Ability quotes

“Those kids played out their heart. They gave everything they had! They played up to the maximum of their ability! They gave it everything. And you know, it wasn't good enough. It wasn't good enough for me, wasn't good enough for you, wasn't good enough for anybody!”

Nick Nolte - Pete Bell

“- Igby: It's incredible that a human being can make such neat, little joints.
- Sookie: You make it sound as if I'm anal or something, just because I know how to roll a perfect joint.”
Kieran Culkin - Igby
Claire Danes - Sookie

“- Dr. Irving Finegarten: Are you perchance a nurse?
- Lila: No, I used to be a junkie.
- Dr. Irving Finegarten: Would it endanger your amateur standing if I asked you to use a sterilized needle?
- Lila: You're the doctor.
- Dr. Irving Finegarten: Oh, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all week.”
Robert Preston - Dr. Irving Finegarten
Jennifer Edwards - Lila

“- Chad Danforth: All right, look, if you wanna play ball, then grab a mitt. But I don't dance.
- Ryan Evans: You don't think dancing takes some game?
- Chad Danforth: You got game?
- Ryan Evans: [smirks] A little.”
Corbin Bleu - Chad Danforth
Lucas Grabeel - Ryan Evans

“- Mark Shermin: Have people from your world been here before?
- Starman: Before yes. We are interested in your species.
- Mark Shermin: You mean you're some kind of anthropologist? Is that what you're doing here? Just checking us out?
- Starman: You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you'd be surprised how many there are. Intelligent...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charles Martin Smith - Mark Shermin
Jeff Bridges - Starman

“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”

Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself.”

Heath Ledger - Joker

“I don't care about what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.”
Ed Harris - Gene Kranz

“Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini? Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that? Misdirection.”
John Travolta - Gabriel

“- Leila: If you wanna get rid of a circus girl, all you've gotta do is close your eyes.
- Hank: Yeah? Then what, circus girl?
- Leila: She disappears. Like spit on a griddle.”
Nastassja Kinski - Leila
Frederic Forrest - Hank

“What I really want to do with my life, what I want to do for a living, is I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it.”
John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler

“With my right foot, I can kick your face. With my left foot, I can kick your nose. With my fingers, I can poke your eyes out. Take a good look at my face. I'm an oriental!”
Johnny Yune - Bruce

“I got myself a pretty good bullshit detector, and I can tell when somebody's peeing on my boots and telling me it's a rainstorm.”
Burt Reynolds - Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd

“- Anton Freeman: Vincent! How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back.
- Vincent: It's too late for that. We're closer to the other side.
- Anton Freeman: What other side? You wanna drown us both?
- Vincent: You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.”

Loren Dean - Anton Freeman
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.”
Mary-Louise Parker - Ruth Jamison

“You are either in possession of a very new human ability... or a very old one.”

Herbert Lom - Dr. Sam Weizak

“- Lampy: Legs would help, you know.
- Kirby: Brains wouldn't hurt either.”
Timothy Stack - Lampy
Thurl Ravenscroft - Kirby

“You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.”
Harry Carey Jr.

“- Kevin Scott: I was discharged for striking a radio operator who fell asleep at his post. You're worried that I have no combat experience. You're right. There's no way of proving that I won't fail in combat. But then again, you can't prove that I will, either.
- Sailor: This is gonna' be a whole lotta' fun with this one.”
Patrick Swayze - Kevin Scott
Randall 'Tex' Cobb - Sailor

“No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.”
Mako

“When there's a war, the Rhodes fight. We lost almost the whole family at Gettysburg in one day. That's all we're good at. Never been good at anything else. Haven't always been real good at the fighting, either. A lot of us been killed... but we're always there.”
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Coach Ken Carter

“I used to be able to fuck like that.”

Jack Warden - Jack

“You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.”

Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton

“Bunny, you don't have to live your life to please me. The important thing is that you're happy. And as for what I've taught you, well, listen, I've always believed that every woman should get as much education and intellectual stimulation as possible, and that she should develop her mental abilities to their utmost potential.”
Shannon Tweed - Dr. Margo Hunt