The Best Walter Mitty Quotes

Ted: Oh, hey, welcome... wait, sorry, not welcome. Not an employee.
Walter: Sorry. This is the picture Sean wanted, 25. You have two days to print for cover. Here's your quintessence.

Walter: And I get it. You got your marching orders... and you have to do what you have to do. But you don't have to be such a dick. Put that on a plaque, and hang it at your next job.

Trawler: You have at least a minute before you freeze.
Walter: What?
Trawler: You are safe.

Todd: How was the... daydreaming going?
Walter: Lately less.
Todd: Good. Less is good!

Walter: [with Spanish accent] The ice, yes? She moves like a woman. I'm Walter. Mitty.
Cheryl: Cheryl. Melhoff. Where have you been?
Walter: Testing the limits of the human spirit.
Cheryl: I'd like to climb your hair, test that out.
Walter: Perhaps I can contact you, possibly through my poetry falcon.

Walter: When are you going to take it?
Sean: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.
Walter: Stay in it?
Sean: Yeah. Right there. Right here.

Cheryl: God, you're noteworthy!
Walter: I just live by the ABCs: Adventurous, Brave, Creative.

Sean: They call the snow leopard the ghost cat. Never lets itself be seen.
Walter: Ghost cat.
Sean: Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

[reciting Life Magazine's Motto]
Walter: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

Walter: What was the picture?
Sean: Let's just call it a ghost cat, Walter Mitty.

Walter: So you're just going to finish your beer and then fly a machine?
Helicopter: Yeah, I'm kind of nervous about the storm.

Ted: Never fun, this stage, but we do have ahead of us the privilege of publishing what will be the very last issue of Life magazine. We just received a telegram from Sean O'Connell, who has never been willing, I'm told, to speak with the executives here. Well, he broke his long silence and shared his thoughts with us through that old man... Sean O'Connell. I expect full consideration of negative 25 for cover. My most grand. The quintessence of life... what is that?
Ted's: Best. Highest.
Ted: So our cover will probably be the most famous ever because it will have the big quintessence of all time. Full and so rich. So let's see this thing. Let's see it. What am I doing here? What's going on?
Don: Negative assets has it. This gentleman here.
Ted: Ah, Major Tom! Can I get that?
Walter: It's being processed.
Ted: All right, let's do it. Let's process some quintessence. Come on. Go, now. That's why I'm clapping.

Walter: Hey, do you know our motto?
Ted: Life... I'm lovin' it.
Walter: That's not it. That's McDonald's. This thing that you do, Ted, where you come into a place and push people out, you should know those people worked really hard to build this magazine. They believed in the motto. And I get it, you've got your marching orders and you have to do what you have to do, but you don't have to be such a d*ck. Put that on a plaque and hang it at your next job.

[from trailer]
Walter: [in shark-infested waters] There's a fin here!

Walter: I was saying you know who looks good in a beard? Dumbledore. Not you.

Walter: [taking on cell phone while climbing a mountain] Hey Todd, I'm gonna keep this short. I have to make oxygen choices.

Walter: I haven't really been anywhere noteworthy or mentionable.

Todd: How does that Cinnabon taste?
Walter: Great.
Todd: That's frosted heroin, what you're eating, my friend.

- You're awesome, Walter.
Walter: [ON TV]
- Thanks.
Andy: Sure.
- Can you turn this off?
- It stays on.
- I'm just going to get out.