Self-examination quotes

- Pumbaa: They say first impressions are very important.
- Timon: I thought you were a "scream".
Ernie Sabella - Pumbaa
Nathan Lane - Timon

“You're a lemon. There is something inherently defective in you, and me, and all of us. We're all lemons. We look like everyone else, but what makes us different is our defect.”
Al Pacino - Walter

“Every man has to decide for themselves which side they are on.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“I'll tell you what you know about paint, man: you don't know nothing about paint, man. You know what you know about? You know about how to bitch and how to eat and how to bitch and how to shit and how to bitch! But you don't know nothing about paint, so don't tell me when it's going to be done. I'll tell you when it's going to be done.”

Abel Ferrara - Reno Miller

“When you think about deaf people, people who are born deaf... who've never heard a spoken word. What do you think they call the sun or their mother... or their own reflection in the mirror? That's what I call it.”
Juliette Lewis - Robin

“Why haven't I found someone? Am I so misshapen? So repellent? Why can't it just happen?”
Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn - Gwen Moss

“If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories.”
Katharine Ross - Dr. Lilian Thurman

“I must be responsible, reliable, and... oh, don't tell me... really useful. I knew that!”
Alec Baldwin - Mr. Conductor

“Sometimes it hits you how quickly the present fades into the past, and you question everything around you. You wonder if anything you'd ever do would matter.”
Toni Collette - Iris Chapman

“It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“If I die, I'm sorry for all the bad things I did to you... And if I live, I'm sorrry for all the bad things I'm gonna do to you.”

Roy Scheider - Joe Gideon

“- Jor-El: So, my son. Speak.
- Young Clark Kent: Who am I?
- Jor-El: Your name is Kal-El. You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton. Even though you've been raised as a human, you are not one of them. You have great powers, only some of which you have as yet discovered.”
Marlon Brando - Jor-El
Jeff East - Young Clark Kent

“So be it.”

Klaus Kinski - Karl Gunther

“My idea of taking a risk is - losing my birth control pills - or shopping at Saks without a sale. I want to live; but, I don't know how! I hate myself!”
Rebecca Schaeffer - Zandra

“If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.”
Natalie Portman - Sam

“Sometimes I feel like I could disappear for weeks, and no one would even notice.”
Parker Posey - Margaret Burre

“This hair. How it keeps on coming. It just keeps growing. I mean it's growing, it's part of us. And we cut it off. And we throw it away.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“You are good. You may not know it, but I do. You come on tough, but it's all just an act. I mean, you don't even believe in sleeping together before marriage.”
Jason Lee - Jack Withrowe

The essence of my work relies fundamentally on two basic principles: objectivity and observation, or "the two obs" as I call them. My work relies on my ability to remain absolutely, purely objective, detached. I have mastered the fine art of detachment. And while it comes at some cost, this supreme objectivity is what makes me, I dare say, the... (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“You start by doing the hardest thing: you forgive yourself. I believe in you. You're a good person. And I know you'll find a way to put it right. In time.”

Rosemary Harris - May Parker

“Who am I kidding? I'm a middle aged man who's missed the train. You don't deserve this. I don't deserve you.”

Steve Carrell - Maxwell Smart

“- Mitch Leary: Do you have any idea what I've done for God and country? Some pretty fucking horrible things! I don't even remember who I was before they sunk their claws into me!
- Frank Horrigan: They made you into a real monster, right?
- Mitch Leary: That's right. And now they want to destroy me because we can't have monsters roaming the...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- Ryan: So you're not into her?
- Matt: I'm totally into her.
- Ryan: So how can you not want to fuck her?”
Paulo Costanzo - Ryan
Josh Hartnett - Matt

“- Henry: Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. Places I don't wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don't understand that.
- Jim: You're not supposed to think about it. I think the whole trick is not to think about it.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
J.C. Quinn - Jim

“- Carl: It's strange to think of oneself as an assassin?
- Avner: Think of yourself as something else then.”
Ciarán Hinds - Carl
Eric Bana - Avner