Past quotes

“Memory... strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago.”

Roddy McDowall - Huw

“- Gareth: We had the most delightful girl at our table. Carrie, apparently her fiancé's terribly grand and owns half of Scotland. How about you?
- Charles: I seem to be stuck in the wedding from hell, ghosts of girlfriends past at every turn.”
Simon Callow - Gareth - Wedding One
Hugh Grant - Charles - Wedding One

“The story grows more and more charming, simpler too, all the time. You're both victims of fear. Mrs. Reed fears the past and you fear the present. Mrs. Reed has a very strong imagination and you have an equally strong conscience.”

Tom Conway - Dr. Louis Judd

“We, none of us, want to live in the past, Maxim least of all. It's up to you, you know, to lead us away from it.”

Reginald Denny - Frank Crawley

“There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and it is gone, and I see it as it was when I was a boy.”
Roddy McDowall - Huw

“It would be nice to think that since I was 14, times have changed. Relationships have become more sophisticated. Females less cruel. Skins thicker. Instincts more developed. But there seems to be an element of that afternoon in everything that's happened to me since. All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.”
John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“- Nora Charles: It will be like old times - when we were all engaged.
- Nick Charles: Yes, before we made any mistakes.”
Myrna Loy - Nora Charles
William Powell - Nick Charles

“- Frank: The sixties sure were good to you, weren't they?
- Lauren: Frank, that's right. Think back to the sixties. People did things for each other.
- Frank: They were wasted.”
George Carlin - Frank
Shelley Lee Long - Lauren

“- William C. Irvine: James, do you remember the good gone days?
- James Averill: Clearer and better, every day I get older.”
Sir John Hurt - William C. Irvine
Kris Kristofferson - James Averill

“Your little body's slowly breaking down. You're losing speed, you're losing strength, not style. That goes on flourishing forever, but your eyes, your smile do not have the sparkle of your fantastic past. If you climb one more mountain, it could be your last.”

Jonathan Pryce - Juan Perón

“What was your childhood like? Because sometimes things happen to us when we're very young that can hurt for many years after.”

Donna Hanover - Ruth Carter Stapleton

“- Enid: So, I don't really get it... Are you saying that things were better back then, even though there was stuff like this?
- Seymour: I suppose things are better now, but... I don't know, it's complicated. People still hate each other but they just know how to hide it better. Or something.”

Thora Birch - Enid
Steve Buscemi - Seymour

“I've quit the Larks, and next year I'm quitting Santa Mira too. I'm going back to Saint Joe's where you and I had so many wonderful times. I'm going back, and yet I know I can't really go back anymore than you can or any of us can. We can only go forward, and that's what I hope to do... and that's my hope for you, as we both struggle to understand.”

Marley Shelton - Jamie Hall

“Why is it that ones who always bring up the past are those who never lived in it?”
George Segal - Walter Whitney

“People spend too much time thinking of the past. Whatever else it is, it's gone.”
Mel Gibson - Justin McLeod

What the city council did was really... give me a challenge, and it's a challenge that I am going to... accept. It's like in the olden days, in the... days of France, when men would slap each other with their gloves... say, y'know... "D'Artagnan!"... y'know, "how dare you talk to me like that, you!" and... smack 'em!
Christopher Guest - Corky St. Clair

“I can make sense out of yesterday. Can you understand the power of that?”
David Jensen - Elmo Oxygen

“- July Johnson: It was my fault! Hell, you told me to stay.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: I know I did, son. And I'm sure you wished you had. But yesterday's gone, we can't get it back. Now you go on with your digging.”

Chris Cooper - July Johnson
Robert Duvall - Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

“- Anastasia: I remember now how much I loved them.
- Dowager Empress Marie: They would not want us to live in the past, not now that we have found each other.”

Meg Ryan - Anastasia
Dame Angela Lansbury - The Dowager Empress Marie

“- Adele Invergordon: Was there something about me that you particularly missed? Something that I can feel gratified about depriving you all these years?
- Rannulph Junuh: I liked the way we danced.”
Charlize Theron - Adele Invergordon
Matt Damon - Rannulph Junuh

“- Louie: Where'd they send you?
- James Cole: 1990.
- Louie: '90! How was it? Good drugs? Lots of pussy?”
Harry O'Toole - Louie
Bruce Willis - James Cole

“- Diane: You're not getting any younger, Mark. The world's changing. Music's changing. Even drugs are changing. You can't stay in here all day dreaming about heroin and Ziggy Pop.
- Renton: It's Iggy Pop.
- Diane: Whatever. I mean, the guy's dead anyway.
- Renton: Iggy Pop's not dead. He toured last year! Tommy went to see him.
- Diane: The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kelly Macdonald - Diane
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton

“- Tom Horn: Listen, why are you hanging around with me?
- Glendolene Kimmel: Because you are a link to the Old West.
- Tom Horn: If you really knew how dirty and raggedy-assed the Old West was, you wouldn't want any part of it.”
Steve McQueen - Tom Horn
Linda Evans - Glendolene Kimmel

“Crabs! You guys got crabs! That's what they called them in my day. You young people.”
Mel Welles - Druggist

“We didn't have rehab back in the seventies. Back in the seventies rehab meant you'd stop doing coke, but kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks.”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself