Name quotes

“- Jill Valentine: Angela Ashford, huh? That's a pretty grown-up name for a little girl.
- Angie Ashford: I'm not a little girl. Besides... all my friends call me Angie.”
Sienna Guillory - Jill Valentine
Sophie Vavasseur - Angie Ashford

“I insist that all women who have hysterics in my drawing room call me by my Christian name.”

Judy Parfitt - Vera Donovan

“My legal name is Alexander Perchov, but all of my friends dub me Alex, because this is much more flaccid to utter.”
Eugene Hutz - Alex

“- Michael Bolton: At least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
- Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
- Michael Bolton: There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.”
David Herman - Michael Bolton
Ajay Naidu - Samir

“Because if I tell you, you'll tell your friends, your friends are callin' me on the horn all the time, I gotta show up at shopping centers for openings and sign autographs and shit like that and it makes my life a hell. Okay? A living hell.”

Michael Keaton - Betelgeuse

- Johnny aka Elvis: Don't call me Elvis! If you can't use my proper name, why don't you try "Carl Perkins, Jr." or something? I mean, I don't call them "Sam & Dave", do I?
- Pool Player 1: Hey, man. My name is Dave.

Joe Strummer - Johnny aka Elvis
Marvell Thomas - Pool Player 1

“- Harry Angel: What's your name?
- Epiphany Proudfoot: Epiphany Proudfoot.
- Harry Angel: Your mother left you a very beautiful name, Epiphany.
- Epiphany Proudfoot: Not much else.”
Mickey Rourke - Harry Angel
Lisa Bonet - Epiphany Proudfoot

- Chase Hammond: Your parents named you "Dee Vine"?
- Dee Vine: No Dee's a contraction. I changed it myself.
Adrian Grenier - Chase Hammond
Keri Lynn Pratt - Dee Vine

“- Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol: Did you guys know all this stuff about him when you decided to name me? That he was paranoid, suicidal, friendless, depressed?
- Ashoke: You forgot to mention that he was also a genius.”

Kal Penn - Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol
Irrfan Khan - Ashoke

“- Anita: My name's Anita. What's yours?
- Bruce: They call me Bruce.
- Anita: Bruce? Like Bruce Lee.
- Bruce: Of course.
- Anita: Then you must know kung fu.
- Bruce: Yes, I stepped in some yesterday.”
Pam Huntington - Anita
Johnny Yune - Bruce

“They named everything after me: cigars, racehorses, perfumes, battleships!”
Marie Dressler - Carlotta Vance

“- Blanca: What's a matter, Retard?
- Dick Harper: Call me Dick.”

Gloria Garayua - Blanca
Jim Carrey - Dick Harper

“- Roy: Lars? What kind of name is that? Where you from?
- Lars: [pause] ... Far Away!”
Kenan Thompson - Roy
Tom Hodges - Lars

“- Andie: You know you're talking like that just because I'm going out with Blane.
- Duckie: His name is Blane? Oh! That's a major appliance, that's not a name!”
Molly Ringwald - Andie
Jon Cryer - Duckie

“- Godfrey: May I be frank?
- Molly: Is that your name?
- Godfrey: No, my name is Godfrey.
- Molly: All right, be frank.”
William Powell - Godfrey
Jean Dixon - Molly

- James Cole: This is a place for crazy people. I'm not crazy.
- Dr. Owen Fletcher: We don't use the term "crazy," Mr. Cole.
- James Cole: Well, you've got some real nuts here.
Bruce Willis - James Cole
Frank Gorshin - Dr. Fletcher

“- Adam: Do you like music, Caroline?
- Caroline: Mmm. That's the first time I heard you say my name. It sounded... nice.
- Adam: Would you like to listen to my records, Caroline?”
Christian Slater - Adam
Marisa Tomei - Caroline

“Becky, huh? Nice name. I wonder what she calls the other one.”

Seth Green - Lyle

“- Paul Varjak: Let’s get something straight. I am not now nor have I ever been Fred, nor am I Benny Shacklett, whoever he may be. My name is Paul - Paul
Varjak... and I love you.
- Holly Golightly: Let me go. ”
George Peppard - Paul Varjak
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly

“The town we lived in was named after a slave. It was said that when General John Paul Batiste was stricken with cholera, his life was saved by the powerful medicine of an African slave woman called Eve. In return for his life, he freed her, and gave her this piece of land by the Bayou. Perhaps in gratitude, she bore him sixteen children. We are...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tamara Tunie - Narrator

“- Malik Brody: You left Bria with the Asshole?
- Carolyn Brody: His name is Steve.
- Malik Brody: I forgot, the asshole part is silent!”
Kadeem Hardison - Malik Brody
Sanaa Lathan - Carolyn Brody

“- Brandon: So what's your name?
- Candace: Candace. I hate it though. I'm thinking of changing it.
- Brandon: Sometimes that helps. I'm Brandon.”

Hilary Swank - Brandon Teena
Alicia Goranson - Candace

“- Jack Parker: Pick a new name. Pick a name, any name. Come on.
- Nancy Morgan: Oh... uh. I can't think of any.
- Jack Parker: How about Laura?
- Nancy Morgan: Oh, God! That's worse than the one I've got!
- Jack Parker: Hey, what's wrong with your name? It's beautiful just like you are. You're beautiful.”
Keith David - Jack Parker
Dianne Wiest - Nancy Morgan

“- Milton Fishman: Spider. Spider. Spider!
- Max Grabelski: What?
- Milton Fishman: How come your nick name's Spider?
- Max Grabelski: Because I once killed a kid who called me Spider, one time too many!
- Milton Fishman: Yeah, but how could he call you Spider one time too many if your nick name wasn't already Spider?”
Ari Greenberg - Milton Fishman
Daniel Stern - Max Grabelski

“- Pvt. David Manning: What is your name?
- Doug Despin: Doug... Despin.
- Pvt. David Manning: Well, Doug Despin, this is the second time I'm telling you to shut up.”
Ron Eldard - Manning
Dan Futterman - Despin