Ideas quotes

“Women are never at ease when they have ideas.”
Edmund Gwenn

“You get ideas from other people all the time.”
Jared Harris

“- Hopper: Let this be a lesson to all you ants! Ideas are very dangerous things! You are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this Earth to serve us!
- Flik: You're wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things, and year after year they somehow manage to pick food for themselves and you. So-so who...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Spacey - Hopper
Dave Foley - Flik

“This is your idea. If you don't like your ideas, stop having them.”

Katharine Isabelle - Ginger

“An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Cobb

“- Sheldon Kornpett: You were involved in the Bay of Pigs?
- Vince Ricardo: Involved? That was my idea.”
Alan Arkin - Sheldon Kornpett
Peter Falk - Vince Ricardo

“- Vanessa Kensington: What's your plan?
- Austin Powers: [nervously] First, I plan to soil myself. Then I'm going to regroup and come up with a new plan. Any thoughts?”
Liz Hurley - Vanessa Kensington
Mike Myers - Austin Powers

“You know how I came up with the idea for the Triple-X program? Skateboards and swimming pools.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Augustus Gibbons

“Franklin Pope-Don’t let him agitate you. This is how he is. Before he was a wizard, I let him live in my basement. My wife wouldn’t have him at the table with us unless he cleaned himself. And, boy, given the ultimatum, the man ate alone.
George Westinghouse-How does he work?
Franklin Pope-You want to know his secret? He engineers his own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Stanley Townsend - Franklin Pope
Michael Shannon - George Westinghouse

“It seems to me that Mr. Edison puts his name on everything because he's terrified of being forgotten. But if you want to be remembered, it's simple. Shoot a president. But if you prefer to have what I call a legacy, you leave the world a better place than you found it.”
Michael Shannon - George Westinghouse

“All my favorite things start off as bad ideas.”
Maddie Baillio - Millie

“Sextus, you ask how to fight an idea. Well I'll tell you how... with another idea!”
Stephen Boyd - Messala

“You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea?”
André Morell - Sextus

“We can't change the world with only ideas in our minds. We need conviction in our hearts.”
Micheal B. Jordan - Bryan Stevenson

“As an actor, you create your own ideas.”
Alex Borstein

“- Cody Jarrett: You like the truck idea, huh?
- Trader Winston: Admirable. We might all profit by a closer study of classical literature.”
James Cagney - Cody Jarrett
Fred Clark - The Trader aka Winston

“I want only to say that it is always the simplest ideas which lead to the greatest consequences. My idea, in its entirety, is that if vile people unite and constitute a force, then decent people are obliged to do likewise; just that.”
Norman Rose - English Narrator

“About 150 years ago, an idea took shape in the mind of a man named DeWitt Clinton. And in the way Americans have of acting out their dreams, it came to be.”

Spencer Tracy - Narrated by

“- Peggy Walsh: When did you get this idea Jim?
- Jimmy Ringo: Well I didn't get it, it just kinda' came over me. The way gettin' older comes over ya. All of a sudden you look at things different then the way ya did five years ago. All of a sudden I knew this was the only thing in the world I wanted.”
Helen Westcott - Peggy Walsh
Gregory Peck - Jimmy Ringo

“You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?”

Jeff Bridges - Obadiah Stane

“Objects and artifacts last far longer than people, and they represent important ideas in history, identity, beauty.”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“A picture is made a success not on a set but over the drawing board.”
Cecil Blount DeMille

“The concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.”
Harry Morris Warner

“- James Conrad: Don't forget to tell me this is a badidea.
- Mason Weaver: This is a badidea.”
Tom Hiddleston - James Conrad
Brie Larson - Mason Weaver

“- Ben Bagdikian: Outside of landing the Hindenburg in a lightning storm, that's about the shittiest idea I've ever heard.
- Fritz Beebe: Oh boy!”
Bob Odenkirk - Ben Bagdikian
Tracy Letts - Fritz Beebe