Usefulness quotes

“I often talk aloud to myself. I find it extraordinarily useful.”
Sir Michael Gambon - Professor Albus Dumbledore

“All I wanted to be was happily useless, you made me miserably useless.”

Peter O'Toole - Peter Plunkett

“I’m not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.”
Andy Samberg - Jake Peralta

“- Vassili: In the forest, the wolf lives for three years and the donkey for nine.
- Tania Chernova: That must be a proverb from the Urals. It makes no sense to me.
- Vassili: The donkey lives longer because he's more useful.
- Tania Chernova: There aren't any donkeys in the forest. You made it up.”
Jude Law - Vassili
Rachel Weisz - Tania Chernova

“- Bob Diamond: For example, I use forty-eight percent of my brain. Do you know how much you use?
- Daniel Miller: Forty... seven?
- Bob Diamond: Three.”
Rip Torn - Bob Diamond
Albert Brooks - Daniel Miller

“We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty. We buy what we don't need and throw away everything that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong.”
Harrison Ford - Allie Fox

“- Murph (10 Yrs.): What are you gonna do with it?
- Cooper: I'm going to give it something socially responsible to do. Like drive a combine.
- Murph (10 Yrs.): Can't we just let it go? It wasn't hurting anybody.
- Cooper: This thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph. Like the rest of us.”

Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 Yrs.)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“You know, you might come in useful. While they are eating you it will give me a chance to get away.”

Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Martin Geldheart: What is the one thing that landscape architecture requires?
- Art Student: A social motif.
- Martin Geldheart: Right.”
Timothy Hutton - Martin Geldhart
Mary Fortune - Art Student

“- Brand: Listen to me when I say that love isn't something that we invented. It's... observable, powerful. It has to mean something.
- Cooper: Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing...
- Brand: We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?”
Anne Hathaway - Brand
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“You're a compendium of fucking useless information.”

Bruce Willis - Jimmy

“Fantasy is useful. You can learn from it.”
Hank Azaria - Mitch Albom

“- Dr. Dakota Block: My girlfriend had a theory. She said at some point in your life, you find a use for every useless talent you ever had. It's like connecting the dots.
- Cherry Darling: I'm not that optimistic. I feel like I'm sinking down a drain and I can't get out.”
Marley Shelton - Dr. Dakota Block
Rose McGowan - Cherry Darling

“I must be responsible, reliable, and... oh, don't tell me... really useful. I knew that!”
Alec Baldwin - Mr. Conductor

“- Lex Luthor: Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age? Eradicate the only man on Earth with...
- Ursa: Kill him!
- Lex Luthor: ...Superman's address?
- General Zod: Come. The three of us will crush the son of our jailer!”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor
Sarah Douglas - Ursa
Terence Stamp - General Zod

- Genie: First, you have to hold the lamp...
- Louie: Yeah?
- Genie: Then, say, "I wish".
- Huey: Yeah?
- Genie: Then wish for something.
- Huey: That's all?
- Dewey: Boy! It's even user-friendly!
Rip Taylor - Genie
Russi Taylor - Louie
Russi Taylor - Huey
Russi Taylor - Dewey

“At first, Xi tried the thing out to cure thongs; it had the right shape and just the right weight. It was also beautifully smooth and ideal for curing snakeskin. And Pabo discovered you could make music on it... and every day they discovered a new use for the thing.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“They never taught us really useful like how to light a cigarette in the wind, or make a fire out of wet wood, or bayonet a man in the belly instead of the ribs where it gets jammed.”

William Bakewell - Albert

“When you use more than 5 percent of your brain, you don't want to be on earth; believe me.”
Rip Torn - Bob Diamond

“- Pu Yi - Adult: Why can you not leave me alone? You saved my life to make me a puppet in your own play. You saved me because I am useful to you.
- The Governor: Is that so terrible? To be useful?”
John Lone - Pu Yi - Adult
Ruocheng Ying - The Governor

“- Porthos: Aramis! You sawed the beam! You knew I would I try to hang myself and you sawed the beam! Admit it. Admit it!
- Aramis: Of course I knew! And now that you've got the idea of killing yourself out of your head you can stop boring everyone and be useful for a change. And put some clothes on!”

Gérard Depardieu - Porthos
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“You liked me because you could use me. You could use me because I was smart. I'm not smart anymore. I run a gas station.”

Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey

“- Blossom: It looks awfully dark in there!
- Snow White: We need light. Sunburn can you help us?
- Sunburn: They don't call me Sunburn for nothing!”
Zsa Zsa Gabor - Blossom
Irene Cara - Snow White
Jonathan Harris - Sunburn

“- Sandy Bates: Shouldn't I stop making movies and do something that counts, like helping blind people or becoming a missionary or something?
- Voice of Martian: Let me tell you, you're not the missionary type. You'd never last. And incidentally, you're also not Superman; you're a comedian. You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes.”
Woody Allen - Sandy Bates
Woody Allen - Martian

“Don't you know that the greatest men in the world have told lies and let things be misunderstood if it was useful to them? Didn't you ever hear of a campaign promise?”

Claudette Colbert - Gerry Jeffers