Improvement quotes
81 improvement quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: My Beautiful Laundrette
“- Omar: What are you going to do with me?
- Uncle Nasser: What am I going to do with you? Turn you into something damn good.” - From the movie: A Sound of Thunder
“History is not a class struggle, it is a vision struggle. It's people like me trying to get free from narrow-minded pricks like you. Nothing moves without us, we're the goddamn engine.”
- From the animation: The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
“- Kovu: I never heard the story of Scar that way... he truly was a killer.
- Simba: Fire is a killer. Sometimes what's left behind can grow back better than the generation before if given the chance.” - From the movie: The Best of Times
“- Reno Hightower: I get better with age. My knees are killing me. I'm slow.
- Jack Dundee: That's why you didn't want to play the game.
- Reno Hightower: No. I just didn't want to destroy the only thing I've got left, those stories about how great I was.” - From the movie: Holy Man
“Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest, 'til your good is Better and your better is best!”
- From the movie: Christine
“You can't polish a turd.”
- From the movie: Bowery Blitzkrieg
“You're getting so good, you even got your shadow scared.”
- From the movie: Invictus
“- Nelson Mandela: How do you inspire your team to do their best?
- Francois Pienaar: By example. I've always thought to lead by example, sir.
- Nelson Mandela: Well, that is right. But how do we get them to be better then they think they can be? That is very difficult, I find. Inspiration, perhaps.” - From the movie: Star Trek: Nemesis
“- B-4: My... my brother was not human?
- Jean-Luc Picard: No, he wasn't. But his wonder, his curiosity about every facet of human nature allowed all of us to see the best parts of ourselves. He evolved; he embraced change, because he always wanted to be better than he was.” - From the movie: My Favorite Blonde
- From the animation: Ice Age: The Meltdown
“Manny, you've come a long way since we first met, and I'll take the credit for that, but you need to let go of the past so you'll have a future.”
- From the movie: Star Trek: Nemesis
“Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are.”
- From the movie: Super Mario Bros.
“You may think of evolution as... an upward process. Things evolve from primeval slime, up to single-celled organisms, up to... intelligent life. De-evolution, of course, works the opposite way. Back to... simpler forms.”
- From the movie: Young Sherlock Holmes
“- Sherlock Holmes: I should've mastered the damn thing by now.
- John Watson: How long have you been playing?
- Sherlock Holmes: Three days.” - From the movie: That Uncertain Feeling
“There's nothing wrong with your marriage. You just have to resell it once in awhile.”
- From the movie: The Insider
“- Lowell Bergman: I am trying to protect you, man.
- Jeffrey Wigand: Well, I hope you improve your batting average.” - From the movie: My Own Private Idaho
“When I turn twenty-one, I don't want any more of this life. My mother and father will be surprised at the incredible change. It will impress them more when such a fuck-up like me turns good than if I had been a good son all along.”
- From the movie: The Quick and the Dead
“Is it possible? Is it possible to improve on perfection?”
- From the movie: Before Sunset
“They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day.”
- From the movie: Perfect
That's what I wanna be: the most perfect "me" possible.
- From the movie: Harry's War
“If all the people who ever tried to do anything to try to right some wrong had any idea how it would turn out, I don't think they'd ever begin.”
- From the movie: The Best of Times
- From the movie: The Prince of Tides
“- Eddie Detreville: How is Savannah? When can I see her?
- Tom Wingo: I don't know, Eddie. It's like talking to a fern.
- Eddie Detreville: I'm glad she's improving.” - From the movie: Star 80
“- Interviewer: I'm not the film critic, but that wasn't much of a part.
- Dorothy Stratten: Well, I wasn't much of an actress, either.
- Interviewer: Oh? Are you better now?
- Dorothy Stratten: Oh, God, I hope so. I'm studying.
- Interviewer: The Classics?
- Dorothy Stratten: No, acting. I don't know anything about music.” - From the movie: Labyrinth
“- The Wiseman: Quite often, young lady, it seems like we're not getting anywhere, when in fact...
- The Hat: We are!”
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