Ability quotes

“- Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: I just don't think you're ready.
- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: What do you mean I'm not ready? Sir, I have worked my tail off on the S-33. I'm qualified in every area and then some. What executive officer has higher marks then I do, Captain?
- Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: Andy! You're just not ready to take on a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Paxton - Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren
Matthew McConaughey - Lt. Andrew Tyler

“- John Herod: It's true that you gunned down four men?
- Ace Hanlon: Two with my left hand. Two with my right hand. You see, the truth is that I am just as good with either.
- John Herod: You must be the fastest gun in the west... That, or the biggest liar.”
Gene Hackman - Herod
Lance Henriksen - Ace Hanlon

“- King Henry VIII: With no man to hold onto how do you plan to stay on your horse?
- Anne Boleyn: As you do Your Grace, with my thighs.”
Eric Bana - Henry Tudor
Natalie Portman - Anne Boleyn

“- Dr. Smolder Bravestone: I can't do this!
- Moose Finbar: I saw you fix a helicopter in mid-air!
- Dr. Smolder Bravestone: It's a lot easier to be brave when you've got lives to spare. It's a lot harder when you only have one life.
- Moose Finbar: We always only have one life, man. That's how it is.”
The Rock - Spencer
Kevin Hart - Fridge

“- Alan Swann: I haven't performed in front of an audience in 28 years! Audience? I played a butler. I had one line! I forgot it.
- Benjy Stone: Don't worry, this is gonna be easy.
- Alan Swann: For you, maybe. Not for me. I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!”
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“There are seven lost secret fascinations and abilities. They are that: animals can talk; your favorite blanket is woven from a fabric so mighty, that once pulled over your head, it becomes an impenetrable force field, nothing is too heavy to lift with the aid of a cape; your hand, held forefinger out and thumb up, actually fires bullets; jumping...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.”
Candice Bergen

“I just don't remember.”
Emma Watson - Angela Grey

“She stole everything but the cameras.”

George Raft On Mae West

“Spence is the best we have, because you don't see the mechanism working.”
Humphrey Bogart On Spencer Tracy

“She is a ten-year-old girl who has put on her mother's dress — and has done it convincingly.”
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. On Joan Crawford

“He was, outwardly at least, a charming, simple and sincere person who could use his eyes, brimming over with tears, to convince an elephant that it was a kangaroo.”
Josef von Sternberg On Louis Burt Mayer

“- Hubie: Everybody knows that penguins can't fly!
- Rocko: You're wrong! You are dead wrong! Our ancestors flew! They gave us wings when we can't fly?! I mean, I mean whose idea of a cruel joke is this?”
Martin Hayter Short - Hubie
Jim Belushi - Rocko

“A thousand years of waiting and what was there to show? Nothing! Nothing but a boy who could not do what was asked of him. Generations of hope and promise, all a waste.”
Christopher Eccleston - The Rider

“I can't dance. My limbs are lethal weapons. Innocent people got hurt trying to teach me dance.”
Charlie Talbert - Angus Bethune

“- Daniel: Hey can you break a log like that?
- Miyagi: Don't know. Never been attacked by tree.”

Ralph Macchio - Daniel
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“When you find out a thing goes pretty well, you might as well do it again.”

Howard Hawks

“- Sir Robert Chiltern: Do you know, Arthur, I sometimes wish I were you.
- Lord Arthur Goring: Do you know, Robert, sometimes I wish you were too. Except that you would probably make something useful out of my life, and that would never do.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“Makes me wanna sniff some lines and go fly a jet!”
Peter Gerety - Avington Carr

“We're not blood-filled meat puppets. I come from a long line of plumbers that can fix a shower, but I can't. Well, Hugh doesn't shower anyway - he's British. It's not being critical, you're just a very under-bathed nation; everybody knows it.”
Ryan Reynolds - Rory Adams

“There's not a lot that I am good at. But I'm good at getting guys to want me. Not date me, or marry me, but want me.”
Amy Adams - Rose

“- Linus: How did you score all of this?
- William Shatner: Are you kidding? I'm William Shatner; I can score anything.”

Chris Marquette - Linus

“- Sir Edmund Burton: Miss Vivian Wembley: Master of History, Oxford; Doctor of Philosophy, also Oxford; and Doctor of Letters, Oxford again, I think. Anything else? Anyway, meet Cade.
- Cade Yeager: ...Yeager. Cade Yeager. I'm an inventor.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Sir Edmund Burton
Mark Wahlberg - Cade Yeager

“You hired me from a newspaper ad, you think I come with a superpower?”
Jerrod Carmichael - Jimmy

“- Professor Albright: How are you feeling?
- Young Damian: It's that new body smell.
- Professor Albright: A sense of humor, good... Just relax and have some fun. After all, at your age, I'd say you've earned it.”
Matthew Goode - Albright
Ryan Reynolds - Young Damian