Understanding quotes
270 understanding quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Love Actually
“You turn out to be the fucking love of my life. And to be honest, despite all my complaining, we have had a wonderful life.”
- From the movie: Another Woman
“You're such a perceptive woman. How can you not understand his feelings?”
- From the movie: No Retreat, No Surrender 2
“What I meant, and what I implied, are two different things.”
- From the movie: Pee-wee's Big Adventure
“- Pee-wee Herman: There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand.
- Dottie: I don't understand.” - From the movie: Nothing Lasts Forever
“Over the years, Adam, many spirits have helped us bring more light and more understanding into the world. Up there is our gallery of past masters. One day, your picture could be up there.”
- From the movie: Say Anything...
“- Diane Court: I have this theory of convergence, that good things always happen with bad things. I know you have to deal with them at the same time, but I just don't know why they have to happen at the same time. I just wish I could work out some schedule. Am I just babbling? Do you know what I mean?
- Lloyd Dobler: No.” - From the movie: The Concorde ... Airport '79
“- Capt. Joe Patroni: Wait a minute! That perfume of yours smells awfully familiar.
- Isabelle: Je te remercie! On peut avoir confiance en toi!
- Capt. Joe Patroni: What did she say?
- Capt. Paul Metrand: Probably the same as you say in English.” - From the movie: Sideways
- From the movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
“- Lucy Pevensie: I'm sure when I'm older, I'll understand.
- Edmund Pevensie: I'm older and I don't think I want to understand...” - From the movie: Boys on the Side
“- Massarelli: Are you a lesbian too, Ms. Nickerson?
- Robin: No sir but at times I understand the inclination.” - From the movie: Harry's War
“All that power in one place, boy. Hitler would have loved the IRS. So would Napoleon and Caesar, they'd understand it. I don't.”
- From the movie: Before Sunrise
“I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.”
- From the movie: Adaptation
“What I came to understand is that change is not a choice. Not for a species of plant, and not for me.”
- From the movie: Equilibrium
- From the movie: Because I Said So
“- Milly: Cause sometimes I feel like nobody understands me. But...
- Johnny: Me. I get you.” - From the movie: Meet The Parents
“- Jack Byrnes: I'm a realist. I understand it's the 21st century and you've probably had premarital relations with my daughter. But under our roof, it's my way or the Long Island Expressway. Is that understood?
- Greg Focker: Of course, yeah.
- Jack Byrnes: Good. Keep your snake in its cage for 72 hours.” - From the movie: A Life Less Ordinary
“- Celine Naville: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.
- Robert Lewis: But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable... and absolutely beyond control or understanding.” - From the movie: Herbie Goes Bananas
“- Aunt Louise: Captain, how can a car release a boy with a key? Explain that.
- Captain Blythe: I can't explain that anymore than I can explain the Bermuda Triangle, madam. Nor do I intend to try.” - From the movie: Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
“- Master Doe: Please, I'm dying, you must listen to me. I fear the Chosen One may give up hope, this must not happen. The creature in his tongue, although a little disturbing, possesses great supernatural powers. Without Tonguey, the Council is invincible, they will come to Betty's aid. Do you understand that?
- Master Tang: [nods head up and...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Minus Man
“I take the natural momentum of a person and draw it towards me. The most important part of understanding someone is knowing if they can hurt you or not. Doug can't hurt anybody. Not as he is.”
- From the movie: The Man Who Wasn't There
“I don't know where I'm being taken. I don't know what I'll find, beyond the earth and sky. But I'm not afraid to go. Maybe the things I don't understand will be clearer there, like when a fog blows away. Maybe Doris will be there. And maybe there I can tell her all those things they don't have words for here.”
- From the movie: Henry & June
“- Henry Miller: She is my fucking wife.
- Anaïs Nin: You don't understand your own fucking wife.” - From the movie: Reign of Fire
- From the movie: Walk Hard
- From the movie: Out of the Past
“- Kathie Moffat: Oh, Jeff. I've missed you. I've wondered about you and prayed you'd understand. Can you understand?
- Jeff Bailey: You prayed, Kathie?”
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