Giovanni Ribisi movie quotes
34 quotes from 4 movies
Boiler Room (2000) as Seth Davis
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Notorious B.I.G. said it best: Either you're slinging crack rock, or you got a wicked jump shot.' Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking the after school job at Mickey D's. Honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack rock. I became a stock broker.
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I had a very strong work ethic. The problem was my ethics in work.
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Looking back the casino was the most legitimate business I had running, I looked my customers in the eye and I provided a service they wanted, now I don't even look my customers in the eye and I push them something they never asked for.
The Virgin Suicides (2000) as Narrator
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In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.
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We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
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We knew that they knew everything about us, and that we couldn't fathom them at all.
Saving Private Ryan (1998) as Medic Wade
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Medic Wade: Hey Reiben, do me a favor. Smell that leg wound, find out if it's south of cheese.
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Medic Wade: Just give us a **** chance, you son-of-a-bitch! you son-of-a-**** ****!
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Medic Wade: I could use a little more morphine...
Lost in Translation (2003) as John
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John: Why do you have to point out how stupid everyone is all the time?
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Kelly: John, John. You are my favorite photographer.
John: Ohhh...
Kelly: No, you are. I only want you to shoot me. It's true. [both laugh] Oh my God, I have the worst B.O. right now. I'm sorry.
John: Ohhh...
Kelly: No, you are. I only want you to shoot me. It's true. [both laugh] Oh my God, I have the worst B.O. right now. I'm sorry.
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Kelly: [In hotel ṛestạurạṇt] Everybody is always, like, "Kelly, you are anorexic." And I'm, like, "No, I'm not!" I eat so much junk food, you wouldn't believe it! Just because I have a high metabolism.
John: Because I thought you were anorexic too.
Kelly: Everybody does. Everybody thinks that.
John: Yeah, 'cause you look so--
Kelly: Thank you! I know, but it's-- I mean, I eat whatever. I have a really high metabolism. Yeah. But, um-- My dad was an anorexic.
Charlotte: [sarcastically] Really?
Kelly: He, um, fought on the American side of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. He was taken prisoner and the whole time he was there they tortured him about food. Every day they told him they put poison in the food. So, they would always make themselves throw up after every meal.
John: That's horrible!
John: Because I thought you were anorexic too.
Kelly: Everybody does. Everybody thinks that.
John: Yeah, 'cause you look so--
Kelly: Thank you! I know, but it's-- I mean, I eat whatever. I have a really high metabolism. Yeah. But, um-- My dad was an anorexic.
Charlotte: [sarcastically] Really?
Kelly: He, um, fought on the American side of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. He was taken prisoner and the whole time he was there they tortured him about food. Every day they told him they put poison in the food. So, they would always make themselves throw up after every meal.
John: That's horrible!
