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"I know nothing of God... or the Devil. I have never seen a vision, nor learned a secret, that would damn or save my soul. And as far as I know, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world."
"The world changes, we do not; therein lies the irony that finally kills us."
"Which one of you did it?! One of you did it! Which one of you made me the way I am?!"
"And here it is. And I hate you both!"
"Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you, Louis. Louis, my love, I was mortal until you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him."
"I'll put you in your coffin!"
"You have found your new companion, Louis! You will make me mine!"
"Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!"
"Snatching me from my mother's hands, like two monsters in a fairytale. And now you weep! I haven't tears enough for what you've done to me."
"Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you, Louis. [Puts arms around him] Louis, my love. I was mortal till you... gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother and my father. And so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. He will never let us go."
"Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had."
"Have you said your goodbyes to the light?"
"Your body's dying. Pay no attention. It happens to us all."
"Evildoers are easier... and they taste better."
"[After stuffing a prostitute into a coffin and shutting it] It's your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like."
"All I need to find you, Louis, is to follow the corpses of rats."
"Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we, for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him... as ourselves."
"I assume I need no introduction."
"Oh, Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. [To Daniel Molloy] Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries!"
"[Appears in doorway of Louis comforting Claudia, found in house with the body of her plague victim mother, laughing] My philosopher, my martyr. "Never take a human life". Oh, yes. This calls for a celebration. [Picks up the body of Claudia's mother and dances with it energetically across room singing in Italian and Louis runs out out door] There's still life in the old lady yet! [Drops body of Claudia's mother on floor, walks out door calling to Louis] Come back! You are what you are! Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."
"[Walking through sewers] All I need to find you, Louis, is follow the corpses of rats. Pain is terrible for you. You feel it like no other creature, because you're a vampire. You don't want it to go on. [Louis agrees] Then do what it is in your nature to do... and you will feel as you felt with that child in your arms. Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately... and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are. None so like Him... as ourselves. I have a gift for you... [Louis asks where] You need... company... more congenial than mine. Remember how you wanted her? The taste of her? Don't worry. Your conscience is clear."
"[Walks in when Claudia has finished feeding off her tailoress and drops her on the ground] Claudia. Claudia! Now... who will we get to finish your dress?! You need to practice daily! [Slaps Claudia's wrist] Never feed in our home!"
"[Playing piano after returning from swamp from being left after killed] Listen, Louis... there's life... in these old hands still. Not quite furioso. Moderato... cantabile, perhaps. [Claudia inquires how] Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then, on a diet of the blood of snakes... toads... and all the putrid life... of the Mississippi... slowly... Lestat became something... like himself again. You've been... a very... very... naughty little girl."
"I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for 200 years. Please, how shall I put you at ease? Shall we begin like David Copperfield? 'I am born... I grew up.' Or shall we begin when I was born to darkness, as I call it? That's really where we should start, don't you think?... 1791 was the year it happened. I was 24. Younger than you are now. But times were different then. I was a man at that age. The master of a large plantation, just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth. She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would've been happy to join them. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed to be released from it. I wanted to lose it all: my wealth, my estate, my sanity....Most of all, I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that followed. But it was a vampire that accepted."
"That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became."
"Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life."
"[Walks out front door of plantation master house to meet lynching intentioned mob of torch wielding slaves while carrying lifeless body of house servant Yvette] Hear me now! This place is cursed! Damned! And, yes, your master is the devil! Get out while you can! You're all free! Do you hear me?! [Hands body of Yvette to slaves] Run! Run! [Grabs a torch, swipes it at slaves to scare them off only to have them follow him to door and he proceeds set fire to the plantation master house]"
"[Referring to feeding on Claudia] Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And, as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed. When I heard her heart in that rhythm, I knew only what peace could be."
"How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful, magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes? "Drink," you ask me. Do you have any idea of the thing you will become?"
"Whatever happened to Lestat, I do not know. I go on, night after night. I feed on those who cross my path. But all my passion went with her golden hair. I'm a spirit of preternatural flesh. Detached. Unchangeable. Empty."
"[From trailer] His name is Lestat. He chose one man. He gave him infinite power, eternal life and a daughter who would be forever young. And then he took the light of day."
"[From TV spot] They live for the pleasure, the passion, the thrill. And they will live forever."
"Drink from me and live forever."
"Tom Cruise - Lestat de Lioncourt"
"Brad Pitt - Louis de Pointe du Lac"
"Christian Slater - Daniel Molloy"
"Kirsten Dunst - Claudia"
"Antonio Banderas - Armand"
"Stephen Rea - Santiago"
"Domiziana Giordano - Madeleine"
"Thandie Newton - Yvette"
"George Kelly - Dollmaker"
"Marcel Iureş - Paris Vampire"
"Sara Stockbridge - Estelle"
"Indra Ové - New Orleans Whore"
"The first time I laid my eyes on her told the story I thought to myself, "That man is my executioner!""
"Some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty."
"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth."
"[to little boy] Alright, kid, let's put I the chains. [she shackles and chains with key in the little boy's wristhand] Now stay there, kid. [Locked the door with a key]"
"Tarantula was the name of it! I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms! Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims. Yes, I have had many meetings with strangers. After the death of Allan, meetings with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with. I think it was panic — just panic — that drove me from one to another, searching for some protection. Here, there and then in the most unlikely places. Then, at last, in a seventeen-year-old boy. But someone wrote to the superintendent about it: "This woman is morally unfit for her position!" True? Yes... unfit somehow anyway."
"Whoever you are: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
"[to Stanley] It won't be the sort of thing you have in mind. This man is a gentleman - he respects me. What he wants is my companionship. Having great wealth sometimes makes people lonely. A cultivated woman - a woman of breeding and intelligence - can enrich a man's life immeasurably. I have those things to offer, and time doesn't take them away. Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession. But beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all those things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years! Oh! Strange that I should be called a destitute woman when I have all these treasures locked in my heart. I think of myself as a very, very rich woman. But I have been foolish - casting my pearls before....swine. Yes, swine! And I'm thinking not only of you, but of your friend Mr. Mitchell. He came here tonight, he did, coming in his work clothes, to repeat slander, vicious stories he'd gotten from you. I gave him his walking papers. But then he returned, he returned with a box of roses to beg my forgiveness. He implored my forgiveness. Some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing, in my opinion, and the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty. So I said to him, 'Thank you,' but it was foolish to think that we could ever adapt ourselves to each other. Our ways of life are too different. Our backgrounds are incompatible. So farewell, my friend and let there be no hard feelings."
"Stella. Hey, Stella!"
"You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all... To hold a front position in this rat-race, you've got to believe you are lucky."
"Don't you ever talk that way to me. "Pig," "Polack," "disgusting," "vulgar," "greasy" — those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are, a pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said — that every man's a king — and I'm the king around here, and don't you forget it."
"Listen, baby, when we first met — you and me — you thought I was common. Well, how right you was. I was common as dirt. You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you down off them columns, and you loved it, having them colored lights goin.' And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here, hoity-toity, describin' me like a ape?"
"Vivien Leigh - Blanche DuBois"
"Marlon Brando - Stanley Kowalski"
"Kim Hunter - Stella Kowalski"
"Karl Malden - Harold "Mitch" Mitchell"
"Gentlemen, trials are too important to be left up to juries."
"You think your average juror is King Solomon? No! He's a roofer with a mortgage. He wants to go home and sit in his Barcalounger and let the cable TV wash over him. And this man doesn't give a single, solitary droplet of shit about truth, justice or your American way."
"Everybody has a secret they don't want you to find. Find it!"
"We like fat women, people!"
"Ah, I hate Baptists almost as much as I hate Democrats."
"You may be right, but the thing of it is, I don't give a shit. What's more... I never have."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this girl is an amateur. Do you understand? A dilettante. And I want this nonsense ended today! I want you to find her. I want you to contain her! Because you're losing me my jury!"
"What do you hope to achieve if you win? You gonna bring Jacob Wood back to life? No. You just ensure that his wife goes to the cemetery in a better car, and that the heel that she snaps on the way to the graveside belongs to a $1,200 shoe. You get your name in the paper. But Jacob Wood and all the other gun violence victims remain rotting in their crypts."
"Nicholas Easter: [after anti-gun fanatic is dragged kicking and screaming from the courtroom during jury selection, even though he claims he want to be heard] Well, I guess that's lunch..."
"Henry Jankle: ...I was under the impression that we'd already purchased ourselves a verdict."
"Wendell Rohr: Gentlemen, I have lost my footing in this trial."
"Judge Harkin: I'm not sure, but I believe I'm buying lunch."
"Doyle: It's a set-up. Don't do it!"
"John Cusack - Nicholas "Nick" Easter"
"Gene Hackman - Rankin Fitch"
"Dustin Hoffman - Wendell Rohr"
"Rachel Weisz - Marlee"
"Jeremy Piven - Lawrence Greene"
"Bruce Davison - Durwood Cable"
"Bruce McGill - Judge Frederick Harkin"
"Marguerite Moreau - Amanda Monroe"
"Nick Searcy - Doyle"
"Leland Orser - Lamb"
"Gerry Bamman - Herman Grimes"
"Lori Heuring - Maxine"
"Nestor Serrano - Janovich"
"Joanna Going - Celeste Wood"
"Cliff Curtis - Frank Herrera"
"Dylan McDermott - Jacob Wood"
"Everything you have, you lose, right? Mother, father - gone. Good looks, Pryzwarra? - gone. Loved ones gone in a second. That's what this job teaches you, isn't it? No matter what, no matter how hard you grab onto something - you still lose it, right?"
"Well, you can be wrong a million times. You only gotta be right once."
"For all of my career, I've been trying to catch people after they do something horrible. For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody before they do something horrible."
"What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?"
"Brace yourselves, I think you're about to witness a murder."
"It wasn't supposed to be like this..."
"Denzel Washington - ATF Special Agent Douglas Carlin"
"Paula Patton - Claire Kuchever"
"James Caviezel - Carroll Oerstadt"
"Val Kilmer - FBI Special Agent Paul Pryzwarra"
"Adam Goldberg - Dr. Alexander Denny"
"Bruce Greenwood - FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Jack McCready"
"Matt Craven - ATF Special Agent Larry Minuti"
"Enrique Castillo - Mr. Kutchever"
"Elden Henson - Gunnars"
"Erika Alexander - Shanti"
"Julia Lashae - Eyewitness / Survivor"
"My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While everyone else was aging, I was gettin' younger... all alone."
"It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us"
"Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life."
"It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you."
"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."
"Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it."
"If only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadn't broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier; or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend; or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier; or that taxi driver hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee; or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would've crossed the street, and the taxi would've driven by. But life being what it is — a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control — that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed."
"I think, right there and then, she realized none of us is perfect forever."
"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
"Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people — dance."
"I promise you, I'll never lose myself to self-pity again."
"Everyone ends up in diapers at some point, sweetie."
"And in the spring, 2003, he looked at me. And I knew — that he knew — who I was. And then he closed his eyes, as if to go to sleep."
"I know the circumstances and I've accepted that. Loving you is worth all of it."
"Poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white."
"You never know what's comin' for ya."
"Everybody feels different about themselves, one way or another. But we’re all going the same way. Just taking different roads to get there, that’s all.”"
"I wish I'd known him."
"Did you know that I was struck by lightning seven times?"
"Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times? Once when I was in the field, just tending to my cows:"
"Did I ever tell you I been struck by lightning seven times? Once when I was just sittin' in my truck just minding my own business."
"Did I ever tell you I been struck by lightning seven times? Once when I was repairing a leak on the roof. Once I was just crossing the road to get the mail. Once, I was walking my dog down the road."
"Did i ever tell you i got struck by lightning seven times? once when i was just sitting on the toilet!"
"Blinded in one eye; can't hardly hear. I get twitches and shakes out of nowhere; always losing my line of thought. But you know what? God keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive."
"Storm's comin'."
"Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?"
"You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go."
"Life can only be understood backward. It must be lived forward."
"Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments."
"Time is passing, even backwards."
"Brad Pitt — Benjamin Button"
"Cate Blanchett — Daisy Fuller"
"Taraji P. Henson — Queenie"
"Mahershala Ali — Tizzy Weathers"
"Julia Ormond — Caroline Button"
"Jason Flemyng — Thomas Button"
"Elias Koteas — Monsieur Gateau"
"Tilda Swinton — Elizabeth Abbott"
"Don't hunt what you can't kill."
"Catch him if you can."
"Jean-Claude Van Damme - Chance Boudreaux"
"Lance Henriksen - Emil Fouchon"
"Arnold Vosloo - Pik Van Cleef"
"Yancy Butler - Natasha Binder"
"Kasi Lemmons - Detective May Mitchell"
"Chuck Pfarrer - Douglas Binder"
"Willie C. Carpenter - Elijah Roper"
"Wilford Brimley - Uncle Clarence Douvee"
"Sven-Ole Thorsen - Stephan"
"Jules Sylvester - Peterson"
"Robert Apisa - Lopacki"
"Tom Lupo - Jerome"
"[To Martha] I don't think before I act sometimes, but I'm not a bad person. You think bad people have the capacity to … love and stuff?"
"'cause humans just wanna put a name on something to make it feel safe, but really, what is a dinosaur other than a dragon?"
"[To Francis] You think you're just gonna walk out of this life and settle down? You'll never be normal."
"You're like the little engine that could that just keeps running off the tracks. I'm stopping this train! No more."
"Sam Rockwell - Francis"
"Anna Kendrick - Martha McKay"
"Tim Roth - Hopper"
"Katie Nehra - Sophie"
"Wendy McColm - Julia"