Perception quotes

- Blue Collar Man: Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt, but, uh, what are you talking about?
- Randal Graves: The ending of "Return of the Jedi".
- Dante Hicks: My friend here's trying to convince me that any independent contractors who were working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when it was destroyed by the Rebels.
Thomas Burke - Blue Collar Man
Jeff Anderson - Randal Graves
Brian O'Halloran - Dante Hicks

“It comes and goes. Some people have it for five seconds. Some their whole lives. He's a receiver now. Everything's coming in. He can't stop it, he can't slow it down, he can't even figure it out. It's like he's in a tunnel with a flashlight. But the light only comes on every once in a while. He gets a glimpse of something, but not enough to know...” (continue)(continue reading)

Eddie Bo Smith Jr. - Neil the Cop

- Derrick: He looked in my eyes and he said "I don't understand you". Isn't that amazing, that he saw how complex I am?
- Mary: Maybe he just didn't understand you.
- Derrick: What do you mean?
- Mary: You said he didn't understand English very well. Maybe he just... didn't understand you.
Anthony DeSando - Derrick
Parker Posey - Mary

“Beckett's birthday was 6 months ago, or 6 months from now depending on how you look at it.”
Chevy Chase - Browning

“- Ruby: Time is an emotional thing. That's what you're saying?
- Sam Deed: Yeah, yeah, sure. Don't bad things always seem to last longer than good ones? But good things seem to just fly by... like the best times in life.”
Marisa Tomei - Ruby Weaver
Vincent D'Onofrio - Sam Deed

“People think that we're nothing but a generation of losers. Sitting on our butts, playing video games and watching MTV. That's not true!”
Sergio Di Zio - Steve Nisser

“- Alan Parrish, 1969: I'm so glad you're back.
- Samuel Alan Parrish: I've only been gone 5 minutes.
- Alan Parrish, 1969: It seems like a lot longer for me.”

Adam Hann-Byrd - Young Alan
Jonathan Hyde - Sam Parrish

“I can't see things that are right in front of me, and I can see things that couldn't be there.”
Madeleine Stowe - Emma Brody

“- Emily Reed: Why do I get the feeIing that... if I reach out and touch you, you'll disappear?
- James Wheeler: Why don't you try it and see?”
Carré Otis - Emily Reed
Mickey Rourke - James Wheeler

“A reality is just what we tell each other it is.”
Julie Carmen - Linda Styles

“The fact is you are just like all the rest of them. When you look at me you don't see a man, you see a black man.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey