FAVORITE QUOTES, SCENES, ETC.
An ever-expanding list of quotes and lines and scenes that I adore from various types of media.
I’m obsessed with language and performance, so this is basically my main vice. Please feel free to send any potential additions!
Film
“This car is very you.” / “Do you like it?” / “…no.” / “…It’s my grandmother’s.” - Anora (wr. Sean Baker)
“Well… I probably ought to get going.” / “Why? Who says?” / “…I don’t know. I don’t know why I just said that.” - We Live in Time (wr. Nick Payne)
“…There is one sin, which I have come to fear above all others. Certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end. ‘My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?’ He cried out in his agony at the ninth hour on the cross. Our faith is a living thing, precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need… for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. And let him grant us a Pope who sins, and asks for forgiveness… and who carries on.” - Conclave (wr. Peter Straughan
“Keep your head up, alright? You can do this.” / “Yeah, I was gonna tell you the same thing.” - The Holdovers (wr. David Hemingson)
“Yes, I know the Greeks had the idea that the steps you take to avoid your fate are the very steps that lead you to it, but that is just a literary conceit. In real life, your history does not have to determine your destin— oh. There’s Mary.” - The Holdovers (wr. David Hemingson)
“I am… overwhelmed by you. It’s the last thing I was expecting.” - The Big Sick (wr. Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani)
“Because it takes an outsider.” - Spotlight (wr. Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer)
“You can live wherever you want to live. Be whoever you want to be. You have time.” - Aftersun (wr. Charlotte Wells)
“I like you too, Frances.” - Frances Ha (wr. Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig)
“I bet we were fun.” / “Like you wouldn’t believe.” - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. III (wr. James Gunn)
“I swear your life will always matter more to me than my own.” / “You don’t even know me.” / “What difference does that make?” - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 (wr. Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresen)
“Excuse me, gentlemen, if I become stirred, but I am.” - Oppenheimer (wr. Christopher Nolan)
“Who would want to justify their whole life?” - Oppenheimer (wr. Christopher Nolan)
“Only a fool or an adolescent presumes to know someone’s relationship, Lloyd, and you are neither.” - Oppenheimer (wr. Christopher Nolan)
“That's why we fought the Nazis? So you could have a mojito bar?!” - You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (wr. Alison Peck)
“We mothers stand still so that our daughters can look back and see how far they’ve come.” - Barbie (wr. Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach)
“With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.” - Casablanca (wr. Julius & Phillip Epstein, Howard Koch)
“Pity you never paid a bastard’s eyes heed before.” - The Northman (wr. Robert Eggers & Sjón)
“So, even though you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.” - Everything, Everywhere, All at Once [aka per my friend Matt, Everybody All Together Now] (wr. the Daniels)
“You asked me once why I married your mother. I married her because, I loved her.” - Star Trek 2009 (wr. Roberto Orcci and Alex Kurtzman)
“I love the way you sing. I fucked up my whole life because of the way you sing.” - Before Midnight (wr. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, & Julie Delpy)
“Boys always come back for their mamas.” - The Adam Project (wr. Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flacket, and Mark Levin)
“The problem with acting like you have it all together is, he believes it.” - The Adam Project (wr. Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flacket, and Mark Levin)
“Take her to the moon for me.” - Inside Out (wr. Pete Doctor, Meg LeFauvre, & Josh Cooley)
“What is and always will be my greatest creation… is you.” - Iron Man 2 (wr. Justin Theroux)
“Forgive me, madam, for taking up so much of your time.” - Pride and Prejudice (wr. Deborah Moggach)
“It makes me a Comanche.” - Hell or High Water (wr. Taylor Sheridan)
“Boy, you’d think there were ten of me.” - Hell or High Water (wr. Taylor Sheridan)
“A great man doesn't seek to lead. He's called to it. And he answers. And if your answer is no, you'll still be the only thing I ever needed you to be: my son.” - Dune ( (wr. Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaights, & Eric Roth)
“You have your mother’s eyes.” - Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 (wr. Steve Kloves)
“Not bad, kid.” - Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (wr. Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman)
“That’ll do pig. That’ll do.” - Babe (wr. Chris Noonan & George Miller
“I know the plot, Maggie. I’m aware of the plot.” - Shithouse (wr. Cooper Raiff)
“She does have your eyes.” / “I know.” - No Time to Die (wr. Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, & Phoebe Waller Bridge)
“Baby. You are gonna miss that plane.” / “I know.” - Before Sunset (wr. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, & Julie Delpy)
“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” - Moneyball (wr. Steve Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin)
“How many’d you do?” / “47.” / “Okay.” / “Actually, 51. I don’t know why I lied just then.” - Moneyball (wr. Steve Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin)
“I’m poorly made.” - Steve Jobs (wr. Aaron Sorkin)
“Don’t cite the deep magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.” - Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (wr. Ann Peacock, Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus, & Stephen McFeely)
“For someone never meant for this world, I must confess, I’m suddenly having a hard time leaving it.” - Gattaca (wr. Andrew Nichol)
“All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.” - Midnight in Paris (wr. Woody Allen)
“Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” - Hamlet (wr. Billy Shakespeezies)
“Bio-digital jazz, man.” - Tron: Legacy (wr. Adam Horowitz & Edward Kitsis)
“I created the perfect system!” / “The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable. It's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time! You didn’t know that because I didn’t, when I created you.” - Tron: Legacy (wr. Adam Horowitz & Edward Kitsis)
“It shouldn’t be you, but it is. It’s alright. You could never hurt me… I just feel you.” - Avengers: Infinity War (wr. Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely)
“But to make yourself feel nothing, so as not to feel anything? What a waste.” - Call Me By Your Name (wr. James Ivory)
“You’re as beautiful as the day I lost you.” - How to Train Your Dragon 2 (wr. Dean DeBlois)
“It was just a matter of time I suppose.” - Watchmen (wr. David Hayter & Alex Tse)
“I feel fear for the last time.” - Watchmen (wr. David Hayter & Alex Tse)
“Rejoice! The broken are the more evolved.” - Split (wr. M. Night Shyamalan)
“Merill. Swing away.” - Signs (wr. M Night Shyamalan)
“You’re not a bad person. You’re a terrific person. You’re my favorite person. But sometimes, you can be a real c*nt.” - Kill Bill (wr. Quentin Tarantino)
“Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different?” - POTC Dead Man’s Chest (wr. Ted Elliot & Terry Rossio)
“Get some rest, Pam. You look tired.” - The Bourne Supremacy (wr. Tony Gilroy)
“If you were in your office, we’d be having this conversation face-to-face.” - The Bourne Ultimatum (wr. Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, & George Nolfi)
“What about you John? You pissed? Huh?” / “Yeah.” - John Wick 3 (wr. Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams)
“He shot my dog.” / “I get it.” - John Wick 3 (wr. Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams)
“Now, I am calling you a liar, Señor Bob.” - The Hateful Eight (wr. Quentin Tarantino)
“Well, if this is it old boy, I hope you don’t mind if I go out speaking the King’s.” - Inglourious Basterds (wr. Quentin Tarantino)
“Nah, more like chewed out. I’ve been chewed out before.” - Inglourious Basterds (wr. Quentin Tarantino)
“But a thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts.” - Avengers: Age of Ultron (wr. Joss Whedon)
“Our very strength invites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict… breeds catastrophe.” - Captain America: Civil War (wr. Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely)
“Men always feel like they have to fix things for women, or they’re not doing anything. But some things just can’t be fixed. Just be there. Somehow that’s hard for all of you.” / “Mom, I’m not all men, alright? I’m just me.” / “Well… yes and no.” - 20th Century Women (wr. Mike Mills)
TV
“You can’t have both. And I would never make you choose.” - Nobody Wants This (wr. Erin Foster, Craig DiGregorio & Staff)
“It’ll pass.” - Fleabag (wr. Phoebe Waller-Bridge)
“A just world is a sane world. There was nothing sane about Chernobyl.” - Chernobyl (wr. Craig Mazin)
“Of all the ministers, and all the deputies… the entire congregation of obedient fools… they mistakenly sent the one good man. For God’s sake Boris, you were the one who mattered most.” - Chernobyl (wr. Craig Mazin)
“3.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible.” - Chernobyl (wr. Craig Mazin)
“I would’ve stolen you a whole orchestra.” - How I Met Your Mother (wr. Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, & Writing Staff)
“If this is hell… then it looks a lot like Margate.” - Peaky Blinders (wr. Steven Knight)
“There is God, and there are the Peaky Blinders. This is Sparkhill, we're in Small Heath. We are much, much closer at hand than God.” - Peaky Blinders (wr. Steven Knight)
“I’ve got a Swede lawyer? She’s gonna get everything!” - Curb Your Enthusiasm (wr. Larry David & Staff)
“What is grief, if not love persevering?” - WandaVision (wr. Jac Schaffer & Staff)
“…Take all the money you’ve found and go and find some peace.” / “I won’t have peace. I’ll be worried about you all the time.” / “That’s just love. Nothing you can do about that.” - Andor (wr. Tony Gilroy & Staff)
Songs
‘Are you proud of me? Are you proud of what I do? / I’ve tried to be a better man, than the one that you knew / I’ma miss you when you’re not around, though I wasn’t around for you / When your broken body’s in the ground, I’ll hope there’s room for two.’ - “Canyon” (wr. Joshua Ray Walker)
The entirety of “Snow on tha Bluff” (wr. J. Cole)
‘And if Lucifer may fear the swift drying of tears / Then for evil, you could not be worse.’ - “After Rain” (wr. Dermot Kennedy)
‘All the fear and the fire of the end of the world / Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl / Happens great, happens sweet, happily / I’m unfazed here too.’ - “Wasteland Baby” (wr. Hozier)
Smart People
“Not unto ourselves alone are we born” - Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca the Younger
“Know thyself.” & “Nothing in excess.” - someone a really long time ago at the Temple of Delphi
Miscellaneous Media
“Oh, Ellie. I think they should be terrified of you.” - The Last of Us Part II (wr. Neil Druckmann & Halley Gross)
FAVORITE SCENES
(there’s some overlap here)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2iSnXR75IZMYM0sXYgZjPjbX16GQblh