Achievement quotes

“If someone had asked me when I reached my fifties to assess my life, I would have said that I had achieved a decent measure of fulfillment, both personally and professionally. Beyond that, I would say I don't choose to delve.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion

“I feel sorry for Mr. McAllister. I mean, anyone who's stuck in the same little room, wearing the same stupid clothes, saying the exact same things year after year for his whole life, while his students go on to good colleges, move to big cities and do great things and make loads of money... He's got to be at least a little jealous.”
Reese Witherspoon - Tracy Flick

“- Lt. Col. James Doolittle: I heard what you did.
- Capt. Rafe McCawley: We can explain that, sir.
- Lt. Col. James Doolittle: Explain what?
- Capt. Danny Walker: Whatever it is you heard about us, sir.
- Lt. Col. James Doolittle: You mean the hoola shirts you were flying in... or the seven planes you shot down.”
Alec Baldwin - Lt. Col. James Doolittle
Ben Affleck - Capt. Rafe McCawley
Josh Hartnett - Capt. Danny Walker

“- Tiffany: You really want to win this thing, don't you?
- Charlie Cronan: Oh, absolutely. I mean winning the Cannonball. That's something you tell your grandkids about.
- Tiffany: You're a grandfather? You look so young.
- Charlie Cronan: Oh no, I'm not a grandfather yet. I hope to have grandkids someday, but I'm not a grandfather yet.”
Donna Dixon - Tiffany
John Candy - Charlie Cronan

“- Beavis: Butt-Head, do you think we're gonna ever score?
- Butt-head: I probably will, but not you. You're too much of a butt-monkey.”
Mike Judge - Beavis
Mike Judge - Butt-Head

“This is it, life will never be better, or sweeter than this.”
Keanu Reeves - Nelson Moss

“- Mayor William Dudley: Nothing is perfect. Everything's compromised. Now, if you were the mayor of a big city and you have to get things done, you have to learn to give and take.
- Dr. Frank Whitman: Try talking to a surgeon about compromise during an open-heart operation.”
Leslie William Nielsen - Mayor William Dudley
Barry Newman - Dr. Frank Whitman

“Do you know what it is that we've lived this long the way we have? Seventy days? That we climbed this mountain. You know what it is? It's impossible. It's impossible and we did it. I'm proud to be a man on a day like this. Alive. That I lived to see it, and see it in such a place. Take it in. I love you, man. Look, it's magnificent. It's God....” (continue)(continue reading)

Ethan Hawke - Nando Parrado

“You're 32 years old, and you've achieved nothing. Jesus Christ was dead and alive again by 33. You better get crackin'.”
George Clooney - Jim Byrd

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants. The other is getting it.”
Stephen Fry - Oscar Wilde

“If you want something in life, you gotta' be able to go out there and take it. Nobody's gonna' hand it to you on a plate.”
Gil Bellows - Watty Watts

“- Dr. Lily Sinclair: Eddie what are you doing?
- Eddie Kasalivich: The best I can.”

Rachel Weisz - Dr. Lily Sinclair
Keanu Reeves - Eddie Kasalivich

“Who needs Revolutionaries when the Revolution has already been achieved?”
Bill Nighy - Helmut Hoffmann

“- Larry Benjamin: Yaeger? I sent him over to Jerry in special effects. He's having his head life cast for the head crushing scene we're filming next. Yaeger's the guy who's going to get his head squished between the cheeks of Toxie's ass.
- Andy: Larry, it would be so much faster and cheaper if we use this watermelon with a wig on it like you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lloyd Kaufman - Larry Benjamin
Mo Fischer - Andy

“- Mort: I just want to be involved, that's all I want, is to be involved.
- Eli: You must be going there with a very negative attitude, a negative mentality, and it shows, and it projects itself in some way and they sense it, and that's why they reject you, your going there predisposed to being rejected, that's what I think.”
Martin Harvey Friedberg - Mort
Michael Emil - Eli

“What do you do when the thing you most wanted, so perfect, just comes?”
Samuel L. Jackson - Charles Morritz (Montréal)

“- Laban Teale: Who gave you the black eye?
- Conn Conagher: No one gave it to me, son. I fought for it.”
Cody Braun - Laban Teale
Sam Elliott - Conn Conagher

“- Lee Dollarhide: Damn! That son of a gun Doolittle don't know the meaning of the word quit.
- Ted Webb: He sure went to a lot of trouble to get on top of a pile of nothing.”

William Sanderson - Lee Dollarhide
Levon Helm - Ted Webb

“The trick in life isn't getting what you want, my dear, it's wanting it after you get it.”
Katharine Hepburn - Ginny