Meg Ryan movie quotes

View Quote [to Marie] Look, Harry is one of my best friends, and you are one of my best friends, and if by some chance you two hit it off, then we could all still be friends instead of drifting apart the way you do when you get involved with someone who doesn't know your friends.

View Quote I have it all figured out. It's an eighteen-hour trip, which breaks down into six shifts of three hours each. Or alternatively, we could break it down by mileage. There's a, there's a map on the visor that I've marked to show the locations where we can change shifts.

View Quote Harry, you're going to have to try and find a way of not expressing every feeling that you have, every moment that you have them.

View Quote My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

View Quote It's always gonna be something with you, isn't it Joe?

View Quote [to Joe] You mean you were diagnosed with something called a brain cloud and didn't ask for a second opinion?

View Quote Angelica: Would you like to hear one of my poems?
Joe: Sure.
Angelica: Long ago, the delicate tangles of his hair... covered the emptiness of my hand... Would you like to hear it again?
Joe: Ok.
Angelica: Long ago, the delicate tangles of his hair... covered the emptiness of my hand.

View Quote Joe: I've never been to L.A. before.
Angelica: What do you think?
Joe: It looks fake. I like it!

View Quote Angelica: You're in a rotten mood.
Patricia: It's the sunshine. Gets me down.

View Quote [to Seth] When they ask me what I liked best, I'll tell them, it was you.

View Quote We fight for people's lives, right? Do you ever wonder who it is we're fighting with?

View Quote Something happened in that room. I got this jolt that... something bigger is out there. Something bigger than me, bigger than you. Does that sound crazy?

View Quote Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.

View Quote Annie Reed: [about An Affair to Remember] Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was...
Becky: A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

View Quote Co-Worker: It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!
Annie: That statistic is not true!
Becky: That's right it's not true, but it feels true.

View Quote You're a poet, not a rock star.

View Quote Take your time, Jim... There's no hurry, I'm all you have to do tonight.

View Quote What am I gonna do about these papers? Jim, Jim—you really need to organize this stuff! You handwriting's just like a little kid! My God look at this. I wonder if William Blake was ever this disorganized.

View Quote No Michael, we're supposed to try to be real. And when you feel alone, you are not together, and that is real.

View Quote Alice: I think I could love you again if you could, for once, say "I don't know."
Alice: **** that! **** making it better. It's not getting better! I don't know how to make it better and I swear to God you don't either!
Alice: That is a sad little ensemble!
Michael: My wife is an alcoholic. Best person I ever met. She has 600 different smiles. They can light up your life. Then can make you laugh out loud, just like that. They can even make you cry, just like that. That's just with her smiles. You'd have to see her with her kids. You'd have to see how they look at her, when she's not looking. To think of all the things she lives through, and I couldn't help her.
Alice: Maybe helping wasn't your job.
Michael: Well, it wasn't. See, I love her. And I tried everything, except really listening, really listening, and that's how I left her alone. I was so ashamed of that, and I couldn't even tell her. Maybe if I tell her, she'd love me anyway.
Alice: Or more. She would have loved you even more. I think you should tell all this stuff to your wife.
Alice: It's horrifying how much you can hate yourself for being low and weak and he couldn't save me from that. So I turned it on him; I tried to empty it onto him. But there was always more, you know. When he tried to help, I told him that he made me feel small and worthless. But nobody makes us feel that, we do that for ourselves. I shut him out because I knew if he ever really saw who I was inside, that he wouldn't love me. And we're separated now, he's moved away, and it was so hard not to beg him to stay. And I don't know if I'm going to get a second chance, but I have to believe. That I deserve one. Because we all do.
Michael: Come on, let's be real. You're clean. You stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills. And I'll take the heat. Because I got some needs of my own. When I touch my wife, I like it better if her skin doesn't crawl.
[Alice tries to interrupt]
Michael: My wife hurts. I need to be able to say "What's wrong, honey? Something I can do? And I love you. So **** me."
Alice: No, Michael. We're supposed to try to be real. And when you feel alone, you are not together, and that is real.
Alice: I drink a quart a day. It's vodka so you couldn't smell it.
Alice: It's a press-on tattoo!
Casey: Cat got your tongue?
Alice: I'm waiting for my spanking.

View Quote Michael: You are okay?
Alice: Never better.
Michael: What happened, something at A.A.?
Alice: Uh... I'll be okay. It's just a really bad day.
Michael: You wanna tell me what's wrong? Something I can do?
Alice: Thank you, but...
Michael: Can't fix it, unless we know it's broke.
Alice: How was your meeting?
Michael: First time, I'll get used to it. There was a lot of people there feeling sorry for themselves. It's like an alcoholic has ruined their lives and they'd rather be a victim than try and fix it.
Alice: Fix it, huh?
Michael: What'd I do now, Alice?
Alice: Nothing, Michael. Nothing.
Michael: am talking about some losers at my meeting. You're taking it personally.
Alice: The trouble with all these losers at your meeting is that they are not perfect like some people. They're married to alcoholics who are bouncing off the walls and they don't know what the **** to do. So you might have to be a little tolerant, give them the benefit of your expertise in problem solving.
Michael: Good meeting huh? You guys drop acid or something?
Alice: Like I said... I'm having a really bad day and I don't mean to take it out on you.
Michael: What is it? You want a drink real bad?
Alice: That wouldn't distinguish it from any other day, Michael.
Michael: One of your friends fall of the wagon?
Alice: Nothing happened, Michael. Nothing has to happen for me to have a bad day. That's the thrilling part of all this. It just comes and hits and runs me over like a goddamn freight train.
Michael: Okay, when is the next freight train coming through? You got a printed schedule? Cause I could plan around these things, you know, and give you the space so you can, you know, smoke.
Alice: Maybe you shouldn't have to, Michael. One of the women at my meetings is going to a half way house, because she is not making it in her home environment and I...

View Quote [to Monfriez, after she's been shot in the abdomen] I gave birth to a nine-pound baby, asshole. I think I can handle it.

View Quote [in letter to loved ones] Dear Mom and Dad, well, this is it - the big push. Looks like it's gonna really happen. And I'm afraid, not of being hurt or killed, well, kind of, but not much. My only regret will be to never see you two again and that I'll never see Anne Marie grow up. But I know she's in good hands, the best. What I'm really afraid of is that I might let my people down, my crew. These people depend on me. They put their lives in my hands. I just can't fail 'em. Now, I know if you get this letter, it means I'm dead. I only hope that I've made you proud, that I did my job, and I didn't let down my country, my crew, my fellow soldiers. I love you guys. Never stop telling Anne Marie how much I love her. Your daughter, Karen.

View Quote You know something? Nobody gives a rat's ass that you have to push the toast down twice! You know why? Because EVERYBODY pushes their toast down twice!

View Quote I haven't been your girlfriend for a whole month now. You can tell me the truth.