Obviously I’m prone to depression. A certain bleak attitude about the world. But I know I can handle it. Your kids though when their young and their sick you’d give anything in the world to trade place with them so they don’t have to suffer. And then they think you’re the cause of it ... This miserable existence. The Sopranos s6e17: Walk Like a Man
Don’t you ever feel like there’s no point to any of this? The Sopranos s6e19: The Second Coming, AJ
My life is not all it’s cracked up to be. Scarface 1983 ***** starring Al Pacino & Michelle Pfeiffer & Steven Bauer & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Robert Loggia & Miria Colon & F Murray Abraham et al, director Brian de Palma, Chico to Tony
Is this it? Is this what it’s all about, man? Eating, drinking, fucking, sucking, snorting, then what? ... Is this what it’s all about? Is this what I work for? ibid. Tony at table
For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day and worried about their bills were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again. Goodfellas 1990 ***** staring Robert De Niro & Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci & Lorraine Bracco & Paul Sorvino & Frank Sivero & Frank Vincent & Samuel L Jackson et al, director Martin Scorsese, Henry Hill
It’s this fucking Life. You never know what’s going to happen next. Drugstore Cowboy 1989 ***** starring Matt Dillon & Kelly Lynch & James Remar & James Le Gros & Heather Graham & William Burroughs et al, director Gus van Sant
Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. Fight Club ***** 1999 starring Edward Norton & Brad Pitt & Helena Bonham Carter & Meatloaf & Jared Leto et al, director David Fincher
You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. ibid.
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc-players and electrical tin-openers. Choose god health. Low cholesterol. And dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments ... Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin. Trainspotting 1996 starring Ewan McGregor & Ewen Bremner & Robert Carlyle & Kevin McKidd & Kelly MacDonald & Peter Mullan & Keith Allen & James Cosmo et al, director Danny Boyle
People think it’s all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored. But what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it. After all, we’re not fucking stupid. At least, we’re not that fucking stupid. Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you’re still nowhere near it. When you’re on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you’re off it you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can’t get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can’t get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. ibid.
It seems, however, that I really am the luckiest guy in the world. Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic, surrounded by the living dead. But not me. I’m negative. It’s official. And once the pain goes away that’s when the real battle starts. Depression. Boredom. You feel so low you want to top yourself. ibid.
The truth is that I’m a bad person. But that’s going to change. I’m going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. I’m cleaning up and moving on, going straight and choosing Life. I’m looking forward to it already. I’m going to be just like you. ibid.
Nothing ever works right in this life. Barfly 1987 starring Mickey Rourke & Faye Dunaway & Alice Krige & J C Quinn & Frank Stallone & Jack Nance & Sandy Martin et al, director Barbet Schroeder, Wanda
We’re all in some kind of hell. ibid.
Gets down to what it’s all about, doesn’t it? Making the wrong move at the right time. Like life, I guess. The Cincinnati Kid 1965 starring Edward G Robinson & Steve McQueen & Ann Margret & Tuesday Weld & Rip Torn & Karl Malden & Joan Blondell & Midge Ware & Jack Weston et al, director Norman Jewison, Lancey
We might stay here until we die. Lord of the Flies 1963 starring James Aubrey & Tom Chapin & Hugh Edwards & Roger elwin & Tom Gaman & David Surtees & Simon Surtees & Nicholas Hammond et al, director Peter Brook, Piggy
Why are things going wrong like they are? ibid. Ralph to Piggy
Which is it better to be? A pack of painted savages like you are, or sensible like Ralph is? ibid. Piggy
Is life always this hard? Or just when you’re a kid? Leon: The Professional 1994 starring Jean Reno & Gary Oldman & Natalie Portman & Danny Aiello & Michael Badalucco & Ellen Greene & Willi One Blood & Don Creech & Adam Busch et al, director Luc Besson, Mathilda
It’s when you really become afraid of death that you learn to appreciate life. ibid. Oldman
You’ve given me a taste for life. ibid. Leon
It’s like a test; the whole thing is like one big test. The Devil’s Advocate 1997 starring Al Pacino & Keanu Reeves & Charlize Theron & Jeffrey Jones & Judith Ivey & Connie Nielson & Craig T Nelson & Heather Matarazzo & Tamara Tunie et al, director Taylor Hackford, her to him
Boy: Why are you always smiling?
Daniel Craig: ’Cause it’s all so fucking hysterical. Road to Perdition 2002 starring Tom Hanks & Tyler Hoechlin & Paul Newman & Jude Law & Daniel Craig & Stanley Tucci & Jennifer Jason Leigh et al, director Sam Mendes
You want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you. On the Waterfront 1953 starring Marlon Brando & Eva Marie Saint & Lee J Cobb & Karl Malden & Rod Steiger & Pat Hennnig & James Westerfield et al, director Elia Kazan, him to her
You gotta get a little fun out of life. ibid.
When it comes to gambling, all life is seven to five against. Witness to the Mob 1998 starring Tom Sizemore & Nicholas Turturro & Debi Mazar & Abe Vigoda & Philip Baker Hall & Frank Vincent & Lenny Venito & Angelo Ruggiero & Michael Imperioli et al, director Thaddeus O'Sullivan
If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and I didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything, if I felt that I belonged some place, you know? ... Life is crushing in on me. Rebel Without a Cause 1955 starring James Dean & Natalie Wood & Sal Mineo & Jim Backus & Ann Doran & Corey Allen & William Hopper & Rochelle Hudson & Edward Platt & Nick Adams et al, director Nicholas Ray, Jim to rozzer
Eventually we grow up. We get jobs. We have affairs. And we become alcoholics. History of Violence 2005 starring Viggo Mortensen & Maria Bello & Ed Harris & William Hurt & Ashton Holmes & Peter MacNeill & Stephen McHattie & Greg Bryk & Kyle Schmid & Sumela Kay , director David Cronenberg, young him to young her
I thought I knew you. But I’m not so sure any more. Do you let anything reach you? I mean, really reach you. Or are you so used to it by now that nothing really touches you. You’re living in a sewer, Frank. Day after day ... Living with violence and death. How can you be part of it without becoming more and more callous? Your world is so far from the one I know. What will happen to us in time? Bullitt 1968 starring Steve McQueen & Robert Vaughn & Jacqueline Bisset & Don Gordon & Simon Oakland & Norman Fell & Robert Duvall & Georg Stanford Brown, director Peter Yates, her to him
Is that what it all comes down to? Kicks? The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 starring Steve McQueen & Faye Dunaway & Paul Burke & Jack Weston & Gordon Pinsent & Biff McGuire & Yaphet Kotto & Addison Powell et al, director Norman Jewison, rozzer to rozzer
Ronnie: You’re alive, ain’t you?
Caine: And who says that’s good? Menace II Society 1993 starring Tyrin Turner & Jada Pinkett & Larenz Tate & Samuel L Jackson & Glen Plummer & Clifton Powell & Arnold Johnson et al, directors Allen & Albert Hughes
This is the story of failure. Of my failure. And how all that is good is not me. They say that in the end life all comes down to a few fleeting moments. Then when we draw our last breathe only a few things will have mattered. Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright 2010 starring Andy Garcia & Aidan Quinn & Mario von Peebles & Jordan Belfi & Corbin Bernsen & Luke Goss & Gary Daniels & Raymond J Barry & Danny Pinoet al, director R Ellis Frazier, bloke’s commentary