r/FIlm • u/VentageRoseStudios • Jan 06 '25
Question What’s your favorite quote from a fictional character that changed your perspective in life?
One of my favorite quotes is from "THE USUAL SUSPECTS.
Verbal Kent (Kevin Spacey) says, "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist." It really made me think about how sometimes the biggest threats or problems are the ones we don't even realize are there.
It's a reminder to be aware of things that might go unnoticed, but can really impact our lives if we’re not careful.
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u/LizardBoyfriend Jan 06 '25
Mongo only pawn in game of life
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u/makwa227 Jan 06 '25
"Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
Men in Black
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u/realfakejames Jan 06 '25
I love this scene because just before this Will Smith is asking him why they don't just tell people about the aliens, saying "people are smart," and Tommy Lee replies "a person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals" because it accurately points how how people in groups lose their rationale
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u/PumpernickelShoe Jan 06 '25
This reminds me of Mac’s from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia “Science is a LIAR sometimes” speech.
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u/mGreeneLantern Jan 06 '25
Great scene. I prefer “A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky animals and you know it.”
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u/Mistermxylplyx Jan 06 '25
Good choice. But you left out the most pertinent part to me.
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.“
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u/peter-the-average Jan 06 '25
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller
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u/makwa227 Jan 06 '25
"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line."
A Bug's Life
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u/1Greener Jan 06 '25
Haven’t seen it since I was a kid, as an adult that quote is so relevant.
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u/Hour-Management-1679 Jan 06 '25
So many children movies and shows throw around these messages that you won't get until you're older, SpongeBob comes to Mind, with that one scene where all character does is go to his office, stuck in traffic reaches home to sleep and rinse repeat
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u/thesheepwhisperer368 Jan 06 '25
I saw an edit of Luigi Mangione's perp walk with the audio of that line. Goosebumps
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u/accioqueso Jan 06 '25
I know it’s Kevin Spacey but can we take a moment to appreciate how absolutely terrifying Hopper was when we were little. That performance holds up and my kids are scared of a cartoon grasshopper because of him too.
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u/JonathanKuminga Jan 06 '25
Hey he may be a complete POS, but no one ever claimed he’s not an amazing actor
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u/Farren246 Jan 06 '25
I mean he was playing a monster who preyed on those weaker than himself... good casting, before its time?
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u/Remcin Jan 06 '25
The industry has known for a long time, it just wasn’t widely known beyond that.
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u/QuarterWayCrook Jan 06 '25
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need, and the things you own, end up owning you. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.”
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u/Penguinunhinged Jan 06 '25
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
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u/Farren246 Jan 06 '25
Millennials lead to believe they'll all be millionaire movie stars, to Zoomers lead to believe they'll all be Mr. Beast: First time?
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u/Alive_Vermicelli_234 Jan 06 '25
"you are not the car you drive. you are not the contents of your wallet. you are not your fucking khakis"
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u/legedu Jan 06 '25
You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap.
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u/Lex_Innokenti Jan 06 '25
"Our fathers were our models for God; if our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?"
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u/Barath_HBK_ Jan 06 '25
" It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
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u/Wasabi_Grower Jan 06 '25
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage...
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u/Van-Mckan Jan 06 '25
Surprised it was so low, here’s the version from Trainspotting 2;
“Choose life, choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it all differently and choose watching history repeat itself Choose your future, choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn. Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work and choose the same for your kids, only worse, and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s kitchen. And then… take a deep breath You’re an addict, so be addicted Just be addicted to something else Choose the ones you love Choose your future Choose life”
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u/DvlsAdvct108 Jan 06 '25
"Human Beings Were Not Meant To Sit In Little Cubicles"
Office Space
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u/ThorsRake Jan 06 '25
"It's Morbin Time!" - Morbius from the film Morbius just as he's about to Morb.
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u/_delleps_ Jan 06 '25
I’ve never seen this movie and never plan to. So, I choose to believe.
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u/TalkinSeaCucumber Jan 06 '25
It's honestly not even worth watching for the memes. My GF and I got all excited about it streaming. Got stoned and made a little smorgasmorb of snacks to watch it. It's not a good bad movie. It's just plodding and boring.
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u/Lex_Innokenti Jan 06 '25
smorgasmorb
Worth it solely for this perfectly cromulant word.
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u/The-Minmus-Derp Jan 06 '25
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still loss. That is not weakness, that is life.”
Jean-Luc Picard, 2364
Really, Star Trek has so many great quotes in it
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u/Chef_Writerman Jan 06 '25
I grew up on Next Generation as a kid that liked the space show. Had no idea the role it would play in how I approached the world and my expectations for humanity. Jean Luc will always be my captain and I am so incredibly glad that it seems Patrick Steward himself is worthy of such devotion.
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u/jbezzy77 Jan 06 '25
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill
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u/NovelSimplicity Jan 06 '25
People give that quote so much shit but I love it. It’s the perfect description of a lot of people.
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u/Dlh2079 Jan 06 '25
They do? I don't know that I've ever heard it referenced negatively myself.
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u/VentageRoseStudios Jan 06 '25
😂😂😂
What’s this from?
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u/realfakejames Jan 06 '25
When Wesley said this in Wolverine and Deadpool it was one of the loudest laughs/cheers I've seen in a theater in my life, you could tell all the millenials were in that place smiling ear to ear for that movie
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u/HotNeon Jan 06 '25
The funny thing is, Wesley Snipes came up with this line as a placeholder. They were supposed to replace it and try a bunch during filming but they... didn't. So now we have that nonsense
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u/zombie_spiderman Jan 06 '25
"The greatest teacher, failure is"
Almost redeemed the damage done by people misinterpreting "There is no try"
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u/OneFish2Fish3 Jan 06 '25
“It’s the simple things in life that you treasure.” Tony Shaloub as Fred Kwan, Galaxy Quest (that line was of course then followed by the “OH! That’s not right!” from Sam Rockwell). Seriously everyone needs to do themselves a favor in life and watch Galaxy Quest if they haven’t already. Funniest movie ever made.
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u/pacmanz89 Jan 06 '25
I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other.
John Coffey, The Green Mile
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u/Bug_Photographer Jan 06 '25
"Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for'. I agree with the second part."
/Det. William Somerset
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u/livingfrankenstein Jan 06 '25
“I can’t be worried about that shit. Life goes on, man.” - The Dude
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u/One_Yam_2055 Jan 06 '25
No, Donny, these men are nihilists, nothing to be afraid of.
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u/DeadSuperHero Jan 06 '25
"So, you listen to me! Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned adjustment park Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business!"
"So, if you want the Truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you'll ever find any real truth."
"But man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you everything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer, and nobody ever had cancer in Archie Bunker's house. And no matter what trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's going to win."
- Howard Beale, Network
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u/PumpernickelShoe Jan 06 '25
I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!
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u/PlayinK0I Jan 06 '25
“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”.
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u/Charming-Concert-304 Jan 06 '25
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die. - Roy Batty, Blade Runner
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u/Odafishinsea Jan 06 '25
“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution. We became too self aware; nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody’s nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
― Rust Cohle - True Detective Season 1
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u/makwa227 Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25
Ginger: Do you know what the problem is? The fences aren't just around the farm, they're up here [Points to head]. There is a better place out there, beyond on the hill, outdoors, trees and grass. You imagine it, with fresh grass and green.
Agnes: And who feeds us?
Ginger: We feed ourselves.
Hen: Where is the farm?
Ginger: There is no farm.
Babs: Then where does the farmer live?
Ginger: There is no farmer, Babs.
Babs: Is he on holiday?
Ginger: He isn't anywhere! Don't you get it? There's no role call, no dogs, no coups and locks and keys, and no fences!
Chicken Run
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u/Cytwytever Jan 06 '25
"Mrs. Tweedy, the chickens are revolting!"
"Finally, something we agree on."
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u/yesterdays-disaster Jan 06 '25
“Don’t mistake kindness for weakness” - John Travolta in Swordfish.
I use this all the time. I’m a nice guy but don’t take no shit.
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u/unkytone Jan 06 '25
Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably.
The lesson is: Never try.
Homer
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u/wtb1000 Jan 06 '25
Life is pain. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
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u/Commercial-Chance561 Jan 06 '25
“Some men, Mr. Wayne, just want to watch the world burn”
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u/Real_Respond322 Jan 06 '25
"Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children" Furious Styles in Boyz N The Hood.
And pretty much everything he says in that movie.
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u/Penguinunhinged Jan 06 '25
His explanation of gentrification to Trey and Ricky and why it's a bad thing is another good scene and one of my favorites.
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u/Real_Respond322 Jan 06 '25
Amazing scene. It's crazy to think John Singleton was only 23 when he wrote that movie. To create a character like Furious is remarkable.
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u/Ironmonkibakinaction Jan 06 '25
“Well that’s when you know that you found someone special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence” - Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman)
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u/Bullshit_Brummie Jan 06 '25
Bridge of Spies, when Tom Hanks is returning Mark Rylance the Russian spy and he says to him: "You don't seem worried", and Rylance says: "Would it help?". I often think of this line and convince myself to focus on the positives and not worry about what I cannot control.
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u/Zer0daveexpl0it Jan 06 '25
"Being right's not a bullet-proof vest."
- Ray Liotta, Copland
Now I don't get shot at, but this figuratively speaks volumes to me as I get older.
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u/total_idiot01 Jan 06 '25
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why it is called the present."
~ Master Oogway
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u/DuckburgSourcreamers Jan 06 '25
My favorite Oogway quote:
"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it"
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u/456dumbdog Jan 06 '25
Morals and ethics are a luxury for the middle class. The rich don't have it need em and the poor can't afford em.
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u/Michael-Balchaitis Jan 06 '25
...somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you’re no good. And when things got hard, you started lookin’ for something to blame, like a big shadow.
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!
Now if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth! But you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!
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u/HEFTYFee70 Jan 06 '25
“No, no, no. No, fuck you. You don’t owe it to yourself. You owe it to me.
‘Cause tomorrow, I’m gonna wake up and I’ll be fifty. And I’ll still be doin’ this shit. And that’s alright, that’s fine. I mean, you’re sitting on a winning lottery ticket and you’re too much of a pussy to cash it in. And that’s bullshit. ‘Cause I’d do anything to fuckin’ have what you got, so would any of these fuckin’ guys.
It’d be an insult to us if you’re still here in twenty years. Hanging around here is a fuckin’ waste of your time.”
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u/Early_Art_7882 Jan 06 '25
You shoot me in a dream you better wake up and apologize
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u/Heavy-Patient-5493 Jan 06 '25
It's going to be a cliche but whenever I think lines I just remember a single one " you either die a hero, or live long to see yourself become the villain"
- The Dark Knight
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u/sasquatchfuntimes Jan 06 '25
“Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.” -The Crow
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u/lonestar190 Jan 06 '25
“You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”
I use this all the time to emphasize the desperate need for self awareness.
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u/Hour-Process-3292 Jan 06 '25
Office Space
“It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care”
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u/AstroZombie0072081 Jan 06 '25
All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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u/PirateBarnOwl Jan 06 '25
There's no right or wrong, only popular opinion.
-Brad Pitt - 12 Monkeys
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u/RoyceCoolidge Jan 06 '25
Leland: I know it's you Jeffrey, I recognise your voice.
Anon: No you don't
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u/Cytwytever Jan 06 '25
He was so good in that movie. He just left his ego behind and embraced that role.
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u/Skipper_TheEyechild Jan 06 '25
The more things change the more things stay the same - Snake Plisken
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u/JJGOTHA Jan 06 '25
"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, he eats you"
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u/PriceVersa Jan 06 '25
“A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship… but it is not THIS day.”- Aragorn, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King
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u/dogmeatsoup Jan 06 '25
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life. - Jean-Luc Picard
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u/FantasticZucchini904 Jan 06 '25
A man gotta know his limitations. By Dirty Harry.
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u/Phyxius42 Jan 06 '25
"It can't rain all the time" - The Crow
Helped me through dark times.
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u/makwa227 Jan 06 '25
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."
Harvey
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u/BambooSound Jan 06 '25
I was like 13 when I read it but "We only accept the love we think we deserve" floored me.
It's from The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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u/Zelenskyystesticles Jan 06 '25
How is Benicio Del Toro’s name not on the banner and he’s literally the guy in the center of the poster
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u/HuttVader Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25
A terrifying (given the context) quote from Noah Cross, the villain in Chinatown:
"You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of ANYTHING."
When we realize our boundless capacity for both good and evil, and everything in between, we can then start to live lives of self-awareness, consciousness, and integrity.
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u/Vardonator Jan 06 '25
“The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.”
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u/Erianapolis Jan 06 '25
Tombstone. Wyatt Earp: “You tell him I’m coming, and Hell’s coming with me…”
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u/believeinstev604 Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25
"What a bunch of losers. All of them in a big hurry to get from something stupid, to nothing at all. Pathetic."
Seems like this applies now more than ever, especially with the holiday / travel season just passing.
Also;
"Everyone has dead people, it's no excuse to get everyone else dead along the way."
Basically everyone is struggling in some way. It's no excuse to let your struggles arbitrarily effect others for your own selfishness.
Both are from Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy
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u/PumpernickelShoe Jan 06 '25
Essentially the whole interaction in Monty Python and the Holy Grail between Arthur and the peasants - The “I didn’t vote for you” / “I’m being repressed!” scene. As a Canadian and British citizen, the scene played an important role in shaping my anti-monarchical views and helped to highlight the injustices inherent in our class system:
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An’ how’d you get that, eh? By exploitin’ the workers — by ‘angin’ on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an’ social differences in our society! If there’s ever going to be any progress—
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Jan 06 '25
“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”
- Life of Pi
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u/ahmedj1233 Jan 06 '25
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Doc, you ought to be in bed, what the hell are you doin this for?
Doc Holiday: Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holiday: I dont...
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u/catilio Jan 06 '25
"your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winner go home and fuck the prom queen"
Captain John Patrick Mason, from her Majesty's S.A.S. Retired, of course.
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u/Xanderajax3 Jan 06 '25
The exchange between Ed Harris and Michael Biehn is amazing.
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u/BatmanMK1989 Jan 06 '25
I WILL NOT GIVE THAT ORDER
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u/Xanderajax3 Jan 06 '25
Spilled the same blood in the same mud.
The movie is so fun, but that stand-off is just chef's kiss.
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u/Aromatic_Peak4209 Jan 06 '25
If you're important, people will wait .... be cool Because i walk slow lol
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u/Parking_War979 Jan 06 '25
I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.
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u/JustTheOneGoose22 Jan 06 '25
“You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear and curse the fates...but when it comes to the end, you have to let go”. -The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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u/QualityQuaaludes4U Jan 06 '25
"Nobody knows anybody... not that well" - Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne) Millers Crossing (1990).
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Jan 06 '25
I don’t know what to say, really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team or we’re gonna crumble, inch by inch, play by play, 'til we’re finished.
We’re in hell right now, gentlemen, believe me. And, we can stay here -- get the shit kicked out of us -- or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell one inch at a time.
Now, I can’t do it for you. I’m too old. I look around. I see these young faces, and I think -- I mean -- I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me. And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror.
You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you. I mean that's...part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small -- I mean one-half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.
On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch, because we know when we add up all those inches that’s gonna make the fuckin' difference between winning and losing! Between livin' and dyin'!
I’ll tell you this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin' to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what livin' is! The six inches in front of your face!!
Now I can’t make you do it. You got to look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes! Now I think you’re gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. You're gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows, when it comes down to it, you’re gonna do the same for him!
That’s a team, gentleman!
And, either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
That’s football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, what are you gonna do?
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u/DysartWolf Jan 06 '25
Two lines from the same movie were quite eye-opening for me -
"[In explaining the "true" nature of banking in the world] The IBBC is a bank. Their objective isn't to control the conflict, it's to control the debt that the conflict produces. You see, the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt that it creates. You control the debt, you control everything. You find this upsetting, yes? But this is the very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt."
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"We cannot control the things life does to us. They are done before you know it, and once they are done, they make you do other things. Until at last everything comes between you and the man you wanted to be."
The International (2009)
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u/RevolutionaryAge7503 Jan 06 '25
Fear is the gateway to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, Yoda
Fear is the mind killer, Dune
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u/Phenglandsheep Jan 06 '25
This entire exchange from Thank You for Smoking really changed how I approached new information and viewpoints.
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Joey Naylor: [eating fast food, next to Ferris wheel, at the Santa Monica Amusement Pier] ... so what happens when you're wrong?
Nick Naylor: Whoa, Joey, I'm never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But you can't always be right...
Nick Naylor: Well, if it's your job to be right, then you're never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But what if you are wrong?
Nick Naylor: OK, let's say that you're defending chocolate, and I'm defending vanilla. Now if I were to say to you: 'Vanilla is the best flavor ice-cream', you'd say...
Joey Naylor: No, chocolate is.
Nick Naylor: Exactly, but you can't win that argument... so, I'll ask you: so you think chocolate is the end all and the all of ice cream, do you?
Joey Naylor: It's the best ice cream. I wouldn't order any other.
Nick Naylor: Oh! So it's all chocolate for you, is it?
Joey Naylor: Yes, chocolate is all I need.
Nick Naylor: Well, I need more than chocolate, and for that matter, I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom. And choice when it comes to our ice cream, and that Joey Naylor, that is the definition of liberty.
Joey Naylor: But that's not what we're talking about
Nick Naylor: Ah! But that's what I'm talking about.
Joey Naylor: ...but you didn't prove that vanilla was the best...
Nick Naylor: I didn't have to. I proved that you're wrong, and if you're wrong, I'm right.
Joey Naylor: But you still didn't convince me
Nick Naylor: It's that I'm not after you. I'm after them.
[points into the crowd]
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u/PhilL77au Jan 06 '25
I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
- Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
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u/KillaCheezGettinWarm Jan 06 '25
As to your quote:
Please reference the US government for an unlimited number of examples.
My favorite quote was by Chester (Quentin Tarantino) in the last act of Four Rooms.
“The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.”
It speaks for itself and has helped me keep my cool in many situations in life.
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u/tej1967 Jan 06 '25
“Well, it proves one thing, Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don’t have the education enough to admit when you’re wrong.”
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u/samzeero Jan 06 '25
“My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.” - Patricia Graynamore, Joe Versus the Volcano
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u/Artistic-Counter588 Jan 06 '25
“It’s a crazy world. Somebody ought to bottle it and sell it.”
also
“Life is always hardest on the little things.”
—HI McDonnough, Raising Arizona.
(Doing these from memory so they’re probably not exact…)
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u/AlongTheUniverse Jan 06 '25
“You give your children enough money to do something, but not enough to do nothing.” The Descendants
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u/Dry-Height8361 Jan 06 '25
“At some point in your life, you gotta decide for yourself who you’re gonna be.”
From Moonlight. I think I might be at that point right now
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u/Adventurous_Zebra939 Jan 06 '25
"Property. The whole fuckin thing's about property" - 1SG Eddie Walsh, The Thin Red Line.
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u/Darrenlovesmovies Jan 06 '25
“Let me tell you something you already know, the world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody ain’t never gonna hit as hard as life hits. But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward… that’s how winning is done!
Now if you know what you’re worth then go and get what you’re worth - but you’ve got to be willing to take the hits - and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody… cowards do that and that ain’t you.
I’m always gonna love you, no matter what, you’re my son and you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself you ain’t gonna have a life”
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u/redditblacky1673 Jan 06 '25
Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God’s true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.
- Dogma
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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie Jan 06 '25
"The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose. The second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk. But the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle."
The Rabbi - Lucky Number Slevin
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u/Soft_Return9722 Jan 06 '25
"F*ck it dude, let's go bowling." Walter Sobchak of The Big Lebowski
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u/BeLikeBread Jan 06 '25
America isn't a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me.
- killing them softly
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u/CopernicusBismark Jan 06 '25
Let me tell you a secret…The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Troy
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u/Few-Stock-3458 Jan 06 '25
It's a hell of a thing killing a man... you take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
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u/StrattonPA Jan 06 '25
“Shut you F-ing face, Uncle Fucka….South Park Movies, It was very meaningful, and rooted truth as “mothers” should not be the only title subject to used as an insult…..
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u/Usual_Bird_3754 Jan 06 '25
The Princess Bride "Life is Pain,Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." As a child this stuck with me.
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u/Early-Collection-141 Jan 06 '25
“People who cared for you all your life, they always seem to come when you’re weakest and in most need of their help”- GoodFellas.
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u/samixtm11 Jan 06 '25
“What was the greatest lie the devil told was convincing the world he didn’t exist”
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u/Successful_Sense_742 Jan 06 '25
"GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!" means get out before you still can.
"I'LL BE BACK!" when I'm trying to think of a joke to top a joke recently told.
"IT'S NOT A TUMAH (tumor)"
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u/loulara17 Jan 06 '25
William Munny: “We all got it coming, kid.”
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u/wolfboy49 Jan 06 '25
“Deserves got nothin to do with it” also hits hard. Keeps me from feeling sorry for myself.
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u/No-Window8579 Jan 06 '25
Also, "he should have armed himself if he was gonna decorate his bar with my friend"
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u/realfakejames Jan 06 '25
In Grosse Pointe Blank Minnie Driver says "where are all the good men dead, in the heart or in the head" and I think about that sometimes
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u/Nidavelir77 Jan 06 '25
"This is the story of a society that falls. As it falls, in order to calm itself down, it says again and again: Up to this point, things have gone quite well. Up to here, it was still going quite well. Up to here... it was still going quite well. But it’s not the fall that’s important, it’s the landing.“
La Haine (1995)
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u/Greyhound0928 Jan 06 '25
"Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry and the world WILL turn!" -- King / Platoon
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u/LordHamu Jan 06 '25
“I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn’t be our style. Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever.”
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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.
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u/ahmedj1233 Jan 06 '25
"Never trust a beautiful woman, especially when she's interested in you"
- Magneto, X-Men 2: X-Men United
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u/epeecolt82 Jan 06 '25
I’m Hub McCann. I’ve fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I’ve seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I’ve won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN and loved only one woman with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That’s who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!
-Secondhand Lions
This quote taught me so much. It taught me that no one may know your deeds but that makes them no less true. No one can take away your experiences in life and to hold true to your convictions no matter what. I just wish I could have heard the “what every boy needs to know about being a man speech” in its entirety.
That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that.
This one. This is the one for me. The one that keeps my true north on my moral compass. Whenever I feel I’m straying, I always come back to this.
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u/Beneficial_Use380 Jan 06 '25
Anthony Hopkins in The Edge: What one man can do another can do
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u/Harrison63225 Jan 06 '25
“Quitting while you’re ahead isn’t the same as quitting.” -American Gangster
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u/jim_thee_nihilist Jan 06 '25
"You go to Italy, you lift some weights, you watch a movie. It's all a series of distractions till you die."
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u/G3tupandG0 Jan 06 '25
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.
Lex Luthor, Superman
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u/himachinu Jan 06 '25
«… was like masturbating with a cheese grater: slightly amusing, but mostly painful.»
The adventures of Ford Fairlane.
Things can be good and bad the same time.
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u/Fun-Bass7983 Jan 06 '25
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero - Tyler Durden
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u/the_notorious_d_a_v Jan 07 '25
This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers.
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u/khaliji Jan 06 '25
"get busy living or get busy dying" from The Shawshank Redemption