Effort quotes

“- Tovar: Amigo, only you would carry a stupid magnet through the desert.
- William: I can use it to make a compass.”
Pedro Pascal - Tovar
Matt Damon - William

“What I believe, is that good thinks come to those who work their asses off. And that people who reached the top of the mountain didn't just fall there.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Lou Bloom

“President Ellis, you continue to resist my attempts to educate you, sir. And now, you've missed me again. You don't know who I am. You don't know where I am. And you'll never see me coming.”
Ben Kingsley - The Mandarin

“- Nick: You trying to look like a prince?
- Michael: What do you mean, 'trying'?”
Christopher Walken - Nick
Robert De Niro - Michael

“You have labored long, Spock, and proved yourself worthy to receive from us this symbol of total logic.”

Edna Glover - Vulcan Master

“- Ray: If you refuse to have a nice time with me, I'm going to have fun by myself.
- Molly: 200 pliés isn't fun, Ray. It's slave labor.”
Dakota Fanning - Ray
Brittany Murphy - Molly

“You know, there's no I in the word team. And this is a team effort. And I just wanna say that I'm real proud to be associated with these fine individuals that I have the pleasure of working with.”
Brendan Fraser - Elliot Richards

“There are 16,800 magazines in this country, but only one calls itself the inflight magazine for Air Force One. That's the thrill of working at The New Republic. You're underpaid, the hours are brutal, but what you write gets read by people who matter: presidents, lawmakers. Your work can actually influence public policy. That's an amazing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“- Ginger: Listen. We'll either die free chickens or we die trying.
- Babs: Are those the only choices?”
Julia Sawalha - Ginger
Jane Horrocks - Babs

“- Windows: What's your game plan?
- Eric: We storm the ranch or we die trying.”
Jay Baruchel - Windows
Sam Huntington - Eric

“Workin' hard or hardly workin'?”

Mike Myers - Shrek

“I think it's easier to love somebody than to live with them. Love is fantasy - living is work.”
Annabella Sciorra - Sarah

“- Roy Hobbs: Red, it took me sixteen years to get here. You play me, and I'll give ya the best I got.
- Red Blow: I believe you.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs
Richard Farnsworth - Red Blow

“You know what Nietzsche says: Even the strongest have their moments of fatigue. And I'm fatigued, Danny. I'm just, I'm fucking fatigued.”
Paul Giamatti - Rudy

“- Secretary: Mr. Melborne, what are you doing down there?
- Melborne: Having a private heart attack!”

Allan Cuthbertson - Melborne

“Do you think knitting scarfs for the troops will be classified as essential war work?”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

- Shelly: It's just... funny, don't yah think, that when you can't afford something, it's like "really expensive" but then when you can afford it, it's like, free? It's kinda backwards, don't yah think?
- Cate: Yeah, well... the world is a bit like that, I guess, in a lot of ways.
Cate Blanchett - Shelly
Cate Blanchett - Herself

“You can have anything in this world, if you want it badly enough, and you're willing to pay the price.”
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay

“Why can't you just love her? She's so easy to love.”

Keanu Reeves - Paul Sutton

“Real sharpness comes without effort.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“When I became a coach I tried to teach people how to do that. Tried to teach Pre how to do that. Tried like hell to teach Pre to do that. And Pre taught me. Taught me I was wrong. Pre, you see, was troubled by knowing that a mediocre effort can win a race and a magnificent effort can lose one. Winning a race wouldn't necessarily demand that he...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donald Sutherland - Bill Bowerman

“Now, I thought it would be nice if we were to close out our first afternoon together with a nice little stroll around the campus. Move out, maggots!”
G.W. Bailey - Captain Harris