Self-examination quotes

“- David Keenan: You're so full of shit!
- Freak: It's just some shit my mom told me; you use it as you will.”

Josh Hamilton - David Keenan
Steve Zahn - Freak

“I'd like to make something very clear: I don't have rage. I'm a happy guy. You see this face? This is a happy face. You'll be lucky to be as happy as I am.”

Steven Seagal - Orin Boyd

“Don't psychoanalyze me. I pay a doctor for that.”

Diane Keaton - Mary

“I'm perfect if anybody wants a one-balled, deaf, blind, unemployed vagrant with a limp.”
Tom Selleck - Jon Aldrich

“At a certain point in life, you realize you know more dead people than living.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“If you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.”
Edward Burns - Jake Vig

“It's a funny feeling, not knowing who you are. I get a bump on the head and I'm free as a bird.”
James Franco - Harry Osborn

“It's not enough to marry goodness, you have to find it in yourself.”
Haing S. Ngor - Mr. Ho

“Like a lot of people thought I was dead but, uh... hey, you know, you don't write any postcards when you're on the road to self-discovery.”
Peter Boyle - Lazlo

“- Mr Neville: I'm surprised, delighted. I am overwhelmed.
- Mrs Herbert: Mr. Neville, I will take all three states of your satisfaction into consideration.”
Anthony Higgins - Mr Neville
Janet Suzman - Mrs Herbert

“- Karl the Giant: I don't want to eat you. I just get so hungry. I'm just too big.
- Ed Bloom - Young: Did you ever think that maybe you're not too big, but maybe this town is just too small?”
Matthew McGrory - Karl the Giant
Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young

You always say "Be true to yourself", but you never say which part of yourself to be true to!

Jason Lee - Buddy Pine

“Every person who chooses the service of God as his life's work has something in common. I don't care if you're a preacher, a priest, a nun, a rabbi or a Buddhist monk. Many, many times during your life you will look at your reflection in a mirror and ask yourself: am I a fool?”
Harvey Keitel - Jacob Fuller

“Some people are born not to do things, and I'm one of them.”
Rupert Graves - Philip Herriton

“Mom, I know you feel sorry for me. You think my poor little heart is broken, but you can save your sympathy. I can see things clearer now. I made a fool of myself.”

Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson

“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

Gary Cooper - Lou Gehrig

“Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears, and swords. Being carried away by surging waves. Being thrown into the midst of a great fire. Being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake. Falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease, or...” (continue)(continue reading)
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

“By my calculations, with your current salary and your future earning potential, you'd never be able to save enough money to put one kid through college, much less two. What if the kid needs braces? What if he has a learning disability and needs private tutoring? What if he does something stupid, gets arrested, and you need to hire an attorney?...” (continue)(continue reading)

Selma Blair - Shawn Holloway

“I was in the garden and I was dreaming about your... your smile and your aftershave and then I realized... I could do better!”

Nicole Kidman - Joanna Eberhart

“What do you do? You laugh. I'm not saying I don't cry, but in between, I laugh. And I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. It feels pretty good.”
Natalie Portman - Sam

“I have no soul. I'm beyond the pale. I'm one of the living dead!”
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“- Chelsea Deardon: Do you always cross-examine people?
- Tom Logan: Only when they lie to me.”
Daryl Hannah - Chelsea Deardon
Robert Redford - Tom Logan

“- Lucy: I haven't been deconstructed in a long time.
- Syd: Yeah, I bet you hate that.
- Lucy: I don't hate it at all.”
Ally Sheedy - Lucy Berliner
Radha Mitchell - Syd

“Who am I?
[phone rings]
God?”

Ben Stiller - Derek Zoolander

- Billie Dawn: I've been thinking a lot lately about something my dad used to say: "Without knowledge, you're less than everybody". And I don't want to be less. I don't want to be better than anybody neither and I don't want to go above myself. I just want to not be less.
- Paul Verrall: I'm afraid it's too late for that... 'cause you're already... (continue)(continue reading)
Melanie Griffith - Billie Dawn
Don Johnson - Paul Verrall