Practice quotes

“Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.”
Zooey Deschanel

“- Xian Chow: I tell them u say they no good fighters, and that their mothers have sex with mules!
- Kurt Sloane: You What?
- Xian Chow: Oh make them very angry! Fight hard...good training.”
Dennis Chan - Xian Chow
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Kurt Sloane

“- Lt. Joe Rossi: These nights are killers, aren't they?
- Cadet Ezra Parker: Yeah, I lie in my bunk with my clothes on and try to sleep, but every time that engine slows, my heart speeds up. In time, I think I can train myself to have an iron nerve, like you have.”
Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Joe Rossi
Dick Hogan - Cadet Ezra Parker

“- Cassie Holmes: First thing's first. I know you're a second generation Mover.
- Nick Gant: Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
- Cassie Holmes: I'll let you know when I see one. You don't really use your powers, which means you haven't practiced, so you kind of suck at it.”

Dakota Fanning - Cassie Holmes
Chris Evans - Nick Gant

“- Trixie Lorraine: What's the show about?
- Barney Hopkins: It's all about the Depression.
- Carol King: We won't have to rehearse that.”
Aline MacMahon - Trixie Lorraine
Ned Sparks - Barney Hopkins
Joan Blondell - Carol King

“It's gonna be the toughest five weeks that you ever lived through! Do you all get that? Now, anybody who doesn't think he's gonna like it had better quit right now.”

Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

“I know your a good football player. You may even be great. And I am gonna push you until we find out.”
The Rock - Sean Porter

“- Bill Williamson: Clem never told me you could sing like that, Selina.
- Selina Rogers: I couldn't when Clem went away... but I practiced, and I studied. I've always been ambitious.”
Bill Robinson - Bill Williamson
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne - Selina Rogers

“- Tina Trac: How did you get to be so cynical?
- Brian Kelly: Practice.”
Min Luong - Tina Trac
Christian Slater - Brian Kelly

“Dear God, I know I don't believe in you, but since I'll be starting Catholic school soon, I thought I should at least practice. Let's see, what do I want?”
Jessica Campbell - Tammy Metzler

“He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.”
Wes Studi - Sphinx

“- Kevin: [takes Jane's hand] Jane... I need you to give me fifty bucks.
- Jane: [hesitantly] No?
- Kevin: Eh... not bad. Can I have your drink?
- Jane: Sure. No! Oh, no...
- Kevin: [laughing] You were doing so well!”

James Marsden - Kevin
Katherine Heigl - Jane

“- Michelle Flaherty: Good Jim. Oh, you're making me wet.
- Jim Levenstein: Holy shit, really?
- Michelle Flaherty: No, I was just saying that so you could practice.
- Jim Levenstein: 'course.”

Alyson Hannigan - Michelle Flaherty
Jason Biggs - Jim Levenstein

“- Theseus: Someday, some place, you'll find someone better, someone worthy. When you do, neither the gods will nor the Earth's turning will keep you from him.
- Helen: That's how I feel about you.
- Theseus: Well, Helen, this is only a kind of practice. Someday you'll know the difference.”
Stellan Skarsgård - Theseus
Sienna Guillory - Helen

“We're not people, we're lithographs. We don't know anything about love unless it's written and rehearsed. We're only real in between curtains.”
Carole Lombard - Lily Garland aka Mildred Plotka

“- Janine Melnitz: You are so great with kids.
- Louis Tully: Oh, thanks, I practiced with my hamster.”
Annie Potts - Janine Melnitz
Rick Moranis - Louis Tully

“Hi. I'm, uh, I'm a pet psychiatrist. I sell couch insurance. Mm hmm, and I... and I test-market positive thinking. I lead a weekend men's group, we specialize in ritual killings. Yeah, you look great! God, yeah! Hi, how are you? Hi, how are you? Hi, I'm Martin Blank, you remember me? I'm not married, I don't have any kids, but I'd blow your head...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“My job is to basically beat the shit out of you for the next 5 days, and whoever is still standing at the end, maybe we'll use for our scout teams. You'll be running the oppositions plays week in and week out. The greatest value to us is we don't care whether you get hurt.”

John Beasley - Coach Warren

“- Young Doyle: Leave Bud alone, mom!
- Doyle's Mother: [holding Bud Macintosh's head underwater] I'm teaching Bud how to hold his breath underwater.
[pulls Bud Macintosh's head out]
- Doyle's Mother: Much better, Bud! Now let's try for three minutes.”
Robbie Thibaut Jr. - Young Doyle
Patricia Hearst - Doyle's Mother

“One town, a million troubles. The one and only Thebes. The Big Olive itself. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.”

Danny DeVito - Phil

“I know I'm old enough to be his mother, but when the Duck laid that kiss on me last night, I swear my thighs just went up in flames! He must practice on melons or something.”
Annie Potts - Iona

“- Mrs. White: Oh, you're a doctor?
- Professor Plum: I am, but I don't practice.
- Miss Scarlet: Practice makes perfect. Ha! I think most men need a little practice, don't you Mrs. Peacock?”
Madeline Kahn - Mrs. White
Chris Lloyd - Professor Plum
Lesley Ann Warren - Miss Scarlet

“- Winston Taylor: I might know someone who'll train you. There's one person crazy enough to put you in the ring with Tong Po. His name's Xian, lives out in the sticks.
- Kurt: Will he do it?
- Winston Taylor: I don't have any fuckin' idea. That's your problem.”
Haskell V. Anderson III - Winston Taylor
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Kurt Sloane

“- Jack Sparrow: [looking at all the swords] Who makes all these?
- Will Turner: I do. And I practice with them three hours a day.
- Jack Sparrow: You need to find yourself a girl, mate.”
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Orlando Bloom - Will Turner

“- Ramírez: You've remembered almost everything I taught you.
- MacLeod: I've had a lot of practice lately.
- Ramírez: There is no substitute for experience.
- MacLeod: What experience? You've been dead for five hundred years.”
Sir Sean Connery - Ramírez
Christopher Lambert - Duncan McLeod