Authenticity quotes

“The sign of a true hero is humility.”
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu

“- Joe Sperling: You sound like you're from the South.
- Percy Talbott: Things ain't always what they sound.”
Kieran Mulroney - Joe Sperling
Alison Elliott - Percy Talbott

“- Lloyd: We're just trying to provide you all with a balanced perspective, to see that there are options. In the end, it's up to you whether you choose to live a...
- Larry: Lie.
- Lloyd: Whether you want to be who you are or keep it hidden is really more what we're about.
- Megan: So you run like, the underground homo railroad.”
Wesley Mann - Lloyd
Richard Moll - Larry
Natasha Lyonne - Megan

“What makes a man who he is? Is it the worst things he's ever done, or the best things he wants to be? When you find yourself in the middle of your life and you're nowhere near of where you were going, how do you find the way from the person you've become to the one you know you could have been?”
Dakota Fanning - Allie Keys

“- Director: Now look, come on, the suit looks great. You look terrific, but I need you to be more... more terrifying! You're a monster.
- Striker: Terrifying.
- Director: I need you to play this with...
- Striker: What? What?
- Director: With truth.”
Michael Deak - Director
Jimmie Walker - Striker

“I drink to Rebecca Ryan! She's the first real woman I have met in all of France.”
Léon Zitrone - Ivan Stranauvlitch

“You got very nice eyes, DeeDee. Never noticed them before. They real?”
Ben Kingsley - Don Logan

“You look good. You look like you.”
Mark Feuerstein - Simon Stein

“I've always believed that a portrait captures a person far better than a photograph. It truly takes a human being to really see a human being.”
Halle Berry - Leticia Musgrove

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“You're more authentic than all the people who worship you, and that's the problem you're lookin' at... the real fraud. I told myself this was all about the work. But if that were the truth, it wouldn't matter to me that you got all the attention, and it does; it does. I'm sorry, Simone.”
Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky

“Mister O'Connell, can you look me in the eye, and guarantee me that this isn't all some kind of a flimflam?”
Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan

“- Katya: You have bewitched my family. My children think all you British are Santa Claus in beautiful tweed clothes.
- Barley: There's no Santa Claus. Nobody is what it seems. Except you.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Katya
Sir Sean Connery - Barley

“- Nadia: My name is Sophia.
- John: Sophia. Hello, Sophia. Mine's still John.
- Nadia: Hello, John.”

Nicole Kidman - Sophia, alias Nadia
Ben Chaplin - John

“- Isabel Bigelow: Your life is total instant gratification, Daddy.
- Nigel Bigelow: It's fantastic, isn't it?
- Isabel Bigelow: No. No, it's not. Because how do you know that anyone really loves you for yourself? It's like those rich men who are never sure why women sleep with them.
- Nigel Bigelow: But women sleep with them, so it's not really...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicole Kidman - Isabel Bigelow
Sir Michael Caine - Nigel Bigelow

“The only thing worse than being Marion Hawthorn, is wanting to be Marion Hawthorn.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet M. Welsch

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person... Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Brian Slade

“Do you know that when I dream, I don't have, I'm not in the chair? I don't even have a chair in my dream. I have legs. When I was a kid, I used to jump in my mother's kitchen and touch the ceiling. She used to get pissed off because I'd leave my handprints on the ceiling, you know. I still check the snow reports, the conditions at Mammoth. I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jon Voight - Luke Martin

You know that Shakespearean admonition, "To thine own self be true"? It's premised on the idea that "thine own self" is something pretty good, being true to which is commendable. But what if "thine own self" is not so good? What if it's pretty bad? Would it be better, in that case, not to be true to thine own self?... See, that's my situation.
Chris Eigeman - Des

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Dominic West - Lysander

“- Dave: You can come and live with me when it's sold. In Italy, everybody lives together.
- Moocher: Since you won that Italian bike, man, you've been acting weird. You're really getting to think you're Italian, aren't you?
- Cyril: I wouldn't mind thinking I was somebody myself.”
Dennis Christopher - Dave
Jackie Earle Haley - Moocher
Daniel Stern - Cyril

“- Evelyn Carnahan: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
- Rick O'Connell: And what is that?
- Evelyn Carnahan: I... am a librarian.”
Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan
Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell

“I'm not really myself except in the midst of elegant crowds, at the heart of rich districts, or amid the sumptuous ornamentation of palace hotels, an army of servants, and plush carpet underfoot.”
Ganiat Kasumu - Mary

“- Daniel: This is your room? It doesn't look like you.
- Lauren: I know. My mother decorated it. The only thing in here that's me, is me.”
Thelonious Bernard - Daniel
Diane Lane - Lauren

“People aren't always what they appear to be. Don't forget that.”
Kevin Bacon - Ray Duquette