Originality quotes

“- Antonio Salieri: Are you sure you can't leave these and, and come back again?
- Constanze Mozart: It's very tempting sir, but it's impossible, I'm afraid. Wolfgang would be frantic if he found those were missing, you see they're all originals.
- Antonio Salieri: Originals?
- Constanze Mozart: Yes, sir, he doesn't make copies.
- Antonio Salieri...” (continue)(continue reading)

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri
Elizabeth Berridge - Constanze Mozart

“He's a producer-slash-director-slash weirdo. He's like the Jim Jarmusch of S&M.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Max California

People look at politicians and celebrities on the TV and the newspapers, glossy magazines - what do they see? "I'm just like them". That's what they say. "I could be any one of them". Well guess what, you can't.
Kevin Spacey - Jack Abramoff

“When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.”
Michel Gondry

“My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.”
Harold Ramis

“We're not your classic heroes. We're the other guys.”
William H. Macy - Shoveler

“Please don't call me a clever girl, Mr. Phillotson, there are too many of us about these days.”
Kate Winslet - Sue Bridehead

“- Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?
- Chris: Definitely.
- Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
- Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird.”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“Meeting him across the lawn for the first time would be so ordinary. I don't want to be just introduced to him. I want it to be something strange and romantic and something I'll always remember.”

Judy Garland - Esther Smith

“- Robert Stansfield: You're not a writer, Fred.
- Fred Blake: You even said I have a style of my own.
- Robert Stansfield: You're just a mean son-of-a-bitch that managed to save his own ass.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Robert Stansfield
Robert De Niro - Fred Blake

“- Putnam: All right, I'm looking for a couple of kids. This one's a mental case, have you seen them?
- Pinball Teen: Does he dress like you?
- Putnam: No.
- Pinball Teen: Then he can't be too much of a case, all right?”
Will Seltzer - Putnam
Tom Kerley - Pinball Teen

“- Enid: Well, at the least the wheelchair guy is entertaining.
- Rebecca: He doesn't even need that wheelchair, he's just totally lazy.
- Enid: That rules!
- Rebecca: No, it really doesn't. You'll see, you get totally sick of all the creeps and losers and weirdos.”

Thora Birch - Enid
Scarlett Johansson - Rebecca

“- Dr. John Dolittle: I didn't say you were crazy, you're special, and crazy, a lot of great people in history were crazy.
- Maya Dolittle: Like who?
- Dr. John Dolittle: Some of the greatest people in history.”
Eddie Murphy - Dr. John Dolittle
Kyla Pratt - Maya Dolittle

“Fun? Fun was dropping acid in the 60's. Fun was streaking at my sister's prom. Fun was staging a sit-in at a titty bar on Sunset. This... this is very bad Fellini we're about to enter into.”
John Goodman - Benjamin

“He says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre, and we must find our originality within that genre.”

Nicolas Cage - Donald Kaufman

“They mix and match our memories as they see fit, trying to divine what makes us unique.”

Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Schreber

“Why did it have to be Eddie? He symbolizes everything that disgusts me. Obviousness. Unoriginal macho energy. Ladies man.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Sam: He said something about having sex with my skull.
- Maggie: Ah, he says that to everyone, don't worry about it.”
Matthew Broderick - Sam
Meg Ryan - Maggie

“All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.”
Harrison Ford

“Whenever you're right, strive for originality.”
Woody Allen - David Dobel

“It's a strange world.”

Kyle MacLachlan - Jeffrey Beaumont

“An alternative lifestyle. Do you know what that is? That's just a phrase deviants use to cover up their sex lives.”
Dan Aykroyd - Fred

“I don't think we're dealing with an ordinary mouse.”

Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

“- Maya Dolittle: Can I tell you a secret?
- Archer Dolittle: Yeah, sure.
- Maya Dolittle: When mommy told me what happened to daddy, I wasn't afraid, I was happy because I believed that he could talk to animals. I want dad to be weird, just like me. Is that wrong?”
Kyla Pratt - Maya Dolittle
Ossie Davis - Archer Dolittle

“- Pelican Man: I used to be a pelican, what were you?
- Browning: Jesus Christ!
- Pelican Man: Really?”

Albin Pahernik - Pelican Man
Chevy Chase - Browning