Paul Brenner
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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:
“I'm an asshole . . .”
Kurt Russell in Escape From New York
#EscapeFromNewYork #JohnCarpenter #KurtRussell
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Destiny has brought me here. Destiny has brought me this lamb chop.”
Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon
#Napoleon #RidleyScott #JoaquinPhoenix #DavidScarpa
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Everyone seems to having nearly as much fun as I am.”
Zeppo Marx in Monkey Business
#MonkeyBusiness #NormanZMcLeod #ZeppoMarx #MarxBrothers #SJPerelman #WillBJohnstone
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Maybe once a week I wake up paralyzed, re-living that night. But, before the sun went down, I think that was the best day of my life.”
Buddy Guy in Sinners
#Sinners #RyanCoogler #BuddyGuy #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Don’t believe truth, Archie. Just don’t believe truth.”
John Cassavetes in Husbands
#Husbands #JohnCassavetes #Cassavetes #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You want that gun, pick it up. I wish you would.”
John Wayne in Rio Bravo
#RioBravo #Hawks #HowardHawks #JohnWayne #LeighBrackett #JulesFurthman
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“God was wrong.”
James Mason in Bigger Than Life
#BiggerThanLife #NicholasRay #JamesMason #RichardMaibaum #CyrilHume
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Just because I want to give this money to people who need it, they think I'm crazy.”
Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
#MrDeedsGoesToTown #Capra #FrankCapra #RobertRiskin #GaryCooper #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.”
Werner Herzog in Grizzly Man
#GrizzlyMan #Herzog #WernerHerzog #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m never eating at Benihana again. I don’t care whose birthday party it is.”
Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street
#TheWolfOfWallStreet #Scorsese #MartinScorsese #JonahHill #TerenceWinter
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you are going to start all over again, your hands need to be clean.”
Thomas Mitchell in The Outlaw
#TheOutlaw #HowardHughes #ThomasMitchell #JulesFurthman #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Take 'em to Missouri, Matt!”
John Wayne in Red River
#RedRiver #Hawks #HowardHawks #JohnWayne #BordenChase #CharlesSchnee #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Any lie will find believers as long as you tell it with force enough.”
Greta Garbo in Queen Christina
#QueenChristina #RoubenMamoulian #GretaGarbo #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”
Jeanette Nolan in Macbeth
#Macbeth #Welles #OrsonWelles #JeanetteNolan #Shakespeare #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Got to sing every time I get mad, to drive those flying fishes out of my stomach.”
Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous
#CaptainsCourageous #VictorFleming #SpencerTracy
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You have meddled with the primal forces of nature and . . . YOU . . . WILL . . . ATONE!”
Ned Beatty in Network
#Network #SidneyLumet #PaddyChayevsky #NedBeatty #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I've got poetry in me. I do. I've got poetry in me!”
Warren Beatty in McCabe and Mrs. Miller
#McCabeAndMrsMiller #RobertAltman #WarrenBeatty #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Kevin Spacey in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
#MidnightInTheGardenOfGoodAndEvil #ClintEastwood #KevinSpacey #JohnLeeHancock
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“That’s our story and we’re stuck with it . . . in it.”
Stan Laurel in Sons of the Desert
#SonsOfTheDesert #WilliamASeiter #StanLaurel #LaurelAndHardy #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“What we professional liars hope to serve is truth. I’m afraid that the pompous word for that is art.”
Orson Welles in F. For Fake
#FforFake #Welles #OrsonWelles #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Buying the Brooklyn Bridge was no mistake. It’s going to make a lot of money for us someday!”
Oliver Hardy in Way Out West
#WayOutWest #JamesWHorne #LaurelAndHardy #OliverHardy #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I am a free gypsy child and anyone who tries to coerce me will lose.”
Title card for Pola Negri in Carmen
#Carmen #Lubitsch #ErnstLubitsch #PolaNegri
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Let us drink, gentlemen. Let us drink til we roll under the table in vomit and oblivion.”
Peter O’Toole in Becket
#Becket #PeterGlenville #EdwardAnhalt #PeterOToole
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal! The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master!”
Bela Lugosi in Bride of the Monster
#BrideOfTheMonster #EdWood #EdwardDWoodJr #BelaLugosi #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“My plays are art. They’re written specifically to go un-produced.”
Rob Reiner in Bullets Over Broadway
#BulletsOverBroadway #WoodyAllen #RobReiner
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM