Self-examination quotes
361 self-examination quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: She
- From the movie: Two for the Money
“Know what you know, and know what you don't know. And know that I gotta know everything you know as soon as you know it or sooner.”
- From the movie: Eureka
“I see a man unbuttoning a new frock for the first time. And trying to get me tipsy while stay sober himself. Because he's beginning to realize I could hold a hell of a lot of liquor. I see a man with other women; secretive, dissatisfied with me. Telling lies, small ones, but needing me more than anything. I see a man who can't pass a mirror...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Roller Boogie
“- Terry Barkley: If I'm old enough to be on my own; then, I'm old enough to make my own decisions. I do not want to play the flute. I do not want to go to Juilliard. I do not want to be paired off with Franklin Potter. He is a lecherous jackass! And I never want to hear another string quartet again in my life!
- Lillian Barkley: Well, now that...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Limitless
“You don't know how to assess your competition because you haven't competed.”
- From the movie: 3:10 to Yuma
“Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is.”
- From the movie: The Ring
“I don't think I'd make a good father. Maybe it was because my own was such a disappointment. Thing is, I don't want anyone else to do it, either. Be your father.”
- From the movie: Forever Young
“- Daniel: Do you ever feel lost?
- Claire Cooper: I invented it. It's mine.” - From the movie: The Manhattan Project
“You are what you are, Doctor - a son of a bitch, like the rest of us. Now do what needs to be done.”
- From the movie: Wanted
“- Sloan: Still trying to figure out how you are?
- Wesley: This is not me. This is just a motherfucking decoy.” - From the movie: Chances Are
“Oh, Dr. Bailey, I don't know if it's just his body I'm attracted to or his soul. Or if it's just me. Mmm. I'm feeling... generally... attractive. The truth is, I'm so ripe, I'm about to fall off the vine.”
- From the movie: Matchstick Men
“- Roy Waller: I'm not a criminal. I'm a con man.
- Dr. Klein: The difference being?
- Roy Waller: They give me their money.
- Dr. Klein: That's a nice rationalization, Roy.” - From the movie: Little Giants
“What a hunk. Wait a minute? What am I saying? I'm the Icebox. Icebox doesn't like boys. Except for that one.”
- From the movie: Along Came a Spider
“- Vickie: It's time you forgave yourself.
- Alex Cross: Vickie, you know that forgiving yourself is the one thing a person cannot do.” - From the movie: To Sir, with Love II
“Who are you? Do you see you the way you want to be seen? Then you must see character in yourself, discipline in yourself, determination in yourself - to survive - with dignity, no matter how tough the world around you is. Is that who you are? If not, is that who you want to be?”
- From the movie: Next Friday
“- Day-Day: 'Cause I'm a player, man. I'm a pimp, and I don't have to deal with this shit.
- Craig: You got your shirt on backwards, player!
- Day-Day: Players fuck up.” - From the movie: Trial and Error
“We all keep a little bit of ourselves hidden. Cuz if we didn't, well, then we'd have to look at who we are. Who we really are. And if we didn't like it, well, we'd have nobody to blame but ourselves.”
- From the movie: A Good Year
“There's something you should know about me. I'm very choosy. I'm also very suspicious; very irrational, and I have a very short temper. I'm also extremely jealous and slow to forgive. Just so you know.”
- From the movie: The Medusa Touch
“What am I? How can I will death?”
- From the movie: Raise the Titanic
“I'm a dynamite fisher-person. I just can't put the wormy on the hooky.”
- From the movie: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
“- Freud: And so, Ted's father's own fear of failure has caused him to make his son the embodiment of all his deepest anxieties about himself. And hence, his aggression transference onto Ted.
- Ted: Whoa...
- Freud: Okay, Ted?
- Ted: Yes... Thank you very much, Sigmund Freud...
- Freud: Bill?
- Bill: Nah. Just got a minor oedipal complex.” - From the movie: Roadie
“Why is my life so much harder than everybody else's?”
- From the movie: My Mom's New Boyfriend
“- Martha Durand: Anyway, it just took me a long time to realize that there was something missing inside.
- Henry Durand: Missing from inside the house?
- Martha Durand: No, Henry, missing inside here, spiritually.” - From the TV Series: Battlestar Galactica
“You were born to a woman who believed that suffering was good for the soul, so you suffered. Your life is a testament to pain.”
- From the movie: Chaplin
“- Charlie Chaplin: You feel you're getting really close... but you can't make it the rest of the way. You're not good enough. You're not complete enough. And despite all your fantasies you're second rate.
- George Hayden: Charlie.
- Charlie Chaplin: Human. That's very hard.”
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