Understanding quotes

“If there's one thing I know, is when someone is lying. A man in my position, that's all he has to go on. To know a lie when he hears it. It's the difference between life and death. Your own. Someone else's.”
Ben Kingsley - The Rabbi

“- Diego: You calling me a liar?
- Sid: I didn't say that.
- Diego: You were thinking it.
- Sid: I don't like this cat. He reads minds.”
John Leguizamo - Diego
Denis Colin Leary - Sid

- Tulio: Miguel, you're talking to a horse!
- Miguel: Yes, that's it Altivo. Find the pry bar!
- Tulio: Yes, "find the pry bar". He doesn't understand "pry bar"! He's a dumb horse, there's no way he could understand.
Kevin Kline - Tulio
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel

“- Ella's Mother: Do you still believe that they understand you?
- Ella: Don't they, Mother?
- Ella's Mother: Oh yes. I believe that animals listen and speak to us if we only have the ear for it. That's how we learn to look after them.”
Hayley Atwell - Ella's Mother
Eloise Webb - Ella (10 years)

“People believe what they want to believe. They find meaning where they can, and they cling to it. In the end, it really doesn't matter what's a trick and what's true. What matters is that people believe.”
Dakota Fanning - Allie Keys

“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

“- Dr. Newton Geiszler: There should be three and there's two? I'm sorry, it hurts to be wrong, don't it, Hermann?
- Herman Gottlieb: I am not wrong, but there is something here we don't understand.”
Burn Gorman - Herman Gottlieb

“My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”
Johnny Depp

“People are easiest to read when they are hurting.”
Alison Sudol - Queenie

“- Ghost Dog: I don't understand him. I don't speak French, only English. I never understand a word he says.
- Pearline: And that's your best friend?
- Ghost Dog: Yeah.”
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog
Forest Whitaker - Pearline

You see, back in the '60s, we had smart black articulate black men. Like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton. These brothers were speaking out, and people were listening. And then, the FBI said, "Oh, no! We can't have that! I know! Let's give the niggers some music by a bunch of mumbling idiots, and sooner or later they'll... (continue)(continue reading)

Ludacris - Anthony

“This is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters.”
Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“No matter how many books you read, there is something in this world that you never ever ever ever ever fucking understand.”
David Thewlis - Johnny

“I'm trying to understand our world. I don't deal with petty materialists like you.”

Sean Gullette - Maximillian Cohen

“I've been going to a therapist for three years, and she's never explained anything to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.”

Kate Winslet - Iris

“Nothing will make sense to your American ears, and you will doubt everything that we do, but in the end you will understand.”
Benicio del Toro - Alejandro

“- Timms: I don't always understand poetry!
- Hector: You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever.”
James Corden - Timms
Richard Griffiths - Hector

“- Mr. Banks: Just a moment, Mary Poppins. What is the meaning of this outrage?
- Mary Poppins: I beg your pardon?
- Mr. Banks: Will you be good enough to explain all this?
- Mary Poppins: First of all, I would like to make one thing quite clear.
- Mr. Banks: Yes?
- Mary Poppins: I never explain anything. ”
David Tomlinson - Mr. Banks
Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

There is no “I” in team, but there is an “I” in pie. And there's an “I” in meat pie. Meat is the anagram of team.
Simon Pegg - Shaun

“- Arcee: I was afraid you'd be trapped outside the city.
- Hot Rod: Hey, I wasn't worried for a microsecond.
- Arcee: Then you probably didn't understand the situation.”
Susan Blu - Arcee
Judd Nelson - Hot Rod

- Chosen One: But I don't understand. Who are the evil council?
- Mu Shu Fasa: The answer you seek resides in the stars above.
- Chosen One: I don't understand.
- Mu Shu Fasa: Of course you don't. I'm speaking in riddles. That's kind of the point, like a clue, so when you figure it out you'll say "oh, that's what he meant! Stars above"!
Steve Oedekerk - Chosen One
Mu Shu Fasa - Mu Shu Fasa

“People are either beautiful or ugly, and the ones in between are merely cute.”
Harvey Keitel - Mick Boyle

“- Silvia Broome: I'm for peace and quiet, Mr. Lud. It's why I came to the U.N. Quiet diplomacy.
- Nils Lud: With respect, you only interpret.
- Silvia Broome: Countries have gone to war because they've misinterpreted one another.”
Nicole Kidman - Silvia Broome
Jesper Christensen - Nils Lud

“- Nick Fury: It is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.
- Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand.
- Steve Rogers: I do! [Tony Stark rolls his eyes, while Steve Rogers looks proud of himself] I understood that reference.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury
Chris Hemsworth - Thor
Chris Evans - Steve Rogers

“Welcome to the Astronaut Candidate Program. Now pay attention, because this could save your life. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.”

Matt Damon - Mark Watnay