24 Movie Quotes about Motives (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 25, 2025

Memorable quotes about motives, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 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.

Bruce Lee as Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

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

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

3 Unh! Never question my motives.

Julie Newmar as Catwoman in Batman (1966)

4 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

5 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.

Toole as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia

6 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)

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

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

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 We're not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime.

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange

10 Poor guy with a motive, baby.

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

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