“As Good As It Gets” quotes
(1997)
James L. Brooks
directed this movie
in 1997
Title As Good As It Gets
Original title As Good as It Gets
Year 1997
Director James L. Brooks
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Original title As Good as It Gets
Year 1997
Director James L. Brooks
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – In New York, Melvin Udall is a writer of sentimental novels who suffers from OCD. He has fun insulting and hurting other people, who react harshly. A talented painter called Simon lives in front of his flat. He is the hit of the actual New York’s artistic scene, he’s openly gay and he’s victim of the neighbor’s meanness.
Every day Melvin has breakfast in a restaurant where Carol is the only waitress who listens to his jokes. She is a single mother with a son who suffers from chronic asthma. One day, Simon invites a young model for a portrait, but the guy calls some friends that destroy the house, steal everything and brutally beat the painter up. While he’s at the hospital, Melvin agrees to take care of Verdell, Simon’s dog: strangely, the two become friends. Then Melvin finds out about Carol’s son illness: he sends a doctor to the woman, who prescribes a strict and highly effective therapy. Carol is embarrassed, so she tells Melvin that she doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. Is she truly sure? Behind that cynical mask hides a sensitive man who’s worthy to love her.
Every day Melvin has breakfast in a restaurant where Carol is the only waitress who listens to his jokes. She is a single mother with a son who suffers from chronic asthma. One day, Simon invites a young model for a portrait, but the guy calls some friends that destroy the house, steal everything and brutally beat the painter up. While he’s at the hospital, Melvin agrees to take care of Verdell, Simon’s dog: strangely, the two become friends. Then Melvin finds out about Carol’s son illness: he sends a doctor to the woman, who prescribes a strict and highly effective therapy. Carol is embarrassed, so she tells Melvin that she doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. Is she truly sure? Behind that cynical mask hides a sensitive man who’s worthy to love her.
All actors – Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight, Yeardley Smith, Lupe Ontiveros, Jill the Dog, Timer the Dog, Billy the Dog, Bibi Osterwald, Ross Bleckner, Bernadette Balagtas, Jaffe Cohen, Laurie Kilpatrick, Alice Vaughn, Brian Doyle-Murray, Kristi Zea, Annie Maginnis Tippe, Patricia Childress, Rebekah Johnson, Missi Pyle, Leslie Stefanson, Tara Subkoff, Shane Black, Peter Jacobson, Lisa Edelstein, Stan Bly, Randall Batinkoff, Jesse James, Jamie Kennedy, Justin Herwick, Maya Rudolph, John F. O'Donohue, David A. Kipper, Mary Elizabeth Still, Chloe Brooks, Cooper Brooks, Sharon L. Alexander, Holly Denys, Lawrence Kasdan, Alison Rose, Kathryn Morris, Wood Harris, Linda Gehringer, Julie Benz, Harold Ramis, Antonia Jones, Kaitlin Hopkins, Jimmy Workman, Danielle Spencer, Todd Solondz, Tom McGowan, Danielle Brisebois, Matt Malloy, Paul Greenberg, Kirk Ringberg, Dave Hawthorne, Alba Albanese, Roger Ferreira, Amy Anzel, Alex Ballar, Joe Beachy, Jason Thomas Campbell, Bronwyn Cornelius, Dunya Djordjevic, Eddie L. Fauria, James Gosnell, Eliza Harris, Maurice LaMarche, Laura Mayes, Nicole Salter, Frank Slaten, Oriana Nicole Tavoularis, Justin Ward
show all“As Good As It Gets” Quotes 26 quotes
I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence", and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean... (continue)(continue reading)
“Melvin, do you know where you're lucky? You know who you want.”
“- Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man.
- Carol Connelly: ...That's maybe the best compliment of my life.
- Melvin Udall: Well, maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.”“- Carol Connelly: We all have these terrible stories to get over, and you...
- Melvin Udall: It's not true. Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that...” (continue)(continue reading)He started hitting me and beat me unconscious, he taught me a lesson he thought I'd never forget, he knew what I was even before I did, the morning I left for college he walked into my room and held out his hand and it was filled with money, a big sweaty wad of money and he said: "Take this and I don't want you ever to come back", I grabbed him... (continue)(continue reading)
“If it's election night, and you're excited and you wanna celebrate because some fudge-packer that you date has been elected the first queer president of the United States and he's going to have you down to Camp David, and you want someone to share the moment with. Even then, don't knock. Not on this door. Not for any reason. Do you get me,...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Melvin Udall: I can't get back to my old life. She's evicted me from my life!
- Simon Bishop: Did you really like it all that much?”“When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.”
“- Melvin Udall: Can I ask you a personal question?
- Simon Bishop: Sure.
- Melvin Udall: You ever get an erection over a woman?”“The best thing you have going for you is your willingness to humiliate yourself.”
“Is this fun for you? You lucky devil. It just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it? I'm losing my apartment, Melvin. And Frank, he wants me to beg my parents, who haven't called me, for help. And I won't. And... I... I don't want to paint any more. So the life that I was trying for, is over. The life that I had is gone, and I'm feeling so...” (continue)(continue reading)
“As long as you keep your work zipped up around me, I don't give a rat-crap what or where you shove your show. Are we done being neighbors for now?”
“- Carol Connelly: You're going to die soon with that diet. You know that, right?
- Melvin Udall: Oh, we're all going to die soon. I will, you will, and it sure sounds like your son will.
- Carol Connelly: If you ever mention my son again, you will not be able to eat here any more, Mr Udall. Do you understand me? Give me some sign you understand...” (continue)(continue reading)“Have you ever let a romantic moment make you do something that you knew was stupid?”
“To hell with sex! It was better than sex! We held each other! What I needed, he gave me great.”
“- Carol Connelly: No, no no, absolutely not. I'm a lot more shy than people think. I give off the wrong impression.
- Simon Bishop: I have to. I haven't sketched anything in weeks.
- Carol Connelly: Stop staring. Do a vase.
- Simon Bishop: But you're beautiful, Carol. Your skin, your long neck, the back, the line of you. You're why cavemen...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Carol Connelly: How are you?
- Simon Bishop: Don't ask. I'm tired of my own complaints. I need to get some new thoughts.”“You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.”
“- Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
- Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.”“People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch.”
“Can we get you anything else? Water, coffee, couple of female slaves?”
Highlights
