Naivety quotes

“- Fink: You had her in the woods and you just talked? You didn't do anything. You didn't do anything?
- Spaz: I held her hand when we walked home.
- Fink: Held her hand? Spaz, you're on your way! Held her hand. In the woods! And it was dark!”

Keith Knight - Fink
Jack Blum - Spaz

“A man lives three lives. The first one ends with the loss of naivety, the second, with the loss of innocence and the third… with the loss of life itself. It’s inevitable that we go through all three stages.”
Dietrich Hollinderbäumer - Adam

“Better the blind man who pisses out the window than the joker who told him it was a urinal. Know who the joker is? It's everybody.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

You're floatin' in a big sea of shit and instead of just stayin' in the boat, no, you reach out and you pick up this one little turd and you say "This turd, well this turd pisses me off. I'm gonna do somethin' about this turd!".
Fred Ward - Dix

“I feel that I'm a pretty intuitive person. Except for that one guy who said he was an advanced scout for an alien invasion force but it turned out he just wanted to get inside my pants.”
Jennifer Tilly - Lynn Holden

“You want me to seduce a little girl, who has seen nothing, who knows nothing, who'll probably flop on her back out of simple curiosity? You don't need me for that. Anyone can do that.”
Colin Firth - Valmont

“- John Hull: Gerry, I sold drugs, I've watched people die, and I didn't do nothing. I killed people. You lied to me.
- Carver: They lied to me, John. How naive can you get, man? What, what, are you so stupid you can't see that? You think I like this? Huh? John, I'm sorry. Huh? It's all shit, you know. It's all bullshit. You know that. I know that.”
Laurence Fishburne - John Hull
Charles Martin Smith - Carver

“- Ed Horman: He, he seems so innocent. Almost deliberately naive.
- Beth Horman: Is that so bad?
- Ed Horman: Is that so good?
- Beth Horman: You raised him.”
Jack Lemmon - Ed Horman
Sissy Spacek - Beth Horman

“- Bob: Nobody said anything about guns! They've got guns, and I think we need guns!
- Cosmo: That's smart thinkin', Bob. That's real smart thinkin'. All the damn money I spread around here, and you want to go play Al Capone with some fuckin' meatball! You fuckin' juvenile!”
Scott Hoxby - Bob
Tommy Lee Jones - Cosmo

“You're acting like a superstitious schoolboy, Peter. What's next, incense and Rosary beads?”
Alex Diakun - Grandmaster Lutz

“I warn you their ingenuity goes hand in hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious, as violent.”

Charlton Heston - Zaius

“Think of it as a business partnership: you need brains, and I need legs - and the Wizard of Oz doesn't live in South Cincinnati.”

Kieran Culkin - Kevin Dillon

“Excuse me for still believing in Sunday walks in the park and little babies!”
Anna Nicole Smith - Carrie Wisk

“Felix darling, some of her fans still don't think she goes to the bathroom!”

Erica Yohn - Agnes - Costume Designer

“Leopold, what's an intellectual genius like you want with a simple young nurse like me?”
Julie Hagerty - Dulcy