Other Titles • Almost Famous • Something Real (2000) • Stillwater (2000) • The Uncool (2000) • Untitled Cameron Crowe Project (1999) • Untitled: Almost Famous the Bootleg Cut (2000)
Quotes from Almost Famous (2000)
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Penny Lane: I always tell the girls, never take it seriously, if ya never take it seriosuly, ya never get hurt, ya never get hurt, ya always have fun, and if you ever get lonely, just got to the record store and visit your friends.
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"18."--William
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Russell Hammond: I hurt the flower.
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"How old are you?"--Penny Lane (Kate Hudson)
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"Do not take drugs!"--Mrs. Miller (Frances McDormand), repeatedly throughout the film, to her son, William (Patrick Fugit)
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"Me too! How old are we really?
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"Me too!"--Penny
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"Actually, I'm 16."--William
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"Me too. Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."--Penny
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"Rock & roll is a lifestyle...and a way of thinking, and it's not about money and 'popularity!' Although, some money would be nice....And the chicks are great."--Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee)
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"Opie must die!"--the Band-Aids (Fairuza Balk and Anna Paquin) to William
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"I am a golden god!"--Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), standing on a rooftop at a party while on acid
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"Tell Rolling Stone that my last words were...'I'm on drugs!'"--Russell to William
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"The only real currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with each other when we're being uncool."--Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to William
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"I know you've heard this before. And I have never said this to anybody, not really--well, nobody who didn't legally have to say it back to me, but--I love you, and I'm about to go where...many men have gone before."--William to Penny, while she's nearly passed out on drugs
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Russell Hammond: I am a golden god!
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Russell Hammond: I never said I was a golden god... or did I?
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Russell Hammond: I'm telling secrets to the one guy you don't tell secrets to.
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Polexia Aphrodisia: Let's deflower the kid.
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Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
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Lester Bangs: Aw, man. You made friends with them. See, friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong. William Miller: Well, it was fun. Lester Bangs: They make you feel cool. And hey. I met you. You are not cool. William Miller: I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn't. Lester Bangs: That's because we're uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don't have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter. William Miller: I can really see that now. Lester Bangs: Yeah, great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love... and let's face it, you got a big head start. William Miller: I'm glad you were home. Lester Bangs: I'm always home. I'm uncool. William Miller: Me too! Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world if what we share with someone else when we're uncool. William Miller: I feel better. Lester Bangs: My advice to you. I know you think those guys are your friends. You wanna be a true friend to them? Be honest, and unmerciful.
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Penny Lane: Call me if you need a rescue, we live in the same city. William Miller: Heh, I think I live in a different world.
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Russell Hammond: And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were... I'm on drugs! [crowd cheers] William Miller: Russell! I think we should work on those last words! Russell Hammond: I got it, I got it. Last words - I dig music. [a few claps] Russell Hammond: [beat] Russell Hammond: I'm on drugs! [crowd cheers]
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Penny Lane: You're too sweet for rock and roll. William Miller: Sweet? Where do you get off? Where do you get sweet? I am dark and mysterious, and I am PISSED OFF! I could be very dangerous to all of you! And you should know that about me... I am THE ENEMY!
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Sapphire: Can you believe these new girls? None of them use birth control and they eat all the steak!
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William Miller: Do you have to be depressed to write a sad song? Do you have to be in love to write a love song? Is a song better when it really happened to you? Like "Love Thing," where did you write that and who was it about? Russell Hammond: When did you get so professional?
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Anita Miller: FECK YOU! Elaine Miller: HEY! Anita Miller: This is a house of lies! Elaine Miller: Well there it is, your sister used the "F" word. William Miller: I think she said "feck." Elaine Miller: What's the difference? William Miller: The letter "u."
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Dennis Hope: If you think that Mick Jagger will still be doing the whole rock star thing at age fifty, well, then, you are sorely, sorely mistaken.
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Ben Fong-Torres: A Mo-Jo, it's a very high-tech machine that transmits pages over the telephone! It only takes eighteen minutes a page!
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Elaine Miller: [in the middle of a class lecture] Rock stars have kidnapped my son!
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Penny Lane: How old are you? William Miller: Eighteen. Penny Lane: Me too! How old are we really? William Miller: Seventeen. Penny Lane: Me too! William Miller: Actually, I'm sixteen. Penny Lane: Me too. Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different. William Miller: I'm fifteen.
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Jeff Bebe: Is it that hard to make us look cool?
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Polexia Aphrodisia: It's all happening!
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William Miller: I have to go home. Penny Lane: You are home.
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William Miller: I love you. And I'm about to boldly go where... many men have gone before.
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Jeff Bebe: "Rock 'n' roll can save the world"? "The chicks are great"? I sound like a dick!
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Ben Fong-Torres: You're not there to party. We've already got *one* Hunter Thompson.
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Anita Miller: This song explains why I'm leaving home to become a stewardess.
William Miller: Don't you have any regular friends? Penny Lane: Famous people are just more interesting.
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Lester Bangs: So, you're the one who's been sending me those articles from your school newspaper. William Miller: I've been doing some stuff for a local underground paper, too. Lester Bangs: What, are you like the star of your school? William Miller: They hate me. Lester Bangs: You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.
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Lester Bangs: You CANNOT make friends with the rock stars. That's what's important. If you're a rock journalist - first, you will never get paid much. But you will get free records from the record company. And they'll buy you drinks, you'll meet girls, they'll try to fly you places for free, offer you drugs... I know. It sounds great. But they are not your friends. These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of the rock stars, and they will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it.
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Russell Hammond: Write what you want.
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Jeff Bebe: I can't say anymore with the writer here. Russell Hammond: No, no, no. You can trust him, you can say whatever you want. Jeff Bebe: I work just as hard or harder than anybody on that stage. You know what I do? I connect. I get people off. I look for the guy who isn't getting off, and I make him get off. Jeff Bebe: [to William] Actually, *that* you can print!
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William Miller: [on meeting Stillwater] Russell. Jeff. Ed. Larry. I really love your band. I think the song "Fever Dog" is a big step forward for you guys. I think you guys producing it yourselves, instead of Glyn Johns, was the right thing to do. And the guitar sound... is incindiary. Incendiary. Way to go. [He turns to leave. The band members regard one another for a moment] Russell Hammond: Well, don't stop there! Jeff Bebe: Yeah, come back here! I'm incendiary, too, man!
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William Miller: "That groupie"? She was a Band-Aid! All she did was love your band. And you used her, all of you! You used her and threw her away! She almost died last night while you were with Bob Dylan. You guys, you're always talking about the fans, the fans, the fans; she was your biggest fan, and you threw her away! And if you can't see that, that's your biggest problem. And I love her! I love her!
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Elaine Miller: May I speak with William, please? Sapphire: He's not here. I think he's in the bar with the band. They just got back from the radio station. Is this Maryann with the pot?... Hello? Elaine Miller: No, this isn't Maryann with the pot. This is Elaine. His mother. Could you please give him a message? Could you tell him to call home immediately? And could you also tell him - I KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. Sapphire: All right. But I'm just going to say this, and I'm going to stand by it: you should be really proud of him. 'Cause I know guys, and I'll bet you do too. And he respects women, and he likes women, and let's just pause and appreciate a man like that. You created him out of thin air, and you raised him right, and we're all looking out for him. He's doing a great job, and don't worry - he's still a virgin. And that's more than I've ever said to my own parents, so there you go... This is the maid speaking, by the way.
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William Miller: Please don't give him any more acid.
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Russell Hammond: You, Aaron, are what it's all about. You're real. Your room is real. Your friends are real. Real, man, real. You know? Real. You're more important than all the silly machinery. Silly machinery. And you know it! In eleven years its going to be 1984, man. Think about that! Aaron: Wanna see me feed a mouse to my snake? Russell Hammond: Yes.
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