Solutions: Quotes of the Aughts

That was quick. Good job, folks. This particular selection of seven quotes delights me no end. Some of them cracked me up as I typed them, and crack me up again as I typed the solutions, and some really move me…Good decade for movies, I think.

1. If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request.
Cold Mountain
Solved by Barbs (comment #7).

2. I feel like if someone were to touch me, I’d dissolve into molecules.
Before Sunset
Solved by George (comment #5).

3. What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
No Country for Old Men
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).

4. When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?
The Departed
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #2).

5. Woman: There’s this huge space between us, and it just keeps filling up with everything that we don’t say to each other. What’s that called?
Marriage Counselor: Marriage.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Solved by Evn (comment #4).

6. No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
The Incredibles
Solved by Evn (comment #4).

7. Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on corpse?
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #3).

One comment

  1. Tom Hilton says:

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang has one of the most quotable screenplays around. For that matter, No Country and The Departed are pretty damned quotable as well.

    But then, what do I know? I suck the heads off of fish.