Mythology quotes

“Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend; legend became myth.”

“Sisyphus. It's a myth about this guy who had to roll or push this incredibly huge rock up this steep mountain. Every time he would get to the top of this mountain the rock would roll down again. He would watch this and walk back down the mountain and do it all over again. Forever.”
Parker Posey - Mary

“- Doc Hopper: Listen, we're a small business but we've expanded. Expanded! Just like you frogs expand. Don't you frogs expand?
- Kermit the Frog: That's a myth.”
Charles Durning - Doc Hopper
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog

“Let's just go back, and we can write a nice little, boring thesis regurgitating all the usual crap about urban legend. We've got a real shot here, Bernadette. An entire community starts attributing the daily horrors of their lives to a mythical figure.”

Virginia Madsen - Helen Lyle

“I believe in the myth. But the fact, the flesh and blood, no. I'm afraid not.”
Michael Culkin - Phillip Purcell

“I started studying mythology, just on my own.”
Antoine Fuqua

“I trained all those would-be heroes. Odysseus, Perseus, Theseus. Alotayusses! And every one of those bums let me down flatter than a discus. None of them could go the distance. And then, there was Achilles. Now there was a guy who had it all: the build, the foot-speed. He could jab! He could take a hit! He could keep on coming! But that...” (continue)(continue reading)

Danny DeVito - Phil

“- Lara Croft: Reiss is going to use the orb to find Pandora's box.
- MI6 Agent Stevens: Do you meen the Greek myth? Pandora's given a box by a God, told not to open it, she does and unleashes pain into the world?”
Angelina Jolie - Lara Croft
Robert Cavanah - MI6 Agent Stevens

“Unlike the Greek, England has no true mythology. All we have are witches and fairies.”
Emma Thompson - Margaret Schlegel

- Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram: What's the story of Sodom and Gomorrah really about? Anyone? Steve Posner.
- Steve Posner: Sexual perversion.
- Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram: Sexual perversion. Steve Posner's watching too much Spice Channel!
Ben Stiller - Rabbi Jake Schram
David Wain - Steve Posner

“As you know, l'm quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology... The mythology is not only great, it's unique.”
David Carradine - Bill

“Sisters, Satan has married Medusa. See the snakes in her hair.”
Kathy Najimy - Mary

“- Lama Norbu: I was just telling Jesse the story of Siddhartha.
- Dean Conrad: That's a beautiful story. A beautiful... myth.
- Lama Norbu: It is one way of telling the truth, and children seem to love it.”
Ruocheng Ying - Lama Norbu
Chris Isaak - Dean Conrad

“Modern medical science does not admit of such a creature! The vampire is a pure myth, superstition.”
Herbert Bunston - Doctor Seward

“- Rusty James: I saw that chick, Cassandra. She said she wasn't hooked.
- The Motorcycle Boy: Yeah? I believe her. You remember what happened to the people who didn't believe Cassandra?
- Father: The Greeks got 'em.
- Rusty James: What?
- Father: The Greeks Got-'Em.
- Rusty James: Man, what the fuck do the Greeks have to do with anything?”
Matt Dillon - Rusty James
Mickey Rourke - The Motorcycle Boy
Dennis Hopper - Father