Self-examination quotes

“My face got betrayed by my mouth.”
Kathleen Turner - Vic

“- Miriam: Do you ever tell anyone the truth?
- Pierce: The truth? The truth... no.”
Lesley-Anne Down - Miriam
Sir Sean Connery - Pierce

“I don't know how to describe my feelings. It's as if I have been waiting a hundred years to hear from you, waiting a hundred years for you to return. Once, my heart was overflowing with love for you, but now all I feel is emptiness. And I think it was all just a pretense, that I never loved you at all.”

Christian Bale - Mandras

“I'm twenty-seven-years-old, I've no money and no prospects. I'm already a burden to my parents and I'm frightened.”
Claudie Blakley - Charlotte Lucas

“It's coming to me. It's either that slug I ate, or I'm having an epiphany.”
Nathan Lane - Timon

“- Mr. Leonard: If you could describe yourself in one word, what would it be?
- Dave Goodman: Slave to the freaky ass booty.
- Mr. Leonard: That's more then one word.”
Joe Flaherty - Mr. Leonard
Devon Sawa - Dave Goodman

“You can look around all you want, but what you're really trying to find is on the inside. Take care of yourself, and each other.”
Jerry Springer - Jerry Springer

“- Geneva Spofford: Are you alright?
- Gowan McGland: No, I'm not alright. I never was alright. I never will be alright.”
Kelly McGillis - Geneva Spofford
Tom Conti - Gowan McGland

“- Charles: Why am I always at, uh, weddings, and never actually getting married, Matt?
- Matthew: It's probably 'cause you're a bit scruffy. Or it could also be 'cause you haven't met the right girl.
- Charles: Ah, but you see, is that it? Maybe I have met the right girls. Maybe I meet the right girls all the time. Maybe it's me.”
Hugh Grant - Charles - Wedding One
John Hannah - Matthew - Wedding One

“You want meaningful conversation? Do what I do, talk to yourself. It's the only way.”
Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff

“Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if we'd made love that night. That the moment was so perfect, you know. And people find out things about themselves through lovemaking that they never dreamed of.”
Mia Farrow - Ariel

“When something like this happens you are lost. You don't know who you are anymore and what you're capable of. Unless I do something, this is always how people will remember me. A feather. And that is how I will always see myself: a coward. All I know is that I can't live with myself like this.”
Heath Ledger - Harry Feversham

“I thought if I died today what would happen to me? A hateful girl... A selfish girl... An adulteress... A liar.”
Jennifer Aniston - Justine Last

“I'm Mr. Bilbo Baggins, I've lost my dwarves, my wizard and my way.”
Orson Bean - Bilbo

“You stand in class and tell us to look beyond the image, but you don't. To you a housewife is someone who sold her soul for a center hall colonial. She has no depth, no intellect, no interests.”

Julia Stiles - Joan Brandwyn

“It's amazing what you can do... when you don't have to look at yourself in the mirror any more.”

Kevin Bacon - Sebastian Caine

“When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg Award.”
Woody Allen - Isaac

“- Dr. Leonard Miller: I'm okay, you're okay.
- Harvey Holroyd: No, you're not okay. Okay?
- Dr. Leonard Miller: Okay.”
Peter Bonerz - Leonard
Martin Mull - Harvey

“I suppose people travel to get away from themselves.”
Mary Astor - Edith Cortright

Mary Ann, there are times when I... when I wake up in the morning and I look at this guy in the mirror and I say "What the hell are you doing with your life, Frank?". And you know something? That son of a bitch never answers me!
Alex Courtney - Frank

“- Dr. Klein: Let me ask you something. What would you do if you had to change careers?
- Roy Waller: You mean if I wasn't an antiques broker?
- Dr. Klein: If you weren't a criminal.”
Bruce Altman - Dr. Klein
Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller

“You are the victim of men who think they are right... Just as one day you and captain Yunoi believed absolutely that you were right. And the truth is of course that nobody is right.”
Tom Conti - Col. John Lawrence

“- Nagiko: You've been reading my diary?
- The Husband: Isn't that why people keep diaries? To be read by someone else? Otherwise why keep them?
- Nagiko: To know about themselves.”
Vivian Wu - Nagiko
Ken Mitsuishi - The Husband

- Maggie: You've never been happy with any women you've dated.
- Dex: That's Male Insanity Syndrome. That is just you're with a woman and no matter how cool she is, you're always thinking "Maybe I could do a little better or I could trade up somehow".
Nina Jaroslaw - Maggie
Donal Logue - Dex

“- Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
- The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it.”
Keanu Reeves - Neo
Gloria Foster - The Oracle