That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act...
It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning machine actually turn it into a new but still well-functioning machine with a different purpose. The AIDS virus: look at it from its point of view. Very ...
We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the informa...
Dr. Snaut: Science? Nonsense! In this situation mediocrity and genius are equally useless! I must tell you that we really have no desire to conquer any cosmos. We want to extend the Earth up to its borders. We don't know what to do with other worlds....
[Marlin and Dory are each pulling on the mask; it snaps and hits Dory in the face] Dory: Ow! Marlin: Oh, I'm really sorry. Are you okay? Dory: Ow, ow, ow! Marlin: I'm so sorry. Dory: You really clocked me there. Am I bleeding? [a wisp of blood floats...
Dory: Excuse me? Whoo-hoo! Little fella? Hello! Don't be rude. Say hi. Marlin: Ha. Hello. Dory: His son Bingo... Marlin: Nemo. Dory: ...Nemo was taken to, um... Marlin: Sydney Dory: ...Sydney, yeah. And it's really, really important that we get there...
Ninny Threadgoode: It's good to see you're so happy, and you've slimmed down quite a bit these last few weeks. Evelyn Couch: I'm just so happy, Big George and Idgie got off. I would've killed Frank Bennett if I coulda. Did anybody really think Idgie ...
Otto: You're a very attractive man, Ken. You're... smart, you've got wonderful bones, great eyes, and you dress really interestingly. Ken: What you...? Otto: We could have a lot of fun together, you and I. And I think we'd be really good for each oth...
Sam: Hey, I recognize you. Andrew Largeman: Oh, did you go to Columbia High? Sam: No, not from high school, from TV. Didn't you play the retarded quarterback? Andrew Largeman: Yeah. Sam: Are you really retarded? Andrew Largeman: No. Sam: Ooh, great j...
Andrew Largeman: They sent me to boarding school because they thought I might be dangerous. [mocking Sam] Andrew Largeman: Oh, are you freaked out? You're like so freaked out. You're like running for the door. You can go, it's okay, don't feel bad. S...
Professor McGonagall: Albus, do you really think it safe, leaving him with these people? I've watched them all day. They're the worst sort of Muggles imaginable. They really are... Dumbledore: The only family he has. Professor McGonagall: This boy wi...
Hogarth Hughes: Hey, Dean! Watch this! Dean McCoppin: All right, we're watching. Hogarth Hughes: This one's for professionals only! Banzai! [dives into lake, starts shivering] Hogarth Hughes: Come on in! The water's... great. Dean McCoppin: No, thank...
Sarah Merrit: I hope you don't mind me saying this, but, you seem an unlikely candidate for this kind of work. Nicholas Garrigan: Why, 'cause I don't wear socks and sandals? Sarah Merrit: Touché. Nicholas Garrigan: I still want to make a difference,...
[last lines] Cutter: Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the pledge, the magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the turn, the magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into so...
Dr. McCoy: You're hiding... hiding behind rules and regulations. Kirk: Who am I hiding from? Dr. McCoy: From yourself, Admiral. Kirk: Don't mince words, Bones. What do you really think? Dr. McCoy: Jim, I'm your doctor and I'm also your friend. Get ba...
Patrick Bateman: Don't you want to know what I do? Christie: No. No, not really. Patrick Bateman: Well, I work on Wall Street... for Pierce & Pierce. Have you heard of it? [the girls shake their heads. Patrick's jaw tightens] Christie: You have a rea...
Norther Winslow: I've been working on this poem for 12 years. Young Ed Bloom: Really? Norther Winslow: There's a lot of expectation. I don't wanna disappoint my fans. Young Ed Bloom: May I? Young Ed Bloom: [Edward reeds the poem on the notebook ] The...
Jesse: Sometimes I dream about being a good father and a good husband. And sometimes it feels really close. But then other times it seems silly like it would ruin my whole life. And it's not just a fear of commitment or that I'm incapable of caring o...
Sean Tuohy: You really expect Michael to lay down on a couch and talk about his childhood like he's Woody Allen or something? I mean, Michael's gift is his ability to forget. He's mad at no one and he really doesn't care happened in the past. Leigh A...
If I could really love, I would take away these tubes dripping lipids and glucose into your blood. I would liquefy the things you love and flood them through your veins: our sleeping dogs' rhythmic breathing, huge orange trumpets of the amaryllis we ...
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed y...
