Self-examination quotes

“I’ve spent my whole life searching for the impossible, never imagining that I would become the impossible.”
Grant Gustin - Barry Allen

“Comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly knows who he is.”
Stephen Root - Eddie Gauthier

“Sometimes your worst self is your best self. You know what I’m saying?”
Vince Vaughn - Frank Semyon

“Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things.”
Sandra Oh - Dr. Cristina Yang

“- Wang Chi-Yang: Where have you been till this hour?
- Wang Ta: Spending the night...
- Wang Chi-Yang: Stop! Not in front of your aunt.
- Wang Ta: I beg your forgiveness, Father. You were right. I should have listened. I was a fool.
- Wang Chi-Yang: Knowing you are a fool is the beginning of wisdom. Now I have my son back.”
Benson Fong - Wang Chi-Yang
James Shigeta - Wang Ta

“I stole this watch when I was fourteen. I wanted it so much I could feel it in the pit of my stomach. So one day when I went to pick up some flint for my father's lighter, the owners back was turned, I picked it up and put it in my pocket. The thing was I had the money. Today I still do not know why I could not bare to pay for it.”

Elina Löwensohn - Anne Levels

“- Icelan: He checks his sanity with a wrist watch!
- Jack Braddock: What do you check yours with, a dipstick?”

Paul Roebling - Icelan
Warren Oates - Capt. Jack Braddock

“- Sontee Jenkins: What kind of man are you?
- Lance Barton: Sounds like I'm an asshole!”
Regina King - Sontee Jenkins
Chris Rock - Lance Barton

“I'm not a hothead, I'm brassy!”
Tina Fey - Kate Ellis

“I am different. I'm free. All that useless pain, it's gone. It's something anyone can have, Will, and I want you to have it too.”

Tammy Blanchard - Eden

“- Chaz: Why don't you tell us something about yourself?
- Nikki: All right, something about myself... I wanna work with handicapped children, and my parents are my best friends. And I start convent school next semester... and I fuck on the first date. April Fool's!”
Clayton Rohner - Chaz
Deborah Goodrich - Nikki

“- Margaret Sellinger: I don't know what I'm doing here.
- David Halloran: Yes, you do.
- Margaret Sellinger: Yes, I do.”
Lesley-Anne Down - Margaret Sellinger
Harrison Ford - David Halloran

What are you discovering about yourself, Kaempffer? "I murder all these people. Therefore, I must be powerful". And you smash them down only because that raises you up. It's a psychotic fantasy to escape the weakness and disease you sense in the core of your souls! You have scooped the most diseased psyches out of the German gutter! You have... (continue)(continue reading)
Jürgen Prochnow - Woermann

“- Mel Ames: I know I've been a pain in the ass.
- Harry Ross: I don't mind. I didn't much like it when you shot me, though.”
Reese Witherspoon - Mel Ames
Paul Newman - Harry Ross

“If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself alone, who am I? If not now, when? And if not you, who?”
Corey Hawkins - Kwame Ture

“I'm not neurotic, I'm just a bitch.”
Bette Midler - Lilly Leonard

“- Rubber Baron: Madam, I'm still standing firm on both my legs.
- Molly: You're a big game hunter, aren't you?
- Rubber Baron: What's that got to do with it?
- Molly: Then you should know: When you shoot an elephant, he sometimes stays on his legs for ten days before he topples over. Good night!”
Ruy Polanah - Rubber Baron
Claudia Cardinale - Molly

“It's a shame to not have more photos around the house. I guess we didn't see the point of taking pictures of ourselves.”
Charlotte Rampling - Kate Mercer

“I'm seized by fear and see a horrible picture of myself. I have never grown up. My face and my body have aged. I acquire memories and experiences but inside all that I haven't even been born. I can't remember any faces not even my own.”
Ingrid Bergman - Charlotte Andergast

“- Lenore St. John: Why do you have to be so damn honorable?
- Bryan Mills: Believe me, right now I wish I weren't.”
Famke Janssen - Lenore St. John
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“- Sir Robert Chiltern: Do you know, Arthur, I sometimes wish I were you.
- Lord Arthur Goring: Do you know, Robert, sometimes I wish you were too. Except that you would probably make something useful out of my life, and that would never do.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“There's no such thing as monsters. You all know that, don't you? Monsters exist only in ourselves. They live in the darkest chambers of our hearts.”

Danny DeVito - John Leary

“All of us are freaks in one way or another.”
Sir John Hurt - The Countess

“There is so much more to you than you know. Not just pain and anger. There is good, too. I felt it. When you can access all of that, you will possess a power no one can match. Not even me.”
James McAvoy - Professor Charles Xavier

“The funny thing about war is it shows you who you are, not who you want to be.”
Joseph Julian Soria - Carlos