Movie Quotes Blog

Dr. Baird:
Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn’t have fish for dinner.

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Treleaven:
I guess I picked the wrong week to give up smoking.

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[repeated line]

Mary Carillo:
This is crackling good television.

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Lawyer:
“They might detatch your salary.”

William:
“Then I’ll quit my job and live on soup.”

Lawyer:
“They might detach this house.”

William:
“Then I’ll burn down the house!”

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Wind In His Hair:
Dances With Wolves. I am Wind In His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?

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John Dunbar:
Dunbar, not Dumb Bear.

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Ten Bears:
You are the only white man I have ever known. I have thought about you a lot. More than you think. And I understand your concern. But I think you are wrong. The white man the soldiers are looking for no longer exists. Now there is only a Sioux named Dances With Wolves.

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Ten Bears:
Let us smoke a while.

John Dunbar:
[voiceover] With Ten Bears, it was always more than a while. There was purpose in everything he did, and I knew he wanted me to stay. But I was sure of myself. I would be an excuse, and that’s all the Army would need to find this place. I pushed him as far as I could to move the camp. But in the end, he only smiled and talked of simple pleasures. He reminded me that at his age, a good fire was better than anything. Ten Bears was an extraordinary man.

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Sgt. Bauer:
Turned injun, didn’t yeh.

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Gracie:
Some people like art, I happen to like fashion. You like Chopin… Ok, I think he’s boring. You like Chopin… I like… Chopard, Ok, what’s the difference. I mean fashion is art, right? It’s an expression of who I am.

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[the inspector has asked a question]

Peter:
[translating] He wants to know if you’re a homosexual.

Tom Ripley:
No!

Peter:
[translating] No.

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Dickie Greenleaf:
Everybody should have one talent, what’s yours?

Tom Ripley:
Telling lies, forging signatures and impersonating almost anybody.

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Tom Ripley:
I always thought it would be better, to be a fake somebody… than a real nobody.

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Peter:
I saw you kissing Meredith.

Tom Ripley:
More like kissing off.

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Peter:
Officially, there are no Italian homosexuals. It makes Michelangelo and Leonardo very inconvenient.

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John Dunbar:
[writing in his diary] If it wasn’t for my companion, I believe I’d be having the time of my life.

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John Dunbar:
[at the celebration of the buffalo feast, noticing a big Sioux man has his Lieutenant’s hat] That’s my hat… that’s my hat!

Big Warrior:
[in Lakota, as all becomes quiet in the tent] I found it on the prarie. It’s mine.

Wind In His Hair:
[stands up, in Lakota] The hat belongs to Lieutenant.

Big Warrior:
He left it on the prarie. He didn’t want it.

Wind In His Hair:
Well, you can see he wants it now. We all know it’s a soldier hat. We all know who wears it. If you want to keep it, that’s fine. But give something for it.

[the Sioux takes his knife and sheath off his belt and gives it to Dunbar]

Wind In His Hair:
[in English, to Dunbar] Good… trade!

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[talking about the white men coming]

Kicking Bird:
How many?

John Dunbar:
Like the stars.

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Major Fambrough:
You wish to see the frontier?

John Dunbar:
Yes sir, before it’s gone.

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Major Fambrough:
Sir knight? I’ve just pissed in my pants… and nobody can do anything about it.

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Wind In His Hair:
We will shoot some arrows into the white man. If he truly has medicine, he will not be hurt. If he has no medicine, he will be dead.

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Stands With a Fist:
My place is with you. I go where you go.

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Kicking Bird:
[after receiving the pipe from Dances With Wolves] How, does it smoke?

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Kicking Bird:
I was just thinking that of all the trails in this life there is one that matters most. It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail and it is good to see.

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[Ten Bears shows Dunbar an old Spanish Conquistador’s helmet]

Ten Bears:
[in Lakota] The white men who wore this came around the time of my grandfather’s grandfather. Eventually we drove them out. Then the Mexicans came. But they do not come here any more. In my own time, the Texans. They have been like all the others. They take without asking. But I think you are right. I think they will keep coming. When I think of that, I look at this helmet. I don’t know if we are ready for these people. Our country is all that we have, and we will fight to keep it.

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Stands With a Fist:
He also asks if you would watch over his family while he is gone.

[pauses]

Stands With a Fist:
This thing he asks of you is a great honor.

John Dunbar:
Tell him I would be happy to watch over his family.

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John Dunbar:
The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a living hero.

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John Dunbar:
I am Lieutenant John Jay Dunbar and this is my post.

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John Dunbar:
Nothing I have been told about these people is correct. They are not thieves or beggars. They are not the bogeymen they are made out to be. On the contrary, they are polite guest and I enjoy their humor.

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Stands With a Fist:
[translating for Kicking Bird] He thanks Dances with Wolves for coming.

John Dunbar:
Who is Dances with Wolves?

Stands With a Fist:
It is the name all the people are calling you now.

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Lt. Elgin:
You bash that prisoner one more time, I’ll put those shackles on *you*.

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[Dunbar has found an old skeleton on the prairie]

Timmons:
I’ll bet someone back east is going, “Now why don’t he write?”

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