Movie/Play Quotes
To being an us – for once -
instead of a them!
~RENT
Brody: Oh my God! That kid is back on the escalator again!
T.S. : What, do you know that kid or something?
Brody: I hope his pants get caught and a bloodbath ensues.
~Mallrats
TRENT (pulling him aside, dead serious) Now when you talk with her, I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie that everybody really hopes makes it happen. I want you to be the guy in the rated-R movie who you're not sure if you like yet.
~Swingers (best movie ever)
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
-William Shakespeare
For ought that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. --A Midsummer Night's Dream, I, i, 134.
Bene. What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
~Much Ado About Nothing
Well, they did make High Fidelity and About a Boy into movies, but these quotes are directly from the books. AKA – the better versions.
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to music? ~HF
And my friends don’t seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven’t lost. ~HF
All relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings. ~HF
I know what’s wrong with Laura. What’s wrong with Laura is that I’ll never see her for the 1st or 2nd or 3rd time again. ~HF
It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as a finished product. You’ve got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you’re compelled to start all over again. ~HF
Will: So you’re not telling me to leave him alone. You’re telling me to apply for custody.
Fiona: Are you incapable of conducting a conversation without resorting to sarcasm?
~AAB
You had to hand it to Marcus, he thought: the boy was awkward and weird and the rest of it, but he had this knack of creating bridges wherever he went, and very few adults could do that. ~AAB
It wasn’t too bad, really; he wouldn’t even mind being human on a full-time basis. ~AAB