Crisis quotes

“What do you think will happen when they run off this dough... and there's trillions of extra dollars, francs, and marks floating around? You've got a collapse of confidence in the currency. People are gonna panic. There's gonna be gold riots, atonal music... political chaos, mass suicide. Right? It's Germany before Hitler. You can see that....” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Falk - Vince Ricardo

“It's like you know - how in a time of crisis, people either come together or fall apart.”
Lili Reinhart - Betty Cooper

“- Ahmed: Our country is in a state of unrest.
- Peterson: Oh, I am sorry!”
Manuel Serrano - Ahmed - Arab Inquisitor
Robert Morley - Peterson

“- Evelyn Adler: Midlife crisis, apparently.
- Frank Adler: He's 70.
- Evelyn Adler: I know. Must have been on time delay or something.”
Lindsay Duncan - Evelyn Adler
Chris Evans - Frank Adler

“Luckily, I saw this coming, cashed out my retirement, bought a condo in Miami Beach, new tits for the wife. Silicone. It's legal again.”
John Goodman - Nick and Billy's Boss

“The end of Hollywood was always predictable. There were always financial crises.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“In times of real trouble, the one thing man can depend on is the sympathy of the bank.”
Sir Michael Caine - Captain Mike Turner

“Even in a time of intergalactic crisis, people still want to roll them bones.”
Jack Nicholson - Art Land

“- Sheriff: Why do you go hanging out with guys, you being a girl yourself? Why do you go around kissing every girl?
- Brandon: I... don't see what this has to do with what had happened.
- Sheriff: I'm asking you all these so that when I speak to the jury, they're going to want some answers, so I have to know exactly what is going on. Now, are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lou Perryman - Sheriff
Hilary Swank - Brandon Teena

“I spent my entire academic career studying the Great Depression. The depression may have started because of a stock market crash, but what hit the general economy was a disruption of credit. Average citizens unable to borrow money, to do anything. To buy a home, start a business, stock their shelves.”
Paul Giamatti - Ben Bernanke

Every now and then when I start being a little vague in a crisis, my child says: "See here, mother, you can't do that. You're not one of those women you play on the screen. They can step aside from reality, but you can't!".
Billie Burke

“America's heavy manufacturing is dead.”

Craig T. Nelson - Salinger

“The first rule in the crisis situation: you negotiate first and you attack last.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Julius Benedict

“It's all a delusion and you're so much better than everybody 'cause you can see how this is just a delusion, and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function.”

Jason Segel - David Foster Wallace

“- Gene: You made twenty-two million last year. These people have lost their homes, their marriages, the respect of their children.
- Salinger: We did what the market required of us to survive!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary
Craig T. Nelson - Salinger

“- Weinstein: We always said that we would bail on any job if the intel sucked. Already the vault specs are shit, we're behind schedule, our number 3 guy Lancelot is a fuckin' psycho. We got two hillbillies in the lobby playing with weapons-grade plastic explosives, our faces in the open. Ten years ago we would have bailed, you know I'm right.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Ventimiglia - Weinstein
Mekhi Phifer - Darrien

“- Lor-Em: Our energy reserves were exhausted. What would you have us do, El?
- Jor-El: Look to the stars, like our ancestors did! There are habitable worlds within reach. We can begin by using the old outposts.
- Ro-Zar: Are you seriously suggesting that we evacuate the entire planet?”
Julian Richings - Lor-Em
Russell Crowe - Jor-El
Mary Black - Ro-Zar

“I don't really understand why there needs to be so much tension about this. The country is facing the worst economy since the Great Depression. If the financial system collapses, it will take every one of you down.”
Paul Giamatti - Ben Bernanke

“The entire economy is flat. We're in the middle of a damn recession.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“- Salinger: Our stock's in the fucking toilet.
- Gene: Everybody's stock's in the toilet.”
Craig T. Nelson - Salinger
Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“The crisis may be a recognition, a decision, or a resolution. The character understands what hasn't been seen before, or realizes what must be done, or finally decides to do it. It's when the worm turns. Timing is crucial. If the crisis occurs too early, readers will expect still another turning point. If it occurs too late, readers will get...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jerome Stern

“- Anaïs Nin: I'm passing through a crisis Eduardo.
- Eduardo: Be careful Anaïs, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin
Jean-Philippe Écoffey - Eduardo

“Civilization is crumbling.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“- Kermit the Frog: Another crisis solved.
- Robin the Frog: Yeah, there sure are a lot of us here.
- Kermit the Frog: Well, all families start to come together.
- Robin the Frog: We always get together at Christmas.
- Kermit the Frog: Yeah, life would just pass in a blur if it weren't for times like this.”
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog
Jerry Nelson - Robin the Frog

“I feel like Nancy Drew in the mystery of the mid-life crisis.”
Roger Bart - Roger Bannister