Character quotes

“Good luck, Elijah. Nothing essential is going to change about who you are. I promise, my friend...”

Sarah Paulson - Dr. Ellie Staple

“- Lady Sarah: Anne, you are too sensitive.
- Queen Anne: And you are too mean and uncaring, some days.
- Lady Sarah: Some days I'm quite lovely though. Let's think on them!”
Rachel Weisz - Lady Sarah
Olivia Colman - Queen Anne

“I paint with my qualities and faults.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“You were smart, and funny, and a huge pain in the ass. And you were the most powerful person I knew, way before you could shoot fire through your fists.”

Lashana Lynch - Maria Rambeau

“I made you look like a prince on the outside, but I didn't change anything on the inside. Prince Ali got you to the door, but Aladdin has to open it.”

Will Smith - The Genie

“You don't have to be the bad guy. You are the most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary person in the universe. And you are capable of amazing things.”
Chris Pratt - Emmet

“You have a nice personality and you know sweaters.”

William Hurt - Doug

“- Vanya Egorov: You are special. You have a gift like me. You see through people. You see them for what they really are. You do this for me, and I'll let you go if that's what you want. But I feel you won't. This is what you are meant to do.
- Dominika Egorova: Yes, uncle.”
Matthias Schoenaerts - Vanya Egorov
Jennifer Lawrence - Dominika Egorova

“It's a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is.”
Alan Arkin - Schmendrick

“You're anything but invisible. You're big. You're kind of a great mess. It's like a candle burning at both ends, but it's beautiful. No amount of booze or weed or attitude is going to hide that.”

Edward Norton - Mike

I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I have information seminal and cultural and federal and regional and functional and fictional and textural, abominididible... abdomininibible... I can't say that word... "terrible"... scriptural, confessional and sexual. Sorry, slipped out.
Derek Metzger - Major-General Stanley

“Those are desperate words of a loser, maybe Matt Wilson was right about you all along.”
Pauly Shore - Stoney Brown

“Time to get back on that old bi-polar pony ride.”

Evan Rachel Wood - Miranda

“Failure is a character builder.”
Cary Elwes - Thomas Ince

“- Mrs. Random: Well who are you?
- David Huxley: I don't know. I'm not quite myself today.
- Mrs. Random: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.”

May Robson - Mrs. Random
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“He may have been a difficult man, but he had a peculiar sense of what was right — and he stuck by it.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz On W.C. Fields

“A square shooter if ever there was one.”
Spencer Tracy On Jean Harlow

“There's nothing so offensive to me as watching an actor with his ego.”
Robert De Niro

“He was, outwardly at least, a charming, simple and sincere person who could use his eyes, brimming over with tears, to convince an elephant that it was a kangaroo.”
Josef von Sternberg On Louis Burt Mayer

“Any good writer, to write a woman, must be able to have some woman in him.”
Richard Brooks

Don't call me "your sweetness." I am not sweet. I am Selena. And I am a bitter, bitter pill to swallow.

Faye Dunaway - Selena

“The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.”
Emile Hirsch - Christopher McCandless

“- Rita: I just don't know what to call you: retarded, mentally retarded, mentally handicapped, mentally disabled, intellectually handicapped, intellectually disabled, developementally disabled...
- Sam Dawson: You can call me Sam.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Rita
Sean Penn - Sam Dawson

“No matter what label is thrown your way, only you can define yourself.”
Mae Whitman - Bianca Piper

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill