Understanding quotes

“I don't know what you're saying, brother. But don't say it again.”
Eugene Pallette - Sam Salt

“Terrorists are crazy. Mercenaries I understand, but terrorists... puuhh!”
Larry D. Mann - Tibor

“One cannot understand National Socialism if one does not understand Wagner.”
David Bamber - Adolf Hitler

“- Dr. Fish: I have to interpret why the dog is whining. He can't tell me.
- Lucky: What's to tell? There's a thermometer! It's in my butt!”
Jeffrey Tambor - Dr. Fish
Norm MacDonald - Lucky

“Something is always happening, but when it happens, people don't always see it, or understand it... or accept it.”
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“- Tom Roberts: Miss, you don't understand. See, this is an emergency.
- Norma: Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
- Tom Roberts: Sexual.”

Vincent Van Patten - Tom Roberts
Terry Soda - Norma

“- Dagwood Bumstead: Sometimes I think that horse understands everything I say.
- Blondie Bumstead: Then he's smarter than I am.”
Arthur Lake - Dagwood Bumstead
Penny Singleton - Blondie Bumstead

“If it can be explained that it can be explained away.”

Samuel Barnett - Posner

- Mark: What makes people evil?
- Alice: "Evil" is a word people use when they've given up trying to understand someone. There's a reason for everything if we could just find it.
Elijah Wood - Mark
Jacqueline Brookes - Alice

“- Ron Thompson: It's just that my dad doesn't understand your dad.
- Amy Szalinski: Your dad doesn't understand anything.”
Jared Rushton - Ron Thompson
Amy O'Neill - Amy Szalinski

“Sometimes, I think a man understands a woman's motives better than her own sex does.”
Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart

“If I waited for you to understand, it would be too late.”

Theresa Russell - Gabriela

“Understanding and caring are two different things. Both are hard to come by.”
Lynn Redgrave - Celia

- Trey: You know, Sigmund Freud said "the best way to understand women is by listening to them".
- James: Did he say anything about understanding ten-year-olds?
Eshaya Draper - Trey
Martin Lawrence - James

“- Mabel: Frederic, can you not in the calm excellence of your wisdom reconcile it with your conscience to say something that will ease my father's sorrow?
- Frederic: What?
- Mabel: Can't you cheer him up?”
Linda Ronstadt - Mabel Stanley
Rex Smith - Frederic

“- Sonny: As you walked in the room, when you looked at the other human. What does it mean?
- Del Spooner: It's a sign of trust. It's a human thing. You wouldn't understand.”

Alan Tudyk - Sonny
Will Smith - Del Spooner

Whenever you're leaving your room, you grab the doorknob, you turn it and you're getting ready to leave but you don't, you stop and you back up and you turn to the mirror and you stare at yourself. But it's not like a, you know, "I'm so hot" kind of stare. You know, it's more like... "Who am I, really?".
Shia LaBeouf - Kale

“- Steele: Tell me, Pilla. You understand why we have a chain of command, don't you?
- Pilla: Roger that, sir.
- Steele: 'Cause if I ever see you undermining me again, you'll be cleaning latrines with your tongue 'til you can't taste the difference between shit and french fries. Are we clear?”
Jason Isaacs - Steele
Danny Hoch - Pilla

“- Morton: I'm gonna be watching you, Simms, and the minute you screw up you're gonna be working mail fraud in east Cleveland. You understand me? Or am I yelling at too high a frequency?
- Sam Simms: No, Sir, I got my ear piece in.”
Art LaFleur - Morton
Sinbad - Sam Simms

“There's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down.”
Kate Winslet - Young Iris Murdoch

“I don't understand a word you're going on about, but I know exactly what you're saying and I refuse to apologize.”

Clive Owen - Smith

“It doesn't make sense, which is the beauty of it.”
Wallace Merck - Sheriff Blaine

“I don't know a lot about everything, but I do know a lot about the part of everything that I know, which is people.”
Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn

“You look out the window all the time like I do, only you're looking at the world, you know? Tryin' to figure it out, trying to understand the world. Trying to figure out why it's not in order like your books.”

Shia LaBeouf - Kale

“To understand, one has only to listen.”
Keye Luke - Grandfather