Jeff Daniels quotes
- From the movie: Speed
“- Jack Traven: Tell me again Harry, why did I take this job?
- Harry: Oh come on, thirty more years of this, you get a tiny pension and a cheap gold watch.
- Jack Traven: Cool.” - From the movie: The House on Carroll Street
“- Cochran: Why can't you stay in one place?
- Emily: Why do you keep on scaring me?
- Cochran: Everybody else does, why not me? Come on.” - From the movie: Dumb & Dumber
“- Bikini Girl: Hi, guys. We're going on a national bikini tour, and we're looking for two oil boys who can grease us off before each competition.
- Harry Dunne: You are in luck! There's a town about three miles that way. I'm sure you'll find a couple guys there.” - From the movie: The Purple Rose of Cairo
“- Tom Baxter: I guess I have to get a job.
- Cecilia: That's not gonna be so easy either, right now the whole country's out of work.
- Tom Baxter: Well, then, we'll live on love. We'll have to make some concessions, but so what? We'll have each other.
- Cecilia: That's movie talk.” - From the movie: The Butcher's Wife
“- Dr. Alex Tremor: Can we talk about this rationally?
- Robyn Graves: No. Can you fight like a man instead of a shrink?” - From the movie: Dumb & Dumber
“- Harry Dunne: What's in the briefcase?
- Lloyd Christmas: Man, I would have to be a real lowlife to go rooting around in someone else's private property.
- Harry Dunne: Is it locked?
- Lloyd Christmas: Yeah. Really well.” - From the movie: Terms of Endearment
- From the movie: Dumb & Dumber
- From the movie: Something Wild
“- Nelson: You really oughta see someone about that nose.
- Charlie Driggs: Broken nose ain't gonna kill ya, Nelson.” - From the movie: The Purple Rose of Cairo
“- Tom Baxter: I love you. I'm honest, dependable, courageous, romantic, and a great kisser.
- Gil Shepherd: And I'm real.” - From the movie: Trial and Error
“My kindergarten teacher. I was four. She said I was too advanced for my class, and so they skipped a grade. I didn't want to be skipped, but everybody acted like I was so special. Then pretty soon I working even harder to get skipped all over again. And that, my friend, is how you end up in the junkyard.”
- From the movie: My Favorite Martian
“Your spaceship is double-parked in my living room.”
- From the movie: My Favorite Martian
- From the movie: The Purple Rose of Cairo
“I don't get hurt or bleed, hair doesn't muss; it's one of the advantages of being imaginary.”
- From the movie: Arachnophobia
“- Ross Jennings: Chris, I'm scared to death.
- Chris Collins: Yeah, we all are, but our brains secrete a neurotransmitter that enables us to deal with them.
- Ross Jennings: I don't think I have that particular neurotransmitter.” - From the movie: 2 Days in the Valley
“- Wes Taylor: Alvin, can I ask you a question?
- Alvin Strayer: I hate it when people ask if they can ask a question. Just ask it!” - From the movie: Speed
- From the movie: Trial and Error
- From the movie: The House on Carroll Street
“- Emily: We're oil and water, Cochran.
- Cochran: Not last night, we weren't.” - From the movie: Arachnophobia
“Respect is fine, but actually I've always wanted to be feared.”
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