Quotes from Annette Bening movies and TV shows

Dorothea: Wondering if you're happy is a great shortcut to just being depressed.

Dorothea: Men always feel that they have to fix things for women, but they're not doing anything. Some things just can't be fixed. Just be there, somehow that's hard for all of you.

President Andrew Shepherd: You have concerns?
Sydney Ellen Wade: Yes. Not many. A few. One. I have one concern.
President Andrew Shepherd: This wouldn't have to do with the fact that one of us is president?

Sydney Ellen Wade: If someone had asked me yesterday, I'd have told them that the Quebec Conference is made up of six professional hockey teams.

Julia Lambert: Michael and I live separate lives. That's why we're so happy... more or less.

Florence: I think I used to know your father in Jersey, he was a doctor, wasn't he? He used to come to our house quite often.
Julia Lambert: Actually, he was a vet, he used to go to your house to deliver the bitches. Your house was full of them.

Julia Lambert: I've decided to retire and let myself go. I'll have potatoes for lunch and potatoes for dinner and beer. God, I love beer! And treacle pudding and cherry tart and cream, cream, cream, cream, cream, cream... as god is my judge, I'll never eat a lettuce leaf again.

Julia Lambert: I always lay a place for him at the table, just in case he turns up.
Michael Gosselyn: He's been dead for 15 years.
Julia Lambert: Yes, but, you never know.

Julia Lambert: Real actresses don't make films.
Tom Fennel: Beautiful actresses do.

Mary Sinclair: I'm sorry, are you on drugs?
Danny Collins: Currently or in general?

Danny Collins: Dinner tomorrow?
Mary Sinclair: You know what I like about you? You never give up.
Danny Collins: Some dinners are worth fighting for.

Peter Turner: Has anyone ever told you that you look like Lauren Bacall when you smoke?
Gloria Grahame: Humphrey Bogart. And I didn't like it then either.

Roy Dillon: You talk the lingo. What's your pitch?
Myra Langtry: The long end, big con.
Roy Dillon: Nobody does that single-o.
Myra Langtry: I was teamed ten years with the best in the business, Cole Langley.
Roy Dillon: I've heard the name.
Myra Langtry: It was beautiful! And getting better all the time.
Roy Dillon: Is that right?
Myra Langtry: It is, Roy. It's where you should be. What do you bring in, $300, $400 a week? We used money like that for tips.

Paul: Just making an ob... observation.
Nic: Yeah? Well, I need your observations like I need a dick in my ass.

Nic: Look, we have to be smart about this. You know, if we act like grubby bitches, we're just gonna make it worse.
Jules: I know.
Nic: Let's just kill him with kindness and put it to bed.
Jules: I'm with you, honey. We're gonna get through this, okay?
Nic: I love you, chicken.
Jules: I love you, too, pony.

Terry McKay: I guess I'm happy when I don't want to be anywhere else but where I am.

Nora: I don't want to die here.
Karen: You're not going to die. You'll be fine.
Nora: You expect me to live forever?
Karen: Don't start that again.
Nora: Even if I could, I wouldn't want to. It's just one disappointment after another.

Sue Barlow: You're a disgrace, Marshal Poole. You always have been.
Sheriff Poole: I know it. That's just the way it is.

Sue Barlow: So is it marriage that scares you two, or putting down roots?
Boss Spearman: No. Who'd have him? All rangy and mangy like a rough old dog.
Charley Waite: How about I hold your head under water for just a little while?

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You will go to prison.
Agent Frank Haddad: You know what happens to women in prison?
Elise Kraft: Mmmmm... yummm.