Diversity quotes

“- Romy White: Didn't you have a thing for Sandy in high school?
- Heather Mooney: I did not have a thing! I did not have a thing, I did not have a thing! I was very much in love with him! Very much in love and there's a difference!”
Mira Sorvino - Romy White
Janeane Garofalo - Heather Mooney

I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how "different" became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much.
Natasha Wightman - Valerie

“- Niki: Look, how important do you think sex is?
- Jake VanDorn: Not very.
- Niki: Then we're just alike. I mean, you think it's so unimportant that you don't even do it. I think it's so unimportant that I don't care who I do it with.”
Season Hubley - Niki
George C. Scott - Jake VanDorn

“You can't keep denying what you are, man. You think the humans will ever accept a half-breed like you? They can't. They're afraid of you. And they should be. You're an animal, you're a fuckin' maniac!”

Stephen Dorff - Deacon Frost

“You needn't be afraid, Miss Brown. Not a bit. You see, we are like... two trains, halted for a moment at the same station. But we're going in different directions.”

Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu

“My mother lived in one world. I was always looking for another.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz

“It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy. She was from the city. She had the world at her feet, while he didn't have two dimes to rub together.”
James Garner - Duke

“- Ed Bloom - Young: Your last name is different. You married.
- Jenny - Young: I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.”
Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young
Helena Bonham Carter - Jenny - Young

“A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live?”
Drew Barrymore - Danielle

“If some lives form a perfect circle, others take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand.”
Robin Wright - Theresa

“The more I see of humanity, the more I marvel at its infinite variety.”
Edward Arnold - Insp. Porfiry

“Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.”
Shirley Knight - Jewel Ramsey

“- Eduardo Marques: You are, how you say, the queer couple?
- Matthew Hollis: Odd couple, odd.”
José Lewgoy - Eduardo Marques
Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis

“Why can't we work out our differences? Why can't we work things out? Little people, why can't we all just get along?”
Jack Nicholson - President James Dale

“Ever since I was a little kid, I didn't fit in with most kids at schools. They thought I was strange, so they made me feel like a stranger.”
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

“- Alicia Masters: You know, being different isn't always a bad thing.
- Ben Grimm: Trust me, this ain't one of them times.
- Alicia Masters: Not if you don't want it to be.”
Kerry Washington - Alicia Masters
Michael Chiklis - Ben Grimm

“It's funny how a man reacts when his heart has been broken. Some men break down and cry like a baby. And some others take an uzi and climb a clock tower.”
Rex Allen Jr. - Narrator

“- Mother: Where you been?
- Jimmy: Fell asleep on the train and ended up in bloody Neasden.
- Mother: Ridin' about on them motorbikes all night, I'm not surprised. It's not normal.
- Jimmy: Oh, yeah? What's normal, then?”
Kate Williams - Mother
Phil Daniels - Jimmy

“- Plio: Looks like a baby to me.
- Yar: Babies grow up! You keep that thing, one day, we'll turn our backs, it'll be picking us out of its teeth! Things like that eat things like us as snacks!”

Alfre Woodard - Plio
Ossie Davis - Yar

“Pain is a uniquely personal experience.”
Dee Snider - Capt. Howdy

“Just because Mordechai's people are different from us, and just because they may appear strange to us with their furry hats, beady eyes, and long sideburns, not to mention their bizarre customs and unnecessarily guttural funny-sounding names; just because they control all of the world's money, yet they are too cheap to buy their children...” (continue)(continue reading)
Annie McEnroe - Mrs. Highsmith

“He's like some kind of recluse. Complete freak. No social life. In fact, no social skills. It's a strange fucking thing. When he's working, the smoothest operator you've ever seen. Brave, slick, cunning, can do anything. Soon as he gets off work, it's all gone. Afraid to go to the dry cleaners. Literally. Too uncomfortable in his own skin to go...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo

“The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.”
Robert Wuhl - Alexander Knox

“People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them.”
Mel Gibson - Rev. Graham Hess

“I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown.”
Phil Daniels - Jimmy