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21 quotes

American Beauty · 1999

★ 1.9

Film · Black comedy · Drama (film) · Comedy

You see, I believe in the voters. They understand that elections aren't just popularity contests. They know this country was built by people just like me who work very hard and don't have everything handed to them on a silver spoon.

Tracy Flick

Election · 1999

★ 1.9

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

You know you don't want to go anywhere, and that's why the same shit is going to keep happening to you, because you want it to.

Jean

Inside Llewyn Davis · 2013

★ 1.9

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.

Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 2.1

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual, certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core commie works.

Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.5

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

Call me crazy, but it is my philosophy that in order to be successful, one must project an image of success, at all times.

Buddy Kane

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.5

Film · Black comedy · Drama (film) · Comedy

Tracy, you're a very intelligent girl. You have a lot of admirable qualities. But one day maybe you'll learn that being smart and doing whatever you need to do to get ahead, and yet stepping on other people to get there... Well, there's a whole lot more to life than that, and in the end, you're only cheating yourself.

Jim McAllister

Election · 1999

★ 3.5

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.6

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Black comedy · Comedy

I'm hysterical! I'm having hysterics. I'm hysterical. I can't stop when I get like this. I can't stop. I'm hysterical.

Leo Bloom

The Producers · 1967

★ 3.6

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Black comedy · Comedy

Shut up, I'm having a rhetorical conversation.

Max Bialystock

The Producers · 1967

★ 3.6

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

Lester Burnham

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.6

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy…the fear to attack!

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.7

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.

Lester Burnham

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.7

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

This isn't life! This is just stuff! And it's become more important to you than living! Well, honey, that's just nuts.

Lester Burnham

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.7

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well, that's true of every day except one, the day you die.

Lester Burnham

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.7

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

Everything you touch turns to shit, like King Midas's idiot brother.

Jean

Inside Llewyn Davis · 2013

★ 3.7

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!

President Merkin Muffley

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.8

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

President Merkin Muffley

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.8

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get out hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, depending on the breaks.

Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 4.5

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 6.9

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