Ian On The Red Dot

Joker:

Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?

from “Batman” starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton.

Sidenote: I might have actually watched this at the cinema, same with Batman 2, which to me is pretty amazing. I really grew up with movies thanks to my Uncle. Also, I’m still debating whether Michael Keaton or Christian Bale is the best batman we ever had. For the Joker, after watching the trailers for “The Dark Knight”, I think Heath Ledger might be the best Joker ever.

Colonel Nathan R. Jessep:

You can’t handle the truth!

from “A Few Good Men” starring Jack Nicholson

Benjamin Martin:

I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me, and the cost would be more than I could bear.

from “The Patriot” starring Mel Gibson

George Jung:

So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It’s always the last day of summer and I’ve been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I’ll grant you I’ve had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they’re making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.

from Blow starring Johnny Depp

Quintus Arrius:

Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That’s good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.

from “Ben Hur” starring Charlton Heston.

Yoda

Everything! Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.

from … pretty obvious where this one is from.

Larry:

Depressives don’t. They want to be unhappy to confirm they’re depressed. If they were happy they couldn’t be depressed anymore. They’d have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.

from “Closer” starring Clive Own, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts.

Sitenote: Closer is most definitely among the top-3 fucked up movies I have ever watched. Fucked up not because it is bad, but in its commentary about relationships in these modern times, it is probably one of the most honest and brutal movies I have seen. After watching it, you just want to run back to a Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan flick. Also, almost all the quotes from the movie deserve to be here.

Duane Hall:

Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist,I think you’ll understand. Sometimes when I’m driving… on the road at night… I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The… flames rising out of the flowing gasoline.

And Alvy Singer says it best:

There’s an old joke - um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ‘em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly. The… the other important joke, for me, is one that’s usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud’s “Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious,” and it goes like this - I’m paraphrasing - um, “I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.” That’s the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women.

from “Annie Hall” starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and Christopher Walken.