Peter Sarsgaard movie quotes

View Quote Come on, please. If I was going to get you coke we would've gone to the **** high school football practice. We would've been rolling five hours ago.

View Quote Don't tease me about my hobbies. I don't tease you about being an asshole.

View Quote Hey, if you ever need a Kato, you know where to find me.

View Quote As Simone Weil says, "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

View Quote Bourdieu's mistake is that he often forgot the first part of his own name.

View Quote Camus posits that the ontological emptiness of the universe chafes against the intrinsically human desire for metaphysical meaning.

View Quote Esther: I like it when it's just the two of us. You don't know how long I've waited for a daddy just like you.
John: Mommy too, right?
Esther: I don't think Mommy likes me very much.
John: Hey. That's not true, Mommy loves you.
Esther: It's all right. It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own.
John: Sweetheart, you're just as much part of this family as Danny and Max, okay? Why don't you do something nice for Mommy, show her how much you love her?
Esther: That's a wonderful idea.

View Quote Sister Abigail: I'm afraid I may have made a mistake. There could be something wrong with Esther.
John: What? What do you mean? You told us that you'd never had any trouble with her.
Sister Abigail: I didn't. But trouble does have a way of finding her.
Kate: What kind of trouble?
Sister Abigail: Two girls get into a fight, there she is. Someone gets caught stealing, there she is again.
John: So, does that mean-?
Kate: [to John] John, just let her finish.
Sister Abigail: After you told me about the girl in the playground, I called her old school. While she was there, there was a boy who fell with a pair of scissors in his hand and accidentally stabbed himself through the jaw. And Esther was there again.
John: I don't understand. He accidentally stabbed himself.
Sister Abigail: But the most troubling thing is the Sullivan house fire. I checked into it further, it was arson. They have never found the person who did it.
[While Sister Abigail are talking to Kate and John, Esther looks]
John: What are you suggesting here? That she had anything to do with any of this? It's ridiculous.
Sister Abigail: That a child could commit such crimes. It just flies in the face of everything I believe.
John: Oh... well, yeah.

View Quote John: Kate... Kate. You can't get jealous of every woman that I talk to, right? It's been like ten years.
Kate: What does that mean, "It's been ten years"? You say that like it, it, it actually means something. It's only been two years since you told me.
John: You know how sorry I am; I just feel like I've earned a little trust here. I gave you a second chance.
Kate: That's not fair... that's not fair.
John: Let me get this straight: We can talk about my mistakes, but not yours?
Kate: I was sick! You're an asshole who wanted to **** somebody else!

View Quote Sex is a risky game, because if you're not careful, it will cut you wide open.

View Quote [to Alfred Kinsey] You just told me your entire history, but there hasn't been a single mention of love.

View Quote Clyde Martin: When did you first begin masturbating?
Old Woman: I invented masturbation.

View Quote Hey, **** politics, all right? We're here. All the rest is bullshit.

View Quote Cpl Alan Troy: [wearing a gas mask, mimicking Darth Vader.] Luke.
[Swofford looks up at Troy]
Cpl Alan Troy: Come over to the dark side, Luke.