“Keeping the Faith” quotes

(2000)
Movie Keeping the Faith
Edward Norton directed this movie in 2000
Title Keeping the Faith
Year 2000
Director Edward Norton
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – Jake Schram and Brian Kilkenny Finn are friends of old date. Now they are two successful and handsome singles who live in the Upper West Side of New York. When Anna Reilly, their childhood friend who now is a beautiful business executive, comes back to NY, Jake and Brian change their plans to meet her. The result is an unusual and exciting love triangle, complicated by the fact that Brian is a catholic priest and Jake is a rabbi.
All actors – Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach, Ron Rifkin, Milos Forman, Holland Taylor, Lisa Edelstein, Rena Sofer, Ken Leung, Brian George, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Susie Essman, Stuart Blumberg, Samuel Goldberg, Michael Charles Roman, Blythe Auffarth, Jonathan Randell Silver, Brian Anthony Wilson, Juan Piedrahita, Kelly Deadmon, Raphael M.A. Frieder, Bodhi Elfman, Chris Gardner, Santi Formosa, Francine Beers, Rena Blumberg, Ellen Hauptman, Liz Larsen, Matt Winston, Nelson Avidon, David Wain, Donna Hanover, Wai Ching Ho, Howard Greller, Brenda Denmark, Marilyn Cooper, Hawk Koch, Craig Castaldo, Keith Perry, John Arocho, Derrick Eason, Ray Carlson, Barbara Haas, Sunny Keyser, Lorna Lable, Paula Raflo, Hillary Brook Canter, Dana Lubotsky, Alexandra Rella, Eugene S. Katz, Tony Rossi, John P. Duffell, Keith Williams, Dagmara Dominczyk, Kryss Anderson, Sophia Alexis, Tony Devon, , Giovanni Capitello, Bronwen Carson, Robin Clark, Andre Da Silva, Dan Griffin, Jeff Millstein, Joseph Oliveira, Victoria Rong, Laura Summer, Amy Wilson, Frank Floyd, Paul Hogan, Martin Pfefferkorn, Jessica Prince, Shabazz Ray, Robert F. Saunders, Bernard J. Tarver, Cliff Townsend
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  • “You can never tell yourself there is only one thing you could be. If you are a priest or if you marry a woman it's the same challenge. You cannot make a real commitment unless you accept that it's a choice that you keep making again and again and again.”
    Milos Forman - Father Havel
  • “- Indian Bartender: Um, let me get this straight. I am talking to a priest who went on a bender because his best friend, a rabbi, stole his girl.
    - Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Right.
    - Indian Bartender: Thank you. I want to thank you for telling me this story.
    - Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Why?
    - Indian Bartender: Because now I can retire.”

    Brian George - Indian Bartender
    Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn
  • “I work harder than God. If He had hired me, He would have made the world by Thursday.”
    Jenna Elfman - Anna Riley
  • “- Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Oh. Ethan married a Catholic girl and that did not go over well.
    - Anna Riley: That's why they're fighting?
    - Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: They're not fighting, they're not talking. Two years now no communicando.”

    Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn
    Jenna Elfman - Anna Riley
  • “May those who love us, love us. And those who don't love us - may God turn their hearts. And if He cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping.”
    Brian George - Indian Bartender
    [Tag:enemy, god, punishment]
  • “I have been a priest over 40 years, and I fell in love at least once every decade.”
    Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn
  • “I don't doubt myself because of you. I feel like the best version of myself when I'm with you, and that makes me doubt everything else.”

    Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn
  • “- Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: You're a Sikh, Catholic Muslim with Jewish in-laws?
    - Indian Bartender: Yes. Yes. It gets very complicated. I'm reading Dianetics.
    - Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Don't blame you.”

    Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn
    Brian George - Indian Bartender
    [Tag:blame, religion]
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