“Boyhood” quotes

(2014)
Movie Boyhood
Richard Linklater directed this movie in 2014
Title Boyhood
Year 2014
Director Richard Linklater
Genre Drama
Plot – Boyhood is a 2014 American epic coming-of-age drama film. Set in Texas, it was filmed for 12 years, from 2001 to 2013, and follows the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents. Adolescence, road trips, family dinners, birthdays and graduations, we see all the important moments in the life of Mason, as he grows up on screen right before our eyes.
All actors – Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Elijah Smith, Lorelei Linklater, Steven Chester Prince, Bonnie Cross, Sydney Orta, Libby Villari, Ethan Hawke, Marco Perella, Jamie Howard, Andrew Villarreal, Shane Graham, Tess Allen, Ryan Power, Sharee Fowler, Mark Finn, Charlie Sexton, Byron Jenkins, Holly Moore, David Blackwell, Barbara Chisholm, Matthew Martinez-Arndt, Cassidy Johnson, Cambell Westmoreland, Jennifer Griffin, Garry Peters, Merrilee McCommas, Tamara Jolaine, Jordan Howard, Andrew Bunten, Tyler Strother, Evie Thompson, Brad Hawkins, Savannah Welch, Mika Odom, Sinjin Venegas, Nick Krause, Derek Chase Hickey, Angela Rawna, Megan Devine, Jenni Tooley, Landon Collier, Roland Ruiz, Richard Andrew Jones, Karen Jones, Gordon Friday, Tom McTigue, Sam Dillon, Martel Summers, David Clark, Zoe Graham, Jessie Tilton, Richard Robichaux, Will Harris, Indica Shaw, Bruce Salmon, Wayne Sutton, Joe Sundell, Sean Tracey, Ben Hodges, Daniel Zeh, Chris Doubek, Andrea Chen, Mona Lee Fultz, Bill Wise, Alina Linklater, Charlotte Linklater, Genevieve Kinney, Elijah Ford, Kyle Crusham, Conrad Choucroun, Maximillian McNamara, Taylor Weaver, Jessi Mechler, , Virginia Allee, Marina Arellano, Brad Ausmus, Greg Baglia, Jonathan Bell, Deanna Brochin, Jayson Champion, Roger Clemens, Lise' Creed, Ken Edwards, Maria Engler, Amber Jaycox, Kaitlyn King, Jason Lane, Stephen Latham, Alexander Lu, Natalie Makenna, Doug Mansolino, Heather Materne, Rissa Medlenka, Craig Alan Ries, Garin Sparks, Courtney Tailor, Corey Terrell, Johnny Walter
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  • “All right, well, here's what you do, all right, first off you gotta ask a girl a lot of questions, then you have to listen to the answers, actually be interested in her, all right, If you can do those things, you'll be light years ahead of all the other guys.”
    Ethan Hawke - Dad
  • “I finally figured it out. It's like when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now. I mean, why not? They're billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything....” (continue)(continue reading)
    Ellar Coltrane - Mason
  • Dad-Hey, grab that McCain sign, would you?
    Mason-Dad, isn't that illegal?
    Dad-Just put it in the car. I'm being patriotic.”

    Ethan Hawke - Dad
    Ellar Coltrane - Mason
  • “The world is too competitive. There are too many talented people who are willing to work hard; and a buttload of morons who are untalented, who are more than willing to surpass you.”
    Tom McTigue - Mr. Turlington
    [Tag:talent, working]
  • “Samantha-Goodbye, yard! Goodbye, crepe myrtle! Goodbye, mailbox! Goodbye, box of stuff Mommy won't let us take with us but we don't want to throw away. Goodbye, house, I'll never like Mommy as much for making us move!
    Mom-Samantha! Why don't you say goodbye to that little horseshit attitude, okay, because we're not taking that in the car.”

    Lorelei Linklater - Samantha
    Patricia Arquette - Olivia
  • Mom-You know what I'm realising? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced... again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to...” (continue)(continue reading)

    Ellar Coltrane - Mason
    Patricia Arquette - Olivia
  • “I guess it's really easy to say, like I don't care what anyone else thinks. But everyone does, you know. Deep down.”
    Zoe Graham - Sheena
    [Tag:opinions, thought]
  • “I just wanna be able to do anything I want, because it makes me feel alive. As opposed to giving me the appearance of normality.”
    Ellar Coltrane - Mason
    [Tag:living, normality]
  • “what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like a whale? Yoy know what I mean? What if I told you a story about how underneath the ocean, there was this giant sea mammal that used sonar and sang songs and it was so big that its heart was the size of a car and you could crawl through the arteries? I mean, you'd think that...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Ethan Hawke - Dad
    [Tag:animal, magic, ocean]
  • “You know how everyone's always saying seize the moment? I don't know, I'm kinda thinking it's the other way around. You know, like the moment seizes us.”
    Jessi Mechler - Nicole
    [Tag:life, moment]
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