Begin Again (2014) quotes

16 total quotes

Dan Mulligan – Mark Ruffalo
Gretta James – Keira Knightley

View Quote Dan: Don't you know anything about your father?
Violet: Yeah.
Dan: What?
Violet: I do. I know what Mom says.
Dan: What does Mom say?
Violet: She says you're a pathetic loser.
Dan: She says that affectionately.

View Quote Dan: I love you.
Violet: I know you do.

View Quote Dan: That's some song you got there. I promise you it could be a big hit. Plus, you're beautiful.
Gretta: Sorry, what's beauty got to do with anything?
Dan: Jesus, you're tricky, aren't you?

View Quote Dan: That's what I love about music.
Gretta: What?
Dan: One of the most banal scenes is suddenly invested with so much meaning, you know? All these banalities, they're suddenly turned into these... these beautiful, effervescent pearls. From music.

View Quote Dan: You can tell a lot about a person by what's on their playlist.
Gretta: I know you can. That's what's worrying me.

View Quote Dave: But we're just gonna have to find a way to... get through this, get through this together.
Gretta: When did you, like, when did you realize that?
Dave: When you sang to me on my voice-mail. I realized that nobody on Earth in their right mind would ever do anything remotely like that, and... that killed me. That crushed me. You... completely won me over.
Greta: I wasn't trying to win you over, I was trying to tell you to **** off.

View Quote Dave: Yeah, but I wanted to turn it into a hit.
Gretta: Why?

View Quote Gretta: You can't sign me, and I don't want to be signed.
Dan: That's right! What's not to like?

View Quote Gretta: You know, I told you, I write songs from time to time.
Dan: What do you write them for?
Gretta: What do you mean, "what for"? For my pleasure and for my cat.
Dan: Oh really? Does he like them?
Gretta: She. Yes, she seems to.
Dan: How do you know?
Gretta: Because she purrs.
Dan: Maybe she's booing.
Gretta: No, she purrs at Leonard Cohen, too, and she has very good taste.
Dan: Maybe she's **** with you.

View Quote Miriam Hart: No girls like her at school. She is distant, and basically, the only people who want to hang out with her are older boys who want to **** her.
Dan: Oh, really? And you find that a big surprise seeing how you let... you let her walk out of the house looking like... I... like... Jodie Foster from Taxi Driver?
Miriam Hart: She dresses the way she wants to, and besides, any daughter who dresses like that only wants one thing.
Dan: A pimp?

View Quote Steve: The world's first Jag mobile recording studio... is done.

View Quote Are you really an A&R man? You look more like a homeless man.

View Quote I mean, musicians, for the most part, are pretty much monosyllabic teenagers who really don't have that much to say, and that's the good ones, right?

View Quote I think you've let your troubles get in the way of your entire life.

View Quote I'm a producer 'cause I don't play bass, baby.