Teaching quotes

“- Rusty: Let me guess, a Jehovah's Witness?
- Walt Koontz: I was wondering, uh, if I could pay you for singing lessons?
- Rusty: Oh hahaha, oh, honey, I'd rather suck Hitler's dead dick.
- Walt Koontz: I bet you already did!”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty
Robert De Niro - Walt Koontz

“- James Joven: She's handy. You teach her?
- Sundance: I don't think anyone ever taught her anything. And it's about time you learned her name.”

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - James Joven
Pádraic Delaney - Sundance

“- Micky Rosa: There's one more thing, Ben, and this is important. We're counting cards, we're not gambling. We're following a specific set of rules and playing a system.
- Ben Campbell: Right.
- Micky Rosa: Now, I've seen how crazy it can get at those tables, and sometimes, people lose control. They give in to their emotions. You will not.”
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell

“I will teach you how to kill. Quickly. Accurately. Efficiently. It will become a reflex action. You will learn how to enter a combat zone and evaporate into shadow. You will learn how to survive... or you will not!”
Tommy Lee Jones - L.T. Bonham

“- Robin: I can't promise I won't kill Harvey.
- Batman: A man's got to go his own way. A friend taught me that.
- Robin: Not just a friend.
- Batman: A partner.”
Chris O'Donnell - Robin
Val Kilmer - Batman

“If she had lived, I would have said: slow down; you're too important... Life teaches you, really how to live it... if you could live long enough.”

Tony Bennett - Tony Bennett

“- Magic Mike: He can't dance for sure.
- Dallas: He can't dance for shit, but that is teachable.”

Channing Tatum - Magic Mike
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas

“Let's say that I taught them Chess instead of English. Every conversation would be a game. Every idea expressed through opposition, victory, defeat.”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“- Joe Grasso: What do you think would happen if I got him a professional... you know...
- Bill Maplewood: A professional?
- Joe Grasso: Hooker. You know, the kind that can teach things... first-timers, you know... break him in.
- Bill Maplewood: But Joe, he's 11.
- Joe Grasso: You're right, you're right. It's too late.”
Dan Moran - Joe Grasso
Dylan Baker - Bill Maplewood

“A teacher has two jobs: fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste.”
Olympia Dukakis - Principal Helen Jacobs

“To make a fighter you gotta strip them down to bare wood: you can't just tell 'em to forget everything you know if you gotta make 'em forget even their bones. Make 'em so tired they only listen to you, only hear your voice, only do what you say and nothing else. Show 'em how to keep their balance and take it away from the other guy.Then you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Morgan Freeman - Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris

“- Ed Wallis: Wait, you're going to teach me how to fight?
- Ashby Holt: [chuckles] I ain't got that much time left.
- Ed Wallis: What then?
- Ashby Holt: If you're gonna be a pacifist and a irritating personality type, then you can at least learn how to take a punch, as you'll no doubt have to be taking many.”
Nat Wolff - Ed Wallis
Mickey Rourke - Ashby Holt

- Frank Adler: Miss Davis, if we separate our leaders - if we segregate them from people like you and me - you get "congressmen". So I'm sorry. I wish I can take your offer, but Mary stays. Unless you kick her out.
- Gloria Davis: This is a mistake. We'll never be able to raise this child to the level of scholarship she deserves.
- Frank Adler:... (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Evans - Frank Adler
Elizabeth Marvel - Gloria Davis

“- Joan: Sex is something men and women do to make a baby.
- Kid #3: Are you a virgin?
- Joan: No.
- Kid #3: Do you have a baby?
- Joan: No. People who don't want babies also have sex.
- Kid #3: What for?
- Joan: For about 10 or 15 minutes.”
Elizabeth Perkins - Joan
Heath Wagerman - Kid #3

“- Cameron Poe: Many hands make light work. My daddy taught me that.
- Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom: Ya know what my daddy taught me?
- Cameron Poe: What's that?
- Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom: Nothing.
- Cameron Poe: Self-educated man.”
Nicolas Cage - Cameron Poe
John Malkovich - Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom

“- Po: There's no way I can stop him!
- Li: Unless you had an army of your own.
- Po: You don't even know kung fu!
- Li: Then you will teach us.”
Jack Black - Po
Javier Bardem - Li

“- King Mongkut: You do not look sufficient of age for scientific teaching. How many years have you?
- Anna Leonowens: Enough to know that age and wisdom do not necessarily go hand in hand, Your Majesty.”
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut
Jodie Foster - Anna

“I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.”
Kevin Sorbo

“Those that can't do, teach, and those that can't teach, teach gym.”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn

“- Max Landsberger: Lesson No.4: the secret to survival here is never make a decision.
- Jack Issel: Never?
- Max Landsberger: Never. The minute you do, you're screwed.”
Richard Masur - Max Landsberger
Judge Reinhold - Jack Issel

Ok... who wants an "A" in independent class study? I'm starting a new class: "How to save lives by Hacking Media Outlets".
Paul Giamatti - Dr. Lawrence Hayes

“Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.”
Hal Roach

“- Ethan Renner: Get on... this bike.
- Zooey Renner: Or what?
- Ethan Renner: Now!
- Zooey Renner: I don't even know how to ride a bike, okay?
- Ethan Renner: What kind of kid doesn't know how to ride a bike?
- Zooey Renner: The kind of kid who never had a father to teach her!”
Kevin Costner - Ethan Renner
Hailee Steinfeld - Zooey Renner

“- Scott: What they gotcha teachin' here, young sergeant?
- Jackie Black: Edged weapons, sir. Knife fighting.
- Scott: Don't you teach 'em knife fighting. Teach 'em to kill. That way, they meet some son of a bitch who studied knife fighting, they send his soul to hell.”
Val Kilmer - Scott
Tia Texada - Jackie Black

“- Brutus: Who are you?
- Paul Shepherdson: I'm the one who shot you in Salzburg. I'm also the one who trained you in Moscow.
- Brutus: Cassius?”
Stephen Moyer - Brutus
Richard Tiffany Gere - Paul Shepherdson