Robin Williams Biography

Onstage, on television, in the movies or in a serious interview, listening to and watching comedian/actor Robin Williams is an extraordinary experience. An improvisational master with a style comparable to Danny Kaye, his words rush forth in a gush of manic energy. They punctuate even the most basic story with sudden subject detours that often dissolve into flights of comic fancy, bawdy repartee, and unpredictable celebrity impressions before returning earthward with some pithy comment or dead-on observation.Born in Chicago in 1951, Williams was raised as an only child and had much time alone with which to develop his imagination, often by memorizing Jonathan Winters' comedy records. After high school, Williams studied political science at Claremont Men's College, as well as drama at Marin College in California and then at Juilliard. His first real break came when he was cast as a crazy space alien on a fanciful episode of Happy Days. William's portrayal of Mork from Ork delighted audiences and generated so great a response that producer Garry Marshall gave Williams his own sitcom, Mork and Mindy, which ran from 1978 to 1982. The show was a hit and established Williams as one of the most popular comedians (along with Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal) of the '70s and '80s.Williams made his big screen debut in the title role of Robert Altman's elaborate but financially disastrous comic fantasy Popeye (1980). His next films included the modestly successful The World According to Garp, The Survivors, Moscow on the Hudson, Club Paradise, The Best of Times. Then in 1987, writer-director Barry Levinson drew from both sides of Williams - the manic shtickmeister and the studied Juliard thesp - for Good Morning, Vietnam, in which the comedian-cum-actor portrayed real-life deejay Adrian Cronauer, stationed in Saigon during the late sixties. Levinson shot the film strategically, by encouraging often outrageous, behind-the-mike improvisatory comedy routines for the scenes of Cronauer's broadcasts but evoking more sober dramatizations for Williams's scenes outside of the radio station. Thanks in no small part to this strategy, Williams received a much-deserved Oscar nomination for the role, but lost to Michael Douglas in Wall Street.Williams subsequently tackled a restrained performance as an introverted scientist trying to help a catatonic Robert De Niro in Awakenings (1990). He also earned accolades for playing an inspirational English teacher in the comedy/drama Dead Poets Society (1989) -- a role that earned him his second Oscar nomination. Williams's tragi-comic portrayal of a mad, homeless man in search of salvation and the Holy Grail in The Fisher King (1991) earned him a third nomination. In 1993, he lent his voice to two popular animated movies, Ferngully: The Last Rain Forest and most notably Aladdin, in which he played a rollicking genie and was allowed to go all out with ad-libs, improvs, and scads of celebrity improvisations.Further successes came in 1993 with Mrs. Doubtfire, in which he played a recently divorced father who masquerades as a Scottish nanny to be close to his kids. He had another hit in 1995 playing a rather staid homosexual club owner opposite a hilariously fey Nathan Lane in The Bird Cage. In 1997, Williams turned in one of his best dramatic performances in Good Will Hunting, a performance for which he was rewarded with an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.Williams kept up his dramatic endeavors with both of his 1998 films: the comedy Patch Adams and What Dreams May Come, a vibrantly colored exploration of the afterlife. He next had starring roles in both Bicentennial Man and Jakob the Liar, playing a robot-turned-human in the former and a prisoner of the Warsaw ghetto in the latter. Though it was obvious to all that Williams' waning film career needed an invigorating breath of fresh air, many may not have expected the dark 180-degree turn he attempted in 2002 with roles in Death to Smoochy, Insomnia and One Hour Photo. Catching audiences off-guard with his portrayal of three deeply disturbed and tortured souls, the roles pointed to a new stage in Williams' career in which he would substitute the sap for more sinister motivations.Absent from the big-screen in 2003, Williams continued his vacation from comedy in 2004, starring in the little-seen thriller The Final Cut and in the David Duchovny-directed melodrama The House of D. After appearing in the comic documentary The Aristocrats and lending his voice to a character in the animated adventure Robots in 2005, he finally returned full-time in 2006 with roles in the vacation laugher RV and the crime comedy Man of the Year. His next project, The Night Listener, was a tense and erosive tale of literary trickery fueled by such serious issues as child abuse and AIDS.Williams wasn't finished with comedy, however. He lent his voice to the cast of the family feature Happy Feet, played a late night talk show host who accidentally wins a presidential election in Man of the Year, portrayed an enthusiastic minister in License to Wed, and played a statue of Teddy Roosevelt that comes to life in Night at the Museum and its sequel Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. He would also enjoy family-friendly comedic turns in World's Greatest Dad, Shrink, and Old Dogs. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

• 1. Genie: QUICK! Try something outrageous! Wish for denial!
  2. Aladdin: Uhh... I wish for denial.
  3. Genie: NO WAY!
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Cameron D (2 hours ago)

• 1. Sean McGuire: Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations. Him and the pope. Sexual orientation. The whole works, right? I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling.Seeing that. If I ask you about women, you'll probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman... and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. I ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? 'Once more into the breach, dear friends.' But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap... and watch him gasp his last breath lookin' to you for help. If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet, but you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feelin' like God put an angel on Earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her be there forever. Through anything.Through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleepin' sittin' up in a hospital room... for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes... that the terms 'visiting hours' don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by Jayathra L (7 days ago)

• 1. Adrian Cronauer: This will NOT look good on a resume.
  From Good Morning, Vietnam. Submitted by Karl A (13 days ago)

• 1. Armand Goldman: I think I need a doctor.
  2. Albert Goldman / Starina: Oh, don't be silly. It isn't even swollen.
  3. Armand Goldman: Maybe we should go to the emergency room. Y'know I can get it x-rayed.
  4. Albert Goldman / Starina: Oh, dear, you're overreacting Don't be such a baby. Just sit down on the-AAAAAAHHHHHH! We've been robbed.
  From The Birdcage. Submitted by Christopher G (37 days ago)

• 1. Lovelace: The aliens are gone! All this flipper flappin for nothin!
  From Happy Feet Two. Submitted by Myranda C (40 days ago)

• 1. Seymour "Sy" Parrish: [voice-over following opening interrogation room scene] Family photos depict smiling faces... births, weddings, holidays, children's birthday parties. People take pictures of the happy moments in their lives. Someone looking through our photo album would conclude that we had led a joyous, leisurely existence free of tragedy. No one ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget.
  From One Hour Photo. Submitted by Dennis D (46 days ago)

• 1. Alan Parrish: WHAT YEAR IS IT!
  From Jumanji. Submitted by Chris H (52 days ago)

• 1. Dale Putley: For years I've thought about killing myself... it's the only thing that's kept me going.
  From Fathers' Day. Submitted by Jennifer R (2 months ago)

• 1. Genie: [sarcastically Jafar, Jafar. He's our man...if he can't do it, GREAT!
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Braden W (3 months ago)

• 1. Sean McGuire: So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan right? [Will nods]
  2. Sean McGuire: You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by Christian H (3 months ago)

• 1. Teddy Roosevelt: [trying to interpret the tablet] The man with the spear trapped the sideways fish in a vase. Ah! And there was also a beetle.
  From Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian. Submitted by Daniel W (3 months ago)

• 1. Teddy Roosevelt: The key to happiness is doing what you love.
  From Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian. Submitted by Nusfish K (3 months ago)

• 1. Peter Banning/Peter Pan: I want to speak to a grown-up!
  2. Rufio: All grown-ups are pirates.
  3. Peter Banning/Peter Pan: [puzzled] What did you say?
  4. Rufio: [smiling] We kill pirates.
  5. Peter Banning/Peter Pan: I am not a pirate. More specifically, I am a lawyer.
  6. Rufio: Kill the lawyer! [the Lost Boys roar in agreement]
  7. Peter Banning/Peter Pan: I'm not *that* kind of lawyer!
  From Hook. Submitted by Kris R (4 months ago)

• 1. Armand Goldman: There's only one place in the world I call home and it's because you're there. So take it. What difference does it make if I say you can stay or you say I can stay? It's ours.
  From The Birdcage. Submitted by Carlos M (4 months ago)

• 1. Armand Goldman: So this is Hell... and there's a crucifix here.
  From The Birdcage. Submitted by Carlos M (4 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: It was a run-by fruiting!
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Howie C (4 months ago)

• 1. Genie: So move.
  2. Genie: That's a good move. (impersonating Rodney Dangerfield): I can't believe it, I'm losing to a rug.
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Zev B (4 months ago)

• 1. Lovelace: As I was learning the alien speak. Sven had a higher truth to seek.
  2. The Mighty Sven: What smells so gosh darn goodie.
  From Happy Feet Two. Submitted by Austin G (5 months ago)

• 1. Lovelace: Who knows what he saw in that mystic light.
  From Happy Feet Two. Submitted by Austin G (5 months ago)

• 1. Ramon: See Carmen even fate demands that we be closer together.
  From Happy Feet Two. Submitted by Austin G (5 months ago)

• 1. Lovelace: EARRRRIK!
  From Happy Feet Two. Submitted by Austin G (5 months ago)

• 1. Peter Banning/Peter Pan: What is this? Lord of the Flies preschool?
  From Hook. Submitted by Christina S (5 months ago)

• 1. Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace: I just realized. The harmonica song you hear in the background when the parents first meet is...Yup, the same tune the Wizard plays in the flop house 11 years later... it was him!
  From August Rush. Submitted by Jeff S (5 months ago)

• 1. Ramon: This place sucks!
  From Happy Feet Two. Submitted by Austin G (5 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: [as the Meringue mask is 'melting' off Daniel's face] As you can see, I can't stay with you, dear. I'm melting like a snow cone in Phoenix.
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)

• 1. Daniel Hillard: [to the toy dinosaurs] Take five. Take five million. You're dead.
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: [reading a letter] Dear Mrs. Doubtfire, two months ago, my mom and dad decided to separate. Now they live in different houses. My brother Andrew says that we aren't to be a family anymore. Is this true? Did I lose my family? Is there anything I can do to get my parents back together? Sincerely, Katie McCormick.
  2. Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: Oh, my dear Katie. You know, some parents, when they're angry, they get along much better when they don't live together. They don't fight all the time, and they can become better people, and much better mummies and daddies for you. And sometimes they get back together. And sometimes they don't, dear. And if they don't, don't blame yourself. Just because they don't love each other anymore, doesn't mean that they don't love you. There are all sorts of different families, Katie. Some families have one mommy, some families have one daddy, or two families. And some children live with their uncle or aunt. Some live with their grandparents, and some children live with foster parents. And some live in separate homes, in separate neighborhoods, in different areas of the country - and they may not see each other for days, or weeks, months... even years at a time. But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever. All my love to you poppet, you're going to be alright... bye bye.
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: Look, Nattie. That's called liposuction.
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)

• 1. Daniel Hillard: Did you ever wish you could sometimes freeze frame a moment in your day, look at it and say 'this is not my life'?
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: Isn't this posh? I'll bet it's very exclusive, probably need a credit reference just to get in the pool.
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: [after being introduced to Natalie] I admire that honesty, Natalie, that's a noble quality. Never lose that, because it often disappears with age, or entering politics.
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)

• 1. Sgt. Major Dickerson: What does three up and three down mean to you Airman?
  2. Adrian Cronauer: End of an inning?
  From Good Morning, Vietnam. Submitted by sean b (5 months ago)

• 1. Popeye: I'm a very tolerant man except when it comes to holding a grudge.
  From Popeye. Submitted by Chad E (6 months ago)

• 1. Carmen: Oh Ramon! You're beautiful!
  2. Ramon: Only on the outside...
  From Happy Feet Two. Submitted by Judy H (6 months ago)

• 1. Ramon: Don't feel so bad, my father also called me a pitiful loser, look how I turned out.
  From Happy Feet. Submitted by Jamie I (6 months ago)

• 1. Sean McGuire: Watch it right there, Chief!
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by Jack B (6 months ago)

• 1. Daniel Hillard: Yo I'm a Raptor doin' what I can gonna eat everything till the appearance of man. Yo yo yo, see me, I'm living below the soil, I'll be back but I'm comin' as oil!
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Justin W (6 months ago)

• 1. Alan Parrish: Run! IT'S A STAMPEDE!
  From Jumanji. Submitted by Andrew B (6 months ago)

• 1. Aladdin: Princess Jasmine, you are very...
  2. Genie: [whispers] Wonderful. Magnificent. Punctual.
  3. Aladdin: Punctual.
  4. Jasmine: What?
  5. Genie: [whispers] Sorry.
  6. Aladdin: Beautiful.
  7. Genie: Nice recovery.
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Maria Y (6 months ago)

• 1. Genie: A woman appreciates a man who can make her laugh.
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Maria Y (6 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: Touch me again and I'll drown you, you bastard.
  From Mrs. Doubtfire. Submitted by Anthony A (6 months ago)

• 1. Armand Goldman: I've never felt such tension. It's like riding a psychotic horse towards a burning stable.
  From The Birdcage. Submitted by Tomas K (6 months ago)

• 1. Carmen: You. Me. Fat chance.
  2. Lovelace: I have a chance, and it's fat!
  From Happy Feet Two. Submitted by Chris P (6 months ago)

• 1. Genie: [last lines] Made you look.
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Alyssa B (7 months ago)

• 1. Will Hunting: He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, 'Choose.'
  2. Sean McGuire: Well, I gotta go with the belt there.
  3. Will Hunting: I used to go with the wrench.
  4. Sean McGuire: Why?
  5. Will Hunting: Cause fuck him, that' why.
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by Kaleb R (7 months ago)

• 1. Genie: Excuse me? Are you looking at me? Did you rub my lamp? Did you wake me up? Did you bring me here? And all of a sudden you walk out on me? I don't think so. Not right now. You are getting your wishes, so sit down!
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Derek K (8 months ago)

• 1. Genie: Ala! Hail the conquering hero! [plays drums, horns, and accordion magically and happily, sees Aladdin depressed, then stops playing, rubs his head] Aladdin [puts fingers together, like on TV] you just won the heart of the Princess. What are you going to do next?
  2. Aladdin: [collapses on big pillow, sighs when collapsed]
  3. Genie: [whispers] Hey, your line is, I'm going to free the Genie. Anytime.
  4. Aladdin: Genie, I can't.
  5. Genie: Sure you can. You just go,'Genie, I wish you free!'
  6. Aladdin: I'm serious!
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Derek K (8 months ago)

• 1. Genie: [normally] Uh, rule #1, I can't kill anybody. [cuts his head off]
  2. Genie: So don't ask. A-rule #2! [fixes his head]
  3. Genie: I can't make anybody fall in love with anybody else. [smooches Aladdin]
  4. Genie: You little punim there. RULE #3! [turns into a slimy Genie, and imitating Peter Lorre]
  5. Genie: I can't bring people back from the dead. It's not a pretty picture. I DON'T LIKE DOING IT! [he returns to normal]
  6. Genie: Other than that, you got it!
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Derek K (8 months ago)

• 1. Genie: So move... [Carpet takes his Queen and knocks Genie's king off the board] Hey, that's a good move... [leans up and looks to camera, eyes going out of focus and a necktie appearing around him in an obvious spoof, he rings it as he says] I can't believe it, I'm losing to a rug.
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Derek K (8 months ago)

• 1. Genie: Dost mine ears deceive me? 'Three?' You are down by one, boy!
  2. Aladdin: Ah, no, I never actually wished to get out of the cave. Heh. You did that on your own. [the Genie's mouth drops]
  3. Genie: Oh. Well I feel sheepish. [turns into a sheep] All right, you baaaaaad boy. But no more freebies.
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Derek K (8 months ago)

• 1. Genie: [conjures up a chalkboard, pointing to each word as he says it] Tell-her-the-TRUTH!
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Diego T (8 months ago)

• 1. Genie: [singing] You ain't never had a friend like me. Ha ha ha.
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Alyssa B (8 months ago)

• 1. The Goanna: [about to eat Zak] Welcome to the food chain.
  2. Crysta: Stop! He's a human!
  3. The Goanna: Uhh... what's a human?
  4. Batty Koda: Delicious and nutritious! Tastes just like chicken!
  From FernGully - The Last Rainforest. Submitted by Virginia K (9 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Malcolm Sayer: What we do know is that, as the chemical window closed, another awakening took place; that the human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family.
  From Awakenings. Submitted by Chad E (9 months ago)

• 1. Parry: There's nothing trashy about romance. In romance, there's passion, there's imagination, there's beauty; besides, you find some wonderful things in the trash.
  From The Fisher King. Submitted by Chad E (9 months ago)

• 1. Gus: Instructions. You start with One. Two. Three...
  2. Larry Daley: Four?
  3. Teddy Roosevelt: Are you crackin' wise? I oughta punch you in the nose, Hopscotch.
  From Night at the Museum. Submitted by Andrew M (9 months ago)

• 1. Genie: [turns into a cheerleader] Rick 'em, rack 'em, rock 'em, rake. Stick that sword into that snake!
  2. Jafar: You stay out of thissss!
  3. Genie: [Weakly] Jafar, Jafar, he's our man. If he can't do it, GREAT!
  From Aladdin. Submitted by Derek K (9 months ago)

• 1. Chris Nielsen: Sometimes, when you win, you lose.
  From What Dreams May Come. Submitted by Brendan O (11 months ago)

• 1. Sean McGuire: You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense: this girl you've met, she's not perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by Roberto P (11 months ago)

• 1. John Keating: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?' Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
  From Dead Poets Society. Submitted by Roberto P (11 months ago)

• 1. John Keating: They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
  From Dead Poets Society. Submitted by Roberto P (11 months ago)

• 1. Dale Putley: That man is insane! He bludgeoned me for no reason!
  From Fathers' Day. Submitted by Lorcan H (12 months ago)

• 1. Adrian Cronauer: I have never met a man as big as you, with so many muscles, and so little penis.
  From Good Morning, Vietnam. Submitted by Nick D (12 months ago)

• 1. Adrian Cronauer: You're in more dire need of a blow job than any white man in history!
  From Good Morning, Vietnam. Submitted by Nick D (12 months ago)

• 1. Sean McGuire: It's not your fault.
  2. Will Hunting: I know that.
  3. Sean McGuire: Look at me, son. It's not your fault.
  4. Will Hunting: I know.
  5. Sean McGuire: It's not your fault.
  6. Will Hunting: I know.
  7. Sean McGuire: No. No you don't. It's not your fault.
  8. Will Hunting: I know.
  9. Sean McGuire: It's not your fault.
  10. Will Hunting: Alright.
  11. Sean McGuire: It's not your fault... It's not your fault.
  12. Will Hunting: Don't mess with me.
  13. Sean McGuire: It's not your fault.
  14. Will Hunting: Don't mess with me, alright. Don't mess with me, Sean. Not you!
  15. Sean McGuire: It's not your fault.
  16. Will Hunting: [tearing]
  17. Sean McGuire: It's not your fault.
  18. Will Hunting: [openly crying] Oh God! I'm so sorry...
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by Mich A (13 months ago)

• 1. Sean McGuire: Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', 'Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area' 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by David W (13 months ago)

• 1. Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace: You got to love music more than you love food. More than life. More than yourself.
  From August Rush. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace: You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
  From August Rush. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace: You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
  From August Rush. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
  From Dead Poets Society. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. Seymour "Sy" Parrish: According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the word "snapshot" was originally a hunting term.
  From One Hour Photo. Submitted by rob g (13 months ago)

• 1. Seymour "Sy" Parrish: Pretend it's all pretend.
  From One Hour Photo. Submitted by rob g (13 months ago)

• 1. Lance Clayton: You guys didn't like Kyle. That's okay. I didn't either. I loved him. He was my son. But he was also a douchebag.
  From World's Greatest Dad. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. Lance Clayton: I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.
  From World's Greatest Dad. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. Sean McGuire: Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. Will Hunting: I read your book last night.
  2. Sean McGuire: So you're the one?
  From Good Will Hunting. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. Adrian Cronauer: GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM!
  From Good Morning, Vietnam. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. John Keating: Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
  From Dead Poets Society. Submitted by Neptune F (14 months ago)

• 1. Teddy Roosevelt: Good Lord, Lawrence! Why are you slapping a monkey?
  From Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian. Submitted by rob g (14 months ago)

• 1. Teddy Roosevelt: I'm made of wax, Larry. What are you made of?
  From Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian. Submitted by rob g (14 months ago)