All Quotes

"You're saying too many 'if's, Sameer. What's the matter?"

"On my birthday, my husband gave me this present. Divorce."

"[about Sid's paintings] The door is closed, so no one can enter. The box is tightly shut, so no one can steal anything. And those eyes, who knows what emotions lie behind them? I wonder what other things your paintings are trying to hide... maybe about yourself."

"Life is very strange. Some relationships don't have labels. Siddharth, you and me... will always... [dies]"

"Nandini: You want to talk to Sameer, but you're calling up Siddharth! How are you?"

"Mahesh: [about Shalini] She isn't happy. How can she be? She's marrying Rohit, but she wants you."

"Aamir Khan as Akash Malhotra"

"Saif Ali Khan as Sameer Mulchandani"

"Akshaye Khanna as Siddharth "Sid" Sinha"

"Preity Zinta as Shalini"

"Sonali Kulkarni as Pooja"

"Dimple Kapadia as Tara Jaiswal"

"Ayub Khan as Rohit"

"Rajat Kapoor as Mahesh, Shalini's maternal uncle."

"Suchitra Pillai as Priya"

"Suhasini Mulay as Nandini Sinha, Sid's mother."

"Samantha Tremayne as Deepa"

"In 2001, ... It was possible, perhaps for the first time since India’s independence from Great Britain in 1947, to be a young, economically independent professional in India.... “Dil Chahta Hai” is about that new generation."

"When Dil Chahta Hai was released, Bollywood was only beginning to change, and viewers were looking for stories that were more accessible and realistic. The movie deviated from typical storylines and offered a novel viewpoint that appealed to urban adolescents in the early 2000s."

"With this cross-country collaboration, the actors can bring their own unique skill sets and experiences, which can help enrich the story and give more authenticity to the characters they play."

"I aim to create a film that celebrates the unique identities and traditions of each culture while also exploring common themes and experiences that unite us as human beings."

"I always wanted to be in films, acting and behind the scenes. I always wanted to direct."

"People have asked me, what is your genre?” Bernardo said. “I’d tell them, I don’t have a specific style. But maybe I could say that I prefer to give very serious topics a lighter treatment."

"Jings, Crusoe. You're as big as a prize pig. How did you grow so fast?"

"Faster, Crusoe! We have to get to the net!"

"[feeding Crusoe a can of sardines] Here you are. Look what I've got. Don't be greedy now."

"[after a botched demonstration] Angus, this is not the place for us. Can someone drive us home, please?"

"Kirstie, Angus, run along. We don't want to distract our guests from their duties."

"A sea monster? Are you telling me this has all been about a sea monster?! What is going on here?! Has anyone gone mad?! A sea monster?! There is no monster. [turns to Captain Hamilton] There's just you with your bloody gun! [turns to Lewis] And you, filling his head with tales of sea creatures and magic? There's no monster, and there's no magic."

"The submarine net will be down to permit passage by routine marine traffic and to let their subs in. And then we will raise the net... and we will destroy them."

"The boy needs discipline, Anne."

"DID I OR DID I NOT TELL YOU TO WAIT OVER THERE?!?!"

"Do you know why I take two pairs of trousers onto the golf course, Mrs. MacMorrow? In case I get a hole in one."

"All the radios are down! We have to get to the net!"

"Your life is as good as your mindset."

"When you are in love, you’re tempted to give as much as you can. You must, however, always withhold some love and respect for yourself, because it’s sometimes difficult to predict the outcome of a romantic relationship."

"If it goes nowhere, you can always move on and start anew with the love and self-respect you held back."

"Although I believe in second chances, a lot depends on the reason why we parted ways."

"As always, forgiveness is key."

"I don’t take them personally. I can take constructive criticism, which can help me improve my craft."

"We can’t please everyone but, at the same time, bashers give us insights into what needs to be improved."

"The Family is an image of the Holy Trinity that signifies the love of God for humanity. As a visible sign of this love, the family becomes the venue per excellence for the transmission of life, faith and training in values and virtues."

"Let us welcome capital and immigration, furnishing as they will be the indispensable means to our progress and prosperity. Prejudices growing out of nativity, or out of the rebellion, are not worthy to be cherished."

"I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave."

"In the allotments of Providence we have been placed in a pleasant and beautiful country—a country washed on either hand by the waters of the circling seas, and teeming with all the elements of prosperity and power. This glorious country—this chosen seat of science and of art—this happy and peculiar residence of civil and religious liberty, has been won for us by the constancy and courage of our ancestors; it is the birth-place of blood and battle and prolonged disaster; and it is ours to defend, ours to enjoy, and ours to transmit in untarnished splendor to posterity."

"You're asking to crawl inside the mind of the Nixon supporter. I'm unable to. The man, to me, incarnated the figure of the American jerk: the guy who's always clumsy, who sweats inappropriately, who knocks over his saucer when he goes to pick up the coffee, who has no redeeming virtue save a kind of stamina, an ability to last. In the Navy they called him 'hard bottom' because he'd play cards after everybody had left. And that seemed to be his one virtue. He persisted like a bad cold. And the jerk is a numerous species. Anybody in high school remembers him. All of us at some time were him. And I think Nixon spoke to the jerk, and he said: "That's all right, that's all right. You can be awkward and ungainly and uncouth and unscrupulous, just like me. And you can be full of hatred and unarticulated bitterness, just like me. And you don't have to feel guilty about anything, because I don't feel guilty about anything." And he sent a message to jerks all over the country that their hour had arrived. "Enough of this idealism. Enough of this Kennedy uplift. We're gonna have our day; the day of the jerk, of the 'silent majority'"—which is the apotheosis of jerkhood. Madison and Jefferson would've turned over in their graves to think that silence would be dignified as a democratic virtue. But that's the jerk's virtue, and in Nixon the jerk found his president."

"Truman repeatedly stressed the unique nature of the American presidency. He called it the greatest office ever created by the mind of man. In the Truman Presidential Library, only a few blocks from his house, he had ordered an inscription to be prominently displayed, listing the six tasks of the president. He was commander-in-chief of the armed forces, leader of his political party, initiator of legislation, maker of foreign policy, the head of state and the chief executive, responsible for seeing that the laws passed by Congress were respected and obeyed."

"The labels liberal and conservative used to mean something fairly clear. A liberal used to mean somebody who believed in the individual, who believed in the free market, who believed that you should break down all the barriers toward individual self-expression. If this meant destroying the church or weakening the power of parents within their family, destroying social classes, all sorts of conventions, this is what liberals were in favor of. What conservatives were interested in doing was preserving a kind of cultural order, preserving a tradition, preserving a sense of sacredness—even if they weren’t particularly religious themselves, they had to preserve that sense of the sacred. And what happened in the 1940s and 50s is that conservatism got defined as what used to be called liberal. In other words, the free market is everything, the individual is everything. Forget family—forget everything, essentially, but the marketplace and the defense of the nation, because the old liberals were also great colonialists. And the people who called themselves liberals were in fact socialists or worse. What was somebody with something like a conservative worldview going to do? There was no place. There was no label. There was no party. There was no movement. It’s like being a conservative environmentalist today. The greatest environmental thinker, the most powerful philosopher of conservation today, is Wendell Berry, who is a conservative. He lives on his little farm in rural Kentucky. He writes books about managing his own little family farm. He’s a Christian, he’s a traditionalist, but he’s on the board of the Sierra Club. Why? Because there’s no conservative organization that would welcome Wendell Berry; they think he’s the devil incarnate. And that, in a nutshell, is the failure of American conservatism—not to make a place for the real social, cultural, and moral conservatives who have surfaced from time to time. Jack Kerouac was a conservative and nobody knew that at the time. Why was he a conservative? He thought of himself as a man of the right. He thought he was a patriot. He was a rugged, old-fashioned individualist, but he loved America. He hated this rise of America-bashing of the 60s, and he’s quite an interesting person. Obviously, he was a moral anarchist in some sense, but way down deep he had the...impulses of a Baudelaire, who was also a conservative."

"At this point, I would like to mention an important figure, Aldo Moro, who was born a short distance from here, in Maglie... He is one of the biggest shoe manufacturers, someone who has made shoes for the whole of Italy. [...] I know very well that he uses very clear language, he invented several terms, in fact he is a great philologist, he invented parallel convergences, the economic situation, all these things... Once I heard him make some very strange speeches, such as: “These ferments of dissolution, I would not say iconoclastic but projected towards new hypertrophic temptations that bring me back to a new universal pragmatism and new dimensions yet to be discovered...” and there are all these things that make it impossible to clarify anything at all. It's very distracting, and last year I wrote an even more distracting piece dedicated to these enigmatic figures from the world of politics and other worlds as well. Anyway, tonight I want to dedicate it to this character who has outsmarted the whole of Italy."

"Ahó, look, songs are not political texts and I don't give speeches. This is just a joke. In short, for me, ‘'Nuntereggae più’' is the lightest song I've ever written."