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The 10 Best Movie Quotes About Work

9 to 5Around Labor Day, it seems timely to feature quotes about work.  Movies have a generally negative view of work, regarding it as an unfortunate requirement to being paid.  Movies also present a restricted scope of work, offering an excessive focus on lawyers, warriors, cowboys, athletes, crime fighters, heartless businessmen, and unstable movie stars.  Here are 10 movie quotes about work as it is for the rest of us, the primary source of our emotional and financial paychecks. 

The 9 Best Movie Quotes About Outer Space

star trekLong before there were people who actually walked on the moon, there were films that imagined what that would be like.  Beginning in 1919, with The First Men on the Moon, movies about outer space have featured many of the classics, including Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, E.T., and Wall-E.  Here are some thoughts from the movies about the mysteries of outer space.

The 10 Best Movie Quotes About Love

notebookIt should surprise no one that the first Quote Directory topic to reach 100 quotes would be Love.  Screenwriters seem to gravitate to writing interesting things about the mysteries of love.  There are 67 Reel Life Wisdom topics featuring thousands of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes.  100 quotes about love now lead the way.  In honor of this benchmark achievement, we are posting our ten favorite quotes about this “crazy little thing”. 

The 12 Wisest 'Fool' Movie Quotes

jokerIt seems like every second movie you see features the word 'fool' somewhere in the dialogue.  Bad guys like to use the word 'fool' when they're getting ready to fight the good guys.  Movie characters don't want to look like a fool, be made a fool of, or have someone fool around on them.  They don't want fool's gold nor desire to be the fool whose money has soon parted.  In celebration of each year's April Fool's Day, here are the 12 best 'fool' quotes from film.

The 12 Best Movie Quotes About the Irish

darby o-gillThe movies are rich with Irish characters.  However, the image of the Irishman is an odd mix of magic, drunkenness, poverty, and ‘boys will be boys’.  It’s no wonder that St. Patrick’s Day is such a party without a point.  Most revelers have no idea who St. Patrick was, with a few appreciating that he somehow is credited with running all the snakes out of a country that never had any.  In honor of all those characters with ‘a little Irish in them’, here are the top 12 movie quotes about the Irish.

The 10 Best Movie Quotes About Advertising

doritoMillions of people watch the Superbowl to see the best football teams compete.  Even more watch to see ad companies duke it out to be ranked #1 on various Top Ten Superbowl Commercials lists.  The movies have not been kind to advertisements, portraying them as manipulative devices that flaunt and fuel our consumer-centric society.  Here are the best ten film quotes about advertising that you won't want to fast forward through.

The Ten Smartest Movie Quotes of 2009

invictus2009 was a year of reconsideration.  Individuals have been forced to re-evaluate their lives, re-focusing on the things that matter.  In an age when it is easy to feel like a victim of circumstance, many are choosing to take charge of their lives – reducing expectations, getting more involved, re-connecting with family and friends.  In honor of these proactive souls, we have selected a quote from the film Invictus as our smartest quote of the year.  It reminds us that life is whatever we want to make it – we own our expectations, we choose to sit or get up out of the chair.  Here are the ten smartest movie quotes of 2009. 

The 10 Best Performances by an Actor in 2009

BronsonThey will have a tough time selecting the best acting performances for the Academy Awards this year.  There were several outstanding performances by well known actors and by those lesser known.  From a crazed prisoner to a national hero to small-time workers delivering a tough message, here are the 10 best performances by an actor in 2009. 

The 10 Best Performances by an Actress in 2009

moniqueThis was a good year for women in film.  Kathryn Bigelow may the first female Oscar winner for Best Director (The Hurt Locker).  Lone Scherfig (An Education) and Jane Campion (Bright Star) will also be considered for their directorial accomplishments.  Many films looked at life from the female perspective, including An Education, Precious, and My Sister's Keeper.  It was also a very good year for female performances.  Here are the 10 performances we at Reel Life thought were the best in 2009.

Reel Life's Top 10 Movies of 2009

up2009 was a year of many very good films and no great ones.  Perhaps the writer's strike of two years ago thinned out the number of classic scripts available to movie makers.  For whatever reason, we found it difficult to settle on our picks for Top 10 Movies of 2009.  Knowing that we still haven't seen The Road, Crazy Heart, Sherlock Holmes and A Serious Man, and knowing that we are most moved by good stories, here are our ten favorite films of the last year.

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