Same rules apply as last summer, I will list the quotes that are magical - transcending the film they represent, or quotes that trigger something in me, or that I've blurted out in living my life, that sum up a reality in me. For example, one for the very first quotes I grabbed last summer was:
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"You don't understand! I coulda had class.
"You don't understand! I coulda had class.
I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody,
instead of a bum, which is what I am."
(Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, On The Waterfront, 1954)
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instead of a bum, which is what I am."
(Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, On The Waterfront, 1954)
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Now this resonates so powerfully in me... As a person who is fast approaching his 50s, unmarried, no children, yada..yada...yada.... I often feel this. It represents a great sadness in me, of a life unfulfilled... and I don't think it will ever go away entirely... Now, do I live day-to-day feeling this? Hell no. But it does get triggered from time to time... BTW, there are just as powerful positive quotes that hit me deeply as well.... It's all interplay between light and dark of living one's life.
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Ok, back to movie quotes.... here we go:
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"Never let anyone outside the family know what you're thinking"
(Marlon Brando as Don Corleone, The Godfather, 1972)
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"When a man with .45 meets a man with a rifle,
you said, the man with a pistol's a dead man.
Let's see if that's true.
Go ahead.... load up and shoot"
(Clint Eastwood as Joe Per un pugno di dollari, 1964)
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"I will always be in front of you"
(Ken Watanabe as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Letters from Iwo Jima, 2006)
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"I love how you worry about how the letter you wrote
to the parent that deserted you is too mean....
but to the one who's still here in the fight,
you have no trouble saying the most vile things.
Isn't that a tad odd?
Please finish setting the table"
(Joan Allen as Terry Wolfmeyer, The Upside of Anger, 2006)
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"What Jesus fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem"
(John Cleese as Reg, Life of Brian, 1979)
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"Phillip, the old bunch is gone.
Look at these new heroes.
All wind and smoke. Just big mouths"
(Jürgen Prochnow as Captain, Boot, Das, 1981)
(Jürgen Prochnow as Captain, Boot, Das, 1981)
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"My theory is that everyone is a potential murderer"
(Robert Walker as Bruno, Strangers on a Train, 1951)
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"Syliva Plath - interesting poetess whose tragic suicide
was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality"
(Woody Allen as Alvy Singer, Annie Hall, 1977)
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"Now I have only one thing left to do: nothing.
I don't want any belongings, any memories.
No friends, no love. Those are all traps"
(Juliette Binoche as Julie Vignon, Trois couleurs: Bleu, 1993)
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"In their place? Of course....
And that goes for everyone I judged.
Given their lives, I would steal, I'd kill, I'd lie.
Of course I would.
All that because I wasn't in their shoes, but mine"
(Jean-Louis Trintignant as The Judge, Trois couleurs: Rouge, 1994)
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"Are you a businessman? Or are you a newsman?"
(Al Pacino as Lowell Bergman, The Insider, 1999)
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"Look at the world and tell me the pleasures of sanity"
(Kenneth Branagh as Heydrich, Conspiracy, 2001)
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"Glasnost gives everyone the right to complain and accuse,
but it doesn't make shoes"
(Michelle Pfeiffer as Katya, The Russia House, 1990)
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"I'm a stalker in a Taurus"
(Bill Murray as Don Johnston, Broken Flowers, 2005)
(Bill Murray as Don Johnston, Broken Flowers, 2005)
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"Oh, my God.
"Oh, my God.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Don't talk to me unless you speak American!"
(Loretta Devine as Shaniqua, Crash, 2004)
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"Me and the Kaiser, we are both fighting.
The only difference is the Kaiser isn't here!"
(Slim Summerville as Tjaden, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930)
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"The question is.... does God believe in me?"
(James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Lolita, 1962)
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"Here are the plans of war.
They're as valuable as your life. And that's putting them pretty cheap.
Watch them like a cat watched her kittens.
Have you ever had kittens?
No, of course not....
you're too busy running around playing bridge.
Can't you see what I'm trying to tell you, I love you"
(Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup, 1933)
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"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
It's contrast"
(Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, The Hours, 2002)
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"That's my wife, Carolyn.
See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs?
That's not an accident"
(Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham, American Beauty, 1999)
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"This isn't life, it's just stuff.
And it's become more important to you than living.
Well, honey, that's just nuts"
(Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham, American Beauty, 1999)
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