Films

Stranger than Fiction

Kay Eiffel: [narrating] This is a story about a man named Harold Crick and his wristwatch. Harold Crick was a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations, and remarkably few words. And his wristwatch said even less. Every weekday, for twelve years, Harold would brush each of his thirty-two teeth seventy-six times. Thirty-eight times back and forth, thirty-eight times up and down. Every weekday, for twelve years, Harold would tie his tie in a single Windsor knot instead of the double, thereby saving up to forty-three seconds. His wristwatch thought the single Windsor made his neck look fat, but said nothing.

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Beautiful Girls

Willie Conway: You know how it is, the beginnings? When you first fall in love and you can’t eat, you can’t sleep and getting a call from her, it makes your day. It’s like seeing a shooting star.
Andera: It’s the best.
Willie Conway: Yeah, but, inevitably it goes away. It quiets down. So, this is my thing see, why get married now? Why not have two, three more of those beginning things before I, you know, settle into the big fade?
Andera: The big fade, that’s a awful way to put it.

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Happiness

Diane: I want kids that love me as much as I hated my mother.

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Romeo & Juliet

Romeo: O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
Juliet: What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?
Romeo: The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.
Juliet: I gave thee mine before thou didst request it!

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The Science of Sleep

Stéphanie: How’s is your hand?
Stephane: It started to smell like a foot.
Stéphanie: Its a good sign.

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Requiem For A Dream

Marion: Getting the money’s not the problem Harry.
Harry Goldfarb: Then what’s the problem?
Marion: I don’t know what I’m going to have to do to get it.

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Harold and Maude

Maude: A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They’re just backing away from life. *Reach* out. Take a *chance*. Get *hurt* even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

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Bitter Moon

Oscar: She came to see me when I got out of Intensive Care. She said, there’s bad news and there’s good news. You’re paralyzed from the waist down – permanently. OK, I said, let’s have the good news. That was the good news, she said. The bad news is that from now on, I’m taking care of you.

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Out of Africa

Denys: You’ve ruined it for me, you know.
Karen Blixen: Ruined what?
Denys: Being alone.

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Into The Wild

Christopher McCandless: I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Perry: [to the audience]Thanks for coming, please stay for the end credits, if you’re wondering who the best boy is, it’s somebody’s nephew, um, don’t forget to validate your parking, and to all you good people in the Midwest, sorry we said fuck so much.

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Dark City

John Murdoch: Hey, do you know the way to Shell Beach?
Taxi Driver: You’re kidding! Me and the Mrs. spent our honeymoon there. All you gotta do is take Main Street West to… or is it the Cross… You know, that’s funny, I can’t remember if it’s Main Street West or the Crosstown.

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Anniversary Party

Clair: Um… I lost my husband and my beeper… have you seen either one of them?

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I Heart Huckabees

Tommy Corn: How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?

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Garden State

Andrew Largeman: Remember that idea I had, about working stuff out on my own, and then finding you once I worked stuff out?
Sam: The ellipsis?
Andrew Largeman: Yeah, the ellipsis, it’s dumb. It’s dumb. It’s an awful idea. I’m not gonna do it, okay? Cause like you said, this is it. This is life. And I’m in love with you… I think that’s the only thing I’ve ever really been sure of in my entire life. And I’m really messed up right now, and I got a whole lot of stuff I have to work out, but I don’t want to waste any more of my life without you in it. And I think I can do this. I mean, I want to. I have to, right?

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The Darjeeling Limited

Jack: I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.

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Me and You and Everyone We Know

Richard Swersey: I don’t want to have to do this living. I just walk around. I want to be swept off my feet, you know? I want my children to have magical powers. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it.

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Benny & Joon

Sam: How sick is she?
Benny: She’s plenty sick. Now listen to me, I’ve been doin’ some thinkin’-
Sam: Because, you know, it seems to me that, I mean, except for being a little mentally ill, she’s pretty normal.

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Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

Joel: I can’t see anything that I don’t like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped because that’s what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: [pauses] Okay.

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True Romance

Clifford Worley: You know, I don’t believe you.
Coccotti: That’s of minor importance. What is of major fucking importance is that I believe you.

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Love The Hard Way

Claire: And going to the dark side of the moon wasn’t the worst thing.
Jack: What was?
Claire: Going alone.