Ernie Bishop: Just a minute! Quiet everybody! Quiet, quiet. Now get this, it's from London. Ma Bailey: Oh! Ernie Bishop: [Reading the telegram in his hand] Mr. Gower cabled you need cash, stop. My office instructed to advance you up to twenty-five th...
Georg Dreyman: The state office for statistics on Hans-Beimler street counts everything; knows everything: how many pairs of shoes I buy a year: 2.3, how many books I read a year: 3.2 and how many students graduate with perfect marks: 6,347. But ther...
Yuri Orlov: You read the newspapers, Vit? Vitaly Orlov: Newspaper? It's always the same. Yuri Orlov: You're right. Every day there's people shooting each other. You know what I do when I see that? I look to see what guns they're using and I think to ...
Shang: Let me see your conscription notice. [Reads it] Shang: Fa Zhou? The Fa Zhou? Chi Fu: I didn't know Fa Zhou had a son. Mulan: Well, he doesn't talk about me much. [Tries to spit, but ends up with a glop of spit hanging from her lip] Chi Fu: I c...
Isaac Davis: I got a kid, he's being raised by two women at the moment. Mary Wilke: Oh, y'know, I mean I think that works. Uh, they made some studies, I read in one of the psychoanalytic quarterlies. You don't need a male, I mean. Two mothers are abs...
Senate Minority Leader, Barnes: [Watches as Smith reads a note passed to him from the gallery] Does the gentleman wish to yield? Jefferson Smith: Yield? Oh, no. I feel fine! The Constitution of the United States! [Barnes throws both hands high in the...
Young Noah: [raising fists in air] Dad! God... I stammered! Frank: Stammered, stuttered... what's the difference. You couldn't understand a damn thing he said. [Allie laughing] Frank: Anyway, I got him to read some poetry aloud and pretty soon his st...
Flora: She says its her piano and she won't have him touch it. He's an oaf. He can't read. He's ignorant. Stewart: He wants to improve himself. And you'll be able to play it. Teach him how to look after it. You can't go on like this. We're a family n...
Jellon Lamb: Perhaps you've read "On the Origin of the Species By Means of Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin. Oh, don't be thrown by the title, he had some most fascinating things to say. Chilling things. Mr. Darwin spent time studying Aboriginals...
Colette: [reading a recipe] Sweetbread a la Gusteau: Sweetbread cooked in a seaweed salt crust with cuttlefish tentacle, dog rose puree, geoduck egg, dried white fungus? Anchovy licorice sauce... Uh, I don't know this recipe, but it's Gusteau, so... ...
Richie: Read it back to me so far, Pietro. Cote d'Ivoire Radio Operator: [speaks with an Italian accent, his words are shown in subtitles] "Dear Eli, I'm in the middle of the ocean. I haven't left my room in four days. I've never been more lonely in ...
P.L. Travers: [reading the script] 'Scene one, exterior, Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, Day.' Yes, that's good. That can stay. Richard Sherman: That's just a scene heading. P.L. Travers: Though I do think we should say 'Number Seventeen,' instead of jus...
Dr. John Cawley: [examines Rachel's note] Ah, this is definitely Rachel's handwriting. I have no idea... what the "Law of Four" is, though. Teddy Daniels: It's not a psychiatric term? Dr. John Cawley: No, I'm afraid not. Chuck Aule: [reads the note] ...
Don Lockwood: Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never be...
Computer: You've got mail. Scott Pilgrim: [Turns To Wallace] Dude, this thing claims I have mail. Wallace Wells: [groggily] It's amazing what we can do with computers these days. Scott Pilgrim: [Turns back] Dude, now I'm totally reading it. Wallace W...
Dascomb: Chancellor, there is a contingency that has not been addressed. Sutler: And what is that, Mr. Dascomb? Dascomb: Should the terrorist succeed... Sutler: He won't! Dascomb: I understand that it is highly unlikely, but if he does... Sutler: If ...
Damien: Give me your letters, Chris. [Damien holds out his hand. Chris just looks at him] Damien: Give me your letters, Chris! Chris: I didn't know what to write. And Mam can't read. [Damien lets his hand fall, sighs] Chris: Just tell her I love her....
Withnail: [seeing a road sign reading "ACCIDENT BLACK SPOT. DRIVE WITH EXTREME CARE"] Look at that, accident black spot! These aren't accidents! They're throwing themselves into the road gladly! Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hi...
Robert Graysmith: [arriving to their date] How late am I? [he knocks over a drink] Melanie: Just a few minutes really. I just got here myself. Robert Graysmith: Traffic was bumper to bumper. I was at the gun range. Melanie: Glynis said you were a car...
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've...
Nina: Lester? Lester Siegel: Nina, you look fabulous. You're doing the reading? Nina: I'm playing Serksi, the Galactic Witch. Lester Siegel: Great. I'll call you. [walking away from Nina, talks to John] Lester Siegel: Keep that fucking space witch aw...