Commitment quotes

“The truth doesn't set us free, Robin. I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it and all that does, the only thing, is remind us... that love is not enough. Not even close.”
Kevin Kline - George Monroe

“- Jack: I had a date tonight, so I had to call and cancel...
- Cabot: Well, don't be stupid! Tell her where you're going. In fact, tell her who you work for. She'll be impressed.
- Jack: Ok. I work for the CIA, and the Director asked me at the last minute to come with him to Russia to do a nuclear arms inspection. ...Hello?
- Cathy: That is so...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Affleck - Jack Ryan
Morgan Freeman - DCI William Cabot
Bridget Moynahan - Dr. Cathy Muller

“You have my sympathies, Lely. Unfortunately, your avocation as an actor compels you, on occasion, to endure the most ignominious indignities, to which Grossmith will doubtless testify.”

Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert

“Not trying is pointless and cruel. Not trying is wondering your whole life if you gave up too soon. Who the hell needs that?”
Robby Benson - Nick Peterson

“Consider, Watson, the irony, the tragic irony, that we accepted the commission from the victim to find her murderer. For the first time... we've been retained by a corpse.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Lazlo: I will do whatever is best for the ballet!
- Roland T. Flakfizer: Well, there's no reason to commit suicide.”
John Savident - Edmund Lazlo
John Turturro - Roland T. Flakfizer

- John Patrick Mason: Are you sure you're ready for this?
- Stanley Goodspeed: I'll do my best.
- John Patrick Mason: Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed

“I've avoided commitment because I'm afraid I'll be emotionally dominated by my lover or equally sad that I dominate him. I guess that seems kind of strange, huh?”

Shannon Tweed - Dr. Margo Hunt

“- Desert Jack Sawyer: Holy Sheeit! he doesn't fool around.
- Jodi Chang: Burt is very uh, committed.”
Shawn Christian - Desert Jack Sawyer
Susan Chuang - Jodi Chang

“- Klaus Voormann: I liked your show. You had fun.
- John Lennon: Fun? You call that fun?
- Klaus Voormann: What do you call it?
- John Lennon: I call it three days and nights without sleep. I call it too long between drinks. I call it dying for a piss. I call it hard fuckin' day's night.”

Kai Wiesinger - Klaus Voormann
Ian Hart - John Lennon

“Too bad you can't practice getting taller, boys.”
Dee Bradley Baker - Daffy Duck

“If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love.”
Patrick Swayze - Bodhi

“Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!”

Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

“Commitment. Discipline. Make it work.”

Ron Silver - Larry Weisman

“Fun is what you have when you don't have two children, a business, and a town to run.”
Linda Hamilton - Rachel Wando

“In this game, the most committed wins.”
Annette Bening - Elise Kraft

“Have you no sense of pride in what you do? No sense of duty, no sense of destiny? I'm looking for generals; what do i got? Foot soldiers! I want Dick Tracy dead!”
Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice

“My kindergarten teacher. I was four. She said I was too advanced for my class, and so they skipped a grade. I didn't want to be skipped, but everybody acted like I was so special. Then pretty soon I working even harder to get skipped all over again. And that, my friend, is how you end up in the junkyard.”
Jeff Daniels - Charles Tuttle

“I am committed to a desperate enterprise. I have said farewell to everything I've been accustomed to regard as indispensable. But I suppose I have found freedom.”
Mel Gibson - Fletcher Christian Master's Mate

“When I'm on a case, I don't fool around. I mean, before a case? Maybe. After a case? Definitely. During a case? Never.”
Don Adams - Maxwell Smart

“- Ross: What are you doing tonight?
- Chandler: Why, do you have a lecture?
- Ross: No.
- Chandler: Free as a bird, what's up?”
David Schwimmer - Dr. Ross Geller
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing

“You want your gold? General, you'll get your gold. I personally will go out and find it for you. Do you hear that sir? I will find every god damn bar! And when I do, you have my assurance, that I will come right back here - and shove each and every one 'em right up your sweet, red, Commie ass!”
George Kennedy - Gen. George S. Patton

“He actually threatened to shoot Gladys if I did't tell him where the money was. But I think he was counting on a level of commitment and affection between her and me that just simply wasn't there.”

Oliver Platt - Pete Van Heuten

“- Curtis Freley: Ray, if we don't kill him he's gonna tell the cops it was us.
- Raymond Lembecke: We're gonna tie him up, we're gonna put him in the RV.
- Curtis Freley: Jesus Christ. You guys wanna be bad guys but you don't want to kill anybody. Ray, I think you better really re-examine your commitment to your lifestyle.”
Kiefer Sutherland - Curtis Freley
Vincent Gallo - Raymond Lembecke

“Seed to tree. You've gotta work with me, here. Alright? Okay. Now, y-you might not feel like you can do much now, but that's just because, well, you're not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time. You're still a seed.”

Dave Foley - Flik