Self-examination quotes
361 self-examination quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Very Bad Things
“I am not to be common. I am a creature like no other.”
- From the movie: Manhattan
“- Mary: What are you thinking?
- Isaac: I dunno, I was just thinking. There must be something wrong with me, because I've never had a relationship with a woman that's lasted longer than the one between Hitler and Eva Braun.” - La trovi in Life and Death in Hollywood
“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”
- From the movie: One Night With The King
“Perhaps, instead of asking questions of our trials, our trials are ment to ask questions of ourselves.”
- From the movie: American Dreamer
- From the movie: Final Destination 3
“I have such guilt. Usually I'm such a control freak but I didn't do enough to stop it. I should have done everything I could to stop it. And I wish I could have another chance, but I never can.”
- La trovi in Actors' Love Affairs
“Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.”
- From the movie: Clockwatchers
“It's funny how doubt hides itself. It follows behind you. It waits in every corner. You never see it coming. But you feel it, on the inside. Maybe it was just that office. Or maybe it was bigger than that, it was all around. A million eyes. Watching. Judging. The whole wide world even. You feel so small.”
- From the movie: Julien Donkey-Boy
“If I were so stupid, I would slap my own face.”
- From the movie: The Dreamers
“I wish you could step out of yourself and just look.”
- From the movie: All Through The Night
- Leda Hamilton: If you only had kept out of this... you've messed up everything.
- "Gloves" Donahue: I'm ashamed of myself. - From the movie: American Psycho
“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.”
- From the movie: This Is England
“Some people say we're racists. We're not racists. We're realists. Some people call us Nazis. We're not Nazis. No, what we are, we are nationalists and there's a reason people try to pigeonhole us like this. And that is because of one word, fear.”
- From the movie: Autumn Sonata
“Sometimes, when I lie awake at night, I wonder whether I've lived at all. Is it the same for everybody? Do some people have a greater talent for living than others or do some people never live, but just exist?”
- From the movie: How to Deal
“Some people fall in love. I had to crash into it.”
- From the movie: Wanted
“This is me taking control from Sloan, from the fraternity, from Janice from billing reports, from ergonomic keyboards, from cheating girlfriends and sack a shit best friends. This is me taking back control of my life.”
- From the movie: The Stepford Wives
“- Joanna Eberhart: Bobbie! Bobbie... this isn't you...
- Bobbie Markowitz: That's right! This isn't me, it's a whole new me. I'm happy, and I'm healthy, because I understand what's important in life.” - From the movie: A Little Romance
“Are any of us so blameless?”
“If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.”
“You killed 543 people. How do you feel about that? I think that you were a murderer right from the beginning.”
- From the movie: Twin Town
“I'm a big, bad, bong-banging bible basher!”
- La trovi in Actors in real life
“I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.”
- From the movie: Under the Volcano
“I mustn't judge others - as I judge myself.”
- From the movie: Zoolander 2
“- Derek Jr.: You're the most narcissistic person I've ever met.
- Derek Zoolander: But that's not how I see myself.”
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