Obstacles quotes

“Obstacles make a better picture.”
Victor Fleming

“- Spider-Man: I don't think it's that simple.
- Mary Jane Watson: Of course you don't! Because you complicate things!”

Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man
Kirsten Dunst - Mary Jane Watson

“- Dr. Evil: As you know, every diabolical scheme I've hatched has been thwarted by Austin Powers. And why is that, ladies and gentlemen?
- Scott: Because you never kill him when you get the chance, and you're a big dope?”
Mike Myers - Dr. Evil
Seth Green - Scott Evil

“- Dr. David Hawthorne: I wouldn't have thought bravery would be a problem for you.
- Charles Remington: Well, you hope each time it won't be... But you never really know.”
Bernard Hill - Dr. David Hawthorne

“Triumph is born out of struggle, faith is the alchemist.”
Morgan Freeman - God

“- Mathilda: Is life always this hard, or is it just when you're a kid?
- Léon: Always like this.”
Natalie Portman - Mathilda
Jean Reno - Leon

“I send you out to do a simple thing. A simple thing, by definition, should not be difficult to accomplish. You, have taken that thing and allowed it to become a complex thing.”

Ronald Francis Perlman - Murchison

“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
Mary Tyler Moore

“And when the wind blows hard and the sky is black, Ducks fly together.”
Kathryn Erbe - Michele MacKay

“Journalism is hard work. Everybody's under pressure. Everybody grinds to get the issue out. Nobody's getting any sleep, but you are allowed to smile every once in awhile.”

Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“I don't ask you to understand me. Between us all the time were those jewels, like a fire - a fire in my brain that separated us - those jewels which I wanted all my life. I don't know why... goodbye, Paula.”

Charles Boyer - Gregory Anton

“Dark times do funny things to people. They can tear them apart.”
Mark Williams - Arthur Weasley

“The important thing about that freedom train, is it's got to climb mountains. We all have to climb mountains, you know. Mountains that go way up high, and mountains that go deep and low.”
Cecil Williams - Reverend Williams

“Sometimes you smile because you're happy. Other times, you smile just because you've survived. But hey, a smile is a smile.”
Justin Long - Donald

“The world ain't fair. You've gotta take what you need when you can get it. You've gotta learn to stand up for yourself.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Willie

“I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I was raised in a trailer park. My father abandoned us, and my mother couldn't even afford to send us to college. Now, I may be an asshole, but I've worked hard to become one.”
Greg Cruttwell - Allan Hopper

“- Gimli: Toss me.
- Aragorn: What?
- Gimli: I cannot jump the distance, you'll have to toss me. ...Don't tell the Elf.
- Aragorn: Not a word.”

John Rhys-Davies - Gimli
Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn

“Have you ever seen me defeated? Don't you forget what I've been through and yet, I'm still standing.”
Madonna - Eva Perón

“Despite everything he's suffered he can still look at life in the most uncomplicated way. I've never known that kind of faith. It makes me so sad that people who have lost everything can still be open to love, while I, who have lost nothing, am not.”

Alexis Bledel - Lena

“What you don't understand, Clyde... is that love... is like a wildflower. But that flower only grows on the edge... of a very... high... cliff.”

Rachel Roberts - Simone

“Everything turns to callous eventually. That's life!”
Jon Voight - Mr. Sir

“Why is it, every time you can do some good, the nice people come in and mess you up?”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“Women have a way of complicating things.”
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“Anger against Mother boiled up inside me, as it is she who is one of the main obstacles in my path. Suddenly a means of ridding myself of this obstacle occurred to me. If she were to die...”
Melanie Lynskey - Pauline Parker

“You know what they say: that which doesn't kill you, makes you want to die.”
Adam Garcia - Jason