Paul Brenner
paulbrenner.bsky.social
Paul Brenner
@paulbrenner.bsky.social
Writer of movie-related tomes and reader of everything. Adherent of the adage: “To be or not to be. That’s not even a question.”
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Wait for your laugh.”
Dick Powell in Christmas in July
#ChristmasInJuly #PrestonSturges #DickPowell
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you come a little bit closer, my boy, I can just crack your skull with my stick.”
Clifton Webb in Laura
#Laura #Preminger #OttoPreminger #CliftonWebb
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Klaus is a moron who knows only what he reads in The New York Post.”
Jeremy Kemp in Top Secret!
#TopSecret #DavidZucker #JerryZucker #JimAbrahams
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It's an old story with me. I was born out of time.”
Darwin Joston in Assault on Precinct 13
#AssaultOnPrecinct13 #JohnCarpenter #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Jack, I’m almost not crazy now.”
Gena Rowlands in Love Streams
#LoveStreams #Cassavetes #JohnCassavetes #GenaRowlands #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“What a noble subject . . . If he had only a noble king.”
Douglas Wilmer in El Cid
#ElCid #AnthonyMann
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that? If she figures that one out, she’s good!”
Groucho Marx in A Night at the Opera
#ANightAtTheOpera #SamWood #MorrieRyskind #GeorgeSKaufman #GrouchoMarx #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I was different. The whole damn country was different. Everything would be different right now too if I'd been half as a paranoid as I am today.”
Clint Eastwood in In the Line of Fire
#InTheLineOfFire #WolfgangPetersen #JeffMaguire #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m doomed . . . So this is how you get into Hell.”
Masaki Suda in Cloud
#Cloud #KiyoshiKurosawa #MasakiSuda #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting
#GoodWillHunting #GusVanSant #RobinWilliams #MattDamon #BenAffleck #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Although I’ve never even met the gentleman, Inspector Johns, he seems like a fan of mine. This afternoon we had a long conversation earlier in the day.”
Herbert Rawlinson in Jail Bait
#JailBait #EdwardWoodJr #EdWood #HerbertRawlinson
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The imperial headquarters is deceiving not just the people but us as well.”
Ken Watanabe in Letters From Iwo Jima
#LettersFromIwoJima #Eastwood #ClintEastwood #KenWatanabe #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Kids, dadblast 'em! . . . They cry at you when they're young, they yell at you when they're older, they borrows from you when they's middle-aged and they leave you alone to die. Without even paying you back! Children, phooey.”
Ray Walston in Popeye
#Popeye #RobertAltman
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A man gets set for trouble head on and it sneaks up behind him every time.”
Millard Mitchell in The Naked Spur
#TheNakedSpur#AnthonyMann #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Don't forget, a great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit.”
Anton Walbrook in The Red Shoes
#TheRedShoes #MichaelPowell #EmericPressburger #AntonWalbrook #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don’t get me first.”
Liza Minnelli in Cabaret
#Cabaret #Fosse #BobFosse #LIzaMinnelli #JayPressonAllen #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It’s my first posthumous work.”
Michel Piccoli in La Belle Noiseuse
#LaBelleNoiseuse #Rivette #JacquesRivette #MichelPiccoli #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I like you, Mr. Carpenter. You’re a real screwball.”
Billy Gray in The Day the Earth Stood Still
#TheDayTheEarthStoodStill #RobertWise #EdmundHNorth #BillyGray #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you want to be a success in life, forget the truth.”
Michael Ripper in Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
#DraculaHasRisenFromTheGrave #JohnElder #FreddieFrancis
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.”
Douglas Rain in 2001: A Space Odyssey
#2001ASpaceOdyssey #Kubrick #StanleyKubrick #ArthurCClarke #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“My first wrong move this evening. And I hasten to rectify it.”
Bing Crosby in Blue Skies
#BlueSkies #BingCrosby #StuartHeisler #ArthurSheekman
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Only I can drive people mad. Nobody can compel me.”
Anthony Wong in Hard-Boiled
#HardBoiled #JohnWoo
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“This is the story of those in the twilight time. Once human. Now monsters. In a world between the living and the dead. Monsters to be pitied! Monsters to be despised!”
Criswell in Night of the Ghouls
#NightOfTheGhouls #EdWood #EdwardWoodJr
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The idea was to kill myself, not feed the damned fish.”
Tippi Hedren in Marnie
#Marnie #Hitchcock #AlfredHitchcock #TippiHedren #JayPressonAllen
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
October 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It made me sick when I had to let ya kiss me. I only did it because ya begged me, ya hounded me and drove me crazy! And after ya kissed me, I always used to wipe my mouth! Wipe my mouth!”
Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage
#OhHumanBondage #BetteDavis
#moviequoteoftheday
October 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM