. It's about your sister. We were all very moved, I think, when you volunteered at the Reaping. Did she come and say goodbye to you?
Katniss Everdeen: Yes. She did.
Flickerman: And what did you say to her, in the end?
Katniss Everdeen: I told her I would try to win. That I would try to win, for her.
Flickerman: Of course you did. And try you will. Ladies and gentlemen, from District 12, Katniss Everdeen, The Girl On Fire!

View Quote Gale: [Heading into elevator] They want us back. They asked us to head for Command.
Katniss: All right. I gotta drop these off. [They enter room with TV on]
Caesar: [On TV] She was arguably our favorite Tribute. And I think that's what we all find most astonishing, is that this girl was adored in the Capitol. And I think for you, Peeta, it must be particularly painful.
Peeta: I wish I could give this rose to you, Katniss.
Katniss: He's changed so much already. What are they doing to him?
Caesar: A sweet gesture for a girl who has inspired such violence. You must love her very much to be able to forgive her.
Katniss: He's shaking.
Caesar: I don't think that I could. Unless, of course, Peeta, you think that perhaps she's being forced into saying things that she doesn't even understand.
Peeta: Yeah, that's exactly what I think.
Katniss: Even his voice is different.
Peeta: I think they're using her to whip up the rebels. I doubt she even knows what's happening. And what's really at stake.
Caesar: Now, Peeta, I doubt that the rebels will ever let her see this. But if they do, what would you say to her? To Katniss Everdeen, the once sweet Katniss Everdeen. What would you say to her?
Peeta: I would... I would tell her to think for herself. Yes. Don't be a fool, Katniss. I know you never wanted the rebellion. The things that you did in the Games were never intended to start all of this. The rebels have made you into something that you're not. Something that could destroy all of us. So if you have any power or any say in what they do or how they use you, please, please, urge them to stop this war before it's too late. And ask yourself, can you trust the people you're working with? Do you know what they really want?
Gale: [to Katniss] We need to respond.
Caesar: Thank you, Peeta Mellark, for these revelations about the real Mockingjay.
Katniss: [to Gale] Did you see what he looks like?
Gale: I saw a coward.
Katniss: You don't have any idea what he's going through.
Gale: I don't care. I would never say what he just said. Not if they tortured me. Not with a gun to my head.
Katniss: That is the same Peeta that defended you at the whipping post.
Gale: No, it's not. Now he's only defending himself. Coin's called a meeting. We need to respond.
Katniss: When did "we" become you and Coin?
Gale: Everyone has a choice. How can he sit there in the Capitol and defend the people who destroyed his home and murdered his family?
Katniss: He doesn't know. How could he? Nobody's seen what the Capitol did to 12. I have to show them.

View Quote Gale: [To Katniss in District 13 workers cafeteria ] You should try to eat something.
[Caesar and Peeta comes on the television screen in the District 13 workers cafeteria]
Caesar: Hello. Good evening. And a big welcome to all in Panem. I'm Caesar Flickerman. And whoever you are, whatever it is you're doing, if you're working, put down your work. If you're having dinner, stop having dinner. Because you are going to want to witness this tonight. There has been rampant speculation about what really happened in the Quarter Quell. And here to shed a little light on the subject for us is a very special guest. Please welcome Mr. Peeta Mellark. Peeta, a lot of people feel as though they are in the dark.
Peeta: Yeah, I know how they feel.
Caesar: Now, so set the stage for us. Talk us through what really happened on that final and controversial night.
Peeta: Well, first off, you have to understand that when you're in the Games, you only get one wish. It's very costly.
Katniss: You're alive.
Caesar: It costs your life.
Peeta: I think it costs more than your life.
Caesar: How do you mean? What's more than your life?
Peeta: I mean to murder innocent people, that costs everything that you are.
Caesar: Yes.
Peeta: So you hold on to that one wish. And that night my wish was to save Katniss.
Caesar: Yes.
Peeta: I should've just run off with her earlier in the day like she'd wanted.
Caesar: But you didn't. Why? Were you caught up in Beetee's plan?
Peeta: No, I was caught up trying to play allies. And then they separated us and... that's when I lost her. And then the lightning hit... and the whole force field around the arena just blew out.
Caesar: Yes, but, Peeta, Katniss is the one who blew it out.
Peeta: No.
Caesar: You saw the footage.
Peeta: No, she didn't know what she was doing. Neither of us knew there was a bigger plan going on. We had no idea.
Caesar: You had no idea?
Peeta: No.
Caesar: All right. Well, Peeta, there are many who find this suspicious to say the least. It seems as though she was part of a rebel plan.
Peeta: Do you think it was part of her plan to be almost killed by Johanna? Or part of the plan to be paralyzed by lightning? No, we were not part of any rebel plan. We had no idea what was going on.
Caesar: All right. I believe you, Peeta Mellark.
Peeta: Thank you. Yeah.
Caesar: And I was going to ask you to speak about the unrest, but I think you might be too upset.
Peeta: No, I can.
Caesar: Are you sure?
Peeta: Yeah, absolutely.
Caesar: Thank you.
Peeta: Yeah. I want everyone who's watching to stop and to think about what a civil war could mean. [13 workers become outraged] We almost went extinct once before. And now our numbers are even fewer.
13 worker: He's one of them!
Peeta: Is this really what we wanna do?
13 worker: He's a traitor!
Peeta: Kill ourselves off? Killing is not the answer.
13 worker: I can't believe he's doing this.
Peeta: Everyone needs to lay down their weapons immediately.
13 worker: Traitor! He's not one of us! This is treason!
Caesar: Are you calling for a ceasefire?
Peeta: Yeah. I am.
13 worker: You're a puppet! Hang him!
Peeta: I want everyone to stop the senseless violence. This is not the path to change.
13 worker: Traitor!
Peeta: It's not the path to justice.

View Quote Boggs: [To Katniss in the cafeteria] Katniss, you're wanted in Command.
...
Peeta: Tonight, we've received reports of derailed trains, of granaries on fire, and of a savage attack on the hydroelectric dam in District 5.
Katniss: What have they done to you?
Peeta: I'm begging for restraint and decency.
Beetee: [Working in his space] We interrupt your regularly scheduled horse manure to bring you... [Intercepts broadcast signal to divert to rebel footage of Katniss singing on view of hometown destruction]
President Coin: That's it. That's our footage.
Plutarch: Beetee's in.
Peeta: Katniss?
President Coin: He sees it. He sees our propo.
Peeta: Katniss, are you there?
Katniss: Peeta.
Peeta: Katniss?
Caesar: Peeta, please continue. You were telling us about these savage attacks.
Peeta: Yeah. The attack on the dam was a callous and inhuman act of destruction... Think about it. How will this end? What will be left? No one can survive this. No one is safe now. Not here in the Capitol. Not in any of the districts. They're coming, Katniss. They're gonna kill everyone. And in District 13 you'll be dead by morning. [Peeta is grabbed and signal cuts out]
Haymitch: He's warning us. That was a warning.
Boggs: Yes, it was.
Katniss: We have to get him out before they kill him.
President Coin: Is there anything in the air?
Subordinate: Nothing on Doppler, ma'am.
President Coin: He was in the mansion. He could have overheard something.
Plutarch: Possibly.
President Coin: It's time for an air raid drill.
...
PA announcer: This is a code red alert. Please, remain calm and begin evacuation protocol.
Katniss: [Running in empty cafeteria] Prim! Prim!
PA announcer: Proceed to your nearest stairwell and descend to level 40. Blast doors will be sealed in six minutes. This is a code red alert... Proceed in an orderly fashion to your nearest stairwell and descend to level 40.
Subordinate: Madam President, three Capitol squadrons just entered our airspace.
President Coin: How much time do we have?
Subordinate: They're a few seconds from range.
President Coin: Prepare to scramble the fleet.
Subordinate: Copy that.
President Coin: Open up short-range air defense. Arm long-range missiles for counter-attack.
PA announcer: Continue to the Supply Station and claim one pack for each member of your compartment. Please keep all personal items within your assigned area. Be courteous to your fellow citizens. This is a code red alert. All citizens should be inside the bunker. Blast doors will close in two minutes.
Katniss: Mom! Where's Prim?
Katniss' mother: I thought she went to find you. She must still be on the stairs.
Katniss: There's no one on the stairs. [Realizes] She went back for the cat.
...
Subordinate 1: They hit the far edge of the Northwest quadrant. Penetrated 40 feet. Missed the living quarters. Only minor damage to corridors 2 and 3.
President Coin: Is there any radiation?
Subordinate 1: None detected.
Subordinate 2: Doppler shows a fourth wave approaching.
...
Katniss: You went back for the cat? What were you thinking?
Primrose: I wasn't gonna leave him behind. I couldn't live with myself.
Katniss: I know, Prim. Let's go.
Subordinate 3: Damage to the aquifer in the Northwest quadrant. We lost a transport corridor.
President Coin: There's nothing else in the Northwest.
Subordinate 2: Our surface-to-air launchers just took a direct hit in sector 3.
President Coin: Because we revealed ourselves.
Subordinate 2: They saw us firing there. Stand down. Don't launch the fleet.
Subordinate 1: Another 12 Capitol bombers approaching sector 3 in attack formation.
President Coin: Hold fire on their approach. What'd they hit?
Subordinate 1: Bedrock. But there's debris in the ventilation shaft.
President Coin: They're not targeting our fleet.
Plutarch: Or our Special Weaponry.
Boggs: They don't know what we have or where we have it.
President Coin: Can you confirm that everyone's safely in the bunker?
Boggs: Already done.
President Coin: Conceal all remaining anti-aircraft guns. Seal launching pads and ventilation corridors. We are gonna wait this out. This is what we're built for.
Plutarch: They'll seal us in here like a tomb.
President Coin: The Capitol's working off some outdated information. I'd rather not update it for them.
Plutarch: Madam President, I know it's not my place... It's not.
President Coin: You're a welcome guest, but you're out of your depth down here. Reduce oxygen to 14% to conserve it.
Subordinate: Copy that.
President Coin: Take a deep breath, Mr. Heavensbee. It's gonna be a long night.

View Quote Sometimes you land on a small fish. You unhook him very carefully. You place him back in the water. You set him free so that somebody else can have the pleasure of catching him.

View Quote Frank: I'm talking about bombs. I'm talking about human dignity. I'm talking about human rights. Viktor, please don't be afraid to tell me that you're afraid of Krakhozia.
Viktor: Is home. I am not afraid from my home. [pause] So?
Frank: [whispering] All right.
Viktor: I go to New York City now?
Frank: No.
Viktor: No? Uh... Okay. I'm uh... I'm uh... I'm afraid from ghosts.
Frank: Okay, thanks very much!
Viktor: I'm afraid from, uh... Dracula!
Frank: Thanks a lot. Thanks, Viktor!
Viktor: [as he is escorted outside] Afraid from Wolfmens, afraid from the sharks!
Frank: It's okay. Thank you, Viktor! Thanks a lot!

View Quote Airport Janitor: Viktor. Remember us.
Cashier at Discovery: From the Discovery Store, I want to give you this. It's good luck.
Manager at DutyFree: A digital camera for cousin Katia.
Manager at DutyFree: I don't know where you're going, but these will keep your feet warm.
Frank Dixon: - Everybody in position?
Grand Crew: - We're here.
Frank Dixon: Secure the door.

View Quote RED GIANT: Guardian Knights: transform! The Dragon is yours to command.
MERLIN: O, yes. That would be just the thing. (accepts the staff)
RED GIANT: Protect this staff. One day a great evil will come for it.

View Quote KAY: (to King Arthur) Your magician Merlin cannot help us. We’re outnumbered 100 to 1. How are we going to get out of this?
KING ARTHUR: He promised a weapon: one of great power.
PALOMEDES: Arthur, you are my king, and I would lay down my life for you; but this Merlin is no wizard.
KAY: He’s a worthless drunkard.
NARRATOR: Magic does exist. It was found, long ago, inside a crashed alien ship.
MERLIN: Hello? Hello! It is I, Merlin! Conjurer of spirits! Master of the magic arts! Is anyone there? (takes a drink from a flask at his belt) It is I, Merlin. The wizard! Remember me?

View Quote MERLIN: No! I kept your secret! Just as I promised! I told no one of your existence; no one! But you have to understand: we Britons are in a desperate fight. End-of-times sort of thing. I mean it. It’s happening down there now, as we speak. It’s awful! Big personalities just sort of clashing, all bloody. I hate to ask, but we need your help. But if I could, for one moment, change this world for the better, I would give up everything; everything! Money, drink;–– drinking-money. Look: good men will die without your help. Women. Children. I know your world was destroyed. I’m sorry. But please, don’t let ours die, too. I beg of you.

View Quote [last lines] If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber'd here.While these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream,Gentles, do not reprehend:If you pardon we will mend.Else the Puck a liar call.Give me your hands, if we be friends,And Robin shall restore amends.

View Quote Up and down, up and down,I will lead them up and down.I am feared in field and town.Goblin lead them up and down.

View Quote Is this what we're reduced to? To vote for the least worst option?

View Quote Bellini: I could never become Pope on those circumstances. A stolen document, the smearing of a brother cardinal. I'd be the Richard Nixon of Popes.
Lawrence: Then stay clear of this; leave it to me. I'm willing to handle the consequences.
Bellini: You know who's gonna benefit most from this? Tedesco. The whole basis of his candidacy is that the Holy Father led the church to disaster by his attempts at reform. If you reveal this report, it isn't Tremblay's reputation that's going to suffer; it's the Church's. Accusing the Curia of institutional corruption...
Lawrence: I thought we were here to serve God, not the Curia.
Bellini: Oh, don't be naive!

View Quote I run Risk Management. I don't really see how that's a natural place to start cutting jobs.

View Quote Do you know I built a bridge once? ... I was an engineer by trade... It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and twelve feet above the Ohio River. Twelve thousand people used this thing a day. And it cut out thirty-five miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour. So that's, what, 134,165,800 hours, or 559,020 days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined 1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a **** car. One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years.

View Quote This city, these people... making the rest of us feel like we don't belong. But they're no better than us. Look at how they treat their children. Mark my words, Mr. Rezendes. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.

View Quote Mike Rezendes: Mitch, are you telling me that the Catholic Church removed legal documents from that courthouse?
Mitchell Garabedian: Look, I'm not crazy, I'm not paranoid. I'm experienced. Check the docket. You'll see. They control everything.