Ideas quotes

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

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

“- 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

“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

“- Obi-Wan Kenobi: You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until now, until now you've become the very thing you swore to destroy.
- Anakin Skywalker: Don't lecture me, Obi-Wan! I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.”
Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

“- Nora Charles: I'm going to lock the door, plug the bell, cut the telephone and crawl into bed for a month!
- Nick Charles: Oh, Nora, you're my favorite woman.”

Myrna Loy - Nora Charles
William Powell - Nick Charles

“Just a moment Marie, I'm having an idea.”
Yahoo Serious - Albert Einstein

“Private behaviour is a relic of a time gone by, and if somehow, someway, you've managed to live your life like the Dalai Lama, they'll make shit up. Because they don't want you, they want your idea.”

Justin Timberlake - Sean Parker

“- Saito: If you can steal an idea, why can't you plant one there instead?
- Arthur: Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: don't think about elephants. What are you thinking about?
- Saito: Elephants?
- Arthur: Right, but it's not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ken Watanabe - Saito
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Arthur

“You start with some crazyidea, take insanerisks, make barely enough to feed your family, not a chance you're gonna succeed. Then all of a sudden you've got all these things and you're terrified of losing them.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary