Ability quotes

“In France, we dug trenches ten miles long. We took earth from here and made hills there. We moved entire fields. You wouldn't believe what we did. It's possible. It's just hard work.”
Ian Hart - Johnny Shellshocked (Jones)

“- George: Told you a squirt gun wouldn't work.
- Mike: A squirt gun would've worked - you didn't have to fill it!”

Ricky Jay - George
Joe Mantegna - Mike

- Duke of Sutherland: The "lad", as you call him, is a true man of principles and a true athlete. His speed is a mere extension of his life, its force. We sought to sever his running from himself.
- Lord Birkenhead: For his country's sake, yes.
- Duke of Sutherland: No sake is worth that, least of all a guilty national pride.

Peter Egan - Duke of Sutherland
Nigel Davenport - Lord Birkenhead

“- John Connor: The T-X, can you find a way to destroy it?
- Terminator: Unlikely. I'm an obsolete design.”
Nick Stahl - John Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator

“- Mark: We are dealing with a flesh and blood killer, and I know how to handle guys like that.
- Sidney: Oh, yeah. How?
- Mark: Catch him or kill him.”
Patrick Dempsey - Detective Mark Kincaid
Neve Campbell - Sidney Prescott

“- Anthony Adams: Kumar, what were you doing in the freezer?
- Kumar: I don't know, man, I lose my touch, man.
- Dignan: Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?”
Luke Wilson - Anthony Adams
Kumar Pallana - Kumar
Owen Wilson - Dignan

“Woody, you're a great cartoonist, and you're a great comic book writer - but you're a lousy bird.”

James Hampton - Harry Oslo

“- Billie Frank: You know, I don't usually do this.
- Julian Dice: I can tell.”

Mariah Carey - Billie Frank
Max Beesley - Julian Dice

“Some place in America right now, there's some 10-year-old kid. He's out there on that playground, and he's playing, he's dribbling between his legs, he's going left, he's going right, he's already above the rim, and he's stuffing it home. And you know what's going to happen to this kid? Five minutes from now he's gonna be surrounded by ya....” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Nolte - Pete Bell

“Motor pool. Nothin' fancy. But if it's got wheels I can drive it and I can fix it.”
Amy Madigan - McCoy

“It never occurs to me that there are things that I can't do.”
Whoopi Goldberg

“- Itzhak Stern: Let me understand. They put up all the money. I do all the work. What, if you don't mind my asking, would you do?
- Oskar Schindler: I'd make sure it's known the company's in business. I'd see that it had a certain panache. That's what I'm good at. Not the work, not the work... the presentation.”
Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler

- White Demon: I'm still waiting.
- Edward "Eddie" Tor Swenson: I don't understand. Waiting for what?
- White Demon: For you to prove yourself. You've got such potential. It would be a real waste if you didn't put it to use.
Kelly Tainton - White Demon
Johan Rudebeck - Edward "Eddie" Tor Swenson

“- Shannon: He walked into my shop here about five or six years ago. Right out of the blue. Asking for a job. So I put him to the test to see what he could do. The kid's amazing.
- Irene: Yeah.
- Shannon: So I hired him on the spot.”

“Our success depends on keeping our ability to keep our identity a secret.”

Lewis Wilson - Bruce Wayne

“Rock, let's put it this way. Now, three years ago you was supernatural. You was hard and you was nasty and you had this cast-iron jaw but then the worst thing happened to you, that could happen to any fighter. You got civilized.”
Burgess Meredith - Mickey Goldmill

“I used to play a little ball. I was small, but I made up for it by being slow.”
James Earl Jones - Earl Pilcher Jr.

“- Frank Miller: What part do we eat?
- James Humphrey: Well, you're the butcher.
- Frank Miller: Yeah, but...
- James Humphrey: So, butch!”
Jason McHugh - Frank Miller
Matt Stone - James Humphrey

“- Sundog: They didn't want to let me in the Majors and you know why.
- Sergeant Edgar Millen: Damn right, I know why. I musta heard that story six hundred times...
- Vanessa: Why?
- Sundog: I was too good, that's why. I'd a pitched that ball down Ty Cobb's throat and made George Sisler look like an electric fan.”

Carl Weathers - Sundog
Angie Dickinson - Millen
Angie Dickinson - Vanessa McBride

“Do you think it's important for a first baseman to be left-handed?”
Kaley Cuoco - Karin Carter

“- Sallow: Can't pass an old man?
- Kidda: I didn't see him.
- Sallow: You gotta know where everybody is, all of us!
- Kidda: What if I can't?
- Sallow: They'll crush your skull!”

Rutger Hauer - Sallow
Joan Chen - Kidda

“I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.”
Eddie Izzard - Himself

“- Betty: Nothing like watching the tenpins fall.
- Del: Hey, that's a skill. They're trying to get that in the Olympic games.”

Renee Zellweger - Betty Sizemore
Aaron Eckhart - Del Sizemore

“You're the greatest actor in the world. Everybody knows that, including you.”

Carole Lombard - Maria Tura

“- Anne Shirley: Tell me, Mr. Allen, do you dance as well as you boast?
- Lewis Allen: Better.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Dave Foley - Lewis Allen