Originality quotes

“I will not have you running around in public acting like a fool and dressing like a hermaphrodite.”
Donald Symington - Ernest Dalby

“- Father: Are you ill, Russell-James?
- Rusty James: I got cut up in a knife fight.
- Father: Yeah, really.
- Rusty James: Yeah.
- Father: Yep, really. Strange lives you two lead.
- Rusty James: Strange? At least I'm not a lawyer on welfare.”
Dennis Hopper - Father
Matt Dillon - Rusty James

- Detective Hayden: To be perfectly frank, Michael, you were described as, uh... What was that word they used, Sergeant?
- Martin: Frightening.
- Detective Hayden: Frightening, and strange and weird. "Freak" came up a couple times.
Frank Langella - Detective Hayden
Victor Ertmanis - Martin

“- John Keating: Why do I stand up here? Anybody?
- Charlie Dalton: To feel taller!
- John Keating: No! [dings a bell with his foot] Thank you for playing, Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”

Robin Williams - John Keating
Gale Hansen - Charlie Dalton

“- Grange: I saw him too. He had a guitar. He winked at me before he jumped out a fourth floor window like he had wings.
- Top Dollar: He winked at you? Pf, musicians.”

Tony Todd - Grange
Michael Wincott - Top Dollar

“I am thinking of the piano. She does not play the piano like we do, Nessie. She is a strange creature. And her playing is strange, like a mood that passes into you. Your playing is plain and true, and that is what I like. To have a sound creep inside you is not at all pleasant.”

Kerry Walker - Aunt Morag

“- Has Faith in Groups: That's what I hate: When you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.
- Based on Authoritative Sources: Okay, great. Personal attacks now, is that it? I thought we were beyond...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sarah Harmon - Has Faith in Groups
Robert Pierson - Based on Authoritative Sources

“- Bob Campbell: Crawling around the mud in this climate after a bunch of gorillas might be perceived as weird.
- Dian Fossey: Do you think I'm weird?
- Bob Campbell: I do. Absolutely. Without question. I also think you are wonderful.
- Dian Fossey: Which comes first, weird or wonderful?
- Bob Campbell: Weird.”
Bryan Brown - Bob Campbell
Sigourney Weaver - Dian Fossey

“We're not odd, we're just over-expressive.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Helen Schlegel

“- The Penguin: You're just jealous because I'm a genuine freak and you have to wear a mask!
- Batman: You might be right.”
Danny DeVito - Penguin
Michael Keaton - Batman

“- Frank Cross: Do you think I'm way off base here?
- Eliot Loudermilk: Yes. You're, well, you're a tad off base, sir. That thing looked like The Manson Family Christmas Special!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross
Bobcat Goldthwait - Eliot Loudermilk

“- Tommy: You sure talk funny. Where you born at?
- Avram: Poland.
- Tommy: Is that near Pittsburgh?
- Avram: No, that's near Czechoslovakia.”
Harrison Ford - Tommy
Gene Wilder - Avram

“- Ben Smith: What'd you say your name was?
- Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones: Helen Faraday.
- Ben Smith: Nah, we gotta get something different. Something unusual, something that's easy to say and hard to forget.”
Gene Morgan - Ben Smith
Marlene Dietrich - Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones

“- Laverne: Take it from us, Quasi. You've got nothing to worry about.
- Hugo: Yeah, you're irresistible!
- Victor: Knights-in-shining-armor certainly aren't her type.
- Hugo: And those guys are a dime a dozen, but you - you're one of a kind.”
Mary Wickes - Laverne
Jason Alexander - Hugo
Charles Kimbrough - Victor

“- Mitch: Kenny has to go. He's cooking breakfast for his underwear.
- Dr. Jeffrey Sanborn: Who is this?
- Mitch: I'm a pair of his socks.”

Billy Crystal - Mitch Robbins
Bob Balaban - Dr. Jeffrey Sanborn

“My dentist said he's never seen so many cavities in one mouth and that he's sending a sample of my saliva to the University of Wisconsin!”
Robert Hy Gorman - Felix

“There are lots of jazz singers, but you have a tear in your voice.”

May McAvoy - Mary Dale

“- Maguire: What is she like between the sheets?
- Fergus: Definitely unusual.”

Adrian Dunbar - Maguire
Stephen Rea - Fergus

“Very strange mother, my mother.”
Roberto Benigni - Roberto