“Stranger Than Fiction” quotes
(2006)
Marc Forster
directed this movie
in 2006
Title Stranger Than Fiction
Year 2006
Director Marc Forster
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year 2006
Director Marc Forster
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
All actors – Will Ferrell, William Dick, Guy Massey, Martha Espinoza, T.J. Jagodowski, Peter Grosz, Ricky Adams, Christian Stolte, Denise Hughes, Peggy Roeder, Tonray Ho, Tony Hale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Danny Rhodes, Helen Young, David Pompeii, Linara Washington, Larry Neumann Jr., Emma Thompson, John Mohrlein, Queen Latifah, Tom Hulce, Bruce Jarchow, Linda Hunt, Dustin Hoffman, Kristin Chenoweth, Bradley Mott, John M. Watson Sr., David Wiegers, Jarrett Sleeper, Karen Lloyd, Keith Kupferer, Danny McCarthy, Tab Baker, Mark Buettner, Christian Young, Arraon Skippa Hixson, Bryan Kelly, Whitney Sneed, Ray Kurut, Celeste Pechous, Michael Cook, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Chet Dubowski, Ora Jones, Jordan Keller, Herb Lichtenstein, Stacey Jackson, Jordan Teplitz, Ricardo Gutiérrez, James Mazza, Oscar Roxas, Nadirah Bost, Sandra Marquez, Lacy Katherine Campbell, Will Clinger, Al Samuels, Frank Caeti, Andrew Rothenberg, Rengin Altay, Lucinda Kemp, Donna Watkins, Julien Heron, Lora Cain, Bob Papenbrook, Mike McColl, Nathan Adloff, Holly Barrett, Rishi Chitkara, Kimber Closson, Edy Cullen, Sue Durso, Nick Ferrin, Reese Foster, Andrea Frisby, Alex Gil, Eli Goodman, Beth Hebert, Carlyn Janus, Bob Kolbey, Tim Krueger, Debra Langland, Jamie Louachai, Lori Miller, Sergio Mojica, Sia A. Moody, Steven Hugh Nelson, January Stern, Ron Valdez, Andrea N. Winters
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“It's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die and then dies. But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway, dies willingly, knowing he could stop it, then isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?”
“- Karen Eiffel: What's this?
- Penny Escher: It's literature on the nicotine patch.”“- Karen Eiffel: Excuse me, where are the dying people? Most of these people are sick or injured. Is there any way to see the people who aren't going to get better? I'd like to see the dead-for-sure ones.
- Head ER Nurse: I'm sorry, are you suffering from anything?
- Karen Eiffel: Just writer's block.”“- Penny Escher: I suppose you smoked all these cigarettes?
- Karen Eiffel: No, they came pre-smoked.”“- Harold Crick: You have to understand that this isn't a philosophy or a literary theory or a story to me. It's my life.
- Professor Jules Hilbert: Absolutely. So just go make it the one you've always wanted.”“No one wants to die but unfortunately we do. You will die someday, sometime. Heart failure at the bank. Choke on a mint. Some long, drawn-out disease you contracted on vacation. Even if you avoid this death, another will find you and I guarantee that it won't be poetic or meaningful.”
“First thing on the list of what Americans say they hate: work; second, traffic; third, missing socks.”
“I may already be dead, just not typed.”
“- Ana Pascal: It's my weekly evil-conspiracy and needlepoint group. You wanna come?
- Harold Crick: I left my thimbles and socialist reading material at home.”“Some plots are moved forward by external events and crises. Others are moved forward by the characters themselves. If I go through that door, the plot continues. The story of me through the door. If I stay here the plot can't move forward, the story ends.”
“Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death.”
“You don't control your fate.”
“The last thing to determine conclusively is whether you're in a comedy or a tragedy. Tragedy, you die. Comedy, you get hitched.”
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