| Quote | Movie |
| Mickey: A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers. | Natural Born Killers |
| Tyler Durden: Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we don’t need. | Fight Club |
| Narrator: After fighting, everything else in your life has got the volume turned down. | Fight Club |
| last lines of the movie Chihiro’s Father: A new home and a new school? It is pretty scary. Chihiro: I think I can handle it. |
Spirited Away |
| Sir Te: A sword by itself rules nothing. It only comes alive in skilled hands. | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| Chihiro: Daddy, are we lost? Chihiro’s Father: Don’t worry, I’ve got four-wheel drive. |
Spirited Away |
| Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Spoon boy: There is no spoon. Neo: There is no spoon? Spoon boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself. |
Matrix |
| Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? | Matrix |
| Tyler Durden: How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight? | Fight Club |
| Narrator: [While brutally beating Angel Face] I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I’d never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. | Fight Club |
| Simon Bishop: If you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity. | As good as it gets |
| Narrator: If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? | Fight Club |
| Melvin Udall: I’ve got a really great compliment for you, and its true. Carol Connelly: I’m so afraid you’re about to say something awful. Melvin Udall: Don’t be pessimistic, it’s not your style. Anyway, here goes: I’ve got this, what, ailment. Now, my doctor, this shrink I used to go to all the time, says that in fifty to sixty percent of cases, a pill really helps. I HATE pills, hate them. I’m using the word “hate” about pills. Anyway, my compliment to you is the night after you came over and said that you would never . . . well, you were there, you know what you said. Anyway, the very next morning, I started taking the pills. Carol Connelly: I don’t quite get how that’s a compliment for me. Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man. |
As good as it gets |
| Lester Burnham: [narrating] It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. | American Beauty |
| Sebastian Caine: It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t have to look at yourself in the mirror. | Hollow Man |
| Lester Burnham: It’s okay. I wouldn’t remember me either. | American Beauty |
| Tyler Durden: It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. | Fight Club |
| Narrator: Losing all hope is freedom. | Fight Club |
| Forrest: Mama always said, dying was a part of life. | Forrest Gump |
| Brad Dupree: Man, you are one twisted fuck. Lester Burnham: Nope, I’m just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose. |
American Beauty |
| Ricky Fitts: My dad thinks I paid for all this with catering jobs. Never underestimate the power of denial. | American Beauty |
| Li Mu Bai: No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| Dr. Ben Sobol: Oedipus was a Greek king who killed his father and married his mother. Boss Paul Viti: Fuckin’ Greeks. |
Analyze This |
| Old Indian: Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, “Why have you done this to me?” And the snake answered, “Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake.” | Natural Born Killers |
| Li Mu Bai: Real skill comes without effort. | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| Li Mu Bai: Sharpness is a state of mind. | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| Tyler Durden: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. | Fight Club |
| Carolyn Burnham: This is a four thousand dollar sofa upholstered in Italian silk. It is not just a couch. Lester Burnham: IT’S JUST A COUCH! |
American Beauty |
| Lester Burnham: [narrating] That’s my wife, Carolyn. See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That’s not an accident. | American Beauty |
| Simon Bishop: The life that I was trying for is gone, and I’m feeling so damn sorry for myself that it’s difficult to breathe | As good as it gets |
| Li Mu Bai: The things we touch have no permanence. My master would say: there is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real. | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. | Matrix |
| Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you. | Fight Club |
| Narrator: This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time. | Fight Club |
| Lester Burnham: This isn’t life, it’s just stuff. And it’s become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that’s just nuts. | American Beauty |
| Mitch Robbins: Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you’re a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, “What happended to my twenties?” Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from highschool becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You’ll call it a procedure, but it’s a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn’t matter because you can’t hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering “how come the kids don’t call?” By your eighties, you’ve had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can’t stand but who you call mama. Any questions? | City Slickers |
| Tyler Durden: We’re designed to be hunters and we’re in a society of shopping. There’s nothing to kill anymore, there’s nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that social emasculation this everyman is created. | Fight Club |
| Tyler Durden: We were raised on television to believe that we’d all be millionares, movie gods, rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re starting to figure that out. | Fight Club |
| Melvin Udall: What if this is as good as it gets. | As good as it gets |
| Tyler Durden: You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. | Fight Club |
| Tyler Durden: You are not your job. You are not the money in your bank account. You are not the car you drive. You are not how much money is in your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. | Fight Club |
| Simon Bishop (to carol): You’re why cavemen chiseled on walls. | As good as it gets |
| Tyler Durden: You have to be prepared for the possibility that God does not like you. | Fight Club |