Film Quotes by Charles Laughton
63 quotes
Year: 1945
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
[from the scaffold]
Capt. William Kidd: So here's me bequest to them what hunts what I have hid and to their sons sons down through the corridors of time: greed that spawns murder; hatred that corrodes the soul; ambition - the foulest strumpet of all.
Heckler at Kidd's hanging: [to hangman] Hey, Dick - Dick Kent. Sell me a bit of that rope for a sixpence will you?
Capt. William Kidd: Save your money, me lads. You can have it all for nothing if you'll only step here and wear it!
[to hangman]
Capt. William Kidd: Hurry up, Kent. Can't wait forever.
Capt. William Kidd: So here's me bequest to them what hunts what I have hid and to their sons sons down through the corridors of time: greed that spawns murder; hatred that corrodes the soul; ambition - the foulest strumpet of all.
Heckler at Kidd's hanging: [to hangman] Hey, Dick - Dick Kent. Sell me a bit of that rope for a sixpence will you?
Capt. William Kidd: Save your money, me lads. You can have it all for nothing if you'll only step here and wear it!
[to hangman]
Capt. William Kidd: Hurry up, Kent. Can't wait forever.
--
Charles Laughton
(as Capt. William Kidd)
in
Captain Kidd
(1945)
Year: 1941
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
[Jonny angrily chases Anne around his living room]
Anne Terry: Going around pinching people at your age.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: When I get three seconds older, I'm going to start punching people.
Anne Terry: Going around pinching people at your age.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: When I get three seconds older, I'm going to start punching people.
--
Charles Laughton
(as Jonathan Reynolds)
in
It Started with Eve
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
[Jonny is still chasing Anne around his living room]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: If you hear something snap, don't turn around - it'll be your neck.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: If you hear something snap, don't turn around - it'll be your neck.
--
Charles Laughton
(as Jonathan Reynolds)
in
It Started with Eve
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
[Jonny tries to convince his father that Anne hates him]
Jonathan Reynolds: What did she call me?
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: A pompous, self-indulgent, overbearing imitation of a dictator.
Jonathan Reynolds: What did she call me?
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: A pompous, self-indulgent, overbearing imitation of a dictator.
--
Charles Laughton
(as Jonathan Reynolds)
in
It Started with Eve
(1941)
Year: 1957
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
[Miss Plimsoll discovers cigars hidden in Sir Wilfrid's cane]
Sir Wilfrid: You could be jailed for that. You had no search warrant for my cane!
Sir Wilfrid: You could be jailed for that. You had no search warrant for my cane!
--
Charles Laughton
(as Sir Wilfrid)
in
Witness for the Prosecution
(1957)
Year: 1941
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
[to his dying father]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Oh, say, the fishing in Mexico - there's nothing like it. It's not really fishing... it's kind of big game hunting. They have fish with teeth and horns - a throwback to the buffalo. You go out in a boat and the fish charge at you. You just got to catch 'em in self-defense. You and I and two machine guns are going down there next month.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Oh, say, the fishing in Mexico - there's nothing like it. It's not really fishing... it's kind of big game hunting. They have fish with teeth and horns - a throwback to the buffalo. You go out in a boat and the fish charge at you. You just got to catch 'em in self-defense. You and I and two machine guns are going down there next month.
--
Charles Laughton
(as Jonathan Reynolds)
in
It Started with Eve
(1941)
Year: 1939
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Humphrey Pengallan:
What are you all waiting for? A spectacle? You shall have it and tell your children how the great age ended. Make way for Pengallon!
--
Charles Laughton
(as Sir Humphrey Pengallan)
in
Jamaica Inn
(1939)
Year: 1935
Director:
Frank Lloyd
Director:
Frank Lloyd
Captain William Bligh:
[pointing at three sailors] You, you, you, step forward! You three are a disgrace to salt water! Ten days half rations.
--
Charles Laughton
(as Bligh)
in
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)
Year: 1935
Director:
Frank Lloyd
Director:
Frank Lloyd
Captain William Bligh:
Can you understand this, Mr. Byam? Discipline is the thing. A seaman's a seaman. A captain's a captain. And a midshipman, Sir Joseph or no Sir Joseph, is the lowest form of animal life in the British Navy.
--
Charles Laughton
(as Bligh)
in
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)
Year: 1935
Director:
Frank Lloyd
Director:
Frank Lloyd
Captain William Bligh:
During the recent heavy weather, I've had the opportunity to watch all of you at work on deck and aloft. You don't know wood from canvas! And it seems you don't want to learn! Well, I'll have to give you a lesson
--
Charles Laughton
(as Bligh)
in
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)