really love the part with the hand puppets. Muahahaha. 4 years ago

things serve the beam 9 months ago

This is kind of an unusual “movie” quote, because it’s actually from one of the special features in the DVD set called Into the Wild: The Experience. The quote is from actor Emile Hirsch, who played Christopher McCandless, the subject of the story:

I think one of the reasons why people identify with the story is everyone has that need for adventure, and he’s someone who, who did it, who went for it. You know, we all have those feelings. “Well, what if I just went on an adventure? What would happen?” He did it, and everyone wants to do that, really. But, you know, there’s so many things that prevent us from doing that and, you know, for not necessarily the wrong reasons. And when he finally died, he had done what so many people always wonder, “What if I did that?” And just by crossing that threshold, he had succeeded.

Before I watched this movie (and I still haven’t read the book), from the bits and pieces I read and heard it sounded like the story of a spoiled rich kid who selfishly got himself killed by going unprepared into the wilds of Alaska. All of that is probably somewhat true. But it shouldn’t be surprising that the story, and the reasons for what he did, are much more complex than that. It was an excellent and thought-provoking movie.10 months ago

If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? 15 months ago

Christian: Do you like Billie Holiday?
Cher: I love him. 17 months ago

Keenan: I can’t stop thinking about you.
Joan: I love conversations that start with the guy saying “I can’t stop thinking about you.” Mind you I’ve never actually been on the receiving end of any of those conversations…
Keenan: Just looking at you makes me happy.
Joan: I have – I have to sit down.
[almost knocks over the chair sitting down]
Keenan: When we’re together, whether or not I show it, I just can’t wait to hear the next words out of your mouth. But right now I need to ask you to do something for me.
Joan: Anything.
Keenan: Shut up. 18 months ago

Charlie Brown’s friends:{discussing what they got at the first house they visited while trick-or-treating}

I got 5 pieces of candy.
I got a chocolate bar.
I got a quarter.

Charlie Brown: I got a rock.

I was interested to read, while looking up info for this entry, that Charlie Brown’s line was kind of controversial when this show came out in 1966. Apparently many viewers felt that Charlie Brown was being treated very unfairly, and some even sent candy to the studio for him! Personally, I like rocks! In my opinion he got the best deal. Just think, 45 years later, after the quarter was long gone and the other kids have gotten fat off all the candy, Charlie Brown still has a nice rock collection from trick-or-treating ;)

My daughter and I watched this Halloween classic last weekend. I think that it’s one of the best of the Peanut’s specials.19 months ago

Luis Carruthers: Patrick, where did you get that overnight bag?
Patrick Bateman: [Throws dead body in the trunk and slams it] Jean Paul Gaultier. 20 months ago

Ian Faith: They’re not gonna release the album… because they have decided that the cover is sexist.
Nigel Tufnel: Well, so what? What’s wrong with bein’ sexy? I mean there’s no…
Ian Faith: Sex-IST!
David St. Hubbins: IST! 20 months ago

After completing my list of 100 favorite movie quotes, I decided 100 just wasn’t enough. I’ve decided to continue my list on Tumblr.

http://mydearjotthisdown.tumblr.com/ 21 months ago

Alex: It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. 22 months ago

No tickey, no laundry! 23 months ago

The Darjeeling Limited

91. “Jack: I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.”

92. “Peter: I love the way this country smells. I’ll never forget it. It’s kind of spicy.”

93. “Jack: Wouldn’t it be great if we heard a train go by in the distance?
Peter: Not really.
Francis: It’d probably be annoying.”

94. “[repeated line]
Francis: Let’s go have a drink and smoke a cigarette.”

95. “Francis: Is that my belt?
Peter: Can I borrow it?”

96. “Francis: Cough syrup? That’s a dumb way to get loaded, Jack.”

97. “Peter: I’m gonna go pray at another thing.”

98. “Francis: Any questions?
Peter: I have one. What happened to your face?”

99. “Francis: Ok. Let’s check the next itinerary.
Peter: Fuck the itinerary.”

100. “[last lines]
Francis: Let’s go get a drink and smoke a cigarette.” 2 years ago

No Country For Old Men

81. “Llewelyn Moss: If I don’t come back, tell mother I love her.
Carla Jean Moss: Your mother’s dead, Llewelyn.
Llewelyn Moss: Well then I’ll tell her myself.”

82. “Wendell: We goin’ in?
Ed Tom Bell: Gun out and up.
Wendell: [Wendell draws his pistol] What about yours?
Ed Tom Bell: I’m hidin’ behind you.”

83. “Ed Tom Bell: You ride Winston.
Wendell: You sure?
Ed Tom Bell: Oh I’m sure. Anything happens to Loretta’s horse, I can tell ya I don’t want to be the party that was on board.”

84. “Ed Tom Bell: Now that’s aggravatin’.
Wendell: Sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell: [points to a bottle of milk] Still sweatin’.
Wendell: Whoa, Sheriff! We just missed him! We gotta circulate this! On Radio!
Ed Tom Bell: Alright. What we circulate? Lookin’ for a man who has recently drunk milk?”

85. “Man who hires Wells: [about Chigurh] Just how dangerous is he?
Carson Wells: Compared to what? The bubonic plague?”

86. “Boy on Bike #2: Mister? You got a bone stickin’ out of your arm.
Anton Chigurh: Let me just sit here a minute.”

87. “Carla Jean Moss: What’s in the satchel?
Llewelyn Moss: It’s full of money.
Carla Jean Moss: [sarcastically] Yeah, that’ll be the day.”

88. “Carla Jean Moss: I got a bad feeling, Llewelyn.
Llewelyn Moss: Well I got a good feeling, so that should even out.”

89. “Wendell: [Viewing the desert crime scene] It’s a mess, ain’t it, Sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell: If it ain’t, it’ll do till the mess gets here.”

90. ””Managerial” Victim #2: [Viewing the dead bodies in the desert] These are some ripe petunias!” 2 years ago

A Serious Man

71. “Larry Gopnik: I feel like the carpet’s been yanked out from under me.”

72. “Larry Gopnik: There’s some mistake. I’m not a member of the Columbian Record Club.
Dick Dutton: Sir, you are Lawrence Gopnik of 8419 Fern Hill Road?
Larry Gopnik: No, I live at the Jolly Roger.”

73. “Rabbi Nachtner: Sy Ableman was a serious man.”

74. “Sy Ableman: I’m a serious man, Larry.”

75. “Sy Ableman: I fucked your wife, Larry! I seriously fucked her!”

76. “Larry Gopnik: The Uncertainty Principle. It proves we can’t ever really know… what’s going on. So it shouldn’t bother you. Not being able to figure anything out. Although you will be responsible for this on the mid-term.”

77. “Judith Gopnik: Look, I didn’t know any other way of breaking it to you. Except to tell you. And treat you like an adult. Is that so wrong?
Larry Gopnik: Where do I sleep?
Judith Gopnik: What?
Larry Gopnik: Arthur’s on the couch!
Judith Gopnik: Look. Sy feels that we should…
Larry Gopnik: Esther is barely cold!
Judith Gopnik: Esther died three years ago. And it was a loveless marriage. Sy wants a get.
Larry Gopnik: A what?
Judith Gopnik: A ritual divorce. He says it’s very important. Without a get I’m an agunah.
Larry Gopnik: A what? What are you talking about?
Judith Gopnik: You always act so surprised. I have begged you to see the Rabbi.”

78. “Friend at the Picnic: Sometimes these things just aren’t meant to be. And it can take a while before you feel what was always there, for better or worse.
Larry Gopnik: I never felt it! It was a bolt from the blue! What does that mean! Everything that I thought was one way turns out to be another.
Friend at the Picnic: Then-it’s an opportunity to learn how things really are. I’m sorry-I don’t mean to sound glib. It’s not always easy, deciphering what God is trying to tell you.
Larry Gopnik: I’ll say.
Friend at the Picnic: But it’s not something you have to figure out all by yourself. We’re Jews, we have that well of tradition to draw on, to help us understand. When we’re puzzled we have all the stories that have been handed down from people who had the same problems.”

79. “Larry Gopnik: We had, I think, a good talk, the other day, but you left something that…
Clive Park: I didn’t leave it.
Larry Gopnik: Well – you don’t even know what I was going to say.
Clive Park: I didn’t leave anything. I’m not missing anything. I know where everything is.
Larry Gopnik: Well… then, Clive, where did this come from? This is here, isn’t it?
Clive Park: Yes, sir. That is there.
Larry Gopnik: This is not nothing, this is something.
Clive Park: Yes sir. That is something.
[a beat]
Clive Park: What is it?
Larry Gopnik: You know what it is! You know what it is! I believe. And you know I can’t keep it, Clive.
Clive Park: Of course, sir.
Larry Gopnik: I’ll have to pass it on to Professor Finkle, along with my suspicions about where it came from. Actions have consequences.
Clive Park: Yes. Often.
Larry Gopnik: Always! Actions always have consequences! In this office, actions have consequences!
Clive Park: Yes sir.
Larry Gopnik: Not just physics. Morally.
Clive Park: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: And we both know about your actions.
Clive Park: No sir. I know about my actions.
Larry Gopnik: I can interpret, Clive. I know what you meant me to understand.
Clive Park: Meer sir my sir.
Larry Gopnik: Meer sir my sir?
Clive Park: [Careful enunciation] Mere… surmise. Sir. Very uncertain.”

80. “Clive’s Father: Culture clash. Culture clash.
Larry Gopnik: With all respect, Mr. Park, I don’t think it’s that.
Clive’s Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: No. It would be a culture clash if it were the custom in your land to bribe people for grades.
Clive’s Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: So… you’re saying it is the custom?
Clive’s Father: No, this is a defamation. Grounds for lawsuit.
Larry Gopnik: Let me get this straight: you’re threatening to sue me for defaming your son?
Clive’s Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: But it would…
Mr. Brandt: Is this man bothering you?
Larry Gopnik: Is he bothering me? No. I, uh…
[Larry stares awkwardly at Brandt until he leaves]
Larry Gopnik: See… if it were defamation there would have to be someone I was defaming him to, or I… all right, I… let’s keep it simple. I could pretend the money never appeared. That’s not defaming anyone.
Clive’s Father: Yes. And a passing grade.
Larry Gopnik: Passing grade.
Clive’s Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: Or… you’ll sue me.
Clive’s Father: For taking money.
Larry Gopnik: So he did leave the money.
Clive’s Father: This is defamation!
Larry Gopnik: It doesn’t make sense. Either he left the money or he didn’t.
Clive’s Father: Please. Accept the mystery.
Larry Gopnik: You can’t have it both ways!
Clive’s Father: Why not?” 2 years ago

True Grit

61. “Mattie Ross: You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.”

62. “Undertaker: If you would like to sleep in a coffin, it would be all right.”

63. “Mattie Ross: [cutting the rope on the tree] Why did they hang him so high?
Rooster Cogburn: I do not know. Possibly in the belief it’d make him more dead.”

64. “Col. Stonehill: I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world
itself is vexing enough.”

65. “Cross-examining Lawyer: Mister Cogburn, in your four years as US Marshal, how many men have you shot?
Rooster Cogburn: Shot? Or killed?
Cross-examining Lawyer: Let us restrict it to killed so we may have a manageable figure!”

66. “Rooster Cogburn: The jakes is occupied.
Mattie Ross: I know it is occupied Mr. Cogburn. As I said, I have business with you.
Rooster Cogburn: I have prior business.
Mattie Ross: You have been at it for quite some time, Mr. Cogburn.
Rooster Cogburn: There is no clock on my business! To hell with you! To hell with you! How did you stalk me here?
Mattie Ross: The sheriff told me to look in the saloon. In the saloon they referred me here. We must talk.
Rooster Cogburn: Women ain’t allowed in the saloon!
Mattie Ross: I was not there as a customer. I am fourteen years old.
Rooster Cogburn: The jakes is occupied. And will be for some time.”

67. “Rooster Cogburn: [looks up at the hanging corpse] Is it Cheney?
Mattie Ross: I would not recognize the soles of his feet.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, you’ll have to clamber up and look. I’m too old and too fat.”

68. “Mattie Ross: If I had killed Chaney, I would not be in this fix; but my gun misfired.
Lucky Ned Pepper: [Chuckling] They will do it. It will embarrass you every time. Most girls like to play pretties, but you like guns do you?
Mattie Ross: I do not care a thing about guns, if I did, I would have one that worked.”

69. “Rooster Cogburn: You go for a man hard enough and fast enough, he don’t have time to think about how many’s with him; he thinks about himself, and how he might get clear of that wrath that’s about to set down on him.”

70. “Cross-examining Lawyer: So, you say that when Amos Wharton raised his axe, you backed away from him.
Rooster Cogburn: That’s right.
Cross-examining Lawyer: In what direction were you going?
Rooster Cogburn: Backwards. I always go backwards when I back up.” 2 years ago