Meaning quotes

“- Tyler: My name's Tyler.
- Zev Gutman: [shakes hand] Nice to meet you, Tyler. My name is Zev.
- Tyler: That's a strange name.
- Zev Gutman: In Hebrew, it means wolf.”
Peter DaCunha - Tyler
Christopher Plummer - Zev Gutman

“- Monique: Russell, there are beer cans in the trash in the kitchen. There are beer cans in the trash in the bathroom. There are beer cans in the trash in the basement. What does that say?
- Russell: We're out of beer?”
Joey Lauren Adams - Monique
Taylor Negron - Russell

“Time is just a counting system. Numbers with meaning attached to them.”
Jim Carrey - Walter Sparrow

“There are an awful lot of people in this world who have nothing to say, but spend all their time talking.”
Joan Plowright - Sophie

“In life the first act is always exciting. The second act, that is where the depth comes in.”
Joyce Van Patten - Gloria

“- Nurse: Let me just ask you something, Ruth. Have you ever really taken the time to think about what it means to have an abortion?
- Ruth Stoops: It means that I don't have to go to jail and it means I don't have to have another baby and it means that I can start getting my life together ...
- Nurse: Don't you think that's all just a little...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joan Hennecke - Nurse
Laura Dern - Ruth Stoops

- John Bridger: Fine? You know what "fine" stands for, don't you?
- Charlie Croker: Yeah, unfortunately.
- John Bridger: Freaked out...
- Charlie Croker: Insecure...
- John Bridger: Neurotic...
- Charlie Croker: And emotional.
Donald Sutherland - John Bridger
Mark Wahlberg - Charlie Croker

- Luigi Vampa: We shall call him... "Zatarra".
- Edmond Dantes: Sounds fearsome.
- Luigi Vampa: It means, "driftwood".
JB Blanc - Luigi Vampa
Jim Caviezel - Edmond Dantes

“- Wat: What do you mean, dead?
- Roland: The spark of his life is smothered in shite. His spirit is gone but his stench remains. Does that answer your question?”
Alan Tudyk - Wat
Mark Addy - Roland

“If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.”
Charlotte Rampling

Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he's just a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That's like saying "He can't climb that mountain, he's just a man", or "That's not a diamond, it's just a rock".

Johnny Depp - Sir James Matthew Barrie

“What she meant we'll never know. It's what she said that counts.”
Laird Cregar - Ed Cornell

Look, Kenny, I know you're about fifty pounds overweight, but when I say hurry, please interpret that as: "move your fat tub of lard ass", now!
Courteney Cox - Gale Weathers

“- William Thatcher: Oi sir, what are you doing?
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Uh... trudging. You know, trudge? To trudge: the slow, weary, depressing yet determined walk of a man who has nothing left in life except the impulse to simply soldier on.”
Heath Ledger - William Thatcher
Paul Bettany - Geoffrey Chaucer

- Greg Focker: Who would've thought it wasn't really about a dragon, huh?
- Jack Byrnes: What do you mean?
- Greg Focker: You know, the whole drug thing?
- Jack Byrnes: No, I don't know. Why don't you tell me?
- Greg Focker: Some people think that to "Puff the Magic Dragon" means to... they're really, uh... to smoke... to smoke... a marijuana... (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Stiller - Greg Focker
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes

“- Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston: Words are important.
- Pu Yi - 15 Years: Why are words important?
- Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston: If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.”
Peter O'Toole - Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston
Tao Wu - Pu Yi - 15 Years

“- Rachel: I'm with B.N.S.
- Kelly: What's B.N.S. stand for? Bitch that Needs some Slapping?”
Famke Janssen - Rachel
Eddie Murphy - Kelly

“Klara I made a promise to Grandmother before she died. I didn't even know what it meant. Not then, but now I do. This is my home Klara, this is where I belong.”

Noley Thornton - Heidi

- Lelaina Pierce: Can you define "irony"?
- Troy Dyer: It's when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life.”

William Alland - Jerry Thompson

“Sometimes it's not enough to know the meaning of things, sometimes we have to know what things don't mean as well. Like what does it mean to not know what the person you love is capable of?”
Bob Dylan - Jack Fate

“- Kyle: Do you even know what SAT stands for?
- Matty: Suck Ass Test?”
Chris Evans - Kyle
Bryan Greenberg - Matty Matthews

“I have to know. I have to find out what happened to my life.”
Tom Cruise - Chief John Anderton

“- Farva: Gimme a litre o' cola.
- Dimpus Burger Guy: What?
- Farva: A litre o' cola.
- Thorny: Just order a large, Farva.
- Farva: I don't want a large Farva. I want a goddamn litre o' cola.
- Dimpus Burger Guy: I don't know what that is.
- Farva: Litre is French for give me some fucking cola before I break vous fucking lips!”
Kevin Heffernan - Farva
Charlie Finn - Dimpus Burger Guy
Jay Chandrasekhar - Thorny

“- Bill Lee: You do consciously know it. You just said it. We're discussing it.
- Tom Frost: Not consciously. This is all happening telepathically, non-consciously.
- Bill Lee: What do you mean?
- Tom Frost: If you look carefully at my lips, you'll realize that I'm actually saying something else. I'm not actually telling you about the several...” (continue)(continue reading)

Peter Weller - Bill Lee
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost