Soapy:
It may interest to you to know, my good man, that I and the minutest coin of the realm are total strangers.
Waiter: How's that?
Soapy: I said I was broke!
--Charles Laughton (as Soapy) in O. Henry's Full House
Waiter: How's that?
Soapy: I said I was broke!
--Charles Laughton (as Soapy) in O. Henry's Full House
Captain Donahue:
What kind of a place did you say this was, Doc?
Dr. Moreau: I didn't say.
--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls
Dr. Moreau: I didn't say.
--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls
Anne Terry:
You told me you'd have that picture destroyed!
Jonathan Reynolds: Destroyed? If I'd done that, they'd never have seen it.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: They?
Jonathan Reynolds: Those women... those bead-twirlers. They called before they left.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: They're gone! I mean... they've gone?
Jonathan Reynolds: Well, they saw the picture in the paper. They said they were taking the first train to Mexico City. I advised them to take a plane - *quicker*.
--Charles Laughton (as Jonathan Reynolds) in It Started with Eve
Jonathan Reynolds: Destroyed? If I'd done that, they'd never have seen it.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: They?
Jonathan Reynolds: Those women... those bead-twirlers. They called before they left.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: They're gone! I mean... they've gone?
Jonathan Reynolds: Well, they saw the picture in the paper. They said they were taking the first train to Mexico City. I advised them to take a plane - *quicker*.
--Charles Laughton (as Jonathan Reynolds) in It Started with Eve
Henrietta Barrett:
Is it nothing to you that I shall hate you for this to the end of my life?
Edward Moulton-Barrett: Less than nothing.
--Charles Laughton (as Edward Moulton) in The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Edward Moulton-Barrett: Less than nothing.
--Charles Laughton (as Edward Moulton) in The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Edward Parker:
Those poor things out there in the jungle. Those animals. They - They talk.
Dr. Moreau: That was my first great achievement. Articulate speech controlled by the brain. And it was a great achievement! Oh, it takes a long time and infinite patience to make them talk.
[Moreau gives an impish smile and a chuckle]
Dr. Moreau: Someday I will create a woman and it'll be easier.
--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls
Dr. Moreau: That was my first great achievement. Articulate speech controlled by the brain. And it was a great achievement! Oh, it takes a long time and infinite patience to make them talk.
[Moreau gives an impish smile and a chuckle]
Dr. Moreau: Someday I will create a woman and it'll be easier.
--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls
Miss Plimsoll:
Shall we roll up the window, Sir Wilfrid?
Sir Wilfrid: Just roll up your mouth, you talk too much. If I'd known how much you talk I'd never have come out of my coma. This thing weighs a ton.
[He tosses toward Plimsoll a robe he is under during the trip from hospital to home]
--Charles Laughton (as Sir Wilfrid) in Witness for the Prosecution
Sir Wilfrid: Just roll up your mouth, you talk too much. If I'd known how much you talk I'd never have come out of my coma. This thing weighs a ton.
[He tosses toward Plimsoll a robe he is under during the trip from hospital to home]
--Charles Laughton (as Sir Wilfrid) in Witness for the Prosecution
Lentulus Biatatus:
There's one man I hate: Crassus.
Sempronius Gracchus: You've grown very ambitious in your hatred.
--Charles Laughton (as Sempronius Gracchus) in Spartacus
Sempronius Gracchus: You've grown very ambitious in your hatred.
--Charles Laughton (as Sempronius Gracchus) in Spartacus
Ruth Thomas:
[hearing chanting] What's that?
Dr. Moreau: The natives, they have a curious ceremony. Mr. Parker has witnessed it.
Ruth Thomas: Tell us about it, Edward.
Edward Parker: Oh, it's... it's nothing.
Dr. Moreau: They are restless tonight.
--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls
Dr. Moreau: The natives, they have a curious ceremony. Mr. Parker has witnessed it.
Ruth Thomas: Tell us about it, Edward.
Edward Parker: Oh, it's... it's nothing.
Dr. Moreau: They are restless tonight.
--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls
[a waiter brings Jonathan Sr. an enormous, fruit-fillled cocktail]
Anne Terry: What's that?
Jonathan Reynolds: It's a Reynolds Special.
Anne Terry: Oh, but you shouldn't be... what's in it?
Jonathan Reynolds: Oh, oh, nothing but, ah, coconut milk and, ah, vegetable juices. Doctor Harvey orders it for me. It's horrible.
Anne Terry: Then why do you drink it.
Jonathan Reynolds: It reminds me of Doctor Harvey and make me hate him and when I hate him, I feel good.
--Charles Laughton (as Jonathan Reynolds) in It Started with Eve
Anne Terry: What's that?
Jonathan Reynolds: It's a Reynolds Special.
Anne Terry: Oh, but you shouldn't be... what's in it?
Jonathan Reynolds: Oh, oh, nothing but, ah, coconut milk and, ah, vegetable juices. Doctor Harvey orders it for me. It's horrible.
Anne Terry: Then why do you drink it.
Jonathan Reynolds: It reminds me of Doctor Harvey and make me hate him and when I hate him, I feel good.
--Charles Laughton (as Jonathan Reynolds) in It Started with Eve
[first lines]
Capt. William Kidd: Stab me, there's a pretty sight!
Orange Povey: It'll be prettier still when the fire reaches the magazine, Captain.
Cyprian Boyle: Pity though. Lots of stout seamen among 'em. They've been with us a long time.
Capt. William Kidd: We can none of live forever, Mr. Boyle. Dead men don't talk.
--Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd) in Captain Kidd
Capt. William Kidd: Stab me, there's a pretty sight!
Orange Povey: It'll be prettier still when the fire reaches the magazine, Captain.
Cyprian Boyle: Pity though. Lots of stout seamen among 'em. They've been with us a long time.
Capt. William Kidd: We can none of live forever, Mr. Boyle. Dead men don't talk.
--Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd) in Captain Kidd
