Ability quotes

“- Reporter: Gary Winston once said that any teenager in a garage could put him out of business. Is that what you've done?
- Milo Hoffman: This is a garage.”
Claire Riley - Reporter
Ryan Phillippe - Milo Hoffman

“- Smell: I loved when you gave me that cake, that was sweet. Did you make it yourself?
- Shaun: Ya.
- Smell: You didn't make it yourself, did you?
- Shaun: No.”
Rosamund Hanson - Smell
Thomas Turgoose - Shaun

“He's better at this than I've ever been at anything in my life. He's better at this than you'll ever be, at anything. My son has a gift. He has a gift, and when you acknowledge that, then maybe we will have something to talk about.”

Joe Mantegna - Fred Waitzkin

First there was darkness. Then came the Strangers. They were a race as old as time itself. They had mastered the ultimate technology. The ability to alter physical reality by will alone. They called this ability "Tuning".

Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Schreber

“I know that sounds bad, but I'm just doing musical arm farts. You know how to do those? They're hard to do because we're made of metal, but that's where the skill comes in.”
Robin Williams - Fender

“Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability.”
Felipe Dieppa - Marty

“I think I may be losing what it takes to lie. This may become a problem.”

Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Kay Chandler

“You're getting so good, you even got your shadow scared.”

Huntz Hall - Limpy

“I'm not going to pretend that I give a shit about you and your stupid friend and your pathetic small time nothing life! But I've got everything I care about in this world in this boat, and I've got my baby girl waiting at the other end, and I know I cannot do this. I cannot row this big water man, that's the truth. I cannot do it!”
Meryl Streep - Gail Hartman

- Nelson: I keep wondering what Stu said to those girls.
- Adam: Oh, probably something like "Nice night, isn't it? Be nicer if you spent it with us".
- Nelson: Yeah, he probably made it sound good, too.
- Adam: Sure, Stu's what you call professionally cool.
David Knell - Nelson
Perry Lang - Adam

- Jeannine: Conrad, I'm not a very good bowler, what I mean is, I'm a funny bowler.
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: Oh, well we don't have to go bowling if you'd rather not. How funny are ya?
- Jeannine: On a scale of one to ten... about a ten.
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: Oh... yeah, that's pretty funny.
Elizabeth McGovern - Jeannine
Timothy Hutton - Conrad

“Do you have to stand like that? Didn't my trainer teach you how to stand? How can we have a relationship if you can't even stand right?”

Debi Mazar - Regina

- Lucky: Ask me if I can whup that tiger. Go on. Go on, ask me.
- Dizzy: Can you whup that tiger?
- Lucky: I "Shere Khan".
Phil Collins - Lucky
Baron Davis - Dizzy

“Why don't you stick a broom up my ass? I can sweep the carpet on the way out.”
Sir Sean Connery - Paul Bradley

“I've been trained to rebuild a 6 speed transmission with nothing but a pair of pliers and a crescent wrench. I think I can get you into a pair of shorts without looking. I'm not saying that's what I did.”
Cameron Diaz - June Havens

“Actors don't like to play coma. They feel it limits their range.”
Whoopi Goldberg - Rose Schwartz

“- Claire Phillips: Why are you so angry?
- Frank Cross: Why haven't you learned how to button a coat?”
Karen Allen - Claire Phillips
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Sgt. Holt: How'd you guys get in here?
- Spc. Sgt. Hawkins: We're rats. Tunnel rats.
- Cpl. Butler: Tunnel rats? Christ, now we're running a fucking zoo around here!”
Fritz Matthews - Sgt. Holt
John Cianetti - Spc. Sgt. Hawkins
William Zipp - Cpl. Butler

“- Dr. Walter Rist: I thought that you were musically inclined. Do you ever sing? You know or play any instrument?
- Angelo: Fuckin' guitar.
- Dr. Walter Rist: Is that a, a special kind of guitar?
- Angelo: No, it's regular.”
Patrick Collins - Dr. Walter Rist
Héctor Elizondo - Angelo

- Quentin: We got an escape artist and a cop. There's gotta be a reason for that. You're a doctor. That gives you a function, a reason, right?
- Holloway: No! It just makes me go "Why me and not one of the other ten million doctors out there?".

Maurice Dean Wint - Quentin
Nicky Guadagni - Holloway

“- Glenda Gardenia Parks: Chester, the only reason I made you a chauffeur is to keep you from stealing. Why are you doing this to me?
- Chester: Because I want to be as good a chauffeur as I am a stealer.
- Glenda Gardenia Parks: Well, there's a certain sincere logic in that I suppose.”

Goldie Hawn - Glenda Parks
T.K. Carter - Chester

“- Gilbert of Glockenspur: My humble life is indebted to your exalted prowess, your dauntless courage, and your superb, swift sword!
- Bowen: You have the poet's gift of exaggeration.
- Gilbert of Glockenspur: Sir, you should read my histories.”
Pete Postlethwaite - Gilbert of Glockenspur
Dennis Quaid - Bowen

“- Judge John Channing: Are you trying to tell me that while every policeman in the state was looking for you, you were serving dinner to the district attorney, his wife and our governor? How is that possible?
- Nick Gardenia: Well... you have to prepare everything in advance.”
Harold Gould - Judge John Channing
Chevy Chase - Nicholas Gardenia

“- Jill Taylor: You were good.
- Ben Campbell: Really?
- Jill Taylor: Yeah. Came in quick off the count. You acted the part. You weren't afraid to play big. And you got out when you were supposed to. Mmm... and you made more money than Fisher.”
Kate Bosworth - Jill Taylor
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell

“- Officer Frank Murphy: What's the sensitivity of those mikes?
- Sgt. Short: You can hear a mouse fart at 2000 ft!”
Roy Scheider - Officer Frank Murphy
Ed Bernard - Sgt. Short