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Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

What is finished...is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished, because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-than-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods.

Howard Beale
Network · 1976
★ 1.8
Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

There's no point to any of this. It's all just a...a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know...a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter becomes a cackle. And I sit back, and I...I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.

Troy Dyer
Reality Bites · 1994
★ 1.9
Film · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama · Romantic comedy

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. You know, the horrible be like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life, it's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So when you go through life, you should be thankful that you're miserable, because you're very lucky, to be miserable.

Alvy Singer
Annie Hall · 1977
★ 2.0
Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

Alright, fine. You wanna be in a band? Fine. Go ahead. Play every night. Play three times a night! Don't just dick around the same coffee house for five years. Don't dick around with her or with me. I mean, try at something for once in your life. Do something about it, but you know what? You better do it now, and you better do it fast, because the world doesn't owe you any favors. And whether you know it or not, you're on the inside track to loserville, USA.

Lelaina Pierce
Reality Bites · 1994
★ 2.0
Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though it will not be the fortune you seek. But first...first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. Mm-hmm. You shall see thangs, wonderful to tell. You shall see a... a cow...on the roof of a cotton house, ha. And, oh, so many startlements. I cannot tell ya how long this road shall be, but fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward. Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye follow them, even unto your salvation.

Blind Seer
O Brother, Where Art Thou? · 2000
★ 3.5
Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

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.

Mark Renton
Trainspotting · 1996
★ 3.6
Film · Road movie · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

You know Marcel Proust? Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh...he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18, ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school, those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.

Frank (Little Miss Sunshine)
Little Miss Sunshine · 2006
★ 3.6
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