Good Movie Quotes

[Crimson Glow]

INTERVIEWER:

Christof, may I ask you, why do you think that uh, Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?


CHRISTOF:

We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.


- The Truman Show


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TYLER DURDEN:

Advertisements has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don't need. We are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place. We have no great war, or great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We were raised by television to believe that we'd be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't. And we're learning that fact.


NARRATOR:

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.


- Fight Club

[spiral]

INTERVIEWER:

Christof, may I ask you, why do you think that uh, Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?


CHRISTOF:

We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.


- The Truman Show


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TYLER DURDEN:

Advertisements has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don't need. We are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place. We have no great war, or great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We were raised by television to believe that we'd be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't. And we're learning that fact.


NARRATOR:

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.


- Fight Club

I had to compare the Truman Show to the allegory of the cave. It's pretty interesting when you look at it from that point of view. Otherwise, it's pretty depressing, and slow progressive.

As for Fight Club. The whole movie can be considered as one great big quote.

[Anonymouse]

And I thought you were going to quote Matrix dialogue. I guess I'll do that.

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Morpheus: What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today... Welcome.. to the desert.. of the real. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.

Neo: AI? You mean artificial intelligence?.

Morpheus: A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines have found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it, and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watch them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control.l The Matrix is a computer generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.

[sSsflamesSs]

Crimson, I love the Truman quote. I saw the film a while ago, so I don't remember, but uh yea, that's irrelevant anyway.

All from Fight Club:

"Losing all hope is freedom."

"The things you own end up owning you."

"You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile."

"On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero."

"Marla...the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it, but you can't." (this one cracks me up)

"We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them." ( love the irony)

And I can't remember this one exactly, nor can I find it online since I'm too lazy, but it went something like this:

- So what do you do for a living?
- Why? So you can pretend to be interested?
(perfect quote of how superficial most people are)

[sSsflamesSs]

As for Fight Club. The whole movie can be considered as one great big quote.

I saw this after my post above, haha. True indeed.

[leo007]

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
-Scarface

Tony Montana: Me, I want what's coming to me.
Manny: Oh, well... what's coming to you?
Tony Montana: The world, Chico, and everything in it.
-Scarface

Don Corleone: I never wanted this for you. I worked my whole life, I don't apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on the string held by all those big shots. I don't apologize, that's my life. But I thought that when it was your time that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Somethin'.
Michael: Another pezzonovante.
Don Corleone: Well.. there just wasn't enough time, Michael. Wasn't enough time.
Michael: We'll get there Pop. We'll get there.
-The Godfather

[Crimson Glow]

I had to compare the Truman Show to the allegory of the cave. It's pretty interesting when you look at it from that point of view. Otherwise, it's pretty depressing, and slow progressive.

As for Fight Club. The whole movie can be considered as one great big quote.

I agree completely on the Truman Show. I was shocked to see that no one really mentioned this perspective on the various sites and forums I had visited for the movie. Most of them think it's about the phonyness of our world, or how the media will go to no ends for ratings, and has no shame in how it goes about raising them. Some even said that it's about how the perception media creates is so powerfull, that we don't even know if the world around us (according to what we see on TV) is real, or made up anymore. While these are all valid points, I'm suprised more people didn't get into the idea of seeing outside of "your world", much like Plato's allegory.

I agree about Figh Club, too. One of those movies where it is hard to pick out a few quotes.

Mousy, I wouldn't know where to begin with quotes from the Matrix. Not to mention, I knew you'd be expecting that from me. BUT.....just for you, mouse....


NEO:

Why do my eyes hurt?

MORPHEUS:

You've never used them before.



NEO:

I can't go back, can I?

MORPHEUS:

No. And even if you could.....would you want to?


(And possibly my favorite, because it describes the inability to explain what I feel/see...)

MORPHEUS:

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

[Anonymouse]

Such wisdom .

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

La Vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) (1997)
Guido (to his son in the concentration camp): You can lose all your points for any one of three things. One: If you cry. Two: If you ask to see your mother. Three: If you're hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!

Guido: What kind of place is this? It's beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I'm moving here!

Guido: Buongiorno, Principessa!

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

All I got in this world is my balls and my word.....and I don't break them for nobody!
-Scarface-
Why i love this quote is because it reminds me of rabiz ppl!!! no wonder they love this movie.