Success quotes

“I'm always getting standing ovations, especially in bed!”
Wallace Shawn - Victor 'Vic' Finley

Six years from now I'll be back here with my wife and two kids. And I'll see you and one of my kids will say, "Daddy, who is that?". And I'll say "It's not nice to point at single fat women".
Albert Brooks - Aaron Altman

“- Julie Pierce: Even Elvis Presley got a black belt.
- Miyagi: Borrow from Elvis next time see him.”

Hilary Swank - Julie Pierce
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Capt. Freycinet: It's a fine day.
- Renault: Any day that takes us closer to France is a fine day.”
Claude Rains - Capt. Freycinet
Philip Dorn - Renault

“Only when you've been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is on top of the highest mountain.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Fred Ayres: Wait a minute. This is really good news. Rog has outdone himself.
- Honey Hale: I'll bet he's broken both legs running after two women at the same time.”
Fred Astaire - Fred Ayres
Ginger Rogers - Honey Hale

“You can bend the rules plenty once you get to the top, but not while you're trying to get there. And if you're someone like me, you can't get there without bending the rules.”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill

“Your grandfather was a great man. Jack Stanton could also be a great man, if he wasn't such a faithless, thoughtless, disorganized, undisciplined shit.”

Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton

“Once in a generation an athlete pits himself against such overwhelming odds that even the most jaded spectator finds himself cheering breathlessly.”
Kevin Spacey - Harry Kingsley

“I'm more afraid of being nothing, than I am of being hurt.”
Tom Cruise - Cole Trickle

“My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night. Time of your life, huh kid?”
Tom Cruise - Joel

“If you can't be great, then there's no sense in ever playing music again.”
Michael Paré - Eddie Wilson

“You know, this could be a sign of things to come. You win all your cases, but with somebody else's help, right? You win case after case, and then afterwards you have to go up to somebody and you have to say, thank you. Oh, my God, what a fucking nightmare!”
Marisa Tomei - Mona Lisa Vito

“We're goin' to the race, we're gonna win first place, and you have an ugly face!”

Ross Bagley - Buckwheat

“I know all the tricks. I know all the con games. I know all the bullshit and there's plenty of that, believe me. Together we could be somebody. People would know who we are. People would know our names. People would treat us that special way - the way they treat stars!”

Eric Roberts - Paul Snider

“- McCoy: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario.
- Saavik: How?
- James T. Kirk: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.”

DeForest Kelley - McCoy
Kirstie Alley - Saavik
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“I'll be the sculptor and you'll be the clay.”

Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell

“- Kathryn: Why are you so hard on me?
- Andie: Because someday, you're goin' up. But the only way that will happen is if you have every drill here down better than everyone else. There's no room for mistakes. Every 'i' dotted, every 't' crossed. That's the way I learned it. That's the way you'll learn it. You copy?
- Kathryn: I copy.”
Lea Thompson - Kathryn Fairly
Kate Capshaw - Andie Bergstrom

“I notice you don't have any tattoos. I think that's a wise choice. I don't think Jackie Onassis would've gone as far if she'd have had an anchor on her arm.”
Steve Martin - C. D. Bales

“As long as you keep trying, everything always works out in the end.”
Peter Berg - Frank Lovegren

“Little Darlings come in, hearts pitter pattering for the handsome, all knowing bartender. And in their wake, a parade of slobbering geeks with one hand on their crotch and the other on their wallets. Buttons were popping, skirts were rising. When you can see the color of their panties then you know you've got talent. And boy oh boy have you got...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bryan Brown - Doug Coughlin

“Get out of here! Go back to Rome. You're young and the world is yours. I'm old. I don't want to hear you talk anymore. I want to hear others talking about you.”

Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

- Snider: Do you know who reads Playboy?
- Dorothy's Mother: No. Tell me.
- Snider: Movie producers, directors, agents, TV people. The people who produce "Charlie's Angels" read Playboy.

Eric Roberts - Paul Snider
Carroll Baker - Dorothy's Mother

“The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the prodigal son; you're quite a prize!”
Joe Turkel - Dr. Eldon Tyrell

“It's just success, kid. You want success but you're afraid of it. It happens to everybody at this stage.”
Burgess Meredith - Ben Greene