Other Titles • Life as a House • Das Haus am Meer (2002)
Quotes from Life as a House (2001)
1
George: [to Robin] I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough.
(43 votes)
2
Sam: So what were you trying to do? Trying to get me to like you? George: No, Sam, I wasn't trying to get you to like me. I was trying to get you to love me. Sam: Well, congratulations, you fucking pulled it off!
(32 votes)
3
George: I always thought of myself as a house. I was always what I lived in. It didn't need to be big. It didn't even need to be beautiful. It just needed to be mine. I became what I was meant to be. I built myself a life. I built myself a house.
(32 votes)
4
Sam: I like how it feels to not feel. George: I know the feeling.
(31 votes)
5
Sam: You knew you were dying from the start? George: We're all dying from the start. I just got moved to the head of the line.
(27 votes)
6
George: Take that thumbtack out of your chin. Sam: Why? George: It bugs me! Sam: You snore at night. That really bugs me. Can I take you out?
(13 votes)
7
Sam: How do you become something you're not? George: What do you want to become? Sam: What I'm not. George: What are you now? Sam: I'm nothing.
(4 votes)
8
George: I'm having a problem with cancer Sam: I don't know what that means. What kind of a problem? George: The kind where there is no answer Sam: I still don't know what that means
(2 votes)
9
Colleen: I'd be more comfortable if he slept in the guest room. Alyssa: Well I'd be more comfortable if you hadn't slept with Josh. George would be more comfortable if he wasn't dying.
(2 votes)
10
[Alyssa has just kissed George] George: Why did you do that? Alyssa: When you were dating my mom you seemed like a really good kisser. Oh god, she'd die if she found out. George: Let's shut up and let her live.
(2 votes)
11
Sam: Do you have any idea what its like to jack off in an armoire?
(2 votes)
12
George: Build this house with me.
(2 votes)
13
George: I have hated this house from the moment my father put it in my name. Imagine, 29 years of hating what you're living in, hating what you *are*. This is the end of it, Sam. I'm finally building something of my own. Something I can be proud to give you. Sam: Don't. I don't want it. George: Fine. You can do what you want with it. All I want you to remember is that we built a house together. Sam: You didn't build shit. You're just tearing your father down. George: That's right. It feels good.
(2 votes)
14
George: You've worn out your welcome at this house, Sam. This may very well be the worst summer of your life but you've earned it.
(2 votes)
15
Sam: I've been using since I was 12! You're also unbelievably stupid, you know that? You didn't give a shit about anything I did up until now! George: Well, I'll apologize for everything but today! Today I give a shit!
16
Robin: What kind of mother can't stand her own son?
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