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Movie Quote of the Day – Flannel Pajamas, 2006 (dir. Jeff Lipsky)
Stuart: Why am I trying to hold this thing together? Because I love her? She can’t stand me! Am I being unbelievably selfish?
Movie Quote of the Day – Scoop, 2006 (dir. Woody Allen)
Sondra Pransky: You are a cynical crapehanger who always see the glass half-empty!
Sid Waterman: No, you’re wrong. I see the glass half full, but of poison and you’re going to drink it!
Movie Quote of the Day – Something New, 2006 (dir. Sanaa Hamri)
Brian: I want to be there for you, Kenya, I really do. And we can talk. We can talk about whatever you like. I may not always relate, but I can promise I’ll empathize. Can you trust that?
Movie Quote of the Day – Inland Empire, 2006 (dir. David Lynch)
Marilyn Levens: And, Devon, your naughty boy, are you hiding a smile? Is your devilish mind scheming?
Devon Berk: If you’re looking for shock value Marilyn, I suggest that you look in the mirror.
Marilyn Levens: What a bitting wit!
Movie Quote of the Day – Hollywoodland, 2006 (dir. Allen Coulter)
Louis Simo: He shoots himself, you all wait 45 minutes to call the police. That’s unusual.
Carol Van Ronkel: You ever been to a party where a man goes upstairs and blows his head off?
Louis Simo: No.
Carol Van Ronkel: Then how do you know what’s unusual?
Movie Quote of the Day – Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, 2006 (dir. Tom Tykwer)
Antoine Richis: Why did you kill my daughter?
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: I just needed her.
Antoine Richis: Very well, but remember this. . .I’ll be looking at you when you’re laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wandered home, I will climb up through your blood and sit beside you. I will look deep into your eyes. . .and drop by drop I will trickle my disgust into them like burning acid until. . . finally. . .you perish.
Movie Quote of the Day – Miami Vice, 2006 (dir. Michael Mann)
Isabella: Once I had a fortune, it said: “Live now. Life is short. Time is luck”.
Det. James ‘Sonny’ Crockett: You got assets somewhere? Insurance?
Isabella: Why?
Det. James ‘Sonny’ Crockett: Things go wrong. The odds catch up. Probability is like gravity: you cannot negotiate with gravity. One day. . .one day you should just cash out, you know? Just cash out and get out.
Isabella: Yeah?
Det. James ‘Sonny’ Crockett: Yeah. As far and as fast as you can.
Isabella: Would you find me?
Det. James ‘Sonny’ Crockett: Yes, I would.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ask The Dust, 2006 (dir. Robert Towne)
Arturo Bandini: Well, the night before I met her, I was in my hotel room on Bunker Hill down in the very middle of Los Angeles. It was called the Alta Loma. It was built on a hillside in reverse so that the main floor was on a level with the street. My room was down on the fifth floor so that my window was on a level with the green hillside, and there was no need for a key. The window was always open. I’d been going over the plans I’d made, since I’d come here like everyone else in search of fortune, fame, good health and glamorous women. Only I was going to be different. I wasn’t here to search for my future. I was here to create it. I’d write the first great novel about this place and everybody who came here from somewhere else. “The Road to Los Angeles” by Arturo Bandini. It would bring me everything I ever wanted. Now, after five months, I was trying to make a very important decision. What to do with my last nickel.
Movie Quote of the Day – Little Children, 2006 (dir. Todd Field)
Sarah Pierce: I think I understand your feelings about this book. I used to have some problems with it, myself. When I read it in grad school, Madam Bovary just seemed like a fool. She marries the wrong man; makes one foolish mistake after another; but when I read it this time, I just fell in love with her. She’s trapped! She has a choice: she can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle.
Mary Ann: Some struggle. Hop into bed with every guy who says hello.
Sarah Pierce: She fails in the end, but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion. My professors would kill me for even thinking this, but in her own strange way, Emma Bovary is a feminist.
Mary Ann: Oh, that’s nice. So now cheating on your husband makes you a feminist?
Sarah Pierce: No, no, it’s not the cheating. It’s the hunger. The hunger for an alternative, and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness.
Mary Ann: Maybe I didn’t understand the book! She just looks so pathetic.
Movie Quote of the Day – Wristcutters: A Love Story, 2006 (dir. Goran Dukic)
Zia: So you’re trying to leave? You don’t like it here?
Mikal: Are you joking? Do you guys like it here? Who the hell likes being stuck in a place where you can’t even smile? It’s hot as balls, everybody’s an asshole. I just wanna go home.
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