162 quotes found
"[Letter to mom] "Dear mom, I've gone with Erik, but I've brought along my medicine so there's no reason to worry. We plan to be careful and sensible. Whatever you do, make sure you remember to tape Star Wars, 8 PM, channel 5. I love you very much. Sincerely, Dexter.""
"Brad Renfro - Erik"
"Joseph Mazzello - Dexter"
"Diana Scarwid - Gail"
"Annabella Sciorra - Linda"
"Tony Solis - Baby"
"Nicky Katt - Pony"
"Renee Humphrey - Angle"
"Bruce Davison - Dr. Jensen"
"How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once sounded right and rare?"
"You can't wipe out an entire tent city then... watch It's A Wonderful Life on TV!"
"I'm writing one great song before I... oh."
"Zoom in on my empty wallet."
"Find glory, beyond the cheap colored lights. One song, before the sun sets. Glory - on another empty life."
"Glory: in a song that rings true. Truth like a blazing fire, an eternal flame."
"Find: One song, one last refrain. Glory, of the pretty boy front man. Who wasted opportunity."
"One song, he had the world at his feet. Glory, in the eyes of a young girl. A young girl..."
"Time flies then no need to endure anymore."
"I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs."
"Your sweet whisper, I just can't handle! So take your hair in the moonlight, your brown eyes, goodbye goodnight!"
"You wanna prove me wrong, come back another day!"
"[To Angel, who's knocing the padlock off the door] Watch your fingers."
"That's a full service woman you got there."
"It's true you're with this yuppie scum?"
"Mark's got his work, they say Mark lives for his work and Mark's in love with his work. Mark hides in his work."
"All your words are nice Mimi, but love's not a three way street! You'll never share real love until you love yourself, I should know!"
"I see Mimi everywhere."
"I hear it, I hear it, I hear it my song!"
"You were the song all along, and before the song dies… I should tell you, I should tell you, I have always loved you. You can see it in my eyes!"
"December 24, 9 PM, Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes from it, instead of my old shit."
"The music ignites the night with passionate fire."
"There are times, when we're dirt broke and hungry, and I ask myself "What the hell am I still doing here?" and then they call, and I remember..."
"First I got a protest to save."
"And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song... that doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz.""
"That sleezy news show Buzzline wants to take a meeting."
"Look, this is not my Bar Mitzvah, give it back to me!"
"[About Maureen committing to Joanne] This can't be happening."
"Hey, guys, all our shit's back!"
"That drip of hurt, that pint of shame, goes away—just play the game!"
"I see it my film!"
"Alexi? Mark. Call me a hypocrite. I need to finish my own film. I quit!"
"December 24, 1990, 10 PM, Eastern Standard Time. I can't believe a year went by so fast."
"Hey, Collins, don't get your ass kicked this time!"
"Mutual Masturbation!"
"(With Roger, Collins, Angel, and support group while filming) Will I loose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow, from this nightmare?"
"[In Goodbye Love] (To Roger) Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive!"
"How do you document real life, when real life is getting more like fiction each day?"
"We could light the candle… Oh, what'd you do with my candle!"
"But now and then I like to feel good."
"Meow... HA!"
"Get up—life's too quick. I know someplace sick, where this chick'll dance in the flames!"
"In the evening I've got to roam—can't sleep in the city of neon and chrome."
"So let's find a bar, so dark we forget who we are, where all the scars from the nevers and maybes die!"
"I live this moment as my last!"
"No day but today."
"I'm lookin' for baggage that goes with mine."
"AZT break..."
"I should tell you—I blew the candle out, just to get back in."
"Without you, the tides change, the boys run, the oceans crash."
"The moon glows, the river flows, but I die without you."
"He was the same way. He was always run away, hit the road, don't commit, you're full of shit!"
"I was heading towards this warm, white light, and I swear… Angel was there. And she looked good."
"(saying about angel) "... I'm more of a man than you will ever be, I'm more of a woman than you will ever get""
"Merry Christmas, bitches!"
"(optional line in place of the previous) Happy Kwanzaa, crackers!"
"'Oh, hi,' after seven months?"
"They expelled me for my theory of actual reality."
"That's cute, you still love her."
"Well I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle, and I'm sick of grading papers, that I know. I'm drowning in my sleep I need a muzzle. And all this misery pays no salary, so…"
"Lets open up a restaurant in Santa Fé! Lovely Santa Fé would be NICE!"
"Yeah, I teach. Computer age philosophy. When my students would rather watch TV."
"In honor of the death of Bohemia, an impromptu salon will commence immediately following dinner - Maureen Johnson, back from her one night performance at the eleventh street lot, will perform Native American tribal chants, backwards, through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric cello, which she ain't never studied."
"[To Joanne] You got engagedededed!"
"The benevolent god ushers the poor artists back to their flat. Full story tonight on Buzzline."
"Hey, it's me! Throw down the key."
"(cut line) after Mark throws down key Thanks you honk headed albino f***!"
"Come at me bro"
"In truths that she learned/Or in times that he cried/In bridges he burned/Or the way that she died"
"I'm Angel... come on, let's get you cleaned up..."
"But sure as I am here, that dog is now in doggy hell."
"Back on the street, where I met my sweet, where he was moaning and groaning on the cold concrete. The nurse took him home for some Mercurochrome, then I dressed his wounds and got him back on his feet!"
"Singing! Today for you tomorrow for me! Today for you tomorrow for me!"
"Times are shitty but I'm pretty sure they can't get worse."
"And Pussy Galore... in person"
"Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?"
"Share love, give love, spread love."
"I'm so mad that I don't know what to do! Fighting with microphones, freezing down to my bones, and to top it all off, I'm with YOU!"
"You should try it...in heels."
"[To Maureen] Does everything have to be about you?"
"Don't. You. Dare."
"I make lists in my sleep, baby, what's my sin?"
"We used to have this fight each night! She'd never admit I existed!"
"Didn't give an inch when I gave a mile!"
"She'd been living on the street. We found her in the park. She wanted to come here."
"It's like I'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck, being packed in with fertilizer, and fuel oil, pushed off a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse!"
"Only thing to do is jump over the moon. Over the moon."
"Hey Mister... she's my sister."
"TO THE STAGE!"
"What a frickin' sweetheart!"
"I didn't pierce my nipples because it grossed YOU out! I didn't stay at the Kink Club last night because YOU wanted to go home!"
"There will always be women in rubber flirting with me!"
"Don't you want your girl hot?"
"Kiss, Pookie?"
"IIIII gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta.....gotta gotta find a way to jump over the moon!"
"So much more original than any of us. You'd find an old table cloth on the street and make a dress then...then the next year sure enough they'd be mass producing them at the Gap.....you always said how lucky you were that we were all friends.....but it was us baby.....who were the lucky ones...."
"The enemy of Avenue A....we'll stay."
"Benny? THAT FUCK!"
"Roger and Mark: How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out till you're torn apart!"
"Mark, Roger, and Tenants: How can you connect in an age when strangers, landlords, lovers, your own blood cells betray?"
"Mark's Dad: Look, Mark. I'm sorry that Maureen dumped you. I say, "C'est la vie." Let her be a lesbian! She doesn't know what she's missing!"
"Gordon: Now, I find some of what you teach suspect, because I'm used to relying on intellect. But I try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died three years ago."
"All: Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?"
"Angel and Collins: I think they meant it, when they said you can't buy love. Now I know you can rent it, a new lease you are, my love."
"Angel and Collins: With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you."
"All: Actual reality! Act up! Fight AIDS!"
"All: To people living with, living with, living with... not dying from disease! Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn! La vie Boheme!"
"Alexi Darling: How much did I love your footage? So much, so mu - it reminded me of the Berkley days, fighting the good fight. Kudos, kudos."
"Maureen's Mom: [to Mark] Maybe now you two can get back together."
"Joanne and Mimi: I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had! Someone to live for, unafraid to say 'I love you!'"
"Roger and Mark: You're living in America, at the end of the millennium. You're living in America, where it's like The Twilight Zone."
"Roger and Mark: For once the shadows gave way to light. For once I didn't disengage!"
"Roger and Mark: Dying in America, at the end of the millennium. We're dying in America, to come into our own. And when you're dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you're not alone. I'm not alone!"
"Benny You wanna write songs and produce film? You need somewhere to do it, it's what we use to dream about so think before you poo poo it you'll see boys. You'll see boys!"
"Bohiemians LA VIE BOHÈME!!!!!"
"Mark: Why our entire year's strewn on the cutting room floor of memory..."
"Mark: Why am I the witness? And when I capture it on film, will it mean that is the end, and I'm alone?"
"Benny: I always hated that dog."
"Roger: Mark has got his work. They say Mark lives for his work. And Mark's in love with his work. Mark hides in his work."
"Mimi: Goodbye love, just came to say, goodbye love."
"Mimi: Goodbye love, hello disease."
"We're standing here in Philadelphia, the, uh, city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom, where the, uh, founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence, and I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. I believe it says all men are created equal."
"Now, explain it to me like I'm a two-year-old."
"Some of these people make me sick, Philco. But a law's been broken. You remember the law, don't you?"
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There's not gonna be any last minute surprise witnesses. Nobody's gonna break down on the stand with a tearful confession. You're gonna be presented with a simple fact: Andrew Beckett was fired. You'll hear two explanations for why he was fired: ours and theirs. It is up to you to sift through layer upon layer of truth until you determine for yourselves which version sounds the most true. There are certain points that I must prove to you."
"Point number one, Andrew Beckett was - is a brilliant lawyer, great lawyer. Point number two, Andrew Beckett, afflicted with a debilitating disease, made the understandable, the personal, the legal choice to keep the fact of his illness to himself. Point number three, his employers discovered his illness, and ladies and gentlemen, the illness I am referring to is AIDS. Point number four, they panicked. And in their panic, they did what most of us would like to do with AIDS, which is just get it, and everybody who has it, as far away from the rest of us as possible.Now, the behavior of Andrew Beckett's employers may seem reasonable to you. It does to me. After all, AIDS is a deadly, incurable disease. But no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners in ethical, moral, and in human terms, the fact of the matter is, when they fired Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS, they broke the law."
"No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system."
"Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett"
"Denzel Washington - Joe Miller"
"Jason Robards - Charles Wheeler"
"Antonio Banderas - Miguel Alvarez"
"Mary Steenburgen - Belinda Conine"
"Joanne Woodward - Sarah Beckett"
"Bradley Whitford - Jamey Collins"
"Charles Napier - Judge Garnett"
"Joey Perillo - Filko"
"Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, ma'am. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being."
"Just don't disappear again. I like to say good-bye to the people I love, even if it's only to cry my eyes out, bitch."
"How could I own a real Chanel when there is so much poverty in the world?"
"I'm not a whore. I've been fucked around a lot, but I'm not a whore."
"You are not a human being, Lola. You are an epidemic."
"How could anyone act so macho with a pair of tits like that?"
"My name is Claireece Precious Jones. I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with real nice hair. And I wanna be on the cover of a magazine. But first I wanna be in one of them BET videos. Momma said I can't dance. Plus, she said who wants to see my big ass dancing, anyhow?"
"There's always something wrong with these tests. These tests paint a picture of me with no brain. These tests paint a picture of me and my mother, my whole family as less than dumb. Just ugly black grease, need to be wiped away, find a job for."
"I'm gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me."
"The other day, I cried. I felt stupid. But you know what? Fuck that day. That's why God, or whoever, makes new days. Still hungry, though."
"[to her mother] You know, to this day, I never even knew who you was, not even after all them things you did. Maybe I was too stupid. Maybe I just didn't want to. You ain't gonna see me no more."
"See, I think right now you think you becomin' a grown woman. 'Cause that shit you pulled in the kitchen... I shoulda fucked you up. But I let you walk away. And I let you get yourself together. But, bitch, I'mma let you know, don't you ever pull that shit again. That'll be your last mothafuckin' day stayin here. I promise you that. You gon' send a white bitch to my mothafuckin' buzzer? Talkin' 'bout some higher education? You're a dummy, bitch! You will never know shit! Don't nobody want you, don't nobody need you! You done fucked around and fucked my mothafuckin' man? And had two mothafuckin' children? And one of 'ems a goddamn animal, runnin' 'round lookin' crazy as a mothafucka? Bitch, you know what? See, I think you... I think you tryin' me. I think you tryin' to fuck with me. You fuckin' with my money... and you gon' stand up there and look at me like you a mothafuckin' woman? I'mma show you what real women do, bitch. See, you don't know what real mothafuckin' women do. Real mothafuckin' women sacrifice! I shoulda aborted your mothafuckin' ass! 'Cause you ain't shit! I knew it when the doctor put you in my goddamn hand you wasn't a goddamn thing! You wear that smirk on your face, bitch?"
"Gabourey Sidibe - Claireece Precious Jones"
"Mo'Nique - Mary Jones"
"Paula Patton - Ms. Blu Rain"
"Mariah Carey - Mrs. Weiss"
"Lenny Kravitz - Nurse John"