Fiction quotes

“- Matt Dunbar: Just pretend to be a student - you're supposed to be good at that kind of thing.
- Nick Dunbar: Matt, no one is going to believe I am a high school kid.
- Matt Dunbar: Nick, be serious - no one believes you're a cop!”
Loren Dean - Matt Dunbar
Arliss Howard - Nick Dunbar

“Did you ever hear of a thing called paranoia? No, I guess you didn't. Well, it's what happens to people when they get to believe they're something they're not.”

Harry Shannon - Florida Doctor

“I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing my real face.”
Doug Jones

“I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal

“- Al: But how do you make sure that he'll fall in love with you?
- Paula: You look nice, you find out what they like, and then you pretend to like it, too.”
Terry Paxton Bradshaw - Al
Sarah Jessica Parker - Paula

“A video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't...” (continue)(continue reading)

I'm told, "don't talk like you normally talk. Watch how you hold your mouth. You look too sour and crabby. Don't get angry. Don't ask too many questions, or they think you're trying to be smart. And never, never, never laugh or you're an uncaring bitch". Well, I can't cry to order, and I won't be squashed into some dumb act for the public... or... (continue)(continue reading)

Meryl Streep - Lindy

“- Henry Sikorsky: I'm the doctor until the doctor comes back!
- Billy Caufield: Okay, you be the doctor and I'll be the escaped mental patient, okay?”
Chris Lloyd - Henry Sikorsky
Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield

“You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.”
Sacha Guitry

“- Joseph Donnelly: I pretend I love you.
- Shannon Christie: I pretend I love you, too.”
Tom Cruise - Joseph Donnelly
Nicole Kidman - Shannon Christie

“Many young men who should be able to move out simply can't. It's called failure to launch.”

Sarah Jessica Parker - Paula

“Good or bad, it's all playacting. If you act well, you can fool other people; if you do it badly, you can only fool yourself, and when you can't even fool yourself, you just can fool the ghosts.”
Saifei He - Meishan (Third Wife)

“- Malloy: So there are no vampires in Transylvania? No Count Dracula?
- Louis: Fictions, my friend. The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman.”
Christian Slater - Malloy
Brad Pitt - Louis

“- Stokely: They've just been setting us up over the years with their E.T.'s and their Men In Black movies, just so no one would believe it if it ever happened.
- Casey: I think so.”
Clea DuVall - Stokely 'Stokes' Mitchell
Elijah Wood - Casey Connor

“I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
Mia Farrow - Cecilia

“- Jack Noah: Why couldn't you get Bobby DeNiro or Dustin Hoffman?
- Roberto Strausmann: Not available! I would have given my right arm to work with Bobby DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman!”

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Jack Noah
Raul Julia - Roberto Strausmann

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
Anna Massey - Miss Prism

“I don't get hurt or bleed, hair doesn't muss; it's one of the advantages of being imaginary.”
Jeff Daniels - Tom Baxter

“- Kevin Dillon: It's the treasure, concealed in the slime of dragons.
- Maxwell Kane: It's a woman's purse, and it's covered with crap.”
Kieran Culkin - Kevin Dillon
Elden Henson - Maxwell Kane

“- Nick: This is a wonderful moment for me, Mr. Slater. I've never met a fictional character before. How new and exciting this must all be for you.
- Jack Slater: Hey, I just found out I was imaginary. I mean, how would you feel if somebody made you up? Your job, your marriage, your kids.”
Robert Prosky - Nick
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Jack Slater

“- Conrad Brean: You watched the Gulf War, what do you see day after day? The one smart bomb falling down the chimney. The truth? I was in the building when we shot that shot - we shot in a studio, Falls Church, Virginia. One-tenth scale model of a building.
- Stanley Motss: Is that true?
- Conrad Brean: How the fuck do we know? You take my point?”
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“When you're weak, you act strong. And when you're strong pretend to be weak.”
Ossie Davis - Noah

“- Insp. Porfiry: How long do you think you can keep up this pretense? Forever? For all eternity?
- Roderick Raskolnikov: You're wasting your time.”
Edward Arnold - Insp. Porfiry
Peter Lorre - Roderick Raskolnikov