“The Man Who Wasn't There” quotes
(2001)
Title The Man Who Wasn't There
Year 2001
Directors Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Genre Crime, Drama
Year 2001
Directors Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Genre Crime, Drama
Plot – Set in the summer of 1949, the movie tells the story of Ed Crane, a barber who lives in a small town in northern California and who is deeply dissatisfied with the life he leads. Discovering the infidelity of his wife Doris gives him the opportunity to blackmail his boss and, according to him, change his life. Unfortunately, Ed's plan brings to light even darker secrets that will result in a murder.
All actors – Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Katherine Borowitz, Jon Polito, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Jenkins, Tony Shalhoub, Christopher Kriesa, Brian Haley, Jack McGee, Gregg Binkley, Alan Fudge, Lilyan Chauvin, Adam Alexi-Malle, Ted Rooney, Abraham Benrubi, Christian Ferratti, Rhoda Gemignani, E.J. Callahan, Brooke Smith, Ron Ross, Hallie Singleton, Jon Donnelly, Dan Martin, Nicholas Lanier, Tom Dahlgren, Booth Colman, Stanley DeSantis, Peter Siragusa, Christopher McDonald, Rick Scarry, George Ives, Devon Cole Borisoff, Mary Bogue, Don Donati, Arthur Reeves, Michelle Weber, Randi Pareira, Robert Loftin, Kenneth Hughes, Gordon Hart, Brenda Mae Hamilton, Lloyd Gordon, Leonard Crofoot, Rita Bland, Audrey K. Baranishyn, Qyn Hughes, Rachel McDonald, Craig Berenson, Joan Blair, Geoffrey Gould, Paul G. Gray, Phil Hawn, Cherilyn Hayres, John Michael Higgins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Schrum, Max Thayer
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“She looked at me like I was a dope, which I never really minded from her. And she had a point, I guess. We knew each other as well then as now. Anyway, well enough.”
“Knowledge can be a curse.”
It was only a couple weeks later she suggested getting married. I said, "Don't you want to get to know me more?". She said, "Why? Does it get better?".
“Science. Perception. Reality. Doubt. Reasonable doubt.”
“I was a ghost. I didn't see anyone. No one saw me. I was the barber.”
“This hair. How it keeps on coming. It just keeps growing. I mean it's growing, it's part of us. And we cut it off. And we throw it away.”
“Life is so goddamn wonderful you almost won't believe it. It's a bowl of goddamn cherries.”
“You wanna test something scientifically - how the planets go round the sun, what sunspots are made of, why the water comes out of the tap - you gotta look at it. But sometimes you look at it, your looking changes it.”
“I don't know where I'm being taken. I don't know what I'll find, beyond the earth and sky. But I'm not afraid to go. Maybe the things I don't understand will be clearer there, like when a fog blows away. Maybe Doris will be there. And maybe there I can tell her all those things they don't have words for here.”
“The more you look, the less you really know. It's a fact, a true fact. In a way, it's the only fact there is.”
“My wife and I have not performed the sex act in many years.”
“I went to see a woman who was supposed to have powers of communicating with those who had 'passed across' as she called it. She said that people who had passed across were picky about who they communicated with, not like most people you run into on this side. So you needed a guide, someone with a gift for talking to souls.”
“While you're in the maze, you go through willy nilly, turning where you think you have to turn; banging into the dead ends. One thing after another. But you get some distance on it, and all those twists and turns, why, they're the shape of your life. It's hard to explain. But seeing it whole gives you some peace.”
“I worked in a barbershop, but I never considered myself a barber. I stumbled into it. Or married into it, more precisely.”
“I litigate. I don't capitulate.”
“Life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I just haven't played 'em right.”
“I wasn't the kind of guy to kill a guy, that I was the barber, for Christ's sake. I was just like them, an ordinary man. Guilty of living in a world that had no place for me. Guilty of wanting to be a dry cleaner, sure. But not of murder.”
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