Kevin SpaceyQuotes

Richard Osborn: Then he steals my ideas and puts them in his novels.

Anaïs Nin: Henry wouldn't do that, Richard.

Richard Osborn: I'm sure of it.

Henry Miller: Hell of a place you got here, Hugo. Peaceful. Been here long?

Hugo Guiler: Just since the crash.

Hugo Guiler: We lived well. This is Henry Miller, the American writer Osborn is putting up. My wife, Anaïs Nin.

Henry Miller: How are you, Anaïs?

Hugo Guiler: Eduardo Sanchez, Anaïs cousin. Anaïs, you should read Henry's stuff.

Richard Osborn: [[D.H. Lawrence] For my money, he's got it over ].

Anaïs Nin: I'd love to read your writing.

Richard Osborn: He hasn't been published yet.

Albert T. Fitzgerald: I recall when our lives were unusual and electric. When we burned with something close to fire. But now we sway to a different rhythm. Lives lived without meaning or even directed hope. The passage of time measured only by loss. Loss of a job, loss of a minivan...a son.

Mrs. Calderon: You have to believe that life is more than the sum of its parts, kiddo.

Pearl Madison: Just because what you did was wrong doesnt mean that giving up on your life is right.

Pearl Madison: Love is when you can't get somebody out of your mind. When they are your first thought in the morning and your last thought at night. Maybe it's not in your heart but it is in your head.

Bengel: You ever think the whole thing doesn't make sense? I mean, they take all this stuff away from you; freedom, girls and sunshine - because it's supposed to make it so when you get back on the outs you never wanna screw up again. All that really does is get you to thinking that you're... just so small. You know? Like you're this... this small thing that doesn't matter for anything. And by the time you do get out - you don't even feel like a human person anymore.

Buddy Ackerman: Excuse me — what is this?

Guy: Sweet-N-Low.

Buddy: [Looks at the packet] No! this is not Sweet-N-Low, this is Equal, the blue packet. Sweet-N-Low is pink. See, Equal blue, Sweet-N-Low pink, its not the same thing, is it?

Guy: I think they both contain the same...

Buddy: What Equal contains is none of my concern here! I don't care if it has fucking fairy dust in it. What I am concerned with is detail. I asked you go get me a packet of Sweet-N-Low. You bring me back Equal. That isn't what I asked for. That isn't what I wanted. That isn't what I needed and that shit isn't going to work around here!

Guy: I, I just thought...

Buddy: You thought. Do me a fucking favor. Shut up, listen, and learn. Look, I know that this is your first day and you don't really know how things work around here, so I will tell you. You have no brain. No judgement calls are necessary. What you think means nothing. What you feel means nothing. You are here for me. You are here to protect my interests and to serve my needs. So, while it may look like a little thing to you, when I ask for a packet of Sweet-N-Low, that's what I want. And it's your responsibility to see that I get what I want.

Buddy Ackerman: All right, Guy, come on, let's finish this. Give it to me. Show me what you're made of. Show me what you've learned. Don't let me down, son. Everything I've taught you comes down to this. This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love does not conquer all. So let's do this thing. Let's finish it.

Buddy Ackerman: [choking up; cries for a moment, and regains his composure] Look, I don't make the rules. I play by them. What, your job is unfair to you? Grow up, way it goes. People use you? Life's unfair? Grow up, way it goes. Your girlfriend doesn't love you? Tough shit, way it goes. Your wife gets raped and shot, and they leave their unfinished beers... their... their stinking long-necks... just lying there on the ground... So be it. Way it goes...

Buddy Ackerman: You were getting complacent, ungrateful, complete and total job burnout, and don't think I didn't notice. You just didn't give a shit anymore. Draggin your feet everywhere. Telling everybody you were doing my job. That you were running the show. That without you, I was nothing. Yeah, people tell me things. So don't come preaching to me about your ideas of what's fair. You're no martyr here. You're no hero. You're just a fuckin hypocrite. You're just like any other punk kid out there, lookin for a way in, any way in, and you need me!!!

Buddy Ackerman: Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, If you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, What do you really want?

Buddy Ackerman: You think you know it all, don't you? You're 25 years old. You're a baby. You don't know shit.

Buddy Ackerman: [to Dawn] Look, once you're past the "oops, he caught us" stage and realize that we are both fucked, let me know, okay?

Buddy Ackerman: You look happy. I hate that!

Buddy Ackerman: Avoid women directors. They ovulate. Do you have any idea what that does to a three month shoot?

Buddy Ackerman: If they can't start a meeting without you, well, that's a meeting worth going to, isn't it? And that's the only kind of meeting you should ever concern yourselves with.

Buddy Ackerman: Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?"... Good. Now memorize it, because starting now, the only job that you're going to be able to get on this planet or any other planet is selling SHOES!

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: You don't look so good.

Bobby Darin: Well to tell you the truth, Charlie. I don't feel so hot. I gotta go under the knife again, that's why we're taking off early. I've got blood poisoning, its catching up.

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Look, we don't have to do this. We can call it off.

Bobby Darin: Charlie, I gotta get ready now.

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: I gotta go make sure Nina's at a good table.

Bobby Darin: Charlie, I wouldn't have gone this far without you.

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Kid, you're a runaway train. Just get through tonight.

Bobby Darin: Yeah, always leaving one more, Charlie.

Bobby Darin: [running over to Boom Boom] Boom Boom! Boom Boom! Boom Boom! Boom Boom! Boom Boom! Boom Boom! Book me back in Vegas.

Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: [laughs] You don't wanna go back to Vegas.

Bobby Darin: Oh, yes I do. I wanna go back to Vegas and I wanna go back on stage.

Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: Don't tell me you found yourself?

Bobby Darin: Now. I'm a nightclub animal, Boom Boom. And I love it. And quite frankly I think I do it better than anybody else in the whole goddamn world.

Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: You're also one of the most modest people I've ever met in my life, but I don't want you going back there.

Bobby Darin: It's gonna work this time. I can be what I want, I can say what I want, I can sing what I want! Sandy just said it, she just said it beautifully.

Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: What?

Bobby Darin: People hear what they see.

Bobby Darin: Hey.

Sandra Dee: Hi.

Bobby Darin: I've been looking for you all day.

Sandra Dee: [laughs] No, you haven't, you liar.

Bobby Darin: [they kiss] I have.

Sandra Dee: You look so good.

Bobby Darin: I feel good. I feel great physically. I mean, as so much as I can breath easy since the first time I can remember.

Sandra Dee: [looking at their son Dodd; pause; Bobby and Sandra embrace] Dodd misses you being at home. I miss you.

Bobby Darin: I'm proud of you, baby.

Sandra Dee: I'm really trying, Bobby.

Bobby Darin: I know you are.

Sandra Dee: That's not why you left. There's more than that. I'm not who you want me to be, I'm not an intellectual, I'm not as smart as you.

Bobby Darin: [pause, looking at Dodd] You're smart enough for ten of me. And look what we did together.

Sandra Dee: You're gonna see him again?

Bobby Darin: Oh, I'd love too. I'm just not entirely sure I can get used to the idea of booing as a nightly ritual.

Sandra Dee: [laughs] Oh, you can't blame them, they don't understand. You're always ahead of your time. They're so shallow. People hear what they see anyway and...

Bobby Darin: [realising] Yeah, I know the... What did you just say?

Sandra Dee: [confused] That you can't blame them it's...

Bobby Darin: No, no, no, about people hearing... what?...

Bobby Darin: When did you meet Nina? What year?

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: I don't know, nineteen thirty something.

Bobby Darin: Do you know who my father is, Charlie?

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: No, Bobby. I don't know.

Bobby Darin: I wish I knew who he was.

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Look, Bobby, I know I ain't no college boy, but I always felt like I was your father.

Bobby Darin: Charlie, you've been more than a father to me, you know that. I just wish I knew.

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Well, you stay out here much longer, Dodd's gonna be saying the same thing about you. Now, you may not know who your father is, but you got two mothers out of the deal and both of them were great. Have you seen how hard it's been for her? Not to be able to tell anybody that you're her son? You ought'a find yourself, get back on the stage. You are Bobby Darin.

Bobby Darin: Yeah, that's who I thought I was.

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Okay, okay. Walden Robert Cassotto.

Bobby Darin: No I'm not, Charlie. I'm not even him.

Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Well, maybe you're both.

Nina Cassotto Maffia: I heard you were going into politics. You still thinkin about doing that?

Bobby Darin: Well, I'm considering it. I mean, they've asked me.

Nina Cassotto Maffia: Well, you know how the papers try and smear people with things from their past when, you know, they're gonna run for an office?

Bobby Darin: Mm-hm. Yeah. So what?

Nina Cassotto Maffia: There's something about your past that I think it's finally time for you to know.

Bobby Darin: What are you talking about?

Nina Cassotto Maffia: It's about Polly. She wasn't who you thought she was, Bobby.

Bobby Darin: She was the best mother in the whole goddamn world. What are you talking about?

Nina Cassotto Maffia: She was a great mother because she was my mother, so I know it's true.

Bobby Darin: Than you take that back!

Nina Cassotto Maffia: [pause; pause; tearfully; pause] No, she was a wonderful person and a wonderful mother. But what I think you really need now is the truth. The truth about your mother. And the truth is... Polly was not your mother. Sam was not your father. You ain't my brother, Bobby. We swore that we would never let you find out. Polly was my mother. Not yours. She was your grandmother. Sweetheart... I'm not your sister. Bobby, I'm your mother.

Polly Cassotto: We made a pact that we would never tell you.

Little Bobby: Is she kidding?

Polly Cassotto: She got pregnant when she was seventeen.

Nina Cassotto Maffia: [tearfully] It's true, Bobby. I didn't want you to be a bastard, so I gave you to momma, so that way no one could call you one.

Polly Cassotto: She couldn't give you up for adoption.

Nina Cassotto Maffia: When I went off to the hospital, when it was time for you to be born. Momma moved us to the Bronx where we didn't know nobody. And then when I came back, we said you were her baby, not mine. But that way I could keep you.

Little Bobby: Do you realise what you're saying to me?

Polly Cassotto: We did it to protect you, Bobby.

Nina Cassotto Maffia: You need me now. I can really be here for you. You're lost. You can finally have the mother that you never really had.

Little Bobby: Who was my father?

Nina Cassotto Maffia: Oh, Bobby. I was dating a lot of guys back then.

Little Bobby: [angrily] Who was my father?!

Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: [interrupting a tender moment] Bobby! Whoa, sorry. But I was right about the war picture. Get your speech ready cause as soon as this tour is over, you're going to the Oscars, pal. You just got nominated.

Bobby Darin: [shouting] Hallelujah! Yes! Yes!

Sandra Dee: Oh, Christ.

Sandra Dee: What's he talking about?

Bobby Darin: The tour, baby.

Sandra Dee: Honey, I'm not done finishing my movie yet.

Bobby Darin: Well that's okay, you and Dodd can join when you're done.

Sandra Dee: I'm not bringing the baby on the road.

Bobby Darin: Well, then leave him with the nanny, that's why we hired her.

Sandra Dee: I don't want Dodd to be raised by the nanny.

Bobby Darin: He's not going to be raised by the nanny and what am I going to do on the road? Who am I going to sing to if you're not there?

Bobby Darin: It's OK, I'm not gonna hurt you. Watch. My momma used to tell me a story when I was a kid that in the Middle Ages, one of the knights in King Arthur's court, he laid down his sword between himself and Guinevere, and he promised that he would never cross over to the other side.

Sandra Dee: Really?

Bobby Darin: I am laying down this sword between us. That's my side of the bed, and that's yours, and I will never cross over. Ever. I don't care if we don't touch for a thousand nights. Only you can cross over to my side. Only you.

Sandra Dee: I have never worked with anyone so unprofessional in my life. I mean, have you even acted before?

Bobby Darin: [[Audrey Hepburn] Well, I'm learning, but let me tell you something, Blondie, you're not exactly ].

Bobby Darin: Hey kid! come here.

Delivery guy: What's up?

Bobby Darin: I just got a question. Could you do me a favor?

Bobby Darin: Would you look at me?

Delivery guy: What?

Bobby Darin: Just look at me. Do you know me?

Delivery guy: What?

Bobby Darin: Do you recognize me?

Delivery guy: What are you talking about?

Bobby Darin: Do I look familiar to you?

Delivery guy: No! You don't. I don't know you. Would you leave me alone, you crazy bastard. I got things to do.

Bobby Darin: Thanks pal!

Bobby Darin: Ahmet, when the delivery guy knows me, then I'm a star.

Bobby Darin: So part of Momma's plan was....

Little Bobby: Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Bobby Darin: What?

Little Bobby: You didn't go dancing down the street like that.

Bobby Darin: I know, it's a fantasy sequence.

Little Bobby: But it's not real.

Bobby Darin: [winks] Forget real. Listen kid, memories are like moonbeams; we do with them what we want.

Little Bobby: Oh, okay then. Go on. I'll be around if you need me.

Bobby Darin: [the band stops playing. Silence] Stop! Stop! Richie, stop! Hold it! Hold it! Hold it! Okay, I wanna start over. I wanna do it again.

Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: You gotta be kidding me. That was perfect.

Bobby Darin: No, I wanna do it again. I can do it better.

Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: Do you know how long it takes to set this up?

Band member: Yeah, I don't know how much more my chops can take today, boss.

Bobby Darin: [angrily] Well, maybe when you start playing it right, we can all call it a day. But when you play it sloppy like you've been doing all afternoon! Then were gonna do it again! And again! And again! Until we get it right!

Dick Behrke: Bobby, the guys are getting tired, that's all.

Bobby Darin: How do you think I feel?

Bobby Darin: [Dick Behrke begins playing the piano; [Bob Hope; jokingly; Richie and the audience laugh; begins singing "The Curtain Falls"] I wanna do a song that has been specially written for tonight. Its uh, lyrics have been changed. It was an old ] number actually. But we'd like to do it for you tonight as our way of closing and saying good night. As soon as Richie's finished with that thing he's composing over there. It goes something like this...

Bobby Darin: I may not be uh... performing for a while, I'm gonna take a little break. And as a result, I may not get a chance to publicly do something that I wanted to do for a very long time. And that is to... introduce to you... the woman who raised me. My mother, Nina Cassotto Maffia.

Bobby Darin: [voice over] So I did stay at home for a while, the nineteen sixties rushed by like a locomotive, while Dodd grew up like a moose. Sandy and I made a couple of movies together, but they were all dogs. The music scene was changing as dramatically as the country. Nightclubs were out and big venues like stadiums were in. I was suddenly irrelevant, my stage literally disappearing. I tried to write new music and got involved in politics because we were now a country at war. But the fact was I was a balding chart singer who hadn't had a hit in years and who should be dead.

Bobby Darin: May I have this dance, Miss Sandra Dee?

Bobby Darin: [to Sandra Dee] You know, I was right about you. You're gonna be easy to love.

Bobby Darin: [voice over] Sandy and I just got off on the wrong foot. If I could just get her away from her mother. I mean just imagine: Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee. That's it. I'm gonna start all over, like we've never met. Only this time, I'll romance her the best way I know.

Bobby Darin: Let's go make movies!

Bobby Darin: I gotta prove I can sing, I want it all. I want the major leagues. I want nightclubs, Vegas, movies, TV. This album will make it happen all fast, faster than you can imagine.

Bobby Darin: [voice over] So I had a hot head, a weak heart and even a worse stage name. Walden Robert Cassotto isn't exactly a name you can see in a marquee. Well, maybe for one night only and one of the things that most performers were doing back then was to find a great stage name and then one day, I saw it, the perfect name. Just blinking, Darin. Darin. Bobby Darin. And no sooner did I change my name and I got my first gig on television. Unfortunately, I didn't know the lyrics to the song I decided to sing, so I had to devise my own method to get through it on live television. Didn't win me many fans. But it didn't finish me either. My record company was giving me one last chance to make a hit.

Bobby Darin: [voice over] Soon I would be old enough to head to New York, but momma had one more lesson to teach.

Bobby Darin: [voice over] Momma was right about music. It opened a whole new world to me, outside of time and illness. The world I could live in.

Prot: You humans. Sometimes it's hard to imagine how you've made it this far.

Prot: [[universe; [forever; [mistakes; [forever; [time; [all] I want to tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, but we K-Paxians have been around long enough to have discovered. The ] will expand, and it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process ]. What you don't know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever ] you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, and again, ]. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this ] is ] you have.

Prot: [[Reality] ] is what you make of it.

Prot: Now that you've found Robert. Please take good care of him.

Prot: I will admit the possibility that I am Robert Porter, if you will admit the possibility that I am from K-PAX. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch.

Prot: [[reason] Nobody wants. Nobody needs. On K-PAX when I'm gone, nobody misses me. There would be no ] to. And yet I sense that when I leave here… I will be missed.

Prot: [[earth] There's enough life on ] to fill fifty planets… plants, animals, people, fungi, viruses… all jostling to find their place. Bouncing off each other, feeding off each other… connected.

Prot: [[light; [joke; [humans; [sense; [humor] I travel ]. That's a ], Mark. You ] — there's just no ] of ].

Prot: [[Time] ] is running out for everyone.

Prot: [[bad] Something happened. That's why he called me. He calls me when something ] happens.

Prot: I would say you're in need of a Thorazine drip, Doctor.

Prot: [[dog] * On what "Shasta" the ] told him

Prot: She says she doesn't like it when you hide her favorite tennis shoe, and she doesn't hear too well on her left side, so don't sneak up on her anymore.

Prot: I take it my calculations help explain the perturbations you've been seeing in the rotation pattern of your binary star, but have been unable to explain until… this moment.

Prot: [[energy; [light] You'd be surprised how much ] is in a beam of ].

Prot: Doctor — Doctor — Doctor — Doctor. Tell me how many doctors are there on this planet?

Prot: [[information] For your ]: All beings have the capacity to cure themselves, Mark. This is something we've known on K-PAX for millions of years.

Prot: Doctor. Patient. Interesting human distinction.

Prot: [[eye; [life; [stupidity; [Gautama Buddha|Buddha; [Jesus|Christ] Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an ] for an eye, a ] for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its ]. Even your ] and your ] had quite a different vision; but nobody's paid much attention to them, not even the Buddhists or the Christians.

Prot: [[universe; [Righteousness|right; [wrong] Every being in the ] knows ] from ], Mark.

Prot: Your produce alone has been worth the trip.

Prot: [[energy] Why is a soap bubble round? Because it is the most ] efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you; on K-PAX I look like a K-Paxian.

Prot: [[Education|educated] You know, for an ] person Mark, you repeat things quite a bit. Are you aware of that?

Prot: [[Albert Einstein|Einstein; [light; [infinite] What ] actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of ] because its mass would become ]. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster.

Prot: [[Alien (film)|Alien] * A reference to the creatures in the film series which began with ].

Prot: [[alien life|alien] I'm an ]. Don't worry, I'm not going to leap out of your chest.

Prot: [[trains|train] I didn't arrive by ].

Prot: [[travel; [time] I have arrived. My ]s are over for the ] being.

Larry Hooper: [[prostitutes] Lieutenant Colonel Django used funds from the project's black budget to procure ]...

Bill Django: [[lie] That's a ]!

Larry Hooper: [[drugs] ...and to get ] for himself and his men.

Bill Django: That... well, the hooker thing is definitely a lie.

Maj. Salt: [showing them the progression of the virus on a computer] Okay, sirs, here we go. These pictures were taken over a period of eight hours. Normal, healthy kidney cells before they met the virus. In the space of an hour, a single virus has invaded, multiplied and killed the cell. And in just two hours, its offspring have invaded cells here, and here. Continually multiplying.

Casey Schuler: Jesus Christ, five hours? It infects the cell, replicates, and kills this fast? These numbers can't be right, Ebola takes days to do this damage.

Maj. Salt: Sirs, the numbers are correct. I wish to God they weren't. One goes in, millions come out. Every cell is dead. Now we see them individually, searching for the next victim until there's nothing left to kill.

Casey Schuler: Mark this day, Salt. We could spend our whole careers waiting to see a new virus.

Maj. Salt: Sirs, Mr. Motaba, up close and personal.

Casey Schuler: I hate this bug.

Sam Daniels: Come on, Casey. You have to love its simplicity. It's one-billionth our size and it's beating us.

Casey: So, what do you wanna do — take it to dinner?

Sam: No.

Casey: What, then?

Sam: Kill it.

Carolyn: [''Woken by Lester masturbating under sheets''] What are you doing?!

Lester: Nothing.

Carolyn: You were masturbating!

Lester: I was not.

Carolyn: Yes you were!

Lester: Oh, all right! So shoot me, I was whacking off! That's right, I was choking the bishop, chafing the carrot, you know, saying "hi" to my monster!

Carolyn: That's disgusting!

Lester: Well forgive me, but some of us still have blood pumping through our veins.

Carolyn: So do I.

Lester: Really?! Well, I'm the only one who seems to be doing anything about it!

Carolyn: [''Jumps out of bed standing before Lester''] Lester, I refuse to live like this! This is not a marriage!

Lester Burnham: This hasn't been a marriage, for years, but you were happy as long as I kept my mouth shut. Well, guess what, I've changed! And the new me whacks off when he feels horny, because you're obviously not gonna help me out in that department!

Carolyn: [[w:sexual frustration|who's sexually frustrated here] Oh, I see. You think you're the only one ]?

Lester: I'm not? Well, then, come on, baby, I'm ready!

Carolyn: Don't you mess with me, mister, or I'll divorce you so fast it'll make your head spin!

Lester: [[w:alcoholism|a drunk; [w:infidelity|I don't fuck other women; [w:domestic violence|I've never hit you, I don't mistreat you...] On what grounds? I'm not ], ], ] I don't even try to touch you since you've made it so abundantly clear how unnecessary you consider me to be! But I did support you when you got your license, and some people might think that entitles me to half of what's yours. So, turn off the light when you come to bed!

Lester Burnham: [''Driving to a high school basketball game to watch Jane's dance team performance''] Well what makes you so sure she wants us to be there? Did she ask us to come?

Carolyn Burnham: Of course not. She doesn't want us to know how important this is to her. But she's been practicing her steps for weeks.

Lester Burnham: [[w:James Bond|the James Bond; [w:Marathon (media)|marathon; [w:TNT (American TV network)|on TNT] Well, I'll bet money she's going to resent it, and I'm missing ] ] ].

Carolyn Burnham: Lester, this is important. Now, I'm sensing a real distance growing between you and Jane.

Lester Burnham: Growing?" She hates me.

Carolyn Burnham: She's just willful.

Lester Burnham: She hates you too.

Lester Burnham: [''Epilogue after being fatally shot''; ''Scene of Jane and Ricky lying bed alerted by gunshot and then gets up''; ''Scene of Angela in [[w:Toilet (room)|powder room; ''Scene of Carolyn outside in rain unresponsive to faint gunshot; [w:Pontiac Firebird|brand new Firebird] I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all. It stretches on forever, like an ocean of time. For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout Camp, watching falling stars. And yellow leaves from the maple trees that lined our street. ] alerted by gunshot] Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper. And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's ]. And Janie, and Janie. And Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry. You will someday.

Lester Burnham: [''Lying in bed fantasizing of watching Angela on ceiling partially covered in rose petals with it landing on his face''] It's the weirdest thing. I feel like I've been in a coma for about twenty years, and I'm just now waking up.

Lester Burnham: Remember those posters that said, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"? Well, that's true of every day but one - the day you die.

Lester Burnham: It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

Lester Burnham: [''Jane is researching [[w:breast implant|breast augumentation surgery] My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This is my life. I am 42 years old. In less than a year, I will be dead. Of course, I don't know that yet, and in a way, I'm dead already. Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It's all downhill from here. That's my wife Carolyn. See the way the handle on those pruning shears match her gardening clogs? That's not an accident. That's our neighbor, Jim, and that's his lover, Jim. Man, I get exhausted just watching her. She wasn't always like this. She used to be happy. We used to be happy. ] despite having a large bust] My daughter, Jane. Only child. Janie's a pretty typical teenager–angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser. And they're right. I have lost something. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I know I didn't always feel this... sedated. But you know what? It's never too late to get it back.

David Gale: Noemi, a shaved man, has given up on her English task.

David Gale: Alejandro, the woman with facial hair, has no job.

David Gale: We spend our whole lives trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. But there comes a point in life - a moment - when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift. You wonder. All I can tell you is that by this time tomorrow I'll be dead. I know when. I just can't say why. You have 24 hours to find out.

David Gale: Death is a gift.

David Gale: They wanted me to die knowing the key to my freedom was out there somewhere!

David Gale: I fell off the wagon and hurt myself.

David Gale: [while drunk] Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, and, um, and Aristotle was a prissy dresser!

David Gale: This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness.

David Gale: [Giving a lecture to his college students] Living by your wants will never make you happy; what it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you ever attain in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.

David Gale: [Giving a lecture to his college students] Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.

Peter Sullivan: Are you sure it's the only or the right thing to do?

Sam Rogers: For whom?

Peter Sullivan: I'm not sure.

Sam Rogers: Neither am I.

John Tuld: Sam, I don't think you seem to understand what your boy here has just said. If I made you, how would you do this?

Sam Rogers: Well, you call the traders in for their normal meet, because they're going to know it's the end either way. You're going to have to throw them a bone, and a pretty big one. And then you've got to come out of the gates storming. No swaps, no nothing.

John Tuld: So, you're telling me that all your trades have to be gone by lunchtime, huh?

John Tuld: When did you start getting so soft, Sam?

Sam Rogers: Fuck you, "soft". You're panicking.

John Tuld: If you're the first out of the door, that's not called "panicking".

Sam Rogers: The real question is: who are we selling this to?

John Tuld: The same people we've been selling it to for the last two years, and whoever else would buy it.

Sam Rogers: But John, if you do this, you will kill the market for years. It's over.

Sam Rogers: And you're selling something that you know has no value.

John Tuld: We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price.

John Tuld: So that we may survive.

Sam Rogers: You will never sell anything to any of those people ever again.

John Tuld: I understand.

Sam Rogers: Do you?

John Tuld: [pounding on the desk] Do you? This is it! I'm telling you: this is it!

Sam Rogers: I'll do it, John, but not because of your little speech. But because I need the money. Hard to believe after all these years, but I... I need the money.

Sam Rogers: Thank you all for coming in a little early this morning. I know yesterday was pretty bad, and I wish I could say that today is going to be less so, but that isn't going to be the case. Now, I'm supposed to read this statement to you all here, but why don't you just read it on your own time, and I'll just tell you what the fuck is going on here. I've been here all night, meeting with the Executive Committee, and the decision has been made to unwind a considerable position of the firm's holdings in several key asset classes. The crux of it is, in the firm's thinking, the party's over as of this morning. There's going to be considerable turmoil in markets for the foreseeable future, and they believe it is better that this turmoil begins with us. As a result, the firm has decided to liquidate its majority position of fixed-income MBS … today. These are your packets; you will see what accounts you're responsible for today. I'm sure it hasn't taken you long to understand the implications of this sale on your relationships with your counterparties and, as a result, on your careers. I have expressed this reality to the Executive Committee, and they understand. As a result, if you achieve a 93% sale of your assets, you will receive a $1.4 million one-off bonus. If the floor, as a whole, achieves a 93% sale, you will get an additional $1.3 million apiece. For those of you who have never been through this before, this is what the beginning of a fire sale looks like. I cannot begin to tell you how important the first hour and a half is going to be. I want you to hit every bite you can find: dealers, brokers, clients, your mother if she's buying. And no swaps; it's outgoing only, today. Obviously, this is not going down the way that any of us would have hoped, but … the ground is shifting below our feet. And, apparently, there's no other way out.

Cabbie: Let me see a badge!

Kirgo: [''holds up gun''] This is my badge!

Kitty Kowalski: Lex, we only had six of those!

Lex Luthor: [laughs; ''points at their useless helicopter''] Six? I would trade three hundred THOUSAND coconuts and every ounce of your blood, FOR A QUART OF GASOLINE!

Kitty Kowalski: But what would we have to eat?

Kitty Kowalski: Lex?

Lex Luthor: Mmm-hmm?

Kitty Kowalski: Are billions of people really going to die?

Lex Luthor: [''casually''] Yes.

Lex Luthor: See anything familiar?

Superman: I see an old man's sick joke.

Lex Luthor: Really? Because I see my new apartment. And a place for Kitty. One for my friends. And the place over there, I'll rent out. But, you know, maybe you're right. You know, maybe it- it is a little cold. It's, uh... uh, What's the word I'm searching for? It's a little... alien. It lacks that human touch.

Lex Luthor: [The crystal] It's like a seed, and all it needs is water.

Kitty Kowalski: Like... uhh... sea monkeys?

Lex Luthor: [''sighs''] Exactly, Kitty. Like sea monkeys.

Lex Luthor: What do you know about crystals?

Lois Lane: They make great chandeliers.

Lex Luthor: This crystal may seem unremarkable, but so is the seed of a redwood tree. It's how our mutual friend in tights made his arctic getaway spot. Cute, but a little small for my tastes.

Lois Lane: You're building an island?

Lex Luthor: [''brings down another map''] You're not seeing the big picture here, Miss Lane. Let me enlarge it for you. Not just an island. An entirely new continent. An extinct world, reborn, on our own.

Lois Lane: Why?

Lex Luthor: [''confused''] Land, Miss Lane. I mean- Kitty, what did my father used to say to me?

Kitty Kowalski: You're losing your hair?

Lex Luthor: No, before that.

Kitty Kowalski: Get out?

Lex Luthor: He said, "You can print money, manufacture diamonds and people are a dime a dozen, but people will always need land". It's the one thing we aren't making anymore.

Lois Lane: But the United States...

Lex Luthor: [''brings down another map''] Will be underwater. It's simple physics, Miss Lane. Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

Lois Lane: And the rest of the world will just let you keep it? They'll...

Lex Luthor: They'll... what? I'll have advanced alien technology. Thousands of years beyond what anyone can throw at me. Bring it on!

Lois Lane: But millions of people will die.

Lex Luthor: Billions! Once again the press underestimates me. Come on, let me hear you say it, just once, come on.

Lois Lane: You're insane!

Lex Luthor: [laughing] No! Not that, no, the other thing. I know it's just dangling off the tip of your tongue, let me hear it just once, please?

Lois Lane: Superman will never-

Lex Luthor: WROOOONNG!!!

Lois Lane: What is that?

Lex Luthor: [''noticing Jason's looking at the Kryptonite''] I think you know exactly what this is. Mind over muscle, Miss Lane. Mind over... Who is that boy's father?

Lois Lane: [swallowing] Richard.

Thug: Mr. Luthor, we're reaching the coordinates.

Lex Luthor: [looking at Lois] Are you sure?

Thug: [through the radio] Yes, sir.

Lex Luthor: And what is your name?

Jason White: I'm not supposed to talk to strangers.

Lex Luthor: Cute kid, and smart.

Lois Lane: Thanks.

Lex Luthor: But we're not really strangers, are we? This is kind of a little reunion, isn't it? Heck, I'm a fan! I love your writing... and your dress.

Lois Lane: I love your boat. How'd you get it? Swindle some old widow out of her money?

Lex Luthor: [''laughs''] Hey, didn't you win the Pulitzer Prize for my favorite article of all time "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman?

Lois Lane: Didn't you have a few more years to go on that double life sentence?

Lex Luthor: Yes, well, we can thank the Man of Steel of that; I mean, he's really good at swooping in and catching the bad guys, but he's not so hot at the little things like Miranda Rights, due processing... making your court date.

Kitty Kowalski: [''slaps Lex''] I was going to pretend the brakes were out! Pretend! Like we talked about! You didn't actually have to do that to them!

Lex Luthor: Of course I did. A man can always tell when a woman is pretending, especially Superman.

Kitty Kowalski: Wow, that's really something Lex.

Lex Luthor: Wait for it.

Kitty Kowalski: Wow, that's really something, Lex. It's freakin Gone with the Wind.

Jor-El: My son. You do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I am your father. By now I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.

Lex Luthor: He thinks I'm his son?

Jor-El: Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact of dozens of other worlds spanning the twenty-eight known galaxies.

Kitty Kowalski: Can he see us?

Lex Luthor: No, he's dead.

Jor-El: There are many questions to be asked. Here, in this Fortress of Solitude, we will try to find the answers together. So, my son...Kal-El...speak.

Lex Luthor: Tell me everything. Starting with crystals.