Listening quotes

“- John Nash: You once said that God must be a painter because he gave us so many colors.
- Alicia Nash: I didn't think you were listening...
- John Nash: I was listening.”
Russell Crowe - John Nash
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Alicia Nash

“- Walt Kowalski: Hey Kennedy, you drunken Irish goon, how the hell are you?
- Tim Kennedy: I'm shitty, but who's gonna listen?
- Walt Kowalski: Not me, that's for sure.”
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski
William Hill - Tim Kennedy

“- Pat Riley: So... did I tell you I'm unemployed?
- Kathy Griffin: Yea, uh, about 400 times.
- Pat Riley: Say, do you think you could make an announcement about it at the radio station?
- Kathy Griffin: Absolutely not.
- Pat Riley: Ok, well think about it, but when you do make the announcement let me know. I want to tell my friends to tune in....” (continue)(continue reading)
Julia Sweeney - Pat Riley
Kathy Griffin - Herself

“- Lonnie Earl III: I ain't goin' to no shrink bitch Dr. Ruth woman that's gonna make us sit there and charge me an arm and a leg and a nut to say the shit that we can say to each each right here now.
- Darlene Dodd: But she might not let you say something like you just said!
- Lonnie Earl III: What'd I say?
- Darlene Dodd: Well, if you can't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy O'Sullivan - Lonnie Earl III
Natasha Richardson - Darlene Dodd

“- Son: How do you know if you have it?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Never worry on the getting of it. It grows in you, and speaks to you. All you need do is listen.”

Liam Neeson - Rob Roy

“She has spoken to me. I heard her voice. There was no sound, but I heard it here. Her voice was there in my head. I watched her lips, they did not make the words, yet the harder I listened the clearer I heard her, as clear as I hear you, as clear as I hear my own voice.”

Sam Neill - Stewart

“There are very few of us who have met a Necromonger and lived to speak of it. So when I choose to speak of it, you should choose to listen.”

Dame Judi Dench - Aereon

“I couldn't help overhearing because I was intentionally eavesdropping.”
Julie Kavner - Nan Mulhanney

“- Bob Wallace: How do you do?
- Doris: Mutual, I'm sure.”
Bing Crosby - Bob Wallace
Barrie Chase - Doris Lenz

“You know I have nothing but contempt for you. Sitting there year after year listening to miserable people like me tell you how the world does destroy them. Have you ever once felt anything like the pain they feel? All the despair... all the fear? You make your living from their suffering and you don't understand a shred of it. Anyone of us is...” (continue)(continue reading)

Julie Andrews - Stephanie Anderson

“Come on kids! You gonna listen to him? He drinks where he pees.”
Mike Myers - The Cat

“Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

“- Michael Moore: If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine or the people in that community, what would you say to them if they were here right now?
- Marilyn Manson: I wouldn't say a single word to them. I would listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself
Marilyn Manson - Himself

“- Malcolm Crowe: What do you think these ghosts want when they talk to you? I want you to think about it, Cole. I want you to think about it really carefully.
- Cole Sear: Just help.
- Malcolm Crowe: That's right. That's what I think too. They just want help, even the scary ones. I think I might know a way to make them go away.
- Cole Sear:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce Willis - Dr. Malcolm Crowe
Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear

“- Det. Barzak: Freeze! Police! Freeze! I don't know why I tell 'em to freeze - they never freeze.
- Det. Hazeltine: He should've froze.
- Det. Barzak: Well, it's not like we didn't tell him, man.”

Robert Carradine - Det. Barzak
Billy Dee Williams - Det. Hazeltine

“If you hear a marching band, is your soul exalted? No, you march. If you hear a waltz, you dance. If you hear a mass, you take communion. It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. The listener has no choice. It is like hypnotism.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Ludwig van Beethoven

“- Regina Lambert: You're a good listener
- Joshua Peters: No. You're a good talker.”
Thandie Newton - Regina Lambert
Mark Wahlberg - Joshua Peters

“- Peterboro Referee: I got my eye on the three of you. You pull one thing, you're out of this game. I run a clean game here. I have any trouble here, I'll suspend ya.
- Steve Hanson: I'm listening to the fucking song!”

Larry Block - Peterboro Referee
Steve Carlson - Steve Hanson

“- Ariel: He taught me a lot...
- Andrew: Like what?
- Ariel: Like how to listen to Mozart.
- Andrew: With your ears, right?”
Mia Farrow - Ariel
Woody Allen - Andrew

“- Young Kiara: Will somebody please just listen to me?
- Timon: I'm sorry, I wasn't listening. Did you say something, Princess?”
Michelle Horn - Young Kiara
Nathan Lane - Timon

“- John Lennon: You don't say much, do you?
- Pete Best: Drummers don't talk. You must have noticed that. Just might as well be deaf and dumb, drummers. When was the last time you heard a drummer say anything? See? You know why, don't you? I'll tell you why. 'Cause nobody ever fuckin' listens.”
Ian Hart - John Lennon
Scot Williams - Pete Best

“- Ray Peterson: Oh I should have gone to the lake, I shoulda listened to Carol.
- Art Wiengartner: Listen to your wife? Who listens to their wife? Listen, you gotta listen to me.”
Tom Hanks - Ray Peterson
Rick Ducommun - Art Weingartner

“Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where's the problem? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection.”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“I would stop, I would stop, I would stop fucking talking if I ever heard anybody else say anything worth fucking stopping talking for!”
Meryl Streep - Susan

“Anyone who isn't dead or from another plane of existence would do well to cover their ears right about now.”
Alan Rickman - Metatron