Movie Quotes (L)

L.A. Story

Harris K. Telemacher: Shakespeare once said: Life is pretty stupid, with lot's of hubbub to keep you busy, but really not amounting to much...I'm paraphrasing of course.

Sara McDowel: Let your mind go and your body will follow.

Harris: Why is it that you don't always recognize the moment when love begins but you always know when it ends?

Harris: Ordinarily, I don't like to be around interesting people because it means I have to be interesting too.
Sara McDowel: Are you saying I'm interesting?
Harris K. Telemacher: All I'm saying is that, when I'm around you, I find myself showing off, which is the idiot's version of being interesting.

Harris: There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickax, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

Harris: Forget for this moment the smog and the cars and the restaurant and the skating and remember only this. A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Land Before Time, The

Littlefoot's mother: Let your heart guide you. It whispers so listen carefully.

Last Days of Disco, The

Josh Neff: A lot of people won't take no for an answer. I just wanted you to know that I'm not one of them. I can be easily discouraged. I will take no for an answer.

Des McGrath: Our bodies are not really designed for group social life. We're really designed for pairing off.
 

Last Supper, The

Illiterate Librarian: "Thumbelina" is art. "Catcher in the Rye" is just mean-spirited garbage littered with the, oh, the "F" word.

Luke: What if you kill somebody whose death makes the world a better place?

Legend

Jack (Tom Cruise) speaking of unicorns: Nothing is more magical... As long as they roam the earth, evil can never harm the pure of heart.

Darkness (Tim Curry): The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

Legend of Billie Jean, The

Pyatt: Hubie and the truth have a way of not gettin' along with each other.

Billie Jean: Everything's just crazy now.
Lloyd: Sure it is. That's why you gotta be crazier than they are.

Less Than Zero

Rip (James Spader): Old habits never die, they just hibernate.

Liar Liar

Max Reid (Justin Cooper): My teacher tells me beauty is on the inside.
Fletcher (Jim Carrey): That's just something ugly people say.

Life Less Ordinary, A

Celine (Cameron Diaz): "Kidnap For Beginners," Chapter One. Have you even asked for a ransom yet?

Tod: Do you think that I would talk to a dog? Do you think that I would ask a dog whether or not you are good or evil? What do you think I am some kind of crazy backwoods lunatic with a barn full of human skulls and a scythe that I sharpen every day in readiness for Armageddon?
Robert (Ewan McGregor): Oh no. No I'm sure you're just a regular kind of guy.
Tod: Right. I'm regular. I am regular man.

Celine: If word got out that I had been liberated for half a million dollars, I could never show my face in polite society again. Diamonds have no value except that which is placed upon them.

Jackson: Have you ever felt like you're not in control of your events?
Robert: Yes!!
Jackson: No, I mean something is destined to happen, but it doesn't. Like what happens when the forces of destiny are no longer in control?

Celine: Despite your crummy poem, I came to see you and all you could do was humiliate me and turn me away. And I thought you were decent, I thought you were different, but you're not. You're just a lying, cheating son-of-a-bitch just like all the rest.

Lion King, The

Simba: Scar, if I'm king what will that make you?
Scar: A monkey's uncle.
Simba: Scar, you're so funny.

Little Women

Beth: I'm not afraid. I can be brave, like you. But I know I'll be homesick for you. Even in Heaven.

Jo: I go around turning down perfectly good marriage proposals!

Jo: Will we never all be together again?

Amy: I've never been kissed. I've waited my whole life to be kissed, and what if I miss it?
Laurie: I promise you that before you die I will kiss you.

Marmee: You have so many extraordinary gifts. How can you expect to have an ordinary life?

Laurie: Someday you'll find a man, a good man, and you'll love him, and marry him, and live and die for him. And I'll be hanged if I stand by and watch.

Amy: Do you love Laurie more than you love me?
Jo: Don't be silly! I could never love anyone more than I love my sisters.

Laurie: Nothing will change Jo.
-submitted by Em

Jo:You'll come back knowing all these things I don't.
Laurie : Well, as a matter of fact, I already know something you don't.  has Meg, by chance, misplaced a personal item, such as a glove?
-submitted by Em

Lolita

Humbert: I missed you. I missed you a lot.
Lolita: Well I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you. But it doesn't matter, because you don't care about me anymore anyway.
Humbert: What makes you think I don't care about you?
Lolita: Well you haven't kissed me yet, have you?

Humbert Humbert: What I heard then was the melody of children at play. Nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus.

Humbert Humbert: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta.

Humbert Humbert: We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing.

Clare Quilty: He can smell if you're sweet. He likes sweet young people. People like you.

Long Kiss Goodnight, The

Hal: May the best of your past be the worst of your future.

Charlie Baltimore: Die screaming, you bastard. submitted by sea1ski

Mitch: That's a duck, not a dick. submitted by sea1ski

Lost & Found

Dylan: Never date a woman who pays her rent in singles.

Lost Boys, The

David (Keifer Sutherland): Now you know what we are, now you know what you are. You'll never grow old, Michael, and you'll never die. But you must feed!

Sam (Corey Haim): You're a creature of the night, Michael. My own brother, a goddam shit-sucking vampire. You wait 'til Mom finds out!

Sam about Star: It's that girl from the boardwalk. Is she one of them? [Star floats up.] She's one of them! And don't tell me it doesn't make her a bad person, Mike.

Lost Highway

Al (John Roselius): Do you own a video camera?
Renee (Patricia Arquette): No. Fred hates them.
Fred (Bill Pullman): I like to remember things my own way.
Al: What do you mean by that?
Fred: How I remember them. Not necessarily the way they happened.

Love & Human Remains

Candy: Do you ever feel like you're nothing like anyone else in the world?
David: Only all the time.
Candy: Somewhere there's one person waiting for me... feeling like me.
David: A lot of people in the world feel like that.

Love and Other Catastrophes

Alice: I just haven't met the right one, at least I know what I'm looking for.
Mia: Yeah, I know he just has to be left-handed, never lie, and dig the same movies as you do.

Love Jones

Hollywood: I don't need poetry to get women.
Sheila Downes: No, you need a personality to get women.
Savon Garrison: Try a breath mint and a visa.

Nina Mosley: You always want what you want when you want it. Why is everything so urgent with you?
Darius Lovehall: Let me tell you somethin'. This here, right now, at this very moment, is all that matters to me. I love you. That's urgent like a motherfucker.

Savon Garrison: When a man gets a hard on, you know where the blood come from, right? You know where the blood come from, right? His head and his feet. So A - he's stupid and B - he can't run.
 

Love Story

Jenny (Ali MacGraw): Love means never having to say you're sorry.

*quotes have been corrected and are in chronological order
 

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