[Mortimer has just been talking to his aunts but was interrupted by the phone ringing. He now hangs it up] Mortimer Brewster: Now, where was I? Twelve... *TWELVE*? [He runs back to talk to his aunts again]
Jonathan Brewster: We're moving the car behind the house. You'd better get to bed. Martha Brewster: The car is alright where it is until morning. Jonathan Brewster: I don't want to leave it in the street. That might be against the law.
Jonathan Brewster: [threatening Mortimer] If you tell O'Hara what's in the window seat, I'll tell him what's in the cellar. Mortimer Brewster: Cellar? Jonathan Brewster: There's an elderly gentleman down there who seems to be very dead.
Martha Brewster: [Mortimer is about to leave, but has Mr. Witherspoon's hat on] Hmm! Hmm! Mortimer Brewster: What, hmm hmm? Martha Brewster: The hat! Mortimer Brewster: [Notices hat and throws it on the ground] Argh! [slams door]
I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend...
People are expecting me to still be fourteen years old. It cracks me up, especially when people see me walk by with my husband. They're like, 'What? You're married? You're not old enough to be married.' Thank you. I'm glad that you think that.
I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ...
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.
A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.
Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
