Julie Delpy movie quotes

“You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“- Jesse: Listen, if somebody gave me the choice right now, of to never see you again or to marry you, alright, I would marry you, alright. And maybe that's a lot of romantic bullshit, but people have gotten married for a lot less.
- Céline: Actually, I think I had decided I wanted to sleep with you when we got off the train. But now that we've...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ethan Hawke - Jesse
Julie Delpy - Céline

“- Celine: Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women.
- Jesse: I think I'm one of those guys.
- Celine: I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.”
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“What's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
Julie Delpy - Céline

“Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“- Céline: It's depressing, no? That the... the only thing we're gonna think of is when we're gonna have to say goodbye tomorrow.
- Jesse: Well, we could say goodbye now. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it in the morning.”
Julie Delpy - Céline
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.”
Julie Delpy

“When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.”
Julie Delpy

“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity.”
Julie Delpy

“People can lead their life as a lie. My grandmother, she was married to this man, and I always thought she had a very simple, uncomplicated love life. But she just confessed to me that she spent her whole life dreaming about another man she was always in love with. She just accepted her fate. It's so sad.”
Julie Delpy - Céline

“When you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff.”
Julie Delpy - Céline

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

“I have this awful paranoid thought that feminism was mostly invented by men so that they could like, fool around a little more. You know, women, free your minds, free your bodies, sleep with me. We're all happy and free as long as I can fuck as much as I want.”
Julie Delpy - Céline

“I used to think that if none of your family or friends knew you were dead, it was like not really being dead. People can invent the best and the worst for you.”
Julie Delpy - Céline

“- 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

“- 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

“- 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

“Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

- 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 had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.”
Julie Delpy - Céline

“I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.”
Julie Delpy - Céline

“- Jesse: I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life.
- Celine: What?
- Jesse: Um... I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?
- Celine: Yeah, me too.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse
Julie Delpy - Céline

“- Zoe: We fit together.
- Zed: All men and women fit together. Even some men fit together.”
Julie Delpy - Zoe
Eric Stoltz - Zed