Helplessness quotes

“My name is Robert Hawkins. It's 6:42 AM on Saturday, May 23rd. Approximately seven hours ago, some thing attacked the city. I don't know what it is. If you found this tape, I mean if you're watching this right now, then you probably know more about it than I do.”

Michael Stahl-David - Rob Hawkins

“- Telez: They stole my crucifix, Cambreau. Without it, I'm lost. I'm afraid.
- Cambreau: A crucifix is a piece of wood, Telez. Only a piece of wood. The miracle is not in the wood, but in the heart.”
Eduardo Ciannelli - Telez
Ian Hunter - Cambreau

“Ursula's fiancè is in prison, and there's a jungle man sleeping on her balcony. She could use a best friend right now.”

Keith Scott - The Narrator

“I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.”

Jane Darwell - Ma Joad

“- Mitchell Stevens: Well, enough rage and helplessness and your love turns to something else.
- Allison: What... does it turn to?
- Mitchell Stevens: It turns to steaming piss.”
Sir Ian Holm - Mitchell Stevens
Stephanie Morgenstern - Allison

“Just remind yourself that in a hundred years you're gonna be dead. It's the closest thing I've got to a philosophy.”
Steve Zahn - Fuller

“- Ling Tan: How can you dig such a thing without help? The Earth is stubborn.
- Ling Tan's Wife: Heaven gave me the thought. Heaven will provide the help. The shovel is there.”
Walter Huston - Ling Tan
Aline MacMahon - Ling Tan's Wife

“- Marisol: Why do you do this for us?
- Joe: Why? I knew someone like you once. There was no one there to help.”

Marianne Koch - Marisol
Clint Eastwood - Joe

“We're in a mess. Rush to Freedonia! Three men and one woman are trapped in a building! Send help at once! If you can't send help, send two more women!”

Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“When it comes to reassuring a traumatized 19-year-old, I'm about as expert as a palsy victim doing brain surgery with a pipe wrench.”
Bruce Willis - Hartigan

“The Queen's in danger, Olivia's counting on us, we're about to be horribly splatted and all you can do is lie there feeling sorry for yourself.”

Val Bettin - Dr. David Q. Dawson

“Help me. Help me be human.”

Jeff Goldblum - Seth Brundle

“- Claire Blake: I'll do nothing to help you! I'm your prisoner, and since you seem to want me with you, you'll take care of me.
- Jack Thornton: Want you? We just had an attack of insanity and decided to keep you from committing suicide.”
Loretta Young - Claire Blake
Clark Gable - Jack Thornton

“- Charlie McFadden: I hope you're not taking over our operation.
- Harv: Help... put me down...”

Don Keith Opper - Charlie McFadden
M. Emmet Walsh - Harv

“- Velma: Oh please. You get kidnapped so much you should come with your own ransom note... My glasses. Where's my glasses?
- Daphne: Who's helpless now?”

Linda Cardellini - Velma
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Daphne

“- Harry: I know how hard you've been praying; and now God is answering your prayers.
- Jack Lewis: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.”
Michael Denison - Harry Harrington
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Jack Lewis

“- Meg: Phil! Phil, Hercules needs your help.
- Phil: What does he need me for when he's got friends like you?
- Meg: He won't listen to me.
- Phil: Good! He's finally learned something.”
Susan Egan - Meg
Danny DeVito - Phil

“- Dr. Fritz Lehman: She's going to give me an explanation...
- David Huxley: No no no and my dear sir, it never will be clear, as long as she's explaining it!”

Fritz Feld - Dr. Fritz Lehman
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“It is sad when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. I can't allow them to think I would commit murder. They'll put him away now as I should have years ago. He was always bad and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man, as if I could do anything but just sit and stare like one of his stuffed birds.”
Vince Vaughn - Norma Bates

“It's not pain that breaks them. It's fear. Knowing that they are absolutely helpless. You are helpless, aren't you? I can do anything I please to you. And there's nothing you can do.”
Roger Cudney - Hofrax

“Okay, here's your motivation. You're lost, you're angry in the woods, and no one is here to help you.”

Joshua 'Josh' Leonard - Himself

“Just because he's got those big ears, they call him a freak. The laughing stock of the circus. And when his mother tried to protect him, they threw her into the clink.”

Edward Brophy - Timothy Q. Mouse

“Gus, this guy wrecked our boat. Look what he did to my car. He tried to kill us. He embarrassed me, Gus, I don't know about you, but he made me cry and I don't feel much like a man, Gus. I thought you would want to help me.”

Joe Pesci - Joe Waters

“- Jackie Brown: The money won't convict him, guns will.
- Max Cherry: You're rationalizing.
- Jackie Brown: That's what you do to go through with the shit you start, you rationalize. I can do it, Max, I know I can. I just can't do it without you.”

Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“- Kathleen Strauss: For a doctor, you really are not very helpful.
- Dr. Marlowe: Who says I'm a good doctor?”
Kristin Lehman - Kathleen Strauss
Rutger Hauer - Dr. Marlowe