Almost Famous quotes

View Quote The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

View Quote Ed: [as the band's plane is having trouble] **** it! I'm... I'm gay! [[plane levels off']]

View Quote Elaine Miller: Keep the small bills on the outside and call me if anyone gets drunk.
William Miller: I will call you if anyone anywhere gets drunk.

View Quote You cannot make friends with the rock stars. That's what's important. If you're a rock journalist - first, you will never get paid much. But you will get free records from the record company. And they'll buy you drinks, you'll meet girls, they'll try to fly you places for free, offer you drugs... I know. It sounds great. But they are not your friends. These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of the rock stars, and they will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it.

View Quote That's because we're uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don't have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter.

View Quote Because they are trying to buy respectability for a form that is gloriously and righteously dumb. And you're smart enough to know that. And the day it ceases to be dumb is the day it ceases to be real. And then it just becomes an industry of... cool.

View Quote William Miller: Do you have to be depressed to write a sad song? Do you have to be in love to write a love song? Is a song better when it really happened to you? Like "Love Thing," where did you write that and who was it about?
Russell Hammond: When did you get so professional?

View Quote You know, I always told her not to let too many guys fall in love with her. I guess I was wrong. One of them ended up saving her life.

View Quote Penny Lane: How old are you?
William: 18.
Penny Lane: Me too! How old are we really?
William: 17.
Penny Lane: Me too!
William: Actually, I'm 16.
Penny Lane: Me too. Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different.
William: I'm 15.

View Quote Can you believe these new girls? None of them use birth control and they eat all the steak!

View Quote Let's say all of the things we never said.

View Quote Does anyone remember laughter? Passes girls! Come and get 'em.

View Quote Don't let those swill merchants rewrite you.

View Quote From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it, that's all I'm interested in.

View Quote Great art is about guilt and longing and, you know, love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love.