The actor: David Lynch The character: John Ford The film: The Fabelmans The quote: “Where’s the horizon?” One of three quotes from last year (which I guess could change but it is getting real difficult to just shuffle things in and out at this point in the ballgame), and the one which I am personally… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #68
The actor: Rebel Wilson The character: Brynn The film: Bridesmaids The quote: “At first I did not know it was your diary. I thought it was a very sad handwritten book.” Bridesmaids has this reputation, which it’s certainly earned, as a comedy based largely on projectiles. It is a real thumper, a movie which does… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #69
The actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman The character: Lester Bangs The film: Almost Famous The quote: “I’m always home. I’m uncool.” I came to Elizabethtown well before I came to the stuff that made Cameron Crowe famous, and that left a mark on me. Crowe was never the popular screenwriter-director who wrote the memorable dialogue in… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #70
The actor: Russell Crowe The character: Jack Aubrey The film: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World The quote: “There! I have you! You’re completely dished! Do you not know that in the service, you must choose the lesser of two weevils?” Lawrence of Arabia is frequently cited as not having any women… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #71
The actor: Owen Wilson The character: Eli Cash The film: The Royal Tenenbaums The quote: “Well, Wildcat was written in a kind of obsolete vernacular. Wildcat. Wildcat. K’pow.” Eli Cash has a way with words, even if it’s not a way that I’d like to have myself. Anyone who can write and then publicly read… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #72
The actor: Joel Edgerton The character: Richard Loving The film: Loving The quote: “Tell them I love my wife.” “For sale: Baby shoes, never worn” has been memed out of existence. For one thing, the six-word memoir is, even for someone who loves putting unnecessary rules down for what I write, a step too far… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #73
The actor: Jake Gyllenhaal The character: Jack Twist The film: Brokeback Mountain The quote: “I wish I knew how to quit you.” So the problem with “I wish I knew how to quit you” is twofold. I say “problem” like I wasn’t going to guarantee it a spot on this list. Even if it’s not… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #74
The actor: Alana Haim The character: Alana The film: Licorice Pizza The quote: “Fuck off, teenagers!” It’s not that Licorice Pizza felt super tight for me on the second go-round. It’s that the second time I watched it, the surprises were gone and so it all felt like it was on pace for something, felt… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #75
The actor: Jennifer Lawrence The character: Katniss Everdeen The film: The Hunger Games The quote: “I volunteer! I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!” Jennifer Lawrence becomes the first person to get two quotes on this list. This probably has more to do with how funny I think the “science oven” line is than anything else,… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #76
The actor: Masatoshi Nagase The character: Japanese Poet The film: Paterson The quote: “Poetry in translation is like taking a shower with a raincoat on.” There aren’t a bunch of lines in here that I’ve chosen mostly for beauty or pure insight, but this is one of them. It’s an awful thought. Can we never… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #77
Seeing Things Secondhand 