Distance quotes

“I make honor roll and Dad doesn't notice because you're in detention! I'm elected captain of the cheerleading squad and Dad can't come to one game. One game! Because he's busy going to your parent-counsellor meetings. You want to know why I want this fellowship abroad? It's because it's 3,000 miles away from you.”
Ashley Olsen - Jane Ryan

“- Miss Hastings: It's amazing just how far the fruit can fall from the tree.
- Ted Hamilton: And still roll a great distance.”
Lee Meriwether - Miss Hastings
Bill Cobbs - Ted Hamilton

“- Derek Bradshaw: I'm not free most weekends. Pro bono case. I don't think I can get away 'til next Tuesday.
- Amy Miller: So I have to wait five whole days to see you again?
- Derek Bradshaw: I'll be thinking of you the whole time.”
Vincent Irizarry - Derek Bradshaw
Cassidy Rae - Amy Miller

“- Dave Kujan: Man, you're a slob.
- Jeff Rabin: Yeah, but it all has a system, Dave. It all makes sense when you look at it right. You gotta, like stand back from it, you know? You want to see a real horror show? See my garage.”
Chazz Palminteri - Dave Kujan
Dan Hedaya - Jeff Rabin

“- King Henry VIII: Thomas Wyatt, were you in love with Anne Boleyn?
- Thomas Wyatt: Of course I loved her. But... from a distance.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - King Henry VIII
Jamie Thomas King - Thomas Wyatt

“- Oliver: So far so good.
- Stan: It wasn't so far. We just came across the street.”
Oliver Hardy - Oliver
Stan Laurel - Stan

“- Rose Smith: Why are we eating early?
- Esther Smith: You certainly don't want the whole family sitting there drinking in every word while a man proposes to you long-distance.”

Lucille Bremer - Rose Smith
Judy Garland - Esther Smith

“My parents put an ocean between them after the nastiest divorce ever. No joke. People study it.”
Oliver James - Jay Corgan

“- Leonardo DaVinci Rizzo: Where's your boyfriend from?
- Jessica Bloom: San Francisco.
- Leonardo DaVinci Rizzo: That's not a boyfriend. That's a pen-pal!”
Brad Davis - Leonardo DaVinci Rizzo
Karen Allen - Jessica Bloom

“- Linda Powell: I was just nowhere near your neighborhood. I don't need to be your girlfriend, I just wanna know you again.
- Steve Dunne: What took you so long?
- Linda Powell: I was stuck in traffic.”
Kyra Sedgwick - Linda Powell
Campbell Scott - Steve Dunne

“You have always been with me. Your courage, your smile, your damned stubbornness. There has never been any distance between us, and there never will be.”

Angelina Jolie - Sarah Jordan

“- Kate Moseley: Hale at the moment is working in my father's London office, he's an MBA, Harvard. You might have heard of it. They do have a hockey team.
- Doug Dorsey: He must be a very smart guy.
- Anton Pamchenko: First positions, please.
- Doug Dorsey: Bet you look pretty good from a few thousand miles away.”
Moira Kelly - Kate Moseley
D.B. Sweeney - Doug Dorsey
Roy Dotrice - Anton Pamchenko

“- Dory: Hey, look, balloons. It is a party.
- Bruce: Mind your distance, though. Those balloons can be a bit dodgy. You wouldn't want one of them to pop.”

Ellen Lee DeGeneres - Dory
John Barry Humphries - Bruce

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in
another city.”
George Burns

“I'm going to write you a letter every day you're gone. I know they won't deliver them. I won't even mail them, but I'm going to write them anyway. That way we'll kind of be in touch. That way we'll feel close.”

Phyllis Thaxter - Ellen Lawson

“- Ms. Kawasaki: He wants you to turn and look in camera. Okay?
- Bob Harris: Is that all he said?”

Akiko Takeshita - Ms. Kawasaki
Bill Murray - Bob Harris

“- Graham: Long distance relationships can work, you know.
- Amanda: Really? I can't make one work when I live in the same house with someone.”
Jude Law - Graham
Cameron Diaz - Amanda

“I like talking to grandma, but every Sunday do we have to drive 55 hours just to reach some phone booth?”
Tessa Allen - Gracie Hiller

“- Emmy Brown: Good night.
- Georges Iscovescu: It's better than good! Somehow, these walls will not seem so empty inside. You will be here very close to me. Breathing in the same night.”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Emmy Brown
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu

“When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.”
Josh Hartnett - Matthew

“- Nick Szalinski: We're now a quarter of an inch tall, and 64 feet from the house. That's an equivalent of three-point-two miles. That's a long way. Even for a man of science.
- Amy Szalinski: Nick, I've got six hours to get home, get big and get to the mall. Now get moving.”
Robert Oliveri - Nick Szalinski
Amy O'Neill - Amy Szalinski

“- Richard: I'm American.
- Etienne: So?
- Richard: I think in miles, not kilometers.
- Etienne: Okay, so how many miles do you think it is?
- Richard: I don’t know, but it looks like a long way away.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Richard
Guillaume Canet - Étienne

“If I could live this life again, I would never leave you for a second.”
Clive Owen - Nick Callahan

“- Hubie: I wonder how far it is to Antarctica.
- Rocko: 3000 miles in that direction. But you'll never get there. I'll give it three days tops and you'll be in the belly of anything, from a killer whale to a sardine!”
Martin Hayter Short - Hubie
Jim Belushi - Rocko

“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall...” (continue)(continue reading)

William Hurt - Rochester