Life quotes

“- Biff Loman: I've always made a point of not wasting my life. Whenever I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: You're a poet, Biff. You know it? Yeah, you're an idealist.
- Biff Loman: No, I'm mixed up very bad.”
John Malkovich - Biff Loman
Stephen Lang - Harold 'Happy' Loman

“It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.”
Mae West - Tira

“Feels like we're living two lives. One before the robbery and one after.”
George Burns - Joe

“You had better learn how to play the game, and I don't mean just the game of football.”
Mac Davis - Seth Maxwell

“- Hazel: Lord Frith, I know you've looked after us well and it's wrong to ask even more of you, but my people are in terrible danger! So I would like to make a bargain with you... my life in return for theirs.
- Frith: There is not a day or night that a doe offers her life for her kittens or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sir John Hurt - Hazel
Michael Hordern - Frith

“- Flora Poste: I want to learn about real life.
- Charles Fairford: What for?
- Flora Poste: To put it in books.”
Kate Beckinsale - Flora Poste
Christopher Bowen - Charles Fairford

“This frigging game is ruining my life.”

Sylvester Stallone - Captain Robert Hatch - The Players: U.S.A.

“- Mongol General: What is best in life?
- Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
Akio Mitamura - Mongol General
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Conan

“- Nelson Hibbert: Something happened to me back there with that gun pointed to my head. I had... um... I had a uh...
- Lynn Holden: An epiphany?
- Nelson Hibbert: No, no. It was more like a realization but on a grand scale...
- Lynn Holden: An epiphany!
- Nelson Hibbert: No, it had like religious proportions to it...
- Lynn Holden: You're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dave Foley - Nelson Hibbert
Jennifer Tilly - Lynn Holden

“Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions.”
Jacob Reynolds - Solomon

“There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”
Mackenzie Astin - David Shrader

“All I want is a chance to earn an honest living.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Martha Strabel Van Cleve: Why did you ever come into my life?
- Henry Van Cleve: To make you happy. To hold you in my arms forever.”
Gene Tierney - Martha Strabel Van Cleve
Don Ameche - Henry Van Cleve

“I do the best I can, honey. I know it's not enough, and I'm sorry. But that's what you get in life, you know? You get whoever you end up with. Whoever is willing to stick by you, and fight for you, when everyone else is gone. And it ain't always who you expect. But you just have to make do.”
Anita Gillette - Elaine

“- Larry Burrows: So, Mike, do you do this a lot, I mean, you know, change peoples' lives and stuff?
- Mike: I've been known to make a few adjustments now and again.”
Jim Belushi - Larry Burrows
Sir Michael Caine - Mike

“Whatever way one lives, there's a penalty, I suppose.”

Phoebe Foster - Dolly

“I wanted to do something outrageous, and it felt really good, to be needed, and to be trusted. It's just there's so much I want to do with this life and it feels that I haven't done any of it. You know, the sand is running out of the hourglass, and I want to look back and say, see, I did that, that was me, I was wreckless and I was wild, and I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jamie Lee Curtis - Helen Tasker

“You have childish ideas about life. Because like so many women you live only for little excitements.”

Conrad Veidt - Capt. Andersen

“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.”
Alan Ruck - Cameron Frye

“- Peter: Mom's greatest fear is that your life was fun.
- Sully: Tell her not to worry.”
Dylan Walsh - Peter
Paul Newman - Sully

“Sorry, Quaid. Your whole life is just a dream.”
Sharon Stone - Lori

“To understand the living, you got to commune with the dead.”
Irma P. Hall - Minerva

“- Stansfield: It's always the same thing. It's when you start to become really afraid of death that you learn to appreciate life. Do you like life, sweetheart?
- Mathilda: Yes.
- Stansfield: That's good, because I take no pleasure in taking life if it's from a person who doesn't care about it.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Stansfield
Natalie Portman - Mathilda

“Mr. Lincoln has given back your life to me.”

Josephine Crowell - Mrs. Cameron

“I found out what the secret to life is: friends. Best friends.”
Jessica Tandy - Ninny Threadgoode