Motive quotes

“I don't know why I left your papa that day, but sometimes you get pushed and pulled without ever knowing the reasons why. But I knew I couldn't stay. I had to be with Mama and Papa Kawamura.”
Tamlyn Tomita - Lily Yuriko Kawamura

“I think it's well-known that anti-Americanism has its roots in sexualimpotence, at least in Europe.”
Chris Eigeman - Fred Boynton

“Shave off that pathetic goatee. Get some surgery. Sixty's the new thirty, motherfucker!”
Benjamin Kanes - Young Birdman

“You must stand for something, you must live for something! And you must be willing to die for something!”
Jamie Hector - Mutulu

“- Ben Hanscom: I thought you said you wanted to get out of this town too.
- Beverly Marsh: Because I want to run towards something, not away.
- Richie Tozier: I'm sorry, but who invited Molly Ringwald into the group?”
Jeremy Ray Taylor - Ben Hanscom
Sophia Lillis - Beverly Marsh
Finn Wolfhard - Richie Tozier

“- Oishi Kazihiro: In Japan, when production lags, worker stays longer in factory.
- Hunt Stevenson: Okay, overtime. We can talk about overtime. I understand it now.
- Oishi Kazihiro: They do not do it for pay. They do it for company.
- Hunt Stevenson: Yeah, but that's there, this is here.”
Gedde Watanabe - Oishi Kazihiro
Michael Keaton - Hunt Stevenson

“I have a client in jail for a busted tail light and I can't get him out.”
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“Even caring has an ulterior motive.”
Richard Libertini - Alexander Paley

“Drop your nuts and move your butts!”
Jason Sudeikis - Red

“You're the reason why I get up at 4:00 in the afternoon and pump iron until my chest is positively sick.”

Will Arnett - Batman

“- Martland: Can you think of a good reason why I shouldn't arrest you right now?
- Mortdecai: I eschew discomfort?”
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Martland
Johnny Depp - Mortdecai

“- Nash: For Emil it's personal but for you it's all about greed.
- Pavlou: For a hundred million it's a lot more than that.”

Pierce Brosnan - Nash
Benno Fürmann - Pavlou

“- Torquil: I don't kill men without good reason.
- Prince Colwyn: Nor do I. And be thankful for it.”
Alun Armstrong - Torquil
Ken Marshall - Colwyn

“My makeup's running, my hair's a mess,and I'm gonna die! Why? Because I didn't listen to my mother, and fell for a foreign accent with a hand growing out of his head!”
Esther Huston - Tina

“- Ben: Tell me why are you doing this?
- Reid: Something happened to me...”
Ben Rovner - Ben
Reid Warner - Reid

“- Kate Ellis: The young you still lives inside you!
- Maura Ellis: Just like shingles ya'll!”
Tina Fey - Kate Ellis
Amy Poehler - Maura Ellis

“Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?”
Anthony Quinn

“The wolf is a very misunderstood creature. He never kills for sport, only what is needed. And he always protects the young... and the old.”
George Hamilton - Dracula

“Things don't happen for a reason. They just happen.”
Meg Ryan - Alice Bowman

“Some came mainly because we were bored at home, thought this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came because it was the right thing to do. And all of us have seen men die. This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, for women, for some other...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“A week ago I bought a rifle, I went to the store - I bought a rifle! I was gonna... if they told me I had a tumor, I was gonna kill myself. The only thing that might have stopped me is that my parents would be devastated. I would have to shoot them also, first. And then I have an aunt and uncle, it would've been a blood bath.”
Woody Allen - Mickey

“I'd slap you in the mouth if I thought it would do you any good.”

Priscilla Lane - Character

“- Rebel Sniper: Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you.
- Katniss Everdeen: I can't.”
Thomas Blake Jr. - Rebel Sniper
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen

My first day here, he beat me because I threw out the bones from dinner. He came down at midnight and asked for them. And I asked him, I don't know how, I could never ask him now, I said, "Why are you beating me?". He said, "The reason I beat you now is because you ask why I beat you".

Embeth Davidtz - Helen Hirsch

“You know, a lot of doctors have different theories about why I did it: Mother complex. Father complex. Feelings of inferiority. Suppressed rage. But I, and I alone, know the reason that I did it... It was because... he was so Polish!”

Dom DeLuise - Marlon Borunki