Impulse quotes

“- Homer Simpson: Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- Marge Simpson: Actually, it's aged me horribly.”
Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson
Julie Kavner - Marge Simpson

“- Mrs. Cromwell: You've killed him!
- Capt. Gavin Stewart: Yes, he was going to kill me. And you. Things like that tend to make me impulsive.”

Barbara Kellerman - Mrs. Cromwell'
Sir Roger Moore - Captain Gavin Stewart

“- Akeelah: Why'd you do that?
- Javier: I had an impulse. Are you gonna sue me for sexual harassment?”

Keke Palmer - Akeelah
J.R. Villarreal - Javier

“Has anybody ever told you you have a serious impulse-control problem?”

Jim Carrey - Riddler

“- Scott Daniels: You're programming yourself just like a computer.
- Sarah: Well, what's wrong with that?
- Scott Daniels: Nothing, if you happen to be a computer. You're a real, live human being.
- Sarah: So?
- Scott Daniels: So follow your impulses once in a while. Be human.”

James Daughton - Scott Daniels
Debra Blee - Sarah

“- Elinor Dashwood: The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.
- Colonel Brandon: I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.”

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon

“Do these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?”

Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Bennet

“To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.”
Andy Wachowski

“- Lytton Strachey: I tend to be impulsive in these matters like the time I asked Virginia Woolf to marry me.
- Dora Carrington: She turned you down?
- Lytton Strachey: No, she accepted. It was ghastly.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“You know as well as I do decisions made in real time are never perfect.”
David Strathairn - Noah Vosen

“- Rain: It brings the dead back to life?
- Red Queen: Not fully. The subjects have the simplest of motor functions. Perhaps a little memory, but virtually no intelligence. They're driven by the basest of impulses, the most basic needs.
- Mr. White: Which is?
- Red Queen: The need to feed.”

Michelle Rodriguez - Rain
Michaela Dicker - Red Queen

“I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion.”
Woody Allen - Isaac

“- Jesse: I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life.
- Celine: What?
- Jesse: Um... I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?
- Celine: Yeah, me too.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse
Julie Delpy - Céline

“- Paula Olsen: Turn that thing off! What the hell do you think you're doin'? She's never heard music before.
- Jerome Lovell: Hey! Sometimes people just do things! It's called impulse. Try it some time.
- Paula Olsen: It's called doin' what you want when you want to, and not giving a shit about anybody else! I grew out of it by the age of six!”

Natasha Richardson - Paula Olsen
Liam Neeson - Jerome Lovell

“- Dr. Julia Kelly: You will not take action without authorization.
- Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe: What do you think I am, some gung-ho, stupid son of a bitch?
- Dr. Julia Kelly: No, I don't think you're stupid. I think you're a talented soldier with sloppy impulse control.”
Nicole Kidman - Dr. Julia Kelly
George Clooney - Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe

“I do things without thinking. Later I understand. I never plan ahead.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.”
Matt Doran - Mouse

“Repression is the father of neurosis, of self-hatred. Now, stress results when we fight against our impulses. We've all heard people talk about animal magnetism, the natural man. The noble savage, as if we'd lost something valuable in our long evolution into civilized human beings.”
Patrick Macnee - Dr. George Waggner

“Love, as it exists in society, is merely the mingling of two whims and the contact of two skins.”
Mila Parély - Geneviève de Marras