American Beauty Lester Burnham/Kevin Spacey|Carolyn Burnham/Annette Bening|Jane Burnham/Thora Birch Carolyn: Jane: Carolyn: Are you trying to look unattractive? Yes! Well, congratulations. You've succeded admirably. Lester: For you Brad, I’ve got five! It’s ok, I wouldn’t remember me either. Look at me. Jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. Jesus! Things have changed since 1973. And your mother seems to prefer that I go through life like a fucking prisoner, while she keeps my dick in a mason jar under the sink. Jane not home. Are you kidding? I want you! I’ve wanted you since the first moment I saw you. You are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. This isn’t life. It’s just stuff. And it’s getting more important to you than living. Well honey, that’s just nuts. We’ve met before, but something tells me you’re going to remember me this time. You are so beautiful... and I would be a very lucky man. Remember those posters that said, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life?", well, that's true of every day except one - the day you die. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me...but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... and then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry....you will someday. They've hired this efficiency expert, this really friendly guy named Brad, how perfect is that? And he's basically there to make it seem like they're justified in firing somebody, because they couldn't just come right out and say that. No, no, that would be too...honest. And so they've asked us --- you couldn't possibly care any less, could you?

K-PAX Prot/Kevin Spacey | Dr. Mark Powell/Jeff Bridges Prot: You humans, sometimes it’s hard to imagine how you’ve made it this far. Mark: Prot: What if I were to tell you that according to a man who lived on our planet, named Einstein, that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light? I would say that you misread Einstein, Dr. Powell. May I call you Mark? You see Mark, what Einstein actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster - at Tachyon speed. Prot: Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of “an eye for an eye, a life for a life”, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision. But nobody’s paid much attention to them, not even the Buddhists or the Christians. Mark: Prot: If it’s such a terrible experience, how do you reproduce? As carefully as possible. Prot: I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't  know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time - is all you have. Prot: Now if you excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch.

Swimming with Sharks Buddy Ackerman/Kevin Spacey | Guy/Frank Waley Buddy: Christmas Eve - 12 years ago. She was on her way to the mall. I was supposed to have gone with her. We hadn't started our Christmas Shopping yet. But it was gonna be simple. Just some stuff for our parents. Money was tight and shopping was a hassle anyway. We even promised not to give each other gifts. On the way, there was a car that had broken down, so Mallory pulled over to help. I always told her she was such a busy body, but she just called it being nice. She got out and asked if everything was all right, or something stupid. Anyway, It was a scam. Bunch of punk kids stealing cars. They shot her. I was stuck at the office wrapping Christmas gifts for my boss. Lot of gifts. We'd had a good year that year. I was there till three a.m. And the whole time, I'm thinking to myself 'Oh Boy. She is gonna be pissed. When I get home, I am a dead man.' [Laughs] Anyway, I got home, got the message, went down to the hospital to identify her. It was a whole week into the New Year before I found them. These stupid wind-up toys and a note. 'In the constant rat-race of life, don't ever forget to unwind.' She was never really any good at writing notes. You think you know it all, don't you? You're 25 years old. You're a baby. You don't know shit. Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too. I felt just like you. Hated authority. Hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say. 'If you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains!' Because there are no storybook romances, no fairytale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself - What do you really want? Don't come preaching to me about your idea of what's fair. Because you're no martyr here. You're no hero. You're just a fucking hypocrite. You're just like any other punk kid out there, looking for a way in, any way in, and you need me. What, you think someone just handed me this job? I've handled the phones. I've juggled the bimbos. I've - I've put up with the tyrants, the yellers, the screamers. I've done more than you can even imagine in that small mind of yours. I've paid my dues - Dammit, it's my turn to be selfish. It's my turn. See that's the trouble with your fucking MTV, microwave dinner generation. You all want it now. You think you deserve it just because you want it? It doesn't work like that. You have to earn it. You have to take it. You have to make it yours. But first, Guy, you need to decide what it is you really want. You wanna go back to your shitty little existence? Go ahead, leave. There's the door. No one's stopping you. You could have left any day, but you stayed. So let's forget the Dudley-damn-do-right crap. Because out here its kill your parents, fuck your friends, and have a nice day! Look, I don't make the rules. I play by them. What, your job is unfair to you? Grow up, way it goes. People use you? Life's unfair? Grow up, way it goes. Your girlfriend doesn't love you? Tough shit, way it goes. Your wife gets raped, and shot, and they leave their unfinished beers - [Beat. Begins crying.] Their - their stinking long-necks - just lying there on the ground... So be it, way it goes. Out! Out! Who do you work for?!! You’re happy, I hate that! Shut up, listen and learn! You....have....no.....brain. What life? I gave you life. Before me you were nothing! Before me you were an ink spot and now you’re playing in the majors! I made you. You will always be Guy from Buddy Ackerman’s office. What "Equal" contains is not my concern here. I don’t care if there’s fucking fairy dust in it. What I’m concerned with is detail. Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?" ...Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES! You are nothing! If you were in my toilet I wouldn't bother flushing it. My bathmat means more to me than you! Buddy: Guy: Buddy: You wanna talk big directors? Think Attenborough, think Spielberg, think Lean. Lean's dead. No he's not, don't you ever say that. He's just unavailable.

The Iceman Cometh Theodore "Hickey" Hickman/Kevin Spacey Hickey: I meant save you from pipe dreams. I know now, from my experience, they're the things that really poison and ruin a guy's life and keep him from finding any peace. If you knew how free and contented I feel now. I'm like a new man. And the cure for them is so damned simple, once you have the nerve. Just the old dope of honesty is the best policy--honesty with yourself, I mean. Just stop lying about yourself and kidding yourself about tomorrows. I know how damned yellow a man can be when it comes to making himself face the truth. I've been through the mill, and I had to face a worse bastard in myself than any of you will have to in yourselves. I know you become such a coward you'll grab at any lousy excuse to get out of killing your pipe dreams. Can't you appreciate what you've got, for God's sake? Don't you know you're free now to be yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to yourselves about reforming tomorrow? Can't you see there is no tomorrow now? You're rid of it forever! You've killed it! I'd get so alone. Bored and homesick. But at the same time so sick of home. I could see disgust having a battle in her eyes with love. Love always won. She'd make herself kiss me, as if nothing had happened, as if I'd just come home from a business trip. She'd never complain or bawl me out. Christ, can you imagine what a guilty skunk she made me feel! If she'd only admitted once she didn't believe any more in her pipe dream that some day I'd behave! But she never would.

The Big Kahuna Larry Mann/Kevin Spacey Larry: There’s BUSINESS in the air, do you smell it? I’m only hoping he’s wearing a ring I can kiss. And built! And.... wearing a business-suit. And bring me back some shrimps!!! I only hope his wife does most of the talking. We’ve got to conserve what little oxygen we have. Did you mention perhaps, what line of industrial lubricants Jesus would have endorsed? They don’t send robots, Bob, for the simple reason they haven’t invented one yet. The day comes when they can built a robot to do what we do and make it work, then that’s exactly what they’ll do, precisely. We’re like the dinosaurs when the climate changed, there is no longer any reason for us to roam the Earth. Sorry, the carrot stick’s gone to my head. You are putting our future in the hands of a kid. Larry: Bob: Larry: There are people in this world, Bob, who look very official while they are doing what they are doing. And do you know why? Why? Because they don't know what they are doing. Because if you know what you are doing, then you don't have to look like you know what you are doing, because it comes naturally. Larry: Phil: Larry: Do I strike you as a particularly religious man, Phil? Not even the slightest. Then why am I seized with a sudden overwhelming desire to pray? Phil: Bob: Phil: The question is, do you have any character at all? And if you want my honest opinion Bod, you do not. For the simple reason that you don’t regret anything yet. Are you saying I won’t have any character unless I do something I regret? No, Bob. I’m saying you’ve already done plenty of things to regret. You just don’t know what they are. It’s when you discover them. When you see the folly in something you’ve done. And you wish you had to do over. But you know you can’t because it’s too late. So you pick that thing up and you carry it with you. To remind you that life goes on. The world will spin without you. You really don’t matter in the end. Then will you attain character. Because honesty will reach out from inside and tattoo itself all across your face. Until that day, however you cannot expect to go beyond a certain point.

Glengarry Glen Ross John Williamson/Kevin Spacey John: Will you go to lunch? Go to lunch. WILL you GO to LUNCH!?

The Ref Lloyd Chasseur/Kevin Spacey | Caroline Chasseur/Judi Davis | Gus/Dennis Leary Lloyd: You know what I'm going to get you next Christmas, Mom? A big wooden cross, so that every time you feel unappreciated for your sacrifices, you can climb on up and nail yourself to it. Caroline, the day you see anything through to the end, I'll stick my own dick in my ear. Gus: From now on, the only person who gets to yell is me. Why? Because I have a gun. People with guns get to do whatever they want. Married people without guns - for instance you - DO NOT get to yell. Why? NO GUNS! No guns, no yelling. See? Simple little equation. Caroline: Lloyd: How can we both be in the marriage and I'm miserable and you're content? Luck? Lloyd: You know, you and my wife have a lot in common. You both think you have some right to life working out the way you want it to, and when it doesn't, you get to act the way you want. The only trouble with that is someone has to be responsible. I'd love to run around and take classes and play with my inner-self! I'd love the freedom to be some pissed-off criminal with no responsibilities, except I don't have the time! But you don't see me with a gun. And you don't see me sleeping with someone else. You think my life turned out the way I wanted because I live in this house? You think every morning I wake up, look in the mirror and say "Gee I'm glad I'm me and not some 19-year-old billionaire rockstar with the body of an athelete and a 24-hour erection!" No I don't! So just excuse the shit out of me! Caroline: Lloyd: Caroline: Dr Wong: Lloyd:   I had this dream... Do we have to do dreams? I'm in this restaurant, and the waiter brings me my entree. It was a salad. It was Lloyd's head on a plate of spinach with his penis sticking out of his ear. And I said, "I didn't order this." And the waiter said, "Oh you must try it, it's a delicacy. But don't eat the penis, it's just garnish." Lloyd, what do you think about the dream? I think she should stop telling it at dinner parties to all our friends.

The Shipping News Quoyle/Kevin Spacey | Agnis/Judi Dench | Jack Buggit/Scott Glenn Wavey/Julianne Moore | Billy Pretty/Gordon Pinsent | B. Melville/Larry Pine Quoyle: I think Silver Melville was right to chop her husband’s head off. He probably deserved it. I think more women should do what she did. Maybe some should have done it to their own brother ... my father. There are still so many things I don’t know. If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awake... then I believe a broken man can heal. Headline: Deadly storm takes house, leaves ... excellent view! Agnis: Tea is a good drink. Keep you going. What place on earth could be better than the place your people came from? ... I thought I’d never come back here. But the older you get there’s an ache, a pull, something you got to figure out. Like you’re a piece in a puzzle. The people who came here came by accident. Those that stayed learned strange things  can happen – omens, restless spirits and magic. We Quoyles, we left it 50 year ago. Hard times. Up here, forget everything you thought you knew about the weather! We face up to the things we’re afraid of because we can’t go around them. Billy Pretty: I’m some disgusted with the human race. Quoyle: Agnis: Oh well, it might be cheaper if we just build a whole new house on the Riviera. Only I wasn’t born on the Riviera. Quoyle: Jack Buggit: I’m not a water person. All Quoyles is water people. Boats is in your blood. Quoyle: B. Melville: Did I come at a bad time? Yeah, ten years ago would’ve been better. Agnis: Quoyle: Agnis: I don’t believe in dwelling in the past. No? Then what are we doing here? Making a future. Quoyle: Wavey: Don’t get your hopes up. Your the first man who ever cooked for me. You got a lot of leeway!

The Usual Suspects Verbal Kint/Kevin Spacey Verbal: Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee, right off the trees I mean. That was good. This is shit but, hey, I'm in a police station. That guy is tense. Tension is a killer. I like cops! The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that... pfff.... he’s gone.

L.A. Confidential Jack Vincennes/Kevin Spacey | Ed Exley/Guy Pearce Ed: Jack: How about you? Why did you become a cop? I don’t remember. Jack: She IS Lana Turner. Great. You get the girl and I get the coroner.

A Bug’s Life Hopper/Kevin Spacey Hopper: Are you saying I’m stupid? Do I LOOK stupid to you? This is the fifteenth take. I cannot work like this. I'll be in my trailer.

The Negiotiator Chris Sabian/Kevin Spacey | Danny Roman/Samuel L. Jackson Chris: Relax, he’ll call back. I am a stranger to you. You have no idea what I'm capable of. I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears Tower but I can't talk my wife out of the bedroom or my kid off the phone. What makes you think that I will talk to you ever again? Danny: Chris: You were wrong about me. What if I'm right about them? But what if you're wrong about me?

Darrow Clarence Darrow/Kevin Spacey Clarence: I plead for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men....when we can look inside our own hearts and learn that each life is worth saving and that mercy is the highest attribute of men. If the state in which I live is not kinder, more human, more intelligent than the mad act of these two boys I am sorry that I have lived so long! I’m not asking for mercy here. What mercy is it to lock up two boys for life? Where is the human heart that will not be satisfied with that?

Outbreak Casey Schuler/Kevin Spacey | Sam Daniels/Dustin Hoffmann Casey: Sam: Casey: Sam: Casey: Sam: I hate this bug. Oh, come on, Casey. You have to admire its simplicity. It's one billionth our size and it's beating us. So, what do you want to do, take it to dinner? No. What, then? Kill it. Casey: Sam: Casey: How many brain cells did I kill? How many? About a billion. Oh, now I'm only as smart as you. Casey: It’s an adverb. It’s a lazy tool of a weak mind. Listen to the way it rolls off your tongue: Motaba! You know, it sounds like a perfume, one drop and you’ll feel so different. Your lover will melt in your arms!

Seven John Doe/Kevin Spacey John: We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trival. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. And what I've done is going to be puzzled over, and studied, and followed... forever.

The Life of David Gale David Gale/Kevin Spacey | Bitsey Bloom/Kate Winslet | Constance/Laury Linney Zack/Gabriel Mann Bitsey: Zack: You fondle your friend’s garbage bags? Yeah, I get very touchy around household plastics. I’m particularly fond of Tupperware. Barbara (News Magazine): I don’t get to make the rules, Joe... Please, I’m a fat, black woman! Bitsey: Never eat in a place where the menus have pictures of the food. David Gale: No one who looks through this glass sees a person. They see a crime. David Gale: Constance: Tell me why you’re not doing this debate? Telegenics. You have a cuter butt. David Gale: There were two Judases. Judae, who was the Saint Guy and then the other one... in medieval times, they would never pray to the good Judas for fear of getting the bad Judas on the line just by mistake. Bitsey: Hate’s no fun, if you keep it to yourself. Constance: David Gale: Hey, did you make it to your meeting today? Yeah, but I think I have to find one less guru-like. Constance: David Gale: Your work so hard not to be seen as a sex object. Before long, you’re not seen at all. I see you. David Gale: Governor: David Gale: Governor: David Gale: What did Gandhi say about that? “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves us all blind.” Well, I’m sorry and with respect - that’s fuzzy liberal thinking. You really believe that, Governor? Of course. That’s interesting. ‘Cause you said that yourself in a speech in your first campaign. David Gale: Governor: David Gale: So what you’re essentially saying and what you feel is and this is to choose another quote - “that a healthy society must stop at nothing to cleanse itself of evil.” Uh, yes, uh... I’d have to agree. Did I say that too? Oh no, Sir. That was Hitler.