Selfishness quotes

“We are seeing a globalization of indifference. There is a culture of conflict, which makes us think only of ourselves. Makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are also insubstantial. We've become used to the suffering of others. It doesn't affect me. No one in our world feels responsible. Who is responsible for the blood of our...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“You don't know about real loss, because it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.”

Robin Williams - Sean Maguire

“You don't care about people Hud. You don't give a damn about 'em. Oh, you got all that charm goin' for ya. And it makes the youngsters want to be like ya. That's the shame of it because you don't value anything. You don't respect nothing. You keep no check on your appetites at all. You live just for yourself. And that makes you not fit to live...” (continue)(continue reading)
Melvyn Douglas - Homer Bannon

“- Jon: She is so beautiful.
- Garfield: Uh, Mr Pathetic. You've had a crush on her since high school. Would you please ask her out so she can reject you and we can get on with my life?”

Breckin Meyer - Jon
Bill Murray - Garfield

“Sometimes... it's easy to get so focused on your own stuff that... you forget other people have problems too.”

Jack Black - Bethany

“- Doyle: You can't just think about your family. You have to think bigger than that.
- Cooper: I'm thinking about my family and millions of other families.”
Wes Bentley - Doyle
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“I live for myself and I answer to nobody.”
Steve McQueen

“I told you, anything you do for yourself is a waste of spirit.”

Audrey Hepburn - Hap

He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king "What ails you friend?" The king replied "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the... (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff Bridges - Parry

“- Davis McDonald: You're the only one I ever loved.
- Kristy Briggs: No, Davis. You're the only one you ever loved.”
Alec Baldwin - Davis McDonald
Elizabeth McGovern - Kristy Briggs

“- Samantha Powell: Dammit, Hank. I loved you then and I love you now. I do. I love how you are simultaneously the most selfish and the most generous person I know. I love how you hate a bully while being one. But your constant second-guessing of others, that crystal-ball bullshit? That hyperverbal vocabulary-vomit thing that you do? I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Vera Farmiga - Samantha Powell
Robert Downey Jr. - Hank Palmer

“- Sam Monroe: Having me here, was for your sake. You selfish fuck. Having me here trying to get me to like you.
- George Monroe: No, Sam I wasn't trying to get you to like me. I was trying to get you to love me.
- Sam Monroe: Well, congratulations... Because you fucking pulled it off.”
Hayden Christensen - Sam Monroe
Kevin Kline - George Monroe

“- Katarina Stratford: You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know?
- Bianca Stratford: I happen to like being adored, thank you!”
Julia Stiles - Katarina Stratford
Larisa Oleynik - Bianca Stratford

“Never pet a burning dog.”
Russell Crowe - Max Skinner

“I'm the only cause I'm interested in.”
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine

“They rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse because they fancied that everyone should think and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do with no regard to station, custom, propriety. And that is why they will win. Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them. And we shall lose because we don't care one way or another how...” (continue)(continue reading)

Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans

“There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.”
Vivien Leigh - Scarlett - Their Daughter

“- Christina Bailey: You have only one real lasting love.
- Mike Hammer: Now who could that be?
- Christina Bailey: You. You're one of those self-indulgent males who thinks about nothing but his clothes, his car, himself. Bet you do push-ups every morning just to keep your belly hard.”
Cloris Leachman - Christina Bailey
Ralph Meeker - Mike Hammer

“- Maria: I think you're joking with me. I know where you see it.
- David: Where?
- Maria: In yourself. Because you and I are so alike.
- David: You mean in our selfishness, coldness and indifference?”

Liv Ullmann - Maria
Erland Josephson - David

“When you love someone, I believe you should be unselfish enough to give them whatever they want.”

Pierce Brosnan - Daniel Rafferty

“- John Reed: Louise, I love you.
- Louise Bryant: No, you love yourself!”
Warren Beatty - John Reed
Diane Keaton - Louise Bryant

“- Don Champagne: Are you sure there's no other way?
- Mona Champagne: There is only ever my way.”
Patrick Wilson - Don Champagne
Katherine Heigl - Mona Champagne

“You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?”

Jeff Bridges - Obadiah Stane

“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope for a cure.”
Embeth Davidtz - Mary Crawford

“I'm done! I'm leaving Annie. I'm going back to Chicago. I'm sorry. I'm sorry Annie. Ever since you were small people have been letting you down. You got to think for yourself now. Oh I know what you are thinking. Fate comes along and snatches it away but not this time Annie. Not this time.”

William Johnson - Manny