Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
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.
Movie Quote of the Day – Starlet, 2012 (dir. Sean Baker)
Jane: Wow. Why do you have so many Eiffel Towers?
Sadie: I love Paris.
Jane: What do you like about Paris?
Sadie: The Arc de Triomphe. Champs-Élysées. Petit Palais. I love it all. [Jane picks up a snowglobe and shakes it] Don’t touch anything! Put it down.
Jane: Sorry. [Sits back down]. The Eiffel Tower in Vegas is pretty cool.
Movie Quote of the Day – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, 2008 (dir. Bharat Nalluri)
Delysia: [during an air-raid drill] Guinevere, I’m scared!
Guinevere Pettigrew: It’s just a drill, I’m sure it’s just a drill.
Delysia: But it won’t always be, will it? We’re going to war, aren’t we?
Guinevere Pettigrew: Yes we are. And that is why you must not waste a second of this precious life. Listen to me. Once I too had ambitions. Not your grand ones, simple ambitions. Marriage, children and a house of our own. He died, in the mud in France. A good, solid man. You would call him dull, no doubt, but he smiled whenever he saw me and we could’ve built a life on that. Your heart knows the truth, Delysia. Trust it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Get Over It, 2001 (dir. Tommy O’Haver)
Felix: No. No. No. No. You are not going over there. You go over there, you might as well put your stick on a cracker. You know? It’s only going to make you her bitch. You don’t want that. It’s bad.
Berke: Felix, I’ve taken pisses longer than your last three relationships.
Movie Quote of the Day – Indecent Proposal, 1993 (dir. Adrian Lyne)
John: Dance?
Diana: I should go.
John: I remember once when I was young, and I was coming back from some place, a movie or something. I was on the subway and there was a girl sitting across from me and she was wearing this dress that was buttoned clear up right to here. She was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. And I was shy then, so when she would look at me, I would look away. Then, afterwards, when I would look back, she would look away. Then I got to where I was gonna get off, and got off, the doors closed, and as the train was pulling away she looked right at me and gave me the most incredible smile. It was awful, I wanted to tear the doors open. And I went back every night, same time, for two weeks, but she never showed up. That was 30 years ago and I don’t think that there’s a day that goes by that I don’t think about her. I don’t want that to happen again. Just one dance?
Movie Quote of the Day – Predator, 1987 (dir. John McTiernan)
Poncho: You’re hit. You’re bleeding, man.
Blain: I ain’t got time to bleed.
Movie Quote of the Day – Devil in a Blue Dress, 1995 (dir. Carl Franklin)
Odell: Hey Easy, find a job yet?
Easy Rawlins: I ain’t studyin’ no job, Odell.
Odell: Ain’t studyin’ no job? How you gonna live?
Easy Rawlins: I got a little money saved up. I’ll invest in real estate. Maybe go into business for myself.
Odell: What kind of business?
Easy Rawlins: A little private investigating.
Odell: You get in trouble doing that.
Easy Rawlins: Well, like a man told me once: “Step out your door, you’re already in trouble. Just a matter if you’re mixed up at the top or not, that’s all.”
Movie Quote of the Day – Gone Baby Gone, 2007 (dir. Ben Affleck)
Patrick Kenzie: So what kind of name is Bressant?
Detective Remy Bressant: It’s the kind they give you in Lousiana.
Patrick Kenzie: Oh yeah? Thought you were from here.
Detective Remy Bressant: Well, it all depends on how you look at it. I mean, you might think that you’re more from here than me, for example. But I’ve been living here longer than you been alive. So who’s right?
Patrick Kenzie: I’ll mull it over.
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