Matthew Modine quotes
- From the movie: Married to the Mob
“- Mike Downey: You know, Angela, I've been thinking.
- Angela de Marco: Well, there you go, working without tools again” - From the movie: Bye Bye Love
“- Dave: They're splitting up? Marty and Leslie?
- Donny: After eleven years!
- Vic Damico: Just goes to show you, you're never safe. Eleven years, busting his ass, bringing home the paycheck for what? He must have done something really terrible, like leave the cap off the toothpaste.
- Donny: Actually, he was sleeping with his secretary.” - From the movie: Wind
“We're out in the desert, so bring some beer!”
- From the movie: And the Band Played On
“- Blood Bank executive: Is the CDC seriously suggesting that the blood industry spends $100 millions a year to use the test for the wrong disease because we have a handful of transfusion fatalities and eight dead hemophiliacs?
- Dr. Don Francis: How many dead hemophiliacs do you need? How many people have to die to make it cost effecient for you...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Birdy
“The dream is as real to me now as my waking life. I don't know where one begins and the other ends. I wish I could tell Al, but I'm afraid to. In my dreams, nothing holds me down. Everything's out and away.”
- From the movie: Birdy
“There's nothing in my life to keep me here anymore. I wish I could die and be born again as a bird.”
- From the movie: Gross Anatomy
“- Laurie Rorbach: Are you following me?
- Joe Slovak: Well, I have to you see. I've told everybody I know we're dating. So, you see I have to be seen with you outside of class or they'll think I'm lying.” - From the movie: Cutthroat Island
“Congratulations, madam. There's another town you've destroyed.”
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
“I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid.”
- From the movie: Memphis Belle
“- 1st Lt. Luke Sinclair: Fuel gauge is shot. How long can we fly on one engine?
- Capt. Dennis Dearborn: I don't know. I guess we'll find out.” - From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
“- Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis: How can you shoot women or children?
- Doorgunner: Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much! Ain't war hell?” - From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
“The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.”
- From the movie: Birdy
“Al, sometimes you're so full of shit.”
- From the movie: Gross Anatomy
“He's human. Not superhuman, just human. He did what he thought he had to do because he wanted to be a doctor more than anything else in the world and you ruined this for him.”
- From the movie: Short Cuts
“- Marian Wyman: Are you cheating, Ralph?
- Dr. Ralph Wyman: No, Marian. You cheat. Remember?” - From the movie: Wind
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
“- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Do any of you people know where these individuals learned how to shoot? Private Joker?
- Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will all be able to...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Fluke
“I loved them too much to get in the way of their happiness.”
- From the movie: Married to the Mob
“- Connie Russo: Whose husband are you dog face?
- Mike Downey: Well I don't know. Whose husband are you looking for?
- Connie Russo: Mine.” - From the movie: Birdy
“I'm starting to worry that I'll never really fly the way I've been going. As scary as a bird's life must be... at least they have that. They can always fly away.”
- From the movie: Birdy
“They're just like on a cow, but in a more stupid place.”
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