Meaning quotes

“- Spits: I got a pseudonym too. Spits.
- Miss Higgins: That's a nickname. It has a meaning, Leroy. And I hesitate to think how you got it.”
T.E. Russell - Spits
Francesca P. Roberts - Miss Higgins

“All these words, they have multiple meanings, and you have to explore the possibilities and then make your choice.”

Luke Mably - Eddie

- Max: You haven't slept with her, have you?
- William Thacker: That is a cheap question and the answer is, of course, no comment.
- Max: "No comment" means "yes".
- William Thacker: No, it doesn't.
- Max: Do you ever masturbate?
- William Thacker: Definitely no comment.
- Max: You see? It means "yes".
Tim McInnerny - Max
Hugh Grant - William Thacker

“God doesn't punish the wicked and reward the righteous. Everyone dies. Some die because they deserve to; others die simply because they come from Minneapolis. It's random and it's meaningless.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“- Joshamee Gibbs: He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how.
- Jack Sparrow: Mr. Cotton's... parrot. Same question.
- Parrot Voice: [squawk] Wind in the sails. Wind in the sails.
- Joshamee Gibbs: Mostly, we figure, that means 'yes'.”
Kevin McNally - Joshamee Gibbs
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Christopher S. Capp - Parrot Voice

“- Speed: It didn't amount to anything. It was completely meaningless.
- Pops: How could it be meaningless? I saw my son become a man. I watched a man with courage and integrity drive the pants off of every other driver on that road. This is not meaningless. This is the reason for a father's life.”

Emile Hirsch - Speed
John Goodman - Pops

“- Det. Benjamin Smiley: Did you love her?
- C.C. Drood: I don't know. I don't know what that means.”
Harry Dean Stanton - Det. Benjamin Smiley
Tom Hulce - C.C. Drood

“- Rick Blaine: Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for.
- Victor Laszlo: You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.”
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine
Paul Henreid - Victor Laszlo

- Newswoman: If you could've found out what "Rosebud" meant, I bet that would've explained everything.
- Jerry Thompson: I don't think so; Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe "Rosebud" was something he couldn't get, or something he lost.
Petra R. de Silva - Newswoman
William Alland - Jerry Thompson

“- Judge Francis Rayford: I found out what the meaning of life is.
- Arthur Kirkland: What's that?
- Judge Francis Rayford: It sucks.”
Jack Warden - Judge Francis Rayford
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“An oath to a scoundrel is meaningless.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Chauvelin

“- Jane Goodale: Two words: Coppulatory Imperative.
- Liz: Excuse me?
- Jane Goodale: The biological urge to spread their seed. The truth is only 15% of all male animals are monogomous.”
Ashley Judd - Jane Goodale
Marisa Tomei - Liz

“- Irene Bullock: I went to Venice, and one night I went for a ride in one of those rowboats that the man pushes with a stick. Not a matador. That was in Spain. But something like a matador.
- Godfrey: Do you, by any chance, mean a gondolier?”
Carole Lombard - Irene Bullock
William Powell - Godfrey

“- Tina Carlyle: Thanks.
- Stanley Ipkiss: For what?
- Tina Carlyle: Lots of things. Sharing the sunset with me. For being the only guy whose ever treated me like a person and not some sort of party favor. For being any kind of romantic. Even a hopeless one.
- Stanley Ipkiss: You're welcome.
- Tina Carlyle: You know that night at the club? I knew...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cameron Diaz - Tina Carlyle
Jim Carrey - Stanley Ipkiss

- Mimi-Siku: Choose a name.
- Karen Kempster: Choose for me.
- Mimi-Siku: Ukume.
- Karen Kempster: What does it mean?
- Mimi-Siku: It means: "Sound of rain on river water".
- Karen Kempster: Ukume. It's pretty.

Sam Huntington - Mimi-Siku
Leelee Sobieski - Karen Kempster

“- Sonny Corleone: What the hell is this?
- Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”

James Caan - Sonny Corleone
Richard S. Castellano - Clemenza

- Wayne Campbell: So, do you... come to Milwaukee often?
- Alice Cooper: Well, I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early as the late 1600's to trade with the Native Americans.
- Pete Freezin': In fact, isn't "Milwaukee" an Indian name?
-... (continue)(continue reading)
Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell
Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper
Pete Freezin' - Pete Freezin'

“- Michelle Burroughs: Watch them fly... away.
- Kevin Pickford: Hey, you guys know what that song is about? Its about the aliens. We're the aliens man, we're the savages. We're the savages man.”
Milla Jovovich - Michelle
Shawn Andrews - Kevin Pickford

“Death is the moment of separation, which comes to every person in every family. When the body grows cold and stiff like wood, it has to be burnt like wood.”

Santosh Bangera - Channa

- Blaine Bingham: Did you know that Chicago means, "the smell of wild onions"?
- John L. Sullivan IV: Did you New York just means, "New York"?
Christopher Reeve - Blaine Bingham
Burt Reynolds - John L. Sullivan IV

“Your Mercedes, dear, you own that big expensive car out there? Oh, dear. Well, they say a man who has to buy a big car like that is trying to compensate for smaller genitals.”
Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire

“What I meant, and what I implied, are two different things.”
Cynthia Rothrock - Terry

“- Michael: This doesn't make any sense!
- The Trickster: It doesn't have to make sense. All these horror movies you watch... does 'Death, Death, Death' make sense? No. It's not about sense. It's about death, death, death.”

Edward Furlong - Michael
T. Ryder Smith - The Trickster

“- Rachel: What about the azalea?
- Luce: The azalea means 'may you achieve financial security'. See?
- Rachel: Lovely. Now, tell me about the lily.
- Luce: The lily means 'I dare you to love me'.”
Piper Perabo - Rachel
Lena Headey - Luce

"The Suck Zone". It's the point basically when the twister... sucks you up. That's not the technical term for it, obviously.
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Dustin Davis