Attitude quotes

“- Charlotte: How can you live in a town this size and not see your ex-wife all the time?
- Sully: That's easy, dolly. Peter's mom and I don't exactly travel in the same circles. As a matter of fact, Vera pretty much travels in a straight line.
- Peter: Somebody in this family had to.”
Catherine Dent - Charlotte
Paul Newman - Sully
Dylan Walsh - Peter

“It's not what you do, Ben, it's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, Ben, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!”
Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

“It takes more than flat heels and glasses to make a sensible woman.”
Ruth Chatterton - Alison Drake

“I like you cause you're a future freak!”
Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins - Benny King

“- 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

“- Bob Campbell: Crawling around the mud in this climate after a bunch of gorillas might be perceived as weird.
- Dian Fossey: Do you think I'm weird?
- Bob Campbell: I do. Absolutely. Without question. I also think you are wonderful.
- Dian Fossey: Which comes first, weird or wonderful?
- Bob Campbell: Weird.”
Bryan Brown - Bob Campbell
Sigourney Weaver - Dian Fossey

“- Quint: You gotta think these things through. You don't just come walking in to someplace, waving a gun around, and expect the world to put up with that. It's not acceptable behavior.
- Kid at Grocery Store: You gonna stop me?
- Quint: Hell no, go right ahead. Probably got a minute or two... maybe you don't. Just trying to help you, son. That...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tommy Lee Jones - Quint
David Pressman - Kid at Grocery Store

“Pragmatism. Is that all you have to offer?”
Tim Roth - Guildenstern

“This is the '90s. You can't just walk up and slap a guy, you have to say something cool first.”
Bruce Willis - Joe Hallenbeck

“- Joe Roberts: With your record you could do a year on this.
- Frank Roberts: What can I say, I fucked up! I get in a violent way, look around a room, I wanna bust it all up!”
David Morse - Joe Roberts
Viggo Mortensen - Frank Roberts

“- Dave: Matt Wilson? I mean, what a jerk! What does she see in him, anyway?
- Stoney: Well, he's got the buff spikes chillin' on top of his melon, obviously, right?, - dude, he's checking her cheeks! oh oh! - he's got the serious beak, and his own personal holding company full of fundage, bro, that he weases off of ma... ma...
- Dave: [finishing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sean Astin - Dave
Pauly Shore - Stoney Brown

“- Maggie Ryan: You don't act like a good girl, you don't talk like a good girl, and you don't dress like a good girl.
- Sarah Jane Ryan: I act and talk and dress exactly how I please. But technically I'm still a good girl.”
Una O'Connor - Maggie Ryan
Ann Sheridan - Sarah Jane Ryan

“You ought to relate to women in a more natural way, in a less self-conscious and pre-directed manner. You shouldn't go with a purpose of achieving this or that, you should just let the relationships develop and happen as they do by the accidental circumstances of life.”

Michael Emil - Eli

“- Maya Dolittle: Sometimes I don't think he likes me very much.
- Archer Dolittle: Honey, he loves you.
- Maya Dolittle: I know he loves me, but I don't think he likes me and I want him to. I'm gonna try to do things his way, grandpa, and stop doing these stupid experiments.”
Kyla Pratt - Maya Dolittle
Ossie Davis - Archer Dolittle

“Every duck has his limit, and you scum have pushed me over the line!”
Chip Zien - Howard T. Duck

“- Vic Ajax: Hello, Colonel. How are you this evening?
- Colonel Rodgers: Adequate. One mother-lovin' hell of a storm comin.' Know how I can tell? Steel plate in my head. Yes sir, Korea was no picnic.”
Reed Birney - Vic Ajax
Emil Sitka - Colonel Rodgers

“There has never been a people more purely artist, and therefore, more purely lover, than the Chinese.”
Nils Asther - Gen. Yen

“- Darian Forrester: Aren't you going to tell me break a leg?
- Cheyenne: Break them both.”
Alicia Silverstone - Darian Forrester
Amber Benson - Cheyenne

“A vampire's power last from sunset to sunrise. During the hours of the day it must rest in the earth in which it was buried.”
Edward Van Sloan - Abraham Van Helsing

“- Verna: Shouldn't you be doing your job?
- Tom Reagan: Intimidating helpless women is my job.
- Verna: Then go find one, and intimidate her.”
Marcia Gay Harden - Verna
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“You're the only man I know who can screw up his own wet dream.”

Kris Kristofferson - Bobby Logan

“You have style no one can teach. Must be born this way.”
Kieu Chinh - Suyuan

“- Alfred Kralik: You treated me like a dog.
- Klara Novak: Yes, but instead of licking my hand, you barked.”
James Stewart - Alfred Kralik
Margaret Sullavan - Klara Novak

“- Truman Gates: I'm just trying to make things easier.
- Gerald Gates: Bullshit. You're just as bad as Briar. Just smoother.”
Patrick Swayze - Truman Gates
Bill Paxton - Gerald Gates

“- Tracy Lord: Only for the moment, I'm not interested in myself.
- C. K. Dexter Haven: Not interested in yourself, Red, you're fascinated. You're far and away your favorite person in the world.”
Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord
Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven