Top 88 Knight Quotes

I have mad love for the way we were taught and trained back in the day. I mean, those of us – like Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight – we didn’t give into this new wave of celebrity.

I do feel like ‘The Dark Knight’ is a great film, but that Batman in there? He’s almost like Robocop to me. He’s almost robotic looking; he’s got this surgical approach to everything… He’s almost not human. That’s supposed to be his whole point: he’s supposed to be the most human of superheroes.

‘Avengers‘ was a great comic-book movie. ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ is a great epic.

As to Batman, turns out I really prefer Robin over the Dark Knight.

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

Christopher Nolan’s astounding third Batman feature, ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ represents the true maturation of the superhero movie – and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

What came out of ‘The LEGO Movie’ was the idea of ‘Batman’s the Dark Knight’, so why is he so moody? What’s going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn’t it be fun to get in there and explore that?

If you love Tarzan, you can read stories from the ‘Jungle Tales of Tarzan,’ where he’s just a kid, all the way up until he has a son of his own and beyond. Same with ‘Batman’ – you can follow him from Gotham, as a kid, to ‘Dark Knight,’ as a cranky old weirdo. I really love that.

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There’s not much more to ask for but I’m still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh–Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

Twitter wasn’t a big thing even on ‘Inception;’ it certainly wasn’t on ‘The Dark Knight.’

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win – preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

When I was 5, ‘American Bandstand’ had a lot of good artists on there, man. That’s when I really started falling in love with the jams: Gladys Knight & the Pips, Patti LaBelle, Bootsy Collins, Parliament.

Technically, I’m a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We’re a titled, noble people.

My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn’t Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do.

I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That’s the type of history I want to have.

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

I loved ‘The Dark Knight.’

Film rights were in the offing for ‘The Onion Field,’ eventually made into a movie in 1979; ‘The New Centurions’ became a 1972 film starring George C. Scott, while ‘The Blue Knight’ starred William Holden in a 1973 mini-series version.

You don’t expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

If you don’t work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, ‘The Blue Planet II Podcast’ has Emily Knight and Becky Ripley enthusing infectiously about and delving deeper into the most recent episode.

In the ’80s, before I was born, my dad played in the old Soviet Top League in our home country of Armenia. He was a small but very quick striker. ‘Soviet Soldier’ magazine actually honoured him with its ‘Knight of Attack‘ award in 1984.

It’s weird to make new friends, but we’re three seasons in with ‘The Exes,’ and now it feels a lot like ‘Scrubs,’ where I’m very lucky because I get to work people like Wayne Knight, who I really like.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He’s dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he’s a hero the whole time.

I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote ‘The Dark Knight’ with Chris, his brother. He wrote ‘The Prestige,’ the story for ‘Memento.’

When you think about it, what’s the difference between Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi? Why is one guy a god, and the other guy is regarded as a crazy man?

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don’t need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that’s basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.

I think Will Ferrell is probably completely evil, the darkest of them all. He is known among comics as the dark knight. An evil, evil man and a dangerous soul.

I’m tried of D’arce, D’arce, D’arcing people, but if I have to D’arce somebody else up, the D’arce Knight will return.

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ is a different kind of movie.

I’d love to play Moon Knight. I don’t know if anybody‘s doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western – the drifter who comes into town with secrets – I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn’t feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne’s darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who’s mysterious and strong.

One of my favorite things, coming of age, reading comics, was these ideologies and these philosophies of these characters. Seeing those on the page really represented in amazing ways some of my favorite ‘Batman’ comics like ‘The Killing Joke’ or ‘The Dark Knight Returns.’

The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.

I love Twitter, and my little corner of it is heavily weighted in favour of women, many of them writers: Caitlin Moran, India Knight, Lauren Laverne, Grace Dent, Deborah Orr, Marina Hyde, Suzanne Moore. I look at that list of names and think, ‘Here comes the fun – fun that knows its way around a dictionary.’

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.

I’ve always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

It’s always most interesting when Batman starts out as that lone Dark Knight and then is forced to have to interact with someone else, whether it’s Dick Grayson or Damian Wayne or anybody else, and deal with their pesky personalities.

When I was shooting ‘The Dark Knight,’ I always felt like I was shooting an intimate drama for some reason. The scenes were all intimate, and they were always between a few individuals.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

‘The Dark Knight’ does such a great job of delivering an intense, action-packed film that didn’t pull any punches.

Of all the things I’ve done, the first ‘Strongman’ story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It’s almost a ‘Dark Knight Returns’ riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman.

I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation, the artists were stronger. You’re talking about myself, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops.

I was always one of those people who thought my love life would be dramatic – a knight in shining armour would take me away on his horse. I was that girl; I’m still that girl. What better way to live that life than being an actor?

I love the ‘Dark Knight’ movies, and ‘Dark Knight’ and the last one are well over two hours, and I could’ve sat there for three and a half hours, so if it’s good you have some leeway.

I fell asleep during ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ I fell asleep during ‘The Hunger Games,’ all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I’m asleep!

Calling Batman ‘the Dark Knight’ is like calling Papa Smurf ‘the Blue Patriarch’:you’re not fooling anyone.

‘The Dark Knight,’ for me, has the same problem that every other ‘Batman’ movie has. It’s not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just phenomenal and the character of the Joker is beautifully written. He has a particular philosophy that he carries throughout the movie. He has one of the best bad guy schemes.

I don’t want to be judged next to guys like Suge Knight. I want to be measured next to David Geffen, Irving Azoff, and Clive Davis. Whether I measure up or not, I let my record speak for me. That’s how I want to be judged – by what I’ve done, not by what people like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre have said about me.

‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘The Rocketeer’ and definitely the first ‘Superman’ movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what’s a bad movie – I don’t think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn’t click for some reason.

Nick Knight was my first big gig as a ‘real’ model. Prior to and during ‘ANTM,’ I never actually called myself a model because I always viewed it as a hobby.

I worked a lot with Nick Knight and John Galliano when John was at Dior. He also made my wedding dress. He’ll always hold a special place; I have most of my memorable, iconic moments in fashion with him.

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like ‘knight.’

Kolkata Knight Riders is not about me. It is about the team.

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry – people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.

‘The Dark Knight’ is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

Chris Nolan went through Slamdance a year and a half after us, and he went on to direct ‘The Dark Knight.’ So the joke now is if you want to make superhero movies, that’s where you have to go.

Everybody‘s family plays them music, and my grandma used to play a lot of old-school stuff, like Ron Isley and Gladys Knight. Earth, Wind & Fire is the one I started paying attention to. My uncle introduced me to R&B, like Dru Hill, 112 and all those dudes.

I have a tendency to drift toward action. Some of my favorite films are ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith,’ ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘The Fifth Element,’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ and ‘The Avengers.’

I was as huge Spider-Man fan as a kid, but I really liked The Defenders a lot. I was also a big Moon Knight fan for some reason.

A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I’ve got to have it.

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don’t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

I’ve never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn’t work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

I really like ‘Gladiator.’ I like ‘The Dark Knight.’ I really liked, when I was a kid, ‘U.S. Marshalls.’ I like funny movies, too. ‘Old School‘ and ‘The Hangover.’ ‘The Hangover’ was up there; I liked it.

Honestly, 198,9 I was 12 or 13 years old and primed for the new boy band thing. This guy Jordan Knight sounded like a chick, and I wanted to figure out how to do it, and I did.

There weren’t any white people in this country who didn’t know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that’s concerned.

I’m trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I’m trying to ‘stand next to’ a subject, whether it’s Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.

I love ‘Gabriel Knight’ and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I’ve done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope ‘Gray Matter‘ is as memorable.

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ does not beat ‘The Avengers. ‘ The reason? It is a totally different kind of movie – to compare them is an empty exercise.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.

A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they’re striving for some kind of realism, like ‘Iron Man’ or ‘The Dark Knight,’ or they’re very stylised and gritty, like ‘Sin City‘ and ‘300.’

My first restaurant job was Knight of the Round Grill.

Singers like Gladys Knight are mostly responsible for how I learned to sing.

I love the notion of the feckless sort of knight in tarnished armor who would love to fill the shoes of the legendary hero but just can’t. And then find a moment when they do. And I love the idea that there’s a myth waiting for each of us to occupy.

I’m Phil Knight, and I don’t believe in advertising.

Once I won the roles in ‘Spender’ and ‘First Knight’ it was much easier for everyone, me included, to get their heads around the idea of me being an actor.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.

To me, when I was a kid, we watched terrible network TV because it was all we had. We watched ‘The A-Team’ and ‘Knight Rider.’

I coached Brandin Knight at Pitt, who was unbelievable, and also Carl Krauser.

I played on the same AAU team with Brandon Knight.

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.