Daniel Day-Lewis credited as playing...
John Proctor
- John Proctor: Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them you have hanged! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
- John Proctor: Go to bed, Mary.
- Mary Warren: I'll not be ordered to bed anymore, Mr. Proctor. I am 18 now and a woman... however single.
- John Proctor: If you wish to sit up, then sit up.
- Mary Warren: I wish to go to bed.
- John Proctor: Good night, then.
- Mary Warren: Good night.
- Abigail: Listen to me, John. I have money. We could see tomorrow on the ocean. The jailer will let you go. Let me call him. I must board ship, John. Will you not speak?
- John Proctor: It's not on a ship we'll meet again, Abigail, but in Hell.
- John Proctor: Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time, but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. We never touched.
- Abigail Williams: Ay, but we did.
- John Proctor: She is a whore!
- Judge Danforth: This will not pass. Can you prove this?
- John Proctor: I have known her sir! I have known her.
- Judge Danforth: In what time? What place?
- John Proctor: In the proper place where my beasts are bedded.
- Judge Danforth: To your knowledge, has John Proctor committed the crime of lechery? Answer my question! Is your husband an adulterer?
- Elizabeth: No sir.
- Judge Danforth: Remove her, Marshal.
- John Proctor: Elizabeth, I have confessed it!
- Elizabeth: Oh, God!
- Rev. John Hale: Do you know your commandments, Mr. Proctor?
- John Proctor: Aye.
- Rev. John Hale: Would you recite them please?
- John Proctor: The commandments?
- Rev. John Hale: Aye.
- John Proctor: Thou shalt not kill.
- Rev. John Hale: Aye.
- John Proctor: Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods, nor covet thy neighbors wives, thou shalt have no other Gods before me, thou shalt not use the Lord's name in vain, thou shalt keep holy the sabbath day, thou shalt honor thy mother and father, thou shalt not bare to false witness... thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wives.
- Rev. John Hale: You said that one twice, Sir.
- John Proctor: Aye.
- Elizabeth: Adultry, John.
- John Proctor: Aye. You see, Sir, between the two of us, we do know them all.
- John Proctor: These are heavy books.
- Rev. John Hale: Well, they should be. They're weighted with authority.
- John Proctor: Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretenses ripped away. God's icy wind will blow.
- Abigail: I know how you sweated like a stallion whenever I'd come near you. I saw your face when she put me out. You loved me then, and you do now.
- John Proctor: Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time - but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. We never touched.
- Abigail: Aye, but we did.
- John Proctor: Why did you not call for a meeting before you decided to look for devils?
- Reverend Parris: Man cannot pick his teeth without some sort of meeting in this society. I'm sick of meetings.
- John Proctor: Society will not be a bag to swing around your head, Mr. Putnam.
- Abigail: Oh, John. Give me a soft word.
- John Proctor: No, Abby. That's done with.
- Abigail: I am waitin' for you every night.
- John Proctor: You cannot. I never gave you hope to wait for me.
- Abigail: I have something better than hope, I think.