Maybe I’m in the black/
Maybe I’m on my knees/
Maybe I’m the gap/
Between the two trapezes.
ELI: I wish you’d’ve done this for me when I was a kid.
RICHIE: But you didn’t have a drug problem then.
ELI: Yeah, but it still would’ve meant a lot to me.
___
ELI: I’m not in love with you any more.
MARGOT: I didn’t know that you ever were.
ELI: Let’s not make this any more difficult than it already is.
___
ROYAL: Richie, this illness, this closeness to death… it’s had a profound affect on me. I feel like a different person, I really do.
RICHIE: Dad, you were never dying.
ROYAL: …but I’m gonna live.
- THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.
JOEL: I know.
CLEMENTINE: What do we do?
JOEL: Enjoy it.
- ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
BENJAMIN: Mrs. Robinson, I can’t do this anymore.
MRS. ROBINSON: You what?
BENJAMIN: This is all terribly wrong.
MRS. ROBINSON: Do you find me undesirable?
BENJAMIN: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you’re the most attractive of all my parents’ friends. I mean that.
___
BENJAMIN: It’s like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don’t make any sense to me. They’re being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.
- THE GRADUATE (1967)
MR. BRADDOCK: What’s the matter? The guests are all downstairs, Ben, waiting to see you.
BENJAMIN: Look, Dad, could you explain to them that I have to be alone for a while?
MR. BRADDOCK: These are all our good friends, Ben. Most of them have known you since, well, practically since you were born. What is it, Ben?
BENJAMIN: I’m just…
MR. BRADDOCK: Worried?
BENJAMIN: Well…
MR. BRADDOCK: About what?
BENJAMIN: I guess about my future.
MR. BRADDOCK: What about it?
BENJAMIN: I don’t know… I want it to be…
MR. BRADDOCK: To be what?
BENJAMIN: … Different.
___
MR. BRADDOCK: Ben, what are you doing?
BENJAMIN: Well, I would say that I’m just drifting. Here in the pool.
MR. BRADDOCK: Why?
BENJAMIN: Well, it’s very comfortable just to drift here.
MR. BRADDOCK: Have you thought about graduate school?
BENJAMIN: No.
MR. BRADDOCK: Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work?
BENJAMIN: You got me.
- THE GRADUATE (1967)
JIM: “Dear Mum, I don’t know where to start so I’ll just begin with the end and work my way back. I came home because I ran out of money and nowhere else to go. If I had any other option I would have taken it. I did not consider having a place to come home to a blessing. Instead, I thought of it as a burden and a symbol of failure. I’m ashamed to admit that growing up I pitied you and what I thought was your naive belief that our dreams could come true, simply by virtue of having them. Because the truth, as I witnessed it, was completely different. The truth actually was that nothing worked out, and no-one anywhere lived a life they wanted. But I see now that it was me with the naive belief. I thought if I resigned myself to disappointment at least I’d be better off than those people that tried and failed. And I hate myself for realising this now, and for taking and taking from you without giving anything back. You’re one of the few good peaches in a world full of rotten fruit, Mum. I promise not to waste anymore time or take your love for granted ever again. I love you so much. Jim.”
- LONESOME JIM (2005)
MICHAEL: Yeah? Well what if I brought up that guy, uh, that guy from American Pie? What’s that guy… the curly haired guy.
CLARK: I don’t know his name. (to camera: )Can we even say names like this? I mean, I don’t need another lawsuit right now.
MICHAEL: Oh please, Clark- JASON BIGGS. Sue me, you cocksucker. Earn your first dollar in seven years.
- CLARK AND MICHAEL, Episode 9
(BEST SHOW EVER!)
MIA: Don’t you hate that?
VINCENT: What?
MIA: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
VINCENT: I don’t know. That’s a good question.
MIA: That’s when you know you’ve found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
-PULP FICTION (1994)
JESSE EISENBERG: (on being “Sexiest Geek Alive”) I wish they didn’t have to kind of qualify. Why couldn’t it just be Sexiest Alive, y’know, no need for the other word. I spent the last 25 years of my life trying to avoid that, so then Entertainment Weekly decided to put it on a magazine with my face. Yeah, it’s a… a real honour.
-CONAN, 1x08
SEAN PARKER: You’re going to hand them a business card saying, “I’m CEO, bitch”
-THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010)
![CHARLOTTE: 25 years [of marriage]. That’s, umh, well it’s impressive.
BOB: Well you figure, you sleep one-third of your life, that knocks out eight years of marriage right there. So you’re, you know, down to 16 in change. You know you’re just a teenager, at marriage, you can drive it but there’s still the occasional accident.
- LOST IN TRANSLATION (2002)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcayogRKpX1qf1flko1_400.jpg)
CHARLOTTE: 25 years [of marriage]. That’s, umh, well it’s impressive.
BOB: Well you figure, you sleep one-third of your life, that knocks out eight years of marriage right there. So you’re, you know, down to 16 in change. You know you’re just a teenager, at marriage, you can drive it but there’s still the occasional accident.
- LOST IN TRANSLATION (2002)
ALEX: You know, honestly by the time you’re 34, all the physical requirements just go out the window. You secretly pray that he’ll be taller than you, not an asshole would be nice just someone who enjoys my company, comes from a good family. You don’t think about that when you’re younger. Someone who wants kids, likes kids. Healthy enough to play with his kids. Please let him earn more money than I do, you might not understand that now but believe me, you will one day otherwise that’s a recipe for disaster. And hopefully, some hair on his head. I mean, that’s not even a deal breaker these days. A nice smile. Yea, a nice smile just might do it.
- UP IN THE AIR (2009)
