Break-up quotes

“Mike, I learned it from you. You always told me this was the rule. Rule number one: Throw away your cards the moment you know they can't win. Fold the fucking hand.”

Gretchen Mol - Jo

“- Abby Janello: Being with him is like making a choice.
- Donna: You don't have that choice, Abby. You have other choices.
- Abby Janello: It just can't be him - that's all.
- Donna: Ok, then fine. But whether it's Buddy or someone else a year from now, whoever you choose will be there because Greg is not. That's just how it is.”
Gwyneth Paltrow - Abby Janello
Caroline Aaron - Donna

“This is your mail because it has your name on it! My mail is sometimes addressed to occupant. Because, Max, I am the fucking occupant of my place! Whereas you are no longer an occupant. Is this sinking in? Get your shit out of my apartment!”
Salma Hayek - Rita

“Well, there's nothing else I can say except that I'm glad that before I married you, you showed yourself in your true colors: you're just a butterfly.”

Virginia Walker - Alice Swallow

“- Allen Bauer: You know by the time I got there, she was already gone.
- Freddie Bauer: Victoria left, huh?
- Allen Bauer: Yeah. You know why she left Freddie? Because I didn't love her.
- Freddie Bauer: That bitch.”
Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer
John Candy - Freddie Bauer

“You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.”
Linda Evans

“- Dr. Frank Bryant: We split up, Rita, because of poetry.
- Rita: You what?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant
Julie Walters - Rita

“Where do I start? It's not you. Well actually it is you. Look, I'm just not... I'm not attracted to you anymore. I need space. You kinda... you kinda gross me out. In the beginning it was different. In the beginning, you were better. But then I got to know you real well, and I came to realize... that you're a fat idiot.”
Tim Robbins - Nick Beam

“- Danny Witwer: Lamar thinks you left John because he lost himself in Precrime instead of you.
- Lara Clarke: I left him, because everytime I looked at him, I saw my son. Everytime time I got close to him, I smelled my little boy. That's why I left him. And now you can leave.”
Colin Farrell - Danny Witwer
Kathryn Morris - Lara Clarke

“You know what day is great for a break-up? Any day but Valentine's Day!”
Nicholas Brendon - Xander Harris

“- Eddie Quinn: Hey, don't blame her! What difference does it make what she says, what she feels, what she thinks? For whatever reason, she belongs to me.
- Joey: Yeah, you two pricks belong together.”

Sean Penn - Eddie Quinn
John Travolta - Joey

“Couples should never split up between Thanksgiving and January 2nd. Always have a relationship to see you through the holidays. Always.”
Jude Law - Alfie

“I don't want who it'll make you be and I don't want who it'll make us be! Not for one more minute! And I don't want how sad and fucked up it already makes me feel!”

Jennifer Podemski - Sadie Maracle

“He was a real artistic guy, sensitive, a painter. But he was always trying to find himself. He'd go out every night looking for himself. And on the way, he found Ruth. Gladys. Rosemary. And Irving. I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive. And I saw him dead.”
Mya - Mona

- David "Beano" Baggot: You were engaged to a Guinness heiress, wasn't it?
- Tony Costello: Yeah, but they paid me to go away.
Timothy Spall - David "Beano" Baggot
Stephen Rea - Tony Costello

“Where are you going to go, your cartoon mother's house?”

John Ritter - Roy Knable

“- Rita: Are you a poet?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.
- Rita: What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: No. I stopped writing altogether.”
Julie Walters - Rita
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

“- Luce: You can put an end to this! Tell me to go. Tell me that's what you want, and I will walk away and you will never see me again.
- Rachel: Is that what you want?
- Luce: I want you.”
Lena Headey - Luce
Piper Perabo - Rachel

“The only thing we have in common is that we're both wrong for each other.”

Nick Nolte - Doc

“It is the norm in our business to go through ‘breakups’ on a regular basis.”
Gregory Itzin

“- Cynthia Rose: I have a confession to make.
- Fat Amy: We all know where this is going. Lesbi-honest.
- Cynthia Rose: This is hard for me to admit to you guys, but for the past two years, I have had a serious gambling problem.
- Fat Amy: What?
- Cynthia Rose: It all started when I broke up with my girlfriend.
- Fat Amy: Whomp, there it is!”
Ester Dean - Cynthia Rose
Rebel Wilson - Fat Amy

“- Scott Thomas: What do you mean you're dumping me?
- Fiona: Scott, I just can't take all the lying and cheating on each other anymore.
- Scott Thomas: What are you talking about? Sweetie, I never cheated on you!
- Fiona: I know. That's what makes this so hard.”
Scott Mechlowicz - Scott Thomas
Kristin Kreuk - Fiona

“- Kevin: Hey.
- Kelly Scott: Oh, hey Kevin! What's going on? What's happening? How's it goin'? How's your family? Good? That's great, it's so nice to see you. Fuck off.”

Adam Arkin - Kevin
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott

“Ah, love; a dreadful bond, and yet, so easily severed.”
Bill Nighy - Davy Jones

“- Henry 'Razor' Sharp: You know, I know it was a long time ago, but... what happened? Really.
- Sally: You were everything in my life. Then Kid beat you. And you were different. And I was lost. And everything started to fall apart...”
Sylvester Stallone - Henry 'Razor' Sharp
Kim Basinger - Sally