Life Itself Quotes

Roger Ebert: Look at a movie that a lot of people love and you'll find something profound no matter how silly the film may seem.

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Roger Ebert: There are no strangers in family: I loved and am loved.

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Roger Ebert: In the past 25 years I have probably seen 10,000 movies and reviewed 6,000 of them. I have forgotten most of them, I hope, but I remember those worth remembering, and they are all on the same shelf in my mind.

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Roger Ebert: We're both consious of the passage of time, of it's flow, slipping through our fingers, like a long silk scarf.

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Rick Kogan: I don't know Pauline Kael. I never knew Pauline Kael, but fuck Pauline Kael. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were the most powerful critics of all-time in any realm.

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[from trailer, at dinner table] Mom: Don't take this the wrong way, all I ever wanted was for Will to marry a woman with dead parents so we don't have to share the grandchildren.
Will: Mom!
Mom: It's okaaay! She knows what I mean... [everyone laughs]

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[from trailer] Abby: You ever gonna ask me out, Will?
Will: I'm just waiting for the right moment.
Abby: I'll see you around. [gets up]
Will: [before she walks away]Abby, I'm waiting for the right moment cause when I ask you out, there's not gonna be any turning back for me. I'm not gonna date anybody else for the rest of my life. I'm not gonna love anybody else for the rest of my life. I'm waiting for the right moment cause when I ask you out, it's gonna be the most important moment of my life. And I just wanna make sure that I get it right.

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[from trailer] Will: Let's get married.
Abby: ...We've been dating less than a year.
Will: I know. And I feel like I've shown incredible restraint waiting this long. [long pause]
Abby: I love you... but I may not be equipped to be loved this much.

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Javier: I will accept, but only on one condition: My whistling is for me. My big mouth is for my men.

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