Film Quotes

Film Quotes about Sex

Film Quotes about Society

Alex - We’re two people who get turned on by elite status. I think cheap os our starting point.
UP IN THE AIR

Leonard Zelig - I’m a psychoanalyst. I work mostly with delusion parents. I studied great deal with Freud in Vienna. We broke up the concept of penis envy. Freud felt that is should be limited to women.
ZELIG (1983)

Andrew - Can there be love without sex? Sometimes I think the two are totally different. Sex alleviates tension and love causes it.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY (1982)

Val - The nicest thing about masturbation is afterword - the cuddling time.
HOLLYWOOD ENDING (2002)

Helen Sinclair - The world will open to you like an oyster. No, the world will open to you like a giant vagina. BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (1994)

C.W. - I happened to enjoy the proximity of a well proportionate member of the opposite sex. That’s how God created us, why should I be the one to quibble with his concept.
​THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION (2001)

Miles - My brain, it’s my second favorite organ.
​SLEEPER (1973)

The Lovin’ Spoonful - Can I interest you in a naked picture of Hugh Hefner?
​WHAT’S UP TIGER LILY (1966)

Cassidy - You know what I do with unhappiness? I buy it off! You unhappy?
​PSYCHO (1960)

Boris - Some men don’t think about sex at all.
They become lawyers.
LOVE AND DEATH (1975)

David Dobel - It’s not in vino veritas, it’s in eros veritas.
ANYTHING ELSE (2003)

Linda - Welcome to planet Earth thanks to a broken condom.
MIGHTY APHRODITE (1995)

Alvy - Hey, don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.
ANNIE HALL (1977)

Viggo - The more perfect society gets, the more psychotic we become. We evolve through brutality. That’s why we had teeth and claws. Self preservation was the highest law. But as time went on the pack began to provide for us and we abandoned our violent nature. But it never went away. Laid beside us in our sleep. Waiting. And as it waited we became slaves to the systems we built. Now it’s all falling apart. Soon our cities we’ll be washed away by floods. That’s why you found me. Because you’re no longer blind to all this.
TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG -S1E4 (2019)

Martin - To settle a war, the leaders of the countries involved should meet in a stadium. Fight it out with sock filled with horse manure. 
RADIO DAYS (1987)

Harry - In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. in Switzerland, they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce.The cuckoo clock.
THE THIRD MAN (1949)

Professor Levi - We are all faced through our lives with agonizing decisions. Moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points, but we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Event unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly  human happiness does not seem to be included. In the design of creation it is only we with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things like their family, their work and from the hope that future generations might understand more.
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)

Flea Master - Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else. Crooks are not the worst people, they are just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
CONFIDENTIAL REPORT (1955)

Film Quotes about Marriage

Ryan - I’m not going to lie. Marriage can be a pain in the ass. And you’re kind of right - all. Of this is just stuff on the way to your eventual demise. We are all on running clocks that cannot be slowed down or paused and they all lead to the same place. Some guys leave marks that last beyond their own mortality. Not guys like you and me, but some. But even those footprints disappear. There isn’t a “point.” I’m not the guy you’d normally want to talk about all this stuff. But think about it - your favorite memories. The greatest moments of your life? Were you alone> I don’t want to sound like a Hallmark card, but … Life? Its a better with company.
UP IN THE AIR

Mike - Personally, I don’t like the girlfriend to have a husband. If she fooled the husband she can fool me.
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

Sandy Bates - I think any relationship is not based on either compromise, or maturity or perfection or any of that its really based on luck. That’s the key thing. People don’t like to acknowledge that because it means the loss of control, but you really have to be lucky.
​STARDUST MEMORIES (1980)

Maxwell - Marriage to me is a death of hope.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY (1982)

David Dobel - Women are all that we ever going to know of paradise on earth.
​ANYTHING ELSE (2003)

Halley - My ex-husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should’ve had a second look.
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)

Boris - I totally lucked out. It just shows what meaningless blind chance the universe is. Everybody schemes and dreams to meet the right person, and I jump out a window and land on her. And a psychic yet! I mean, come on, talk about the irrational heart, not to mention I've developed a fondness for grits.
WHATEVER WORKS (2009)

Boris - She had a high lQ and a low-cut dress. Boy, they really don't write them like they used to.
WHATEVER WORKS (2009)

Gabriel - The only time Rifkin and his wife experienced simultaneous orgasm is when the judge handed them their divorce.
HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992)

Film Quotes about Love

Mike - It has been the most interesting cruise. All very rich, rare and strange. But I had had no stomach for it. Living on a hook, takes away your appetite. You have no taste for any pleasure at all but the one thats burning in you. But even without an appetite I learned its quite amazing how much a fool like me can swallow.
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

Elsa - I was thought to think of love in Chinese. The Chinese say - it is difficult for love to last long. Therefore one who loves passionately is cured of love in the end
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

David Dobel - Women are all that we ever going to know of paradise on earth.
​ANYTHING ELSE (2003)

Hemingway - You will never write well if you fear dying. I believe love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face like some rhino hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave. It is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds. Until it returns as it does to all men. And then you must make really good love again. Think about it.
​ MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)

Lenni - True love never runs smoothly.
CRISIS IN SIX SCENES E.4

Claudia - I’ll tell you everything and you’ll tell me everything and maybe we can get through all the piss and shit and lies that kills other people
MAGNOLIA(1999)

Sonja - To love is to suffer, to avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore to be unhappy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.
LOVE AND DEATH (1975)

Film Quotes about Feminism

Film Quotes about Art

Danny - Don’t ever change, Tiger. I don’t think I’ll like you with a hearth.
​TOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949)

Nora -  We can accept an imperfect dad. The idea of the good father was invented 30 years ago. Before that fathers are expected to be silent and absent and unreliable, and selfish, and can all say we want them to be different, but on some basic level we accept them.  We love them for their fallibilities, but people absolutely don't accept those same failings in mothers. We don't accept it structurally and we don't accept it spiritually, because the basis of this Judeo-Christian whatever is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she is perfect. She is a virgin who gives birth, unwaveringly supports her child and hold his dead body when he is gone. And the dad isn't there. He didn't even do the fucking. God is in heaven, God is the father and God didn't show up.
MARRIAGE STORY (2019)

Hemingway - I think a woman is equal to man in courage. Have you ever shot a charging lion?
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)

Lenny - Who is the boss between me and mommy? I’m the boss, mommy is only the decision maker. There is a difference between that. Mommy says what we do and I have control over the channel changer.
MIGHTY APHRODITE (1995)

Orson Welles - Reality is the toothbrush waiting at home for you in a glass, a bus ticket, a paycheck and the grave. Art is a lie. A lie that makes us realize the truth.
F FOR FAKE (1973)

Sheldon Flender - Guilt is petty bourgeois crap. An artist creates his own moral universe.
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (1994)

Hemingway - No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS(2011)

Rain - Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992)

Stein - We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist’s job is not succumb to despair but to find a antidote for the emptiness of existence. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)

Elmir - If you hang (fake paintings) in a museum, in a collection of great paintings. And if they hang long enough there, they become real.
F FOR FAKE (1972)

Chan - She said that you’re looking at a Hieronymus Bosch and it made you feel romantic, so you kissed her. I thought she knew your shrink was not helping you.
A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK (2019)

Colonel Walter E. Kurtz - It’s judgement that defeats us.
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)

Film Quotes about God and Religion

Sandy Bates - To you I’m an atheist, to God I’m loyal opposition.
STARDUST MEMORIES (1980)

Father Benedetto - You cannot doubt the existence of hell. You’re living it. Its a place without love.
THE AMERICAN (2010)

Aunt Vanesa - The world may or may not be without purpose, but its not totally without some kind of magic.
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (2014)

Father Morin - Give me, Lord, what you have left over. Give me what none ever ask for. I’m not asking for peace, neither of mind or body. They ask you for that so much that you must have no more. Give me, Lord, what you have left over. Give me what is refused you. Give me what others don’t want. But give me courage and strength too. For you alone give what we can only find on our own.  
​LEON MORIN PRIEST (1961)

Dorothy - My days as catholic ended when my mom found my diaphragm.
​ ALICE (1990)

Miles - Do I believe in God? I’m what you call a teleological existential atheist. I believe there is an intelligence to the universe with the exception of few parts of New Jersey.
​SLEEPER (1973)

Walter Hollander - We’re innocent tourists. He is a priest. I’m sure he could get out of here if he made some effort but you know how it is with those guys. The one who suffers most gets the promotion.
​DON’T DRINK THE WATER (1994)

Gabriel - God doesn’t play dice with the universe.
No, he just plays hide and seek.
HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992)

Rose - Too bad the Jewish religion doesn’t have an afterlife. They will get a lot more customers.
CAFE SOCIETY (2016)

Sid - God is not going to punish you. You’re an atheist.
CRISIS IN SIX SCENES E.5

Miles - When God punishes you is not that you don’t get what you want, you get everything that you want and there is no time left.
MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL

Judah - God is a luxury I can’t afford.
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)

Boris - It's not the idea behind Christianity. I’m faulting, or Judaism, or any religion. It's the professionals who've made it into a corporate business. There's big money in the God racket. Big money.Hey, the basic teachings of Jesus are quite wonderful. So, by the way, is the original intention of Karl Marx. Okay? Hey, what could be bad? Everybody should share equally. Do unto others. Democracy. Government by the people. All great ideas. These are all great ideas, but they all suffer from one fatal flaw. Which is they're all based on the fallacious notion that people are fundamentally decent. Give them a chance to do right and they'll take it. They're not stupid, selfish, greedy, cowardly, short-sighted worms.
WHATEVER WORKS (2009)

John - God made the whole universe perfect. The oceans, the skies, the beautiful flowers, the trees everywhere.
Howard - That's right. He's a decorator.
WHATEVER WORKS (2009)

Ron - The void is it. I never believed in God. Not even as a little kid. I used to even if he exists he has done such a terrible job, its a wonder people don’t get together and file class action suit against him.
INTERIORS (1978)

Barber  - I’m blessed. So was Job. One, two, tree - God fucked him over.
CRISIS IN SIX SCENES (2019) E.1

Film Quotes about the Human Condition

Ryan - Imagine for a second that you’re carrying a backpack. I wan you to feel the straps on your shoulders. Feel them? Now, I want you to pack it with all the stuff you have in your life. Start with the little things. The stuff in drawers and on shelves. The collectibles and knick-knacks. Feel the weight as it adds up. Now, start adding the larger stuff. Tour clothes, table top appliances, lamps, linens, your TV. That backpack should be getting pretty heavy at this point - Go Bigger. Your couch, your bed, your kitchen table. Stuff it all in. Your car, get it in there. Your home, whether you have a studio apartment or a two story house, I want you to stuff it into the backpack. Now try to walk. Kinda hard, isn’t it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis. we weight ourselves down until we can’t even move. And make no mistake - Moving is living. Now, I’m going to set your backpack on fire. What do you want to take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can’t remember. Drink some gingko and let the photos burn. In fact let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. It’s kind of exhilarating isn’t it? That is how I approach every day.
UP IN THE AIR

Ryan - This is where it gets little difficult, but stay with me. You have a new backpack, but this time, I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, people around the office, friends of friends and work your way to the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Now move into family members - cousins, aunts, and uncles. Get your sisters and your brothers and your parents. Get them all in that backpack. And finally your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend. Get them in their too. Don’t worry. I’m not going to ask you to light it on fire. Feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components of your life. Feel the straps cutting into your shoulders. all those negotiations and arguments and secrets and compromises. Now set that bag down. You don’t need to carry all that weight. Some animals were meant to carry each other. To live symbiotically over lifetime. Star-crosses lovers. Monogamous swans. We are not one of those animals. The slower we move the faster we die. We are not swans. We are sharks.
UP IN THE AIR

Elsa - Human nature is eternal. Therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature in the end.
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

Peter - Did you know the universe is haphazard, morally neutral and unimaginatively violent.
SEPTEMBER (1987)

Stanley - Autographs are for mental defectives.
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (2014)

Abe Lucas - Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
IRRATIONAL MAN (2015)

Barny - My soul felt like a brothel.
​LEON MORIN PRIEST (1961)

Miles - He was probably a member of the National Riffle Association. It was a group that helped criminals to get guns so they can shoot citizens. It was a public service. SLEEPER (1973)

David Dovel - What you don’t know, won’t hurt you, it will kill you.
ANYTHING ELSE (2003)

Norman - People never run away from anything. I think we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever climb out. We scratch and claw... but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.
​PSYCHO (1960)

Colonel Walter E. Kurtz  - Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedoms from opinion of others? Even the options of yourself?
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)

Boris - My story is, whatever works. You know, as long as you don't hurt anybody. Any way you can filch a little joy in this cruel, dog-eat-dog, pointless, black chaos. That's my story.
WHATEVER WORKS (2009)

Alvy - There’s an old joke. Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort. And one of them says, “The food at this place is really terrible.” The other says, “I know, and such small portions.” That’s essentially how I feel about life: full of loneliness, misery, suffering and unhappiness and it’s all over much too quickly.
ANNIE HALL (1977)

Film Quotes about Death

Fielding Mellish - Freedom is wonderful. On the other hand if you’re dead is tremendous drawback to your sex life.
BANANAS (1971)

Hemingway - Yes, it was a good book, because it was an honest book. And that’s what war does to men and there is nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud. Unless you die gracefully. And then is not only noble, but brave. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)

Miles - (I believe in) Sex and Death. Two things that come once in a lifetime, but at least after death you’re not noxious.
SLEEPER (1973)

Film Quotes about Dreams

Emmet Ray - Soon or later everybody’s dreams go up in smoke.
SWEET AND LOWDOWN (1999)

Bobby - Dreams are dreams.
CAFE SOCIETY (2016)

Laurel - You can’t go through life rubbing lamps and wishing.
MELINDA AND MELINDA (2004)

Film Quotes about Life

Abe Lucas - There is a difference between a theoretical world of philosophy bullshit and real life. Real, nasty, gay life that includes greed, and hate and genocide. If you learn nothing else from me you should learn that much of philosophy it is verbal masturbation.
IRRATIONAL MAN (2015)

Lee - I have to change my life before is too late. I’m not happy. I married too young, neither of us had a chance to live to explore. I just turned 40, I don’t want to look up at 50 and find out that I measured my fucking life with a coffee spoon.
CELEBRITY (1998)

Chan -  Real life is fine for people that can’t do any better.
A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK (2019)

Chris Wilton - Hard work is mandatory, but I think everybody is afraid to admit what big part luck plays. I mean, scientists are confirming more and more that all existences here are by blind chance. No purpose, no design.
MATCH POINT (2005)

Film Quotes about Truth and Lies

Jasmine - Look, could you stop saying I was lying? God. Okay, I may have dressed up a few facts, omitted a few unpleasant details, but in the main, I mean, me feelings, my ideas, my humor, I mean, isn’t that who I am? Christ. People reinvent themselves, don’t they?
BLUE JASMINE (2013)

Advocate - We needn’t accept everything is true.
All is necessary.
K - God, what a miserable conclusion. It turns lying into universal principle.
THE TRIAL (1962)

K - The truth might be that I only came here because I wanted to see if the inside of this famous legal system is as loathsome as I guessed it was. And now I’m too depressed to want to see anything more. I just want to get out of here and be alone.
THE TRIAL (1962)

Film Quotes about Money

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