Experience quotes

“- John Malkovich: I have seen a world that no man should see!
- Craig Schwartz: Really? Because for most people it's a rather enjoyable experience.”

John Malkovich - Himself
John Cusack - Craig Schwartz

“You are young. Life has been kind to you. You will learn.”

Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd

People are always saying: "The children. Pity the children". I'm tired of the children. They haven't lived, given birth, watched their friends die. I have invested 80 years in this life. The children don't know what they're missing.

Jessica Booker - Rose

“How are we supposed to grow up if we're not allowed to go into the world, try new things and take some risks?”
Kimberly J. Brown - Marnie Piper

“Talent means next to nothing, while experience acquired in humility and hard work means everything.”
Dustin Hoffman - Giuseppe Baldini

“You couldn't hit a lake if you were standing on the bottom.”
Geena Davis - Samantha Caine (Charly)

“- Alex: I spent a week in Grenada mostly watching the famous rain in Spain. All in all the trip was incredibly - it was - lonely. But don't tell Joel that, ok. I just told him the trip was great.
- Laura: I was going to say that about my trip. But it's hard when they bring you back in an ambulance.”
David Marshall Grant - Alex
Blanche Baker - Laura

“- Jeffrey Beaumont: There are opportunities in life for gaining knowledge and experience. Sometimes, it's necessary to take a risk. I got to thinking. I'll bet someone could learn alot by getting into that woman's apartment. You know, sneak in, hide, and observe.
- Sandy Williams: Are you crazy? Jeffrey, she's possibly involved in murder. This...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kyle MacLachlan - Jeffrey Beaumont
Laura Dern - Sandy Williams

“- Clark Kent: Mom, if you could see anything, what would you do?
- Martha Kent: Learn to close my eyes.”

Tom Welling - Clark Kent
Annette O'Toole - Martha Kent

“Don't worry. I've done this before. Once.”
Robin Williams - Alan Parrish

- Josh: Take The Tortoise and the Hare. Okay, the tortoise won one race. Do you think that hare is really going to lose any more races to turtles? Not on your life.
- Alice: I like that tortoise.
- Josh: So do I. But if you were a betting person, would you say, "That tortoise won against the hare; in future races I'm backing him"? No. That race... (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Keeslar - Josh
Chloë Sevigny - Alice

“- Frank James: You ever been in love?
- Clell Miller: Oh God, yes. It was terrible. An affliction. Really miserable. Nothing but trouble. Drove me crazy.
- Frank James: That bad? Really?
- Clell Miller: Yes. She was wonderful.”
Stacy Keach - Frank James
Randy Quaid - Clell Miller

“Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Arthur Bach: Have you ever been on a yacht?
- Linda Marolla: No, is it wonderful?
- Arthurt Bach: It doesn't suck.”
Dudley Moore - Arthur Bach
Liza Minnelli - Linda Marolla

“- Ginger: I thought you were teaching us how to fly.
- Rocky: That's what I'm doing.
- Ginger: Isn't there usually some flapping involved?
- Rocky: Hey, do I tell you how to lay eggs?”

Julia Sawalha - Ginger
Mel Gibson - Rocky

“We all wish you every possible happiness, but I think it only fair to tell you in advance exactly what you are in for. Speaking from bitter experience I can only say that the wife of a sailor is most profoundly to be pitied.”

Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross

“The bravest girl I have ever known. There the Beast and here the Beauty. She has lived through an experience no other woman ever dreamed of. And she was saved from the very grasp of Kong by her future husband.”

Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham

“- Akira Tanaka: Have you ever had your bones scraped, Mr. Roth?
- Tommy Roth: Not recently.
- Akira Tanaka: I hear it is not a pleasant experience. First the needle pierces the skin, leaving only the smallest of marks. The bone is scraped away by the gentle movement of the needle until it reaches the marrow.”
Mako - Akira Tanaka
Brent Huff - Tommy Roth

“- Saavik: Humor. It is a difficult concept. It is not logical.
- James T. Kirk: We learn by doing.”
Kirstie Alley - Saavik
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“Trouble like first love - teaches many lessons.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“- Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Have you ever had any experience as a kidnapper?
- Baravelli: You bet. You know what I do when I kidnap somebody? First I call them up on the telephone, then I send them my chauffeur.”
Groucho Marx - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff
Chico Marx - Baravelli

“- Martin Harvey: We don't know how to drive a boat.
- Captain Ron: The best way to find out Kitty is to get her out on the ocean. If anything is going to happen , it's going to happen out there.”
Martin Hayter Short - Martin Harvey
Kurt Russell - Captain Ron

“- Danny Madigan: I thought I was going to die.
- Jack Slater: I'm sorry to disappoint you but you're gonna live to enjoy all the glorious fruits life has got to offer - acne, shaving, premature ejaculation... and your first divorce.”
Austin O'Brien - Danny Madigan
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Jack Slater

“The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.”
Jennifer Ehle - Elizabeth Bennet

“- M: You don't trust anyone, do you?
- James Bond: No.
- M: Then you've learned your lesson.”
Dame Judi Dench - M
Daniel Craig - James Bond