Gena Rowlands movie quotes

“- Sarah Lawson: Jack, I'm almost not crazy now.
- Jack Lawson: I just don't care.”
Gena Rowlands - Sarah Lawson
Seymour Cassel - Jack Lawson

“You think too much about the time you have left. You don't spend it living.”

Gena Rowlands - Violet Devereaux

“I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion

“- Minnie Moore: That's funny, I... I would've sworn you're a businessman.
- Zelmo Swift: Naaah, I hate business. I hate it! It's funny because I'm a rich man. But I hate makin' money.”
Gena Rowlands - Minnie Moore
Val Avery - Zelmo Swift

“Remember that time in the park? Everything felt so real... but now I know that life is just an imagination, a pure imagination, and childhood dream shot to tears, due to the anxiety of tomorrow.”
Gena Rowlands - Allie Calhoun

“- Marion: There's chances gone by you can't have back again.
- Hope: Like what?
- Marion: I don't know. Maybe it would be nice to have a child.
- Hope: You really think that?
- Marion: I do. I never said it before, but I do.”

Gena Rowlands - Marion
Mia Farrow - Hope

“- Phil Dawn: I'm not going with you.
- Gloria Swenson: Hey; I got no time to play games with you, kid.
- Phil Dawn: I am the man. I am the man. I am the man, do you hear me? I am the man! I am the man! Not you, you're not the man! Do you hear me? I'll do anything I can. I am the man!”
John Adames - Phil Dawn
Gena Rowlands - Gloria Swenson

“- Sarah Lawson: You know what daddy used to say?
- Robert Harmon: No. What did he say?
- Sarah Lawson: For every problem, there is an answer.”
Gena Rowlands - Sarah Lawson
John Cassavetes - Robert Harmon

“After you play a part, you think of it as your own.”
Gena Rowlands

“I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.”
Gena Rowlands

“People in independentfilm have a passion; they're not in it for the money.”
Gena Rowlands

“- Ramona Calvert: You smell just delicious, Justin, you wearin' cologne?
- Justin Matisse: No, just sweat with a little paint thinner mixed in.”
Gena Rowlands - Ramona Calvert
Harry Connick Jr. - Justin Matisse

“- Georgia King: What on earth was he thinking of?
- Emma Rae: Probably the same thing he was thinking with.”

Gena Rowlands - Georgia King
Kyra Sedgwick - Emma Rae King

“- Violet Devereaux: Are you religious at all?
- Caroline Ellis: I try to keep an open mind.”
Gena Rowlands - Violet Devereaux
Kate Hudson - Caroline Ellis

“You are nothing like him. You will never be like him. Do you know why? Because you have your mother's heart.”

Gena Rowlands - Gram

“- Marion: Would you ever think of making love to me on the living room floor?
- Ken: Do you want me to?
- Marion: I don't know. Would you want to?
- Ken: I don't know. Actually, I don't think I see you as the hard wood floor type.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
Sir Ian Holm - Ken

- Paul: Do you remember some years ago when I showed you something I'd written, do you remember what you said?
- Marion: No, I don't remember. I was probably just trying to be truthful.
- Paul: Yes, I'm sure. You said, "This is overblown, it's too emotional, it's maudlin. Your dreams may be meaningful to you, but to the objective observer, it's... (continue)(continue reading)
Harris Yulin - Paul
Gena Rowlands - Marion

“- Marion: Why have you stopped sleeping with me?
- Ken: We are simply going through a less active period, that's all. Its not uncommon.
- Marion: Why? I just want to know why?
- Ken: Why don't we just go to bed.
- Marion: There was a time that we were dying to be together.
- Ken: Marion, you're still the most desirable woman that I know.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
Sir Ian Holm - Ken

“Love is a stream, it's continuous, it doesn't stop.”
Gena Rowlands - Sarah Lawson

“- Marion: But you want nothing around to even remind you of mother?
- Marion's Father: Well, there are times when even an historian shouldn't look at the past.
- Laura: Do you think at your age you can find someone and fall in love again?
- Marion's Father: One hopes at my age to build up an immunity.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
John Houseman - Marion's Father
Martha Plimpton - Laura

- Violet Devereaux: I bet they don't have gardens like this is New Jersey.
- Caroline Ellis: Actually, it's "The Garden State".
Gena Rowlands - Violet Devereaux
Kate Hudson - Caroline Ellis

“- Gloria Swenson: In exactly twenty seconds I'm going to startshooting through that door, so get down on your stomachs!
- Phil Dawn: Gloria, what are you doing?
- Gloria Swenson: I'm saving your life, stupid.”
Gena Rowlands - Gloria Swenson
John Adames - Phil Dawn

“- Marion: I feel sorry for you Ken, because, in your way, you've been as lonely as I have.
- Ken: Have you been lonely?
- Marion: At least I've come to recognize it.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion
Sir Ian Holm - Ken

“If someone had asked me when I reached my fifties to assess my life, I would have said that I had achieved a decent measure of fulfillment, both personally and professionally. Beyond that, I would say I don't choose to delve.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion

“- Sarah Goode: Just please tell me what this play doesn't express.
- Myrtle Gordon: Hope.”
Joan Blondell - Sarah Goode
Gena Rowlands - Myrtle Gordon