Circumstance quotes

“We opened Pandora's box. And there's no closing it now.”
Charles Dance - Jonah Alan

“- Officer Bernard: This is gonna end bad for you.
- Bryan Mills: Don't be such a pessimist.”
Dale Liner - Officer Bernard
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with.”
Wes Craven

“These are desperate times and desperate measures are called for.”
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd

“- David Clark: Brad, I almost got killed over this shit twice.
- Brad Gurdlinger: Look, I'm not gonna be an asshole about this. I got two tons of premium weed, and yes you got Chacon pinched in the process, which is a huge win for team Brad. So how about we shake hands and call it even?
- David Clark: You were never gonna pay me, were you?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jason Sudeikis - David Clark
Ed Helms - Brad Gurdlinger

“- Olive: Can you not see that I'm a mess?
- Rosemary: No, you're not, Olive. You're wonderful. And you'll handle this the same way I did. With an incontrovertible sense of humor. But you're much smarter than I am, so you'll come out of this much better than I did.
- Olive: Thank you, Mom.”

Emma Stone - Olive
Patricia Clarkson - Rosemary

“This picture was conceived in a state of emergency, shot in confusion, and wound up in a blind panic.”

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“- Claire Benoit: I took six months of Kenpo karate class. And you distract the assailant with pain.
- Casey Cooke: Everything is so easy for you guys. You do one thing, you can predict the next thing. It's not the way it's gonna be in this situation.”
Haley Lu Richardson - Claire Benoit
Anya Taylor-Joy - Casey Cooke

“I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.”
Alan Ladd

“- Pvt. Penn: So what are we gonna talk about, the weather?
- Pvt. Philbrick: Yeah, whether we're gonna get outta here!”

Frankie Ray - Pvt. Penn
Robert Ball - Pvt. Philbrick

Some people look at an impossible situation and ask "Why?". Others look at the same situation and ask "Why not?". I'm asking myself "Why bother?"; in a billion years, we're all gonna be obliviated by a black hole anyway!

Felicia Day - Penelope

“- Sylvia: If you think about it, if Mary and I hadn't moved in a taken up a part of your live, you'd all be in very different situations right now.
- Michael: We'd be married.
- Peter: We'd be divorced! You've saved us a fortune.”
Nancy Travis - Sylvia
Steve Guttenberg - Michael
Tom Selleck - Peter

“- Turk Malloy: I feel bad, like torture.
- Saul Bloom: This is war, kid. There's going to be collateral damage!”
Scott Caan - Turk Malloy
Carl Reiner - Saul Bloom

“I guess that's how life is, isn't it? Some people are drenched, freezing to death, on a stupid boat, with a stupid hat, while others are in a comfy news studio, suckin' up all the glory.”
Jim Carrey - Bruce Nolan

“I lie when I need to, tell the truth when I can.”
Pierce Brosnan - Julian Noble

“- Toula Portokalos: [Pointing to Ian's bruised nose] What happened? Biker fight? nose job? What?
- Ian Miller: Uh... yeah.
- Toula Portokalos: No, really.
- Ian Miller: You don't want to know.
- Toula Portokalos: Oh I don't know. If I had survived an old lady ass-kicking I would want to brag about it.”
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos
John Corbett - Ian Miller

“- Mavis Gary: Yeah, but most people here seem so happy with so little. It's like they don't even seem to care what happens to them.
- Sandra Freehauf: That's because it doesn't matter what happens to them. They're nothing. Might as well die.”
Charlize Theron - Mavis Gary
Collette Wolfe - Sandra Freehauf

“If I cannot change when circumstances demand it, how can I expect others to?”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“From the most unexpected circumstance, you can find something hopeful.”
Brad Silberling

“Whatever your circumstances, you are an exceptional nigger, Platt.”
Benedict Cumberbatch - Ford

“All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.”
Jason London - Randy 'Pink' Floyd

“Sometimes in an acute situation such as this, often, what is right can take on multiple interpretations.”
Simon Baker - Jared Cohen

“It was a wonderful, heroic moment for Holmes. But little did he know that his amazing powers and talents would soon be put to a much greater test, a test of terrifying and deadly proportions.”

Michael Hordern - Dr. Watson

“- Professor Minerva McGonagall: Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three?
- Ron Weasley: Believe me, I've been asking myself the same question for six years.”

Maggie Smith - Professor Minerva McGonagall
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley

“I'm just tryin' to put things straight. Sometimes, ya gotta break some rules, to put things straight.”
Delroy Lindo - Mr. Rose