Self-examination quotes

“- Hogarth Hughes: You are who you choose to be.
- The Iron Giant: Superman.”

Eli Marienthal - Hogarth Hughes
Vin Diesel - The Iron Giant

“I'm not ver good at being a father, all right? I barely get by just being me.”
Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller

“- Dr. Fisk: Who do you find more capable of examining you, Dr. Webster or Dr. Fisk?
- Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: Dr. Fisk!
- Dr. Fisk: Great, now what do you consider yourself, a wise man or a complete and total fool?
- Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: Complete and total fool!”
Jessica Harper - Dr. Fisk
Allan Katz - Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga

“- David Axelrod: I'll never stop loving you.
- Jade Butterfield: You can't say that. You don't know.
- David Axelrod: Yes, I do. I knew that from the very first. I'll never stop loving you. Never want to. You're all I care about! And me. The person I am when I'm with you.”
Martin Hewitt - David Axelrod
Brooke Shields - Jade Butterfield

“Look to yourself. What's inside you is stronger than any spell.”

Donna Dent - Ella's Mother

“The moment you become embarrassed of who you are, you lose yourself. I changed my house, the way I dressed, the way I ate - for what? For nothing.”
Elliott Gould - Reuben Tishkoff

“Reflective men often find themselves at a place removed from the realities of life. In any case, we should all prepare a place where we can accommodate all the tragedies that sooner or later will come to our lives. But this is an economy few people care to practice.”
Rubén Blades - Jefe

“If we don't understand ourselves, how can we ever expect to understand anybody else?”

Lynn Bari - Michaela Villegas

“Six weeks ago I was ordinary and pathetic. Just like you. Who am I now? An account manager, an assassin, just another tool that was mind fucked into killing his father. I'm all of these, and I'm none of these. Who am I now? This is not me fulfilling my destiny. This is not me falling in my father's footsteps. This is definitely not me saving the...” (continue)(continue reading)

James McAvoy - Wesley

“You're giving too much of yourself away, mate.”

Ben Kingsley - Don Logan

“- Betty McCutcheon: I don't trust him.
- John Hull: You know something? I don't think you could trust yourself.”
Victoria Dillard - Betty
Laurence Fishburne - John Hull

“Am I a good man? Or a bad man? That's all...”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Frederick Treves

“Everything is temporary. Everything begins and ends and begins again. When I look ahead, I imagine infinite possible futures repeated like countless photocopies, a thousand blank pages, and in each one I see myself, never hiding, never sitting silently, and never just waiting and waiting and watching the world go by.”
Toni Collette - Iris Chapman

“I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“Give yourself up and find yourself again.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“- Constance Sack: You know, some people have said that you've become quite difficult to work with. That you're constantly late, you're reclusive, sometimes even nonsensical.
- Stacee Jaxx: I wanna ask you this: Have these people, even met themselves?”
Malin Akerman - Constance Sack
Tom Cruise - Stacee Jaxx

“- Max Conners: I'm sorry, Page. I'm a terrible mother. I'm a terrible everything.
- Page Conners: You're finally seeing things clearly.”

Sigourney Weaver - Max Conners
Jennifer Love Hewitt - Page Conners

- Claudia Simmons-Howe: You blame yourself.
- Martin Rose: Mostly.
- Claudia Simmons-Howe: Well, that's good. The old Martin Rose would never have accepted the blame for anything.
- Martin Rose: I only said "mostly".
- Claudia Simmons-Howe: Well, that's even better 'cause that means the old Martin Rose has not entirely gone.
Rebecca Hall - Claudia Simmons-Howe
Eric Bana - Martin Rose

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead

“- Joe: Have you ever felt this at one with yourself, with your instincts, with nature? This masculine?
- Biaggio: I don't know. I don't really see myself as having a gender. Is that a problem?”
Nick Robinson - Joe
Moises Arias - Biaggio

“This is a sign, like the burning bush, except this a carburetor and I'm not Moses.”

Nathan Lane - Snowbell

We all have inner demons to fight. We call these demons "fear", and "hatred", and "anger". If you don't conquer them, then a life of a hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, a life of a single day can be a triumph.

Luoyong Wang - Yip Man

“When you have done something unforgivable, I'll tell you exactly what to do. You forgive yourself.”
Lilia Skala - Dr. Littauer

“- Jack Hammond: We'll be fugitives.
- Natalie Voss: Sounds exciting!
- Jack Hammond: You won't be Natalie Voss anymore.
- Natalie Voss: Who the hell is she anyway?”

Charlie Sheen - Jack Hammond
Kristy Swanson - Natalie Voss

“Everybody is less mysterious than they think they are.”
Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn