24 Movie Quotes about Motives with Audio

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1 Your motives were good, even though your reasoning was perfectly idiotic!

Suzanne Pleshette as Jo Anne Baker in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

2 Now, you must remember the enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.

Quote from Enter the Dragon (1973)

3 He's been kind to me. -Perhaps he had a motive. Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

Vincent Price as Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General

4 Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire cutters. You ever think of that?

Robert Strauss as Stanislas Animal Kuzawa in Stalag 17 (1953)

5 What do you mean I'm holding the wrong man? I got the motive, which is money, and the body, which is dead!

Rod Steiger as Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

6 I think you should recommend a decoration, sir. I don't think it matters what his motives were. It was a brilliant bit of soldiering.

Quote from Lawrence of Arabia

7 Unh! Never question my motives.

Julie Newmar as Catwoman in Batman (1966)

8 First, I'd establish a motive. In this case, the killer saw the size of the bug's _ and became insanely jealous.

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

9 Poor guy with a motive, baby.

Quote from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

10 The gods of Olympus are mysterious, and their motives are erratic.

Quote from Clash of the Titans (1981)