River Phoenix Quotes

Sneakers

Desires for Connection Amid Financial Realities

Bishop Carl?

Carl I'd like to have a deep relationship with a beautiful woman who melts from the very first time our eyes meet.

[breathing from helium]

Bishop We're not getting paid that much, Carl.

Carl Well, you know, someone like Liz.

Bishop We're definitely not getting paid that much.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

A Dispute Over a Historical Artifact

Fedora You've got heart, kid, but that cross is mine!

Young Indy It belonged to Coronado!

Fedora Coronado is dead, and so are his grandchildren!

Young Indy This should be in the museum.

Roscoe Now give me that! Ahh! A snake!

[tries to grab the cross; A snake crawls out of Young Indy’s sleeve]

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My Own Private Idaho

Unexpected Ride Home with a Stranger

Mike Waters How'd we get home?

Scott Favor That German guy. Hans. He brought you downtown, you were passed out. He said he was heading to Portland, so I asked him for a ride.

Mike Waters For some reason I'm forgetting a German guy named Hans.

Scott Favor Well. You were sleeping.

Mike Waters How much do you make off me while I'm sleeping?

Scott Favor Just a ride, Mike. I don't make anything. What, you think that I sell your body while you are asleep?

Mike Waters Yeah.

Scott Favor No, Mike. I'm on your side.

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My Own Private Idaho

A Reflection on Home and Belonging

Mike Waters This is a nice home. Do you live here?... I don't blame you.

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My Own Private Idaho

Familiarity with Places and Personal Experience

Mike Waters I always know where I am by the way the road looks. Like, I just know that I've been here before, I just know that I've been stuck here like this one fucking time before, you know that? yeah.

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My Own Private Idaho

Defining Normalcy in Family Relationships

Mike Waters If I had a normal family, and a good upbringing, then I would have been a well-adjusted person.

Scott Favor Depends on what you call normal.

[Laughs]

Mike Waters Yeah, it does. Well, you know, normal, like, like a mom and a dad and a dog and shit like that. Normal...normal.

Scott Favor So you didn't have a normal dog?

Mike Waters No, I didn't have a dog.

Scott Favor Didn't have a... a normal dad?

Mike Waters Didn't have a dog or a, or a, or a normal dad. anyway, that's alright. I don't feel sorry for myself, I mean, I feel like I'm, I feel like I'm, you know, well-adjusted.

Scott Favor What's a normal dad?

[Laughs]

Mike Waters I don't know. I'd like to talk with you. I mean I'd like to, uh, really talk with you. I mean we're talking right now, but, you know. I don't know. I don't feel like I can be... I don't feel like I can be close to you. I mean we're close, you know, right now we're close, but, I mean, you know...

[pauses]

Scott Favor How close, I mean...

Mike Waters I don't know, whatever.

Scott Favor What?

Mike Waters What do I mean to you?

[pause]

Scott Favor What do you mean to me? Mike, you're my best friend.

Mike Waters I know, man, I know... I know... I know I'm your friend. We're good friends, and it's good to be, you know, good friends. That's a good thing.

Scott Favor So...?

Mike Waters So I just...

Mike Waters That's okay. We can be friends.

Scott Favor I only have sex with a guy for money.

[flustered]

Mike Waters Yeah, I know...

Scott Favor And two guys can't love each other.

Scott Favor Mike....

Mike Waters I really wanna kiss you man.

Mike Waters Well goodnight man.

Mike Waters I love you, though. You know that. I do love you.

[pause]

Scott Favor Alright, come here, Mike.

Scott Favor Let's just see. come on, man. I Just wanna see, come on.

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My Own Private Idaho

A Son's Revelation of Paternity

Richard Waters That guy. He was your real dad, Mike.

Mike Waters Don't fuck me in the head anymore man! I know the fucking truth! I know who my fucking real dad is!

Richard Waters Who?... Who?

Mike Waters Dick, you. Richard, you're my dad. I know that.

Richard Waters You know too much.

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My Own Private Idaho

The Significance of Numbers and Luck

Daddy Carroll I am so lucky, i was born on April 4th 1944, that's 4.4.44, if you add that up it comes to 16: 1-6, one plus six is seven: luckiest number of all.

Mike Waters You know your math.

Daddy Carroll It's more than math, Mike, it's... immaculate perfection!

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Sneakers

Breakthrough in Cryptography Explained

Liz Oh, my God.

[upon seeing the data for the Air Traffic Control System]

Mother How is this possible?

Whistler Cryptography systems are based on mathematical problems so complex they cannot be solved without a key.

Liz Jannek must have figured out a way to solve those problems without the key and he hard-wired it into that chip.

Crease Turn it off.

Whistler Anybody want to crash some passenger jets?

Crease I said turn it off.

Bishop Turn it off!

[shuts down computer]

Carl So, it's a code-breaker.

[contemplates]

Bishop No, it's The code-breaker. No more secrets.

[leaves]

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My Own Private Idaho

Endless Journey of Roads

Mike Waters I'm a connoisseur of roads. I've been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes all around the world.

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My Own Private Idaho

The Transformation of Self Through Generosity

Scott Favor It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings. Isn't that right, Mike.

Mike Waters What?

Scott Favor Wings, Michael. You grow wings, and become a fairy.

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My Own Private Idaho

Unique Paths and Uncommon Faces

Mike Waters There's not another road anywhere that looks like this road, I mean exactly like this road. It's one kind of place, one of a kind. Like someone's face. Like a fucked-up face.

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Sneakers

Miscommunication and Tension Among Characters

Crease Don't tell me you can't do it because I know you can. And don't tell me you won't do it because I've got to have it. I need to know, and I need to know now.

Mother Guys, that federal building's been scheduled for demolition since August. Housed the ] and Department of Agriculture. Been vacant for a month.

[[w:Federal Trade Commission|Federal Trade Commission]

Carl The NSA never had an office in San Francisco. Their West Coast operations are out of Los Angeles.

[checks out the Yellow Pages]

Crease Oh, God. Yeah, thanks. Jannek's grant is from the NSA. How could you be so goddamn stupid?!? Two guys show up, say they're government, and you just buy it.

[shocked; hangs up; throws phone in disgust; to Marty]

Whistler They probably were government - just not ours.

[everybody looks at him]

Bishop Everybody pack up whatever you can. This place isn't safe.

[gets revolver]

Mother What are you doing?

Bishop I'm going to a concert.

My Own Private Idaho

Life Reflected in Material Possessions

Mike Waters This chick's living in a new car ad.

Sneakers

Divided Motivations in a High-Stakes Situation

Bishop The probable level of security is very low. But if you guys don't want to take that chance just to keep me out of jail, fine, I understand, I'll do it.

Whistler Well, Bish, I can't speak for the other guys, but I'm in it for the money, I don't care if you go to jail.

Carl Me neither. I'm in.

Mother Uh... could we maybe just go back to the "they might kill us" part?

Bishop Mother, if I thought that was likely to happen, I wouldn't bring this to you. But there is a risk.

Whistler And it pays $175,000!

Mother I'm in.

Crease You guys will be chalk outlines without me. All right, what do we need?

Sneakers

A Request for Personal Connection

Bishop Carl?

Carl The, uh, young lady with the Uzi, is she single?

[to Bernard Abbot]

Bishop Uh, you know, Carl. Carl, this is the brass ring. Now you've got to think bigger thoughts.

[sets Carl aside]

Carl I just want her telephone number, that's all. Please?

Bishop Hey Abby, how about a lunch? You can chaperon.

Bernard Abbot No, I will not do this.

[Male NSA agents smirk]

Bishop Hey, Abby, Abby, come on, now the FBI'd give him twins-

Abbot NO!

NSA Agent Mary Wait a second. You can have anything you want, and you're asking for my phone number?

Carl Yes.

NSA Agent Mary 273-9164. Area code 415.

Carl Thanks. I'm Carl.

[offers hand]

NSA Agent Mary I'm Mary.

[smiles while shaking Carl's hand]

Abbot I'm going to be sick. Are we done here?

Bishop Not yet. Whistler?

Whistler I want peace on earth and good will toward man.

Abbot Oh, this is ridiculous.

Bishop He's serious.

Whistler I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.

Abbot We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.

Bishop You're just gonna have to try.

Abbot All right, I'll see what I can do.

Whistler Thank you very much. That's all I ask.

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