Originality quotes

“- Tovar: Amigo, only you would carry a stupid magnet through the desert.
- William: I can use it to make a compass.”
Pedro Pascal - Tovar
Matt Damon - William

“I'm going out and make the greatest picture in the world. Something that nobody's ever seen or heard of. They'll have to think up a lot of new adjectives when I come back.”
Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham

“Mikie, you're so - weird. You're always such a gentleman.”
Meryl Streep - Linda

“Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.”
Tom Greening

“Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.”
Anthony Rapp

“You are all weirdos.”

Frank Oz - Sam the Eagle

“- Sarah Whittle: You just saw three monkeys go by on a motorcycle, didn't you?
- Judy Shepherd: Yeah.
- Sarah Whittle: Good girl.”
Bonnie Hunt - Sarah Whittle
Kirsten Dunst - Judy Shepherd

“- Pedro: Do you think people will vote for me?
- Napoleon Dynamite: Heck yes! I'd vote for you.
- Pedro: Like what are my skills?
- Napoleon Dynamite: Well, you have a sweet bike. And you're really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you're like the only guy at school who has a mustache.”
Efren Ramirez - Pedro
Jon Heder - Napoleon Dynamite

“- Anya: For God's sakes Andrew, you've been in here for 30 minutes. What are you doing?
- Andrew Wells: Entertaining and educating.
- Anya: Why can't you just masturbate like the rest of us?”
Emma Caulfield Ford - Anya
Tom Lenk - Andrew Wells

“My brains are individuals - they're special - they're unique.”
Bill Pullman - Rex Martin

“Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.”
Martin Ritt

“You can't make experimental work by copying past work. ”
Trey Parker

“Only uniqueness is success.”
Gordon Pinsent - Grant Anderson

“You couldn't invent someone like Carl Lazlo. He was a... he was one of a kind. He was a mutant. A real heavyweight water buffalo type... who could chew his way through a concrete wall and spit out the other side covered with lime and chalk and look good in doing it.”
Bill Murray - Hunter S. Thompson

“- Gredin: What are you wishing?
- Lily Leonetti: That I could just... open my eyes and be different. Listen to me.
- Gredin: I'm listening. And I like doing that. You're beautiful.
- Lily Leonetti: No, I'm not.
- Gredin: Yes, you are. You're sweet... you're beautiful... and different.”
Johnathon Schaech - Gredin
Alyssa Milano - Lily Leonetti

“All the respectable, straight-arrow guys were busy doing what they always do, which is be respectable. Which meant the rest of us could run around acting like crazies, which is what we did best. I miss those days.”

Joey Slotnick - Steve Wozniak

Mr. Lebowski called himself "The Dude". Now, "Dude" - that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense. And a lot about where he lived, likewise.
Sam Elliott - The Stranger

“That's really quite a world that you've shown me. German scientists are as tall as the Empire State Building, and aliens are as big as jumbo shrimp.”
Susan Doukas - Sylvia

- Jack Sparrow: My compass is unique.
- Norrington: "Unique" here having the meaning of "broken"?
- Jack Sparrow: True enough.
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Jack Davenport - Norrington

“Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.”
Rip Torn

“I think actors and artists in general live in a different kind of world.”
Ron Rifkin

“You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.”
Octavia Spencer

“To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it.”
James Marsden

“I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.”
Dame Judi Dench

“I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.”
Elijah Wood