Other Movie Quotes

Marvin's Room (1996)

Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio): Hey.
Lee (Meryl Streep): Look at you, you look like a pig.
Hank: I'm workin' on an engine.
Lee: So, they don't let you shower?
Hank: Look, they told me you were here so I came, alright?

Lee: Are you behaving yourself?
Hank: They're not strapping me down anymore.
Lee: Well, don't abuse that privilege.

Hank: So how come you're visiting me?
Lee: What do you mean? I don't need a reason to visit.
Hank: How come you never visited before?
Lee: I did visited you, you were unconscious.
Hank: That doesn't count as a visit. How can it be a visit if I didn't know you were here, Mom?
Lee: I can't take responsibility for when you're conscious or unconscious. All I can do is make the effort.

Lee: Your Aunt Bessie down in Florida has Lukemia. She's not doin' so well, there's a possibily that she might die.
Hank: I didn't know I had an Aunt Bessie.
Lee: She's been to the house.
Hank: When?
Lee: Right after your dad and I got married.
Hank: Mom, I wasn't born yet.
Lee: Look, I know that I mentioned her to you-she's my sister.
Hank: Well, I didn't know you had a sister.
Lee: You know how every god damn Christmas I say to you, "looks like Bessie didn't send a card again either."
Hank: Oh yeah.
Lee: That's your Aunt Bessie, my sister, and because we're her nearest relatives they want us to get tested, 'cause they can maybe save her life and do a bone transplant or...it's only for a few weeks, doctor says it's O.K. to go.
Hank: Why would I wanna go?
Lee: Because one of us might save her life. Go, go, go, get cleaned up. I'm not going to take you like that in the car.
Therapist: Hank, isn't there something you want to say to your mother before you leave?
Lee:Yeah, but is this going to take long? Because we should go!
Hank: Mom, I'm really sorry I burnt the house down.
Lee: Is that it? Because I'm really anxious now to get on the road.

Lee: No matches.
Hank: Mom, I gotta light the thing, come on.
Lee: Charlie, here light this for him, please.
Charlie: (Cough, Cough.)

Hank: Have you ever heard of Larry Lacker?
Man: Who?
Hank: My dad, he was the greatest race car driver ever.
Man: No, I never heard of Larry Lacker.
Hank: No?
Hank(later, talking to Charlie):Those guys know dad.

Lee: Hank! What the hell are you doing?
Hank: I wanna hear number one. They're doing a top 100 countdown and I wanna hear number one!
Lee: Well, what number are they on now?
Hank: 86!!!

Bessie: We're all really glad you're here. Hank: Yeah we should do it again in like another 17 years Lee: We call it the loony bin, or the nut house, to show that we've got a sense of humor about it.

Bessie: Dad's dying. He's been doing it for about twenty years so I don't miss anything.

Hank: (grabs a chip)
Lee: Hank, did your Aunt Bessie offer you a chip yet?
Bessie (Diane Keaton): Oh, well that's what they're there for.
Lee: Yeah, but he has to wait to be asked, Bessie. Put the chip back, Hank...put it back...put back the chip.
Bessie: Lee, I put them out there for the kids.
Lee: You have to understand, he has to wait to be asked.
Bessie: Hank, would you like a chip?
Hank: No thank you Aunt Bessie, not right now.
Lee: Your Aunt Bessie offered you a chip. Now the polite thing to do would be to take one.
Hank: You know what? I don't want a chip right now!
Lee: Eat the chip or no Disney World!
Hank: You know what? I could give a FUCK about Disney World, alright!!

Bessie: We're all really glad you're here.
Hank: Yeah, we should do it again in another 17 years.

Hank: D'you ever wish you'd just die?
Aunt Bessie: Hank, don't ask that!
Hank: Why not?
Aunt Bessie: 'Cause it's rude.
Hank: You know, I haven't made up my mind about getting tested.

Aunt Bessie: What are you doing with those tools?
Hank: I was just lookin' at 'em. I'll put them back.
Aunt Bessie: Oh, I didn't think you were gonna steal them, Hank. You can have them if you want.
Hank: Really?
Aunt Bessie: Well, sure.
Hank: You're just gonna give 'em to me?
Aunt Bessie: Sure, why not.
Hank: Well, these are really cool tools.

Hank: There's this one dude on my floor, held a razor blade under his tongue for like five hours. He talked to the orderlies, he ate, and everything.
Aunt Bessie: Why, on earth, would he do that?
Hank: He was trying to break my record.

Aunt Bessie: Hank, what do you wanna be when you grow up?
Hank: I AM grown up.

Hank: So, I don't think I'm gonna get the test. What do you think about that?
Aunt Bessie: Can I ask why?
Hank: No reason.

Hank: (gives tools back) You know somethin'? Nobody does anything to be nice. They always want to get something out of it.
Aunt Bessie: And you believe that?
Hank: I mean, the first time I hear from you is when you need something from me.
Aunt Bessie: Well, why do you think I spent the last 20 years of my life down here? Because I got something out of it?
Hank: Yeah, you wouldn't have done it.
Aunt Bessie: Oh, Hank...
Hank: Or you, maybe you just wanted to hide out for a while. Maybe you thought you could never find a husband. When you're not around a nursing home can do this job for cash.
Aunt Bessie: Your mother would never put them in a home.
Hank: Why not? She doesn't give a shit about anybody.

Aunt Bessie: (carrying the tool box) Um, I'm putting this with your other things.
Hank: Why?
Aunt Bessie: Because they're yours.
Hank: 'Kay.
Aunt Bessie: Hank, you're my nephew and I love you...no matter what you decide.

Hank: Ford, huh?
Aunt Bessie: Yeah.
Hank: What year?
Aunt Bessie: Oh, would you like to drive, Hank?
Hank: Are you sure?
Aunt Bessie: Yeah, come here.
Hank: You sure you want me to drive?
Aunt Bessie: Ok, you can drive!
Hank: Alright, 'cause I'm kind of fast. I'm warning you.
Aunt Bessie: Just be careful, alright? Don't drive too fast.

Lee: You know, I know you might be a little bit afraid about having this procedure. But I hear the transplant is just like having a tooth pulled or something.
Hank: I'm not afraid. I just haven't decided yet.
Lee: You're gonna have that test. This is my sister we're talking about. We're not gonna let her die just so you can have one of your moods.

Aunt Bessie: You know this office used to be infested with bugs.
Hank: Ah, bugs don't bother me.
Aunt Bessie: No?
Hank: Well, you know they crawl out of the drain in the boy's shower. Sometimes they like hide in the junk pile in the auto shop. They like float around in the soap basins in the sink. You get used to 'em.
Aunt Bessie: I wouldn't.
Hank: There's this one dude in my room, there's 12 of us in this one room, right? This one dude, he catches bugs and puts them on like this little leash.
Aunt Bessie: A leash?
Hank: Yeah, it's a hair leash. He takes out a strand of his hair. He ties it around the bug. The other end he tacks down under his bunk. One time like he had this whole zoo of bugs walking around little circles all over the place. My friend, he grabbed the back of his cafeteria tray and SMASHED 'em all...that was funny.

Hank: Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be...someone else.

Hank: Most of the time I just think about being some place else.
Aunt Bessie: Then why aren't you?
Hank: Hmmm?
Aunt Bessie: Why aren't you some place else?
Hank: What do you mean?
Aunt Bessie: You're the one that told me people only do what they want.
Hank: Yeah?
Aunt Bessie: So, you must want to be there.
Hank: No. No way.
Aunt Bessie: Then show them you don't need to be there, Hank.
Hank: It's not easy like that.
Aunt Bessie: I don't want you wasting your life in there, Hank.
Hank: Well, neither do I.
Aunt Bessie: Then why are you there?
Hank: Because they put me there.
Bessie: Whey did they put you there?
Hank: Because I burned down the house.
Aunt Bessie: Why did you burn down the house?

Hank: Would you come back there with me?
Aunt Bessie: Sure I would.

Lee: So, why don't you pick out something nice for your Aunt Bessie, you know?
Hank: How 'bout my bone marrow, do ya think she'd like that?

Lee: You know I think you're doing really well on this trip...sort of. Stop it. Tomorrow when we go back, everbody's gonna hear about how well you did. I said, "Stop it."
Hank:I'm not going back, I'm staying with Aunt Bessie.

Total Eclipse (1995)

Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio): The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Paul Verlaine: Do you think poets can learn from one another?
Arthur: Only if they're bad poets.

Paul: Should do something about getting it published.
Arthur: Why?
Paul: Why! 'Cause that's what writers do.
Arthur: Couldn't care less about being published. The only thing that matters is the writing itself. Everything else is literature. The last book, wasn't good enough.
Paul: I don't think so.
Arthur: Premarital garbage.
Paul: No. Lots of poems lots of people find it very beautiful.
Arthur: But they're all lies.
Paul: They're not lies. I love her!
Arthur: Love...no such thing.
Paul: What do you mean?
Arthur: Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together that's not love, that's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Paul: You're wrong.
Arthur:Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists--but not love. Love has to be reinvented.

Arthur: It was last summer during the war. One of the many times I ran away from home. I came down to the river to fill my water bottle and there was a Prussian soldier not much older than me asleep in the clearing. I watched him for a long time before I realized he wasn't asleep he was dead. And somehow that clarified things for me. I understood that what I needed to become the first poet of this century was to experience everything in my body. It was no longer enough for me to be one person. I decided to be everyone. I decided to be a genius. I decided to originate the future.

Arthur: It's pathetic. Your acts of violence are always curiously disgusting.
Paul: What do you mean?
Arthur: Their not clean. You're always in some sort of drunken stupor, then you start apologizing and groveling.
Paul: I don't like hurting people.
Arthur:Then don't. But if you do, do it cooly. Don't insult your victims by feeling sorry afterwards.

Paul: What's your greatest fear?
Arthur:That other people will see me as I see them.

Paul:Shoot me!
Arthur: How can I you stupid fucker, you just blew a hole in my hand?

Rimbaud: Dogs are all liberals.

Arthur: Do you have anything in common?
Paul: No.
Arthur: Is she intelligent?
Paul: No.
Arthur: Does she understand you?
Paul: No.
Arthur: Then all she can give you is sex!!!

Arthur: My only problem with this city is that the fucking artists are more bourgeois than the fucking bourgeoisie.

Arthur: Don't expect me to be faithful to you.
Paul: Why are you so harsh to me?
Arthur: Because you need it.

Arthur: You know I am very fond of you.

Mother: What does it mean?
Arthur: It mean what it says, word for word, no more, no less.

Arthur: I WANT THE SUN!

Arthur: I found it. The sun mingled with the sea.

Wife of Paul: Why are you doing this to us?
Arthur: Don't worry, you'll get him back quite soon. Only slightly damanged.
Wife of Paul: He's coming back NOW.

Arthur: Do you love me?
Paul: Yes.
Arthur: Then put your hand on the table. Palm up.

Mother: Are you back for good?
Arthur: For good I don't know. For better or worse.

Mother-in-law: Perhaps you like a wash?
Arthur: No.
Mother-in-law: You're even younger than I imagine!
Wife: How old are you?
Mother-in-law: Darling, it's not very polite to ask people their ages!
Arthur: I need a piss.

Arthur: I choose you for a very good reason. You see, I've always known what to say. But you, have always known how to say it.

Kid (Leonardo DiCaprio): I think you better put me and my friend Eugene on the list.
Eugene: I didn't say nothin about joining no contest.
Kid: Do I hear cluckin'? Did somebody bring a chicken in here?
Eugene: I'll kick you out of here right now with my bare hands.
Kid: No no no no, you see it's a gun fight. We both have guns. We aim, we fire, you die. You get the idea.

Kid: I'm worth three thousand dollars in four states. 75 offenses and no convictions. My name's Fee, but ah...everyone calls me "The Kid".
Eileen: Congratulations.
Kid: I'm so damn fast I can wake up at the crack of dawn, rob two banks, a train and a stage coach, shoot the tail feathers off a duck's ass at 300 feet, and still be back in bed before you wake up next to me.

Kid: Horace said you drink this. Sure must wanna die young miss.
Eileen: I do now.

Kid: Hey, good morning! Hey, do you want some breakfast or a little more of what you had last night?
Eileen: This thing is so hard, I don't know how you sleep on it.
[she looks under the bed and sees cans of dynamite]
Kid: If I don't sleep on it, people will steal it.

Kid: You definitly wone me in that drinking contest, Um...but I sort of won you in poker.

Eileen: Look, the last thing I remember is you puking behind the saloon. So lets not plan the wedding.
Kid: Okay, okay, thats fair. So, who you gonna challenge today?
Eileen: Herrod.
Kid: Ooh, bad idea, bad idea. I'm about the only guy around here who can take him and I sure ain't gonna rush to do that.
Eileen: Why not?
Kid: Why, hell he's my father.

Horace: Gentlemen, please remember you must not draw until that clock makes the first chime of the hour.
Kid: Whoa now, what if somebody gets too excited and starts shootin' early?

Swede: I'll only wound you, Kid.
Kid: You're a kind man.

Kid: Woah, damn am I fast! D'ya even see me, I was so damn fast? Woah boy! [with his back to him, the Swede trys to shoot Kid, but Kid beats him to it] Dear Mr. Swedish champion...are you done? Stay down now unless you're still fightin.
Swede: Yes, I give up.
Horace: Kid's the winner.
Kid: Am I fast or is Sweden just a very small place? Tell me now!

Herrod: The reverend here needs a gun.
Kid: Well, there's plenty of other places in town to buy a gun.
Herrod: Nowhere as cheap.
Kid: I wouldn't know a place that's cheap enough for you.
Herrod: You know, your mouth gets faster every day. Pity your hands are so slow.
Kid: I ain't got slow hands.
Herrod: Oh sure you do. Put your hand on the counter here. Go on, put your gun hand up on the counter. Look at this Cort. This is a gun fighter's hand [showing Cort his own hand] and here's a farmer's hand [Kid's].
Kid: I ain't got no farmer's hands.
Herrod: You know Cort and me are killers. We're the genuine article. But you, you're from different stock. My friend here needs a gun.

Kid: This here is the eagle-butt peacemaker. Solid ivory handle, Mexican emblem-only 30 of these ever made. And this is the uh customized Remington new model, army .44. Its probably more accurate then your Colt. Had the wooden handles removed and replaced with solid silver. Used with great success on uh thirty-si...naw thirty-five bank robberies by its late owner. And this...well this is the best help a man can get. Smith & Wesson Schofield .45. Just meat and potatoes. Me and Jesse James think it's the best handgun in the world. I had the trigger guard removed, it saves drawin' time. Don't ever wear it when you're drunk or you'll kill your feet.

Kid: The cheapest gun in the store(lays it on the case) five bucks.

Kid: That gun shoots straight, I wouldn't sell it if it didn't!

Kid: So then he said uh, "Gimme the gun." So what could I do? I uh, gave it to him...like hell I did!
Crowd: You shot him?
Kid: Yep and that's the story of Flat-Nose Freddie who currently resides six feet under.

Herrod: It was a big thing for you to join the contest. You made your point, I want you to step down. No disgrace.
Kid: I'll only step down when you step down.
Herrod: I'm telling you to step down. Your time wil come.
Kid: Not with you still around.

Lady: You don't have to do this. Everybody already knows you're the best.
Kid: Naw, it ain't about that. I'm his son and if this the only way he's gonna admit that, then so be it.
Lady: What can you possibly get out of this. What do you want?
Kid: All I want is his respect.

Herrod: Drop out. You've made your point.
Kid: The gunfight is in the head, not in the hands. The only thing that makes him invincible...is because you all think he is. Maybe five years ago he was the fastest, but uh, time catches up with everyone. He's just a little bit slower than he used to be and as for myself? Would you believe it? I just reached my peak.

Kid: Shit...that was fast! Did I get him?
Lady: Yeah Kid, you got him.
Kid: Did I kill him? Jeez, I don't wanna die. I don't wanna die.

Kid: This maybe be the wrong time by saying this, but, I like you.

Kid: Is it possible? Is it possible to improve on perfection?

Kid: I don't think you heard me right, I said I liked ya!

Kid: I tell ya people, I am on a different level. I am the new mayor of this town.

This Boys Life(1993)

Tobias Wolff (Toby, a.k.a. Jack) voice over: It was 1957. We were driving from Florida to Utah. After my mother was beaten up by her boyfriend, we got in the Nash and high-tailed it for the uranium fields. We were gonna get rich and change our lives, which hadn't been so hot since our family broke up five years back.

Toby V.O.: I was caught up in my mother's freedom, her delight in her freedom. She was gonna get rich on uranium and I was gonna help her.

Mom: ...it'd be just like heaven on a June day.

Toby V.O.: My mom had her own way of solving problems, she left them behind.

Toby V.O.: My mom had high hopes, especially for me. I've been giving her no end of grief since she left dad. I decided I was gonna do better. I was gonna have straight arrow friends, I was gonna get all A's in school, and I was gonna keep my nose clean. I promised it and I meant it.

Toby: It wasn't me who broke their stupid window.
Mom: Oh, please.
Toby: Oh gee thanks a lot, believe them instead of me.
Mom: If you cared anything about me at all, you'll just be quiet.
Toby: Aw yeah? If you cared anthing about me, you would've stayed married to dad. [V.O.]I didn't really mean that. I knew it wasn't true. My father went his own way a long time before they actually called it quits and took my older brother Gregory with him. Sometimes I need to blame somebody and she was the only one there.

Toby V.O.: Most afternoons, I'd wander around in a trance. Sometimes I go downtown and stare at the merchandise. Maybe I'd shoplift, maybe not. I used to imagine I saw my father coming toward me. I'd wait for him to recognize me. I knew it couldn't be him though, he was living back East married to a rich woman. His nickname was "Duke" and thats how I thought of him, as a duke living in a castle far away. A few minutes later, I'd pick someone else.

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