Amateurs
From Chaplin’s Limelight: “That’s all any of us are — amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.”
From Diary of a Lost Girl
“Just a little more love and no one would be lost in this world!”
“What are they doing to us?”
“We’re being kicked around by crazy people”: Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) in These Three (dir. William Wyler, 1936).
“How did that happen?”
Hannah Gadsby, in Nanette (dir. Jon Olb and Madeleine Parry, 2018), recounting her mother’s explanation of what she regretted in raising her children.
Words from Edward G. Robinson
“To work, to create, to grow, and to give of yourself: that is one of the chief aims in life. To have experienced it once: that is a great experience. To do it a hundred and one times, well, that’s really a small miracle.”
Stritch wisdom
“Everybody’s got a sack of rocks.”
“Where's that son?”
From My Dinner with André
A few words from Harvey Pekar
Excerpt from American Splendor
Arthur Parker on "East Central Illinois"
A line from Pennies from Heaven