True Stories Quotes

1st boy in bar: Of course, [Kubrick]
1st boy in bar: left his calling card in 2001: A Space Odyssey. But none of us recognised it.
2nd boy in bar: 2001?
1st boy in bar: Yes. HAL, the computer. Camp as a row of tents. Positively Danny Debonair with that voice. That's why he killed the astronaut, wanted to be alone with the other beefcake.
2nd boy in bar: Oh. What's he working on now... Kubrick?
1st boy in bar: He's doing a remake of that Julie Christie film, 'Darling.' She's a boy this time. They wouldn't let John Schlesinger get away with *that* in the 1960s.
2nd boy in bar: Sounds captivating.
1st boy in bar: It is dear. Very captivating. And I've got a rather juicy part in it. It'll be goodbye soaps for moi.
2nd boy in bar: Well... they do say in Hollywood, the only way to the top is through the bottom.

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Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Are you satisfied now? Have you punished me enough for giving you life? I've wronged you, I know. I, I disowned you. I wanted to destroy you. How can I blame you for anything that you've done? Poor creature, you're as weary of life as I am. If only I could rid mankind of us both. I'm a weak human, I can't stay long in this terrible place. But your iron body will keep you alive against your will. You'll be all alone here. That would be too cruel. Forgive me. Please forgive me. *Forgive me!*
The Creature: Beautiful. [In Henry Clerval's voice]
The Creature: Victor. Bravo. Bravo, Victor.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Rest.

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Dr. Victor Frankenstein: You know, I find I enjoy being a criminal.

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Narrator: I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

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Voice on phone: This is Seth from Videorama. The following DVDs are now overdue: Drunken Hussies 3, Backdoor Patrol 5 and Bona Lisa Smile. Thank you.

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White Goodman: Meet Fran Stalinofskivitchdavitovichsky. In her home country of Romanovia, dodgeball is the national sport and her nuclear power plant's team won the championship five years running, which makes her the deadliest woman on earth with a dodgeball. Ball me, Blazer. [Blazer passes him a dodgeball]
White Goodman: Show them, Fran. [Fran takes the ball and hurls it at a man on the other side of the bar, knocking him into the jukebox. He drops to the floor, limp]
White Goodman: And that's just her change-up. End of demo. We are the Globo Gym Purple Cobras, and we will, we will, rock you!
Justin: [frightened whisper] I think that guy might really be dead.

Movie: True Stories