Film Quotes #1

Angela Hayes: Jane, he's a freak! Jane Burnham: Then so am I! And we'll always be freaks and we'll never be like other people and you'll never be a freak because you're just too... perfect! -American Beauty (1999)

You can't hide what's in your heart -The Green Mile (1999)

Tyler Durden: My dad never went to college, so it was real important that I go. Narrator: Sounds familiar. Tyler Durden: So I graduate, I call him up long distance, I say "Dad, now what?" He says, "Get a job." Narrator: Same here. Tyler Durden: Now I'm 25, make my yearly call again. I say Dad, "Now what?" He says, "I don't know, get married." Narrator: I can't get married, I'm a 30 year old boy. Tyler Durden: We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need. -Fight Club.

Choose Life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance, choose fixed interest mortgage repayments, choose a starter home, choose your friends, choose leisurewear and matching luggage, choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics, choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning, choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth, choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves, choose your future, choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. -Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Get busy living, or get busy dying. -The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world. -The Green Mile (1999)

Do you believe that if a man repents enough for what he done wrong, than he'll get to go back to the time that was happiest for him and live there forever? Could that be what heaven's like? -The Green Mile (1999)

We each owe a death - there are no exceptions - but, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long. -The Green Mile (1999)

You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God. -True Grit (2010)

I wish I were a Warhol silk screen hanging on the wall. Or little Joe or maybe Lou. I'd love to be them all. All New York's broken hearts and secrets would be mine. I'd put you on a movie reel, and that would be just fine. - Ian Curtis, Control (2007).

I was happy, I never meant for it to grow like this. When I'm up there, singing... they don't understand how much I give and how it affects me. Panic's over. He's here, Now they want more. They expect me to give more and I don't know if I can. It's like it's not happening to me, but... someone pretending to be me, someone dressed in my skin. Now we're going to America. I have no control anymore. Ian Curtis, Control (2007).

Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't. -Fight Club.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction... -Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world -Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it! -Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

Romeo: Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. Mercutio: If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. -Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Because I have a right to be heard. I have a voice! -The King's Speech (2010)

Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. -The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Andy Dufresne: That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... Haven't you ever felt that way about music? Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here. Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget. Red: Forget? Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours. Red: What're you talking about? Andy Dufresne: Hope. -The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

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