Self-examination quotes

“Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.”
Milla Jovovich

“It's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“- Joel Barish: It would be different, if we could just give it another go-round.
- Clementine Kruczynski: Try your best; maybe we can.”

Jim Carrey - Joel Barish
Kate Winslet - Clementine Kruczynski

“I am not a hero. I'm a drifter with nothing to lose.”
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher

“Every morning I promise myself that I’ll spend the entire day as a man. But I think Lili’s thoughts, I dream her dreams. She’s always there.”
Eddie Redmayne - Einar Wegener

“- Jake La Motta: I knocked him down. I don't know what else I gotta do. I don't know what I gotta do...
- Joey LaMotta: You won and they robbed ya! They're miserable because their mothers take it up the fuckin' ass! That's why.
- Jake La Motta: I've done a lot of bad things, Joey. Maybe it's comin' back to me. Who knows? I'm a jinx maybe. Who...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Jake La Motta
Joe Pesci - Joey

“I may be a scummy vermin but I'm an honest scummy vermin.”
Woody Allen - CW Briggs

“Why is it that self-righteousness always goes hand-in-hand with resistance movements?”
Brit Marling - Sarah

“Cut down? I am what I am precisely because I've eaten my way to the top! I'm a work of art, created by the finest chefs in the world. Every fold is a brush stroke! Every crease a sonnet! Every chin a concerto! In short doctor darling, in my present form, I'm a masterpiece!”

Robert Morley - Max

“My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42-years-old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“Last night, man, I was so drunk, I was calling Morocco, man. Calling, trying to get to the Hotel Hilton at Tangiers in Casablanca, man. That's, I mean, that's, that's pathetic, man! Is that what you wanna do with your life? Suck down peppermint schnapps and try to call Morocco at two in the morning? That's senseless! But that's what happens, man.”
Mark Borchardt - Filmmaker

“- Phoebe: Do you ever worry that you'll be just humming along and then, he's just gonna veer off back into the darkness?
- Katie: In my experience, the only way that I can do this is just to keep the focus on myself.
- Phoebe: Meaning?
- Katie: Meaning... ummm... What about my side of the street? What are my issues that I have to deal with?...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gwyneth Paltrow - Phoebe
Joely Richardson - Katie

“Compared to other kids, I haven't had that many hardships... not really. Shit's... Stuff's happened, sure, but stuff always happens right? But the real challenge of my life, the real hardship is me. It's always been me.”
Miles Teller - Sutter

“What do you do when you don't know what to do?”
Reese Witherspoon - Lauren

“- Buzz: Andy's house. Sid's house. What's the difference?
- Woody: Buzz, you've had a big fall. You must not be thinking clearly!
- Buzz: No, Woody. For the first time, I am thinking clearly. You were right all along. I'm not a Space Ranger. I'm just a toy. A stupid, little, insignificant toy.”
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Tom Hanks - Woody

“Don't try to make me feel sorry. I have no heart for the theater. I am what I am. I must be what I must be.”

Lynn Bari - Michaela Villegas

“How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?”
Mark Wahlberg - Tommy Corn

“In one hour's time I will be out there again. I will raise my eyes and look down that corridor; 4 feet wide, with 10 lonely seconds to justify my whole existence. But will I?”

Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams

“I don't eat anything so I can look good on the outside, but on the inside, there's nothing.”
Uma Thurman - Noelle

“- Jesse James: So we got a plan?
- Bob Younger: My plan of lying here pissing myself seems to be working mighty fine, thank you!”
Colin Farrell - Jesse James
Will McCormack - Bob Younger

“Come on. Will you, Bobby? Come on, look at her car, man. Come on, look at her car, then, look at yourself. That's three things that don't match: this car, you, and that chick! I'm tellin' ya man.”

Albert Insinnia - Gordo

“I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.”
Hope Davis

“You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.”
Evan Rachel Wood

“I don't much care to watch myself.”
John Mahoney

“You gotta understand that I'm different than I was before I left. And I think that I always will be. I can't explain how exactly. My head is just full of stuff and I can't get it out. But I'm gonna turn things around.”

Casey Affleck - Rodney Baze Jr.