Self-denial quotes

“- Lt. Aldo Raine: Are you going to take off your uniform?
- Pvt. Butz: Not only shall I remove it, I intend to burn it.
- Lt. Aldo Raine: Yeah, that's what we thought. We don't like that. You see, we like our Nazis in uniform. That way you can spot 'em just like that. But you take off that uniform, ain't no one ever gonna know you were a Nazi.”

Brad Pitt - Lt. Aldo Raine
Sönke Möhring - Pvt. Butz

“This thing that you do, Ted, where you come into a place and push people out, you should know those people worked really hard to build this magazine. They believed in the motto. And I get it, you've got your marching orders and you have to do what you have to do, but you don't have to be such a dick. Put that on a plaque and hang it at your next...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Stiller - Walter Mitty

“No matter what, no matter how hard you grab onto something. You still lose it.”

Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin

“I am married... to England.”

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“When you're hiding you're safe, because people can't see you. But funny thing about hiding: you're even hidden from yourself.”

Isabella Crovetti-Cramp - Young Joy

“Why me Lord? You made other men out of clay. Mine, you made out of shit.”
John Quade - Cholla

“I'm the original coyote. Just a small town gal trying to make it in the big bad city.”

Maria Bello - Lil

“- Judy: If I let you change me, will that do it? If I do what you tell me, will you love me?
- Scottie: Yes. Yes.
- Judy: All right. All right then, I'll do it. I don't care anymore about me.”
Kim Novak - Judy Barton
James Stewart - John 'Scottie' Ferguson

“- SpongeBob: This is man's country. And let's face it, Pat. We're just... kids.
- Patrick Star: We're not kids!
- SpongeBob: Open your eyes, Patrick! We blow bubbles, we eat ice cream, we worship a dancing peanut, for corn's sake! We don't belong out here.”
Tom Kenny - SpongeBob
Bill Fagerbakke - Patrick Star

“- Tris: Our parents would be ashamed of you.
- Caleb: Well, maybe not. I mean, I am willing to sacrifice you, the only family I have left, the only person I love, in order to preserve what's best for everyone else.”
Shailene Woodley - Tris
Ansel Elgort - Caleb

I call this "the agentic state". The individual yields to authority, and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions.

Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“I took all my feelings, my wants and needs and dreams, and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom! And it didn't take me no 18 years to realize the soil was hard and rocky, and it wasn't never gonna bloom!”

Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“At times I feel like I really don't exist.”
Catherine Deneuve - Marion Steiner

“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.”
Marlon Brando

“We were the perfect fucked-up couple. She was perfect, and I was the fuck-up. And we were really, really happy. I wanted to make it forever, so I saved up for the perfect ring. And I planned the perfect romantic trip to surprise her. And then I fucked that up too.”

Jesse Eisenberg - Mike Howell

“I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.”
Sir Michael Caine

“He was super cute, but he carried himself like someone who didn't know that - and that was part of the charm. He didn't know that he was a better-looking guy than Brad Pitt.”

Courtney Love - Herself

“If you understand devotion, you will understand Japan.”
Eriko Hatsune - Aya Shimada

“Praise was hard for him to take, maybe? And he didn't know how to handle that.”

Wendy O'Connor - Herself

“- Comrade Chin: I'm not convinced that this will be enough to redeem you in the eyes of the Party.
- Song Liling: I'm trying my best to become somebody else.”

Shizuko Hoshi - Comrade Chin
John Lone - Song Liling

“I'm terminally awkward and I have a face like a little groundhog. I just feel like, you know, for a kid like me in high school best case scenario, just survive. You know? Survive without creating any mortal enemies or hideously embarassing yourself forever.”
Thomas Mann - Greg

“I've given you everything you've wanted. At the price of my self-respect, my individuality and everything else.”
Genevieve Tobin - Mrs. Chisholm

“Living with someone always means a denial of self in some way and I suppose I have always known it was something I couldn't accomplish.”
Kenneth Williams

“- Sage: So you used to like men?
- Elle: I always liked women, I just didn't like myself.”
Julia Garner - Sage
Lily Tomlin - Elle Reid

“- Tris: You know I'm just one person. I'm not worth it.
- Four: No, you are worth it. You are worth it to me. I love you.”

Shailene Woodley - Tris
Theo James - Four