106 quotes found
"Honestly, I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I thought we were talking about petroleum."
"How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?"
"[after being hit in the face with a rubber ball] Awesome! Can we do the ball thing everyday?"
"Aaah, here he comes! The man poet who banged France's Dark Lady of Philosophy! The parking lot crusader of truth who turned his back on his Other like a cold-blooded gangsta."
"Why are you guys wasting all of your time fighting each other? I mean, come on, seriously. Put the egos aside for a second, guys, please. Deal with the issues, okay. We have a deadly petroleum situation, not to mention cystic f-- SHUT UP! SHUT! -- Cystic Fibrosis, civil war in Africa, toxic fish. You have children in your own community who are going to prison. Father Flavin doesn't have the money to help them! Ma'am, listen to me!"
"If this world is temporary, identity is an illusion, then everything is meaningless and it doesn't matter if you use petroleum, and that's got me very confused."
"'Betrayed' by Albert Markovski. Is it possible for anybody in this world to work together to make it better? I don't think so."
"Nobody sits like this rock sits. You rock, rock. The rock just sits and is. You show us how to just sit here and that's what we need."
"[about the body bag exercise] I can't go back in there. It's all hating faces that I have to chop up with a machete!"
"We're not in Infinity, we're in the suburbs"
"Everything is the same, even if it's different."
"Motherfucking cocksucker motherfucking shoot Mother what am I doing? What am I doing? I don't know what I'm doing. I'm doing the best that I can. I know that's all I can ask of myself. Is that good enough? Is my work doing any good? Is anybody paying attention? Is it hopeless to try and change things? The African guy is a sign, right? Because if he isn't, than nothing in this world makes any sense to me. I'm trapped! Maybe I should quit. Don't quit! Maybe I should just fucking quit. Don't fucking quit! I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do anymore! Mother! Fuck shoot!"
"[to Vivian Jaffe] I can't believe you guys actually exist."
"What?! Is it a crime? Is it a crime to look at Lange?!"
"Huckabees cornucopia of stuff we all want. But what happened to the gazelles? Were they squashed under the CD department?"
"How am I not myself? [repeated]"
"Do I benefit from getting some great P.R. For Huckabees when we need it? Absolutely. But do I care about saving the open spaces? Yes, I do!"
"Shania hates mayo, alright, and she can't eat chicken salad, that's no joke. We gave it to her once, she threw up in the limo - the lady hates chicken salad. So I bring out a bunch of tuna fish sandwiches - she still doesn't believe me - I say, Shania, I'm allergic to mayo - which, by the way, is a lie. Shania still doesn't believe me so I eat two of the sandwiches in front of her to prove it. So she eats one and a half sandwiches, one and a half sandwiches... before she realizes, its chicken salad. And she liked them!"
"Shania cares!"
"Why is marriage and kids so important? I mean, there's an overpopulation problem!"
"[after Caterine snaps a photo of his sobbing] NOBODY SEES THAT PICTURE!!!"
"Did you see that? Shania knew who I was."
"When you get the blanket thing you can relax because everything you could ever want or be you already have and are."
"There is no such thing as you or me,"
"There's no such thing as nothing. nnn"
"There is no remainder in the mathematics of Infinity."
"Say this blanket represents all the matter and energy in the universe, okay? This is me, this is you, And over here, this is the Eiffel Tower, right, it's Paris!"
"No time for infinity? Gotta piece together a theory?"
"Your mind is always occupied on something...so it may as well be something helpful, like Mrs. Shermer, or the blanket."
"The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
"I'm in my tree talking to the Dixie Chicks and they're making me feel better."
"Wake up, pretty girl, the joke is on you!"
"Fuckabees!"
"[emotionless] These are the best tops around. Last time, last year - not so good. [suddenly fervent] But now, this is the truth!"
"You can't deal with my infinite nature, can you?"
"There's glass between us"
"Do you love me? Even in my bonnet?"
"Caterine Vauban: It's painful enough to feel sad, but on top of it... to feel embarrassed for feeling, that's the killer!"
"Caterine Vauban: It is inevitable to be drawn back into human drama."
"Shania Twain: I eat Tofu Tuna, Brad!"
"Vivian Jaffe: Come, join us for mancala hour. Arriba!"
"Mrs. Silver: God, what are you, a bitch? You're a bitch! How many kids do you have, bitch?"
"Jason Schwartzman — Albert Markovski"
"Mark Wahlberg — Tommy Corn"
"Jude Law — Brad Stand"
"Naomi Watts — Dawn Campbell"
"Dustin Hoffman — Bernard Jaffe"
"Lily Tomlin — Vivian Jaffe"
"Isabelle Huppert — Caterine Vauban"
"Shania Twain — Herself"
"Bush told the people to rise up against Saddam. They thought they'd have our support. They don't. Now they're getting slaughtered."
"It's good to be kings."
"In a war without heroes they are kings."
"They're deserters, rebels, and thieves, but in the nicest possible way."
"George Clooney - Major Archie Gates"
"Mark Wahlberg - Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow"
"Ice Cube - Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin"
"Spike Jonze - Private First Class Conrad Vig"
"Cliff Curtis - Amir Abdullah"
"Nora Dunn - Adriana Cruz"
"Jamie Kennedy - Private First Class Walter Wogaman"
"Saïd Taghmaoui - Captain Said"
"Mykelti Williamson - Colonel Ron Horn"
"Holt McCallany - Captain Doug van Meter"
"Judy Greer - Cathy Daitch"
"Liz Stauber - Debbie Barlow"
"[after seeing the size of his opponent] He did not just get off the fuckin' couch. If he did, I'm gonna buy a couch like that."
"You didn't give a fuck if I got killed by Mungin; now, all of a sudden, you're worried Sanchez is gonna hurt me? Why? I mean, come on, Dick. 'Cause you're stuck in here and can't be the center of attention no more?"
"What are you doing, running in here like a silverback fucking gorilla?"
"[to Dickie] Why can't you just shut up and be happy for me? I spent the last ten years of my life in bad fights set up by you and Alice. I finally got a good thing going for me and you can't be fuckin' happy for me? Why?"
"[pointing at each member of his family] I'm the one fighting, okay? Not you, not you, and not you."
"[to Micky] Are you like me? Was just good enough to fight Sugar Ray? Never had to win, did I? You gotta do more in there. You gotta win a title. For you, for me, for Lowell. This is your time, all right? You take it. I had my time and I blew it. You don't have to. All right? You fuckin' get out there, and use all the shit that you've been through, all the shit we've gone through over the fuckin' years, and you put it in that ring right now. This is yours. This is fuckin' yours."
"It's not fuckin' ladylike to be shoutin' in the street like this, all right?"
"Who used to be the pride of Lowell? Right here. [points at himself] Who's the pride of Lowell now? [points at Micky] Right there."
"That's the movie you wanted to see? There wasn't even any good sex in it. Had to read the whole fuckin' movie. Fuckin' subtitled. Some guy from a road crew recommended it to you, a fuckin' subtitled movie?"
"Oh, stop callin' me an MTV girl, whatever the fuck that means."
"Don't call me a skank. I'll rip the nasty hair right outta ya fuckin head bitch!"
"We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!"
"Wolfie: This ain't any anti-Cambodian thing. White people do this to other white people, which is what makes the world go around."
"Mark Wahlberg - Micky Ward"
"Christian Bale - Dick "Dicky" Eklund"
"Amy Adams - Charlene Fleming, Micky's girlfriend and now wife."
"Melissa Leo - Alice Ward, mother of Dickie and Micky."
"Jack McGee - George Ward, father of Micky."
"Frank Renzulli - Sal LoNano"
"Erica McDermott - Cindy "Tar" Eklund"
"[to Dr. Cliff Patel] This is what I believe to be true. This is what I learned in the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining."
"[to Dr. Cliff Patel about Tiffany] So she's a loyal, married to a dead-guy slut."
"Once you get in the right frame of mind, I think anything's possible. I think we get, we so often get caught in this state of negativity and it's a, it's a poison like nothing else."
"[voiceover] The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, that's guaranteed. And I can't begin to explain that or the craziness inside myself and everyone else, but guess what? Sunday is my favorite day again. I think of everything everyone did for me and I feel like—a very lucky guy."
"Can we get through one fucking conversation without you reminding me that my goddamn husband's dead?"
"You might not have experienced the shit that I did — but you loved hearing about it, didn't you? You are afraid to be alive! You're afraid to live! You're a hypocrite! You're a conformist! You're a liar! I opened up to you and you judged me! You're an asshole! You're an asshole!"
"I do this! Time after time after time! I do all this shit for other people! And then I wake up and I'm empty! I have nothing!"
"Does anyone here happen to know what the Official Motto of the State of New York is on the Official Seal of the State of New York? Huh? Anybody? Do you? Do you know? … Excelsior! … Look it up. Yeah — Excelsior! Not that I give a fuck about football, or about your superstitions — but if it's me reading the signs, I don't send the Eagles guy whose personal motto is Excelsior to a fucking Giants game, especially when he's already in a legal situation."
"Bradley Cooper - Patrick "Pat Jr." Solitano"
"Jennifer Lawrence - Tiffany Maxwell"
"Robert De Niro - Patrizio "Pat Sr." Solitano"
"Jacki Weaver - Dolores Solitano."
"Chris Tucker - Danny McDaniels"
"Julia Stiles - Veronica"
"Anupam Kher - Dr. Cliff Patel"
"Brea Bee - Nikki Solitano"
"Shea Whigham - Jake Solitano"
"John Ortiz - Ronnie"
"Paul Herman - Randy"
"Dash Mihok - Officer Keogh"