Adaptation quotes

“The warrior uses whatever is closest to hand.”

Mako - James Chan

“I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.”
Wes Craven

“- Kate Sullivan: Someday, we'll smarten up, change some laws, and put you out of business.
- Lawrence Garfield: You can change all the laws you want. You can't stop the game. I'll still be here. I adapt.”
Penelope Ann Miller - Kate Sullivan
Danny DeVito - Lawrence Garfield

“- Tobin Frost: People change.
- Carlos Villar: People don't change. We grow old. And some of us adapt. And learn how to enjoy simple pleasures of life, like a family, a home. And for you, what's in that glass right now, for you, is as good as it's ever going to be.”
Denzel Washington - Tobin Frost
Rubén Blades - Carlos Villar

“We are all just one small adjustment away from making our lives work.”
Paul Rudd - George

“We'll be eating nothing but Vietnamese food from now on. We don't want to be tramping through the jungles, smelling like Americans.”
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“Adaptation happens when there is no other choice — when it’s change or die. Us humans we usually just die.”
Keir Gilchrist - Sam Gardner

“Adaptation means changing to increase your chances of survival in a specific environment.”
Keir Gilchrist - Sam Gardner

“- Ted Rankin: I know you are having a few adjustment problems.
- Sarah Zoltanne: Adjustment problems? Not getting picked for the prom committe, that's an adjustment problem!”
Tom Dugan - Ted Rankin
Sarah Chalke - Sarah Zoltanne

“You know, the longer you wait, the harder it's gonna to be for him to adapt. And the harder it's gonna be for you to leave him.”

Gordon Tootoosis - Gordy

“This city's got a beat, and you gotta hook into it. And once you get the beat, you can do anything.”
Billy Joel - Dodger

“- Bowen: I no longer try to change the world, dragon, I just try to get by in it.
- Draco: It's better than death, I suppose.”
Dennis Quaid - Bowen
Sir Sean Connery - Draco

“- Harry Sanborn: I have never lied to you. I have always told you some version of the truth.
- Erica Barry: The truth doesn't have versions, okay?”
Jack Nicholson - Harry Sanborn
Diane Keaton - Erica Barry

“- Murph (10 Yrs.): What are you gonna do with it?
- Cooper: I'm going to give it something socially responsible to do. Like drive a combine.
- Murph (10 Yrs.): Can't we just let it go? It wasn't hurting anybody.
- Cooper: This thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph. Like the rest of us.”

Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 Yrs.)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“It's survival of the fittest, Max, and we've got the fucking gun.”
Pamela Hart - Marcy Dawson

“- Taylor: I didn't make the world the way it is, Harold. I'm just trying to get through it, as fast and as clean as possible.
- Harold: We all make the world the way it is.”
Michael Biehn - Taylor
Matt Craven - Harold

“Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“- Celine Naville: So you also reject the idea that love is merely an emotional adaptation to a physical necessity?
- Robert Lewis: Completely.”
Cameron Diaz - Celine Naville
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Robert Lewis

“- Elinor Dashwood: The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.
- Colonel Brandon: I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.”

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon

“- Josie McCoy: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when the going gets tough...
- Melody: The tough make lemonade!”
Rachael Leigh Cook - Josie McCoy
Tara Reid - Melody Valentine

“The world just wants us to fit in, and to fit in, we gotta be like everyone else.”

Holly Hunter - Helen Parr

“- Uchiyama: I am the Japanese manager for Japanese baseball team that you agreed to play for. It is your duty to learn my ways, not the other way around!
- Jack Elliot: Different language, same attitude! Let's go!”

Ken Takakura - Uchiyama
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot

“We are trying to adapt to the Indian diet. Meat is only a memory for us.”
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“If you're going to live in a whorehouse, there's only one thing you can do: be the best damn whore around.”
Bruce Willis - Peter Fallow

“A reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him. An unreasonable man expects to the world to adapt to him. Therefor all progress is made by unreasonable men.”
P.J. Ochlan - Damon Wells