Brokeback Mountain Quotes

• I wish I knew how to quit you.

  Annie Proulx

  Movie, Romantic, Real Love

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• ...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

  Annie Proulx

  Knows, Ifs

  Annie Proulx (2007). “Close Range: Wyoming Stories”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

  George Lucas

  Hero, Aces, Vietnam War

  George Lucas (2011). “A New Hope: Star Wars: Episode IV”, p.2, Del Rey

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• I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

  John Green

  Movie, Romantic, Real Love

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• There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

  Annie Proulx

  Believe, Space, Done

  Annie Proulx (1999). “Close Range: Wyoming Stories”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.

  Dan Savage

  Christian, Crazy, Teenager

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I'm so proud to have work in this movie, "Brokeback Mountain," a movie that once again shows us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that we can be so different, too.

  Gustavo Santaolalla

  Love Is, Different, Proud

  Gustavo Santaolall's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 5, 2006.

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• Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

  Emile Hirsch

  Talking, Remember, Incredibles

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• It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Beautiful, Scripts, Shots

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Past, Years, Movement

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be incredible. And then nobody saw it and it didn't get bought at Sundance. And it was a really great experience. Humbling. And then it's since found its way.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Way, Saws, Incredibles

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• "Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.

  Lewis Black

  Should Have, Two, Equestrian

  "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. June 10, 2006.

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• I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.

  Karan Johar

  New York, Couple, Gay

  Karan Johar interviews Ang Lee, www.hindustantimes.com. November 04, 2012.

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• Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?

  Pablo Francisco

  Comedian, Doe, Schwarzenegger

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.

  James Franco

  Gay, Thinking, Roles

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• 'Brokeback Mountain' is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening.

  Wesley Morris

  Sad Love, Gay, Two

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!" Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Halfway There, Car, Bird

  Suzanne Brockmann (2013). “Into the Storm: Troubleshooters 10: Troubleshooters 10”, p.311, Hachette UK

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• I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is about two people desperately looking for love. To be loved. And who were probably capable of it. And they just found it with someone of the same sex.that does not dismiss the fact that it is about, really, primarily, the first kind of very profound gay love story. Hopefully it can create an equality of an idea: that is, it's possible that you can find love anywhere.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Gay, Thinking

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But it's about adolescence. It's about what it feels like - this isn't meant as a criticism, but like things I didn't relate to, which were high school movies. Where I'd watch it and I'd be like, "Well, am I like the kid that nobody likes? Or am I like the person who everybody [likes]?" I couldn't [tell]. I was like quantifying, putting me in a box. "This is my personality at that age" and "I'm this kind of person" just felt like bullshit to me.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  School, Kids, Ties

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

  Annie Proulx

  Sweet, Memories, Real

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely; we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.

  Diana Ossana

  Lonely, Art, Jobs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and it's going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria.

  Chris McDaniel

  Stars, Mountain, Beyonce

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• It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Military, Troops, Deuces

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• 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Cowboy, America, And Love

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