Quotes from Albert Finney movies and TV shows

John Newton: Although my memory's fading, I remember two things. I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

William Wilberforce: I thought time might have changed you.
John Newton: It has. I'm older.

John Newton: God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms. Drip. Drip. Drip.

John Newton: Besides, people like you too much to let you live a life of solitude.
William Wilberforce: Haven't you chosen solitude?
John Newton: You of all people should know I can never be alone.

Kurt Potter: Wha... how did you do this?
Erin Brockovich: Well, um, seeing as how I have no brains or legal expertise, and Ed here was losing all faith in the system, am I right?
Ed Masry: Oh, yeah, completely. No faith, no faith.
Erin Brockovich: I just went out there and performed sexual favors. Six hundred and thirty-four blow jobs in five days... I'm really quite tired.

Ed Masry: In a law firm you may want to re-think your wardrobe a little.
Erin Brockovich: Well as long as I have one ass instead of two I'll wear what I like if that's all right with you. You might want to re-think those ties.

Ed Masry: What makes you think you can just walk in there and find what we need?
Erin Brockovich: They're called boobs, Ed.

Ed Masry: I'd love to help, Erin, but I'm sorry, I have a full staff right now, so.
Erin Brockovich: Bullshit. If you had a full staff, this office would return a client's damn phone calls.

Ebenezer Scrooge: How shall I ever understand this world? There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty, and yet, there is nothing it condemns with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.

Ebenezer Scrooge: I hate life.
Ghost of Christmas Present: Nonsense, man! Why?
Ebenezer Scrooge: Because life hates me, that's why.
Ghost of Christmas Present: Scrooge, you're an even bigger fool than I took you for.

Jacob Marley's Ghost: You will be visited by three ghosts.
Ebenezer Scrooge: I... I think I'd rather not.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Who are you?
Ghost of Christmas Past: I am the spirit whose coming was foretold to you.
Ebenezer Scrooge: You don't look like a ghost.
Ghost of Christmas Past: Thank you.
Ebenezer Scrooge: May I inquire as to more precisely who or what you are?
Ghost of Christmas Past: I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Ebenezer Scrooge: Long past?
Ghost of Christmas Past: No. Your past.

Kincade: Welcome to Scotland!

Mark Wallace: If there's one thing I really despise, it's an indispensable woman.

Joanna Wallace: Shouldn't get too much sun the first day.
Mark Wallace: I don't burn. I've got asbestos skin.

Howard Manchester: Now, I warn you solemnly, Marcus, you're denying Joanna the right to be her own, paradoxical self.
Mark Wallace: Howard, you're the largest pocket of untapped natural gas known to man.

Mark Wallace: What kind of people just sit like that without a word to say to each other?
Joanna Wallace: Married people?

Mark Wallace: Just wish that you'd stop sniping.
Joanna Wallace: I haven't said a word.
Mark Wallace: Just because you use a silencer doesn't mean you're not a sniper.

Mark Wallace: We agreed before we were married we weren't gonna have any children.
Joanna Wallace: And before we were married we didn't.

Mark Wallace: It's really meant for photographing three-dimensional subjects.
Joanna Wallace: I'm three dimensional, as a matter of fact.