Quotes

In no particular order, here are some quotes and sayings that resonate and/or made me laugh out loud:

If you don’t act crazy, you’ll go crazy. – Alan Alda, as Dr. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce on M*A*S*H

In this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde

Strength, love and honour. – Irish origin (I liked this one so much, I got it tattooed on the inside of my left forearm, in Irish.)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You gave me emotional crabs. – Zoie Palmer, as Rebecca in the web series Seeking Simone

To thine own self be true. – Polonius in Hamlet, William Shakespeare

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys and my day’s wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscanllionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you. – George Bernard Shaw (Alumnae Theatre pal Tina McCulloch found the origin of this quote: from a love letter to “Stella” Beatrice Campbell, 1913. I’m saving it for a very special Valentine – some day. Yep. I’m also an incurable romantic.)

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention…  – Chorus from Henry V – William Shakespeare

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world, Elwood, you must be” – she always called me Elwood – “In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.  – the main character Elwood P. Dowd, from the play Harvey by Mary Chase; the movie version starred James Stewart

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! - Bill Murray, as Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghost Busters, warning the Mayor of the impending apocalypse

Men aren’t afraid of women, really, only of women in groups. - Everard Barfoot, the only male character in Linda Griffith’s play Age of Arousal

You’re all coffee and no omlette. – Dot Jones as Coach Beiste in Glee

Behind every great man there’s a woman rolling her eyes. – Jim Carrey as Bruce in Bruce Almighty

Sod them to Hades. – Stephen Fry, from Stephen Fry Takes on the Language

A fool and his money are soon elected. – Will Rogers

Storytellers threaten all the champions of control. – Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe

Playwrights are the people who will allow us to tell the truth. – Jim Carrey, during an Inside the Actors Studio interview

The best part about getting shot in the buttocks is the ice cream. – Tom Hanks, as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump

Isn’t life the strangest thing you’ve ever seen? - Sheila McCarthy, as Polly in I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul. – Walt Whitman

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss

Be curious, not judgmental. – Walt Whitman

You are what you love, not what loves you. – Nicholas Cage, as Donald Kaufman in Adaptation

‘Tis better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings /That then I scorn to change my state with kings. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet #29

He/She reached in and put a string of lights around my heart. – First said by Audra Lindley, as Frances, then by Patricia Charbonneau, as Cay – in the film Desert Hearts.

These are more dialogue exchanges than quotes:

From the film Shakespeare in Love – on working in the theatre:

“Allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.”

“So what do we do?”

“Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.”

“How?”

“I don’t know. It’s a mystery.”

 

The acting of this is so good, I had to link to the YouTube clip – Paul Giamatti and Virginia Madsen in Sideways:

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