David Duchovny from The X-Files | PopCultureQuotes.com

Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by the fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.

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By: David Duchovny
Characters: Fox Mulder
From: The X-Files
Genres: Cult Television | Drama | Mystery | Science Fiction | Suspense | Television

Context:
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is speaking to Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) about their current case - a series of violent killings committed by seemingly normal residents of a small town. Mulder is pondering whether a rogue government agency may be responsible for purposely spreading a chemical in the area, causing the behavior as a means of controlling the population. This episode of The X-Files (Season 2, Episode 3) originally aired on September 30, 1994.

Dale Dye, Henry Czerny from Mission: Impossible | PopCultureQuotes.com

Eugene Kittridge: You and I know about this, that's where it stops. You understand? It never happened.
Frank Barnes: What about him?
Eugene Kittridge: I want him manning a radar tower in Alaska by the end of the day; just mail him his clothes.

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By: Dale Dye | Henry Czerny
Characters: Eugene Kittridge | Frank Barnes
From: Mission: Impossible
Genres: Action | Adventure | Spy and Espionage

Context:
Henry Czerny (as Eugene Kittridge) speaks to his associate Frank Barnes (played by actor Dale Dye) just after finding out that a top secret list of undercover agents has been stolen from CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Kittridge wants to avoid the embarrassment that would come from others learning of the theft out of one of the most secure buildings in the world.

Henry Czerny from Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One | PopCultureQuotes.com

Your days of fighting for the so-called greater good are over. This is our chance to control the truth, the concepts of right and wrong, for everyone, for centuries to come. You're fighting to save an ideal that doesn't exist... never did. You need to pick a side.

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By: Henry Czerny
Characters: Eugene Kittridge
From: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sequels | Spy and Espionage

Context:
Ominous words from Henry Czerny (as Eugene Kittridge), presumably to Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt, in the trailer for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One.

Mel Gibson from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | PopCultureQuotes.com

Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me.

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By: Mel Gibson
Characters: Max Rockatansky
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
Mel Gibson's Max overhears a group of settlers at a gasoline refinery discuss finding a trailer to haul their precious fuel through the Wasteland and sees the opportunity to make a deal to nab some fuel for his vehicle.

Bruce Spence from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | PopCultureQuotes.com

NO! It's MY snake, I trained it, I'M going to eat it! I got a recipe for snake. Delicious. Fricassee of reptile. You are what you eat.

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By: Bruce Spence
Characters: The Gyro Captain
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
The Gyro Captain, played by Bruce Spence, fights with Max's dog over a dead snake for his food. His snake died while defending his copter from a bandit, who also died.

Kjell Nilsson from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | PopCultureQuotes.com

There has been too much violence. Too much pain. None here are without sin. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give me your pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the Wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.

I await your answer. You have a full day to decide.

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By: Kjell Nilsson
Characters: The Humungus
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
The Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), leader of a dangerous gang, offers a deal to members of a community of settlers living at a gasoline refinery. He makes the offer in order to gain control of the facility without additional violence, after a skirmish takes the lives of members of both groups.

Kjell Nilsson from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | PopCultureQuotes.com

Be still, my dog of war. I understand your pain. We've all lost someone we love. But, we do it my way. We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then, you shall have your revenge.

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By: Kjell Nilsson
Characters: The Humungus
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
The Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), leader of a brutal gang, attempts to console his finest warrior, Wez (Vernon Wells), whose partner has just been killed during a skirmish with members of a community living on the site of a gasoline refinery the gang is attempting to loot for themselves.

Kjell Nilsson from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | PopCultureQuotes.com

I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.

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By: Kjell Nilsson
Characters: The Humungus
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
The Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) reveals that he has been made aware of a plot by a group of settlers living at a gasoline refinery, to escape the Wasteland with their gasoline in tow. He learned of the plan by torturing a scout the settlers sent out their encampment to find a rig to haul the precious cargo.

Harold Baigent from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | PopCultureQuotes.com

My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos... ruined dreams... this wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max." To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time... when the world was powered by the black fuel... and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now... swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed... men like Max... the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything... and became a shell of a man... a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.

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By: Harold Baigent
Characters: Narrator (The Road Warrior)
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
The Narrator (voiced by Harold Baigent) sets up the storyline at the beginning of The Road Warrior.

Luoyong Wang from Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | PopCultureQuotes.com

Yip Man: Kung fu is more than a system of fighting. It's a system of thought. You must outthink your opponent, whatever form he takes... because some of them will be more than just men.
Voice of Young Bruce: What else could it be Si Fu?
Yip Man: We all have inner demons to fight. We call these demons 'fear', and 'hatred', and 'anger'. If you don't conquer them, then a life of a hundred years... is a tragedy. But if you do, a life of a single day can be a triumph.

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By: Luoyong Wang
Characters: Yip Man
From: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | History | Martial Arts

Context:
Luoyong Wang (as Grandmaster Yip Man) lectures a young Bruce Lee on philosophy in martial arts. In this case, the importance of understanding Kung Fu as more than a way to defend yourself.

Jason Scott Lee from Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | PopCultureQuotes.com

Emotion can be the enemy... Remember, it isn't size or strength that matters, it's focus.

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By: Jason Scott Lee
Characters: Bruce Lee
From: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | History | Martial Arts

Context:
Jason Scott Lee (as Bruce Lee) speaks to his first martial arts students in a gymnasium at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Jason Scott Lee from Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | PopCultureQuotes.com

When I was a kid I had all these crazy ideas. I wanted to show the world the beauty of our culture, I wanted to give them a hero, but a Chinese hero. But I want something else now - I want to stop breaking my wife's heart. I want to play with my children without having to look at the clock. They're American... I need to go back to America or I lose them. If I lose them, nothing means anything.

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By: Jason Scott Lee
Characters: Bruce Lee
From: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | History | Martial Arts

Context:
Jason Scott Lee (as Bruce Lee) tells Hong Kong film producer Raymond Chow about his desire to spend more time with his wife and kids. The actor has been in Asia working on a number of film projects, taking up much of his time.

Jason Scott Lee from Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | PopCultureQuotes.com

When you drop a pebble in a pond you get ripples... Soon that ripple crosses the whole pond.

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By: Jason Scott Lee
Characters: Bruce Lee
From: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | History | Martial Arts

Context:
Jason Scott Lee, playing martial arts legend Bruce Lee, tells his wife Linda, played by Lauren Holly, about his plan to open the first Bruce Lee Gung Fu Institute in California. Lee's hope was to create a chain of Chinese martial arts schools throughout the United States.