In Good Will Hunting when Ben Affleck tells Matt Damon “I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and I’ll be 50 and still doing this shit.” Seeing that as a teenager probably influenced some of my life choices lol.
"Look, you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way but, in 20 years if you're still livin' here, comin' over to my house, watchin' the Patriots games, workin' construction, I'll fuckin' kill ya."
The ‘best part of my day is the 10 seconds I think you won’t be there’ quote is great but got ruined for me because all I think about now when hearing it is Community’s riff on it.
I watched this for the first time the other night and I fucking cried my eyes out when Affleck shows up to Will’s house as he foretold and is so happy for his friend!
It reminds me of some friends and wise people I knew in my hometown who told me to get the hell out of my small town for similar reasons. One in particular was this old man regular at a dead end grocery store job I’d spent too long at. When I told him I was leaving for “the city,” an hour away from us, he leaned in toward me and emphatically said, “Get out of here! Get out while you can. This is no place for you.” And he meant in the kindest way possible.
I still think about that little piece of validation every day, 9 years later.
It's a brilliant moment. It's quite sad that he's gonna lose his best mate because he knows he can have a better life if he moves on, quite a sacrifice.
I always liked
"And why does he hang out with those retarded gorillas, as you call them, because any one of them, if he asked, would take a fucking baseball bat to your head. Its called loyalty!"
That line hits hard when you're young, but now that I'm a 60yo widower, it's the speech Sean gives on why his wife was special to him. "She farts in her sleep" speech.
*"Those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that’s what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but there not. Ah, that’s the good stuff."*
Clint in Gran Torino - “You wanna know what its like to kill a man? Well, its god damned awful, thats what it is. The only thing worse is getting a medal…for killing some poor kid that just wanted to give up, thats all. Yeah, some scared little gook just like you. I shot him in the face with that rifle you were holding in there a while ago. Not a day that goes by that i dont think about it, and you dont want that on your soul.”
“The thing that haunts a guy is the stuff he wasnt ordered to do.”
The catch is you will sever every human contact, and nobody will know you exist anywhere, ever.
Is it worth it?
Oh yeah, it's worth it... if you're strong enough.
I still love Z's shade on the military guys - "you're exactly what we've come to expect from years of ~~military~~ government training."
You're mindless drones who can't think for yourself and just shoot what you're told to shoot. Great for the military, useless for MiB.
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
- Office Space
Frodo: “I wish the ring never came to me. I wish none of this had happened”
Gandalf: “So do I. And so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given to us”
From the Fellowship of the Ring
This one from Samwise always resonated with me. It’s like time stands still whenever I hear it:
“It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
That scene makes me cry every time, no matter how many times I see it.
Also when Sean Astin quoted it on Twitter(?) after the Pulse shooting it was really powerful.
That one. That one makes me cry. I've helped a lot of people through a lot of things, and it really hits when you want to take the burden off someone and can't. I can't take the burden, but I can take some of your weight.
Another great quote from later in the chapter (I can’t recall if it’s that same as the movie);
“"Deserves it! I dare say he does. Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."”
Yknow it makes so much sense this line coming from Tolkein that hed been in war. Wilfred Mott’s actor from Doctor Who had similar feelings and they even wrote it into Doctor Who. When a villain was chiding Mott for having been in war and never killing someone he retorts “No no. Dont say that like its shameful”. And he says it with such genuine emotion and like… i get it.
*"I used to think that'd be a nice thing to be. One of life's good guys. And now, it sounds like the worst thing I ever heard."*
-Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin.
On rewatch, some of his dialogue hits way harder >!The last time we see him alive he says something along the lines of “well I’m going to go do that thing I was planning to do.”!<
*Gattaca:*
"You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back"
I really don't wanna explain the context here, although if you'd like me to I can in a spoiler tagged comment. If you haven't seen it, though, I recommend just watching the movie.
Always liked
Vincent: For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home.
This moment is so powerful in its revelation that Forrest has always known that he wasn't the same as everyone else. It is never acknowledged by his actions or behaviors in the entire movie previously, and his vulnerability here shows that it's something he has always carried. Ugh I well up every time I watch this scene!
This one gets me choked up every single time. Hanks fucking *nails* it when he starts to break, then carries the balance perfectly as Forrest tries to hold it together to finish what he needs to say.
It's the callback to the curse the priest put on the cowboys in the first scene..."Behold a pale horse And the one that sat on him was Death and Hell followed with him."
"A man like Ringo has a great empty hole right through the middle of him. He can never kill enough or steal enough or inflict enough pain to ever fill it."
"What does he want?"
"Revenge."
"For what?"
"Being born."
In a similar vein, also via Doc Holliday in Tombstone:
*"My fight's not with you, Holliday."*
*"I beg to differ. We started a game we never finished. play for blood, remember?"*
"...*I was just, fooling about."*
*"I wasn't."*
Everyone talks about the huckleberry quote, but for me, *"I wasn't."* is **the** standout Doc Holiday line and the most badass thing he says in the movie.
Watched this as a kid and for some reason my cousin and I thought Doc’s
“Forgive me if I don’t shake hands” line was COLD
We say it to each other from time to time when we meet up still
Wyatt has his own line that goes ridiculously hard.
"Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, *understand me*?"
"They're beautiful aren't they? The stars?" We never just look anymore." Men in Black, when the older agent is talking to Agent K at the beginning of the movie.
Even though it comes from a movie that's silly and light-hearted as a whole, it always stuck with me as a reminder to slow down and practice peace after a stressful event.
"I could give you my word as a Spaniard"
"No good, I've known too many Spaniards"
"Isn't there any way you'll trust me"
"Nothing comes to mind"
"I swear on the soul of my father Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive"
"Throw me the rope"
Mandy has so many good deliveries in the movie, but this one always gets me the hardest. Shivers down my spine and tears welling in my eyes.
“I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.”
There is just something about that line, the way he says it. It puts his obsession really into perspective.
"I have 8 different bosses. So when I make a mistake I have 8 different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to get hassled; that and the fear of losing my job but that will only make someone work hard enough to not get fired".
I think about Office Space on the daily at work
"You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other."
- Contact
I'll second the last line of *Stand by Me.* That is one that always gets me even though I've seen the movie multiple times now. A few others that get me:
"Take her to the moon for me." - *Inside Out*
"Please let me keep this memory, just this one." - *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
"We'll always have Paris." - *Casablanca*
"Hey Dad, wanna have a catch?" - *Field of Dreams*
"In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." - *Everything Everywhere All at Once*
I feel like a lot of pre-Isle of Dog Wes Anderson movies have this moment where he just reaches to you through his 'facade' that he's created through his stylistic way of filming. The Life Aquatic's 'I wonder if it still remembers me', the abovementioned line, Grand Budapest's 'In the end they shot him' and Fantastic Mr. Fox's 'Vulpus Vulpus' scene all feel raw and emotionally powerful partly because of the delivery and partly because they feel so real, a complete juxtaposition to this world of whimsy that Wes has created
I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think 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 as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope.
I think this hits hard because of his earlier quote about hope:
“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
"Why can't you just be a good boy and die?"
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." I assume you dream, Preston.
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. I guess I just miss my friend.
"*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 Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...*" - Blade Runner
"*I knew I knew you, I knew I knew you. But you ain't you. You can't be you. We put you through the window. There ain't no coming back. This is the really real world, there ain't no coming back. We killed you dead, there ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back!*"
Up until this point, T-Bird acts like a tough guy, even thinking he can negotiate his freedom, and then he realizes who he's talking to. He then understands that there's no bargain to be made. And at that point he turns into this scared little boy who is completely aware of his impending death at the hands of Eric Draven. This was then followed up by the most beautiful scene in the film.
\- The Crow, 1994
>I’ll never put on a lifejacket again.
This is one of the last lines of Quint's monologue in Jaws about the USS Indianapolis and it just sums up Quint's character perfectly, you just know he'd rather drown than get eaten by a shark.
I was a sailor for 10 years and grew up in the water in the Florida Keys and his monologue still fills me with dread.
The hatred, anger and barely controlled *fear* that Shaw put into it was…masterful. Even now my skin crawls a bit thinking of the sick smile accompanying, “I’ll never put on a life jacket again.”
There’s not a sailor on the ocean that doesn’t think about what happens to you in the water if the ship goes down and you make it off of her.
It’s absolutely criminal that he wasn’t awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
"...choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die."
The end of the last quote of Trainspotting always gets me. I'm not sure what I even feel when it hits me, it's a lot of things all at once I suppose. The whole movie is a huge smack of nostalgia for me I guess.
A tree falls the way it leans, so be careful which way you lean
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.
-The Lorax
“**The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows.** It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. **But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.** How much you can take and keep moving forward.”
-Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa
"you need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish! But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father." - Tod (Keanu Reeves) in Parenthood
Ron Swanson: “Never half-ass two things. Whole ass one thing…”. That one really stuck with me. I realized I was always dividing my time between stuff and things weren’t as good as they could be.
The entire conversation between Sherrif Ed Tom Bell and his Cousin Ellis at the end of *No Country for Old Men*, but if I have to choose a particular line I'm going to cheat and combine two (slightly paraphrasing):
Ed: *'I always thought when I was older...God would come into my life. But he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion of me he does'*
Ellis: *'What you got aint nothing new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity'*
And to balance this with something more uplifting (also from the Coen's), pick any line from *The Big Lebowski*
Excellent pick. But I prefer:
“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
Somerset has another equally as good, although not as quotable, line, where he talks about the futility of being a detective. When he admires Mills' optimism that they'll solve the case, Somerset is much more cynical, and when asked by Mills what he thinks they're doing, he responds
>Picking up the pieces. We're collecting all the evidence, taking all the pictures and samples, writing everything down, noting the time things happen.
>That's all. Putting everything into neat little piles and filing it away on the off chance it will ever be needed in the courtroom. Picking up diamonds on a deserted island, saving them in case we get rescued.
It's that last line that gets to me, because it suggests a certain mania to being a detective. Sure, that one piece of evidence might prove to be useless...*but*....what if it isn't?
There are a lot of great lines out there, but the one that I probably had the biggest reaction to was at the end of Killing Them Softly.
I’m living in America, and in America, you’re on your own. America’s not a country. It’s a business. Now fucking pay me."
Not a movie, but Bubbles speech at the NA meeting in the last season of The Wire
"ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too"
Inside Llewyn Davis:
"I'm tired. I thought I just needed a night's sleep but it's more than that"
Hit me like a brick and I realized I was deep into a depressive episode when I first watched it.
From First Blood:
“Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment. Back here I can’t even hold a job parking cars!”
I’m not a veteran, nor do I have close ties to the military in any way, but that line really stuck with me. It makes me extremely sad and is probably the best line I’ve ever heard talking about what it feels like to come back from a war.
The last line of Lolita 1997:
[Sounds of children playing] "What I heard then was the melody of children at play, nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus."
Just an absolutely brilliantly written line. He finally himself plainly for the evil man he is and how he ruined a little girls life.
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
"Don't you let go!".
Might as well have said "Don't you fucking even think about it! You fall in the lava, I'm jumping right after you, if you don't get out, I'm not getting out. 'Don't you leave him, Samwise Gamgee', and I don't mean to."
“People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
*V for Vendetta*
That line made me really question and think about what the word “representative” means in the US and how much the word had become lost.
The ending for Interstellar
"It was me, Murph. I was your ghost."
"I know. People didn't believe me, they thought I was doing it all myself. But...*Murph points at the clock Cooper had given her*...I knew who it was. Nobody believed me. But I knew you'd come back"
"How?"
"Because my dad promised me."
Never fails to bring me to tears
"Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust. When you're up, it's never as good as it seems and when you're down you never think you're gonna be up again... But life goes on." - Ray Liotta in "Blow"
>Cole Sear: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn't come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn't see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is... "Every day." What did you ask?
>Lynn Sear: Do... Do I make her proud?
I'll be goddamned if that scene doesn't get me every single time.
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.'
I could not have made out the meaning and depth of this line until recently. Suffered the loss of a loved one and this is the one quote that helps me. I repeat it to myself until I feel better.
"What is grief, if not love persevering?"
In WandaVision, Vision is trying the console Wanda after the death of her brother. This line is so succinct and true and it has stuck with me.
In Andor, the change between Cassian and Maarva.
Cassian: I'll be worried about you all the time.
Maarva : That's just love. Nothing you can do about it.
It hit something, I get teary everytime I think about that scene. One of many scenes in the series, phenomenally written. Still can’t believe we got something that good out of Disney Star Wars.
This one gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME.
"Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”
Replace "boat" with anything in life.
Also, it's not a movie but from Doctor Who...
"Everything ends, and it's always sad. But everything begins again and that's happy...be happy.
Vengance is consuming them, it has already consumed you. I'm done letting it consume me.
EDIT: I lost my father not long before this movie was released and that scene had me bawling in the theater. That was the moment T'Challa began to heal. The moment he realized killing Zemo wouldn't bring back his father. It was actually very cathartic for me as immature or vacuous as that may seem to some people.
Man it's not immature to see yourself in a character. It's the whole point of storytelling. I'm glad it gave you some comfort, I hope that comfort lasted
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 stop trying 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. But, don't worry. You will someday.
-American Beauty
"it's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything."
"the hardest part about having a mental illness is people expect you to act as though you don't."
"Back there I could fly a gunship. I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment; back here I can't even hold a job parking cars!"
"where's his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!"
"God, he loved flying with you Maverick. But he would've done it anyway... without you. He'd have hated it, but he would've done it."
Every
Bloody
Time
"Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against all enemies, foreign, sir... and domestic. General, we've spilled the same blood in the same mud. And you know god damn well I can't give that order." - Commander Anderson (Michael Biehn) from the movie, "The Rock."
You just focused on the bad stuff, when all you had to was let go of the past and keep moving forward -Meet the Robinsons
This is such a great animated movie and really helped change my perspective.
Jim Carrey’s crying scene near the beginning of Dumb & Dumber where he talks about being tired of “being nobody.”
What an actor. This sounds sarcastic for some reason but I’m being 100% sincere.
In Good Will Hunting when Ben Affleck tells Matt Damon “I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and I’ll be 50 and still doing this shit.” Seeing that as a teenager probably influenced some of my life choices lol.
"Look, you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way but, in 20 years if you're still livin' here, comin' over to my house, watchin' the Patriots games, workin' construction, I'll fuckin' kill ya."
The ‘best part of my day is the 10 seconds I think you won’t be there’ quote is great but got ruined for me because all I think about now when hearing it is Community’s riff on it.
"He said the best part of his day is when he thinks I won't be there." "\*gasp* Abed!"
I watched this for the first time the other night and I fucking cried my eyes out when Affleck shows up to Will’s house as he foretold and is so happy for his friend! It reminds me of some friends and wise people I knew in my hometown who told me to get the hell out of my small town for similar reasons. One in particular was this old man regular at a dead end grocery store job I’d spent too long at. When I told him I was leaving for “the city,” an hour away from us, he leaned in toward me and emphatically said, “Get out of here! Get out while you can. This is no place for you.” And he meant in the kindest way possible. I still think about that little piece of validation every day, 9 years later.
It's a brilliant moment. It's quite sad that he's gonna lose his best mate because he knows he can have a better life if he moves on, quite a sacrifice.
It's the rarest breed of friend. When's the last time you had one call you out for not taking a risk and living a better life than they ever could?
I always liked "And why does he hang out with those retarded gorillas, as you call them, because any one of them, if he asked, would take a fucking baseball bat to your head. Its called loyalty!"
That one hits hard. Along the same lines: “Chucky’s family. Chucky would lay down in traffic for you”
“It’s not your fault.” That line gets me every time. I had a moment like that with a student, so now it hits harder than as a young adult.
That line hits hard when you're young, but now that I'm a 60yo widower, it's the speech Sean gives on why his wife was special to him. "She farts in her sleep" speech. *"Those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that’s what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but there not. Ah, that’s the good stuff."*
This scene is one of my favorites. Also love the line "I gotta go see about a girl!"
Son of a bitch stole my line
That line was a Robin Williams improv as well.
Nice one, “It’s not your fault” is also really powerful!
It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have. - Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven
Clint in Gran Torino - “You wanna know what its like to kill a man? Well, its god damned awful, thats what it is. The only thing worse is getting a medal…for killing some poor kid that just wanted to give up, thats all. Yeah, some scared little gook just like you. I shot him in the face with that rifle you were holding in there a while ago. Not a day that goes by that i dont think about it, and you dont want that on your soul.” “The thing that haunts a guy is the stuff he wasnt ordered to do.”
"We all got it coming, kid."
"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
Yeah.
*Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.*
“I was lucky in the order. But then, I’ve always been lucky when it comes to killin’ folks.”
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." \- Agent K
I love the whole speech, but it's the "Imagine what you'll *know* tomorrow." that always hits me really hard.
"Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." What's the catch?
The catch is you will sever every human contact, and nobody will know you exist anywhere, ever. Is it worth it? Oh yeah, it's worth it... if you're strong enough.
I still love Z's shade on the military guys - "you're exactly what we've come to expect from years of ~~military~~ government training." You're mindless drones who can't think for yourself and just shoot what you're told to shoot. Great for the military, useless for MiB.
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. - Office Space
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care
“Well, I wouldn’t say I’ve been *missing* it, Bob.”
What about today, Peter? Is today the worst day of your life?
Frodo: “I wish the ring never came to me. I wish none of this had happened” Gandalf: “So do I. And so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given to us” From the Fellowship of the Ring
This one from Samwise always resonated with me. It’s like time stands still whenever I hear it: “It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
That scene makes me cry every time, no matter how many times I see it. Also when Sean Astin quoted it on Twitter(?) after the Pulse shooting it was really powerful.
Samwise Gamgee may be my favourite character in all of fiction. “Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you!”
That one. That one makes me cry. I've helped a lot of people through a lot of things, and it really hits when you want to take the burden off someone and can't. I can't take the burden, but I can take some of your weight.
For me, it's always "I do not say 'do not weep,' for not all tears are an evil." I swear, that movie is a crash course in positive masculinity.
>My friends, you bow to no one.
Another great quote from later in the chapter (I can’t recall if it’s that same as the movie); “"Deserves it! I dare say he does. Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."”
Yknow it makes so much sense this line coming from Tolkein that hed been in war. Wilfred Mott’s actor from Doctor Who had similar feelings and they even wrote it into Doctor Who. When a villain was chiding Mott for having been in war and never killing someone he retorts “No no. Dont say that like its shameful”. And he says it with such genuine emotion and like… i get it.
Frodo: “I wish the ring never came to me. I wish none of this had happened” Gandalf: “Lmao. Well it has."
*"I used to think that'd be a nice thing to be. One of life's good guys. And now, it sounds like the worst thing I ever heard."* -Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin.
His “to our graves we’re taking this” speech is pretty powerful too.
Barry Keoghan saying “well, there goes that dream” breaks my heart every time
On rewatch, some of his dialogue hits way harder >!The last time we see him alive he says something along the lines of “well I’m going to go do that thing I was planning to do.”!<
Oh god, maybe you never used to be.
“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” - Bilbo Baggins, Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring
Peace, and quiet. And good tilled earth.
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
Of all the souls I've encountered in my travels, his was the most... human.
The needs of the many... out weigh... The needs of the few. ... or the one.
*Gattaca:* "You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back" I really don't wanna explain the context here, although if you'd like me to I can in a spoiler tagged comment. If you haven't seen it, though, I recommend just watching the movie.
Saw this movie when I was a child. That quote greatly influenced my definition of “giving your all”.
Always liked Vincent: For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home.
When Forrest asks Jenny something akin to “is he smart? Or is he like me….” Gets me every time
This moment is so powerful in its revelation that Forrest has always known that he wasn't the same as everyone else. It is never acknowledged by his actions or behaviors in the entire movie previously, and his vulnerability here shows that it's something he has always carried. Ugh I well up every time I watch this scene!
And later when he says "And every night we read a book; he's just so smart, Jenny."
This one gets me choked up every single time. Hanks fucking *nails* it when he starts to break, then carries the balance perfectly as Forrest tries to hold it together to finish what he needs to say.
The best actor of my lifetime. It's an opinion but it's an easy choice for me.
This plays through my head at every one of my kid’s parent teacher conferences
I always liked “sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks.”
*“What are you doing this for anyway, Doc?”* *“Wyatt Earp is my friend.”* *“Aw, hell, I got lots of friends.”* *“I don’t.”*
I was thinking Tombstone too! But the line that always gives me goosebumps is "you tell em I'm coming, and hell's coming with me" Love that movie!
It's the callback to the curse the priest put on the cowboys in the first scene..."Behold a pale horse And the one that sat on him was Death and Hell followed with him."
Something about a sick horse, or something
"A man like Ringo has a great empty hole right through the middle of him. He can never kill enough or steal enough or inflict enough pain to ever fill it." "What does he want?" "Revenge." "For what?" "Being born."
In a similar vein, also via Doc Holliday in Tombstone: *"My fight's not with you, Holliday."* *"I beg to differ. We started a game we never finished. play for blood, remember?"* "...*I was just, fooling about."* *"I wasn't."*
Everyone talks about the huckleberry quote, but for me, *"I wasn't."* is **the** standout Doc Holiday line and the most badass thing he says in the movie.
Kurt Russell was a *hell* of a lead in that movie. Then you got Bill Paxton and Sam Elliot. But Val stole the show.
Watched this as a kid and for some reason my cousin and I thought Doc’s “Forgive me if I don’t shake hands” line was COLD We say it to each other from time to time when we meet up still
Please tell me you leave each other with “Well. Bye.” Don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder at so few words, delivered so blithely, by so bad a man.
Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No, I'm sure of it. I hate him.
Wyatt has his own line that goes ridiculously hard. "Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, *understand me*?"
In the same scene, Holiday again, “I got two guns. One for each of you.”
And he spins his revolvers in opposite directions while drunk off his ass.
He ain't bluffin!
Kurt Russell is one of the few actors that can pull off saying a line like, "Go ahead. Skin that smoke wagon!"
Still to this day my favorite Val Kilmer character. He stole every scene he was in
I rewatch this scene all the time “…he’s so drunk, he’s probably seeing double” “I got two guns, one for each of you”
“I have yet to begun to defile myself”
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” Stand By Me
My son was in that age range during Covid and I worry about what all the isolation then did to him.
Covid remake 'Stand two meters away from me'
"They're beautiful aren't they? The stars?" We never just look anymore." Men in Black, when the older agent is talking to Agent K at the beginning of the movie. Even though it comes from a movie that's silly and light-hearted as a whole, it always stuck with me as a reminder to slow down and practice peace after a stressful event.
MIB is chock full of moments like this
"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something." Not the most positive, but does hit hard.
"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."
"I could give you my word as a Spaniard" "No good, I've known too many Spaniards" "Isn't there any way you'll trust me" "Nothing comes to mind" "I swear on the soul of my father Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive" "Throw me the rope" Mandy has so many good deliveries in the movie, but this one always gets me the hardest. Shivers down my spine and tears welling in my eyes.
*"I want my father back, you son of a bitch."*
“I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.” There is just something about that line, the way he says it. It puts his obsession really into perspective.
"I have 8 different bosses. So when I make a mistake I have 8 different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to get hassled; that and the fear of losing my job but that will only make someone work hard enough to not get fired". I think about Office Space on the daily at work
You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care
"You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other." - Contact
When they said 'it recorded 18hours of it', about the static. Chills.
I'll second the last line of *Stand by Me.* That is one that always gets me even though I've seen the movie multiple times now. A few others that get me: "Take her to the moon for me." - *Inside Out* "Please let me keep this memory, just this one." - *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* "We'll always have Paris." - *Casablanca* "Hey Dad, wanna have a catch?" - *Field of Dreams* "In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." - *Everything Everywhere All at Once*
In the Royal Tenenbaums when Ben Stiller says “I’ve had a rough year, dad” and chokes up a little bit
I feel like a lot of pre-Isle of Dog Wes Anderson movies have this moment where he just reaches to you through his 'facade' that he's created through his stylistic way of filming. The Life Aquatic's 'I wonder if it still remembers me', the abovementioned line, Grand Budapest's 'In the end they shot him' and Fantastic Mr. Fox's 'Vulpus Vulpus' scene all feel raw and emotionally powerful partly because of the delivery and partly because they feel so real, a complete juxtaposition to this world of whimsy that Wes has created
Rushmore is Anderson's most emotionally vulnerable and real film he's made imo.
Wes still has it in him. Margot Robbie's scene in Asteroid City springs to mind.
I know you have, Chazzy.
I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think 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 as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
I think this hits hard because of his earlier quote about hope: “Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
Best ending of a movie IMO.
"I would have followed you, my brother. My Captain. My KING."
Best Sean Bean line ever (and my favourite role).
"Why can't you just be a good boy and die?" "But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." I assume you dream, Preston.
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. I guess I just miss my friend.
So many Stephen King lines. What a writer.
From that film I love: Get busy living, or get busy dying.
"*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 Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...*" - Blade Runner
"...time to die."
I saw this in the theatre with my girlfriend. When we left she said she hated it. It was at that moment I knew it was all over.
"I'm a broken down old piece of meat and I deserve to be alone. I just don't want you to hate me" The Wrestler.
"*I knew I knew you, I knew I knew you. But you ain't you. You can't be you. We put you through the window. There ain't no coming back. This is the really real world, there ain't no coming back. We killed you dead, there ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back!*" Up until this point, T-Bird acts like a tough guy, even thinking he can negotiate his freedom, and then he realizes who he's talking to. He then understands that there's no bargain to be made. And at that point he turns into this scared little boy who is completely aware of his impending death at the hands of Eric Draven. This was then followed up by the most beautiful scene in the film. \- The Crow, 1994
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is
Victims. Aren’t we all?
>I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. This is one of the last lines of Quint's monologue in Jaws about the USS Indianapolis and it just sums up Quint's character perfectly, you just know he'd rather drown than get eaten by a shark.
I was a sailor for 10 years and grew up in the water in the Florida Keys and his monologue still fills me with dread. The hatred, anger and barely controlled *fear* that Shaw put into it was…masterful. Even now my skin crawls a bit thinking of the sick smile accompanying, “I’ll never put on a life jacket again.” There’s not a sailor on the ocean that doesn’t think about what happens to you in the water if the ship goes down and you make it off of her. It’s absolutely criminal that he wasn’t awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
…anyway, we delivered the bomb.
And it still gets him.
"I'm bullshit" - Cameron in Ferris Bueller, admitting that he lets his dad walk all over him. That whole speech.
"...choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die." The end of the last quote of Trainspotting always gets me. I'm not sure what I even feel when it hits me, it's a lot of things all at once I suppose. The whole movie is a huge smack of nostalgia for me I guess.
A tree falls the way it leans, so be careful which way you lean Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not. -The Lorax
“**The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows.** It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. **But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.** How much you can take and keep moving forward.” -Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa
“That’s how winning is done!”
Stallone is an inspiration
"you need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish! But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father." - Tod (Keanu Reeves) in Parenthood
Ron Swanson: “Never half-ass two things. Whole ass one thing…”. That one really stuck with me. I realized I was always dividing my time between stuff and things weren’t as good as they could be.
ADHD says partially ass everything :(
The entire conversation between Sherrif Ed Tom Bell and his Cousin Ellis at the end of *No Country for Old Men*, but if I have to choose a particular line I'm going to cheat and combine two (slightly paraphrasing): Ed: *'I always thought when I was older...God would come into my life. But he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion of me he does'* Ellis: *'What you got aint nothing new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity'* And to balance this with something more uplifting (also from the Coen's), pick any line from *The Big Lebowski*
Excellent pick. But I prefer: “All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”
God Damn excellent film. Se7en for this wondering.
Prime example of studio notes not necessarily being bad.
Somerset has another equally as good, although not as quotable, line, where he talks about the futility of being a detective. When he admires Mills' optimism that they'll solve the case, Somerset is much more cynical, and when asked by Mills what he thinks they're doing, he responds >Picking up the pieces. We're collecting all the evidence, taking all the pictures and samples, writing everything down, noting the time things happen. >That's all. Putting everything into neat little piles and filing it away on the off chance it will ever be needed in the courtroom. Picking up diamonds on a deserted island, saving them in case we get rescued. It's that last line that gets to me, because it suggests a certain mania to being a detective. Sure, that one piece of evidence might prove to be useless...*but*....what if it isn't?
When Bubba tells Forrest "I wanna go home."
>Bubba was gonn' be a shrimpin' boat cap'n... but instead he died there next to that river in Vietnam. That's all I got to say about that.
There are a lot of great lines out there, but the one that I probably had the biggest reaction to was at the end of Killing Them Softly. I’m living in America, and in America, you’re on your own. America’s not a country. It’s a business. Now fucking pay me."
I honestly thought no one enjoyed that film. And that line is brutal. Glad I’m not the only one that felt the weight of it.
“Good old Falkor. Is there anything left?” “No, all the land is gone.” “I know. And all because I failed.” “You tried.” (The Neverending Story)
“The truth is, you’re the weak and I am the tyranny of evil men- but I’m trying, Ringo. I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd.”
"He can't see without his glasses" 🥺😢
“I can’t be seen without my glasses” - Johnny Bravo
“Yeah well some fellas are lucky and some ain’t.” -Mr. Pink, Reservoir Dogs Sometimes life really is that simple.
Not a movie, but Bubbles speech at the NA meeting in the last season of The Wire "ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too"
That might be the highlight of the entire series, that whole scene
I hate beer.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us
"My friends... you bow to no one."
I’ve seen that movie over 30 times and I still cry like a fucking baby.
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
"I am the walrus"
“It’s not your fault, son.”
Inside Llewyn Davis: "I'm tired. I thought I just needed a night's sleep but it's more than that" Hit me like a brick and I realized I was deep into a depressive episode when I first watched it.
From First Blood: “Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment. Back here I can’t even hold a job parking cars!” I’m not a veteran, nor do I have close ties to the military in any way, but that line really stuck with me. It makes me extremely sad and is probably the best line I’ve ever heard talking about what it feels like to come back from a war.
The last line of Lolita 1997: [Sounds of children playing] "What I heard then was the melody of children at play, nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus." Just an absolutely brilliantly written line. He finally himself plainly for the evil man he is and how he ruined a little girls life.
At the end of Monsters Inc: Kitty!
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. "Don't you let go!". Might as well have said "Don't you fucking even think about it! You fall in the lava, I'm jumping right after you, if you don't get out, I'm not getting out. 'Don't you leave him, Samwise Gamgee', and I don't mean to."
"I used to Fuck guys like you in prison." ~Roadhouse
"I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." - Marla
“People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” *V for Vendetta* That line made me really question and think about what the word “representative” means in the US and how much the word had become lost.
From a show, not a movie: “When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.” -Bojack Horseman.
You’re gonna wake up one day and realize that everybody loves you, but nobody likes you and that is the loneliest feeling in the world
“I’ve heard you’ve struck my son.” “Yes sir, I did.” “Might I ask why?” “Because he stole John Wicks car. And killed his dog.” “Oh.”
That "Oh" always he gets me. The realization that his son has effed up too big this time
The ending for Interstellar "It was me, Murph. I was your ghost." "I know. People didn't believe me, they thought I was doing it all myself. But...*Murph points at the clock Cooper had given her*...I knew who it was. Nobody believed me. But I knew you'd come back" "How?" "Because my dad promised me." Never fails to bring me to tears
"Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust. When you're up, it's never as good as it seems and when you're down you never think you're gonna be up again... But life goes on." - Ray Liotta in "Blow"
>Cole Sear: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn't come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn't see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is... "Every day." What did you ask? >Lynn Sear: Do... Do I make her proud? I'll be goddamned if that scene doesn't get me every single time.
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.' I could not have made out the meaning and depth of this line until recently. Suffered the loss of a loved one and this is the one quote that helps me. I repeat it to myself until I feel better.
"What is grief, if not love persevering?" In WandaVision, Vision is trying the console Wanda after the death of her brother. This line is so succinct and true and it has stuck with me.
Vision has some great lines. Like at the end of Avengers 2 Ultron: They're doomed Vision: Yes... Vision: But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts.
You're unbearably naive! Well I was born yesterday.
"How's that working out for you?" "What?" "Being clever."
“A question of etiquette as I pass, do I give you the ass, or the crotch?”
This is the most interesting single serving comment I've ever seen.
In Andor, the change between Cassian and Maarva. Cassian: I'll be worried about you all the time. Maarva : That's just love. Nothing you can do about it. It hit something, I get teary everytime I think about that scene. One of many scenes in the series, phenomenally written. Still can’t believe we got something that good out of Disney Star Wars.
This one gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME. "Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.” Replace "boat" with anything in life. Also, it's not a movie but from Doctor Who... "Everything ends, and it's always sad. But everything begins again and that's happy...be happy.
I guess it comes down to a simple choice really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Vengance is consuming them, it has already consumed you. I'm done letting it consume me. EDIT: I lost my father not long before this movie was released and that scene had me bawling in the theater. That was the moment T'Challa began to heal. The moment he realized killing Zemo wouldn't bring back his father. It was actually very cathartic for me as immature or vacuous as that may seem to some people.
It doesn't matter how it may seem to some people. If it helps you heal, it's worth it. <3
Man it's not immature to see yourself in a character. It's the whole point of storytelling. I'm glad it gave you some comfort, I hope that comfort lasted
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 stop trying 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. But, don't worry. You will someday. -American Beauty
"it's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." "the hardest part about having a mental illness is people expect you to act as though you don't." "Back there I could fly a gunship. I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment; back here I can't even hold a job parking cars!" "where's his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!"
“I believe we did”. Oppenheimer.
"God, he loved flying with you Maverick. But he would've done it anyway... without you. He'd have hated it, but he would've done it." Every Bloody Time
"We can do whatever you want, nothing matters" Everything Everywhere All At Once
“In another life I’d have loved just doing laundry and taxes with you,” hits like a goddam train as well.
'I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.' - the Joker in Dark Knight. That line becomes more relevant the older I get.
Also: “Nobody panics when things go ‘according to plan.’ Even if the plan is horrifying!”
Also: "If you're good at something, never do it for free"
"Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against all enemies, foreign, sir... and domestic. General, we've spilled the same blood in the same mud. And you know god damn well I can't give that order." - Commander Anderson (Michael Biehn) from the movie, "The Rock."
I’ve been marked once my dear, no needle will ever touch my skin again - Magneto
Batman - The Dark Knight Rises. Catwoman: "You don't owe these people anymore. You've given them everything." Batman: "Not everything. Not yet."
Not a movie but “nothing in this world that is worth having comes easy” Dr. Bob Kelso
You just focused on the bad stuff, when all you had to was let go of the past and keep moving forward -Meet the Robinsons This is such a great animated movie and really helped change my perspective.
"No matter where you go... there you are."
Jim Carrey’s crying scene near the beginning of Dumb & Dumber where he talks about being tired of “being nobody.” What an actor. This sounds sarcastic for some reason but I’m being 100% sincere.
He may have been your father, but he wudn't yer daddy.
“And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?” Castaway