Topic: Quotes

[rikcub]

In the story it's "you wouldn't do it Ennis" in the movie it's "You didn't want it Ennis" yeah it's harder to take when it
sounds like Jack didn't think he wanted a life together.  But that scene when he drives off after the divroce brush off is
really gut wrenching. 

Absolutely!!!  I will second you on that one.

[Cowboy Cody]

Oh yeah, there are a few subtle differences in wording, not many changes, but a few. You're right though, not wanting it made it harder for us to take!

[jimmypage]

"There's never enough time..never, never"
 :-[

[karind1]

It really would be easier if someone would just rip my heart out and stomp on it, this quote makes me a mess.

you just made me laugh!! great comment!~!

[Cowboy Cody]

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Ethan - Thanks that is one of my favorite passages, the confrontation and reconciliation.

[cybernaut]

Wow...you guys should be on Hallmark's payroll!

[brian2006]

every words in this movie r great!!

"I wished I knew how to quit u!" simply is the greatest! it said it all, how Jack loves Ennis n never ever will leave Ennis!

[camom]

When Jack is giving his "what we got now is Brokeback Mountain" speech, it's really hard to look at anything else, but the past two times, I watched Ennis' face.  When Jack says, "You have no idea how bad it gets"...yeah, Ennis does know how bad it gets.  It's all over his face.  Every word is like a knife in his heart.

"Tell you what...the truth is...sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it."   :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

camom

[ethan]

Ethan - Thanks that is one of my favorite passages, the confrontation and reconciliation.

You are welcome, Cody. This is one that breaks my heart every single time. They did love each other - why did it have to come to this?

[Cowboy Cody]

Ethan - Thanks that is one of my favorite passages, the confrontation and reconciliation.

You are welcome, Cody. This is one that breaks my heart every single time. They did love each other - why did it have to come to this?

It was born out of fear. Ennis feared the "What If's..." (what if someone sees us, what if someone knows we live together, what if my daddy killed that guy), Jack fears the "lonliness and isolation" (not being able to say I love you, not being with the one he loves, being stuck in a marriage he didn't want, being apart from Ennis)

[brian2006]

Ethan - Thanks that is one of my favorite passages, the confrontation and reconciliation.

You are welcome, Cody. This is one that breaks my heart every single time. They did love each other - why did it have to come to this?

It was born out of fear. Ennis feared the "What If's..." (what if someone sees us, what if someone knows we live together, what if my daddy killed that guy), Jack fears the "lonliness and isolation" (not being able to say I love you, not being with the one he loves, being stuck in a marriage he didn't want, being apart from Ennis)

Ennis alwayz a lonely guy... 

[karind1]

don't know if someone already posted this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/quotes
Memorable Quotes from
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Jack Twist: God, I wish I knew how to quit you!
Ennis Del Mar: Well, why don't you?

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Jack Twist: It could be like this, just like this, always.

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Jack Twist: There ain't never enough time, never enough...

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Ennis Del Mar: We can get together once in a while, away in the mountains somewhere.
Jack Twist: Once in a while? Every four fu**in' years?

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Jack Twist: Swear I didn't know we were gonna get into this again. Hell, yes I did, redlined it all the way, couldn't get here fast enough.

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Jack Twist: Tell you what. The truth is...sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it.

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Ennis Del Mar: If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it.

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Ennis Del Mar: What you can't change, you've just got to ride out.

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Jack Twist: This is a bitch of an unsatisfactory situation.

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Cassie Cartwright: [on the verge of tears] I don't get you, Ennis del Mar.
Ennis del Mar: I'm sorry.
[he pauses]
Ennis del Mar: Was probably no fun anyway, was I?
Cassie Cartwright: [crying] Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun!

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Jolly Minister: You may kiss the bride -- and if you don't, I will.

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Jack Twist: [looking over at Ennis in the firelight; he has laid back and is looking up at the stars, smiling] Anything interesting up there in heaven?
Ennis Del Mar: [for the first time in a long time, content] I was just sending up a prayer of thanks.
Jack Twist: For what?
Ennis Del Mar: [with a wink and a smile] For you forgettin' to bring that harmonica. I'm enjoyin' the peace and quiet.

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Jack Twist: No more beans.

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Jack Twist: As for the marriage, we could do it over the phone.

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Jack Twist: I got a boy. Eight months old. Smiles a lot.

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Alma Beers Del Mar: You know, your friend could come inside, have a cup of coffee...
Ennis Del Mar: He's from Texas.
Alma Beers Del Mar: Texans don't drink coffee?

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Jack Twist: Ever notice how a woman'll powder her nose before a party starts, and the powder it again when the party's over? Why powder your nose just to go home to bed?
Randall Malone: Don't know. Even if I wanted to know, couldn't get a word in with Lashawn long enough to ask. Woman talks a blue streak.

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Jack Twist: Tell you what... truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it...

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Ennis Del Mar: I figure we got a one-shot deal going on here.
Jack Twist: It's nobody's business but ours.
Ennis Del Mar: You know I ain't queer.
Jack Twist: Neither am I.

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[Ennis enters the grocery store where Alma works]
Ennis Del Mar: Hey, Monroe. Is Alma here?
Monroe: Uh, yeah, she's in the condiments aisle.
Ennis Del Mar: The what?
Monroe: Uh - ketchup.
[points]
Ennis Del Mar: Thanks.

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Ennis Del Mar: I'm gonna tell you this one time, Jack fu**in' Twist, an' I ain't foolin'. What I don't know - all them things I don't know - could get you killed if I come to know them. I mean it.
Jack Twist: Yeah well try this one, and I'll say it just once!
Ennis Del Mar: Go ahead!
Jack Twist: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! fu**in' real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, fu**in' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short !@#$ leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you... I can't make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.
Ennis Del Mar: [crying] Well, why don't you? Why don't you just let me be? It's because of you that I'm like this! I ain't got nothing... I ain't nowhere... Get the f*** off me! I can't stand being like this no more, Jack.

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Alma Beers Del Mar: Don't tell me to calm down, Ennis. Jack Twist. Jack Nasty.

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Jack Twist: Jack Twist.
Ennis Del Mar: Ennis.
Jack Twist: Your folks just stop at Ennis?
Ennis Del Mar: Del Mar.
Jack Twist: Nice to know you, Ennis del Mar.

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[repeated line]
Ennis Del Mar: Jack fu**in' Twist.

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Ennis Del Mar: Bottom line is... we're around each other an'... this thing, it grabs hold of us again... at the wrong place... at the wrong time... and we're dead.

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[Ennis is describing a childhood memory to Jack]
Ennis Del Mar: I tell ya there... there were these two old guys ranched up together, down home. Earl and Rich. They were pretty tough ol' birds. Anyway they... they found Earl dead in an irrigation ditch. Took a tire iron to 'im. Spurred him up, drug him 'round by his dick 'till it pulled off.
Jack Twist: You seen this?
Ennis Del Mar: I wasn't... nine years old. My daddy, he made sure me and brother seen it. Hell for all I know, he done the job.

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Ennis Del Mar: If you don't want no more of my kids, I'll be happy to leave you alone.
Alma Beers Del Mar: I'd have 'em if you'd support 'em.

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[L.D. Newsome goes to turn the television back on]
Jack Twist: You sit down, you old son of a bitch!
[L.D. stops in his tracks]
Jack Twist: This is my house! This is my child! And you are my guest! So sit the hell down or I'll knock your ignorant ass into next week!

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[last lines]
Ennis Del Mar: Jack, I swear...

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Cassie Cartwright: You don't say much but when you do you get your point across.

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Jack Twist: That's more words than you've spoke in the past two weeks.
Ennis Del Mar: Hell, that's the most I've spoke in a year.

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LaShawn Malone: He wouldn't listen to me if he was going deaf tomorrow.

[monicita]

You are right.  He does indeed say he can't stand it anymore.  My take on that...and Jacks reaction...is that Jack finally lets go of his dream...he realizes that Ennis is hurting so much as a result of their relationship...and that he is not gettting what he needs...and he attempts to move on and let Ennis go so they can both stop hurting.  Of course it doesn't work...but Jack does try.

I know this is old, but I just had to comment on it, because it describes what I feel about that scene so perfectly (mirrored by what I just decided to do in my own life, with my own boyfriend). The things this movie (and the discussions with you, folks) tells us about ourselves are just mindboggling. Love it!

monicita

[monicita]

Oh, and another quote:

"What about you Ennis", Jack says after he tells him he redlined it all the way, couldn't get there fast enough (so sweet!). He wants to hear how it was for Ennis, and we see Ennis's face, what he would express, if he could, we know how he was waiting, unable to do anything but think of Jack that whole day, maybe for weeks? But Jack doesn't. He is behind Ennis. Actually, in the story, Ennis does say something about how he "wrang it out" thinking of Jack. I like the way everything is reduced to his facial expression in the movie. It makes a stronger point of Ennis's "wordlessness".

monicita

[jimnick]

"LaShawn Malone: He wouldn't listen to me if he was going deaf tomorrow. "

She talks soooooooooooooooo much, that when she goes to the beach, her tongue gets sunburned!

Jim

[*Froggy*]

She talks soooooooooooooooo much, that when she goes to the beach, her tongue gets sunburned!

Ouch!

[chameau]

She talks soooooooooooooooo much, that when she goes to the beach, her tongue gets sunburned!

Ouch!

 

[frenchcda]

Oh, and another quote:

"What about you Ennis", Jack says after he tells him he redlined it all the way, couldn't get there fast enough (so sweet!). He wants to hear how it was for Ennis, and we see Ennis's face, what he would express, if he could, we know how he was waiting, unable to do anything but think of Jack that whole day, maybe for weeks? But Jack doesn't. He is behind Ennis. Actually, in the story, Ennis does say something about how he "wrang it out" thinking of Jack. I like the way everything is reduced to his facial expression in the movie. It makes a stronger point of Ennis's "wordlessness".

monicita

the movie doesn't allow in words what Ennis wish to speak: but in the book as you mention ENNIS sates:  I like doin it with women, yeh, but Jesus H., ain't nothin like this.
I never had no thoughts a doin it with another guy except " I sure wrang it out a hundred times thinkin about you".
His reference to his feelings towards Jack

Ennis later in the conversation does also say: Took me a year to figure out it was I shouldn't a let you out a my sights.
in reference to the split up that summer after they got paid and went their ways.

[stephan]

1. Having seen the film 5 times now, there's one line I appreciate more and more : when Ennis changes his mind about going to Juior's wedding, he says : "They can get themselves a new cowboy."
My heart melts.... He means he's going to the wedding, even if it means losing his job, right ? I remember that in the last scene with Jack, the argument was about Ennis not being able to quit his job like in the past. But at the end, love is more important than his job. Just like in the old days.  :-[ :-[ :-[

2. Ennis's name for Jack : "Jack F.....in' Twist." I love it !

[Cowboy Cody]

I remember that in the last scene with Jack, the argument was about Ennis not being able to quit his job like in the past. But at the end, love is more important than his job. Just like in the old days.  :-[ :-[ :-[

Stephen, you made an excellent point concerning human nature. How many of us, myself included, have put a relationship on a back burner, because we have been more consumed by a job, etc. only to realize what was lost in the process. I'm going to be very honest and admit I did that in the past with my current beau, my one and only Bubba early on. It was a mistake that I regret, but have since that time worked really hard to make him my priority.

The quote "ain't no reins on this one" has so many levels of meaning the more I think about it..it can't be defined, it is as wide open as the Rockies in Big Sky country, but also the use of the word one as it is emphasized at the end, a one shot deal for Ennis, only Jack could have that.

[jimnick]

I love when Ennis is looking for Alma at the store and asks Monroe where she is and he says in the condiments aisle.  Ennis says the what?  Katsup! Oh!

Too funny

Jim

[chameau]

I love when Ennis is looking for Alma at the store and asks Monroe where she is and he says in the condiments aisle.  Ennis says the what?  Katsup! Oh!

Too funny

Jim

Katsup 

I might be wrong, wasn't mustard 

Damnit! I saw this movie 6 times and still, taking mental notes for the next time. 

[*Froggy*]

no it was not mustard..it was Ketchup!

[chameau]

no it was not mustard..it was Ketchup!

Thanks sis! 

[jason]

One other quote that is starting to get to me is "Why do we always have to be in the cold?"  I'm beginning to think that Jack is really asking why they always have to be at odds -- outsiders with each other and the world.  Hiding behind lies.  Unknowing.

Scruffy, now I'm back to BBM after a break. 

You add another perspective here, which I missed (I seem to miss 'em all ).   The story talks about the cold, so I took this line literally -- always camping in the durn cold. 

Now I think you're right about the wider meaning, of being at odds ... with the world, among other things.
Look what I found in the story, where they discuss having children (final camping trip, not in the movie): Jack bursts out, "But f***-all has worked the way I wanted.  Nothin ever came to my hand the way I wanted."

Good interpretation.

PS  i have a distant cousin and friends just moved to Nanaimo--better get up there see y'all. Off topic--sorry

[madisondel]

I am looking for a quote if anyone can help:
Towards the end of the movie when Ennis is with Alma Jr. he says something like"if you don't have much, you don't need much"
Does anyone remember this?
That really struck at me!

[jimmypage]

I am looking for a quote if anyone can help:
Towards the end of the movie when Ennis is with Alma Jr. he says something like"if you don't have much, you don't need much"
Does anyone remember this?
That really struck at me!

"you've got nothing, you don't need nothing" ??

[ethan]

I am looking for a quote if anyone can help:
Towards the end of the movie when Ennis is with Alma Jr. he says something like"if you don't have much, you don't need much"
Does anyone remember this?

From the screenplay:

"If you don't got nothin', then you don't need nothin'"

[madisondel]

Thanks!

[bram]

Alma: You know, your friend could come inside, have a cup of coffee...
Ennis: He's from Texas.
Alma: Texans don't drink coffee?


I know it's not much, but it makes me laugh everytime I think about it. Probably because I am a Texan, and I drink a LOT of coffee. I mean, usually at least a pot a day. When I go out to Denny's at night, I drink at least ten cups, black. That kind of freaks my friends out. They put like ten sugars and two creams in each cup, and I drink them straight black.