Magnolia (2000) - Quotes

Quotes about Magnolia: [[feeling; [life] I have a ], one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my ]. And maybe I'll make some clunkers, maybe I'll make some winners, but I guess the way that I really feel is that Magnolia is, for better or worse, the best movie I'll ever make.

Songs: [[w:Save Me (Aimee Mann song)|Save Me; [Aimee Mann; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMq9XYzqC4 Performance at the White House (11 May 2011)] * "]" by ] ·

Songs: [[Peter Pan; [Superman; [save; [love] Like ], or ], You have come... to ] me. Come on and save me... Why don't you save me? If you could save me, From the ranks of the freaks, Who suspect they could never ] anyone, Except the freaks, Who suspect they could never love anyone, Except the freaks, Who could never love anyone.

Songs: [[Aimee Mann; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNmKghTvj0E Clip from the film of performances by Mann and cast members] * "Wise Up", by ] ·

Songs: [[wise] You're sure There's a cure. And you have finally found it. You think One drink Will shrink you til you're underground And living down. But it's not going to stop. It's not going to stop. It's not going to stop Til you ] up.

Songs: [[Aimee Mann] * "You Do", by ]

Songs: [[sex; [hope; [love] The ] you're trading up for What you ] is ] Is just another thing that He'll be careless of. But though there are caveats galore, You've only got to love him more — And you do; You really do. Even when it's all too clear.

Songs: [[Aimee Mann] * "Deathly", by ]

Songs: [[Now] ] that I've met you, Would you object to Never seeing each other again? Cause I can't afford to Climb aboard you. No one's got that much ego to spend. So don't work your stuff, Because I've got troubles enough. No, don't pick on me When one act of kindness could be Deathly, Deathly, Definitely.

Songs: [[Aimee Mann] * "Momentum", by ]

Songs: [[fears; [life] Oh, for the sake of momentum I've allowed my ] to get larger than ]. And it's brought me to my current agendum Whereupon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive. And I know life is getting shorter, I can't bring myself to set the scene. Even when it's approaching torture, I've got my routine.

Songs: [[loneliest; [experience; [know] One is the ] number that you'll ever do Two can be as bad as one It's the loneliest number since the number one No is the saddest ] you'll ever ] Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know.

Linda Partridge: [to her lawyer] I have to tell you something, I have something to tell you. I want to change his will. Can I change his will? I need to....No, no, no, you see, uhm, I never loved him. I never loved him. Earl. When I met him, when I started, I met him, I fucked him, and I married him because I wanted his money. Do you understand? I'm telling you this. I've never told anyone, I didn't love him, but now, you know, I know I'm in that will. I mean, we're all there together. We made that fucking thing and all the money I'll get. And I don't want it, because I love him so much now. I've fallen in love with him now for real as he's dying. And, uhm, I look at him, and he's about to go, Alan. He's moments. I took care of him through this, Alan. What now, then? I don't want him to die. I didn't love him when we met, and I did so many bad things to him that he doesn't know. Things that I want to confess to him, but now I do. I love him....This isn't any fucking medication talking! This isn't -- I don't know, I don't know. Can you give me nothing? You, you have power of attorney! Can you go, can you go in the final fucking moments and change the will? I-I don't want any money. I couldn't live with myself with this thing that I've done. I've done so many bad things. I fucked around. I fucking cheated on him. I fucking cheated on him, Alan! There. There. You're his lawyer, our lawyer. I am his wife. We are married. I broke the contract of marriage. I fucked around on him many times. I sucked other men's cocks...

Alan Kligman: Linda, stop. Now you take a moment, you breathe, and one thing at a time.

Linda Partridge: Shut the fuck up.

Alan Kligman: You know what would help you, Linda?

Linda Partridge: Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up.

Alan Kligman: You need to sober up.

Linda Partridge: Now, you must really shut the fuck up now, please - shut the fuck up.

Alan Kligman: Linda.

Linda Partridge: I have to go.

Alan Kligman: Let me call you a car, Linda.

Linda Partridge: Shut the fuck up.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick... I'm sick here now. I confuse melancholy with depression sometimes. You see?

Thurston Howell: Why don't you run along now, friend? Your dessert is getting cold.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick.

Thurston Howell: Stay that way.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick, and I'm in love.

Thurston Howell: You seem the sort of person who confuses the two.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [to Brad] That's right! That's the first time you've been right. I confuse the two, and I don't care! I love you. I love you, and I'm sick. I'll talk to you - I'll talk to you tomorrow. I'm getting corrective oral surgery tomorrow... for my teeth. I love you, Brad. Brad the bartender. You want to love me back? I'll be good to you. I'll be goddamn good for you. I won't be mad if you don't know who said what. I won't punish you if you get the answer wrong. I can teach you, and tell you...

Thurston Howell: Brad, you have a special secret crush over there, I think. Don't treat him too lovely. He might get hurt...

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: You, shut up! Mind your own business!

Thurston Howell: Gently, son!

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Brad, I know you don't love me now.

Thurston Howell: [[angels] It's a dangerous thing to confuse children with ].

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [pointing to the TV; in the voice of Jimmy Gator, the TV quiz show announcer; [past; To Howell] Brad, I know you don't love me now...You wanna know the common element for the entire group like he asked? I'll tell you the answer: I'll tell you cause I had that one. I had that question. Carbon. Carbon. In pencil lead, it's in the form of graphite. In coal, it's mixed up with other impurities and in the diamond, it's in hard form. Well, all we really wanted to know was the common element, Donnie, but thank you for all that unnecessary knowledge. Ha, ha, kids! Head's so full of useless knowledge. Thank you. Thank you. And the book says: We may be through with the ], but the past is not through with us! And no, it is not dangerous to confuse children with angels!

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I used to be smart, but now I'm just stupid.

Thurston Howell: [[genius] Brad, dear, who was it that said..."A man of ] has seldom been ruined but by himself"?

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [quietly; to himself] ... Samuel Johnson...

Thurston Howell: [[Samuel Johnson] It was the lovely ]! Who also spoke of a fellow "who was not only dull... but a cause of dullness in others.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: The cause of dullness in others.

Thurston Howell: Picky picky!

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [[lightning; [universe; [body; [head] Let me tell you this; Samuel Johnson never had his life shit on... and taken from him, and his money stolen! Who took his life and his money? His parents? His mommy, and daddy? Make him live this life like this... A man of genius who gets shit on as a child!... and that scars! That hurts! Have you ever been hit by ]? It hurts. It doesn't happen to everyone. It's an electrical charge. It finds its way across the ]... and it lands in your ], and your ]! And as for ruined, but by himself... not if his parents took his freaking life... and his money, and tell you to do this... and to do that, and if you don't...!

Smiling Peanut Patron #1: Your parents took your money you won on that game show?

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [to Thurston] Yes! They did. What does that mean, a spoke in the wheel?

Thurston Howell: Things go round and round, don't they?

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [[dreams] Yes, they do... They do. But I'll make my ] come true.

Thurston Howell: Sounds sad as a weeping willow.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [[stupid] I used to be smart. But now I'm just ].

Thurston Howell: [raising his glass] Shall we drink to that?

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: You look like you have money in your pocket.

Thurston Howell: Maybe I'm just happy to see my friend Brad there.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Just throw some money around. Money, money, money.

Thurston Howell: This sounds threatening.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Do you have love in your heart?

Thurston Howell: I have love all over. I even have love for you, friend.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Is it real love? The kind of love that makes you feel... that intangible joy... pit of your stomach... like a bucket of acid and nerves running around... making you hurt and happy and all over... You're head over heels?

Thurston Howell: You lost me with the last couple of cocktail words spoken my boy... but I believe it's that sort of love. Sounds nice to me.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I have love.

Thurston Howell: A very chatty kind, indeed you do.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: No, I mean I'm telling you - I have love.

Thurston Howell: Yes, and I'm listening avidly, fella.

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: My name is Donnie Smith, and I have lots of love to give.

Rose Gator: Why doesn't Claudia... talk to you, Jimmy?

Jimmy Gator: Why? Because we've... We both don't know. What do you mean?

Rose Gator: No, I think you know.

Jimmy Gator: Maybe... I don't.

Rose Gator: Say it, Jimmy.

Jimmy Gator: I think she thinks... that I may have... molested her. She thinks terrible things that somehow got into her head... that I may have done. She said that to me last time, when it was... ten years ago, she walked out the door. "You touched me wrong. I know that." Some crazy thought in her head.

Rose Gator: Did you ever touch her?

Jimmy Gator: I don't know.

Rose Gator: [covers her mouth in disgust] ... Jimmy!...

Jimmy Gator: I don't know. I really don't.

Rose Gator: But you can't say!

Jimmy Gator: I don't know what I've done.

Rose Gator: [angry] Yes, you do. You do! But you won't say!

Jimmy Gator: I don't know. What? Please? Please.

Rose Gator: You deserve to die alone for what you've done!

Jimmy Gator: I don't know what I've done!

Rose Gator: [beginning to cry] Yes, you do!

Jimmy Gator: Rose, if I said that I knew, would you stay?

Rose Gator: No!

Jimmy Gator: But I don't know what I've done.

Rose Gator: You should know better!

Gwenovier: Come on, Frank. What are you doing?

Frank T.J. Mackey: What am I doing? I'm quietly judging you.

Phil Parma: When was the last time you talked to your son?

Earl Partridge: [moans] ...I don't know. Ten, maybe... five... ... that's another thing that goes...

Phil Parma: Your memory?

Earl Partridge: Time lines, you know? I remember things, but not... right there, you know?

Phil Parma: Yeah.

Earl Partridge: Yeah". The fuck do you know?

Phil Parma: I've seen it before.

Earl Partridge: Yeah, other assholes like me.

Phil Parma: Oh, there's no asshole like you.

Earl Partridge: Cocksucker.

Phil Parma: How come every other word you use is either "cocksucker", "shitballs" or "fuck"?

Earl Partridge: Do me a personal favor.

Phil Parma: Go fuck myself?

Earl Partridge: Yeah, you got it.

Young Pharmacy Kid: Strong, strong stuff here. What exactly you have wrong, you need all this stuff?

Linda Partridge: Motherfucker.

Young Pharmacy Kid: What are you talking about?

Linda Partridge: Who the fuck are you? Who the fuck do you think you are? I come in here. You don't know me. You don't know who I am, what my life is. You have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life?

Old Pharmacist: Please, lady, why don't you calm down?

Linda Partridge: Fuck you, too. Don't call me "lady". I come in here, I give these things to you. You check, you make your phone calls, look suspicious, ask questions. I'm sick. I have sickness all around me and you fucking ask me about my life? "What's wrong?" Have you seen death in your bed? In your house? Where's your fucking decency? And then I'm asked fucking questions. What's... wrong? You suck my dick. That's what's wrong. And you, you fucking call me "lady"? Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on both of you.

Frank T.J. Mackey: Men are shit. What? Men... are... shit. What, isn't that what they say? Because we do bad things, don't we? We do horrible, heinous, heinous, terrible things. Things that no woman would ever do. No, women, they don't lie. No, women don't cheat. Women don't manipulate us. But you see what I'm getting at. You see what society does? Little boys, it's, "Wow, womaaaan!" We are taught to apologize. I am sorry. I am so sorry, baby. I am so sorry. What is it that we need? Is it their pussies? Their love? Mommy wouldn't let me play soccer... and Daddy, he hit me, so that's who I am, that's why I do what I do? Fucking bullshit. I will not apologize for who I am. I will not apologize for what I need. I will not apologize for what I want!

Frank T.J. Mackey: [simulating sexual thrusting] Respect the cock! And tame the cunt! Tame it! Take it on headfirst with the skills that I will teach you at work and say no! You will not control me! No! You will not take my soul! No! You will not win this game! Because it's a game, guys. You want to think it's not, huh? You want to think it's not? Go back to the schoolyard and you have that crush on big-titted Mary Jane. Respect the cock. You are embedding this thought. I am the one who's in charge. I am the one who says yes! No! Now! Here! Because it's universal, man. It is evolutional. It is anthropological. It is biological. It is animal. We... are... men!

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Earl Partridge: [[love; [life; [love; [ashamed; [God] I loved her so. She knew what I did, she knew all the fucking stupid things I’d done. But the ] was stronger of anything you can think of. The goddamn regret. THE GODDAMN REGRET! And I’ll die, now I’ll die and I’ll tell you what. The biggest regret of my ], I let my ] go. What did I do? I’m sixty-five years old, and I’m ]. Million years ago, the fucking regret and guilt, these things... don’t ever let anyone ever say to you, you shouldn’t regret anything. Don’t do that, don't! You regret what you fucking want, use that, use that, use that regret for anything, any way you want, you can use it, OK? Oh, ]. This is a long way to go with no punch. A little moral, story I say: Love...Love...Love. This fucking life, it’s so fucking hard. So long, Life ain’t short it’s long, it’s long. God damn it! God damn, what did I do? What did I do? What did I do?

Jim Kurring: [[good; [beautiful; [stupid] I can't let this go. I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. You're a ] person. You're a good and ] person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things, those things about how ] you are and this and that. I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see?

Jim Kurring: [[judgment; [help; [forgiven; [law] A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to... take a lunch hour, the job's over, something like that. But it's a 24-hour deal... no two ways about it... and what most people don't see is just how hard it is to do the right thing. People think if I make a ] call, that it's a judgment on them. But that's not what I do, and that's not what should be done. I have to take everything and play it as it lays. Sometimes people need a little ]. Sometimes people need to be ]. And sometimes they need to go to jail. And that's a very tricky thing on my part... making that call. The ] is the law, and heck if I'm gonna break it. But if you can forgive someone... well, that's the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.

Jim Kurring: [[gun; [mind; [fool] I lost my ] today when I left you and I'm the laughingstock of a lot of people. I wanted to tell you. I wanted you to know and it's on my ]. And it makes me look like a ]. And I feel like a fool. And you asked that we should say things, that we should say what we're thinking and not lie about things. Well, I can tell you that, this, that I lost my gun today, and I am not a good cop. And I'm looked down at. And I know that. And I'm scared that once you find that out you may not like me.

Jim Kurring: [[life; [world; [help; [people; [happy; [good] Let me tell you something, this is not an easy job. I get a call on the radio, dispatch, it's bad news. And it stinks. But this is my job and I love it. Because I want to do well. In this ] and in this ], I want to do well. And I want to ] ]. And I might get twenty bad calls a day. But one time I can help someone and make a save, correct a wrong or right a situation, then I'm a ] cop. And as we move through this life we should try and do ]. Do good... And if we can do that, and not hurt anyone else, well... then...

Claudia Wilson Gator: [[lies; [kill; [people] I'll tell you everything, and you tell me everything, and maybe we can get through all the piss and shit and ] that ] other ].

Narrator: [[past] We may be through with the ], but the past is never through with us.

Narrator: [[opinion; [chance; [strange; [all; [time] It is in the humble ] of this narrator that this is not just "something that happened." This cannot be "one of those things"... This, please, cannot be that. And for what I would like to say, I can't. This was not just a matter of ]. … These ] things happen ] the ].