Acceptance quotes

“- Frank Anselmo: Your boy embarrassed me!
- Mayor John Pappas: You're gonna have to live with it!
- Frank Anselmo: Why?
- Mayor John Pappas: Because he's my boy!”
Danny Aiello - Frank Anselmo
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“It's not courage to resist me. It's courage to accept me.”
Robert Carlyle - Col. Ives

“All they'll have left to tell you is the unholy truth: that kids just die. And babies die too. It just happens. So you live with it.”

Busy Philipps - Alicia Browning

“You want to be a part of my life, I'm not editing out the things you don't like!”

Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff

“- Peter MacMannus: You are the best friend a guy with twenty diagnosed neuroses ever had.
- Catcher Block: We've been friends a long time... I knew you when you only had twelve.”
David Hyde Pierce - Peter MacMannus
Ewan McGregor - Catcher Block

“- Hercules: People are gonna get hurt, aren't they?
- Hades: Nah. I mean, you know, it's a possibility. It happens 'cause... it's war, but what can I tell you. Anyway, what do you owe these people, huh?”
Tate Donovan - Hercules
James Woods - Hades

“- Chris Townsend: I egged your house once when I was a sophomore. I'm, like, apologizing.
- Leo Verdell: I'm like, accepting.”
Keanu Reeves - Chris Townsend
Richard Bradford - Leo Verdell

“- Minnie Mogul: I can't sign a contract that will help three ruthless villains take over the world. I just can't.
- Fearless Leader: Why not?
- Minnie Mogul: My pen's out of ink.”
Janeane Garofalo - Minnie Mogul
Robert De Niro - Fearless Leader

“- Papa Klump: What's wrong with you, woman? Don't you wanna be young?
- Mama Klump: No, Cletus, I don't wanna be young! Cletus, we are supposed to be who we are and I'm just fine with who I am! But obviously what you're trying to say is that you're just tired of the fat old woman that you got married to!”
Eddie Murphy - Papa Klump
Eddie Murphy - Mama Klump

“- Kevin McCallister: I don't understand. If they were so mean to you how come you never quit working for them?
- Prescott: I know you are young and that is the most obvious solution, but jobs are not always easy to find.”

Mike Weinberg - Kevin McCallister
Erick Avari - Prescott

“You are here because the outside world rejects you. This is your family. I am your father. I want you all to become full members of the Foot.”

James Saito - The Shredder

“- Anne Rodney: Tell me, how does a man go from the Jesuits to...
- Rafe Covington: Couldn't get the knack of turning the other cheek.”
Virginia Madsen - Ann Rodney
Tom Selleck - Rafe Covington

“My whole life I've felt like a freak. You know, back home in Michigan I wasn't accepted because I was different. Then I come here and I'm not different enough... So, I decided to become someone else. Someone tough and infallible. Beautiful, sexy. Fearless. And it worked. For the first time in my life, I was accepted and I became intoxicated by...” (continue)(continue reading)

Alyssa Milano - Lily Leonetti

“- Miss Kenton: Mister Stevens! Am I to take it that after all the years I have been in this house you have nothing else to say to me?
- Stevens: You have my warmest congratulations.”

Emma Thompson - Miss Kenton
Philip Anthony Hopkins - James Stevens

- Jack Elliot: Japanese way, "shut up and take it"!
- Uchiyama: Jack's way, "me, me, me"! Sometimes acceptance and cooperation are strengths also.
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Ken Takakura - Uchiyama

“- Angus Bethune: If the element can hold out long enough and face the torment of the system until the system's energy is depleted. If the element can look the system in the eye and say 'I'm still here, asshole!' Then, the system will have to change, adapt, mutate. And if this happens, it will have proved my fucking point.
- Mr. Kessler: Which is...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charlie Talbert - Angus Bethune
Wesley Mann - Mr. Kessler

“- Dirk: I'd just like to say that I've got a problem with you all accepting my homosexuality without question. No wonder my suppressed heterosexual side is in a spin all the time. You all thought I was gay even when I was fucking straight!
- Danny: Dirk, we think it's great, man.
- Dirk: What's so fucking great about being a poofter, Danny?”
Francis McMahon - Dirk
Noah Taylor - Danny

“We do have a lot in common. The same Earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what's the same instead of what's different... well, who knows.”
Madeleine Blaustein - Meowth

“All these... weirdos, and me... getting a little better every day right in the middle of 'em. I had never known... I had never even imagined for a heartbeat that... there might be a place in the world for people like us.”
Billy Crudup - FH

“Suck it up, take the fall do the time. That made you what you are. That makes you what you are. What's it about? It's about the rules, perimeters. You take the beating for a friend, you don't run, you don't lay down, you don't betray who you are. What you are.”

Armand Assante - John Gotti

“A woman needs security like a man needs approval.”
Scott Wilson - Hale Chidduck

“Honey, you mustn't fool yourself! That would be the worst thing of all. You've got to face it, as hard and cruel as it is. Cry, darling. Cry your heart out. I won't try to tell you that you'll get over it soon, because it will take time - maybe a long time.”

Claudette Colbert - Anne Hilton

“- Jane Parker: He... he can't be gone.
- Martin Arlington: Jane, you must face facts. They're cruel, but you must.
- Jane Parker: Why, he's fought a hundred crocodiles!
- Martin Arlington: He didn't see it. I shouted. He turned, but there was nothing he could do.”

Maureen O'Sullivan - Jane
Paul Cavanagh - Martin Arlington

“- Tess, the mother: I think you have these qualities that you demand and when you meet a nice man you disqualify him for the smallest fault.
- Bea: That's not true.
- Tess, the mother: So, what was wrong with Nat Bernstein?
- Bea: He wore white socks with a tuxedo!”
Julie Kavner - Tess, the mother
Dianne Wiest - Bea

“Can you look destiny in the eye without flinching?”
Tracey Ellis - Sybil