RE: Best movie quotes
June 23, 2014 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2014 at 4:10 pm by Cyberman.)
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Every line from Tom Stoppard's magnificent octopus is quote gold - here are some of my favourites:
And of course the soliloquy:
Quote:Guildenstern: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Rosencrantz: Or just as mad.
Guildenstern: Or just as mad.
Rosencrantz: And he does both.
Guildenstern: So there you are.
Rosencrantz: Stark raving sane.
Quote:Rosencrantz: Another curious scientific phenomenon is the fact that the fingernails grow after death. As does the beard.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: Beard.
Guildenstern: But you're not dead.
Rosencrantz: I didn't say they only started to grow after death. The fingernails also grow before birth - though not the beard.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: BEARD! What's the matter with you?
[pause]
Rosencrantz: The toenails, on the other hand, never grow at all.
Guildenstern: The toenails on the other foot never grow at all.
Rosencrantz: ...no.
Quote:The Player: The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter.
Rosencrantz: Good God! We're out of our depths here!
The Player: No, no, no! He hasn't got a daughter! The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter!
Rosencrantz: The old man is..?
The Player: (slowly) Hamlet... in love... with the old man's daughter... the old man... thinks!
Rosencrantz: (penny drops) Ohh!
Quote:Guildenstern: What's the first thing you remember?
Rosencrantz: [thinks] No, it's no good. It was a long time ago.
Guildenstern: No, you don't take my meaning. What's the first thing you remember... after all the things you've forgotten?
Rosencrantz: Oh, I see...
(pause)
I've forgotten the question.
And of course the soliloquy:
Quote:Rosencrantz: Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one; a moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering. Stamped into one's memory. And yet... I can't remember it. It never occured to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squawling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
