Matt Dillon movie quotes

“Why is it always the man's fault? No matter where you go, it's like you're some sort of wandering guilty person without even having harmed a simple kitten. I actually get sad when I think about it. If one is so unfortunate as to have been born... male, then you're also born guilty. Think of the injustice in that. Women are always the victims,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Dillon - Jack

“I've just committed a murder. I feel strong and content. I start to walk, and the shadow in front of me grows bigger, like my pleasure. But at the same time, pain is on its way, represented by the shadow behind me from the next lamp post. And at the midpoint between the lamp posts, the pain is so great it outweighs my pleasure. And with every...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Dillon - Jack

“An artist must be cynical and not worry about the welfare of humans or Gods in his art.”
Matt Dillon - Jack

“- Doberman: You boys got any special reason to be hiding behind there?
- Richie: Yea, we heard you were a horny man.”
Harry Northup - Doberman
Matt Dillon - Richie

“Well, to begin with, nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of using. You can talk to them for years but sooner or later they're gonna get ahold of something. Maybe it's not dope. Maybe it's booze, maybe it's glue, maybe it's gasoline. Maybe it's a gunshot to the head. But something. Something to relieve the pressures of their everyday...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Dillon - Bob

“Some people claim that the atrocities we commit in our fiction are those inner desires which we cannot commit in our controlled civilization, so they're expressed instead through our art. I don't agree. I believe Heaven and Hell are one and the same. The soul belongs to Heaven and the body to Hell.”
Matt Dillon - Jack

“Religion has ruined human beings, because your God teaches people to deny the tiger in themselves. Turns us all into a throng of slaves, too shameful to acknowledge it.”
Matt Dillon - Jack

“- Jack: Verge?
- Verge: I'm here, Jack.
- Jack: I don't feel so good Verge. There's a sour taste in my mouth.
- Verge: You want me to show you the way to the next whisky bar?”
Matt Dillon - Jack
Bruno Ganz - Verge

“- Verge: Why are they always so stupid?
- Jack: Who's stupid?
- Verge: All the women you killed, strike me as seriously unintelligent.
- Jack: I've also killed men.
- Verge: But you only talk about the stupid women. Unless you think all women are stupid.
- Jack: Well, the stories I've told were selected at random, but...
- Verge: You feel...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruno Ganz - Verge
Matt Dillon - Jack

“- Jack: Women are easier, not physically, they're just easier to work with. More cooperative.
- Verge: To kill, you mean?
- Jack: If you like. Mr. Sophistication believes in that theory.
- Verge: So... Mr. Sophistication is the theoretician?”
Matt Dillon - Jack
Bruno Ganz - Verge

- Simple: Why do you always have to be so cruel? I'm not completely stupid.
- Jack: That fucking depends on your definition of "completely".
Riley Keough - Simple
Matt Dillon - Jack

“Don't look at the acts, look at the works.”
Matt Dillon - Jack

“All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Simple back together again.”
Matt Dillon - Jack

“If you feel like screaming, I definitely think that you should.”

Matt Dillon - Jack

“- Jack: Are you allowed to speak along the way? I was thinking there might be rules.
- Verge: Let me put it this way: very few make it all the way without uttering a word. But do carry on merrily. Just don't believe you're going to tell me something I haven't heard before.”
Matt Dillon - Jack
Bruno Ganz - Verge

“The old cathedrals often have sublime artworks hidden away in the darkest corners for only God to see. The same goes for murder.”
Matt Dillon - Jack

“- Lady 1: This was maybe a mistake.
- Jack: What was maybe a mistake?
- Lady 1: Me getting in this car with you. You might as well be a serial killer. Sorry, but you do kind of look like one.”
Uma Thurman - Lady 1
Matt Dillon - Jack

“- Tip: I can't swim.
- Richie: Grow fins, turkey.”
Eric Lalich - Tip
Matt Dillon - Richie

“Diane was my wife. I loved her, and she loved dope. So we made a good couple.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“I knew it in my heart. You can buck the system but you can't buck the dark forces that lie hidden beneath the surface. The ones some people call superstitions.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“Do you know that it's safer to fly then it is to drive a car?”

Matt Dillon - Randy

“- Melvin Moody: Hey, Shelly. Do you want to go to the movies?
- Shelley: Sure.
- Melvin Moody: Okay, have a good time while you're there.”
Matt Dillon - Moody
Joan Cusack - Shelley

“- Bob: Why don't you grow up?
- David: I am growing up!”
Matt Dillon - Bob
Max Perlich - David

“- Rusty James: The colors are cool.
- The Motorcycle Boy: Makes me kind of sorry I can't see the colors.
- Rusty James: I never thought you were sorry about anything.”
Matt Dillon - Rusty James
Mickey Rourke - The Motorcycle Boy

“Tourists? We're not talkng about tourists here, we're talking about mom! And I know you, you don't drink unless you're nervous.”

Matt Dillon - Chris Lloyd