Chess quotes
33 chess quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer
“- Bonnie: No. It'd kill him not to play in the park. He loves it.
- Bruce Pandolfini: It just makes my job harder.
- Bonnie: Then your job's harder.” - From the movie: Wag the Dog
“- Stanley Motss: I bet you're great at chess.
- Conrad Brean: I would be if I could remember how all the pieces moved.” - From the movie: The President's Man
- From the movie: Fresh
“- Sam: Chess ain't fun, boy, how many times do I gotta tell you that? Don't you listen to a word I say?
- Fresh: Maybe if I seen you more...
- Sam: Well you don't, so you be well served to retain some of the knowledge I'm imparting to you, rather than giving me all this hard ass street attitude bullshit.” - From the movie: Who'll Stop the Rain
- From the movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer
“What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.”
- From the movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer
“- Bruce Pandolfini: Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside.
- Fred: You can tell this by watching him play some drunks in the park?
- Bruce Pandolfini: Yes. You want to know what I want. I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.” - From the movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer
“- Bruce Pandolfini: Bobby Fischer held the world in contempt.
- Josh Waitzkin: Well, I'm not him.
- Bruce Pandolfini: You're telling me.”
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