Perception quotes

“Perception of legitimacy is more important than legitimacy itself. That's the greater truth.”
Jeff Goldblum - Alan Stewart

“- Penny Escher: What are we doing here?
- Karen Eiffel: You told me I needed visual stimulation.
- Penny Escher: I meant a museum or something.
- Karen Eiffel: I don't need a museum. I need the infirm.
- Penny Escher: You are the infirm.”

Queen Latifah - Penny Escher
Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel

“- Dante Hicks: How many dicks have you sucked?
- Veronica Loughran: Let it go!
- Dante Hicks: How many?
- Veronica Loughran: All right, shut up a second and I'll tell you! Jesus! I didn't freak out like this when you told me how many girls you fucked!
- Dante Hicks: This is different, this is important. How many?”
Brian O'Halloran - Dante Hicks
Marilyn Ghigliotti - Veronica

“- Dr. Norman Goodman: Can I ask you something about this reflective surface?
- Captain Harold C. Barnes: Yeah, it appears to be mercury, doesn't it? Except mercury is liquid at this temperature.
- Dr. Norman Goodman: Oh, no. That's not what I'm talking about. What worries me is that it's reflecting everything but us.”

Dustin Hoffman - Dr. Norman Goodman
Peter Coyote - Captain Harold C. Barnes

“There are many sounds around us, each is slightly different. So small as to go un-noticed by the person who is unaware. Do not hear the wood split. Hear the only sound of axe, cutting air. Read the air itself. It has much say to you.”
Tadashi Yamashita - Eastern Trainer

“To these men, the truth is but a lie undiscovered.”
Jessica Lange - Mary

“Isn't it what we wait for? To meet someone... and they're, they're like a lens and suddenly you're looking through them and everything changes and nothing can ever be the same again.”
Tom Wilkinson - Arthur Edens

“Sometimes things are exactly as they seem.”
Morgan Freeman - Walter Crewes

“- Anij: Have you ever experienced, a perfect moment in time?
- Picard: A perfect moment?
- Anij: When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live, in that moment.
- Picard: Seeing my home planet from space, for the first time.
- Anij: Yes. Exactly. Nothing more complicated than perception.”
Donna Murphy - Anij
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“- Van Helsing: There's something down here, it's carnivorous. Whatever it is it appears to be... human. I'd say it's a size 17, about 360 pounds, 8 and a half to 9 feet tall and he has a bad gimp in his right leg and, ah, 3 copper teeth.
- Anna Valerious: How do you know he has copper teeth?
- Van Helsing: 'Cause he's standing right behind you.”
Hugh Jackman - Abraham Van Helsing
Kate Beckinsale - Anna Valerious

“- Ted: You're very perceptive.
- Montserrat: What?
- Ted: You are very perceptive.
- Montserrat: Oh. Thank you.
- Ted: I don't really like perceptive. It's not that kind.”
Taylor Nichols - Ted Boynton
Tushka Bergen - Montserrat Raventos

“I'm under the impression that you're under the impression that I owe you.”
Josh Hartnett - Slevin Kelevra

“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are.”
Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Billy Parks: When you hear a baby crying, or you hear a kid crying, you keep moving, okay? Children can sense them. It's your warning.
- Julia Lund: Warning against what?
- Billy Parks: Also, they affect the electrical things. They affect the lights and the phones. They - they affect things.”
Jon Abrahams - Billy Parks
Laura Regan - Julia Lund

“- Elvin Clyde: Who did you go as?
- Peter Appleton: A horny young man.”
Bob Balaban - Elvin Clyde
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“You're such a perceptive woman. How can you not understand his feelings?”

Frances Conroy - Lynn

“You cannot be near the newly dead without feeling it.”
Nicolas Cage - Frank Pierce

“- Walter Crewes: Well, what are you doing sneaking around here?
- Jack Ryan: I'm not sneaking around. I was just thinking. Sometimes when I'm thinking it looks like I'm sneaking.”
Morgan Freeman - Walter Crewes
Owen Wilson - Jack Ryan

“- Kale: Do you think he sees us?
- Daniel Brecht: No, he can't see us. But trust me, he can feel us watching.”

Shia LaBeouf - Kale
Matt Craven - Daniel Brecht

“It's the simplest things that are the hardest.”
Bruce Greenwood - Commander Richard Iverson

“- Lonnie Parker: I keep tellin' you, Tiger, if you watch and listen to the earth, it talks to you.
- Tiger Ann Parker: It's never talked to me.
- Lonnie Parker: Well, not talkin' like you're doin' today. It's different.”
Chris Owens - Lonnie Parker
Kelsey Keel - Tiger Ann Parker

“- Noodles: It's true I have killed people, Mr. Bailey. Sometimes to defend myself, sometimes for money. And many people used to come to us. Business partners, rivals, lovers. Some of the jobs we took, and some we didn't. Yours is one we would never touch, Mr Bailey.
- Max: Is this your idea of revenge?
- Noodles: No. It's just the way I see things.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
James Woods - Max

“- Ray: Can I come up, I mean just for five minutes?
- Lena: It wouldn't take five minutes.”
James Spader - Ray
Mädchen Amick - Lena

“- John Smith: You have the most unusual names here. Chechomony, Kuyukanhoic, Pocahontas.
- Pocahontas: You have a most unusual name too. John Smith.”
Mel Gibson - John Smith
Irene Bedard - Pocahontas

“I'm experiencing a sensation altogether new to me, and frankly I love it!”
Kevin Murphy - Tom Servo