Dr. Sayer: You told him I was a kind man. How kind is it to give life, only to take it away? Eleanor: It's given to and taken away from all of us. Dr. Sayer: Why does that not comfort me? Eleanor: Because you are a kind man. Because he's your friend.
[after Jake tells the band to split from Bob's Country Bunker] Willie 'Too Big' Hall: I say we give the blues brothers one more chance Donald 'Duck' Dunn: Why not? If the shit fits, wear it. [gets into the car] Donald 'Duck' Dunn: Scoot over, goddamn...
[Claire is doing Allison's make-up] Claire: You know, you look a lot better without all that black shit under your eyes. Allison Reynolds: Hey, I like all that black shit... Why are you being so nice to me? Claire: Because you're letting me.
Grimes: Why aren't you shooting? Waddell: We're not being shot at yet. Grimes: How can you tell? Waddell: A hiss means it's close. A snap means... [a bullet whizzes close by] Waddell: Now they're shooting at us! [they begin returning fire]
Maj. Julian Cook: [reporting another delay to his officers] Ah, I suppose you're wondering why I called you here. I want to tell you that I've decided to cross the river like George Washington; standing in the prow of the boat.
Ricky: Hey D, why don't you go to the store for me. Doughboy: Nigga, I ain't the one she told to go get it, its yo wife. Ricky: Look man, she ain't my wife. Doughboy: She may as well be, Y'all got a family and all.
Butch Cassidy: Don't they get tired? Don't they get hungry? Sundance Kid: They gotta be. Butch Cassidy: Why don't they slow up? Hell, they could even go faster, at least that'd be a change. They don't even break formation. Do something.
George: Waiters, I'm the only guy on the planet that gets busted by fucking waiters, why the Feds decided to bust me on that particular night I'll never know maybe it was the Porsches and Maseratis in the drive way, my Columbian guest list or the coc...
Floyd Gondolli: This here's the future. Videotape tells the truth. Jack Horner: Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future? That the future is tape, videotape, and not film? That it's amateurs and not professionals? ...
[at Andrea's mother's grave] Andrea Beaumont: So, tell me - with all that money and power, how come you always look like you want to jump off a cliff? Bruce Wayne: Why do you care? Andrea Beaumont: I don't. Mom was asking.
Shuya: Did you bandage me, Utsumi? Yukie Utsumi: Yeah. Yukie Utsumi: [laughing] Never touched a guy before... you like Noriko, huh? Shuya: Why? Yukie Utsumi: [smiling] I know all about you, Nanahara. You know what that means? Shuya: [confused] What?
Paul Smecker: Why don't you get me a cup of coffee? Detective Greenly: Who the hell is this...? Paul Smecker: Cafe latte. Detective Greenly: What the fuck...? Paul Smecker: Twist of lemon. Detective Greenly: Chief, what the fuck is this? Paul Smecker...
Buck Laughlin: I don't think I could ever get used to being poked and prodded like that. I told my proctologist one time, "Why don't you take me out to dinner and a movie sometime?" Trevor Beckwith: Yes, I remember you said that last year.
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need someth...
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, ...
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I ...
I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we lis...
Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark pers...
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and playe...
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we ...
