Memorable quotes for
Waking Life movie (2001)
Man with the Long Hair: They say that dreams
are only real as long as they last. Couldn”t you say the same thing about life?
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Speed Levitch: On really romantic evenings
of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.
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Quiet Woman at Restaurant: When it was over,
all I could think about was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is
just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions.
It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery,
and I had been a part of that. It was a gift. Life was raging all around me and
every moment was magical. I loved all the people, dealing with all the
contradictory impulses - that”s what I loved the most, connecting with the
people. Looking back, that”s all that really mattered.
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Pinball Playing Man: There”s only one
instant, and it”s right now. And it”s eternity.
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Pinball Playing Man: I mean, I”m not saying
that you don”t know what you”re talking about, but I don”t know what you”re
talking about.
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Boat Car Guy: I feel like my transport
should be an extension of my personality. And this is like my little window to
the world… and every minute”s a different show. I may not understand it. I
may not even necessarily agree with it. But I”ll tell you what I”ve accepted:
just sort of glide along. You want to keep things on an even key, this is what
I”m saying. You want to go with the flow. The sea refuses no river. The idea is
to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. It saves on
introductions and goodbyes. The ride does not require explanation - just
occupance. That”s where you guys come in. It”s like you come onto this planet
with a crayon box. Now you may get the 8 pack, you may get the 16 pack but it”s
all in what you do with the crayons - the colors - that you”re given. Don”t
worry about coloring within the lines or coloring outside the lines - I say
color outside the lines, you know what I mean? Color all over the page; don”t box
me in! We”re in motion to the ocean. We are not land locked, I”ll tell you
that.
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Guy Forsyth: The trick is to combine your
waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams.
Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
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Speed Levitch: Life is a matter of a miracle
that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others
presence.
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Young Girl Playing Paper Game: Dream is
destiny.
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Guy Forsyth: The worst mistake that you can
make is to think you”re alive when really you”re asleep in life”s waiting room.
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Speed Levitch: The ongoing WOW is happening
right NOW.
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Alex Jones: “You can”t fight city
hall.” “Death and taxes.” “Don”t talk about politics or
religion.” This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda, rolling across
the picket line. “Lay down, GI! Lay down, GI!”. We saw it all through
the 20th Century. And now on the 21st Century, it”s time to stand up and
realize, that we should NOT allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze.
We should not SUBMIT to dehumanization. I don”t know about you, but I”m
concerned with what”s happening in this world. I”m concerned with the
structure. I”m concerned with the systems of control. Those that control my
life, and those that seek to control it EVEN MORE! I want FREEDOM! That”s what
I want, and that”s what YOU should want! It”s up to each and every one of us to
turn loose of just some of the greed, the hatred, the envy, and yes, the
insecurities, because that is the central mode of control, make us feel
pathetic, small, so we”ll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our
destiny. We have GOT to realize we”re being conditioned on a mass scale. Start
challenging this corporate slave state! The 21st Century”s gonna be a new
century! Not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no
significance, of classism and statism, and all the rest of the modes of
control… it”s gonna be the age of humankind, standing up for something PURE
and something RIGHT! What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic,
conservative, Republican, it”s all there to control you, two sides of the same
coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery
Incorporated! The TRUTH is out there in front of you, but they lay out this
buffet of LIES! I”m SICK of it, and I”M NOT GONNA TAKE A BITE OUT OF IT! DO YA
GOT ME? Resistance is NOT futile, we”re gonna win this thing, humankind is too
good, WE”RE NOT A BUNCH OF UNDERACHIEVERS, WE”RE GONNA STAND UP, AND WE”RE
GONNA BE HUMAN BEINGS! WE”RE GONNA GET FIRED UP ABOUT THE REAL THINGS, THE
THINGS THAT MATTER - CREATIVITY, AND THE *DYNAMIC* *HUMAN* *SPIRIT* THAT
REFUSES TO *SUBMIT*! WELL THAT”S IT, that”s all I”ve got to say. It”s in your
court now.
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Soap Opera Woman:
Excuse me.
Wiley: Excuse me.
Soap Opera Woman:
Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven”t met, but I don”t want to be an
ant. You know? I mean, it”s like we go through life with our antennas bouncing
off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human
required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for
survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an
efficient, polite manner. “Here”s your change.” “Paper or
plastic?” “Credit or debit?” “You want ketchup with that?”
I don”t want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you
to see me. I don”t want to give that up. I don”t want to be ant, you know?
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Alex Jones: We have got to realize that
we”re being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave
state.
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Man on the Train:
Hey, are you a dreamer?
Wiley: Yeah.
Man on the Train: I
haven”t seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for
dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It”s not dead it”s
just that it”s been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so
nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I”m trying
to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming
with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest
problems it”s ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don”t be bored, this is
absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And
things are just starting
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Boat Car Guy: The idea is to remain in a
state of constant departure while always arriving.
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Guy Forsyth: Did you ever have a job that
you hated and worked real hard at? A long, hard day of work. Finally you get to
go home, get in bed, close your eyes and immediately you wake up and realize…
that the whole day at work had been a dream. It”s bad enough that you sell your
waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free.
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Philosophy Professor: The reason why I
refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical
curiosity is that I think it has something very important to offer us… I”m
afraid were losing the real virtues of living life passionately in the sense of
taking responsibility for who you are the ability to make something of yourself
and feel good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it were a
philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre, once
interviewed, said he never felt once minute of despair in his life. One thing
that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so
much as a real kind of exuberance, of feeling on top of it, its like your life
is yours to create. Ive read the post modernists with some interest, even
admiration, but when I read them I always have this awful nagging feeling that
something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more you talk about a
person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as being
fragmented of marginalised, what you do is you open up a whole new world of
excuses. And when sartre talks about responsibilty, he”s not talking about
something abstract. He”s not taling about the kind of self or souls that
theologians would talk about. Hes talking about you and
me talking, making descisions, doing things, and taking the consequences.
It might be true that there are six billion people in this world, and counting,
but nevertheless -what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first
of all, in material terms, to other people, and it sets an example. In short, I
think the message here is that we shouuld never write ourselves off or see
eachother as a victim of various forces. It”s always
our descision who we are.
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Celine: I”ve been thinking also about
something you said.
Jesse: What”s that?
Celine: Just about reincarnation and where
all the new souls come through over time. Everybody says they have been the
reincarnation of Cleopatra or Alexander The Great. I always want to tell them
they were probably some dumb fuck like everybody else.
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John Christensen:
…and as we all know, fun rules.
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Old Man: As the pattern gets more intricate
and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.
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Boat Car Guy: Man this must be like…
parallel universe night. You know that cat that was just in here? Just ran out
the door? Well, he comes up to the counter, you know, and I say “What”s
the word, turd?” And he lays down this burrito and he kind of looks at me,
kind of stares at me and says, “I have but recently returned from the
valley of the shadow of death. I”m rapturously breathing in all the odors and
essences of life. I”ve been to the brink of total oblivion. I remember and
ferment the desire to remember everything.”
Wiley: So, what did you say to that?
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