Velvet Goldmine
"The world has changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history." ~ Curt Wild
"Make a wish, and see yourself on stage, inside out. A tangle of garlands in your hair. Of course you are pleasantly surprised." ~ Curt Wild
"It's funny how beautiful people are when they're walking out the door." ~ Mandy Slade
"Ha! Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner!" ~ Brian Slade
"I should think that if people were to get the wrong impression of me, the one to which you so eloquently refer, it wouldn't be the wrong impression in the slightest." ~ Brian Slade
"That man sitting over there in the white suit... is the biggest thing to come out of this country sinced sliced Beatles." ~ Jerry Divine
"Now, just because someone sees, you know, two naked people asleep in bed together, it doesn't necessarily prove sex was involved. It does, however, make for a very strong case." ~ Mandy Slade
"You live in terror of not being misunderstood." ~ Mandy Slade
"I needn't mention how essential dreaming is to the character of the rock star." ~ Mandy Slade
"According to legend, when Kurt was 13 he was discovered in the family loo at the service of his older brother, and was promptly sent off for eighteen months of electric shock treatment. It was guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him, but all it did was make him go bonkers whenever he heard an electric guitar." ~ Cecil
Reporter: Tell us, Brian, are the rumors true when they say you and Curt
Wild have some sort of plans up your sleeve?
Brian Slade: Oh yes. Quite soon we actually plan to take over the world!
"I don't believe that there is much of a future to speak of." ~ Malcolm
Gloria: Do you want to come up for a coffee?
Andy: I don't drink coffee.
Gloria: I haven't got any.
"I don't like seein' Dad sad, Mom, but I'd sooner see him sad than not see him at all." ~ Shane
(Robbing a bank)
Celine: I'd like to make a withdrawal.
Robert: I thought we agreed there'd be no cliches.
(Trying to make a ransom call)
"Listen, you daughter! I have your asshole!" ~ Robert
(Robert has just been shot)
Robert: Are you taking me to a hospital? Because I don't want to die in a hospital.
Celine: I'm not going to take you to a hospital.
Robert: WHAT? What do you mean you're not taking me to a hospital? I demand to be taken to a hospital!
"Oh, that's all I am to you...the latest kidnapper. A lifestyle accessory. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter because you can always get another one." ~ Robert
O'Reilly: We can do this with or without violence, it's up to you. The
client pays our medical bills but not yours. Well?
Robert: Oh, without, please.
"Despite your crummy poem, I came to see you and all you could do was humiliate me and turn me away. I thought you were decent, but it turns out you're just a lying, cheating bastard like all the rest." ~ Celine
Jackson: What the hell did you do to her?
Robert: I punched her in the face.
Jackson: Oh, you punched her in the face. She's half your size and you
punch her in the face?
Robert: She had a gun!
Jackson: Oh, she had a gun! So that makes everything all right, does it?
Robert: No, I'm not saying it makes everything all right. I'm just trying
to explain to you that for all I knew, she could have been a karate
expert or something.
Jackson: With a broken arm? WITH A BROKEN ARM?!
Robert: O.K., I'm sorry.
"Remember my dear, they only want one thing. Maybe they want it more than once, but it's still only one thing." ~ Celine's mother
Al: Nice-looking woman.
Robert: She isn't my type.
Al: What are you talking about? Look at yourself. You're nobody. You're
nothing. You're wanted in connection with a violent crime. You're
cleaning the floor of a diner. But she is an intelligent, passionate,
beautiful, rich woman. The issue of whether or not she's your type is not
one that you're likely to have to resolve in this world... or the next,
since she will be going to some heaven for glamourous pussy, and you will
be cleaning the floor of a diner in hell.
Robert: I guess so.
Al: So why are you even thinking about it?
"We would have injected vitamin C if only they had made it illegal!" ~ Mark Renton
Mark Renton: Well, he's always been lacking in moral fiber.
Swanney: He knows a lot about Sean Connery.
Mark Renton: That's hardly a substitute.
(Procuring supplies for detoxing himself)
"one bottle of Valium. Which I've already procured from my mother. Who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way also a drug addict." ~ Mark Renton
"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you got heroin?" ~ Mark Renton
Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being." ~ Toulouse Lautrec
(Discussing the play.)
Duke: Why can't the courtesan marry the maharaja?!
Christian: Because she doesn't love you!
Toulouse: Things aren't always as they seem.
Christian: Things are exactly the way they seem.
"Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love." ~ Christian
Debi Newberry: So, what have you been doing with your life?
Martin Blank: Professional Killer.
Debi Newberry: Oh...you get dental with that?
Martin Blank: I'm a professional killer.
David: Do you have to do post-graduate work for that?
Mr. Newberry: What have you been doing with yourself?
Martin Blank: Uh, professional killer.
Mr. Newberry: Good for you. Growth industry.
Debi Newberry: You're a psychopath.
Martin Blank: No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for *money*.
It's a *job*. That didn't come out right.
(Talking to his Psychiatrist about his High School Reunion)
"They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and
dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and
they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? 'I killed the
president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?'" ~ Martin Blank
"If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there." ~ Martin Blank
(To Debi's father, while fleeing from Grocer.)
Martin: I was hired to kill you. But I'm not going to. It's either
because I'm in love with your daughter or I have a newfound respect for
life.
(In pursuing car.)
Grocer: That punk's either in love with that guy's daughter or he's got a
newfound respect for life.
(Into the mirror, preparing for his high school reunion.)
"Hi, remember me? I'm not married, I don't have any kids,
and I'd blow your head off if someone paid me enough." ~ Martin Blank
Dr. Oatman: Don't kill anybody for a few days. See what it feels like.
Martin Blank: I'll give it a shot.
Dr. Oatman: No, don't shoot anybody.
"I was sitting there alone on prom night, in a goddamn rented tuxedo, and my whole life flashed before my eyes. And I realized finally, and for the first time, that I wanted to kill somebody. So I figured since I loved you so much, it'd be a good idea if I didn't see you anymore." ~ Martin Blank
Ken McCullard: I do divorce mainly, some property, some personal injury.
Martin Blank: They all seem kinda related.
"Have you ever known anyone to actually be in love longer than ninety days? You? Your mother? Aunts? Girls you grew up with? Anyone? It's impossible. And perfectly good women attach themselves to pigs for eternity on the basis of ninety days of hormonal imbalance." ~ Elaine
"There were two things I always wanted to believe, but couldn't. One was that there was someone out there who was made just for me. The other is that I just might deserve him." ~ Roz
"Our love is God, let's go get a Slushie." ~ Jason Dean
"Seven schools in seven states and the only thing different is my locker combination." ~ Jason Dean
"My teenage angst bullshit now has a body count." ~ Veronica Sawyer
Kurt Kelly: Hey Ram, doesn't this cafeteria have a no fags allowed rule?
Jason Dean: Well, they seem to have an open door policy for assholes
though don't they?
Veronica Sawyer: No, my life's not perfect... I don't really like my
friends.
Jason Dean: Yeah... I don't really like your friends either.
Veronica Sawyer: I just killed my best friend!
Jason Dean: And your worst enemy.
Veronica Sawyer: Same difference.
"Fuck me gently with a chainsaw." ~ Heather Chandler
Kurt's dad: My son's a homosexual, and I love him! I love my dead gay
son!
Jason Dean: Wonder how he'd react if his son had a limp wrist with a
pulse.
"I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature." ~ Sei Shonagon
"I became a wife. I was married. I aquired a husband. Anyway you say it, it was bound to turn out badly." ~ Nagiko
"God, you two are sensitive! All I'm doing is implying some kind of ugly sordid sexual liaison. I'd be proud of that sort of thing." ~ Alex Law
"They went up there alive and came back down dead! Did you notice that? The difference, I mean: alive, dead, dead, alive, that sort of thing? It wasn't difficult to spot. He killed them both." ~ Alex Law
"When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear?" ~ Alex Law
"When was the last time someone said these exact words to you? You are the sunshine of my life." ~ Alex Law
"Now when you sacrifice a goat and you rip its heart out with your bare hands, do you then summon hellfire?" ~ Alex Law
"I love that guy but why does he have to follow us around?" ~ Alex Law
Alex: And if you see I'm dying up there you'll call the police and tell them everything, right?
Juliet: Everything.
Alex: Except that maybe it was his idea in the first place. Now that's important to me. I don't need to die misunderstood.
(After Juliet sleeps with David so David won't leave with all the money.)
Juliet: It's about me and David.
Alex: Oh, the perfect couple, I should say.
Juliet: You mustn't take it so badly.
Alex: Oh, don't worry. I'd do exactly the same thing, only I don't think I'm his type.
Master of Ceremonies: Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please. First of all may I thank you all for coming along tonight and supporting our appeal to raise funds for the sick children's unit.
Alex Law: You didn't tell me that this was for children. I hate children. I'd raise money to have the little fuckers put down. I want me money back!
(Juliet, Alex and David are about to dispose of Hugo's body by rendering it unidentifiable)
Juliet: I can't do it.
Alex: But Juliet, you're a doctor. You kill people every day.
Juliet Miller: We're going to dance?
Alex Law: Well, it's physical contact, isn't it?