Past quotes

“Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?”
Christopher Plummer - Dr. Rosen

I finally downloaded the original "Space Invaders". I'm talking quality 1981 graphics here.
Mark Webber - Dave

“Coming back in time, changing history... that's cheating.”
Chris Pine - James T. Kirk

“If I listened to the wind, I would hear the voices of my past.”
Stephen Dorff - P.K.

“- Kitty Berman: Does it ever go away?
- Jake Gittes: What's that?
- Kitty Berman: The past.
- Jake Gittes: Well, I think you have to work real hard at that.”
Meg Tilly - Kitty Berman
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Jack: This has been a real, real difficult time for me this past year or so.
- Anne: Yeah?
- Jack: I feel like I'm above water for the first time. I feel like I know a lot more now and I don't want to make any more mistakes.”
Jeff Bridges - Jack
Mercedes Ruehl - Anne

Don't you just take the past and put it in a room in a basement and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do. And then you meet someone special and all you want to do is to toss them the key and say, "open up, step inside", but you can't because it's dark. There's demons, and if anybody saw how ugly it is... I keep wanting to do... (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Damon - Tom Ripley

“I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. In this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.”

Eugene Hutz - Alex

“- Celine: The past is the past. It was meant to be that way.
- Jesse: What, you really believe that? That everything's fated?
- Celine: Well, you know, the world might be less free than we think.
- Jesse: Yeah?
- Celine: Yeah, when given these exact circumstances, that's what will happen every time: two part hydrogen, one part oxygen, you get...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julie Delpy - Celine
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. Is its pattern strange to you or would you know the length of the strong coils you bear yourself? It was as full, as heavy, as long as this seven Christmas eves ago, you have labored on it since, it is a ponderous chain!”

Frank Finlay - Jacob Marley

“- Spock: He reminds me of someone I knew in my youth.
- McCoy: Why, Spock, I didn't know you had one.
- Spock: I do not often think of the past.”

Leonard Nimoy - Spock
DeForest Kelley - McCoy

“- Bruce Nolan: Love me. Love me.
- Grace Connelly: ...I did.”
Jim Carrey - Bruce Nolan
Jennifer Aniston - Grace Connelly

“I'm 67 years old. Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, keep on getting brighter.”
Carla Gugino - Sally Jupiter

“- Truvy Jones: I kind of like hiring somebody with a past.
- Clairee Belcher: She can't be more than eighteen. She hasn't had time to have a past.”
Dolly Parton - Truvy Jones
Olympia Dukakis - Clairee Belcher

“- Frank: Who would you rather bone, Meg Ryan or Jack Nicholson?
- Billy Madison: Jack Nicholson now, or 1974?
- Frank: '74.
- Billy Madison: Meg Ryan.”
Norm MacDonald - Frank
Adam Sandler - Billy Madison

“I miss the days when you had one phone number and one answering machine and that one answering machine has one cassette tape and that one cassette tape either had a message from a guy or it didn't. And now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting.”
Drew Barrymore - Mary

“If you hold on to the past, you die a little each day.”
Juliette Lewis - Danielle Bowden

“- Sheik: When we were in high school...
- Jill: We're not in high school any more.”
Rosanna Arquette - Jill
Vincent Spano - Sheik

“Sometimes it hits you how quickly the present fades into the past, and you question everything around you. You wonder if anything you'd ever do would matter.”
Toni Collette - Iris Chapman

“- Jared Grace: We can't stay here. Look at this place. It's the house that time forgot. And it's got that...
- Simon Grace: Old people smell.”
Freddie Highmore - Jared Grace
Freddie Highmore - Simon Grace

“The past is a torch that lights our way. Where our fathers have shown us the path, we shall follow. Our faith is the weapon most feared by our enemies. For thereby shall we lift our people up against those who would destroy us.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Amsterdam Vallon

“The past will come back to bite you in the ass. Whatever you think you know about the past, forget it. The past is not at rest. Any sins you think were committed in the past are about to break out and destroy you.”

Jamie Kennedy - Randy Meeks

“I did a terrible thing to you. I spent a lot of nights wishing I could take it back.”
Thomas Haden Church - Flint Marko

“Whatever we had, we gave it away.”
Edward James Olmos - Montoya Santana

“For a long time I've been walking down life's road with my two pals, Bad Luck and Bad Choices. Fortunately I'm a big believer in new beginnings, new friends, and running from my problems.”
Owen Wilson - Jack Ryan