After a Four-Year Hiatus, Film Quotes is Back!

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Can you believe it’s been nearly four years (June 8, 2021) since the last edition of Film Quotes? I can too. But before we get into angry recriminations over the long absence or over the return of this beloved/reviled feature. Let’s enjoy some real quotes by real actors playing real characters in real movies. Enjoy!

Hey! You're Rick fucking Dalton. Don't you forget it. - Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.

I saved Latin, what did you ever do? — Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer in Rushmore.

Every act of preservation is an act of creation. Everything preserved renews creation. It's how we participate in creation. — Ethan Hawke as Ernst Toller in First Reformed.

Wait a minute. I'll decide with whom my wife is going to have dinner and whom she's going to kill. — Jack Benny as Joseph Tura in To Be or Not to Be.

In Hyde Park, for instance, some people like to feed nuts to the squirrels. But if it makes you happy to feed squirrels to the nuts, who am I to say, "nuts to the squirrels?” — Charles Boyer as Adam Belinski in Cluny Brown.

I've got a little Latino Harriet Tubman situation going on at my place. All legit. From the heart. No cash. — Teyana Taylor as Perfidia in One Battle After Another.

Hey, who decorated this place, the mug who shot Lincoln?. — Barbara Stanwyck as Sugarless O'Shea in Ball of Fire.

Excuse me. Could you give us some change, please? The doctor said we have asthma and we have to eat ice-cream right away. — Brooklyn Prince as Moonee in The Florida Project.

If it takes a watermelon five minutes to water. How long does it take a sweetpea to pee? As long as it takes a pair of dice to crap.— Elliot Gould  as Charlie Waters in California Split.

Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell. I hate it already, and it's only been a week. Some goddamn week. — Charlie Sheen as Chris Taylor in Platoon.

I'm not the guy you kill. I'm the guy you buy! Are you so fucking blind that you don't even see what I am? I sold out Arthur for 80 grand. I'm your easiest problem and you're gonna kill me? — George Clooney as Michael Clayton in Michael Clayton.

I met a wonderful man downstairs. He seemed to like me. He said I reminded him of his wife who's dead. But I assume he meant when she was alive. — Elaine May as May Sloane in Small Time Crooks.

Let me ask you one thing. Do you think - after we've dried off, after we've spent lots more time together - you might agree *not* to marry me? And do you think not being married to me might maybe be something you could consider doing for the rest of your life? — Hugh Grant as Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

What am I doing apologizing to you? Why am I ALWAYS apologizing to you, you little bastard? Three months I've been apologizing to you without you even being here! I haven't done anything wrong. Why can't I quit apologizing? You the one ought to be sorry! — Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper in The Last Picture Show.

Oh, stay jealous, babe. Stay jealous, honey. Jealousy is a disease, remember that, Diamond. I'm just gonna go chill in my mansion or whatever, you know, no big deal! — Mikey Madison as Ani in Anora.

I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders. — Charles Laughton as Sir Wilfred in Witness for the Prosecution.

I remember reading somewhere that men learn to love the person that they're attracted to, and that women become more and more attracted to the person that they love — James Spader as Graham in Sex, Lies and Videotapes..

It was a pet, not an animal. It had a name, you don't eat things with names, this is horrific! — Peter Riegert as Mac in Local Hero.

What's this for? For bein' an honest cop? Hmm? Or for being stupid enough to get shot in the face? You tell them that they can shove it. — Al Pacino as Frank Serpico in Serpico.

I was a big slut, but I'm not anymore. There will always be a part of me that is sloppy and dirty, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself. I can forgive. Can you say the same for yourself, fucker? Can you forgive? Are you capable of that? — Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook.

She needs *me*. It's not as if is she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes - a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you? — Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates as Psycho.

I don't think I could ever get used to being poked and prodded like that. I told my proctologist one time, "Why don't you take me out to dinner and a movie sometime?” — Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin in Best in Show.