Wheeler, the Mudlark: [asking about going to meet the queen] Are you sure it's all right, sir?
John Brown: What?
Wheeler, the Mudlark: You're a bit sozzled, ain't ya, sir?
John Brown: Sozzled?
Wheeler, the Mudlark: Yes sir, you've been in the bottle a bit, you know?
John Brown: [rises to his feet a bit unsteadily] Only enough to keep off infection, laddie.


--Finlay Currie (as John Brown) in The Mudlark

Archbishop of Rheims: An event that creates faith does not deceive. Therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.


--Finlay Currie (as Archbishop of Rheims) in Saint Joan

Balthasar: [during Jesus Christ's Crucifixion] I have lived too long.


--Finlay Currie (as Balthasar / Narrator) in Ben-Hur

Balthasar: Pardon me - you are a stranger here. Would you be from Nazareth?
Judah Ben-Hur: Why do you ask?
Balthasar: I thought... you might be the one... the one I have come back from my country to find. He would be about your age.
Judah Ben-Hur: Who?
Balthasar: When I find him, I shall know him.


--Finlay Currie (as Balthasar / Narrator) in Ben-Hur

Narrator: [describing the inhabitants of Todday as children run out of a cottage] A happy people, with few and simple pleasures.


--Finlay Currie (as ) in Whisky Galore!

Shunderson: Professor Elwell, you're a little man. It's not that you're short. You're...little, in the mind and in the heart. Tonight, you tried to make a man little whose boots you couldn't touch if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world. And as it turned out...you're even littler than you were before.


--Finlay Currie (as Shunderson) in People Will Talk

Judah Ben-Hur: He gave me water, and the heart to live. What has he done to merit this?
Balthasar: He has taken the world of our sins onto Himself. To this end He said He was born, in that stable, where I first saw Him. For this cause, He came into the world.
Judah Ben-Hur: For this death?
Balthasar: For this beginning.


--Finlay Currie (as Balthasar / Narrator) in Ben-Hur

Judah Ben-Hur: I must deal with Messala in my own way.
Balthasar: And your way is to kill him.
[Judah's reaction indicates Balthasar is correct, as Sheik Ilderim looks on with dismay]
Balthasar: I see this terrible thing in your eyes, Judah Ben-Hur, but no matter what this man has done to you, you have no right to take his life. He will be punished inevitably.
Judah Ben-Hur: I don't believe in miracles.
Balthasar: Your life is a miracle! Why will you not accept God's judgement?


--Finlay Currie (as Balthasar / Narrator) in Ben-Hur

Sheik Ilderim: [about his wives] I've got six... no, seven.
Balthasar: I have counted eight, and that is because he is traveling. At home, he has more.


--Finlay Currie (as Balthasar / Narrator) in Ben-Hur

[first lines]
Balthasar: [narrating] In the Year of our Lord, Judea - for nearly a century - had lain under the mastery of Rome. In the seventh year of the reign of Augustus Caesar, an imperial decree ordered every Judean each to return to his place of birth to be counted and taxed. The converging ways of many of them led to the gates of their capital city, Jerusalem, the troubled heart of their land. The old city was dominated by the fortress of Antonia, the seat of Roman power, and by the great golden temple, the outward sign of an inward and imperishable faith. Even while they obeyed the will of Caesar, the people clung proudly to their ancient heritage, always remembering the promise of their prophets that one day there would be born among them a redeemer to bring them salvation and perfect freedom.


--Finlay Currie (as Balthasar / Narrator) in Ben-Hur