Russell Crowe credited as playing...
John Nash
- Alicia: How big is the universe?
- Nash: Infinite.
- Alicia: How do you know?
- Nash: I know because all the data indicates it's infinite.
- Alicia: But it hasn't been proven yet.
- Nash: No.
- Alicia: You haven't seen it.
- Nash: No.
- Alicia: How do you know for sure?
- Nash: I don't, I just believe it.
- Alicia: It's the same with love I guess.
- [from deleted scene]
- Nash: Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.
- Nash: [Making an acceptance speech in front of the Nobel prize audience during the ceremony] I've always believed in numbers, in equations, in logic and reason.But after a lifetime of such pursuits: I ask What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. 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. I am only here tonight because of you
- Nash: [looking at and speaking to Alicia]
- Nash: You are the only reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you.
- [applause from audience]
- Nash: I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive.
- Nash: If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid.
- Nash: I find you attractive. Your aggressive moves toward me... indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we continue with a number of platonic activities... before we have sex. I am proceeding with these activities, but in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible.
- [pause]
- Nash: Are you gonna slap me now?
- Nash: I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You are the only reason I am... you are all my reasons.
- 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.
- [Hansen is concerned about John still having hallucinations]
- Nash: They are my past. Everyone is haunted by their past.
- Nash: In competitive behavior someone always loses.
- Charles: Well, my niece knows that, John, and she's about this high.
- Nash: 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?
- Nash: ...currency exchange?
- Charles: When did you last eat? You know, food.
- Nash: 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.
- [leaves]
- Nash: [throws stuff down and follows] I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer!