"I've seen so many wars. It all seemed so important at the time. Now I don't even remember what they were for. Millions of dead men and i don't know why."
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Prime Minister Witte (Laurence Olivier)
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“Faith is the belief in something for which we have no evidence.”
“It’s only fame. It’s just a paint job.”
“You have the curse of the three D’s – you are decent, devoted and dependable. Good qualities in a dog, disastrous in a man.”
“You speak like you write everything down before you say it.”
“If most things aren't funny then they're only exactly what they are. Then it’s just one long dental appointment interrupted occasionally by something exciting like waiting or falling asleep. What’s the point if I leave things just as I find them? Then I’m just adding to the noise – I’m just taking up some room on the subway.”
“You’ve got to own your own days and name them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.”
“I want him to know the special thing that he is or else he won’t notice it when it starts to go.”
“That’s the most you should expect from life – a really good apology for all the things you won’t get.”
“Elaine communicates with me almost entirely by rumor.”
“You are a lover of things and of people, so you took up work where you could get at as many of them as possible. It just turned out there were too many of them and too much that moves you.”
