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Film Quotes by James Mason

75 quotes
Julius Caesar
Year: 1953

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Julius Caesar
Brutus: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar/ I have not slept./ Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: / The Genius and the mortal instruments / Are then in council; and the state of man, / Like to a little kingdom, suffers then / The nature of an insurrection.
-- James Mason (as Brutus) in Julius Caesar (1953)
Botany Bay
Year: 1953

Director:
John Farrow
Botany Bay
Capt. Paul Gilbert: [after sentencing Hugh Tallant to a 50-lash whipping] I don't want any danger of infection. Have you the salt ready for his wounds?
-- James Mason (as Capt. Paul Gilbert) in Botany Bay (1953)
Botany Bay
Year: 1953

Director:
John Farrow
Botany Bay
Capt. Paul Gilbert: Mr. Green, you will make preparations for keelhauling the prisoners.
Second Mate Spencer: Captain Gilbert, no man has been keelhauled on an English ship for fifty years.
Capt. Paul Gilbert: Oh, I don't think it's been that long.
-- James Mason (as Capt. Paul Gilbert) in Botany Bay (1953)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Fleischer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Captain Nemo: ...there is hope for the future. When the world is ready for a new and better life, all this will someday come to pass, in God's good time.
-- James Mason (as Captain Nemo) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Fleischer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Captain Nemo: I am not what is called a civilized man, Professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore, I do not obey its laws.
-- James Mason (as Captain Nemo) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Fleischer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Captain Nemo: I asked you to leave, Professor.
Prof. Pierre Arronax: You also asked me ashore, to show me man's inhumanity to man. Why? To justify this? You are not only a murderer, you are a hypocrite. The proof lies out there.
Captain Nemo: You call that murder? Well, I see murder, too. Not on those drowned faces out there, but on the faces of dead thousands! They are the assassins, the dealers in death. I am the avenger!
-- James Mason (as Captain Nemo) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Fleischer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Captain Nemo: The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men.
-- James Mason (as Captain Nemo) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Fleischer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Captain Nemo: Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free! Imagine what would happen if they controlled machines such as this submarine boat. Far better that they think there's a monster and hunt me with harpoons.
-- James Mason (as Captain Nemo) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
The Deadly Affair
Year: 1966

Director:
Sidney Lumet
The Deadly Affair
Charles Dobbs: [to Ann about her nymphomania] I've never held your appetites against you. The unaddicted shouldn't blame the addicted.
-- James Mason in The Deadly Affair (1966)
The Deadly Affair
Year: 1966

Director:
Sidney Lumet
The Deadly Affair
Charles Dobbs: [to Elsa] What kind of daydreams did you dream, Mrs. fennan, that had so little of the world in them?
-- James Mason in The Deadly Affair (1966)