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Movie Quote of the Day – 28 Days, 2000 (dir. Betty Thomas)
Night Tech: Can I help you?
Eddie Boone: [carrying Gwen in from outside] Eddie Boone, checking in.
Night Tech: You can’t bring a girl into treatment with you, Eddie.
Eddie Boone: I wasn’t gonna keep her.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Steel Trap, 1952 (dir. Andrew L. Stone)
Jim: We’ve only so many days, so many hours, so many minutes to live and we’re suckers if we don’t cram into them all the happiness we can, regardless of how we do it!
Movie Quote of the Day – Night of the Comet, 1984 (dir. Thom Eberhardt)
Reggie: You’re crazy!
Willy: I’m not crazy, I just don’t give a fuck!
Movie Quote of the Day – Beyond Borders, 2003 (dir. Martin Campbell)
Nick Callahan: If you’re going to throw up, close your eyes. Think of ponies and ice cream. Is that. . .perfume? You’re wearing perfume in the middle of the fucking desert?
Movie Quote of the Day – Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992 (dir. James Foley)
Blake: Put. That. Coffee. Down. Coffee’s for closers only.
Movie Quote of the Day – Panic Room, 2002 (dir. David Fincher)
Meg: [on loudspeaker] Get out of my house!
Sarah: Say fuck!
Meg: [on loudspeaker] FUCK!
Sarah: Mom! “Get the fuck out of my house”!
Meg: [on loudspeaker] Get the FUCK out of my house!
Movie Quote of the Day – Seance on a Wet Afternoon, 1964 (dir. Bryan Forbes)
Myra: Why did I ever marry you, Billy?
Billy: I don’t know, dear, why did you?
Myra: Because you’re weak. . . and because you need me.
Billy: Well, those are two good reasons.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Rebound, 2009 (dir. Bart Freundlich)
Roberta Finklestein: A nanny? You’re not from Trinidad. You’re from the upper East side of Manhattan. Did we send you to college for this?
Aram Finklestein: You always said you just wanted me to be happy.
Roberta Finklestein: Within reason. This is not how you contribute to the world.
Aram Finklestein: Mom, you worked for Ralph Lauren.
Roberta Finklestein: People need clothes.
Movie Quote of the Day – Humoresque, 1946 (dir. Jean Negulesco)
Paul: Drink your coffee.
Helen: Here we go again. Only a man who doesn’t drink thinks black coffee sobers you up.
Sid: I envy people who drink. They know what to blame everything on.
Helen: If it’s so simple, why don’t you drink?
Sid: I have no character.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Turning Point, 1977 (dir. Herbert Ross)
Emma: Now, my dear child you should get some sleep.
Emilia: Oh, not yet. I meant, what happened between you and Michael?
Emma: Oh. [sighs] Priorities.
Emilia: He liked boys better than girls?
Emma: Uh, Not then. I. . .Well, how should I know? We didn’t talk about it quite so openly in those days. No, I meant Michael knew that my priority was dancing.
Emilia: Are you sorry?
Emma: No, I don’t believe in being sorry. We are what we are.
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