Loneliness

"People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated."
Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), (500) Days of Summer

A Strange Nostalgia

"How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?"
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal), The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition)

Sheep or Wolf

"It a choice, Wesley, that each of us must face: to remain ordinary, pathetic, beat-down, coasting through a miserable existence, like sheep herded by fate -- or you can take control of your own destiny and join us, releasing the caged wolf you have inside."
Sloan (Morgan Freeman), Wanted (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition)

Delusional People

"Insane asylums are filled with people who think they're Jesus or Satan. Very few have delusions of being a guy down the block who works for an insurance company."
Patricia Watson (Julia Roberts), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Dance with Me

"Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me."
Justin Matisse (Harry Connick Jr), Hope Floats

No Such Thing as Destiny

"There's no such thing as destiny. There are only different choices. Some choices are easy, some aren't. Those are the really important ones, the ones that define us as people."
Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey), The Number 23 (Unrated Infinifilm Edition)

A Witness to Our Lives

"We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things: all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."
Beverly Clark (Susan Sarandon), Shall We Dance? (Widescreen Edition)

Lifeshort Regrets

"You're gonna regret this the rest of your life... both seconds of it."
John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), Demolition Man

The Thing About Plants

"That's what I like about plants -- they don't answer back."
Georgina Woodhouse (Helen Mirren), Greenfingers

Beauty and the Beast

"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."
Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), King Kong

To Change Who You Are

"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."
Remy (Jude Law), Repo Men

A Persistent Man

"I have asked you 40 different ways, and it’s time you came up with a fresh answer. You’re my best friend. Marry me."
Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), Walk the Line

The Good Side of Nightmares

"When you dream about bad things happening, it means you're still fighting and you're still alive. It's when you start to dream about good things that you should start to worry."
The Man (Viggo Mortensen), The Road

Love is Fragile

"Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds."
Steve Miller (Greg Kinnear), The Last Song

On Love and Friendship

"Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes."
Andy Jarrett (Adrian Dunbar), Triggermen

The World is a Playground

"The world is a playground.  You know that when you are a kid but somewhere along the way, everyone forgets it."
Allison (Zooey Deschanel), Yes Man (Single-Disc Edition)

Choosing Happiness

"It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful."
Kate Gulden (Meryl Streep), One True Thing

Peace Without Love

“How peaceful life would be without love.  How safe, how tranquil and how dull.”
William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), The Name of the Rose

The Thing about Parents

"The most important thing to realize about parents is that there is absolutely nothing you can do about them."
Nick Smith (Chris Eigeman), Metropolitan - (The Criterion Collection)

What Keeps Us Alive

"It's the wanting that keeps us alive."
Paola Franco (Jacqueline Bisset), Dangerous Beauty

Breakup Clichés

"I'm not gonna say, you know, there's plenty more fish in the sea. I'm not going to say if you love her, let her go. And I'm not going to bombard you with clichés. But what I will say is this: It's not the end of the world."
Ed (Nick Frost), Shaun of the Dead

Two Kinds of People

"There are two kinds of people: those who face the fire and those who run for cover. Cover's better."
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade (Al Pacino), Scent of a Woman

Need for Speed

"I feel the need -- the need for speed!"
Maverick (Tom Cruise), Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)

R.I.P. Chivalry

"Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed."
J.D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee), The Palm Beach Story

Purpose in Life

“The unhappiest people of the world are retired -- no purpose. What makes life mean something is purpose -- a goal, a battle, a struggle.”
Richard Nixon (Frank Langella), Frost/Nixon