Selfishness quotes

“I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.”
Jim Broadbent

“You are weak and greedy and selfish, and you are the root of every problem. You are why people betray one another. You are why there is nowhere safe or happy anymore.”

Elisabeth Moss - Catherine

“- Cher: Would you call me selfish?
- Dionne: No, not to your face.”
Alicia Silverstone - Cher
Stacey Dash - Dionne

“Oh, your honor! Your selfishness! Your hypocrisy! Your egotism! You've never considered me as a human being. Your social position and... your reputation.”

Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina

“- Archie Gates: Necessity.
- Troy Barlow: As in?
- Archie Gates: As in people do what is most necessary to them at any given moment.”

George Clooney - Archie Gates
Mark Wahlberg - Troy Barlow

“- Little Bruno: Some friend you are!
- Commando: Sorry, Bruno. It's every man for himself; God against all.”

Tommy Madden - Little Bruno
Dov Gottesfeld - Commando

“You're shut up inside yourself and always standing your own light.”

Liv Ullmann - Eva

“Tess doesn't like competition, and she felt I was. See, with her there can only be one star: herself.”
Alyson Stoner - Caitlyn Geller

“- Bob Parr: Weren't you in the news? Some show in Prayge... Prague?
- Edna 'E' Mode: Milan, darling. Supermodels. Nothing super about them... spoiled, stupid little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves.”
Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr
Brad Bird - Edna 'E' Mode

“Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and he had given her certain powers. So...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah

“- Sheena: You are an enemy!
- Vic Casey: I'm what?
- Sheena: The Shaman taught me: an enemy is someone who takes without asking!”
Tanya Roberts - Sheena
Ted Wass - Vic Casey

“I don't like Bull Riders... They're little men with big egos. Besides, he's got one of them skinny butts like the rest of em'.”
Cynthia Geary - Kellie Frost

“- Nurse: Let me just ask you something, Ruth. Have you ever really taken the time to think about what it means to have an abortion?
- Ruth Stoops: It means that I don't have to go to jail and it means I don't have to have another baby and it means that I can start getting my life together ...
- Nurse: Don't you think that's all just a little...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joan Hennecke - Nurse
Laura Dern - Ruth Stoops

“- Doc Hudson: When was the last time you cared about something except yourself, hot rod? You name me one time and I will take it all back. Didn't think so. These are good folk around here, who care about one another. I don't want 'em depending on someone they can't count on.
- Lightning McQueen: Like you? You've been here how long and your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Newman - Doc Hudson
Owen Wilson - Lightning McQueen

“- Steve Rogers: Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?
- Tony Stark: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
- Steve Rogers: I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself.”
Chris Evans - Steve Rogers
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“You all wanna be looking very intently at your own belly buttons. I see a head start to rise, violence is going to ensue. Probably guessed we mean to be thieving here but what we're after is not yours. So, let's have no undue fussing.”
Nathan Fillion - Mal

“Live for yourself! Whatever it takes to get through the night.”
Michael Gornick - Barry - Radio Talk Show Host

“- Karl Larson: I'm offering you the opportunity of a lifetime and you're passing it up for all of us.
- Nick: For all of us? Your opportunity of a lifetime has cost us the life of our ship's captain, it has endangered the lives of this crew, and it's wasting our critical time. All this for some half-baked delusional belief that you'll make...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Facinelli - Karl Larson
James Spader - Nick Vanzant

“- Sylvia: You are a selfish bastard!
- Peter: I'm selfish? At least I didn't leave my baby on a doorstep when she was six months old!”
Nancy Travis - Sylvia
Tom Selleck - Peter

“The best sacrifice is the one made by others.”
Tom McGrath - Skipper

“Man's a party animal. If he is doing okay nothing else matters. That's not going to change.”
Tom Sizemore - Burchenal

“All real freedom risks crime. Indeed, freedom is crime, because it thinks first of itself and not of the group.”
Michael Pitt - Justin Pendleton

“You know you're not really Peter Pan, don't you? This is only a dream. When you wake up, you'll just be Peter Banning - a cold, selfish man who drinks too much, is obsessed with success, and runs and hides from his wife and children!”

Dustin Hoffman - Captain Hook

“- Peter Parker: I don't need your help.
- Mary Jane Watson: Everybody needs help sometimes. Even Spider-Man.”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker
Kirsten Dunst - Mary Jane Watson

“- Lieutenant McDuff: What do you think of Malcolm?
- Mrs. Lenox: Oh, well. I think he's rude, selfish and evil. But I never once judged him.”
Christopher Walken - Lieutenant McDuff
Nicola Lipman - Mrs. Lenox