Enemy quotes

“I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.”
Robert Redford

“Today, I want to talk about our opponent this afternoon. They're bigger, faster, stronger, more experienced and on paper, they're just better. And they know it too. But I want to tell you something that they don't know. They don't know your heart. I do. I've seen it.”
Matthew McConaughey - Jack Lengyel

“It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.”
Norma Shearer

“- Arthur: We got a bogey on our tail!
- Mera: What does that even mean?
- Arthur: Enemy behind us!
- Mera: Why didn't you just say so?
- Arthur: Enemy behind us!”
Jason Momoa - Arthur
Amber Heard - Mera

“- Lt. Col. Hal Moore: I pray you watch over the young Jack Geoghegan. That I lead into battle. You use me as your instrument in this awful hell of war to watch over them. Especially if they're men like this one beside me, deserving of a future in your blessing and goodwill. Amen.
- 2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan: Amen.
- Lt. Col. Hal Moore: Oh, yes, and...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mel Gibson - Lt. Col. Hal Moore
Chris Klein - 2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan

“They are now face-to-face with the most fearsome military machine in the history of man, and I intend to use it and be back on base in time for the playoffs.”

Bruce Willis - General William Devereaux

“Tend to view our lives as if we're looking through a keyhole. It's a very limited view of the truth. So we have to fill in the blanks. We invent things. You invent enemies to test your strength against. You invent gods to protect you from these enemies. Who is the enemy? One minute you have friends. The next moment, they've slipped away.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“If that's how you treat your friends, Blake, I'm glad we're enemies.”

Denzel Washington - Nick Styles

“Little friend of all the world, nobody's enemy but my own.”
Cary Grant - Jimmy Monkley

“When you call happiness an enemy, then it's too late. Then you've already lost.”
Alexandra Maria Lara - Marlene Lauda

“- Lieutenant Joyce: I'm sorry, Sir. I thought you were the enemy.
- Commander Shears: Well, I'm an American, if that's what you mean.”
Geoffrey Horne - Lieutenant Joyce
William M. Holden - Shears

“There are no enemies in science, only phenomena to be studied.”
Robert Cornthwaite - Dr. Arthur Carrington

“Can't you just be a friendly neighborhoodSpider-Man?”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“- Baba Yaga: They will build statues of you from the bones of your enemies!
- Hellboy: Gonna need a shit-ton of bones.”
Troy James - Baba Yaga
David Harbour - Hellboy

“To know them is to eliminate them. Consequently, the purely military aspect of the problem is secondary. More important is the policing aspect. I know you dislike that word. But it's the only one that describes the work at hand.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“It's a faceless enemy, unrecognizable, blending in with hundreds of others. It is everywhere. In cafés, in the alleys of the Casbah, or in the very streets of the European quarter.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“- Col. Mathieu: What were they saying in Paris yesterday?
- Journalist: Nothing. Sartre's written another article.
- Col. Mathieu: Will you kindly explain to me why the Sartres are always born on the other side?
- Journalist: So you like Sartre, Colonel?
- Col. Mathieu: Not really, but I like him even less as an adversary.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

The word "torture" doesn't appear in our orders. We've always spoken of interrogation as the only valid method in a police operation directed against unknown enemies. As for the NLF, they request that their members, in the event of capture, should maintain silence for twenty-four hours, and then they may talk. So, the organization has already... (continue)(continue reading)
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“So we now average 4.2 attacks a day. We must distinguish between attacks on individuals and bombings. As usual, the problem involves first, the adversary, and second, the means to destroy him. There are 400,000 Arabs in Algiers. Are they all our enemies? We know they're not. But a small minority holds sway by means of terror and violence. We...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“- William Cecil: Mary is our foe! We must not bow to her as we bow before you!
- Queen Elizabeth I: You have the boldness to doubt my judgement!”
Guy Pearce - William Cecil
Margot Robbie - Queen Elizabeth I

“I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.”
Christopher Hampton

“Impostors who silently infiltrate, then take over on planets.”

Annette Bening - Supreme Intelligence

“Always forgive your enemies. Just don't forget their names.”
David O. Selznick

“- Richard M. Nixon: Maybe I should add the Beatles to my enemies list.
- Elvis Presley: You have an enemies list, sir?
- Richard M. Nixon: No.”
Bob Gunton - Richard M. Nixon
Rick Peters - Elvis Presley

“- Pvt. Cooper: I'm not about to second guess these things. They're the enemy, simple as that.
- Megan: This is no ordinary enemy.”
Kevin McKidd - Pvt. Cooper
Emma Cleasby - Megan