Movie quote quiz thingy answers
Since no one stumbled on the quiz to take it, and because I'm sure you're dying to know...



1. All your life, you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it’s like being ambushed by a grotesque. Guildenstern (Gary Oldman), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

2. Shaun: Why is Queen still playing?
David: Ah, we have a situation here.
Shaun: I KNOW!
Shaun (Simon Pegg) and David (Dylan Moran), Shaun of the Dead

3. Are you people insane? I’m the director. I make the casting decisions around here.
Ed Wood (Johnny Depp), Ed Wood

4. The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land.
King Arthur (or Arthur, King of the Britons; Graham Chapman), Monty Python and the Holy Grail

5. God, you two are sensitive! All I’m doing is implying some kind of ugly sordid sexual liaison. I’d be proud of that sort of thing.
Alex (Ewan McGregor), Shallow Grave

6. Whatcha got ain’t nothin’ new. This country’s hard on people. You can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.
Ellis (I’ll accept The Sheriff; Tommy Lee Jones), No Country for Old Men

7. General Murray: I can’t make out whether you’re a bloody madman or just half-witted.
Lawrence: I have the same problem.
Donald Wolfit and Peter O’Toole, Lawrence of Arabia

8. When I come back, I expect to find you gone. Wait for me!
Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant), Arsenic and Old Lace

9. Eli: I’m not in love with you any more.
Margot: I didn’t know that you ever were.
Eli: Let’s not make this any more difficult than it already is.
Owen Wilson and Gwyneth Paltrow, The Royal Tenenbaums

10. We would not seek a battle as we are, yet as we are, we say we will not shun it.
King Henry V (Kenneth Branagh, but will also accept Sir Laurence Olivier), Henry V

11. You’ve got an overdeveloped sense of vengeance. It’s going to get you into trouble someday.
Count Rugen (will also accept Six-Fingered Man, and would have given 10 points if anyone had called him Tyrone, but no one did; Christopher Guest), The Princess Bride

12. Vice. Virtue. It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you’re bound to live life fully.
Maude (Ruth Gordon), Harold and Maude

13. We’ve got armadillos in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening.
Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), This Is Spinal Tap

14. Lenny: You said I was your cousin!
George: That was a lie. If I was a relative of yours, I’d shoot myself.
John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, Of Mice and Men

15. Well, I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.
Elwood P Dowd (James Stewart), Harvey

16. But Captain, to obey—just like that—for obedience’s sake, without questioning, that’s something only people like you do.
The Doctor (Alex Angulo), Pan’s Labyrinth/El Laberinto del fauno, originally in Spanish

17. Luis: Is this kidnapping or robbery?
El Chivo: It could be the last day of your life.
Jorge Salinas and Emilio Echevarria, Amores Perros, originally in Spanish

18. What’s the use of worrying about your beard when your head’s about to be taken?
Gisaku (Kokuten Kodo), The Seven Samurai, originally in Japanese

19. Manni: What if I were in a coma, and the doc says, “One more day”?
Lola: I’d throw you into the ocean. Shock therapy.
Moritz Bleibtreu and Franka Potente, Run Lola Run (or Lola Rennt), originally in German

20. I had two heart attacks, an abortion, did crack—while I was pregnant. Other than that, I’m fine.
Amelie (Audrey Tautou), Le Fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain (or just Amelie), originally in French