Past quotes

“Reliving the glory days is better than pretending they never happened!”

Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr

“We all have our sad tales, buy don't you want to finish the story? Let this all go and have a life that isn't dictated by the past?”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

“Not for nothing, the past is a funny thing, we all have skeletons in the closet. You just never know when they're gonna pop up and bite you in the ass.”
Jim Caviezel - John Sullivan

“- Cathy: Looking at you tonight I could not help but remember how things used to be.
- Heathcliff: They used to be better.”
Merle Oberon - Cathy
Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff

“- Jeremiah Peet: It's the past, son. It's dead.
- Patrick Peet: No, pop. I don't think your past is dead. It's alive.”
Clifton Powell - Jeremiah Peet
Khalil Kain - Patrick

- Dr. Emmett Brown: Time circuits on.
- Marty McFly: What do you mean "Time Circuits on"? Doc, we're not going back now!
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Yep.
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown
Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly

“I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.”
Eugene Hutz - Alex

“Rock, let's put it this way. Now, three years ago you was supernatural. You was hard and you was nasty and you had this cast-iron jaw but then the worst thing happened to you, that could happen to any fighter. You got civilized.”
Burgess Meredith - Mickey Goldmill

“We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better.”
Joe Turkel - Dr. Eldon Tyrell

“What we have lost will never be returned to us. The land will not heal, too much blood. All we can do is learn from the past and make peace with it.”
Nicole Kidman - Ada Monroe

“- Dana: Now remember, don't be scared! That's the most important thing. And uh, don't... don't talk about your past. That turns men off.
- Angel: I don't have a past, idiot.”

Alexa Kenin - Dana
Kristy McNichol - Angel

“A hundred years ago, it was inconceivable for a woman to be a college graduate! You should look back to see how far we've come!”

Marian Seldes - President Jocelyn Carr

“- Gladys Leeman: [wearing her old pageant outfit] And can you believe it, they still fit!
- Loretta: She had a big ass then, she's got a big ass now.”
Kirstie Alley - Gladys Leeman
Allison Janney - Loretta

“The '80s? That was 70 years ago.”
Frank Gingerich - Bean Lamonsoff

“- Dr. Joe Hurley: I don't know. Not thinking about the past or the future. I don't know it's difficult to explain, maybe impossible.
- David Labraccio: Yeah, dying is quite that way.”
William Baldwin - Dr. Joe Hurley
Kevin Bacon - David Labraccio

“Sometimes people come to a moment where they think they've found that one last chance to be someone else. And they go for it. When it doesn't work out, they spend the rest of their lives looking back over their shoulder at what might've been.”
Dakota Fanning - Allie Keys

“This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood. This is my story and that of the only three friends in my life that truely mattered. Two of them were killers who never made it past the age of 30. The other's a non-practicing attorney living with the pain of his past - too afraid to let it go, never confronting its horror. I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jason Patric - Shakes

“- Irv: Dig where I'm coming from. I'm coming from two gold medals. I'm coming from nine world records in both the two and four-man events. I'm coming from ten years of intense competition with the best athletes in the world.
- Sanka Coffie: That's a hell of a place to be coming from!”
John Candy - Irv
Doug E. Doug - Sanka Coffie

- Pumbaa: You know, kid, in times like this my buddy Timon here says: "You got to put your behind in your past".
- Timon: No, no, no. Amateur. Lie down before you hurt yourself. It's "You got to put your past behind you".

Ernie Sabella - Pumbaa
Nathan Lane - Timon

“This is blood for blood. These are the old days man, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They're back! There's no choices left. And I'm ready for war.”

Mickey Rourke - Marv

“Every man carries a badge. Some symbol of his allegiance. His were the scars of a boxer who'd used his fists to climb the social ladder of the mob. A Jew who'd gained the respect of wops through a homicidal lust. He'd sworn an oath of violence.”

Josh Brolin - Sgt. John O'Mara

“Yeah Luke, why go back to the daily grind of being a lifeguard? Take it easy!”
Sean Astin - Sgt. Richard "Rascal" Moore

“- Historian Smoker: You know how much condoms used to cost back in them days?
- Thurgood Jenkins: How much?
- Historian Smoker: I don't know, we never used 'em.”
Willie Nelson - Historian Smoker
Dave Chappelle - Thurgood Jenkins

“- Bill: Martha Sterns.
- Fred Peele, man on ferry: No, I don't know her.
- Bill: Used to be Martha Byers.
- Fred Peele, man on ferry: No, I'm not familiar.
- Bill: And before that, she was Martha Crimm.
- Fred Peele, man on ferry: And before that, Martha Peele?
- Bill: You know her?
- Fred Peele, man on ferry: I'm Fred Peele.
- Bill: Right, her...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sam Chew Jr. - Bill
Bill Jelliffe - Man on Ferry

“- Becky Feder: How long ago was the '80s?
- Keithie Feder: That was way back in the 1900s. We learned about it in school. It was wack. The phones had long, curly things coming out of the end. You had to watch commercials.
- Becky Feder: No way.”
Alexys Nycole Sanchez - Becky Feder
Cameron Boyce - Keithie Feder