Past quotes

“In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.”
Bill Paxton

“- Marty McFly: Oh, this is heavy, Doc. I mean, it's like I was just here yesterday.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: You were here yesterday, Marty.”

Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown

“Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.”
Martin Landau

“What you see on the screen is something that you don't have in this world today. You can just sit back and enjoy it.”
Desmond Llewelyn

“- J.P. Prewitt: The truth is male models have been assassinating world leaders for over 200 years. Abe Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, right? Well, who do you think made the silk stockings and powdered wigs worn by our early leaders?
- Derek Zoolander: Mugatu!
- J.P. Prewitt: Slaves, Derek. So they hired John Wilkes Booth to do Mr. Lincoln...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Duchovny - J.P. Prewitt
Ben Stiller - Derek Zoolander
Christine Taylor - Matilda Jeffries

“Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.”
Bernard Hill - Theoden

“- Francis Phelan: She is a bum, or just a plain drunk?
- Rudy: She's been a bum all her life.
- Francis Phelan: No, nobody... 'been a bum all her life'. She had to be somethin' else before she was a bum.”

Jack Nicholson - Francis Phelan
Tom Waits - Rudy

“- Debbie: Hey, I have a really good idea. Why don't the two of you get into your time machine, go back in time and fuck each other.
- Pete: Who needs a time machine?”

Leslie Mann - Debbie
Paul Rudd - Pete

“Where'd my youth go? Why didn't fame hold off old age and death? Why the hell did I leave the fame in the first place and do I want it back, and could I have it back? And if I could, would it make any damned difference?”
Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley

The book says, "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us".
Philip Baker Hall - Jimmy Gator

“We're reviving a canceled undercover police program from the '80s and revamping it for modern times. The guys in charge of this stuff lack creativity and are completely out of ideas, so all they do now is recycle shit from the past and expect us all not to notice.”
Nick Offerman - Deputy Chief Hardy

“The past is one thing you can do nothing about.”
Gina Bellman - Helen

“I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.”
Sam Rockwell - Chuck Barris

“The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.”
Terry Jones

“Medieval learning was really advanced.”
Terry Jones

“If I could go back in time and change everything back, I would!”
Rachael Leigh Cook - Josie McCoy

“- Logan: So, what happened to the badass in boots?
- Yukio: Master Yashida is traditional. One eye on the past and the other on the future.”
Hugh Jackman - Logan
Rila Fukushima - Yukio

“- Riggan: Fuck you!
- Young Birdman: No, fuck you, you coward. We grossed billions! You're ashamed of that? Billions!
- Riggan: And billions of flies eat shit every day! So what? Does that make it good? I don't know if you noticed, but that was 1992!”
Michael Keaton - Riggan
Benjamin Kanes - Young Birdman

“- Todd Bowden: Bergen-Belsen, January '43 to June '43. Auschwitz, June '43 to June '44. Then you went to Patin. After that you disappeared, but then in 1965 you were spotted in West Berlin.
- Kurt Dussander: Listen, boy... I don't have time for this game. Now get out of here before I call the police.
- Todd Bowden: Call them if you want. I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden
Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“- Kate (White) Reilly: Believe it or not I was actually a Playmate once. Almost gave my dad a heart attack.
- Earl Bassett: Miss October 1974?
- Kate (White) Reilly: Shit!”
Helen Shaver - Kate 'White' Reilly
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
Emile Hirsch - Christopher McCandless

“- Slack: What's your story, Riley?
- Riley: I don't have one, nothing bad ever happened to me.”
Asia Argento - Slack
Simon Baker - Riley

“No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done.”
Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay

“- Nick Portokalos: Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.
- Toula Portokalos: Nick that's beautiful.
- Nick Portokalos: Yeah that dear Abby really knows what she's talking about.”
Louis Mandylor - Nick Portokalos
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“Don't cling to the past Cinderella. It's not very attractive.”
Bernadette Peters - Cinderella's Stepmother