Merit quotes

"Knighty Knight Bugs" was directed by Friz Freleng. He got an Oscar and I got a carrot.
Mel Blanc - Bugs Bunny

“- Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.
- Bill Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
- Little Bill Daggett: I'll see you in hell, William Munny.
- Bill Munny: Yeah.”

Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett
Clint Eastwood - Bill Munny

“- Sam: Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing?
- Charlie: We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Emma Watson - Sam
Logan Lerman - Charlie

It's always "somebody tipped them". Never "the cops are smart".
Virginia Mayo - Verna Jarrett

“I want you to see the beauty of giving love where it isn't merited.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“Brown. Me. Wow! It wasn't possible! Did I deserve it? I mean, twenty minutes ago some guy was masturbating over me. ...Mom! I need more soap!”

Dominique Swain - Andrea Marr

“- Henry Kissinger: If a Rockefeller can't be the President of the United States then what is the point of democracy?
- Richard M. Nixon: The point of democracy is that even the son of a grocer can become President.”
Paul Sorvino - Henry Kissinger
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Capt. Roy Pritchett: Congratulations Private, you're a sergeant now.
- Pvt. David Manning: I am absolutely the wrong man!
- Capt. Roy Pritchett: You've managed to stay alive for a week: that's something the rest of your platoon couldn't do. Call me crazy, but from where I'm standing, that qualifies you for the job!”
Martin Donovan - Capt. Pritchett
Ron Eldard - Manning

“Allow me to untangle this web of shit. I don't care if his last job was jugging apples for a hut full of pygmies on the outskirts of the Congo! This man fits the bill, and you need him! And that's why the rhino's going to get exactly what he deserves.”

Danny DeVito - Burke Bennett

“- Caroline Sexton: You poor, deluded little monkey. Who do you think brought you to these people? Without me, Brad, you would be nothing.
- Brad Sexton: I beg your pardon, but I had a very successful real estate career before I ever met you.”
Kirstie Alley - Caroline Sexton
Tim Allen - Brad Sexton

“We have to stop blaming ourselves for what we don't have and start asking for what we deserve.”
Isabel Coixet

“He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.”

Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Dreyfus: Understand something Clouseau. When I made you an inspector, it was not because I thought you had any value as a detective. It was because I thought you were the stupidest policeman in all of France, a hopeless, deluded idiot.
- Clouseau: Then I was not promoted for my merits?”
Kevin Kline - Dreyfus
Steve Martin - Clouseau

“- Jones: She's just a conniving little dame who deserves every bit that's coming to her.
- Megan: Including murder, I suppose?”

Walter Connolly - Jones
Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“Don't worship me until I've earned it.”
Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway

“I want every kid in this whole world to take drugs because of me. Because of me. I want everybody to know. Everybody.”
Joe Pesci - Mr. Big

“Everyone wants it easy today Will. And the reason we don't have the Cup, is that we don't deserve to have the Cup.”
Cliff Robertson - Morgan Weld

“You've grown into an extraordinary young woman, Nora, and I deserve all the credit. If I didn't abandoned you, God knows what would have happened to you.”

Jason Robards - Max Dugan

“One should be rewarded on one's merits, not on one's ability to ingratiate oneself with the management. Particularly when the management have difficulty in locating the relative whereabouts of the arse and the elbow.”
Timothy Spall - Richard Temple

“You've got strange ideas about justice. You don't want to hit nobody unless they deserve it. Now, that's all right, but we're in business. And business is different!”

George "Gabby" Hayes - Doc Grunch

“I haven't done anything or anyone to deserve this.”

Matthew Perry - Oscar Novak

“Show me my life the way it should have worked. Show me the life I would have had without your big mouth. Show me the life I deserved.”

Sigourney Weaver - Sandy Travis

“Every day we have is one more than we deserve.”
Robert Redford - Warren Justice

“- Ken: What did I do to deserve this?
- Captain Joe: We don't deserve half the things we get.”
Tatsuya Azuma - Ken
Jô Shishido - Captain Joe

“Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf