If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.
Jim: What do you mean there's no government? There's always a government, they're in a bunker or a plane somewhere!
Ripley: They cut the power. Hudson: What do you mean, "*They* cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!
David: [while transforming] I didn't mean to call you a meat loaf, Jack!
Mum: And what are your faults? I mean, little weaknesses. Mary: Well, I'm very insecure. Mum: Sweet.
Col. Mathieu: To know them means to eliminate them. Consequently, the military aspect is secondary to the police method.
Billy: Just because I like ballet doesn't mean I'm a poof, you know.
The Dude: And, you know, he's got emotional problems, man. Walter Sobchak: You mean... beyond pacifism?
Mr. T: I can't feel my face... I mean, I can touch it, but I can't feel it inside...
Robert's Father: At last, you know what it means to hate. Now you're ready to be a king. Robert the Bruce: My hate will die with you.
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.
I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.
My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
