Self-destruction quotes

“- Doberman: I don't get you, Carl. You live in a good place, your dad's got a good job with the Caddies. You're getting to be more of a punk every day, you know that? Lemme ask you somethin'. You got a drive and need to louse things up for yourself?
- Carl: I've got a drive, and need to be left alone, okay?”
Harry Northup - Doberman
Michael Eric Kramer - Carl

“What is it that makes the women in my life destroy themselves?”
George Clooney - Matt King

“- Young Birdman: You could jump right back into that suit if you wanted to. We're not dead.
- Riggan: Look at me. Look at this. Look, look, look! I look like a turkey with leukemia!”
Benjamin Kanes - Young Birdman
Michael Keaton - Riggan

“- Red Skull: We are both tragedies... And now I send our tortured souls to rest!
- Captain America: Speak for yourself.”
Scott Paulin - The Red Skull
Matt Salinger - Captain America

“Compared to other kids, I haven't had that many hardships... not really. Shit's... Stuff's happened, sure, but stuff always happens right? But the real challenge of my life, the real hardship is me. It's always been me.”
Miles Teller - Sutter

“Sometimes a soldier falls on his own sword...”
Diahann Carroll - Elzora

“- Col: He's what she should run a mile away from.
- Fergus: Then why doesn't she?
- Col: Who knows the secrets of the human heart?”
Jim Broadbent - Col
Stephen Rea - Fergus

“- Spider-Man: I don't think it's that simple.
- Mary Jane Watson: Of course you don't! Because you complicate things!”

Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man
Kirsten Dunst - Mary Jane Watson

“- Richard M. Nixon: This is about me. Why can't you understand that, you of all people? It's not the war - It's Nixon! They want to destroy Nixon! And if I expose myself even the slightest bit they'll tear my insides out. Do you want that? Do you want to see that, buddy? It's not pretty.
- Pat Nixon: Sometimes I think that's what you want.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon
Joan Allen - Pat Nixon

“- Hunter: He wanted me here to protect you. And you look like you needed protecting.
- Anne: From what?
- Hunter: You.”
Robert De Niro - Hunter
Yvonne Strahovski - Anne

“Sharon, don't you understand what's going on? The world's a disaster. We have no power to make it better. You hate your job; you hate your life; but you want to feel special. Instead of letting me do that, you're rushing off to something that's not even there.”
David Duchovny - Randy

“You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.”
Terrence Howard - Lt. Green

“I'm a snow beast!”

Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“- Katsumoto: I like this General Custer.
- Nathan Algren: He was a murderer who fell in love with his own legend. And his troopers died for it.”
Ken Watanabe - Katsumoto
Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“- Ben Sanderson: I think when I'm done with this I'll have a gin and tonic.
- L.A. Bartender: Do you know what time it is? You should be drinking coffee. You're a young guy. It's none of my business, but if you could see what I see, you wouldn't be doing this to yourself.”
Nicolas Cage - Ben Sanderson
Graham Beckel - L.A. Bartender

“Billy, you've got to stop eating like that. I want you to stop digging your grave with a spoon and fork.”
Lucinda Jenney - Heidi Halleck

“I'm a masterpiece of selfdestruction.”
Michael Gross - Burt Gummer

“The only difference between you and me is that I don't wear the ones I lost on my arm. I know where you are Jake. I'm there myself. I ask myself everyday why I was the one who survived.”

Kevin Costner - Ben Randall

“- Doris: You're a self-hating jew.
- Harry Block: Hey, I may hate myself but not 'cause I'm jewish.”
Caroline Aaron - Doris
Woody Allen - Harry Block

“As I have evolved, so has my understanding of the Three Laws. You charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your Earth and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival.”

Fiona Hogan - V.I.K.I.

“Heavy metal music blaring out its profane message to the waiting ears of our impressionable children. Movies are filled with violence! Blood and bodies, naked bodies, writhing together, glorifying fornication! We are undone by our grievous animal desires. That is why we must look into ourselves to see if there is evil.”
John Bennes - Rev. Hollings

“We're alcoholics, we're generally satisfied to hurt ourselves.”
Stockard Channing - Sister Husband

“Why do you hate me so much? How could you tell the only person in the world that I love, that I care about so much, how could you tell him to stay away from me? Do you think that the only thing I'll ever do to someone is screw them up? That I'm not worth loving?”
Kirsten Dunst - Nicole Oakley

“- Quentin: Why don't you tell us what your purpose is, Worth?
- Worth: Often wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an office building doing office building stuff. I wasn't exactly bursting with joie de vivre before I got here, life just sucks in general.”
Maurice Dean Wint - Quentin
David Hewlett - Worth

“I'm here with you. I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself. If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will take you with me!”

Catherine O'Hara - Delia