Ethan Hawke movie quotes

- Lelaina Pierce: Can you define "irony"?
- Troy Dyer: It's when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“I put aside the fantasy and the wealthy, and the heavenly girl who did not want me. None of it would happen to me again. I'd seen through it. I elected to grow up.”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“Come on, Illeana, you didn't fall for James Costa. Someone as beautiful and powerful as you doesn't fall for a faggy art dealer. Okay?”
Ethan Hawke - Costa

“- Lelaina Pierce: Quick, Vicky, whats your social security?
- Vickie Miner: Uhm... 851-25-9357.
- Troy Dyer: Very impressive.
- Vickie Miner: Thats the only thing I really learned in college.”
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Janeane Garofalo - Vickie Miner
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“We're just living in a pretense of a marriage responsibility, and all these ideas of how people are supposed to live.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Céline: You know what I want?
- Jesse: What?
- Céline: To be kissed.
- Jesse: Well I can do that.”
Julie Delpy - Céline
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“What's it like not to feel anything?”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“You realize that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“Blood has no nationality.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible.”

Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“- Estella: Can you ever forgive me?
- Finnegan Bell: Don't you know me at all?”
Gwyneth Paltrow - Estella
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“At the beep, please leave your name, number, and a brief justification for the ontological necessity of modern man's existential dilemma, and we'll get back to you”

Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“- Celine: Do you think you would have finished your book if you were fucking someone every five minutes?
- Jesse: I might have welcomed the challenge.”
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Dock Newton: You ain't any less of a drunk now than you was when hooch was legal.
- Jess Newton: Well, you see, there's my point. That particular law ain't really doin' it's job, now is it?”
Vincent D'Onofrio - Dock Newton
Ethan Hawke - Jess Newton

“Don't you understand that everything I do, I do it for you. Everything that might be special in me, is you.”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“- Lelaina Pierce: I'd like to somehow make a difference in people's lives.
- Troy Dyer: And I... I would like to buy them all a Coke.
- Lelaina Pierce: And you wonder why we never got involved?”
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“- Celine: The past is the past. It was meant to be that way.
- Jesse: What, you really believe that? That everything's fated?
- Celine: Well, you know, the world might be less free than we think.
- Jesse: Yeah?
- Celine: Yeah, when given these exact circumstances, that's what will happen every time: two part hydrogen, one part oxygen, you get...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“Elephantiasis is when something gets bloated and ugly like your ass.”

Ethan Hawke - Ben Crandall

“- Vincent: I don't know how to thank you.
- Jerome: No, no. I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body. You lent me your dream.”

Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman
Jude Law - Jerome Eugene Morrow

“- Jesse: Why do you think everybody thinks relationships are supposed to last forever anyway?
- Céline: Yeah, why. It's stupid.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse
Julie Delpy - Céline

“Everybody's parents fucked them up. Rich kids parents gave them too much. Poor kids, not enough. You know, too much attention, not enough attention. They either left them or they stuck around and taught them the wrong things.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Nando Parrado: Between these mountains somewhere there's a green valley. See these mountains over here? There's no snow on them.
- Roberto Canessa: Those mountains must be fifty miles away. You think you can walk fifty miles?
- Nando Parrado: If we have to, we will.
- Roberto Canessa: I can't.”
Ethan Hawke - Nando Parrado
Josh Hamilton - Roberto Canessa

- Céline: Did your parents divorce?
- Jesse: Yeah. Finally. They should have done it a lot sooner, but they stuck together for a while for the "well-being of my sister and I", thank you very much.
Julie Delpy - Céline
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“I think that if I could just accept the fact that my life is supposed to be difficult. You know, that's what to be expected, then I might not get so pissed-off about it and I'll just be glad when something nice happens.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

You know what drives me crazy? It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. You never hear somebody say, "With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out". I mean... (continue)(continue reading)
Ethan Hawke - Jesse