Weakness quotes

“There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a fat man with greasy hair and half a moustache.”
Thomasin McKenzie - Elsa

“Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Weakness is tiring, but strength is exhausting.”
Charlie Hunnam - Nicholas Nickleby

“It is our weakness that calls forth the grace of God. You show your weakness, He gives us strength.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict

“A man washes his hands before or after tending to his needs. It tells you a lot about a man. He does it both times - points to a weakness in character.”
Michael Shannon - Richard Strickland

“When you least expect it, nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.”
Michael Stuhlbarg - Mr. Perlman

“I ain't so tough.”

James Cagney - Tom Powers

“Don't be pussy-whipped, whip that pussy.”
John Witherspoon - Mr. Jackson

“I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.”
Michael Sheen

“- Blue Stanton: We need a water break.
- Coach Herman Boone: A water break? Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don't get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside your mind! We are going to do up-downs, until Blue is no longer tired, and thirsty.”

Earl Poitier - Blue Stanton
Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone

“He knows you disapprove of him. He knows you think he's weak. But he's not weak. He's decent. And if you or Bruce or anyone else tries to beat that out of him, I swear to God I'll take him away.”

Joan Allen - Bonnie Waitzkin

“- Rameses: One damaged temple does not destroy centuries of tradition.
- Seti: But one weak link can break the chain of a mighty dynasty!”
Ralph Fiennes - Rameses
Sir Patrick Stewart - Seti

“Instead of letting you learn by breaking the rules, l feel l need to show you how to obey them. Tolerance. Tolerance for pain. My tolerance of you. But tolerance can be mistaken for kindness. And kindness can be mistaken for weakness. And we can't have weakness, can we, Henri?”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Milton Glenn

“We got a whole hat philosophy, you know what I'm saying? Back in the days when there was slaves and stuff, they would work in the hot sun all day, with the sun beating down them. Hatless. Not even a babushka. So by the time they got back to the plantation from being in all the heat, they was too tired to rebel against their masters, right? So...” (continue)(continue reading)

Rusty Cundieff - Ice Cold

“Our weaknesses sometimes serve us better than our strengths.”
Daniel Brühl - Laszlo Kreizler

“- Eugenie Rose Chaney: My full name is Eugenie Rose. Of the two names I've always favored Rose, 'cause it smells of brown soap and beer. Eugenie is somehow more fragile.
- Bennett Marco: Still, when I asked you what your name was, you said it was Eugenie.
- Eugenie Rose Chaney: Quite possible I was feeling more or less fragile at that instant.”
Janet Leigh - Eugenie Rose Chaney
Frank Sinatra - Major Bennett Marco

“Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.”
Bokeem Woodbine

“All dictatorships take away our freedom to choose. We both know that. Or reveal our own weaknesses.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict

“- Vuk: Your emotions make you weak.
- Jean Grey: You're wrong. My emotions make me strong.”
Jessica Chastain - Vuk
Sophie Turner - Jean Grey

“We must protect the weak. The police represent strength. Men like me always defend the weak, whoever they are, whatever their situation. Never forget that, little one.”
Fernando Rey - Don Lope

“Although I've been a slave, I'm not acostumed to pain. Although a philosopher, I am weak.”
James Mason - Timonides

“- Michel Delassalle: A sick person shouldn't worry about her appearance.
- Christina Delassalle: I'm not sick.
- Nicole Horner: She's delicate, you know it.
- Michel Delassalle: Delicate? Yes, when she came from Caracas. Today, she's a cute little ruin. She doesn't risk anything. Ruins are indestructible. She'll bury us all. Won't you, my little...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Meurisse - Michel Delassalle
Véra Clouzot - Christina Delassalle
Simone Signoret - Nicole Horner

“Sometimes I envy the finality of death. The certainty. And I have to drive those thoughts away when I'm weak.”
Rosamund Pike - Rosalee Quaid

“In my experience, the proud are the first to fall.”
Charlotte Rampling - Matron

“Ever since I’ve known you, you talk like a radicle, but you live like a rich guy. I don’t think you’re willing to lose all of this just to do the right thing.”

Louis C.K. - Arlen Hird