Understanding quotes

“Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all.”

Joanna Newsom - Sortilège

“People are afraid of what they don't understand.”
Kevin Costner - Jonathan Kent

“Frederick Gray! What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen, not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow!”
Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax

“- Bek: You really watched the world come into being?
- Thoth: I don't lie.
- Bek: Where were you watching it from, if nothing had been created yet?
- Thoth: If I even attempted to explain, your brain would liquefy and run out of your ears.”
Brenton Thwaites - Bek
Chadwick Boseman - Thoth

“For all my education, accomplishments and so-called wisdom, I can't fathom my own heart.”
Sir Michael Caine - Elliot

“I smell bullshit.”
R. Lee Ermey - Sheriff Hoyt

“- Adam Gibson: You read my mind?
- Michael Drucker: Just the highlights.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Adam Gibson
Tony Goldwyn - Michael Drucker

“You don't know how lucky you are being a monkey. Because consciousness is a terrible curse. I think. I feel. I suffer. And all I ask in return is the opportunity to do my work. And they won't allow it... because I raise issues.”
John Cusack - Craig Schwartz

“Wish I understand human beings. Wish I understand women. Wish I understand emotions and passions. Wish I understand any of that. If I did, I woudn't have had to spend my entire life in a laboratory trying to figure out how the world works. I would've been out in the world trying to figure out why it works.”

Robin Williams - Professor Philip Brainard

“Maybe nobody loves me. Maybe nobody will ever love me. But maybe it's not about being loved by somebody else.”
Bel Powley - Minnie

“- Jock: My name is Jock. I'm the groom. I was under Lord Morley's command in India. He had my tongue cut out...
- Inspector Winship: Just a second. What did you say?
- Dr. Tart: He said that his name is Jock. He was under Lord Morley's command...
- Inspector Winship: Will you shut up?
- Dr. Tart: That's what he said!”
Irwin Keyes - Jock
Don Knotts - Inspector Winship
Tim Conway - Dr. Tart

“In order to really see the world, we must break with our familiar acceptance of it.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe

“- Lord Caversham: Do you always understand everything you say?
- Lord Arthur Goring: Yes... if I listen attentively.
- Lord Caversham: Conceited young puppy!”
John Wood - Lord Caversham
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“- Danton: The same men mustn't stay in power too long.
- Robespierre: You aspire to power?
- Danton: I don't need to aspire to power. I have it. The only real power: from the man in the street. Because I understand him and he understands me. Never forget that.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre

“Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.”
Scott Hicks

“Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventurer. She was not some fine, precious thing. She was a girl. It took me a long time to realize how wrong I was...”
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff - Quentin

“Your eyes see it but your head can't make no sense of it.”

Michael Peña - Trini "Gordo" Garcia

“Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto

- Ann Bishop Mullany: I want to know why you are the way you are!
- Graham Dalton: And I'm telling you it's not any one thing that I can point to and say "That's why!" It doesn't work that way with people who have problems, Ann, it's not that neat, it's not hat tidy! It's not a series of little boxes that you can line up and count. Things just... (continue)(continue reading)
Andie MacDowell - Ann Bishop Mullany
James Spader - Graham Dalton

“- Steve Arlo: He can elicit a confession from a criminal without their realizing they're being questioned.
- Gregory Stark: How does he do it?
- Steve Arlo: He has a deeply nuanced and thoroughly functional understanding of human behavior to rival the great psychoanalytical minds of our time. He understands the criminal mind as well as the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo
Ryan O'Neal - Gregory Stark

“- Professor Henry Jones: Elsa never really believed in the grail. She thought she'd found a prize.
- Indiana Jones: And what did you find, dad?
- Professor Henry Jones: Me? Illumination.”
Sir Sean Connery - Professor Henry Jones
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones

“- Lin: What's going on here?
- Kamaji: Something you wouldn't recognize. It's called love.”
Susan Egan - Lin
David Ogden Stiers - Kamaji

“- Clarice Kensington: Have I made myself clear?
- Amanda Lemmon: Clear as glass. In fact, I can see right through you.”
Jane Sibbett - Clarice Kensington
Mary-Kate Olsen - Amanda Lemmon

“- Sydney Carton: My poor child. It isn't understanding we need now. It's courage.
- Seamstress: You're going to die in his place.”
Ronald Colman - Sydney Carton
Isabel Jewell - Seamstress

“Trying to make these policemen understand something is harder than doing it yourself.”
Billie Burke - Mrs. Topper