. - I'm just an untalented old has-been. - Were you ever famous? - No. - Then how can you be a has-been?
Tootsie, Sydney Pollack (1982)
. - I'm just an untalented old has-been. - Were you ever famous? - No. - Then how can you be a has-been?
Tootsie, Sydney Pollack (1982)
Anybody embarrassed about doing time is a goddamn snob.
Family Business, Sidney Lumet (1989)
- The stories are true! I swear to you! I swear on everything I adore, and now he's come back to seek his revenge. The fight isn't over for Captain James Hook. He wants you back. He knows that you'll follow Jack and Maggie to the ends of the earth and beyond. And by heaven, you must find a way. Only you can save your children. Somehow, you must go back. You must make yourself remember. - Remember what? - Peter, don't you know who you are?
Hook, Steven Spielberg (1991)
- Are you going away? - No. I'm staying here with you. You can't get rid of me that easy. - That's why Mommy left, isn't it? Because I was bad? - Is that what you think? No. That's not it, Billy. Your mom loves you very much... and the reason she left has nothing to do with you. I don't know if this will make sense, but I'll try to explain it to you. I think the reason why Mommy left... was because for a long time... I kept trying to make her be a certain kind of person. A certain kind of wife that I thought she was supposed to be. And she just wasn't like that. She was... She just wasn't like that. I think that she tried for so long to make me happy... and when she couldn't, she tried to talk to me about it. But I wasn't listening. I was too busy, too wrapped up... just thinking about myself. And I thought that anytime I was happy, she was happy. But I think underneath she was very sad. Mommy stayed here longer than she wanted because she loves you so much. And the reason why Mommy couldn't stay anymore... was because she couldn't stand me. She didn't leave because of you. She left because of me. Go to sleep now because it's really late, okay? Good night. Sleep tight. - Don't let the bedbugs bite. - See you in the morning light. - Daddy? - Yeah? - I love you. - I love you too.
Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton (1979)
- Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now? - Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them... like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he's bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe everything is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the difference.
Little Big Man, Arthur Penn (1970)
I care. This is where I live. This is me. I will not allow violence against this house.
Straw Dogs, Sam Peckinpah (1971)
- All these neat, little houses and all these nice, little streets... It's hard to believe that something's wrong with some of those little houses. - No, it isn't.
All the President's Men, Alan J. Pakula (1976)