Movie Quotes


Annie Sullivan (Bancroft) at the water pump with Helen Keller (Patty Duke)

All quotes are from The Internet Movie Database's entries for each movie.

The Miracle Worker (Arthur Penn, 1962)
Role: Annie Sullivan

Annie Sullivan: All's fair in love and war.
Captain Arthur Keller (Victor Jory): This is not war.
Annie Sullivan: Well, it's not love!

Annie Sullivan, on Helen Keller: Pity for this tyrant? Is there anything she wants she doesn't get? I'll tell you what I pity... that the sun won't rise and set for her all her life, and every day you're telling her it will. What you and your pity do will destroy her, Captain Keller.

Annie Sullivan: It's less trouble to feel sorry for her than it is to teach her anything better.

Annie Sullivan: [after a breakthrough with Helen] Now all I have to teach you is one word - everything.


The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Role: Mrs. Robinson

Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin.
Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman): Yes?
Mrs. Robinson: Isn't there something you want to tell me?
Benjamin: Tell you?
Mrs. Robinson: Yes.
Benjamin: Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.
Mrs. Robinson: The number.
Benjamin: What?
Mrs. Robinson: The room number, Benjamin. I think you ought to tell me that.
Benjamin: Oh, you're absolutely right. It's 568.
Mrs. Robinson: Thank you.
Benjamin: You're welcome. Well... I'll see you later, Mrs. Robinson.

Benjamin: Oh my god.
Mrs. Robinson: Pardon?
Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. Oh no.
Mrs. Robinson: What's wrong?
Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you didn't... I mean, you didn't expect...
Mrs. Robinson: What?
Benjamin: I mean, you didn't really think I'd do something like *that*.
Mrs. Robinson: Like what?
Benjamin: What do you think?
Mrs. Robinson: Well, I don't know.
Benjamin: For god's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.
Mrs. Robinson: So?
Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.
Mrs. Robinson: [laughs]
Benjamin: Aren't you?

Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, I am *not* trying to seduce you.
Benjamin: I know that, but *please*, Mrs. Robinson, this is difficult...
Mrs. Robinson: Would you like me to seduce you?
Benjamin: What?
Mrs. Robinson: Is that what you're trying to tell me?
Benjamin: I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.

Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, I can't do this.
Mrs. Robinson: You what?
Benjamin: This is all terribly wrong.
Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable?
Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.


To Be or Not To Be (Alan Johnson, 1983)
Role: Anna Bronski

Anna Bronski: All these flowers on a Lieutenant's pay, you shouldn't have.
Lieutenant Andre Sobinski (Tim Matheson): That's OK. My father is a florist.

Lieutenant Andre Sobinski: I loved that picture of you on the farm. You behind the plow. By the way, where was that?
Anna Bronski: In the "Chronicle".
Lieutenant Andre Sobinski: No, I mean where's the farm?
Anna Bronski: Oh, the farm. The farm. Well, that's out of town somewhere... You know, that's where they keep them.

Anna Bronski: Oh, but that's enough talk about me. Let's talk about you. How'd you like me in the first act?

Colonel Erhardt (Charles Durning): Mrs. Bronski, Mrs. Bronski, Mrs. Bronski.
Anna Bronski: We're all here.

Sasha (James Haake): Are you all right?
Anna Bronski: I'm fine.
Sasha: Then why are you on the floor?
Anna Bronski: The Floor? I'm on the floor? I'm on the FLOOR. Well get me up.

Sasha: Enter, Andre Sobinski.
Anna Bronski: Exit, Sasha Kinski.

Anna Bronski: [to her pet dog] Mootkie, we are living in a rat hole.

Nazi officer: You are sitting in Col. Erhardt's chair.
Anna Bronksi: Oh, how silly of me. Ten minutes ago it was my chair.

Anna Bronski: They say its going to be a really cold winter.
Capt. Schultz, of Erhardt's Staff (Christopher Lloyd): I don't know anyzing about zat!

Anna Bronski: Oh look, a piano! With KEYS! And it WORKS!

Anna Bronski: He's world-famous in Poland!

Anna Bronski: [as the Nazis are searching for Sasha] First you invade Poland, then you invade Warsaw, then you invade my dressing room... you people are compulsive invaders!

Anna Bronski: [Anna has just turned down Erhardt's invitation for supper] I never sup after I've dined.


Anne Bancroft: 1931-2005