Look mom, I really don't feel like having a Kodak moment here, okay?
Lester Burnham
Kevin Spacey · 44 quotes
Buddy King
29 quotes
Ricky Fitts
Wes Bentley · 24 quotes
Jane Burnham
Thora Birch · 22 quotes
Angela Hayes
Mena Suvari · 18 quotes
Carolyn Burnham
Annette Bening · 18 quotes
Colonel Frank Fitts
Chris Cooper · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Lester Burnham & Buddy King (13), Ricky Fitts & Buddy King (11), Jane Burnham & Buddy King (10)
American Beauty quotes
Page 6 of 7Man, oh man. Man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man. * [Last Words]
Mom, do we ALWAYS have to listen to this elavator music?
My dad thinks I paid for all this with catering jobs. Never underestimate the power of denial.
My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.
Oh, it's okay. I wouldn't remember me either.
Our marriage is just for show. A commercial for how normal we are when we're anything but.
Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well, that's true of every day but one — the day you die.
Smile! You're at Mr. Smiley's.
That's my wife, Carolyn. See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That's not an accident.
Then so am I! And we'll always be freaks and we'll never be like other people and you'll never be a freak because you're just too... perfect.
There happens to be a lot about me that you don't know, Mr. Smarty Man. There's plenty of joy in my life.
This is all I EVER smoke.
This is not just a couch. This is a $4000 sofa upholstered in Italian silk!
This isn't life, it's just stuff. And it's become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that's just nuts.