A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Share this quote on facebook There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is.

Share this quote on facebook Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever…matter.

Share this quote on facebook Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Share this quote on facebook I find you very attractive. Your aggressive moves towards me indicates that you feel the same way. However, ritual requires that we engage in a number of platonic activities before we have sex. I am proceeding with those activities when, in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. You going to slap me now?

Share this quote on facebook There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun.

Share this quote on facebook [In his Nobel acceptance speech] I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask: 'What truly is logic?' 'Who decides reason?' My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional…and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. [Looking at Alicia] I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am…you are all my reasons.

Share this quote on facebook Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

Share this quote on facebook Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes, and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians … like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now, who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.

Share this quote on facebook Dr. Rosen: Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?

Share this quote on facebook Dr. Rosen: [to Alicia] John has schizophrenia, people with this disease are often paranoid.

Share this quote on facebook Woman: Maybe you want to buy me a drink.
John: I don't exactly know what I'm required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me, but could we assume that I said all that? I mean, essentially we're talking about fluid exchange, right? So, could we just go straight to the sex?

Share this quote on facebook [John has been in the library for two days]
Charles: You've been in here for two days.
John: You know Hansen's just published another paper? I can't even find a topic for my doctorate.
Charles: Well, on the bright side, you've invented window art.
John: [points] This is a group playing touch football. This is a cluster of pigeons fighting over bread crumbs. And this here is a woman who is chasing a man who stole her purse.
Charles: John, you watched a mugging. That's weird.
John: In competitive behavior, someone always loses.
Charles: Well, my niece knows that, John, and she's about this high.
John: See, if I derive an equilibrium where prevalence is a non-singular event where nobody loses, can you imagine the effect that would have on conflict scenarios, arm negotiations …
Charles: When did you last eat?
John: … currency exchange?
Charles: When did you last eat? You know, food.
John: You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that?
Charles: Yes. But pizza – now, pizza I have enormous respect for. And of course beer.
[He leaves]
John: [throws stuff down and follows] I have respect for beer. [shouts] I have respect for beer!

Share this quote on facebook John: I can't fail. This is all I am.
Charles: Come on, let's go out. I got to get something done. John!
John: - I can't keep staring into space.
Charles: -John, enough!
John: Got to face the wall, follow their rules, read their books
Charles: You want to do some damage? Fine
Charles: Come on! Go on, bust your head! Kill yourself. Go do it. Don't mess around. Bust your head! Go on, bust that worthless head wide open.
John: Goddamn it, Charles!

Share this quote on facebook [John bangs his head against the window pane, cutting his forehead]
Charles: Jesus Christ, John.
John: I can't fail. This is all I am.
Charles: Come on, let's go out.
John: I got to get something done.
Charles: John!
John: I can't keep staring into space.
Charles: John, that's enough!
John: Got to face the wall, follow their rules, read their books …
Charles: You want to do some damage, fine! But don't mess around!
John: … do their classes.
Charles: Come on! Go on, bust your head! Kill yourself. Don't do it. Don't mess around. Bust your head! Go on, bust that worthless head wide open!
John: Goddamn it, Charles! What the hell is your problem?!
Charles: It's not my problem. And it's not your problem. It's their problem. Your answer isn't face the wall. It's out there, where you've been working.

Share this quote on facebook Charles: God, that's wonderful! There's no accounting for taste, is there?
John: Should I marry her?
Charles: Oh, Gosh.. Right.
John: I mean, everything's going well. The job is fine, I have enough money
Charles: It all seems to add up, doesn't it John?
John: ... but how do you know for sure?
Charles: Nothing's ever for sure, John. That's the only sure thing I do know.

Share this quote on facebook Alicia: How big is the universe?
John: Infinite.
Alicia: How do you know?
John: I know because all the data indicates it's infinite.
Alicia: But it hasn't been proven yet.
John: No.
Alicia: You haven't seen it.
John: No.
Alicia: How do you know for sure?
John: I don't, I just believe it.
Alicia: It's the same with love, I guess.

Share this quote on facebook Studenten: Hello. I've been studying your equilibrium, you know, the one you wrote here, at Winceton.
Studenten: I tried to come up with something original, the way you did.
Nacho: You know, I was young.
Jesse: Umm... I've been developing a theory. I believe I can prove... that Galileo's extensions are covering the spaces the you used to talk about. That everything,/.. everything is connected. and, ehm... that it's all part of some larger topic [eyes shine up bright]
Nash: Hey dreamy! When was the last time you ate?
Jessica: Excuse me?
Nash: [smiling] You know, food.
Nash: Oh, uh- that can't be right then. My wife, analytica, she loves pimento cheese.
Dave: Oh, thank you.
Nash: Thank you!! :)

Share this quote on facebook Dr. Rosen: You can't reason your way out of this!
John: Why not? Why can't I?
Dr. Rosen: Because your mind is where your problem is in the first place!

Share this quote on facebook Alicia: You want to know what's real? This. This. This. This is real. Maybe the part... that knows the waking from the dream, maybe it isn't here.
John: Maybe it's here.

Share this quote on facebook Parcher: Is this what you are, soldier? Some useless ghoul? The local madman?
John: I'm not a soldier.
Parcher: You're gonna end up in a cell! Old, worthless, discarded.
John: There's no mission.
Parcher: And while you rock and drool, the world will burn to ashes!
John: You are not real! You are not real!
Parcher: You're still talking to me, soldier!
John: There's no mission! I'm not a soldier!
[Hansen rushes to John's side]
Hansen: John? John? John, John, John, John. Hey, hey, hey. John, John! It's okay. I just heard what happened, I'm sorry. John--
John: I'm not a soldier.
Hansen: John. Hey, Nash. Nash, hey. Hey, you're all right.
[John walks off]
Parcher: Ladies and gentlemen, the great John Nash!

Share this quote on facebook The Only Thing Greater Than the Power of the Mind Is the Courage of the Heart

Share this quote on facebook He Saw the World in a Way No One Could Have Imagined.

Share this quote on facebook I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible …

Share this quote on facebook It is only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.