Amy Adams movie quotes

“I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid.”
Amy Adams

“- Ian Donnelly: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain.
- Louise Banks: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and...
- Ian Donnelly: Yeah, it affects how you see everything.”
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“- Louise Banks: If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?
- Ian Donnelly: Maybe I'd say what I felt more often. I-I don't know.”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly

“- Susan Morrow: Why are you so driven to write?
- Edward Sheffield: I guess it's a way of keeping things alive. You know, saving things that will eventually die. If I write it down, then... it'll last forever.”
Amy Adams - Susan Morrow
Jake Gyllenhaal - Edward Sheffield

“Despite knowing the journey... and where it leads... I embrace it... and I welcome every moment of it.”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.”
Amy Adams

“Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body.”
Amy Adams

“I’ve been doing real good. I just had a down month.”
Amy Adams - Bev

“- Lois Lane: You're psychotic.
- Lex Luthor: That is a three syllable word for any thought too big for little minds.”
Amy Adams - Lois Lane
Jesse Eisenberg - Lex Luthor

“The world has grown dark, and while we have reasons to fear we have the strength not to. There are heroes among us, to remind us that only from fear, comes courage. That only from the darkness, can we truly feel the light.”
Amy Adams - Lois Lane

“Do you ever feel like your life has turned into something you never intended?”
Amy Adams - Susan Morrow

“Trust me, you can, uh, understand communication and still end up single.”

Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“- Agent: Ferry's cancelled.
- Anna: What is wrong with this country?
- Agent: I usually blame the government, but this one's the weather.”
David Fynn - Agent
Amy Adams - Anna

“Now I'm not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived.”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“- Eric Powell: On the bright side, more stew for us.
- Julie Powell: Just for once, could you not look on the bright side?”
Chris Messina - Eric Powell
Amy Adams - Julie Powell

“There are heroes among us. Not to make us feel smaller, but to remind us of what makes us great.”
Amy Adams - Lois Lane

“There's not a lot that I am good at. But I'm good at getting guys to want me. Not date me, or marry me, but want me.”
Amy Adams - Rose

“- Louise Banks: If all I ever gave you was a hammer...
- Colonel Weber: Everything's a nail...”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks
Forest Whitaker - Colonel Weber

“Let's say that I taught them Chess instead of English. Every conversation would be a game. Every idea expressed through opposition, victory, defeat.”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

- Ian Donnelly: Priority one: What do they want and where are they from? And beyond that, how did they get here? Are they capable of faster-than-light travel? I've prepared a list of questions to go over, starting with a series of "handshake" binary sequences...
- Louise Banks: How about we just talk to them before we start throwing math... (continue)(continue reading)

Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks
Forest Whitaker - Colonel Weber

“I realized I had everything I ever wanted, but nothing I really needed.”

Amy Adams - Anna

“- Mickey: I'm still single. Very single.
- Johnny: Maybe you are emotionally unavailable.
- Mickey: Emotionally unavailable?
- Johnny: Yeah.
- Mickey: Who are you, Dr. Phil?
- Johnny: Hey, that is quality television.”
Amy Adams - Mickey
Justin Timberlake - Johnny

“Memory is a strange thing.”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“- Robert Philip: You know most normal people get to know each other before they get married. They date.
- Giselle: Date?
- Robert Philip: Yeah, you know. Date. You go someplace special, like a restaurant, or a movie, or museum,
or you just hang out and you talk.
- Giselle: What do you talk about?
- Robert Philip: About each other. About...” (continue)(continue reading)
Patrick Dempsey - Robert Philip
Amy Adams - Giselle

“- Declan: What the hell are you doing here?
- Anna: Could you maybe be nice for just a second? I just flied 3,000 miles just to get here!”
Matthew Goode - Declan
Amy Adams - Anna