Perception quotes

“- Max Dugan: Life hasn't been all that wonderful to you, has it Nora?
- Nora McPhee: I take what comes along.
- Max Dugan: Well, why don't you take the good as well as the bad?
- Nora McPhee: When it comes from the same place I get a little suspicious.”
Jason Robards - Max Dugan
Marsha Mason - Nora McPhee

“When you know too much about a person, sometimes it's hard to think of them sexually, but when you know someone in a sexual way, it's hard to think of them as a person.”
Lorri Bagley - Judy

“- Chris Magruder: You know, there's a word for people who think everyone is conspiring against them.
- CW Briggs: I know, perceptive.”
Dan Aykroyd - Chris Magruder
Woody Allen - CW Briggs

- Jonathan "Snuffy" Bradberry: The first rule of prep school etiquette is to pretend you're asleep when your roommate's beating off.
- Henry "Hank" Giles, III: No, the first rule of prep school etiquette is to wait until your roommate falls asleep before beating off.
Keith Coogan - Snuffy Bradberry
T.E. Russell - Hank Giles

- Lt. Theodore 'Ted' Sawyer: My source at the FBI said they didn't think you were, and I quote, "Bureau material".
- Jeff Blue: That's true. I'm more of an end table.
- Jane Blue: I always thought of you as a dining room chair.
- Jeff Blue: Really? I see you as a rosewood armoire with really nice drawers.
Obba Babatundé - Sawyer
Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue
Kathleen Turner - Jane Blue

“When I came out into society, I was fifteen. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Glenn Close - Marquise de Merteuil

“- Trevor Garfield: Your whole way of life is bullshit! Macho is bullshit!
- Cesar: It's all I got!”
Samuel L. Jackson - Trevor Garfield
Clifton Collins Jr. - Cesar Sanchez

“Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
Alec Guinness - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

“He painted what he felt, not what he saw. People didn't understand, to them it seemed childlike and crude. It took years for them to recognize his actual technique.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“This place changes your perception about what's possible.”
Kari Matchett - Kate Filmore

“l stayed at the Hartford one time. You should see the rooms. All satin and velvet. And the bed... royal blue, trimmed in lace clean as snow. Hard to believe a room like that don't change your life. But it don't. The bed may be magic, but the mirror isn't. Still wake up the same old Susie.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Susie Diamond

“- T-Loc: You're in here with me now!
- Eli Porter: I'm not in here with you. You're in here... with me.”
Garvin Funches - T-Loc
Daniel Cerny - Eli Porter

“You know what it feels like to be knocked out? Your brain presses against your skull.”
John Travolta - Vic Deakins

“I was in an accident. A car accident... about five years ago. They say that sometimes when you have a traumatic experience like that it can alter your perception.”

Michael J. Fox - Frank Bannister

“- Danny Costanzo: What's wrong with being careful?
- Captain Logan: Careful gets you killed in this line of work. You think about getting shot and you get shot.”
Billy Crystal - Danny Costanzo
Dan Hedaya - Captain Logan

“- Woody: Hey, Buzz! You're flying!
- Buzz: This isn't flying, this is falling with style!”
Tom Hanks - Woody
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear

“Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh?”
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Albert Lewis

“- Frank: The FBI thinks it's organized crime.
- Jane Blue: Ah, the FBI thinks everything is organized crime.”
Richard Jenkins - Frank
Kathleen Turner - Jane Blue

- William Travis: In a few days, all of Texas will know of our situation.
- James Bowie: Tell me, Buck, in Alabama, precisely how many is "a few"?
Patrick Wilson - William Travis
Jason Patric - James Bowie

“Wouldn't it be great if I was crazy? Then the world would be okay.”
Bruce Willis - James Cole

“- Steven's Father: All that stuff of this town having nothing for someone of your age... I thought you really catched how a young person sees life.
- Steven: Life? What d'you know about my life?”
David Lumsden - Steven's Father
Ben Silverstone - Steven Carter

“A great detective relies on perception, intelligence, and imagination.”

Nicholas Rowe - Sherlock Holmes

“- Ivan Korshunov: I know what you're thinking, First Lady. You want me dead. Well, it might come to that. In the war, people die.
- Grace: This isn't war! You just murdered an unarmed woman.
- Ivan Korshunov: You, who murdered a 100,000 Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas. Are going to lecture me about the rules of war? Don't!”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Ivan Korshunov
Wendy Crewson - Grace Marshall

“Power perceived is power achieved.”
Ernie Hudson - Principal Claude Rolle

“To be is to be perceived.”
Ralph Fiennes - Maurice Bendrix