Quotes About The King's Speech

#1. I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.

Paul Haggis

#2. I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

Tom Hooper

#3. I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

Harvey Weinstein

#4. I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Vivienne Westwood

#5. One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as 'Slumdog Millionaire' in 2009 and 'The King's Speech' this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.

Gurinder Chadha

#6. In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

Tom Hooper

#7. Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

Michael Moore

#8. Instead of replying with my usual open-your-mind speech, I send love to my mother. Mom, I love you even though you are a critical, unforgiving horror show. This casserole sucks, but I like the way you roasted the walnuts.

A.S. King

#9. We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. She did not sing it at bedtimes because all small boys born to the High Speech must face the dark alone,

Stephen King

#11. If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

Sophocles

#13. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. Where the hell is Ronan? Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered since mankind developed speech.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. The engine of liberty must be greased with the blood of both the oppressors and the oppressed. There is no better lubrication for something so prone to rust and seizure." Sirius Vant, in a speech to the Sun Dogs, Unknown Planet, Aashaanti Corridor, final stages of the Triton Wars

Sara King

#18. We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. He watched groups of children in the play yard move their lips, raise and lower their teeth like white drawbridges, dance their tongues in the ritual mating of speech.

Stephen King

#20. Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech.

Simon Sinek

#21. Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

Van Jones

#22. Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Aberjhani

#23. Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#25. I spent three days with Don King, and I interviewed 45 people. I studied his speech, his mannerisms. He invited me to a couple of fights, and I watched him.

Ving Rhames

#26. It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.

David Maraniss

#27. Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war ... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#28. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#29. Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

Charles B. Rangel

#30. Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

#31. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Abigail Washburn

#32. Stories and novels consist of three parts: narration, which moves the story from point A to point B and finally to point Z; description, which creates a sensory reality for the reader; and dialogue, which brings characters to life through their speech.

Stephen King

#33. Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Harvey Weinstein