Quotes of: Why-not Keyword

Albert Mondego: Who are you, and why are you doing this? Luigi: We are bad men, and for the money!

The Count of Monte Cristo

Reggie Lampert: Why do people have to tell lies? Peter Joshua: Usually it's because they want something. They are afraid the truth won't get it for them.

Charade

Charlie Chaplin: Syd, I love this country. I owe it everything. That's why I *can* make fun of it!

Chaplin

Kane's Father: A good whuppin's all the kid really needs. Mary Kane: That's why I'm sending him where you can't get at him.

Citizen Kane

[Why he was cutting the heads off parking meters] Luke: Small town, not much to do in the evenin'.

Cool Hand Luke

Caged Animal Masturbator: It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.

Clerks

Dante Hicks: [about the Death Star in "Return of the Jedi"] All right, so they bring in independent contractors, why are you so upset at its destruction?

Clerks

Dr. Schreber: You are probably wondering why I keep appearing in your memories, John. It is because I have inserted myself into them.

Dark City

Jeff: I don't understand. In musicals, why do they start to sing and dance all of a sudden? I mean, I don't suddenly start... to sing and dance.

Dancer in the Dark

Vicomte de Valmont: Why do you suppose we only feel compelled to chase the ones who run away? Marquise de Merteuil: Immaturity?

Dangerous Liaisons

Train Fireman: That doesn't explain why you've come all the way out here... all the way out here to hell.

Dead Man

Madolyn: Why is the last patient of the day always the hardest? Billy Costigan: Because you're tired and you don't give a shit. It's not super-natural.

The Departed

Count Dracula: To die, to be *really* dead, that must be glorious! Mina Seward: Why, Count Dracula! Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Dracula

Van Helsing: We have learned much. Dracula fears us. He fears time. For if he does not, why does he hurry so.

Dracula

[Dunbar has found an old skeleton on the prairie] Timmons: I'll bet someone back east is going, "Now why don't he write?"

Dances with Wolves

Cal Trask: Hey Aron, why don't you ask me where I've been? Aron Trask: Would you tell me? Cal Trask: No.

East of Eden

Major König: He isn't dead, and do you know why? Because I haven't killed him yet.

Enemy at the Gates

Annie: The first passage will allow the demon to manifest itself in the flesh. Ash: Why the hell would we want to do that?

Evil Dead II

[Waiting to be baptized in a swimming pool] Vampira: Why couldn't we do this in the church? Criswell: Because Brother Tor couldn't fit in the sacred tub.

Ed Wood

Georgie Weiss: Why would Lugosi wanna do a sex-change flick? Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Because he's my friend!

Ed Wood

Brian Taylor: So Mr. Big Evil, why do they call you Big Evil? Big Evil: Because, my evil is big.

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