Ability quotes

“- Coach Wally Rig: I forgot. You're a genius. That's why you have a bigger whistle than I do.
- Coach Ed Gennero: I can't believe it. Now he has whistle-envy.”
Robert Loggia - Coach Wally Rig
Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero

“Appluad now sonny boy, but try clapping when you don't have any hands.”

Jerry Stiller - Uncle Max

“I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.”
Rufus Sewell

“I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.”
Dermot Mulroney

“I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.”
Bill Paxton

“We can surgically remove him from the air like a tumor.”

Malcom McDowell - Col. F.E. Cochrane

“- Glen: People tell us all the time what we won't ever do. Won't ever read, won't ever have a job, won't ever learn to tie my own shoes, won't ever have a girlfriend. Well I have done all those things.
- Mark: But you can't tie your own shoes.
- Winston: And you never had a girlfriend.
- Glen: That's right.”
Jed Rees - Glen
Leonard Earl Howze - Mark
Geoffrey Arend - Winston

“- Oscar Madison: If you didn't have the brains to pee back at the airport, how could you possibly read that sign?
- Felix Ungar: Reading and peeing are two different things!
- Oscar Madison: At your age you're lucky you can do either one.”
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar

“- Zophael Jones: Killing you would be so easy.
- Gabriel: Yeah? Fried food can kill me, a mugger can kill me. You're not so special down here, Jones!”
Vincent Spano - Zophael
Christopher Walken - Gabriel

“I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.”
Harry Dean Stanton

“- Micky Rosa: Look, I've been teaching more than 14 years, I've never had a student as impressive as you. Your brain is like a goddamn Pentium chip. You're gonna do great. You know how I know that? 'Cause you remind me of myself 25 years ago. You in?
- Ben Campbell: Yeah. Yeah, I'm in.”

Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell

“Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.”
Helena Bonham Carter

“- Bonnie Nelson: I'm a good singer! You wouldn't know a singer if it sang you to sleep! You have no heart, do you? No feelings! You're ugly inside and out!
- Ribaldi: Ugly? Ah, that is a word I know the meaning of well.”
Ivey Lloyd - Bonnie Nelson
Joseph Paur - Ribaldi

“Did you read her latest novel? It's not even literature - it's drainage. The only good books she ever wrote were when she was with me: every morning, while she was sleeping, I'd cross out half her adjectives.”

Mandy Patinkin - Alfred De Musset

“I can sit there and do nothing as good as anyone.”
Parker Posey - Margaret Burre

“- Anna: You kind of set off an eternal winter everywhere.
- Elsa: Everywhere?
- Anna: It's okay, you can just unfreeze it.
- Elsa: No, I can't. I don't know how.
- Anna: Sure you can. I know you can.”
Kristen Bell - Anna
Idina Menzel - Elsa

“- Jimmy the Cheese Man: Waiting tables is what you know. Making cheese is what I know. Let's stay with what we know here.
- Paulie: You know about making cheese? Not for nothin', Jimmy, but my mother sent me over a hunk of mozzarella from your place last week, it was no big bargain. Tough, that mozzarella and it ain't the first time I've noticed...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joe Grifasi - Jimmy the Cheese Man
Eric Roberts - Paulie

“- Nino Paventi: How'd you get in here? The door was locked, the alarm system was on...
- Lina Paventi: Nino, I'm Sicilian.”
Peter Miller - Nino Paventi
Mary Walsh - Lina Paventi

“I'm so damned fast I can wake up at the crack of dawn, rob two banks, a train and a stage coach, shoot the tail feathers off a duck's ass at 300 feet, and still be back in bed before you wake up next to me.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Kid

“What I do requires a certain mindset. I do assignments; designated targets. Some jobs need to look like accidents. Others must cast suspicion on someone else.”
Jason Statham - Arthur Bishop

“- Alice: There's something down there.
- Jill Valentine: Where?
- Alice: There.
- Sgt. Peyton Wells: I don't see anything.
- Alice: That doesn't alter the fact that there is something down there.”
Milla Jovovich - Alice
Sienna Guillory - Jill Valentine
Razaaq Adoti - Sgt. Peyton Wells

“I'm gonna find a way to stop these guys before my wife gets tennis elbow.”
Kevin Dunn - Stuart Abernathy

“- Danny Costanzo: Why weren't we on that track?
- Ray Hughes: Oh, now you're going to criticize my driving?
- Danny Costanzo: Well, it's just that you get to do all the dangerous stuff, and I get to parallel park.”
Billy Crystal - Danny Costanzo
Gregory Hines - Ray Hughes

“- Cole Trickle: There's nothing I can't do with a race car.
- Harry Hogge: Well, that's the difference between you and me. There's only so much I can do.”
Tom Cruise - Cole Trickle
Robert Duvall - Harry Hogge

“I realized my gifts aren't my theories but my ability to recognize great potential in others and maybe give them a little shove when they need it.”
Robert Redford - Professor Stephen Malley