Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – How to Make an American Quilt, 1995 (dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse)
Finn: Oh, look at that!
Anna: I never liked full moons. They give people an excuse to do foolish things.
Finn: Well, I’m young. I’m supposed to do foolish things.
Anna: And spend the rest of your life paying for them?
Finn: Well, it’s better than spending the rest of my life wondering what I missed.
Anna: I’d rather wonder than kick myself.
Finn: I’d rather kick myself.
Anna: Fine. You will end up with a deeply sore backside.
Movie Quote of the Day – Pasqualino Settebellezze, 1975 (dir. Lina Wertmüller)
Pasqualino: I appeal to the ladies. I used to appeal to them. The fact is without any exaggeration I haven’t looked at the mirror in years. And since I know from the beginning that I’ve always been an ugly man I’ll admit it’s been bothering me. How have I turned out? My teeth have become loose. I can’t keep my eyes open. My ass has dropped. Look at me and tell me honestly. How do I look?
Francesco: Awful, to be quite honest.
Movie Quote of the Day – Twitch, 2005 (dir. Leah Meyerhoff)
Daughter: [spits out milk]
Mother: What?
Daughter: Everything in this house is rotten.
Movie Quote of the Day – Zero Dark Thirty, 2012 (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Justin: Okay, so how do you know it’s bin Laden? ‘Cause the truth is, we’ve been on this op before. It was ’07, and it wasn’t bin Laden, and we lost a couple of guys.
Maya: Totally understand. Bin Laden uses a courier, to interact with the outside world. By locating the courier, we’ve located bin Laden.
Patrick: That’s really the intel. That’s it?
Maya: Quite frankly, I didn’t even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bullshit. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn’t believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they’re using you guys as canaries. And, in theory, if bin Laden isn’t there, you can sneak away and no one will be the wiser. But bin Laden is there. And you’re going to kill him for me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Poulet aux prunes, 2012 (dir. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)
Faringuisse: What are you doing in bed at this hour?
Nasser-Ali Khan: I’ve decided to die.
Movie Quote of the Day – Advantageous, 2015 (dir. Jennifer Phang)
Gwen: You’re amazing.
Jules: No, I’m not.
Gwen: Yes you are. Listen to me. It’s good to be humble, but you need to know your value. The ideas, the wisdom, the kindness in you – that’s the secret beauty everyone wants.
Movie Quote of the Day is Five Years Old!
I can’t believe I’ve been doing this feature for five years! Since January (if you haven’t noticed) every single quote I’ve done has come from a movie directed by a woman (except Groundhog Day, obviously), to tie in with A Year With Women. After the cut is all of the Movie Quote of the Day posts from June 30th, 2014 thru today, but if you want to see every single Movie Quote of the Day you can do so here.
Movie Quote of the Day – What Happened, Miss Simone?, 2015 (dir. Liz Garbus)
Nina Simone: I choose to reflect the times and the situations in which I find myself. That to me is my duty and at this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don’t think I can help but be involved. Young people, black and white, know this, and so that’s why they’re so involved in politics. We will shape and mold this country, or it will not be molded or shaped at all anymore. So, I don’t think you have a choice. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
Movie Quote of the Day – Miele, 2014 (dir. Valeria Golino)
Irene: No one really wants to die. No one among all those I helped the last three years wanted to kill themselves. They want to live. Everybody wants to live. But what they live cannot be named life. They can’t stand it any more.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Prince of Tides, 1991 (dir. Barbra Streisand)
Susan Lowenstein: How do you feel?
Tom Wingo: I, uh, feel okay. I mean, I thought I’d be on the floor, but I feel surprisingly alright.
Susan Lowenstein: Are you sure?
Tom Wingo: Oh, yeah. I mean, uh, well, I’m relieved. The artery’s clean, the ghost’s out of the closet, and I’m—
Susan Lowenstein: You’ve really learned how to cover your pain, haven’t you? You’ve done that all your life. That 13-year-old boy is still in a lot of pain.
Tom Wingo: Don’t do this to me Lowenstein, don’t do this to me.
Susan Lowenstein: I can feel your pain, Tom, I feel it. Let yourself feel it. It takes courage to feel the pain, Tom.
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