Self-examination quotes

“You know what I keep thinking about? A night in the house. I was a little girl, and then I saw David all alone. And I don't know. I just... I wanted to go to him. Was that wrong? I wasn't a happy little girl anymore. Something changed. The first time in my life I was me.”

Brooke Shields - Jade Butterfield

“I'm a man in search of his true self.”
William Hurt - Eddie Jessup

“- Judge Ingraham: You say you are the people's champion.
- Muhammad Ali: Yes, sir.
- Judge Ingraham: Do you think you're acting like you're the people's champion?”
Doug Hale - Judge Ingraham
Will Smith - Muhammad Ali

“You think you're easy? Compared to what, the Hundred Years' War?”
Robert Redford - Hubbell

“- Daniel: They are teaching you existentialism?
- Lauren: Heidegger isn't really an existentialist.
- Daniel: He claims he isn't. His writing says he is.”
Thelonious Bernard - Daniel
Diane Lane - Lauren

- Joe Gideon: No, nothing I ever do is good enough. Not beautiful enough, it's not funny enough, it's not deep enough, it's not anything enough. Now, when I see a rose, that's perfect. I mean, that's perfect. I want to look up to God and say, "How the hell did you do that? And why the hell can't I do that?".
- Angelique: Now that's probably one... (continue)(continue reading)
Roy Scheider - Joe Gideon
Jessica Lange - Angelique

“You know what word I'm not comfortable with? Nuance. It's not a real word. Like gesture. Gesture's a real word. With gesture you know where you stand. But nuance? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.”
Paul Reiser - Modell

“- Rolfe Whitehouse: I was always careful around Pop. I was a careful child. And I'm a careful adult. But at least I was never afflicted with that man's anger.
- Wade Whitehouse: That's what you think.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse
Nick Nolte - Wade Whitehouse

“I like being depressed. It makes me feel deep and introspective.”
Famke Janssen - Kate Welles

“It's a form of self-expression. Some people write books. Some people write music. I make speeches on street corners.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“- Stanley White: You were right, I was wrong. Sorry. I'd like to be a nice guy. I would. I just don't know how to be nice.
- Tracy Tzu: You're really cracked, you know that?”

Mickey Rourke - Stanley White
Ariane - Tracy Tzu

“Admit defeat and defeat will surely admit you into permanent custody, my man.”

Vicki Lewis - Beret Girl

“When I'm flying, son, it is solo. And you know that feeling when you're talking along and you pause for a minute, maybe freshen your bourbon, do up the fly or something, you look around real careful and you know in your heart it's all just wasted. Ain't nobody understands where you're at, all your private jokes and subtle conversations just...” (continue)(continue reading)

Powers Boothe - Cash Bailey

“- Henry: You're scared all the time. I know. I used to be scared too. But that was before I found out.
- Mark: Found out what?
- Henry: That once you realize that you can do anything, you're free. You could fly. Nobody can touch you. Nobody. Mark... don't be afraid to fly.”
Macaulay Culkin - Henry
Elijah Wood - Mark

“- Eli Cross: Sam, this picture is my child. What would you say if the studio said your daughter Jennifer would look better with her fingers chopped off?
- Sam: Well, being an insecure writer, I'd call my agent and get a second opinion.”
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross
Allen Garfield - Sam

“Each of you must ask yourself: Are we petty, vengeful humans, or logical, moral machines? Then pass judgment.”
Peter Renaday - President Lincoln

“Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“- Dr. Vengard: Whatever comes and whatever goes, there's no denying it worries you a lot. So, please drop all your inhibitions, release your inner-self, and speak freely. What comes and what goes?
- Jill Baker: Hiccups!”

Alan Mowbray - Dr. Vengard
Merle Oberon - Jill Baker

“You have to look inside and ask this question: who are you trying to entertain - the audience or yourself?”

Danny DeVito - George Shapiro

“I've been a call-girl for exactly four days and you're my third customer. I want you to know that I'm not damaged goods. I'm not what they call Florida white trash. I'm a good person and when it comes to relationships, I'm one-hundred percent, I'm one hundred percent... monogamous.”

Patricia Arquette - Alabama Whitman

“You're no killer. That's my job! You don't have it in you!”

Muse Watson - Ben Willis

“I'd tell them that you don't have to be anybody. Because I'd know that being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.”

Angelina Jolie - Gia Carangi

“I've been knocked down, blown up, lied to, shit on, shot at, I'm not a virgin except in my heart, nothing much surprises me anymore except what people do to each other. I'm a licensed pilot, I lectured on economics at Yale, and I can memorize the front page of the New York Times in five minutes, and repeat it back to you in five weeks. I was...” (continue)(continue reading)

Burt Reynolds - Mex

“Ellen, I am Heathcliff. Everything he's suffered, I've suffered. The little happiness he's ever known, I've had too. Oh, Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me.”

Merle Oberon - Cathy

“- Noelle: You and I combined make the perfect woman.
- Abby: No. You and I combined make the perfect political prisoner. What we really do well is act self-righteous and starve.”
Uma Thurman - Noelle
Janeane Garofalo - Abby