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American Beauty
I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to
me. But it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world.
Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once... and it's too much. My heart
fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember... to relax,
and not try to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain. And I
can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little
life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. Don't worry... you
will someday. – Lester Burnham
I feel like I've been in a coma for the past twenty years. And I'm just now
waking up. – Lester
That's my wife, Carolyn. See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches
her gardening clogs? That's not an accident. – Lester
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this
electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing
with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And
that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this
incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be
afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse. But it helps me remember... and I need to
remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't
take it, like my heart's going to cave in. – Ricky Fitts
The Usual Suspects
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the
world he didn't exist. – Verbal Kint
And like that... he's gone. – Verbal
Taxi Driver
You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?
Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only
one here. Who do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? Huh? Ok. – Travis
Bickle
Goodfellas
You know, we always called each other goodfellas. Like,
you'd say to somebody: "You're gonna like this guy; he's all right. He's a
goodfella. He's one of us." You understand? We were goodfellas, wiseguys.
– Henry Hill
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. – Henry
Hill
Good Will Hunting
I'll tell ya, I was hoping for a goodnight lay, but I'll
settle for like a kiss. – Will
Men are shameless. If you're not thinking with your weiner then you're acting
directly on its behalf. – Skylar
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a
shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something
nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm
real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the
location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have
that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen
hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are
sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't
give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it
wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in
the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass.
And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the
country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got
his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks.
Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was
so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of
course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could
turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't
helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin' their
sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an
alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the
icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all
the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't
afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks 'cause
the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's
starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate
special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I
think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take
his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village,
club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be
elected president. – Will
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Which one of you nuts has got any guts? – Randle
Patrick McMurphy
My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That's why
everybody worked on him. The last time I seen my father, he was blind and
diseased from drinking. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don't
suck out of it, it sucks out of him until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even
the dogs didn't know him. – Chief
I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this. –
R.P.M.
I'm a goddamn marvel of modern science. – R.P.M.
They was giving me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and
I'm hot to trot! The next woman takes me on's gonna light up like a pinball
machine and pay off in silver dollars! – R.P.M.
In one week, I can put a bug so far up her ass, she don't
know whether to shit or wind her wristwatch. – R.P.M.
What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'?
Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out
walkin' around on the streets and that's it. – R.P.M.
If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally,
I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. – Nurse
Ratched
Christmas Vacation
Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's
walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no! We're all in
this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here! We're
gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since
Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye! And when Santa squeezes his fat
white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of
assholes this side of the nuthouse! – Clark W. Griswold
If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for
me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him
brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the
other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his
head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a
cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking,
dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing,
brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged,
spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit!
Where's the Tylenol? –
Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat?
Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead? –
Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn...the clean, cool
chill of the holiday air...an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical
toilet into my sewer... –
I don't know if I oughta go sailin' down no hill with
nothin' between the ground and my brains but a piece of government plastic.
– Cousin Eddie
Ghostbusters
We've been going about this all wrong, this Mr Stay Puff's
OK, he's a sailor, he's in New York, we get this guy laid we won't have any
trouble. – Dr. Peter Venkman
Hee hee! "Get her!" That was your whole plan. I
like it; it was scientific. – Venkman
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping
instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of
light. – Dr. Egon Spengler
You're right, no human being would stack books like this.
– Venkman
Listen…You smell something? – Dr. Raymond Stantz
Back off man. I'm a scientist. – Venkman
Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen
forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large
and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the
McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor!
Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor
that day, I can tell you! – Vince Klortho
Gozer the Gozerian: good evening. As a duly designated
representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease
any and all supernatural activities and return forthwith to your place of
origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension. – Ray
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives,
in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone? ...the Great
Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot
Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? ...raised tariffs, in an effort
to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone
know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the
Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what
this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve.
Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve,
you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very
controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980?
Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics. –
Economics teacher (Ben Stein)
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend
heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris
pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. – Simone
(Kristy Swanson)
Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads,
geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They
think he's a righteous dude. – Grace (Mr Rooney’s secretary)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning fascism, or any -ism
for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe
in an -ism, he should only believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I
don't believe in Beetles, I just believe in me." Good point there. He was
the walrus. I could be the walrus and I'd still have to bum rides off of
people. – Ferris
The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's
a good non-specific symptom; I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will
tell you that a good phony fever is a dead lock, but, uh... you get a nervous
mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. That's worse than school. You
fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over, moaning and wailing, you lick
your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.
– Ferris
If you say Ferris Bueller, you lose a testicle –
Jeannie
I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me
unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going
to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it. – Cameron
What is so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller
is he gives good kids bad ideas. Last thing I need at this point in my career
is fifteen hundred Ferris Bueller disciples running around these halls. He
jeopardizes my ability to effectivley govern this student body. – Ed
Rooney
Sunset Blvd.
I am big. It's the
pictures that got small. –
Norma Desmond
It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand
times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me
out... ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
– Joe Gillis (voice over, as he’s floating in the pool)
And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after
'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my
life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those
wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready
for my close-up. – Norma (last line)
The Shawshank Redemption
I believe
in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your
trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank. – Warden
Since I am
innocent of this crime, I find it decidedly inconvenient
that the gun was never found. – Andy Dufresne (during his trial)
Let me tell
you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man
insane. – Ellis Boyd ‘Red’
I have no
idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I
don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they
were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and
makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and
farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful
bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and
for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free. – Red
The funny
thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to
come to prison to be a crook. – Andy
Forty years
I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say-so.
– Red
But you
should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down
hard. In fact, I hear the bite reflex is so strong they have to pry the victims
jaws open with a crowbar. – Andy
I find I'm
so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I imagine it's
the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at the start of a long
journey, whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the
border... I hope to see my friend and shake his hand... I hope the pacific is a
blue as it has been in my dreams... I hope... – Red
I have to
remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just
too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to
lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is
that much more drab and empty that they're gone. – Red
I saw an
automobile once when I was a kid. But, now they're everywhere. The world went
and got itself in a big damn hurry. – Brooks
Geology is
the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really... pressure...
and time... That, and big goddamn poster. – Red
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Badges? We
ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any
stinking badges. – Gold Hat
I know what
gold does to men's souls. – Howard
Conscience.
What a thing! If you believe you got a conscience it'll pester you to death.
But if you don't believe you got one, what could it do t'ya? Makes me sick, all
this talking and fussing about nonsense. – Dobbs
On The Waterfront
It wasn't
him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my
dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for
the price on Wilson." You remember that? "This ain't your
night"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets
the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to
Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a
little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have
to take them dives for the short-end money…. You don't understand. I
coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of
a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley. – Terry
Malloy
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dave,
although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I
could see your lips move. – HAL
I'm afraid.
I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind
is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can
feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I
became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of
January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song.
If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. – HAL
Citizen Kane
Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, I don't think it would have explained everything. I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece. – Jerry Thompson (the reporter)
You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years. – Charles Foster Kane
You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by finishing that notice he could show me he was an honest man. He was always trying to prove something. The whole thing about Susie being an opera singer, that was trying to prove something. You know what the headline was the day before the election, "Candidate Kane found in love nest with quote, singer, unquote." He was gonna take the quotes off the singer. – Jedediah Leland
Rosebud... – Kane
I don't think there's one word that can describe a man’s life. – Kane
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. – Joel Barish
Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention? – Joel
Joel, I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours. – Clementine Kruczynski
Valentine's Day is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap. – Joel
Really? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one. – Joel
Network
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.” Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your Congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, “I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!” So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, “I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – “I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!” Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, “I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!” Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" – Howard Beale
Well, if there's anybody out there that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me: That man is full of bullshit. I don't have anything going for me. I haven't got any kids. And I was married for forty-three years of shrill, shrieking fraud. So I don't have any bullshit left. I just ran out of it, you see. – Howard Beale
I'm gonna blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle of the seven o'clock news. – Howard Beale
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions, just like we do. – Arthur Jensen
We're not a respectable network. We're a whorehouse network, and we have to take whatever we can get. – Frank Hackett
Blade Runner
Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard? – Rachel
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. – Batty
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better. – Tyrell
Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem. – Deckard
The Big Lebowski
You said it man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus. – Jesus Quintana
Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here! – The Dude
You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me….Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. – Walter
She's not my special lady friend, man. I'm just helping her conceive. – The Dude
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