Zitate und Sprüche aus Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button

For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss

It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.

We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

I feel weak today. I felt much stronger yesterday. Like Benjamin Button in reverse.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

I think Los Angeles is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

Michael: "You will be thin. You won't drool over pizza like an animal anymore. You will find love."
Kevin: "Michael, I'm pretty much okay with who I am now."
Michael: "Don't be. You should never settle for who you are."

Holly and I are like Romeo and Juliet. And this office is like the dragon that kept them apart.

Yes, I can ride a bike. I take spinning classes three times a month. I think I know how to ride a bike. I had those extra wheels on the back that support you.

Pam: "Jim and I have never and will never have sex in the office."
Jim: "No, because the office isn't what I'd consider a romantic place."
Pam: "Besides, we have something those other people don't have, which is a home and a bed."
Jim: "And a shower."

If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, bin Laden, and Toby - I would shoot Toby twice.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

What's the problem? Grunting is scientifically proven to add more power. Ask any female tennis player, or her husband.

I'm not going to tell my nine-months-pregnant wife that I find her replacement objectively attractive. Just like I'm not going to tell my two-year-old daughter that violent video games are objectively more fun. It's true, but it doesn't help anybody.