Film Quotes
 
Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse.
Al Pacino

It ain’t through the eyes that you feel beauty, it’s how the heart hungers for something that makes it beautiful.
ALFIE

I don't make the rain. I just have the best umbrella.
ALMOST FAMOUS

Luck is like the Tour de France. You wait, and it flashes past you. You have to catch it while you can.
AMELIE

You know, ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
AMERICAN SPLENDOR

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER

To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing, and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND

That’s essentially how I feel about life: full of loneliness and suffering and unhappiness and it’s all over much too quickly.
ANNIE HALL

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get money to make it into a concept, and then later turn it into an idea.
ANNIE HALL

Don’t you believe what you read in all them newspapers. That’s the law talkin’ there, they just want us to look big so they can look big when they catch us.
BONNIE & CLYDE

People do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

It was the tragic combination of liquor and jazz that led to her downfall.
CHICAGO

Most people never have to face the fact, that at the right time and the right place,
they’re capable of anything!
CHINATOWN

I don’t want to be normal, who wants to be normal?
David O. Selznick

That’s a nice little nothing you’re almost wearing. I approve.
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

Now ain’t that nice, I like people who’s friends of people.
DR NO

Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here, this is the War room.
DR STRANGELOVE

But imagine! Going to a movie for three hours and having every part of you touched in some profound, overwhelming way.
Francis Ford Coppola

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
Francois Truffaut

The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Frederico Fellini

Choose your next witticism carefully Mr. Bond, it may be your last.
GOLDFINGER

Well, the new Miss Galore. Where do you hide your gold knuckles in this outfit?
GOLDFINGER

I’ve always wanted two lives: one for the movies and one for myself.
Greta Garbo

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
Humphrey Bogart

One man's life touches so many others, when he's not there it leaves an awfully big hole.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, I mean, if he can live on after he’s died, then maybe he was a great man.
James Dean

A film is the world in an hour and a half.
Jean-Luc Godard

And on a good day, magic happens.
Jeff Bridges

If I’m such a legend, why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
Marlene Dietrich

Some say that movies make the world go around, but they’re wrong. It’s actually the
sun’s gravitational pull.
Mike Myers

We’re here to fall in love and break our hearts.
MOONSTRUCK

I know that I loved her once, and that it stayed with me all my life, and colored everything.
MRS DALLOWAY

Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
NOW VOYAGER

Relationship! Now where’d you learn that word, from one of those Park Ave head shrinkers?
PLAY IT AGAIN SAM

I love the rain; it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.
PLAY IT AGAIN SAM

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

Everybody’s a dreamer, everybody’s a star, everybody’s in movies, it doesn’t matter who you are.
Ray Davies

One makes films in order to become a better human being.
Roberto Rosselini

Sometimes all somebody needs is a second chance.
SEABISCUIT

I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show must go on!
SINGIN IN THE RAIN

You’re good kid, but as long as I’m around you’re second best. You might as well learn
to live with it.
THE CINCINNATI KID

It’s not enough that you just have talent, you’ve got to have character too.
THE HUSTLER

The magnificence that comes out of your eyes and your voice and the way you stand there and the way you walk...you’re lit from within.
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

I don’t go to movies, life’s too short.
THE PLAYER

What is it with you people, you think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing
as telling the truth?
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

I don't remember yesterday. Today it rained.
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

Try to be a little less than your usual frivolous self, 007.
THUNDERBALL

I saw you and the world went away.
WEST SIDE STORY

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen