Statistics quotes

“Captain Sharp-Just for the record, 95% of all runaways return home within the first six hours. It doesn't do you any good right now. It's just a statistic. But in all likelihood, Suzy's probably hiding in the closet at her best friend's house playing Chinese checkers at this very moment, as we speak.
Mr. Bishop-She doesn't have any friends.”
Bruce Willis - Captain Sharp
Bill Murray - Mr. Bishop

“- Lucy Whitman: You just became a statistic.
- Kansas Hill: Oh, my god. I'm not the first.”
Sara Marsh - Lucy Whitman
Mena Suvari - Kansas Hill

- Brax: Shit man, you and me here, what are the odds?
- Christian Wolff: Statistically speaking...
- Brax: Christ man, it's rhetorical, I mean "really"!
Jon Bernthal - Brax
Ben Affleck - Christian Wolff

“No matter how many sea lions are killed each year by sharks, it never seems like enough.”
Steve Zahn - Peter Gaulke

Last year I thought I had lupus, has that happened to you yet? I was on the bus and I saw an ad, "Chances are that somebody on the bus has lupus". I look around, I'm the only one on the bus.
Orny Adams - Himself

“How many people are killed by guns each year? In Germany; 381. In France; 255. In Canada; 165. In the United Kingdom; 68. In Australia; 65. In Japan; 39. In the United States; 11,127.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“My favorite statistic is discovering that the murder rate had gone down by 20%. The coverage that is, how many murders are on the evening news it went up by 600%.”
Barry Glassner - Himself

“- Dr. Gaius Baltar: You know, I've never known you to play the optimist. Why the change of heart?
- Number Six: Mathematics. Law of averages. Let a complex system repeat itself long enough and eventually something surprising might occur. That, too, is in God's plan.”
James Callis - Dr. Gaius Baltar
Tricia Helfer - Number Six

“First thing on the list of what Americans say they hate: work; second, traffic; third, missing socks.”
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“Oh Ron, there are literally thousands of other men that I should be with instead, but I am 72 percent sure that I love you.”
Christina Applegate - Veronica Corningstone

“Statistically, the chance of a plane going down because of turbulence is less than what, one in a billion? Or is it a million? I can't remember if it's...”

Arjay Smith - Brian Parks

“- Jerry Whitehall: Sixty thousand, six hundred and fifty-nine rooms? Christ.
- Kate Filmore: This place must be huge.
- Mrs. Paley: Oh, yes, yes. In a hypercube, there could be 60 million rooms.”
Neil Crone - Jerry Whitehall
Kari Matchett - Kate Filmore
Barbara Gordon - Mrs. Paley

“We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.”
John C. McGinley - Bob Slydell

“I remembered why I opened the door to women in the first place: to not limit the likelihood of finding that one person who'd complement me so completely.”
Joey Lauren Adams - Alyssa Jones

“- C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
- Han Solo: Never tell me the odds.”
Anthony Daniels - C-3PO
Harrison Ford - Han Solo

“- Co-Worker: It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!
- Annie Reed: That statistic is not true!
- Becky: That's right it's not true, but it feels true.”
Meg Ryan - Annie Reed
Rosie O'Donnell - Becky

“Congratulations, you've just joined the 76% of Americans who forget to stretch before doing any physical activity.”

Ben Stiller - Tony Perkis