Self-examination quotes

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Katharine Hepburn

“Sometimes to achievegreatness, you do, you have to cut off a little piece of yourself no matter how much it hurts, in order to grow, in order to move on.”
Tom Hardy - Ronald Kray

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Charles Bronson

“I find that, lately, even lying to myself comes easily.”
Jude Law - Alfie

“If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you can't change it, accept it.”
Ted Shackelford

“Tend to view our lives as if we're looking through a keyhole. It's a very limited view of the truth. So we have to fill in the blanks. We invent things. You invent enemies to test your strength against. You invent gods to protect you from these enemies. Who is the enemy? One minute you have friends. The next moment, they've slipped away.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“Want somebody to respect you. But it takes respect to get respect.”
Cedric the Entertainer - Eddie

“Let me tell you a story, John. There was a sculptor. He found this stone, a special stone. He dragged it home and he worked on it for months until he finally finished it. When he was ready he showed it to his friends. They said he had created a great masterpiece, but the sculptor said he hadn't created anything. The statue was always there, he...” (continue)(continue reading)

Richard Crenna - Col. Samuel Trautman

“Why me Lord? You made other men out of clay. Mine, you made out of shit.”
John Quade - Cholla

“My true nature, I believe, is writing.”
Richard LaGravenese

“- Wang Chi-Yang: Where have you been till this hour?
- Wang Ta: Spending the night...
- Wang Chi-Yang: Stop! Not in front of your aunt.
- Wang Ta: I beg your forgiveness, Father. You were right. I should have listened. I was a fool.
- Wang Chi-Yang: Knowing you are a fool is the beginning of wisdom. Now I have my son back.”
Benson Fong - Wang Chi-Yang
James Shigeta - Wang Ta

“I stole this watch when I was fourteen. I wanted it so much I could feel it in the pit of my stomach. So one day when I went to pick up some flint for my father's lighter, the owners back was turned, I picked it up and put it in my pocket. The thing was I had the money. Today I still do not know why I could not bare to pay for it.”

Elina Löwensohn - Anne Levels

“- Icelan: He checks his sanity with a wrist watch!
- Jack Braddock: What do you check yours with, a dipstick?”

Paul Roebling - Icelan
Warren Oates - Capt. Jack Braddock

“- Sontee Jenkins: What kind of man are you?
- Lance Barton: Sounds like I'm an asshole!”
Regina King - Sontee Jenkins
Chris Rock - Lance Barton

“I'm not a hothead, I'm brassy!”
Tina Fey - Kate Ellis

“I am different. I'm free. All that useless pain, it's gone. It's something anyone can have, Will, and I want you to have it too.”

Tammy Blanchard - Eden

“- Chaz: Why don't you tell us something about yourself?
- Nikki: All right, something about myself... I wanna work with handicapped children, and my parents are my best friends. And I start convent school next semester... and I fuck on the first date. April Fool's!”
Clayton Rohner - Chaz
Deborah Goodrich - Nikki

“- Margaret Sellinger: I don't know what I'm doing here.
- David Halloran: Yes, you do.
- Margaret Sellinger: Yes, I do.”
Lesley-Anne Down - Margaret Sellinger
Harrison Ford - David Halloran

What are you discovering about yourself, Kaempffer? "I murder all these people. Therefore, I must be powerful". And you smash them down only because that raises you up. It's a psychotic fantasy to escape the weakness and disease you sense in the core of your souls! You have scooped the most diseased psyches out of the German gutter! You have... (continue)(continue reading)
Jürgen Prochnow - Woermann

“- Mel Ames: I know I've been a pain in the ass.
- Harry Ross: I don't mind. I didn't much like it when you shot me, though.”
Reese Witherspoon - Mel Ames
Paul Newman - Harry Ross

“If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself alone, who am I? If not now, when? And if not you, who?”
Corey Hawkins - Kwame Ture

“I'm not neurotic, I'm just a bitch.”
Bette Midler - Lilly Leonard

“- Rubber Baron: Madam, I'm still standing firm on both my legs.
- Molly: You're a big game hunter, aren't you?
- Rubber Baron: What's that got to do with it?
- Molly: Then you should know: When you shoot an elephant, he sometimes stays on his legs for ten days before he topples over. Good night!”
Ruy Polanah - Rubber Baron
Claudia Cardinale - Molly

“It's a shame to not have more photos around the house. I guess we didn't see the point of taking pictures of ourselves.”
Charlotte Rampling - Kate Mercer

“I'm seized by fear and see a horrible picture of myself. I have never grown up. My face and my body have aged. I acquire memories and experiences but inside all that I haven't even been born. I can't remember any faces not even my own.”
Ingrid Bergman - Charlotte Andergast