Life quotes

“If you could do anything with your life and money was no object, what would you do?”

Erika Christensen - Anna Ross

“Everyone has to ask the question, am I a sucker or what. I mean we all play the game, but who makes up the rules?”
Eugene Roche - Ed McGrath

“- Riff Randell: Come on, you guys, follow me into the school! Come on!
- Mr. McGree: I regret that I have only one life to give for rock and roll!”

P.J. Soles - Riff Randell
Paul Bartel - Mr. McGree

“Life is nothing but the echo of joy disappearing into the great chasm of misery.”
Billy Crudup - Henry

Most people think, "Life sucks, and then you die". I disagree. I think life sucks. Then you get cancer. Then you go into chemotherapy. You lose all your hair, you feel bad about yourself. Then all of the sudden the cancer goes into remission, and then all of the sudden you have a stroke. You can't move your right side. And then, maybe, you die.
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“I saw my whole life as if I'd already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared... or even noticed...”
Gloria Stuart - Old Rose

“Life is like a mustard burp, momentarily tangy and then forgotten in the air.”
Bill Erwin - 70-Year-Old Man

“I have no choice but to dismiss you. It breaks my heart, but I can't expose my guests to your firearms. It may be wrong of them, but they value their lives.”

Marcel Dalio - Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest

“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.”
Anthony Quinn - Alexis Zorba

“Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it.”
Takeshi Kitano - Kitano-sensei

My father always told me: "You can do anything you want in life, so long as you go to law school".
Burt Reynolds - Buddy Evans

“None of us find as much happiness in this life as we should.”
Ken Watanabe - Chairman

“I'm a guy who can't function well in life but can in art.”
Woody Allen - Harry Block

“- Ski: My life is worth more than a piece of film.
- Sonny Hooper: I'll tell you exactly what your life is worth. Your life is worth fifty thousand dollars, that's the price you put on it when you got behind this wheel!”
Jan-Michael Vincent - Ski
Burt Reynolds - Sonny Hooper

“- General Castrillon: Our twelve pound cannon arrives tomorrow. Why sacrifice our soldiers trying to take a wall that can be demolished?
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana: General Castrillon, what are the lives of soldiers but so many chickens?”
Castulo Guerra - General Castrillon
Emilio Echevarría - Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

“Why is my life so complicated? Gee, I don't know. Why is your life so fucking simple?”
Angelina Jolie - Joan

“- William Blake: Am I going to die?
- Nobody: The circle of life has no ending.”

Johnny Depp - William Blake
Gary Farmer - Nobody

“What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer.”
Stephen Fry - The Guide

“My worst fear is falling, falling like a bomb. You see, life for me is about distractions. I try to keep looking up and forget about what's down. But when I dream... I fall.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Jamal: We've been talking about your book at school.
- Forrester: People have been talking about it for years. They just haven't been saying anything.
- Jamal: I think I got it down, though. I figure you were writing about how life never works out.
- Forrester: Really? You had to read a book to figure that out?”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“Take my hand, Frank. Take it. If you don't, you'll die. You're gonna shoot me, Frank, after I saved your life? The only way to save the president is to shoot me. Are you willing to trade your life for his, or is life too precious?”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“We come into people's lives when they have experienced something profound... and sad. And they've lost somebody, you know? And um, the circumstances, they're always different. But that's the same. And we help. In some small way we, um, we help.”

Amy Adams - Rose

“- Archie Gates: What's the most important thing in life?
- Troy Barlow: Respect.
- Archie Gates: Too dependent on other people.
- Conrad Vig: What, love?
- Archie Gates: A little Disneyland, isn't it?”
George Clooney - Archie Gates
Mark Wahlberg - Troy Barlow
Spike Jonze - Conrad Vig

“- April Wheeler: For the first time in your life, you'll have the time to find out what it is you actually want to do. And when you figure it out, you'll have the time and the freedom, to start doing.
- Frank Wheeler: This doesn't seem very realistic.”
Kate Winslet - April Wheeler
Leonardo DiCaprio - Frank Wheeler

“You know what I think about before I pull the trigger? I think about the infield fly rule. I love that fucking rule. It assumes the worst of everybody. My favorite part, the batter's out but the runners advance at their own risk. That's the way life should be: you can be a motherfucker at your own risk, or not.”
Al Pacino - Rooster