Tobey Maguire movie quotes

“- Ring Announcer: What's your name, kid?
- Peter Parker: The Human Spider.
- Ring Announcer: The Human Spider? That's it? That's the best you've got?
- Peter Parker: Yeah.
- Ring Announcer: Oh, that sucks. ...The sum of three-thousand dollars will be paid to... the terrifying... the deadly... the amazing Spider-Man!”
Bruce Campbell - Ring Announcer
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker

“I'm not playing until all my conditions are met. I want at least five feet between me and the audience. It's like I can hear their thoughts.”

Tobey Maguire - Bobby Fisher

“The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale, if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker

“- Bobby Fischer: If I criticize a priest, will I go to hell?
- Father Bill Lombardy: Depends on if you believe in hell.”
Tobey Maguire - Bobby Fisher
Peter Sarsgaard - Father Bill Lombardy

“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther and one fine morning. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway

“- Peter Parker: I don't have time for girls right now.
- Harry Osborn: What are you - dead?”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker
James Franco - Harry Osborn

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.”
Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway

“The war was the best thing that ever happened to me. Because when you have money, then, for the first time in your life, you understand it, what money does for you. Where before all you understood was not having it? Money allows you to be who you truly are.”
Tobey Maguire - Tully

“Chess is basically a search for truth, right?”
Tobey Maguire - Bobby Fisher

“They are all out to screw me, the Russians and the Jews!”
Tobey Maguire - Bobby Fisher

“- Mary Jane: Who are you?
- Spider-Man: You know who I am.
- Mary Jane: I do?
- Spider-Man: Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.”
Kirsten Dunst - Mary Jane Watson
Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man

“- Prof. Grady Tripp: James like it or not those people out there are your parents.
- James Leer: They're not my parents.
- Prof. Grady Tripp: What?
- James Leer: They're my grandparents... my parents are dead.
- Prof. Grady Tripp: James the man is obviously your father... you look just like him.
- James Leer: There's a reason for that.”
Tobey Maguire - James Leer
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Wrestling Promoter: You coulda taken that guy apart! Now he's gonna get away with my money!
- Peter Parker: I missed the part where that's my problem.”

Larry Joshua - Wrestling Promoter
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker

“- Peter Parker: I don't need your help.
- Mary Jane Watson: Everybody needs help sometimes. Even Spider-Man.”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker
Kirsten Dunst - Mary Jane Watson

“- Spider-Man: I don't think it's that simple.
- Mary Jane Watson: Of course you don't! Because you complicate things!”

Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man
Kirsten Dunst - Mary Jane Watson

“- Rosalie Octavius: You need to sleep soundly tonight.
- Dr. Otto Octavius: Did Edison sleep before he turned on the light bulb? Did Marconi sleep before he turned on the radio? Did Beethoven sleep before he wrote the fifth?
- Peter Parker: Did Bernoulli sleep before he found the curves of quickest descent?”
Donna Murphy - Rosalie Octavius
Alfred Molina - Dr. Otto Octavius
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker

In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice. "Always try to see the best in people", he would say. As a consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgements. But even I have a limit.

Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway

“It's just bad luck citizens finding out just how bad luck can be.”
Tobey Maguire - Jake Roedel

“- George Clyde: Rodel, you want my bacon?
- Jake: Yes, I could eat it.
- George Clyde: Well, I'll shit it out by the oak tree in the morning, you just go and help yourself.”
Simon Baker - George Clyde
Tobey Maguire - Jake Roedel

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time. In its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway

“His smile was one of those rare smiles that you may come across four or five times in life. It seemed to understand you and believe in you just as you would love to be understood and believed in.”

Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway

“- Peter Parker: Can I do anything for you?
- Aunt May: You do too much - college, a job, all this time with me... You're not Superman, you know.”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker
Rosemary Harris - May Parker

“- David: What can I get you two?
- Skip Martin: Well, Bud, I think I'll have my usual cheeseburger and a Cherry Coke.
- Jennifer: Oh, I don't know Bud... I think I'll have a salad and an Evian water.”
Tobey Maguire - David
Paul William Walker IV - Skip Martin
Reese Witherspoon - Jennifer

“- Homer Wells: I've never actually seen a lobster.
- Candy Kendall: Are you serious?
- Homer Wells: I've never seen the ocean either.
- Wally Worthington: You've never seen the ocean? That's not funny, that's serious.”
Tobey Maguire - Homer Wells
Charlize Theron - Candy Kendall
Paul Rudd - Wally Worthington

“There happens to be a war going on everywhere but between your two ears, you dumb ox.”

Tobey Maguire - Jake Roedel