Midnight Run Quotes

#1. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Peter S. Jennison

#2. Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best.

Emma Straub

#3. Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Katey Sagal

#4. It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.

Ben Affleck

#5. At midnight tears
Run into your ears.

Louise Bogan

#6. Maybe Cinderella didn't live happily ever after. Maybe, come midnight, she wanted to run away. Maybe her price wouldn't let her. Mine didn't.

J.M. Darhower

#7. I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

Oriana Fallaci

#8. Run, Bella, run. I love you too much, for your good or mine.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#10. When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

Simon R. Green

#11. I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

Dario Argento

#12. You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

Adam McKay

#13. Religion has always been the fuel that keeps the furnaces of intolerance and hatred burning.

Raymond Khoury

#14. What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

Joe Pantoliano

#15. The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

Jillian Bach

#16. Barely four feet tall back then, at least a foot shorter than him, and yet she'd said, "I won't run anymore. I won't try to leave. I've decided to stay and protect you." "Why?" Midnight black eyes afire in a sun-browned face that was all sharp bones. "Because you don't have a monster inside you.

Nalini Singh

#17. Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

A Beautiful Mind Movie

#18. And you, Mary, if you must run off to London, why do it in that unfinished manner, so that I was left without the car, and couldn't catch anything until the midnight train at Northallerton? It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#19. And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, punch him in the face and then run like hell.
- Eve Rosser

Rachel Caine

#20. Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.

John Carroll Lynch

#21. Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

John Mason Brown

#22. Don't run away, It only fuels the flames. Don't pull away, It only makes me wanna stay.

Tegan Quin

#23. I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians ... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.

Ray William Johnson

#24. One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real.

Andy Daly

#25. To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia

Jim Noel

#26. I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

John Waters

#27. Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water's edge, diving into summer's heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore ...

Carew Papritz

#28. And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Larry David

#29. It's time, my children
When the waves rise high
When the waters run deep
When the clock strikes midnight
You'll feel the mark of Zero Hour
And you'll never be the same again

Lisa Mangum