Past quotes

“It is said that what is called the Spirit of an Age is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. In the same way, a single year does not have just spring or summer. A single day, too, is the same. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

“I thought this night was dedicated to remembering those days... that made us all what we are today.”

Karen Black - Joanne

“Life can only be understood backwards.”
Mackenzie Astin - David Shrader

“I belong to the past, when uniforms were black and grown men wore them.”
John Malkovich - Athos

- Ray Simms: Beano, you are definitely our strongest link to the past. In all the time I've known you man, spirtually, emotionally there's been like zero growth. You're what they call a "flat liner".
- David "Beano" Baggot: Well it's better than being a wanker!
Bill Nighy - Ray Simms
Timothy Spall - David "Beano" Baggot

“- Darth Vader: You have accepted the truth?
- Luke: I have accepted that you were once a Jedi named Anakin Skywalker, my father.
- Darth Vader: That name no longer has any meaning for me!
- Luke: Why not? It's who you are.”
David Prowse - Darth Vader
Mark Hamill - Luke Skywalker

“Today there'd be fighting in the streets, but in 1972, it was more like dancing.”

Toni Collette - Mandy Slade

“We are the choices that we have made.”
Meryl Streep - Francesca Johnson

“Why do all the best things in life belong to the past?”
Oliver Platt - Tommy Fawkes

“I miss you, boys. Been more that twenty years. My God, we were young. Well, it was a young country then, full of promise and hope. Anything was possible then if you were an American.”
Brad Johnson - Henry Nash

“I don't want to live in the past, Khan. I just don't want to lose it.”
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“Sometimes the tree grows too fast and the roots don't develop. And sometimes you have to chop off the top of that tree to let the roots catch up.”
Molly McClure - Grandma Ivy Chandler

“I was once a shameless full-time dope fiend.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“- Johner: Hey, Ripley. I heard you, like... ran into these things before?
- Ripley: That's right.
- Johner: Wow, man. So, like, what did you do?
- Ripley: I died.”
Ronald Francis Perlman - Johner
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley

“- Moe Plimpton: I don't like to throw things away.
- David Edgar Greenhill: Well, Moe, sometimes you got to get rid of the old to make way for the new.”
Jack Warden - Moe Plimpton
Don Johnson - David Edgar Greenhill

“I was young. I healed quickly. I learned French and Italian, music and dancing. And one day, I had more than I ever dreamed of. I became his wife... Emma, Lady Hamilton.”
Vivien Leigh - Emma Lady Hamilton

“- Samson: You were a biker.
- Feck: Yeah, years ago. Oh, man. I ate so much pussy in those days, my beard looked like a glazed doughnut.”
Daniel Roebuck - Samson
Dennis Hopper - Feck

“Franco is the only living person who even calls me. Now and then, I stop by his office to remind myself what he looks like. You can't live on memories alone.”
Rupert Everett - Francesco Dellamorte

“I now know that what was, was, and can never be was again.”
Louise Fletcher - Marlene DuChard

“Sometimes I wonder why I worry about past lives at all. I'm having so much trouble with this one. When you remember your past lives, it's like, your emotions get spread like a dangling nerve all over the map. It makes it very hard to live.”
Susan Ruttan - Woman in the Bookstore