Self-examination quotes
357 self-examination quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines“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?”
- From the movie: Legend
- La trovi in Life and Death in Hollywood
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.
- From the movie: Pineapple Express
“- Red: That's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.
- Dale Denton: Except if you're a dick your whole life, your next shell will be made of shit, okay? If you're an asshole, you're gonna come back as a cockroach or a worm or a fuckin' anal bead, okay? If you're a man and you act heroic, you'll come back as an eagle. You'll come back...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Alfie
“I find that, lately, even lying to myself comes easily.”
- From the movie: Michael Clayton
- From the movie: Color of Night
“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.”
- From the movie: Barbershop
“Want somebody to respect you. But it takes respect to get respect.”
- From the movie: Six Degrees of Separation
“It is the worst kind of yellowness to be so scared of yourself that you put blindfolds on rather than deal with yourself. To face ourselves - that's the hard thing. The imagination - that's God's gift, to make the act of self-examination bearable.”
- From the movie: Open Range
“I know that people get confused in this life about what they want, and what they've done, and what they think they should've because of it. Everything they think they are or did, takes hold so hard that it won't let them see what they can be.”
- From the movie: Ordinary People
- Dr. Berger: Maybe you were stronger. Did it ever occur to you that you might have been stronger? How long are you going to punish yourself? When are you going to quit?
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: Oh God, I'd like to quit... - From the movie: The Iron Giant
“Who cares what these creeps think of you? They don't make you what you are, you do. You are who you choose to be.”
- From the movie: Maurice
“I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
- From the movie: Rambo III
“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)
- La trovi in Celebrities on other topics
“If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.”
- From the movie: Any Which Way You Can
“Why me Lord? You made other men out of clay. Mine, you made out of shit.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“My true nature, I believe, is writing.”
- From the movie: Hit and Run
“If you spent two years building your dream car, and then you started to notice that it was also the dream car of a certain type of person, like people who are - I don't know, let's just call them rapists out of convenience. If you started to notice that your peers were rapists, what do you think that says about the old you who built this car?”
- From the TV Series: Grey's Anatomy
“Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things.”
- From the movie: Flower Drum Song
“- 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.” - From the movie: The Wisdom of Crocodiles
“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.”
- From the movie: Blue Thunder
“- Icelan: He checks his sanity with a wrist watch!
- Jack Braddock: What do you check yours with, a dipstick?” - From the movie: Down To Earth
“- Sontee Jenkins: What kind of man are you?
- Lance Barton: Sounds like I'm an asshole!” - From the movie: Sisters
“I'm not a hothead, I'm brassy!”
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