132 quotes found
"You know what drives me crazy? It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. You never hear somebody say, "With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out". I mean, you never hear that."
"I know what you mean about wishing somebody wasn't there, though. It's just usually it's myself that I wish I could get away from. Seriously, think about this. I have never been anywhere that I haven't been. I've never had a kiss when I wasn't one of the kissers. Y'know, I've never, um, gone to the movies, when I wasn't there in the audience. I've never been out bowling, if I wasn't there, y'know making some stupid joke. I think that's why so many people hate themselves. Seriously, it's just they are sick to death of being around themselves. Let's say that you and I were together all the time, then you'd start to hate a lot of my mannerisms. The way every time we would have people over, uh, I'd be insecure, and I'd get a little too drunk. Or, uh, the way I'd tell the same stupid pseudo-intellectual story again, and again. Y'see, I've heard all those stories. So of course I'm sick of myself. But being with you, uh, it's made me feel like I'm somebody else."
"If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but...who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt."
"I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?"
"But then the morning comes, and we turn back into pumpkins, right?"
"When you talked earlier about after a few years how a couple would begin to hate each other by anticipating their reactions or getting tired of their mannerisms-I think it would be the opposite for me. I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone-the way he's going to part his hair, which shirt he's going to wear that day, knowing the exact story he'd tell in a given situation. I'm sure that's when I know I'm really in love."
"When love can come as a complete surprise."
"Can the greatest romance of your life last only one night?"
"浮生若梦，唯独缠绵一晚为实，梦醒皆虚"
"Ethan Hawke - Jesse"
"Julie Delpy - Celine"
"Dominik Castell - Street Poet"
"Dude, I service society by rocking. I’m out there on the front lines liberating people with my music. Rocking ain’t no walk in the supermarket, lady."
"[watching the clock, waiting for the end of the day] Yes! We did it! Gimme some of that, yeah, that's it. I will see you cats on the flip-flop later!"
"Okay, Miss Dumbum ain't your teacher today, I am. And I have a headache, and the runs."
"We will continue our lecture on the Man when we return. Have a good music class."
"(variation of George Bernard Shaw quote and earlier quoted verbatim in Annie Hall) Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach gym."
"The School of Rock. And we shall teach rock ‘n’ roll to the world."
"Now you played hard in here, people, and I am proud of every last stinking one of you. So let's just give this everything we got. We may fall on our faces, but if we do, we will fall with dignity! With a guitar in our hands, and rock in our hearts! And in the words of AC/DC: "We roll tonight to the guitar bite, and for those about to rock, I salute you.""
"I heard you in music class. You guys can really play. [angrily] Why didn't anyone tell me?!"
"[during end credits; to Zack, with his face contorted, after he performs a "face-melter" on his guitar] Dude, is my face okay? I think you melted it off! [laughs]"
"Jack Black as Dewey Finn"
"Joan Cusack as Rosalie "Roz" Mullins"
"Mike White as Ned Schneebly"
"Sarah Silverman as Patty Di Marco"
"Miranda Cosgrove as Summer Hathaway"
"Joey Gaydos Jr. as Zack Mooneyham"
"Kevin Clark as Freddy Jones"
"Rebecca Brown as Katie"
"Robert Tsai as Lawrence"
"Maryam Hassan as Tomika"
"Caitlin Hale as Marta"
"Aleisha Allen as Alicia"
"Brian Falduto as Billy"
"Zachary Infate as Gordon"
"James Hosey as Marco"
"Angelo Massagli as Frankie"
"Cole Hawkins as Leonard"
"Jordan-Claire Green as Michelle"
"Veronica Afflerbach as Eleni"
"Adam Pascal as Theo"
"Lucas Babin as Spider"
"Lucas Papaelias as Neil"
"Heavy metal... Take notes."
"Mr. Black. Accept no substitute. Come on feel the noize."
"His methods are unusual. His approach is unique. But his curriculum rocks."
"He just landed the gig of his life: 5th grade."
"Old school rock meets private school prep."
"We shall teach Rock and Roll to the world!"
"We don't need no education."
"Maybe what I'm saying is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was whacked with insecurity. Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them."
"I'm designed to feel slightly dissatisfied."
"Maybe it's just a sense of entitlement. You know, like whenever you feel like you deserve that new pair of shoes. It's OK to want things as long as you don't get pissed off if you don't get 'em. Right?"
"Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing."
"You realize that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting."
"I don't have any permanent place here. You know, in eternity, or whatever. And the more I think that, I can't go through life saying that this is no big deal. I mean, this is it! This is actually happening. What do you think is interesting, what do you think is funny, what do you think is important? You know, every day is our last."
"I have this idea of my best self, and I wanted to pursue that even if it might have been overriding my honest self."
"In the moment I remember thinking that it didn't much matter the "Who" of it all. Nobody is gonna be everything to you, and that ultimately it's just a simple action of committing yourself, meeting your responsibilities that matters."
"What is love, if it's not respect, trust, admiration? And I felt all those things. So cut to the present tense: I feel like I'm running a small nursery with somebody I used to date."
"I feel like if someone were to touch me, I'd dissolve into molecules."
"We're just living in a pretense of a marriage responsibility, and all these ideas of how people are supposed to live."
"There's gotta be something more to love than commitment."
"[Celine's Song] Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand"
"Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past."
"They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day."
"I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader."
"The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?"
"You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details."
"I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32."
"There are so many things I want to do, but I end up doing not much."
"Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely."
"What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?"
"Ethan Hawke – Jesse"
"Julie Delpy – Celine"
"Some things can't be erased."
"Ethan Hawke - Vince"
"Robert Sean Leonard - Jon"
"Uma Thurman - Amy"
"You know what I think? I think from the time we leave our parents house until we have kids - that's the only time your life is completely your own. You know I think I had about a decade of that. It was great. It was just like one long, flowing... a day, a week, a year, there wasn't much difference."
"I remember thinking: this is the natural human state - always a little dissatisfied, perpetually discontented, you know?"
"Natalia: Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just passing through."
"Julie Delpy - Céline"
"Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick - Hank"
"Xenia Kalogeropoulou - Natalia"
"Walter Lassally - Patrick"
"Ariane Labed - Anna"
"Athina Rachel Tsangari - Ariadni"
"I've had a total re-calibration of my mind, you know. I mean, it's like, I've been banging my head against this 19th century type, um, what? Thought mode? Construct? Human construct? Well, the wall doesn't exist. It's not there, you know. I mean, they tell you, look for the light at the end of the tunnel. Well, there is no tunnel. There's just no structure. The underlying order is chaos."
"To me, my thing is, a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slow mo and see all the little details. And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off. I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right. And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part."
"I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it."
"Every single commodity you produce is a piece of your own death!"
"Traumatized Yacht Owner: [to Happy Go-Lucky Guy] Quit... quit... you should quit... YOU should quit... you should... you should... You should- You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse... I should know... I'm a medical doctor... I own a mansion and a yacht... You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse... I should know... I'm a medical doctor..."
"Old Man Recording Thoughts: When young, we mourn for one woman... as we grow old, for women in general. The tragedy of life is that man is never free yet strives for what he can never be. The thing most feared in secret always happens. My life, my loves, where are they now? But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself. The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will it clarify itself and become coherent."
"Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?"
"Old Anarchist: And remember: the passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
"Disgruntled Grad Student: Every action is a positive action, even if it has a negative result."
"Anti-Artist: Uh, I don't do much really, I just read, and work here, and, uh, sleep and eat, and, uh, watch movies."
"T-Shirt Terrorist: Remember, terrorism is the surgical strike capability of the oppressed. Keep on keepin' on!"
"Richard Linklater - Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station"
"Kim Krizan - Questions Happiness"
"Mark James - Hit-and-Run Son"
"Stella Weir - Stephanie from Dallas"
"John Slate - Conspiracy-A-Go-Go author"
"Louis Mackey - Old anarchist"
"Teresa Taylor - Pap smear pusher"
"Rudy Basquez - Taxicab driver"
"Louis Black - Paranoid paper reader"
"Abra Moore - Has Change"
"Frank Orrall - Happy Go-Lucky Guy"
"Rachael Reinhardt - Cousin from Greece"
"Lee Daniel - GTO"
"Scott Rhodes - Disgruntled grad student"
"Bob Boyd - Officer Bozzio"
"Terrence Kirk - Officer Love"
"Mark Harris - t-shirt terrorist"
"Charles Gunning - Hitchhiker"
"I finally figured it out. It's like—when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now. I mean, why not? There're billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don't cost anything. We're even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we're already... biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades. I read this thing the other day about how... Like, when you hear that ding on your inbox, you get like a dopamine rush in your brain. It's like we're being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that? We're fucked."
"Bill Welbrock: You don't like me much, do you Mason? [pause] That's okay, neither do I."
"Nicole: You know how everyone's always saying seize the moment? I don't know, I'm kind of thinking it's the other way around, you know, like the moment seizes us."
"12 years in the making."
"One family's life. Everyone's story."
"Ellar Coltrane - Mason Evans Jr."
"Patricia Arquette - Olivia Evans"
"Lorelei Linklater - Samantha Evans"
"Ethan Hawke - Mason Evans Sr."
"Libby Villari - Catherine"
"Marco Perella - Bill Welbrock"
"Charlie Sexton - Jimmy"
"Tom McTigue - Mr. Turlington"
"Bill Wise - Steve Evans"
"Brad Hawkins - Jim"