“A Life Less Ordinary” quotes
(1997)
Danny Boyle
directed this movie
in 1997
Title A Life Less Ordinary
Year 1997
Director Danny Boyle
Genre Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Year 1997
Director Danny Boyle
Genre Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Plot – Robert is the guardian of a popular company, he is a loser but dreams big. He is working on a trash novel, hoping to be successful. The daughter of Robert’s boss, Celine, is a spoiled woman, who lives a carefree life. O’Reilly and Jackson, two angels, have to make them fall in love.
All actors – Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Dan Hedaya, Cameron Diaz, Ian McNeice, Ewan McGregor, Frank Kanig, Mel Winkler, Anne Cullimore Decker, Stanley Tucci, K.K. Dodds, Tony Shalhoub, Ian Holm, Christopher Gorham, Maury Chaykin, Timothy Olyphant, Robert Kellog, David Stifel, Dane Stevens, Jayceen Craven, Crystal Martinez, Jan Hanks, Mary-Cristina Schaub, Kitty Brunson, Chuck Gowdy, Judith Ivey, Toni Lynn Byrd
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“- Celine Naville: So you're telling me that successful relationships are made in Heaven? Not founded on the daily practicality of two people being prepared to tolerate the imperfections of one another?
- Robert Lewis: It's not successful relationships, Celine. It's love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place that we don't know about.”“Fate intervenes in people's lives. In ours, for instance. Fate brought us together. It kept us together. We were destined for one another.”
“- Celine Naville: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.
- Robert Lewis: But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable... and absolutely beyond control or understanding.”“- Celine Naville: What's wrong?
- Robert Lewis: What's wrong, you crazy bitch, is I thought you were going to shoot me! That's what's wrong!”“Remember my dear, they only want one thing. Maybe they want it more than once, but it's still only one thing.”
“I commit you to His mercy.”
“I remember the good old days. All you had to do was introduce a man and a woman, nature did the rest. Doesn't work like that anymore. Men and women, it's all gone to shit.”
“Despite your crummy poem, I came to see you and all you could do was humiliate me and turn me away. I thought you were decent, but it turns out you're just a lying, cheating bastard like all the rest.”
“- Celine Naville: How much are you asking for?
- Robert Lewis: Half a million.
- Celine Naville: Half a million dollars is not a lot of money for a woman like me!
- Robert Lewis: I didn't mean it as a reflection of you as an individual!”“You don't know how I feel. Only the exceptionally rich can know how I feel.”
“- Al: Nice-looking woman.
- Robert Lewis: She isn't my type.
- Al: What are you talking about? Look at yourself. You're nothing. You're nobody. You're wanted in connection with a violent crime. You're cleaning the floor of a diner. She is an intelligent, passionate, beautiful, rich woman.”“Have you ever felt like you're not in control of your life?”
“You're in a lot of trouble, you know. My father's gonna have you killed. You realize that? Tortured first, naturally. Then he's gonna have you killed.”
“- Naville: Celine, why don't you give me the gun?
- Celine Naville: Because as he dreamt, I shall save his life with an arrow, an arrow of my love for him.”
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