Jackson Maine quotes from A Star Is Born (2018)

View Quote [to Ally] Look at me. All you got to do is trust me. That's all you got to do.

View Quote Jack: Could I ask you a personal question?
Ally: Okay.
Jack: Do you write songs or anything?
Ally: I don't sing my own songs.
Jack: Why?
Ally: I just don't feel comfortable.
Jack: Why wouldn't you feel comfortable?
Ally: Because like almost every single person that I've come in contact with in the music industry has told me that my nose is too big and that I won't make it.
Jack: That your nose is too big?
Ally: Yeah.
Jack: Your nose is beautiful. Are you showing me your nose right now? You don't have to show it to me. I've been looking at it all night.
Ally: Oh, come on. No, you're not.
Jack: Oh, I'm going to be thinking about your nose for a very long time.
Ally: You're full of shit.
Jack: I'm not full of shit.
Ally: Yeah, you are.
Jack: I'm telling you the truth.
Ally: Yeah, you're full of shit.

View Quote Jack: Look, talent comes everywhere. Everybody's talented, **** everyone in this bar is talented at one thing or another. But having something to say and a way to say it so that people listen to it, that's a whole other bag. And unless you get out and you try to do it, you'll never know. That's just the truth. And there's one reason we're supposed to be here is to say something so people want to hear. Don't you understand what I'm trying to tell you?
Ally: Yeah, I do. I don't like it, but I understand it.
Jack: Oh, I think you like it a little bit.

View Quote Ally: [singing] Tell me something, boy. Aren't you tired trying to fill that void? Or do you need more? Ain't it hard keeping it so hardcore?
Jack: Is that me?
Ally: That's you.
Jack: Did you just write that now?
Ally: Yeah.
Jack: Pretty good. [pause] Can I tell you a secret?
[Ally looks over to him]
Jack: I think you might be a songwriter. And don't worry, I won't tell anybody. But I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

View Quote Jack: Hey!
Ally: What?
Jack: I just wanted to take another look at you.

View Quote Ally: I don't feel this way about everybody.
Jack: Well, good, we're on the same page.

View Quote Jack: If I don't say this then I'll never forgive myself.
Ally: What...
Jack: If you don't dig deep into your ****in' soul you won't have legs. I'm just telling you that. If you don't tell the truth out there you're ****. All you got is you and what you have to say to people and they are listening right now and they are not going to be listening forever. Trust me. So you gotta grab it and you don't apologize or worry about why they're listening or how long they're gonna be listening for. You just tell them what you want to say.

View Quote Bobby: If I was no good, why did you steal my **** voice? Huh?
Jack: Cause you had nothing to **** say.

View Quote Ally: You know, what I'd like is for my boyfriend to love me. Actually, for my husband to love me.
Jack: Yeah, who's your **** boyfriend? You got a boyfriend?
Ally: Yeah, I've got a boyfriend.
Jack: That hurts, calling me your **** boyfriend.
Ally: You're my boyfriend if you don't treat me like your wife.

View Quote Carl: How long have you been here now?
Jack: Two months.
Carl: Can it be fixed?
Jack: Well, you would know that, don't you? Once it's gone, it's gone.
Carl: I don't know what you have.
Jack: Oh, well the tinnitus, they say, once you...
Carl: Oh, tinnitus can't be fixed.
Jack: Right. Well, I just hear that tone, that's all. The tone, yeah. The ringing.
Carl: I have hearing aids on, as you...
Jack: No, I know. That's why I asked you. You know, I'm convinced that it happened when I was younger, I used to... My dad had a Victrola, you know an old record player. My head was just about the size of it when I was a kid, and I used to love to just put my whole head in there. He was big into the blues, so... 'Cause you gotta figure it's just me and him all day long. My brother's out there tryin' to make something of himself. So I took one of his belts. I put it around the ceiling fan and uhh, tried to do the deed.[pause] The whole **** fan came out of the ceiling.
[Both Laugh]
Jack: Had a big cut on my **** forehead. I was more mad about that than it not working. And he didn't even notice. He didn't even **** notice.
Carl: 'Cause he was drunk?
Jack: Yeah. That **** fan stayed on the floor for about half a year.
Carl: How old were you then?
Jack: I was just shy of 13.

View Quote Jack: Thank you, by the way.
Ally: Thank you for what?
Jack: For giving me a home. This place never felt like home before.