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Schindler's List Quotes

Schindler's List is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Schindler's List ended its run in 1970.

It features Steven Spielberg, and Gerald R. Molen; Branko Lustig as producer, John Williams in charge of musical score, and Janusz Kamiński as head of cinematography.

Schindler's List is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Schindler's List is 195 minutessfn Schindler's List is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern, Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth, Caroline Goodall as Emilie Schindler, Ezra Dagan as Rabbi Menasha Lewartow, Elina Löwensohn as Reiter, Norbert Weisser as Hujar, Embeth Davidtz as Helen Hirsch, Andrzej Seweryn as Julian Scherner, Norbert Weisser as Albert Hujar, Hans-Michael Rehberg as Rudolph Hoss, Caroline Goodall as Child, Friedrich von Thun as Rolf Czurda, and Daniel Del Ponte as Moses.

Schindler's List Quotes

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler

  • (Liam Neeson) "How are you doing Rabbi?"
  • (Ezra Dagan) "Good Herr Direktor."
  • (Liam Neeson) "The sun is going down."
  • (Ezra Dagan) "Yes it is."
  • (Liam Neeson) "What day is it? Friday? It is Friday, isn't it?"
  • (Ezra Dagan) "Is it?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "What's the matter with you? You should be preparing for the Sabbath, shouldn't you. I've got some wine in my office. Come."
  • (Liam Neeson) "You'd leave a lady alone at a table in a place like this?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "Sweetheart, you're the picture of loneliness."
  • (Liam Neeson) "What do you say we get your fire hoses out here and hose down the cars? Indulge me."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Hujar."
  • (Norbert Weisser) "Yes sir?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Bring the fire hoses."
  • (Norbert Weisser) "Where's the fire?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "Why do you drink that motor oil? I send you good stuff all the time. Your liver's going to explode like a grenade."
  • (Liam Neeson) "War brings out the worst in people."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Look, all you have to do is tell me what it's worth to you. What's a person worth to you?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "No, no, no, No. What's one worth to you."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Boxed teas are good, coffee, Pâté -- Um, Kielbasa sausage, cheeses, Beluga caviar. And of course, who could live without German cigarettes? As many as you can find. Some more fresh fruit, the real rarities- oranges, lemons, pineapples. I'll need several boxes of Cuban cigars, the best. And dark unsweetened chocolate, not in the shape of lady fingers; the chunk chocolate, as big as my hand, you sample at wine tastings. I'm going to need lots of Cognac, the best, Hennessy. Dom Pérignon Champagne -- Um, get L'Espadon sardines. And, oh; try to find nylon stockings."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I go to work the other day. Nobody's there. Nobody tells me about this, I have to find out. I have to go in -- everybody's gone."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "No -- no. They're not gone. They're here."
  • (Liam Neeson) "They're MINE. Every day that goes by I'm losing money, every worker that is shot cost's me money, I have to find somebody else, I have to train them."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Don't be making so much money, none of this is going to matter."
  • (Liam Neeson) "It's bad business."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Gentlemen, thank you very much. I think I can guarantee you- you'll both be in Southern Russia before the end of the month. Good day."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "You think that's power?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor -- pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "I think you are drunk."
  • (Liam Neeson) "That's power, Amon. That is power."
  • (Liam Neeson) "What are you doing? These are mine. These are my workers. They should be on my train. They're skilled munitions workers. They're essential. Essential girls."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Their fingers polish the inside of shell metal casings. How else am I to polish the inside of a 45 millimeter shell casing? You tell me. You tell me."
  • (Unnamed) "Back on the train."
  • (Liam Neeson) "No doorman or Maitre d' will ever mistake you again. I promise."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Cry, and I will have you arrested. I swear to God."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I lost a worker. I expect to be compensated."
  • (Friedrich von Thun) "File a grievance with the Economic Office. It's your right."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Would it do any good?"
  • (Friedrich von Thun) "Of course not."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I'm not making any judgements about you. I just know that in the coming months, people are going to need more portable wealth."
  • (Hans-Michael Rehberg) "I could have you arrested."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I'm protected by powerful friends. You should know that."
  • (Hans-Michael Rehberg) "I do not say that I am accepting them. All I say is that I'm not comfortable with them on the table."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I kissed a Jewish girl."
  • (Unnamed) "Did your prick fall off?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "So the man can turn out a hinge in less than a minute, why the long story?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "The unconditional surrender of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow you'll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases -- you won't find them. After six long years of murder, victims are being mourned throughout the world. We've survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me. Thank yourselves. Thank your fearless Stern, and others among you who worried about you and faced death at every moment. I am a member of the Nazi Party. I'm a munitions manufacturer. I'm a profiteer of slave labor. I am -- a criminal. At midnight, you'll be free and I'll be hunted. I shall remain with you until five minutes after midnight, after which time; and I hope you'll forgive me; I have to flee."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I know you have received orders from our commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to dispose of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are; they're all here. This is your opportunity. Or, you could leave, and return to your families as men instead of murderers."
  • (Liam Neeson) "In memory of the countless victims among your people, I ask us to observe three minutes of silence."
  • (Liam Neeson) "They won't soon forget the name "Oskar Schindler" around here. "Oskar Schindler," they'll say, "everybody remembers him. He did something extraordinary. He did what no one else did. He came with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. And left with a steamer trunk, two steamer trunks, of money. All the riches of the world.""
  • (Liam Neeson) "How many?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "400, 450."
  • (Liam Neeson) "More. More."
  • (Liam Neeson) "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life; a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just -- I could have got more."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them."
  • (Liam Neeson) "If I'd made more money -- I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just --"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "There will be generations because of what you did."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I didn't do enough."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "You did so much."
  • (Liam Neeson) "This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people."
  • (Liam Neeson) "This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I could have gotten one more person -- and I didn't. And I -- I didn't."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I've been speaking to Goeth."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "I know the destination. These are the evacuation orders, I'm to help arrange the shipments, put myself on the last train."
  • (Liam Neeson) "That's not what I was going to say. I made Goeth promise to put in a good word for you. Nothing bad is going to happen to you there, you'll receive special treatment."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "The directives coming in from Berlin talk about "special treatment" more and more often. I'd like to think that's not what you mean."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Preferential treatment. All right? Do we have to create a new language?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "I think so."
  • (Liam Neeson) "In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn't me that failed. Something was missing. Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it because you can't create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure."
  • (Caroline Goodall) "Luck?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "War."

Elina Löwensohn as Reiter

  • (Elina Löwensohn) "I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Ah, an educated Jew -- like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer."
  • (Norbert Weisser) "Jawohl?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Shoot her."
  • (Elina Löwensohn) "Herr Kommandant. I'm only trying to do my job."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Ja, I'm doing mine."
  • (Elina Löwensohn) "It will take more than that."
  • (Unnamed) "I'm sure you're right."

Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth

  • (Ralph Fiennes) "It has a nice sheen to it. What is it, silk?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "Of course. I'd say I'd get you one but the man who made it's probably dead."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "I would like so much to reach out to you and touch you in your loneliness. What would it be like, I wonder? What would be wrong with that? I realize that you are not a person in the strictest sense of the word, but, um, maybe you're right about that too. Maybe what's wrong, it's not us, it's this -- I mean, when they compare you to vermin, to rodents and to lice. I just, uh, you make a good point. You make a very good point. Is this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? "Hath not a Jew eyes?" I feel for you Helen."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "No, I don't think so. You Jewish bitch, you nearly talked me into it, didn't you?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Scherner told me something else about you."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Yeah, what's that?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "That you know the meaning of the word 'gratitude.' That it's not some vague thing with you like it is with others. You want to stay where you are. You've got things going on the side, things are good. You don't want anybody telling you what to do. I can understand all that. You know, I know you -- What you want is your own sub-camp. Do you have any idea what's involved? The paperwork alone? Forget you've got to build the f***ing thing, getting the f***ing permits is enough to drive you crazy. Then the engineers show up. They stand around, they argue about drainage, foundations, codes, exact specifications, parallel fences four kilometers long, six thousand kilograms of electrified fences -- I'm telling you, you'll want to shoot somebody. I've been through it, you know, I know."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Well, you know, you've been through it. You could make things easier for me. I'd be grateful."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "We won't have arguments with these people."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago, when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great; so called; told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. They came with nothing. And they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Heil Hitler."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time. It's a matter of money? Hmm?"
  • (Wilhelm Kunde) "This street divides the ghetto just about in half. On the right, ghetto A, civil employees, industrial workers and so on. On the left, ghetto B, surplus labor, the elderly and infirm, mostly, which is where you will want to start. Any questions?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Ja. Why is the top down? I'm f***ing freezing."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "You want these people?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "These people. My people. I want my people."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Who are you? Moses?"
  • (Unnamed) "Amon, you're such a damn f***ing child."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Wakey-wakey."
  • (Unnamed) "Make coffee."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Make it yourself."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "One of you is a very lucky girl. There is an opening for a job away from all this back-breaking work, in my new villa. Umm, which of you has domestic experience? Ja, on second thought, I don't really want someone else's maid. All those annoying habits I'd have to undo."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "The truth, Helen, is always the right answer."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Oskar, there's a clerical error here at the bottom of the last page."
  • (Liam Neeson) "No, there's one more name I want to put there. I'll never find a maid as well trained as her at Brinnlitz. They are all country girls."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "No. No."
  • (Liam Neeson) "One hand of 21. If you win, I pay you 7400 Reichmarks. Hit a natural and I make it 14800. If I win, the girl goes on my list."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "I can't wager Helen in a card game."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Why not?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Wouldn't be right."
  • (Liam Neeson) "She's going to Auschwitz on Number Two anyway. What difference does it make?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "She's not going to Auschwitz. I'd never do that to her. No, I want her to come back to Vienna with me. I want her to come to work for me there. I want to grow old with her."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Are you mad? Amon, you can't take her to Vienna with you."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "No, of course I can't. That's what I'd like to do. What I can do, if I'm any sort of a man, is the next most merciful thing. I should take her into the woods and shoot her painlessly in the back of the head. What was it you said for a natural 21? Was it 14800?"
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Nobody knows who stole the chicken, hmm?"
  • (Unnamed) "Tell him about the chicken."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "A man walks around with a chicken and nobody notices this --"
  • (Unnamed) "Save yourselves, save yourself. Tell him about the chicken."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "Oh, Christ."
  • (Norbert Weisser) "May I try that, sir?"
  • (Unnamed) "Check the angle lever, maybe it's bent."
  • (Norbert Weisser) "No, no. You wouldn't hear a "click" if its the angle lever, it's the pin."
  • (Unnamed) "Maybe its the pin. Maybe the pin shaft is greasy?"
  • (Norbert Weisser) "What did I just say? Here."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "I pardon you."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "That's a nice suit. Is that silk? It's got a nice sheen to it."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I'd say "I'll get you one" only the man who made it is probably dead, I don't know."
  • (Ralph Fiennes) "This is very cruel, Oskar. You're giving them hope. You shouldn't do that. That's cruel."

Embeth Davidtz as Helen Hirsch

  • (Embeth Davidtz) "My first day here, he beat me because I threw out the bones from dinner. He came down at midnight and asked for them. And I asked him, I don't know how, I could never ask him now, I said, "Why are you beating me?" He said, "The reason I beat you now is because you ask why I beat you.""
  • (Liam Neeson) "I am sorry for your troubles, Helen."
  • (Embeth Davidtz) "I have accepted them."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Accepted them?"
  • (Embeth Davidtz) "One day, he will shoot me."
  • (Liam Neeson) "No, he won't shoot you."
  • (Embeth Davidtz) "He will. I see things. We were on the roof on Monday, young Lisiek and I and we saw the Herr Kommandant come out of the house on the patio right there below us and he drew his gun and shot a woman who was passing by. Just a woman with a bundle, just shot her through the throat. She was just a woman on her way somewhere, she was no faster or slower or fatter or thinner than anyone else and I couldn't guess what had she done. The more you see of the Herr Kommandant the more you see there are no set rules you can live by, you cannot say to yourself, "If I follow these rules, I will be safe.""
  • (Liam Neeson) "He won't shoot you because he enjoys you too much. He enjoys you so much he won't even let you wear the star. He doesn't want anyone to know it's a Jew he's enjoying. He shot the woman from the steps because she meant nothing to him. She was just one of a series neither offending him or pleasing him."

Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern

  • (Ben Kingsley) "That's it, there's no more."
  • (Liam Neeson) "I will not accept that."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "What did Goeth say about this? You just told him how many people you needed, and --"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "You're not buying them?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "You're buying them? You're paying him for each of these names?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "If you were still were still working for me, I'd expect you to talk me out of it. It's costing me a fortune."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "By law I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Well, I'm a German, so there we are."
  • (Russian officer) "You have been liberated by the Soviet army."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Have you been in Poland?"
  • (Russian officer) "I just came from Poland."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Are there any Jews left?"
  • (Unnamed) "Where should we go?"
  • (Russian officer) "Don't go east, that's for sure. They hate you there. I wouldn't go west either, if I were you."
  • (Chaim Nowak) "We could use some food."
  • (Russian officer) "Isn't that a town over there?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.""
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Let me understand. They put up all the money. I do all the work. What, if you don't mind my asking, would you do?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "I'd make sure it's known the company's in business. I'd see that it had a certain panache. That's what I'm good at. Not the work, not the work -- the presentation."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "This list -- is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "Too many."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "For every one you smoke, I smoke half."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Don't let things fall apart, Oskar, I work too hard."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Somehow I left my work card at home. I tried to explain to them that it was a mistake, but -- I'm sorry. It was stupid."
  • (Liam Neeson) "What if I got here five minutes later? Then where would I be?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "The standard SS rate for skilled Jewish workers is seven marks a day, five for unskilled and women. This is what you pay to the Reich Economic Office. The Jews themselves receive nothing. Poles you pay wages. Generally, they get a little more. Are you listening?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "What was that about the SS? The rate? The what?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "The Jewish worker's salary; you pay it directly to the SS, not to the worker. He gets nothing."
  • (Liam Neeson) "But it's less. It's less than what I would pay to a Pole."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "It's less."
  • (Liam Neeson) "That's the point I'm trying to make. Poles cost more. Why should I hire Poles?"

Caroline Goodall as Child

  • (Caroline Goodall) "I will only stay if you promise me, no doorman or maitre d will ever mistake anyone but me for Mrs. Oscar Schindler."
  • (Caroline Goodall) "Good-bye."
  • (Liam Neeson) "Good-bye."
  • (Unnamed) "You did this? You stole the chicken?"
  • (Unnamed) "But you know who did?"
  • (Caroline Goodall) "Him."

Friedrich von Thun as Rolf Czurda

  • (Friedrich von Thun) "A one-armed Machinist, Oskar?"
  • (Liam Neeson) "He was a Metal-Press Operator. Quite skilled."

Andrzej Seweryn as Julian Scherner

  • (Andrzej Seweryn) "We give you a Jewish girl at five marks a day, Oskar. You should kiss us, not them. God forbid you ever get a real taste for Jewish skirt, there's no future in it. They don't have a future. That's not just good old fashioned Jew hating talk. It's policy now."

Daniel Del Ponte as Moses

  • (Unnamed) "Occupation?"
  • (Daniel Del Ponte) "I am a writer, I play the flute."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "But Moses is also a skilled metal worker, he can make pots, he can make tanks, he can make whatever Mr Schindler asks."

Hans-Michael Rehberg as Rudolph Hoss

  • (Hans-Michael Rehberg) "You shouldn't get stuck on names. That's right, it creates a lot of paperwork."

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