Selfishness quotes

“You fucking walk in here after five, ten, however many years, and because today is the day you decide to kick, the whole fucking world is supposed to stop? Is that it? We all have been waiting for the day that you come through that door and tell us you no longer wanted to be a fucking dope fiend?”
James Pickens Jr. - Supervisor

“I should have known it. The rest of the world doesn't exist.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love them so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules.”

Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“I kind of see this all love as this, escape for two people who don't know how to be alone. People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, there's nothing more selfish.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“I do not understand American workers. They come five minutes late, leave two minutes early. They stay home when they are sick. They put themselves above company. You seem to feel the same way as they do.”

Gedde Watanabe - Oishi Kazihiro

“Given the base, vile, selfish, petty, competitive nature of the human animal, I believe any act of kindness constitutes a small miracle.”
Patrika Darbo - 66

“Everyone lookin' for salvation by himself. Each like a coal thrown from the fire.”
Jim Caviezel - Pvt. Witt

“- Coco LaBouche: Years of clawing my way to the top, have gone to waste. Why am I not some child standard mother? Why? Why? Why?
- Jean-Claude: Becuase you hate children, and men find you, to be a heartless shrew.”
Susan Sarandon - Coco LaBouche
John Lithgow - Jean-Claude

“- Kane: Don't go, Susan. You mustn't go. You can't do this to me.
- Susan Alexander Kane: So it's you who this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Dorothy Comingore - Susan Alexander Kane

“Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right.”
Harrison Ford - President James Marshall

“So what if I'm young and beautiful? That's not a crime, you know.”
Elaine Hendrix - Meredith Blake

“If there's anything I can ever do for you... forget it, because I don't do those kinds of things.”
John Turturro - Roland T. Flakfizer

“- Fulton Greenwall: Please forgive me sir, but if we don't hurry now, we might miss the plane.
- Ace Ventura: Of course. How selfish of me. Let's do all the things that you wanna do.”
Ian McNeice - Fulton Greenwall
Jim Carrey - Ace Venura

“Maybe if I hadn't been so selfish. Maybe if I could have told her I loved her maybe things would be different now.”
Sara Gilbert - Sylvie Cooper

“- Ed Reese: Why don't you ask Arnold? I'm sure he has lots to say on the subject.
- Alan Simon: He says you're a boring, self-centered, insensitive old fool who wouldn't know love if it wore wings, diaper, and shot heart-shaped arrows at your butt.”

Brian Kerwin - Ed Reese
Matthew Broderick - Alan Simon

“- Belle: How can you be so selfish?
- Beast: You cannot possibly understand. You have no idea what it's like to lose everything, to be trapped in your own castle, to be a...
- Belle: Prisoner? The only one holding us prisoner here is you.”
Paige O'Hara - Belle
Robby Benson - Beast

“- Dutch Dooley: Listen you little son of a bitch, you could've killed someone with a stunt like that. That poor bastard was on his way home to see his family and because you wanted to play some kind of a spoiled brat prank, you put his life in jeopardy. Now what gives you the right to do that?
- Doyle Standish : I guess I didn't think about...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed O'Neill - Dutch Dooley
Ethan Embry - Doyle Standish