Ability quotes

“If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.”
Damián Alcázar - Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela

“I often forget other people have limitations. It’s so sad.”
Jim Parsons - Sheldon Cooper

“- Donald Marium: Mr. Core here, was called by your wife. He's a writer. He studies wolves. He was the last person to see her. He's been a big help to us so far. So, we asked him to be here in case you had any questions.
- Vernon Slone: Can you raise the dead?
- Russell Core: No, sir.
- Vernon Slone: Then I have no questions for you.”
James Badge Dale - Donald Marium
Alexander Skarsgård - Vernon Slone
Jeffrey Wright - Russell Core

“- Claudia: I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?
- Guido: Because he no longer believes in it.
- Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
- Guido: Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.
- Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.
- Guido: And above all because I don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Claudia Cardinale - Claudia
Marcello Mastroianni - Guido Anselmi

“You've got at least a thousand capacities in you.
Even if you don't think so.”
Justice Smith - Theodore Finch

“- Mr. Link: Excuse me. Hi.
- Sir Lionel Frost: You can speak?!
- Mr. Link: Yes, and, um, I write as well. My penmanship isn’t great, but, uh, you know, opposable thumbs and fat fingers, you know.”

Zach Galifianakis - Mr. Link
Hugh Jackman - Sir Lionel Frost

“I'm not someone you can pigeonhole, if I'm completely honest. Do I produce blazing beats? Yes. Do I tinkle the ivories? Yes. Do I promote high-profile events pertaining to music and the performance of music? Yes.”
Elijah Wood - Norval Greenwood

“- Professor Wright: Could you write five thousand words on the influence of Norse elements in Gawain?
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Yes, absolutely. When would you like it by?
- Professor Wright: This evening.”
Sir Derek Jacobi - Professor Wright
Nicholas Hoult - J.R.R. Tolkien

“Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress.”
Sandra Dee

“- John T. Chance: Got any new men with you, Pat?
- Pat Wheeler: Nah, nobody 'cept Colorado, here.
- John T. Chance: Where'd you take him on?
- Pat Wheeler: Fort Worth.
- John T. Chance: What does he do?
- Colorado Ryan: I speak English, sheriff. If you wanna ask me.”
John Wayne - Sheriff John T. Chance
Ward Bond - Pat Wheeler
Ricky Nelson - Colorado Ryan

“To be a WWE Superstar, you have to have two things. Number one: you gotta have the skills, and number two: you have to have the spark. Now, skills, that's obvious, right? You gotta be able to wrestle. The spark, well... that's the magic dust. It's what the audience falls in love with. It's why they buy your poster. It's why they come back every...” (continue)(continue reading)
Vince Vaughn - Hutch

“Automatic weapons. Two shooters. They have training.”
Chadwick Boseman - Andre Davis

“- Brad: They gotta stop sometime. If they're human men at all, they gotta stop.
- Ethan: No, a human rides a horse until it dies, then he goes on afoot. A Comanche comes along, gets that horse up, rides him 20 more miles... and then he eats him.”
Harry Carey Jr. - Brad Jorgensen
John Wayne - Ethan Edwards

“- Monsieur Gasse, Travel Agent: Monsieur! You are now addressing the second most celebrated balloonist in Europe.
- Phileas Fogg: And who is the first?
- Monsieur Gasse, Travel Agent: He is not available. He was, uh, buried last Tuesday.”
Charles Boyer - Monsieur Gasse - Thomas Cook Paris Clerk
David Niven - Phileas Fogg

“- Dryden Vos: You need an incredibly fast ship, and a brilliant pilot.
- Han Solo: We've got the pilot.”
Paul Bettany - Dryden Vos
Alden Ehrenreich - Han Solo

“A man should be what he can do.”
Montgomery Clift - Robert E. Lee Prewitt

“- Carina Smyth: My calculations are precise and true. I'm not just an astronomer. I'm also a horologist.
- Captain Jack Sparrow: No shame in that, dear. We all have to make a living.
- Carina Smyth: No, I'm a horologist.
- Scrum: So was my mum. Although she didn't crow about it quite as loud as you.”
Kaya Scodelario - Carina Smyth
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Stephen Graham - Scrum

“- Deckard Shaw: This job requires stealth. Look at you.
- Luke Hobbs: I'm trying to save the world, which, for the record, will be my fourth time. 'Cause I'm really good at it.”
Jason Statham - Shaw
The Rock - Hobbs

“- Casey: I'm taking my first class today.
- Anna: You're a new white belt?
- Casey: Is that the first belt color?
- Anna: White is before color. You haven't earned color yet. ”
Jesse Eisenberg - Casey
Imogen Poots - Anna

“Not only does it represent my black belt in karate but it also helps keep my pants up.”

Alessandro Nivola - Sensei

“- Dr. Lewis Dixon: Can you read a map?
- Cornelius: I'm an archaeologist. I can even draw one!”
Bradford Dillman - Dr. Lewis Dixon
Roddy McDowall - Cornelius

“It’s not the peanuts that made him do it. It’s the feathers!”

Nico Parker - Milly Farrier

“Mrs. Rawlings, there ain't much glory in trompin' behind a plow.”
Andy Devine - Cpl. Peterson

“- Sinbad: Well done, Baronni. I know you will be as good a sailor as you were a genie.
- The Genie: I shall try, captain. I shall try.”
Kerwin Mathews - Sinbad
Richard Eyer - The Genie

“Listen to what I'm writing now: new and original plays and poems. When word gets around, the traveling troupes will come in droves. Where else can they get new material? Original plays don't grow on trees.”
Kanu Bannerjee - Harihar Ray