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Almost Famous

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
- Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman)

If I die, tell Rolling Stone that my last words were "I'm on drugs!"
- Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup)

You're too sweet for rock and roll.
Sweet? Where do you get off? Where do you get sweet? I am dark and mysterious, and I am PISSED OFF! I could be very dangerous to all of you! And you should know that about me... I am THE ENEMY!
- Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) and William Miller (Patrick Fugit)

Feck you!
Hey!
This is a house of lies!
Well there it is, your sister used the "F" word.
I think she said "feck."
What's the difference?
The letter "u."
- Anita (Zooey Deschanel), Elaine (Frances McDormand) and William Miller (Patrick Fugit)

What, are you like the star of your school?
They hate me.
You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.
- Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and William Miller (Patrick Fugit)

Russell. Jeff. Ed. Larry. I really love your band. I think the song "Fever Dog" is a big step forward for you guys. I think you guys producing it yourselves, instead of Glyn Johns, was the right thing to do. And the guitar sound... is incindiary. Incendiary. Way to go.
[He turns to leave. The band members regard one another for a moment.]
Russell Hammond: Well, don't stop there!
Jeff Bebe: Yeah, come back here! I'm incendiary, too, man!
- William (Patrick Fugit) meets the members of Stillwater

I always tell the girls never take it seriously. If you never take it seriously then you never get hurt. If you never get hurt then you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely you can just go to the record store and visit your friends.
- Penny Lane (Kate Hudson)

How old are you?
Eighteen.
Me too! How old are we really?
Seventeen.
Me too!
Actually, I'm sixteen.
Me too. Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different.
I'm fifteen.
- Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) and William Miller (Patrick Fugit)

Is it that hard to make us look cool?!
- Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee)

It's all happening!
- Polexia Aphrodesia (Anna Paquin)

The Dish

Tagline: As Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, our only link was a satellite dish in rural Australia with a few bugs (And a few hundred sheep).

High Fidelity

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable? Or am I miserable because I listen to pop music?
- Rob (John Cusack)

Should I bolt every time I get that feeling in my gut when I meet someone new? Well, I've been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.
- Rob (John Cusack)

Liking both Marvin Gaye and Art Garfunkel is like supporting both the Israelies and the Palestinians.
No, it's really not, Rob. You know why? Because Marvin Gaye and Art Garfunkel make pop records.
Made! Made! Marvin Gaye was shot by his father!
- Rob (John Cusack) and Laura (Iben Hjejle)

We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five.
- Barry (Jack Black)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Mr. Havlok? Anybody? ...Everyone's lost but me.
- Young Indiana Jones (River Phoenix)

This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you!
That belongs in a museum!
So do you!
- Panama Hat (Paul Maxwell) and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

Listen. Since I've met you I've nearly been incinerated, drowned, shot at, and chopped into fish bait. We're caught in the middle of something sinister here, my guess is dad found out more than he was looking for and until I'm sure, I'm going to continue to do things the way I think they should be done.
- Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

They're trying to kill us!
I know, Dad!
This is a new experience for me.
It happens to me all the time.
- Henry Jones (Sean Connery) and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

Henry Jones: I didn't know you could fly a plane.
Indy: Fly, yes. Land, no.
- Henry Jones (Sean Connery) and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) as they attempt an escape in a biplane

Tell me about this miserable little diary of yours. The book is useless and yet you come all the way back to Berlin to get it. Why? Why? What are you hiding? What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?
It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.
- Colonel Vogel (Michael Byrne) to Henry Jones (Sean Connery)

I'm like a bad penny, I always turn up.
- Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

I'm as human as the next man.
Dad, I was the next man!
- Henry Jones (Sean Connery) and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), when Indy asks his dad how he could have slept with Elsa

Sorry about the head but I thought that you were one of them.
Dad, they come in through the doors!
Ha, good point.
- Henry Jones (Sean Connery) and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

Nazis. I hate these guys.
- Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth.
- Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

Henry Jones: You call THIS archaeology?!
- Henry Jones (Sean Connery)

What's this?
Ark of the Covenant.
Are you sure?
Pretty sure.
- Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

Sallah, I said NO camels! That's FIVE camels; can't you count?
- Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

Walter Donovan: Germany has declared war on the Jones boys.
Walter Donovan (Julian Glover)

Sallah: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Junior"?
Henry: That's his name. [points to himself] Henry Jones... [points to Indy] ...Junior.
Indy: I like "Indiana."
Henry: We named the dog Indiana.
Marcus Brody: May we go home now, please?
Sallah: The dog?! You are named after the dog?!
Indy: I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog.
- Henry Jones (Sean Connery) and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) explain Indy's name to Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) and Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott)

the Labyrinth

You have to understand my position. I'm a coward. And Jareth scares me.
What kind of a position is that?
No position! That's my point.
- Hoggle (voice of Brian Henson) and Sarah (Jennifer Connelly)

That's not fair!
You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?
- Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) and Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie)

Give me the child.
Sarah. I have been generous till now, and I can be cruel.
Generous? What have you done that is generous?
Everything! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me and I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down. And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?
- Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) and Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie)

But I must warn you that one of us always tells the truth and one of us always lies. That's the rules too, he always lies.
I do not! I tell the truth!
Oh what a lie!
- Top Red Guard and Top Blue Guard

Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great. You have no power over me.
- Sarah (Jennifer Connelly)

It's a crystal, nothing more. But if you turn it this way, and look into it, it will show you your dreams. But this is not a gift for an ordinary girl, who takes care of a screaming baby. Do you want it? Then forget the baby!
- Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie)

Ow! It bit me!
What'd you expect fairies to do?
I thought they did nice things, like granting wishes!
Shows what you know, don't it?
- Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) and Hoggle (voice of Brian Henson)

What exactly have you sworn to?
That I am to guard this bridge with my life, and that no one may cross without my permission.
Well... May we have your permission to cross?
Well I, uh... I... that is, uh... hm... Yes?
- Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) and Sir Didymus

Sir Ludo, canst thou summon the very rocks?
Sure. Rocks friends.
- Sir Didymus and Ludo

You remind me of the babe.
What babe?
The babe with the power.
What power?
The power of voodoo.
Who do?
You do.
Do what?
Remind me of the babe.
- Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie) and the goblins

Everything I've done, I've done for you. I move the stars for no one.
- sung by Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie)

Sneakers

Tagline: We could tell you what it's about. But then, of course, we'd have to kill you

It's always the green one.
[cuts wire, then pauses, while alarm continues going off]
Good, Carl.
- Carl (River Phoenix) and Martin Bishop (Robert Redford)

You know I could have been in the NSA, but they found out my parents were married.
- Martin Bishop (Robert Redford)

There I was in prison. And one day I help a couple of older gentlemen make some free telephone calls. They turn out to be, let us say, good family men.
Organized crime?
Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.
- Cosmo (????????????) and Martin Bishop (Robert Redford)

Pollution. Crime. Drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair--we throw GOBS of money at them and problems only get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it.
I agree. Now who did you say you were working for?
Oh, that's just my day job.
- Cosmo (????????????) and Martin Bishop (Robert Redford)

Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?
- Cosmo (????????????)

There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information.
- Cosmo (????????????)

We got bubkes! We turn ourselves in now, they'll give us twenty years in the electric chair!
- Mother (Dan Ackroyd)

Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will toward man.
Bernard Abbott: Oh this is ridiculous.
Martin Bishop: He's serious.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will toward man.
Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing.
Martin Bishop: You're just gonna have to try.
Bernard Abbott: Ok, I'll see what I can do.
Whistler: Thank you very much. That's all I ask.
- Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) and Whistler (David Strathairn) make their demands of Bernard Abbott (???????????)

Now what are you saying, the NSA killed Kennedy?
No, they shot him but they didn't kill him. He's still alive.
- Crease (Sidney Poitier) and Mother (Dan Ackroyd)

Cattle mutilations are up.
Don't.
Sorry.
- Mother (Dan Ackroyd) and Crease (Sidney Poitier)

It's fascinating what 50 bucks will get you at the county recorder's office. Playtronics Corporate Headquarters, the complete blueprints.
Very good. Very good, Carl. Where'd you get the 50 bucks?
Took it from Mother's wallet.
Good.
- Carl (River Phoenix) and Martin Bishop (Robert Redford)

Posit: People think a bank might be financially shaky.
Consequence: People start to withdraw their money.
Result: Pretty soon it is financially shaky.
Conclusion: You can make banks fail.
Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger.
Stock market?
Yes.
Currency market?
Yes.
Commodities market?
Yes.
Small countries?
- Cosmo (????????????) and Martin Bishop (Robert Redford)

I cannot kill my friend. [to his henchman] Kill my friend.
- Cosmo (????????????)

Trainspotting

We would have injected vitamin C if only they had made it illegal!
- Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor)

We called him Mother Superior on account of the length of his habit.
- Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor)

People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shit which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid.
- Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor)

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 fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?
- Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor)
Mr. Murphy, do you mean that you lied on your application?
No! Uh. Yes. Only to get my foot in the door. Showing initiative and that like.
But you were referred here by the department of employment, there was no need for you to get your "foot in the door," as you put it.
Ehhh... cool. Whatever you say, I'm sorry. You're the man. The dude in the chair.
- Spud (Ewen Bremner) at job interview number one
Mr. Murphy, what attracts you to the leisure industry?
In a word: pleasure. It's like, my pleasure in other people's leisure.
- Spud (Ewen Bremner) at job interview number two

Did you bring the cards?
No, I did not bother.
I told you to bring the cards!
Why didn't you bring them?
'Cause I told you to bring them!!
- Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller)

Well, he's always been lacking in moral fiber.
He knows a lot about Sean Connery.
That's hardly a substitute.
- Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and Swanney (Peter Mullan)

Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
It's shite being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched miserable servile pathetic trash that was ever shat on civilization. Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to get colonized by. We're ruled by effete assholes. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!
- Tommy MacKenzie (Kevin McKidd) and Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor)

Useless motherfucker - that's what she called me! "It's either me or Iggy Pop!" she says.
So what're you gonna do?
Well I already bought the fucking tickets!
- Tommy MacKenzie (Kevin McKidd) and Spud Murphy (Ewen Bremner)

This was to be my final hit, but let's be clear about this. There's final hits and final hits. What kind was this to be?
- Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor)

Now I've justified this to myself in all sorts of ways. It wasn't a big deal, just a minor betrayal. Or we'd outgrown each other, you know, that sort of thing. But let's face it, I ripped them off - my so called mates. But Begbie, I couldn't give a shit about him. And Sick Boy, well he'd done the same to me, if he'd only thought of it first. And Spud, well okay, I felt sorry for Spud - he never hurt anybody. So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers - all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person. But, that's gonna change - I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. Now I'm cleaing up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm gonna be just like you.The job, the family, the fucking big television. The washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electric tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage, three piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.
- Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor)