Citations
Cette page contient mes citations favorites de films des années '90, toutes catégories confondues. Il est important de noter que ces citations ne sont pas les "lignes les plus populaires", mais mes citations préférées, ce qui signifie que des lignes du genre de "Show Me the Money" (Jerry Maguire) ou encore "I See Dead People" (The Sixth Sense), bien que tout le monde les connaisse et qu'elles figurent parmi les plus populaires de l'histoire, ne sont pas pour cette page, cette dernière s'adressant plutôt aux lignees faisant réfléchir, ou simplement brillantes. Voici mes choix, en ordre alphabétique (et dans la langue originale) des films dans lesquels ils se trouvent, qui se verront probablement augmenter.
12 Monkeys (12 Singes)
"There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion." --Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt)
"You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules!" --Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt)
A Civil Action (Une Action au Civil)
"The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come on, you've been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn't a place to look for the truth." --Jerome Facher (Robert Duvall)
American Beauty (Beauté Américaine)
"Look at me. Jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It all goes downhill from here." --Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey)
"No, I'm just a regular guy with nothing to lose." --Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) [répondant à son patron, qui l'avait traité d'ordure "sick fuck"]
"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in." --Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley)
American History X (Génération X-Trême)
"Has anything you've done made your life better?" --Bob Sweeney (Avery Brooks) [sur les gestes causés par la haine]
"My conclusion is: hate is baggage. Life is too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. We are not enemies, but friends; we must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, we bust not break our bounds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."--Dany Vinyard (Edward Furlong)
Blow (Cartel)
"I was busted. Set up by the FBI and the DEA; that didn't bother me. Set up by Derek Foreal and Kevin Doole to save their own asses; that didn't bother me. Sentenced to 60 years to Otisville; that didn't bother me. I had broken a promise; everything I love in this world goes away." --George Jung (Johnny Depp)
"It's always the last day of summer and I'm left out in the cold with no door to get back in." --George Jung (Johnny Depp)
"Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of heart everywhere, and now there is almost not enough to survive. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door." --George Jung (Johnny Depp)
Boogie Nights (Nuits Endiablées)
"What can you expect when you're on top? You know? It's like Napoleon. When he was the king, you know, people were just constantly trying to conquer him, you know, in the Roman Empire." --Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg)
Braveheart (Coeur Vaillant)
"You came to fight as free men, and free men you are." --William Wallace (Mel Gibson)
"Every man dies; not every man really lives." --William Wallace (Mel Gibson)
Cast Away (Seul Au Monde)
"We live and we die by the clock. And we never ever commit the sin of turning our back on time!" --Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks)
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." --Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks)
Devil's Advocate (L'Avocat du Diable)
"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts! He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusment, His own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste! Taste, don't swallow!!! Hahaha! And when you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off. He's a tight-ass! He's a sadist! He's an absentee landlord. Worship that? NEVER!" --John Milton (Al Pacino)
"Guilt is just a bag of fuckin' bricks. All you gotta do is set it down." --John Milton (Al Pacino)
"Freedom, baby... is never having to say you're sorry." --John Milton (Al Pacino)
Dogma (Dogme)
"Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer." --Loki (Matt Damon)
Election (Élection)
"Getting suspended is like getting a paid vacation. I don't know why teachers think it's punishment. It's like, your dog pees on the carpet and you give him a treat. Then you get in trouble for skipping school, it's sooo stupid! Dr. Hendricks said, "One more time" and I'd be expelled. Sounded good to me." --Tammy Metzler (Jessica Campbell)
"The weak are always trying to sabotage the strong." --Tracey Flick (Reese Witherspoon)
The End of the Affair (La Fin d'une Liaison)
"To be is to be perceived" --Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes)
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you existed." --Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Fahrenheit 9/11 v.f.)
"It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact." --Michael Moore (citant George Orwell)
Fight Club (Fight Club v.f.)
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." --Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." --Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
"The things you own end up owning you." --Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
"Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our great war is spiritual. Our great depression is our lives." --Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionares, movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't." --Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
"Self improvement is masturbation. Self destruction might be the answer." --Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
"First, you have to know; not fear, know, that you're gonna die. Until you know that, you are useless." --Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
"Our fathers were our models for God. If they bailed, what does that tell you about God? You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you, and, in all probability, he hates you." --Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." --Narrator (Edward Norton)
Gladiator (Gladiateur)
"I knew a man who once said 'Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back'." --Maximus (Russell Crowe)
"What we do in life echoes in eternity." --Maximus (Russell Crowe)
"There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile." --Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris)
"There was a dream that was Rome It shall be realized." --Maximus (Russell Crowe)
"If you find yourself alone, riding through green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled, for you are in Elysium, and are already dead." --Maximus (Russell Crowe)
"In the end, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, or when. But what we can choose is how we decide to meet that end, so we are remembered forever as men." --Proximo (Oliver Reed)
"You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you." --Juba (Djimon Hinsou)
"And as for you, you will love me as I loved you. You will provide me with an heir of pure blood, so that Commodus and his progeny will rule for a thousand years. Am I not merciful? AM I NOT MERCIFUL?" --Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix)
"On Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again." --Lucilla (Connie Nielsen)
Go (Go v.f.)
"In the old days, you know how you got to the top? Huh? By being better than the guy ahead of you. How do you people get to the top? By being so fucking incompetent, that the guy ahead of you can't do his job, so he falls on his ass and congratulations, you are now on top!" --Victor Sr. (J.E. Freeman)
"Gay men are so hot. It's tragic." --Claire Montgomery (Katie Holmes)
Good Will Hunting (Le Destin de Will Hunting)
"If I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? "Once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything; through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much." --Sean Maguire (Robin Williams)
Heist (Le Vol)
"Love makes the world go round. Love of gold." --Joe Moore (Gene Hackman)
The Insider (L'Initié)
"Fame has a 15-minute half-life. Infamy lasts a little longer." --Mike Wallace (Christopher Plummer)
Made (Le Match)
"Hey, if I were a fag, I'd go get laid on the subway!" --Ricky (Vince Vaughn)
Magnolia (Magnolia v.f.)
"In this big game that we play, life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve, it's what you take." --Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise)
"No pussy has nine lives." --Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise)
"Facing the past is an important way of not making progress." --Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise)
"In this life and in this world, we should try to do good. Do good. And if we can do that, and not hurt anyone else, well, then..." --Jim Kurring (John C.Reilly)
"Kids! Heads full of useless knowledge!." --Donnie Smith (William H. Macy)
"No, it is not dangerous to confuse children with angels." --Donnie Smith (William H.
Macy)
"Some people need a little help. Sometimes, people need to be forgiven. And that is the very tricky thing on my part: making that call. What can we forgive?" --Jim Kurring (John C.Reilly)
"We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." --Divers personnages: Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall) et Donnie Smith (William H. Macy)
The Man Who Wasn't There (L'Homme Qui N'Était Pas Là)
"You wanna test something, you know, scientifically; why the planets go around the sun, why the water comes out of the tap... You gotta look at it, but, sometimes, when you look at it, your looking changes it. What I'm saying is that the more you look, the less you really know. " --Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub)
Meet Joe Black (Rencontre avec Joe Black)
"Love is passion. Obsession. Someone you can't live without. Someone you fall head over heels for. Find someone you can love like crazy, and will love you the same way back. Listen to your heart. No sense in life without this. To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived." --Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins)
Natural Born Killers (Le Meurtre dans le Sang)
"You and me, we're not even the same species. I used to be you, then I evolved. From where you're standing, you're a man; from where I'm standing, you're a ape. You're not even a ape; you're a media person. Media is like the weather, only it's man-made weather. Murder, it's pure. You're the one who made it impure. You're buying and selling fear. You say why? I say why bother?" --Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson)
The Opposite of Sexe (L'envers du Sexe)
"Sex always ends in kids or disease or like, you know, relationships. And it's not worth it, is it? I want the opposite of all that." --Deedee Truitt (Christina Ricci)
Play It to the Bone (Corps et Âmes)
"A man builds a thousand houses. Then he sucks one dick. To the world, he's not a housebuilder, he's a cocksucker." --Vince (Woody Harreslson)
CENTER>
Schindler's List (La Liste de Schindler)
"On my first day of law school, teacher says: When your mother says she loves you, get a second opinion." --Martin Vail (Richard Gere)
"Why gamble with money when you can gamble with people's lives? That was a joke. All right, I'll tell you. I believe in the notion, that people are innocent until proven guilty. I believe in that notion because I choose to believe in that basic goodness of people. I choose to believe that not all crimes are committed by bad people. And I try to understand that some very, very good people do some very bad things." --Martin Vail (Richard Gere)
"You want justice, got a whorehouse. You wanna get fucked, go to court." --Martin Vail (Richard Gere)
Pulp Fiction (Fiction Pulpeuse)
"We There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' that made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. .45 here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean: you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin, Ringo, I'm tryin' real hard, to be the shepherd ." --Jules Winfield (Samuel L. Jackson)
Quills (La Plume et le Sang)
"I write about the great eternal truths that bind the whole world over: we kill, we shit, we die, and we fuck." --Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush)
"I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. We're all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... I've been to hell young man, you've only read about it." --Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush)
"In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man." --Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush)
"Why should I love God? He strung up his
only son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he'd do to me!" --Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush)
"That's the first rule of politics, isn't it? The man who orders the execution never drops the blade!" --Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush)
"You can't be a proper writer without a
touch of madness, can you?" --Madeleine (Kate Winslet)
"Some things belong on paper, others in life. It's a blessed fool who can't tell the difference." --Madeleine (Kate Winslet)
"All we can do is guard against our own corruption. --Abbe de Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix)
"You know how I define idealism, Monsieur Delbenet? Youth's final luxury." --Docteur Royer-Collard (Michael Caine)
"Some men are beyond redemption." Docteur Royer-Collard (Michael Caine)
Rounders (Dernier Tour de Table)
"We can't run from ourselves, our destiny chooses us." --Mike McDermott (Matt Damon)
Saving Private Ryan (Il Faut Sauver le Soldat Ryan)
"We're not here to do the decent thing; we're here to follow fucking orders!" --Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks)
"It's like finding a needle in a stack of needles." --Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks)
"Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her... and how I'll ever be able to... tell about days like today." --Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks)
"What I mean, sir, is if you was to put me with this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler... with a clean line of sight... well, pack your bags, boys. War's over.
." --Private Jackson (Barry Pepper)
"Picture a girl who took a nose dive from the Ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!" --Private James Ryan (Matt Damon)
"If God is for us, then who could be against us?." --Private Upham (Jeremy Davies)
Schindler's List (La Liste de Schindler)
"They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time. It's a matter of money?" --Ammon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes)
"The truth is always the right answer." --Ammon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes)
"Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Kazimerz the Great, so called, told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. With nothing they came and with nothing they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history." --Ammon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes)
"Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't." --Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson)
"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." --Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley)
Seven (Sept)
"What sick ridiculous puppets we are / and what gross little stage we dance on / What fun we have dancing and fucking / Not a care in the world / Not knowing that we are nothing / We are not what was intended." --John Doe (Kevin Spacey)
"The lawyer! This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying, with every breath that he could muster, to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets." --John Doe (Kevin Spacey)
"We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trival. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night." --John Doe (Kevin Spacey)
"I just don't think that I can continue to live in a place that embraces apathy as if it was a virtue." --William Somerset (Morgan Freeman)
"Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part." --William Somerset (Morgan Freeman)
Swordfish (Opération Swordfish)
"Did you know that I can buy nuclear weapons at 40 million$ each? Hell, I buy a half-dozen, I even get a discount!" --Gabriel Shear (John Travolta)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (L'Énigmatique M. Ripley)
"I always thought it'd be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody." --Tom Ripley (Matt Damon)
"Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it, in your head. You never meet anybody who thinks that they're a bad person." --Tom Ripley (Matt Damon)
"Why is it that when men play, they always play at killing each other?" --Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow)
"People say that you can't choose your parents, but you know you can't choose your children either." --Herbert Greenleaf (James Rebhorn)
Traffic (Trafic)
"At my age it's much easier to get drugs than it is to get alcohol." --Caroline Wakefield (Erika Christensen) [16 ans]
"In Mexico, law enforcement is an entrepreneurial activity." --Eduardo Ruiz (Miguel Ferrer)
Three Kings (Trois Rois)
"What's the most important thing in life? Necessity." --Archie Gates (George Clooney)
True Romance (À Coeur Perdu)
"It's better to have a gun and not need it than to not have one and need it." --Clarence Whorley (Christian Slater)
"You think a cop gives a fuck about a pimp? Listen, every pimp in the world got shot, two in the back of the fuckin' head, cops would throw a party, man." --Mentor (Val Kilmer)
"Now the first time you kill somebody, that's the hardest. I don't give a shit if you're fuckin' Wyatt Earp or Jack the Ripper. Remember that guy in Texas? The guy up in that fuckin' tower that killed all them people? I'll bet you green money that first little black dot he took a bead on, that was the bitch of the bunch. First one is tough, no fuckin' foolin'. The second one... the second one ain't no fuckin' Mardis Gras either, but it's better than the first one 'cause you still feel the same thing, y'know... except it's more diluted, y'know it's... it's better. I threw up on the first one, you believe that? Then the third one... the third one is easy, you level right off. It's no problem. Now... shit... now I do it just to watch their fuckin' expression change." --Virgil (James Gandolfini)
The Truman Show (Le Show Truman)
"We accept the reality that we are presented." --Christoph (Ed Harris)
The Usual Suspects (Suspects de Convenance)
"The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world He didn't exist." --Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey)
Vanilla Sky (Un Ciel Couleur Vanille)
"The sweet is never as sweet without the sour." --Brian Shelby (Jason Lee)
"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around." --Sofia (Penelope Cruz)
"When you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not." --Julie Gianni (Cameron Diaz)