Self-esteem quotes

“Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever… matter.”

“Remember, start big and you'll end big.”
Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

When I was in the eight grade, all I wanted to be was a great basketball player like my dad. At 5'2" and 90 pounds who would believe me. I guess only my dad and I could believe it in the beginning.
Tom Lester - Pete as adult

- Willa Weston: You know what you are? You're pronoid.
- Vince McCain: "Pronoid"?
- Willa Weston: It means that contrary to all the available evidence, you actually think that people like you. Your perception of life is that it's one long benefit dinner in your honor with everybody cheering you on and wanting you to win everything. You think... (continue)(continue reading)
Jamie Lee Curtis - Willa Weston
Kevin Kline - Vince McCain

“- Billy Chapel: I don't know if I have anything left.
- Gus Sinski: You just throw whatever you got, whatever's left.”
Kevin Costner - Billy Chapel
John C. Reilly - Gus Sinski

“Hey, if you wanna bet your last dime - it might as well be on yourself, right?”
Don Harvey - Nolan

“Some people have been known to find me attractive. People of both sexes, actually.”
William Petersen - Jake

“- Edith Von Secondberg: You're quite witty.
- Maxwell Smart: And charming.”
Rhonda Fleming - Edith Von Secondberg
Don Adams - Maxwell Smart

“- James: When I had a problem, my mom and dad would tell me to look at it another way.
- Earthworm: How? First, I was bird bait, then I was shark bait.
- James: I suppose, but you could say you gave us wings to fly, and defeated a giant shark single-handedly.
- Earthworm: No-handedly.
- James: You're a hero.
- Earthworm: I am? I'm Wonder Worm!
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Terry - James
David Thewlis - Earthworm

“- Dr. Reston: What's happening in your life, Frankie? Do you have a lot of stress at work?
- Frankie Paige: I cut hair.
- Dr. Reston: Any trouble with a significant other?
- Frankie Paige: Yes.
- Dr. Reston: And that is?
- Frankie Paige: I'm not very significant.”
Ann Cusack - Dr. Reston
Patricia Arquette - Frankie Paige

“- Fatima Blush: Hello, James. I'm Fatima Blush.
- James Bond: You ski very well.
- Fatima Blush: I do many things very well.”
Barbara Carrera - Fatima
Sir Sean Connery - James Bond

“- Agent 36: You're a legend, 86. When I was studying well the Spy Academy I reviewed every one of your cases.
- Maxwell Smart: Oh, well, wouldn't you like to hear my side of the story?
- Agent 36: I think you're wonderful.
- Maxwell Smart: Oh, you have heard my side of the story.”
Pamela Hensley - Agent 36
Don Adams - Maxwell Smart

“I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.”
Warren Beatty - Joe Pendleton

“I is a nice giant! I is a freaky giant! There's not another giant like me in all of Giant Country! I...is the Big Friendly Giant!”
David Jason - The BFG

“- Danny: I-I-I also got a job that pays money.
- Carla: Really?
- Danny: I bake cookies at Emil's Bakery.I got a cookie maker's hat and everything.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Danny
Juliette Lewis - Carla

“- Male Coffee Shop Customer: That was inspiring!
- Nick Marshall: I know.”

Mel Gibson - Nick Marshall

“Nobody's 100%. Nobody.”
Tony Lo Bianco - Babe Milano

- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Would you read that back to me? I'm afraid that might make me sound pompous to your readers.
- Olsen: "My brilliant research in brain transplantation is unsurpassed, and will probably make my name live beyond eternity".
- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Well, that's all right. Take out the "probably". It makes me sound... (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Martin - Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr
Francis X. McCarthy - Olsen

“- Jules: Don't you enjoy anything anymore... like girls?
- Kevin Dolenz: I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that?”
Demi Moore - Jules
Andrew McCarthy - Kevin Dolenz

- Brian Cohen: Have I got a big nose, Mum?
- Mandy Cohen: Stop thinking about sex!
- Brian Cohen: I wasn't!
- Mandy Cohen: You're always on about it. "Will the girls like this? Will the girls like that? Is it too big? Is it too small?".
Graham Arthur Chapman - Brian Cohen
Terry Jones - Mandy Cohen

“When I broke a date with Joey he thought I was dating another guy, he followed me here. Men are so insecure!”
Tony Danza - Doug Simpson

“It's a very bad sign when a cop thinks that Chicago will fall apart without him.”
Dan Hedaya - Captain Logan

“- Billy Kwan: Don't take it personally. You're just a symbol of the West.
- Guy Hamilton: I feel more like a spittoon.”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“Don't ever wish to be anything but what you are.”

Barbara Cook - Mother

“Stab speak English?! Ha! He wouldn't lower himself to speak English would you Stab?!”
Aidan Quinn - Alfred Ludlow