Practice quotes

“- King George VI: How do you manage drinking during the day?
- Winston Churchill: Practice.”
Ben Mendelsohn - King George VI
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“- Danny Ocean: The house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet and you bet big, then you take the house.
- Rusty Ryan: You've been practicing this speech, haven't you?”
George Clooney - Danny Ocean
Brad Pitt - Rusty Ryan

“The whole thing is to keep working and pretty soon they'll think you're good.”
Jack Nicholson

- Sonny Koufax: Say "Happy Halloween".
- Reluctant Trick-or-Treat Giver: Happy Halloween.
- Sonny: Yeah, next year be prepared!
Adam Sandler - Sonny Koufax
Dennis Dugan - Reluctant Trick-or-Treat Giver

“- Chubbs: What are you doing?
- Happy Gilmore: 364 days until next year's hockey tryouts, I have to toughen up.”

Carl Weathers - Chubbs
Adam Sandler - Happy Gilmore

“- Mickey: I want you to chase this little chicken.
- Rocky Balboa: Hey yo, Mick, what do I got to chase a chicken for?
- Mickey: First, because I said so. And second, is because chicken-chasing is how we used to train back in the old days. If you can catch this thing, you can catch greased lighting.
- Rocky Balboa: Well, I'll do it if you say so...” (continue)(continue reading)
Burgess Meredith - Mickey
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“- Pop Fisher: Batting practice tomorrow, be there!
- Roy Hobbs: I have been. Every day.”
Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“- Alonzo: All right, when's the last time you did a felony stop?
- Jake: Uh, couple weeks ago?
- Alonzo: Good, you need practice.
- Jake: They look like college kids.
- Alonzo: They're gonna get their education today.”

Denzel Washington - Alonzo
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“Whoever said practice makes perfect was an idiot. Humans can’t be perfect because we’re not machines. The best thing you can say about practice is that it makes…better.”
Keir Gilchrist - Sam Gardner

“If it ain't raining, we ain't training.”
Sam Worthington - Jake Sully

“- Dolores Umbridge: A theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.
- Harry Potter: And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what's out there?”
Imelda Staunton - Dolores Umbridge

“You have one thing money and practice can't buy - you look like a nice guy.”

“You're gonna work days, and you're gonna work nights, and you're gonna work between time when I think you need it.”
Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

“- Colonel Jim Johnson: I'm sorry, Katherine.
- Katherine G. Johnson: For what, Jim?
- Colonel Jim Johnson: Underestimating you, and any other woman like you, though I don't imagine there's many.
- Katherine G. Johnson: That's good practice, right there.”
Mahershala Ali - Colonel Jim Johnson
Taraji P. Henson - Katherine G. Johnson

“I feel like a Kentucky Fried idiot.”

Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“- Carol Ann: Your mother's been practicing and practicing. You know how perfect she always wants to be. Well this time, she must be perfect. Do you understand?
- Christina Crawford (child): She wants everything to be perfect.”
Rutanya Alda - Carol Ann
Mara Hobel - Christina Crawford (child)

“- Alberta Marlow: I'm not so obsessed with money as you seem to be. I can do without it.
- Rick Leland: You stick around with me and you'll get plenty of practice.”
Mary Astor - Alberta Marlow
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Leland

“You're gonna dance until your feet fall off, till you're not able to stand up any longer, but five weeks from now, we're going to have a show.”

Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

“Don't start trying to do the right thing, boy. You haven't the practice.”

James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“You've got a gift Roy... but it's not enough - you've got to develop yourself. If you rely too much on your own gift... then... you'll fail.”
Alan Fudge - Ed Hobbs

“- Elsie: How come you got taken on as a Countess Lady's maid if you've got no experience?
- Mary Maceachran: She wants to train me. She said she didn't care about experience.”

Emily Watson - Elsie
Kelly Macdonald - Mary Maceachran

“- Rocky Balboa: Three, four...
- Mickey: Now remember, I want 500 hard ones. Go!
- Rocky Balboa: Where was I, seven or eight?”

Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
Burgess Meredith - Mickey

“- Casey Carlyle: I want you to coach me for sectionals.
- Tina Harwood: Why on earth would I do that?
- Casey Carlyle: Because you don't have a skater and I don't have a coach. We're a perfect match.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Casey Carlyle
Kim Cattrall - Tina Harwood

“I've gone through so many blueprints I can taste the ink through my fingers.”
Brad Pitt - Rust Ryan