Ability quotes

“I could play the violin and wipe my own ass all at the same time.”
Mel Gibson - Detective Skinner

“I can shoot straight, if I don't have to shoot too far.”
Vivien Leigh - Scarlett - Their Daughter

“- Sherlock Holmes: Indubitably, these murders are the work of a well-organized gang and directing them is one of the most fiendishly clever minds in all Europe today.
- Lestrade: Any notion who?
- Sherlock Holmes: I suspect a woman.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes
Dennis Hoey - Lestrade

“- Doc Hopper: Maybe this frog does everything. He talks, he sings, he dances, he tells jokes, he even rides a bicycle. Max, find me a frog and a bear in a tan Studebaker.
- Max: Gee, Doc, all I can see is a frog and a bear in a rainbow-colored Studebaker.”

Charles Durning - Doc Hopper
Austin Pendleton - Max

“He's a wonderful guy and a terrific doctor. Never lost a patient. Got a couple of them pregnant, but never lost one.”

Woody Allen - Andrew

“- Newsman: We were only saying a swell reporter like you wouldn't quit so easy...
- Hildy Johnson: I can quit all right without a single quiver. I'm gonna live like a human being. Not like you chumps.”
Frank McLure - Newsman
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“I can hear an angel fart.”

Robert Loggia - Sallie (The Shark) Macelli

“- Mrs. Caypor: Do you understand German, Mr. Marvin?
- Robert Marvin: No, but I speak it fluently.”
Florence Kahn - Mrs. Caypor
Robert Young - Robert Marvin

“You wanna play games? I can play games! I can play games. I can play ventriloquist with my underwear. I can play darts while maintaining an erection. I can gargle dishwater and fart O Canada at the same time! I can play piano without being popular.”
Tom Hanks - Steven Gold

“At least I have potential. It's a wonderful thing, potential. Because as long as I don't do anything, I'll still have it.”
Penelope Ann Miller - Rebecca

“What we require now is a feat of linguistic legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity before the Captain and Dr. McCoy freeze to death.”
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“- Will Stoneman: Do you think I can do this?
- Ned Dodd: Matters most what you think.
- Will Stoneman: I think you should come, is what I think.
- Ned Dodd: Be strong boy. Be brave. Your father will be with you always. He lives in your dreams. Trust the dogs. Trust yourself.”

Mackenzie Astin - Will Stoneman
August Schellenberg - Ned Dodd

“- Jack Skellington: The job I have for you is top secret. It requires skill, craft, cunning, mis...
- Shock: And we thought you didn't like us, Jack.”
Danny Elfman - Jack Skellington
Catherine O'Hara - Shock

“Are you telling me you can speak six languages and fly a jetliner but you don't know how to file a tax return?”

Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo

“- Michael Fitzsimmons: We had heat, baby. Passion! Fire! We owe it to ourselves to fuse together, at least one more time.
- Peggy Sue: Oh, that's a good line. You are gonna be a terrific writer.”
Kevin J. O'Connor - Michael Fitzsimmons
Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue

“If you wanna know how to build a rocket to fly a man into outer space, don't come to me. If you need somebody to perform a delicate brain operation, I'm not your man. However if you have any questions what so ever on the quality of a good pair of pants, look no further!”
Jason Alexander - North's Dad

“- Josh Brooks: What is it?
- Mike Donovan: It's a key.
- Josh Brooks: That's gonna get you into what?
- Mike Donovan: The belly of the whale.”
Tommy Petersen - Josh Brooks
Marc Singer - Mike Donovan

“- Bobby Rayburn: I'm not playing with number 33. Okay, you understand me?
- Manny: I know. I understand. Just be cool. Let me take care of it.
- Stook: You know, three times 11 is 33. Maybe you'll play three times better.”

Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn
John Leguizamo - Manny
Don S. Davis - Stook

“I could make Mother Teresa look unfit to run an orphanage without telling a single lie.”
Richard Crenna - Mitchell

“- Dick Dale: You're asking me if I, Dick Dale, can play Venus?
- Frankie, the Big Kahuna: Yes.
- Dick Dale: No.”
Dick Dale - Dick Dale
Frankie Avalon - Frankie, the Big Kahuna

“I think that the reason why you're so good in bed is because you just plain try harder. I mean, baby, you put in an eight hour day in fifteen minutes!”

Sheila Anderson - Exotic Dancer

“- Vincent: How the hell did you get up here?
- Jerome: Oh, I could always walk... I've been faking it.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman
Jude Law - Jerome Eugene Morrow

“The capacity that people have to love... Where does it go?”
Alan Rickman - Jamie

“Let me tell you one thing, mister. I am one fine stripper, real kinky. You know what I mean? You betcha!”
Vanna White - Mickey

“Murray, have you ever seen what I can do with a nutcracker?”
Kathleen Turner - Vic