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Movie Quote of the Day – Billy Elliott, 2000 (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Billy: What about your mum? Does she not have sex?
Debbie: No, she’s unfulfilled. That’s why she does dancing.
Billy: She does dancing instead of sex? Your family’s weird!
Debbie: No they’re not.
Movie Quote of the Day – Into The Wild, 2007 (dir. Sean Penn)
Christopher McCandless: What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
Movie Quote of the Day – Arthur, 1981 (dir. Steve Gordon)
Hobson: You spoiled little bastard! You’re a man who has everything, haven’t you? But that’s not enough. You feel unloved. Arthur, welcome to the world. Everyone is unloved. Now stop feeling sorry for yourself. And incidentally, I love you. Marry Susan, Arthur. Poor drunks do not find love, Arthur. Poor drunks have very few teeth, they urinate outdoors, they freeze to death in summer. I can’t bear to think of you that way.
Arthur: I need Linda, Hobson.
Hobson: I see. Well, perhaps fate will lend a hand. One never knows.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ghost World, 2001 (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Enid: I think only stupid people have good relationships.
Seymour: That’s the spirit.
Movie Quote of the Day – Crash, 2005 (dir. Paul Haggis)
Cameron: I mean, sooner or later, you gotta find out what it’s really like to be black.
Christine: Oh, fuck you man! Like you’d know! The closest you ever came to being black, Cameron, was watching “The Cosby Show”.
Cameron: Yeah, well, at least I wasn’t watching it with the rest of the equestrian team.
Movie Quote of the Day – Copie conforme, 2011 (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
Elle: Look at your wife, who has made herself pretty today. Look. Open your eyes.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Party, 1968 (dir. Blake Edwards)
Michele Monet: You were saying something about a saying. What is it?
Hrundi V. Bakshi: “Wisdom is the province of the aged but the heart of a child is pure.”
Michele Monet: That’s very pretty. I’m not sure I know what it means.
Hrundi V. Bakshi: Neither do I.
Movie Quote of the Day – X-Men: First Class, 2011 (dir. Matthew Vaughn)
Professor Charles Xavier: Erik, you said yourself we’re the better men. This is the time to prove it. There are thousands of men on those ships. Good, honest, innocent men! They’re just following orders.
Erik Lehnsherr: I’ve been at the mercy of men just following orders. Never again.
Movie Quote of the Day – Stand By Me, 1986 (dir. Rob Reiner)
Gordie: Do you think I’m weird?
Chris: Definitely.
Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody’s weird.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Collector, 1965 (dir. William Wyler)
Freddie Clegg: That’s a good painting, isn’t it?
Miranda Grey: Yes. Yes, it’s a Picasso.
Freddie Clegg: People don’t look like that.
Miranda Grey: Well, of course they don’t. He’s not trying to draw a face as it is. He’s, he’s trying to express a face as he sees it and feels it.
Freddie Clegg: Because he see it that way, that makes it good?
Miranda Grey: But it’s not a photograph.
Freddie Clegg: What’s wrong with photographs?
Miranda Grey: There’s nothing wrong with photographs.
Freddie Clegg: Photographs don’t lie!
Miranda Grey: Neither does this! It’s . . .it’s a face from all different angles. It’s the character behind the face.
Freddie Clegg: It’s just a joke. That’s all it is. It’s just a bad joke.
Miranda Grey: Just because you can’t grasp it right away. . .
Freddie Clegg: Well, how do I grasp it?! [beat] I’ll tell you something about this. . .it doesn’t mean anything. Not just to me, but to anybody else. You just say it does because some professor somewhere told you it did. It makes you so superior. You and all your friends. I don’t think one in a million decent, ordinary people would say this was any good. It’s rubbish, rubbish! That’s all it is.
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