"In Italy for thirty years, under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
-Orson Welles as Harry Lime
The Third Man (1949)
Dir: Carol Reed
"We have to save each other. Because all victims are equal. And none is more equal than others."
-Sean Connery as Barley Blair
The Russia House (1990)
Dir: Fred Schepisi
"What we feel isn't important. It's utterly unimportant. The only question is what we do."
-Bruno Ganz as Professor Rohl
The Reader (2008)
Dir: Stephen Daldry
"I hope that I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause."
-William Hurt as Edward Walker
The Village (2004)
Dir: M. Night Shyamalan
"Society only tolerates one change at a time."
-David Bowie as Nikola Tesla
The Prestige (2006)
Dir: Christopher Nolan
"The people of this country can't afford to let the president run the country by himself, even foreign affairs, any more than domestic affairs, without the help of the Congress, without the help of the people."
-Daniel Ellsberg
The Pentagon Papers (2003)
Dir: Rod Holcomb
"Have you ever laughed at a comedian when he pretended to stutter? There's nothing funny about a man who stutters but people laugh. They're amused but they're not happy about it."
-Hume Cronyn as Bill Rintels
The Parallax View (1974)
Dir: Alan J. Pakula
"How peaceful life would be without love…. How safe. How tranquil. And how dull."
-Sean Connery as William of Baskerville
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud
"I guess love is like the ozone layer. You never miss it until it's gone."
-Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Dir: David Zucker
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