Annette Bening movie quotes

View Quote You cannot count on anyone except yourself.

View Quote This is not just a couch. This is a $4000 sofa upholstered in Italian silk!

View Quote I refuse to be a victim!

View Quote How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can't stand Americans?

View Quote David (aide at GDC): We should do some prep work. You wanna order in?
Sydney Ellen Wade: Uh, I can't. I'm having dinner at the White House. So let's start early tomorrow morning, say 7:30?
David: Okay. I'm having lunch at the Kremlin, so we'll have to, you know, start even earlier than that.

View Quote [Andrew and Sydney's first time sleeping together has concluded with his staff scrambling to deal with the press fallout.]
President Andrew Shepherd: I'm sorry about this. We'll do it better next time.
Sydney Ellen Wade: Well, I'm no expert but I think we did it pretty good this time.

View Quote Myra Langtry: I'm Roy's friend.
Lilly Dillon: Yes. I imagine you're lots of people's friend.
Myra Langtry: [taking a good look at Lilly] Oh, of course, now that I see you in the light, you're plenty old enough to be Roy's mother.
Lilly Dillon: Aren't we all?
Roy Dillon: Play nice. Don't fight.

View Quote Roy Dillon: Maybe I like it where I am.
Myra Langtry: Well, maybe I don't! I had ten good years with Cole, and I want them back! I gotta have a partner! I looked and I looked and believe me, brother, I kissed a lot of **** frogs, and you're my prince!

View Quote Roy Dillon: It's great to get away, isn't it? Take some time off. Next week, I'll be back to work.
Myra Langtry: You already went back to work.
Roy Dillon: What?
Myra Langtry: I watched you, working the tat on those sailor boys.
Roy Dillon: Working the what?
Myra Langtry: Oh, come on, Roy, the tat. What you do for a living.
Roy Dillon: I'm a salesman.
Myra Langtry: You're on the grift, same as me.
Roy Dillon: Myra, I'm not following you.
Myra Langtry: Roy, you're a short-con operator... and a good one, I think. Don't talk to me like I'm another square!

View Quote Wondering if you're happy is a great shortcut to just being depressed.

View Quote Men always feel that they have to fix things for women, but they're not doing anything. Some things just can't be fixed. Just be there, somehow that's hard for all of you.

View Quote Dorothea: [Treats bruises on Jamie's face] So what was the fight about?
Jamie: Clitoral stimulation.

View Quote Without us, you're only human.

View Quote You are just one victim of the Skrull expansion that has threatened our civilization for centuries. Impostors who silently infiltrate, then take over our planets. Horrors that you remember, and so much that you do not.

View Quote Supreme Intelligence: You did good, ace. Thanks to you, those insidious shapeshifters will threaten our borders no more.
Carol Danvers: I used to believe your lies. But the Skrulls are just fighting for a home. You're talking about destroying them because they won't submit to your rule. And neither will I.
Supreme Intelligence: We found you. We embraced you as our own.
Carol Danvers: You stole me! From my home... My family, my friends...
Supreme Intelligence: It's cute how hard you try. Remember: without us...
[Carol flashes back to her childhood; her failed pursuits and the lack of encouragement from her father]
Carol's Father: Give it up, Carol!
Supreme Intelligence: ...You're weak. You're flawed. Helpless. We saved you. Without us... you're only human.
Carol Danvers: [Realizes] You're right. I'm only human. [And she remembers that every time she fell...she got right back up again]
Supreme Intelligence: On Hala, you were reborn. Vers.
Carol Danvers: My name... is Carol.
Kree Technician: She's trying to break out!
Carol Danvers: I've been fighting with one arm tied behind my back. But what happens... [rips out the implant suppressing her powers] ...when I'm finally set free? [releases a large burst of energy that brings down the Supreme Intelligence's simulation around her]

View Quote I spent half my life fighting a shameful war. Now get out of here before you give me any more regrets. Just remember the coordinates, okay? You got to save them without me.

View Quote Barbara Land: Know anyone who can fly a plane?
Byron Williams: Yeah, your husband Art.
Barbara Land: No... he's dead. I told him this was gonna happen.

View Quote Barbara Land: Do you have to drink in front of me?
Art Land: You're an adult. Cope.

View Quote Barbara Land: Hello, my name is Barbara.
AA Meeting: Hello, Barbara.
Barbara Land: I am an alcoholic, but I haven't had a drink in three months!

View Quote [to Jules] So, are you straight now?

View Quote Laser: I don't think you guys should break up.
Nic: No? Why's that?
Laser: I think you're too old.
Nic: [wryly] Thanks, Laser.
[Jules grins and puts a hand on Nic's knee, and Nic covers the hand with her own]

View Quote Paul: Just making an observation.
Nic: Yeah? Well I need your observations like I need a dick in my ass!