“- Michael McPhee: Can you make money from philosophy?
- Max Dugan: Yeah, if you have the right one.”
Matthew Broderick - Michael McPhee
Jason Robards - Max Dugan

“He was taken to the east, a great prize, where the war masters would teach him the deepest secrets. Language and writing were also made available, the poetry of Khitai, the philosophy of Sung; and he also came to know the pleasures of women, when he was bred to the finest stock. But, always, there remained the discipline of steel.”

Mako - The Wizard

“- Young Girl: I understand you studied philosophy at school.
- Sandy Bates: Uh, no, that's not true. I did take - I took one course in existential philosophy at, uh... at New York University, and on the final... they gave me ten questions, and I couldn't answer a single one of 'em. You know? I left 'em all blank... I got a hundred.”
Woody Allen - Sandy Bates

“Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't.”
Edward Norton - The Narrator

I can sum up our entire philosophy with this glass. I can look at it and say it's half-full, which in the beauty pageant biz means "where the hell's my waiter?".
Nora Dunn - Colleen Douglas, State Pagent