A Beautiful Mind Quotes

Charles: So what's your story? You the poor kid that never got to go to Exeter or Andover?

Nash: Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders.

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Hansen: You scared?

Nash: [sarcastically] Terrified. Mortified. Petrified. Stupefied... by you.

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Nash: Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

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Hansen: Cowards, all of you. Come on. Whoever wins, Sol does his laundry for the semester.

Sol: Does that seem unfair to anybody?

Bender: No, not at all.

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Alicia: What you don't know... is if I want to marry you.

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Nash: I have respect for beer.

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Bender: What did the doctor say?

Sol: Is he sick?

Alicia: I don't know. I want to see what John's been working on.

Sol: Alicia, you know you can't go in his office.

Bender: You know it's classified, Alicia.
[Alicia keeps going]

Bender: Stop!
[as Bender tries to stop her, she turns around and slaps him]

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Alicia: I need to believe, that something extraordinary is possible.

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Charles: I arrived last night. Right in time for English Department cocktails. The cock was mine. The tail belonged to a lovely young thing with a passion for D.H. Lawrence.

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Nash: Well, Martin Hansen. It is Martin, isn't it?

Hansen: Why yes, John, it is.

Nash: I assume you've gotten quite used to miscalculation. I read your pre-prints. Both of 'em. One on Nazi scientists and the other one on, uh... non-linear equations, and I'm extremely confident that there's not one seminal or innovative idea in either one of them... Enjoy your punch.

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Nash: You once said that God must be a painter because he gave us so many colors.

Alicia: I didn't think you were listening...

Nash: I was listening.

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Alicia: It's called life, John. Activities available; just add meaning.

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Parcher: Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those on the sidelines, Mr. Nash.

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Nash: There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun.

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[John meets Charles' niece]

Nash: She's so small.

Charles: Well, she's young, John. That's how they come.

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John Nash: Hello, Martin.

Martin Hansen: Jesus Christ.

John Nash: No. I don't have that one. My savior complex takes a different form.

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General: You ever... just *know* something, Dr. Nash?

Nash: Constantly.

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Nash: I will not buy you gentlemen beer.

Bender: Oh, we're not here for beer, my friend.

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Bender: Hey, look, you made the cover of Fortune... again...

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Nash: My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional and back...

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Hansen: Nash. Who's winning - you, or you?

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Nash: This class will be a waste of your - and what is infinitely worse - my time.

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Sol: Alicia, John's always been a little... weird.

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[from deleted scene]

Nash: Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

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Nash: Classes will dull your mind.

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Nash: [to Thomas King] I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.

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Nash: Good morning, eager young minds

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Nash: Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

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Dr. Rosen: You can't reason your way out of this!

Nash: Why not? Why can't I?

Dr. Rosen: Because your mind is where the problem is in the first place!

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Nash: [to Thomas King] I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.

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