"Actually, she doesn't always fuck them, but there's always the POSSIBILITY that she'll fuck them".
 - Quote by Jim Carrey, speaking to Kate Winslow about herself, in the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", an interesting movie about relationships that just came out on DVD.

"After the sweat dries, you still don't know jack about me"
  - Quote by Jeff Bridges, spoken to Michelle Pfeiffer in "The Fabulous Baker Boys", one of my favorite films.

How about some other good lines about relationships from movies?  

The two above were both a little cynical, but the quote you post can be joyful, wry, poignant, angry, sad, funny, or anything else you want....

Let's put up some more quotes for everyone!  But remember, the only rule is the quote has to be from a MOVIE, not a song!

from "Chinatown", of course.

Best all-around response to every situation I've come up against, including relationships.

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That's so long ago I don't remember.
Will I see you tonight?
I never plan that far ahead.

“What kind of wife says those things about her husband? … Like I told the girls, their daddy’s the King. And a King knows what to do – even if it’s hard – and their daddy will do whatever he has to for those that he loves and that’s all that matters.”
                                   - Mystic River

The persuasive words of loyal and tough wife Annabeth, in an attempt to settle her husband’s guilty conscience.  

Now the question is: Was she right to stand by her spouse?  Hmmmm...

I think the key line is when "Jake", played by Jack Nicholson, is telling Faye Dunaway about how he was a corrupt cop in a former job in the Chinatown part of 1930's LA - the impression given is that he was not heavily corrupt, but was the kind of guy who would look the other way when he saw corruption.  She asks what he did in Chinatown, and he says "As little as possible".  And so Chinatown becomes a symbol of a "place" where we compromise ourselves.

Later, of course, Jake tries to do the right thing, and (without giving away the plot) it all goes terribly wrong.  As one of his friends leads the stunned Jake away, he says to him "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown".  

What a truly great film.  Recomended to all, but be forewarned, it's not a "feel good" film.

"No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her."  

   "When Harry met Sally"    

I am personally very much opposed to capitol punishment, and I saw those lines spoken by the wife of Sean Penn's character as attempting to justify capitol punishment, saying that it is a good thing even if sometimes completely innocent people are executed.  I can't agree with that viewpoint.

Putting it more in the very personalized relationship context, would you want your daddy or husband to do something very wrong if he did it in a misguided effort to protect you?  If he did it, how would you react?  Where do your loyalties lie?  I think our greatest loyalty is to our own sense of ethical behavior, and I think it is a serious and perhaps soul-killing mistake to "martyr" our own sense of right and wrong out of loyalty to another person, because ultimately you will resent the other person for putting you in a position where you compromised yourself. But each person who sees this very intense and interesting movie can ask themselves this question.  The best movies make you think about them afterwards.

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One Flew

but that this does not keep me from being friends with them.  The odd thing to me is that people act as if these two things are mutually exclusive.  To me, sexual relationships that have a strong element of friendship are the best, and seem most natural to me.  But it is also true that when friends have sex, the friendship often unravels.  So the solution may be to acknowledge your sexual attraction to your friend, but to not act upon it.

But even women fall into the trap you mention, of thinking that if a man is sexually attracted to them, the friendship has to end.  Perhaps their experience has always been that the man always DOES act upon his attraction.  They need to find male friends who can have the self-control to not act upon it, male friends who can acknowledge it in themselves, but who do not want to lose the friendship by acting upon it, because they value the friendship too much.

from Andrew Dice Clay........Mother Goose....I fucked her.....

There's the Chris Rock kind:  Men don't have women friends.  They know women they haven't F*cked yet.  Then there's the other kind, men who are friends with women that they just don't find sexually attractive.  There are probably 20 other variations but I certainly have been both of these types (sometimes simultaneously) at various points of my life.

That was Lyle, but you knew that.

Butch : Will you hand me a towel, tulip?
Fabienne : Ah, I like that. I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid.

From the same scene:

Butch : I think I have a broken rib.
Fabienne : From giving me oral pleasure?

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And of course there is this famous one from Pulp Fiction

Jules : Whoa... whoa... whoa... stop right there. Eatin' a bitch out, and givin' a bitch a foot massage ain't even the same fuckin' thing.
Vincent : Not the same thing, the same ballpark.
Jules : It ain't no fuckin' ballpark either. Now look, maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but touchin' his wife's feet, and stickin' your tongue in her holyiest of holies, ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport. Foot massages don't mean shit.
Vincent : Have you ever given a foot massage?
Jules : Don't be tellin' me about foot massages - I'm the foot fuckin' master.
Vincent : Given a lot of 'em?
Jules : Shit yeah. I got my technique down and everything, I don't be tickling or nothin'.
Vincent : Would you give a guy a foot massage?
Jules : Fuck you.
Vincent : You give them a lot?
Jules : Fuck you.
Vincent : You know, I'm getting kinda tired, I could use a foot massage.
Jules : Man, you best back off, I'm gittin' pissed.


TET

Japanese Businessman : Do you like Ferraris?
Go Go Yubari : Ferraris... Italian trash.
[Japanese businessman giggles]
Go Go Yubari : Do you want to screw me?
[Japanese businessman giggles again]
Go Go Yubari : Don't laugh. Do you want to screw me, yes or no?
Japanese Businessman : Yes.
[She stabs him in the stomach with a Samurai short sword]
Go Go Yubari : How about now, big boy? Do you still wish to penetrate me?... Or is it I who has penetrated you?

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or this one

Bill : Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to. Now Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know there's nothing sadistic in my actions. Well, maybe towards those other... jokers, but not you. No Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most...
[cocks pistol]
Bill : masochistic.
The Bride : Bill... it's your baby...
[BLAM!]




TET

cum upon me."  Hedwig.

in US films.  Even if it were only the first two Godfather films, Chinatown, and Five Easy Pieces, it would have been amazing, but there were many other terrific film from that period.

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"Some guys get the world, some guys end up with an ex hooker".

That's as close as I can remember from a movie I saw 3 years ago on video at a friend's house.  Hard to tell from the isolated quote, but in context this could go in both the joyful and wry categories.

Have you ever been in love?

No, I've been a bartender all my life.