Self-knowledge quotes

“- Hans Axgil: How are you Lili?
- Einar Wegener: Entirely myself.”
Matthias Schoenaerts - Hans Axgil
Eddie Redmayne - Einar Wegener

“You couldn't buy her, though, that's what's killing you, isn't it? Stef? That's it, Stef. She thinks you're shit. And deep down, you know she's right.”
Andrew McCarthy - Blane

“I don't know who I am, but I know what keeps me alive is restraint. Keeps me out of jail. Keeps me from hurting people. A mark of some fucked-up faith that there's a reason. A reason for all of this. A reason in most moments I shouldn't do what I wanna do. I do as I'm told.”

Nicolas Cage - Joe

“- Barley: I'm not the man you thought I was.
- Dante: You do not have to remind me that man is not equal to his rhetoric.”
Sir Sean Connery - Barley
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Dante

“- Vortigern: What kind of man would you have become if had you inherited your father's kingdom and all its advantages instead of being raised in a brothel? What gave you such drive, hmmm?
- Arthur: You wanted to know what gave me such drive. It was you. You put me in that brothel. You cut me on the streets. I am here now because of you. You...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jude Law - Vortigern
Charlie Hunnam - Arthur

“I have lived long enough to know what I like. What I dislike, I cannot abide.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

“- Lynne Margulies: You just pretend to be an asshole.
- Andy Kaufman: It's what I'm good at.”
Courtney Love - Lynne Margulies
Jim Carrey - Andy Kaufman

“Success to me is not success to the record company or whoever. Success to me is having the freedom to work with whoever I want to work with.”
Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse

“It's not one of our best days, but it's not that bad. The thing about being a Little is you always see the bright side. Every cloud has a silver lining.”
Hugh Laurie - Mr. Little

“It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong. I am not a big man.”
Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher

“Wherever you are, wherever you may go, you must never forget who you are. You are part of me, as I am part of you. This is the truth of your lives, and it will remain true after death.”
Shô Kosugi - Ozunu

“Who am I? I could be anyone.”
Johnny Depp - Rango

“- Alan Swann: I haven't performed in front of an audience in 28 years! Audience? I played a butler. I had one line! I forgot it.
- Benjy Stone: Don't worry, this is gonna be easy.
- Alan Swann: For you, maybe. Not for me. I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!”
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.”
Cary Grant

“I'm only a product like a cake of soap. To be sold as well as possible.”
Charles Bronson

“I like to consider myself a picture-maker more than a man who directs in the strict sense of the word . . . I like doing it by myself. If I'm wrong then I'd like to be totally responsible for being wrong.”
Preston Sturges

“I'm not organised. I'm tenacious.”
Lily Tomlin

“I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.”
Clark Gable

“My talent falls within definite limits. I'm not a versatile actress.”
Greta Garbo

“He's a very, very bad actor, but he absolutely loves doing it.”

David Niven

“For the people who don't do drugs, or just do them occasionally, it's something that becomes your life, and you belong. You finally hit bottom and you know who you are, because you can't go any lower.”
Val Kilmer - Danny Parker

“We are double in ourselves. What we believe we disbelieve, and we can not rid ourselves of what we condemn.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“If the lion knows its own strength, no man could control it.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Thomas More

“- Gia Carangi: People keep going away from me, that hurts.
- Francesco: Work. You have a gift, use it. Life, life will be there later. When you have worked, and you have lived, and you know who you are, life is easy. Work. It's the only answer I know.”
Angelina Jolie - Gia Carangi
Edmund Genest - Francesco

“I've never worked with an actor who was less conscious of his good image.”
Don Siegel On Clint Eastwood