Author Archives: Rick Tran
Sophie’s Choice, Sophie Zawistowski
My mother, she’s very sick, you know. And I can’t do anything. But I think, if only I could have got that meat for my mother it would make her strong. So I go to the country and, the peasants … Continue reading
Clerks, Jay
I feel good today, Silent Bob, we’re gonna make some money, then you know what we’re going to do? We’re gonna go to that party, we’re gonna get some pussy, and I’m gonna fuck this bitch, I’ll fuck this bitch, … Continue reading
Brokeback Mountain, Ennis Del Mar
I tell ya there, there were these two old guys ranched up together, down home. Earl and Rich. And they was the joke of town, even though they were pretty tough ol’ birds. Anyway they, they found Earl dead in … Continue reading
The Reader, Michael Berg
The more I suffer, the more I love. Continue reading
Animal Kingdom, Nathan Leckie
You know what the bush is about? It’s about massive trees that have been standing there for thousands of years and bugs that’ll be dead before the minute’s out. It’s big trees and pissy little bugs. And everything knows its … Continue reading
Antwone Fisher, Antwone Fisher
Who will cry for the little boy, he cried himself to sleep / Who will cry for the little boy, who never had it for keeps / Who will cry for the little boy, who walked on burning sands / … Continue reading
Monster’s Ball, Leticia Musgrove
Make me feel good! Continue reading
Leon, Stansfield
I haven’t got time for this Mickey Mouse bullshit! Continue reading
The Producers, Max Bialystock
When you got it, flaunt it. Continue reading
Apocalypse Now, Walter E. Kurtz
The horror. The horror. Continue reading
Cabaret, Sally Bowles
Life is a Cabaret, old chum. Come to the Cabaret. Continue reading
All That Jazz, O’Connor Flood
Folks! What can I tell you about my next guest? This cat allowed himself to be adored, but not loved. And his success in show business was matched by failure in his personal relationship bag, now – that’s where he … Continue reading
Apocalypse Now, Lieutenant Colonel William Kilgore
Charlie don’t surf Continue reading
Catwoman, Catwoman
Sometimes I’m bad, but only as bad as I wanna be. Continue reading
Spawn, Spawn
Aren’t there any normal people left on Earth? Or is everybody just back from Hell? Continue reading
The Kids Are All Right, Jules Allgood
Marriage is hard. Just two people slogging through the shit, year after year, getting older, changing. It’s a fucking marathon, okay? Continue reading
Meet the Parents, Jack Byrnes
I will be watching you and if I find that you are trying to corrupt my first born child, I will bring you down, baby. I will bring you down to Chinatown. Continue reading
Friday, Smokey
Daaaaaaaaaaamn! Continue reading
From Here to Eternity, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt
Some of the guys are puttin’ me over the jumps ’cause I don’t want to fight…yeah, on the boxing team. I don’t want to box. I don’t even want to think about it. See, I used to fight, middleweight. And … Continue reading
The Marrying Kind, Florence Keefer
Because everybody gets in a rut. Take me. A rut! But down there in Atlantic City, I got into a lot of thinking. You know what I mean? I don’t mean just stewin’ around, I mean thinking. And to tell … Continue reading
Manhattan, Isaac Davis
‘Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion.’ Uh, no, make that: ‘He-he romanticized it all out of proportion. OK… To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that … Continue reading
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Jefferson Smith
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights – that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these … Continue reading
Dark Victory, Judith Traherne
Don’t, Ann. I’m happy, really I am. Now let me see, is there anything else? Oh yes, one more thing. When Michael runs Challenger in the National, oh, and he’ll win – I’m sure he’ll win – have a party … Continue reading
Point Break, Bodhi
It’s not tragic to die doing what you love. Continue reading
The Town, FBI Special Agent Adam Frawley
You and your boys didn’t just roll a star market over in Malden for a box of quarters. No, you decided to bang it out on the North End at 9 o’clock in the morning with assault rifles. You fucking … Continue reading
Marty, Marty Piletti
Dogs like us, we ain’t such dogs as we think we are. Continue reading
Hoop Dreams, William Gates
Four years ago that’s all I used to dream about was playing in the NBA. I don’t really dream about it like that anymore. You know, even through I love playing basketball, you know I want to do other things … Continue reading
Four Weddings and a Funeral, Matthew
Gareth used to prefer funerals to weddings. He said it was easier to get enthusiastic about a ceremony one had an outside chance of eventually being involved in. In order to prepare this speech, I rang a few people, to … Continue reading
Clerks, Chewlies Gum Representative
You’re spending what? Twenty, maybe thirty dollars a week on your cigarettes? Fifty-three dollars a week on cigarettes! Come on! Would you give somebody that much money each week to kill you? ‘Cause that’s what you’re doing now, by paying … Continue reading
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar
Caesar is home. Continue reading
Gettysburg, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain
We are an army out to set other men free. Continue reading
The Fugitive, Deputy Samuel Gerard
What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Continue reading