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Alan Ball Quotes

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“We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all.”
— Bill Compton, True Blood, Season 1: Mine
Tagged: Magic, different, Simple, that's all
“You can't just sit around waiting for your perfect idea of a man to come along. Life is way too damn short.”
— Sookie Stackhouse, True Blood, Season 2: Shake and Fingerpop
Tagged: sit around, perfect idea, Man, Life, too short
“That boy is sex on a stick. I don't give a good damn how stuck up he is.”
— Lafayette Reynolds, True Blood, Season 1: Strange Love
Tagged: Boy, Metaphor Examples, Sex, stuck up
“I know every man, whether straight, gay or George mother-fucking Bush is terrified of the pussy.”
— Lafayette Reynolds, True Blood, Season 1: Strange Love
Tagged: Man, gay, straight, George Bush, terrified, Pussy
“My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Dead Inside
“Ricky Fitts: It's like God's looking right at you, just for a second, and if you're careful... you can look right back.

Jane Burnham: And what do you see?

Ricky Fitts: Beauty.”
— Ricky Fitts, American Beauty
Tagged: God, beauty
“Denise Rattray: You don't wanna be on my bad side.

Sookie Stackhouse: I'm not sure you even have another side, you no-account backwoods trash!”
— Sookie Stackhouse, True Blood, Season 1: Strange Love
Tagged: bad side, Backwoods, Trash, Insult
“Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well, that's true of every day but one—the day you die.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Death, hopeless
“You sit in such judgment of the world. How do you expect to ever be a part of it?”
— Olivier Castro-Staal, Six Feet Under, Season 3: Death Works Overtime
Tagged: Judgment, Isolation, Solipsism
“I think if you’re afraid of something it probably means you should do it.”
— Bettina, Six Feet Under, Season 3: Nobody Sleeps
Tagged: Fear, Determination, Carpe Diem
“Old Man: You've done a nice job. She looks peaceful.

David: Well, she is at peace now.

Old Man: If there's any justice in the universe, she's shoveling shit in hell.”
— David Fisher, Six Feet Under, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Rest in Peace, Hell
“Sometimes I wake up so fucking empty that I wish I'd never been born, but what choice do I have?”
— Brenda Chenowith, Six Feet Under, Season 1: An Open Book
Tagged: Empty, Vacant
“Tracy Montrose: Why do people have to die?

Nate: To make life important.”
— Nate Fisher, Six Feet Under, Season 1: Knock, Knock
Tagged: Death, Life, God, Important
“All that lives, lives forever. Only the shell, the perishable passes away. The spirit is without end. Eternal. Deathless.”
— Nate Fisher, Six Feet Under, Season 2: In The Game
Tagged: Life, Eternal Life, Deathless
“That's where everything started. In those cave paintings there was the creation of the idea of image, of the representation of ourselves.”
— Russell Corwin, Six Feet Under, Season 4: Can I Come Up Now?
Tagged: cave paintings, Image, Representation
“That’s the thing about Narcissus, its not that he’s so fucking in love with himself, because he isn’t at all, he fucking hates himself. It’s that without that reflection looking back at him, he doesn’t exist.”
— Billy Chenowith, Six Feet Under, Season 2: Someone Else's Eyes
Tagged: Narcissus, Narcissism, Fucking, Self-Love, Self-hatred
“Carolyn Burnham: Uh, whose car is that out front?

Lester Burnham: Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!”
— Carolyn Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: I Rule, Pontiac Firebird
“In order to be successful, one must project an image of success at all times.”
— Buddy Kane, American Beauty
Tagged: Success, Image
“If people I don't even know look at me and want to fuck me, it means I really have a shot at being a model.”
— Angela Hayes, American Beauty
Tagged: Fuck, model, Attractive
“You look like a porn star with that tan and pink lipstick. You gotta date?”
— Lafayette Reynolds, True Blood, Season 1: Strange Love
Tagged: Simile Examples, Porn Star, Tan, Pink, lipstick, Date
“Celeste: I don't get fucked in the ass.

Keith: That makes one of us.”
— Keith Charles, Six Feet Under, Season 4: Coming And Going
Tagged: Anal Sex, Fucked
“It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: surprise
“Brad Dupree: Got a minute?

Lester Burnham: [Phony, overly polite voice] For you, Brad, I've got five!”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Sarcasm, got a minute?
“They ain't scared of you, honey child. They scared of what's between your legs.”
— Lafayette Reynolds, True Blood, Season 1: Strange Love
Tagged: Scared, Honey, Vagina, legs
“All we have is this moment, right here, right now. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be here... now.”
— Brenda Chenowith, Six Feet Under, Season 2: Someone Else's Eyes
Tagged: Future, present, Living In The Moment, Fucking
“Hi! You've reached David and Keith, but we can't come to the phone right now because we're too gay!”
— David Fisher, Six Feet Under, Season 4: Can I Come Up Now?
Tagged: gay, Too Gay
“David: We've been clutching so desperately to the past, and for what?

Ruth: Because that's when there was hope.”
— Alan Ball, Six Feet Under, Season 5: Everyone's Waiting
Tagged: The Past, Hope
“Hey, you just shut your nasty mouth, mister! You might be a vampire, but when you talk to me, you will talk to me like the lady that I am!”
— Sookie Stackhouse, True Blood, Season 1: Strange Love
Tagged: shut, Nasty, Mouth, Vampire, talk, Lady
“You know, I read in Hustler everybody should have sex with a vampire at least once before they die.”
— Jason Stackhouse, True Blood, Season 1: Strange Love
Tagged: Hustler, Sex, Vampire, Die
“Sam Merlotte: Remind me why I hired you again.

Tara Thornton: Affirmative action!”
— Tara Thornton, True Blood, Season 1: The First Taste
Tagged: hired, Affirmative Action, reminder
“Angela Hayes: Yeah? Well, at least I'm not ugly!

Ricky Fitts: Yes, you are. And you're boring, and you're totally ordinary, and you know it.”
— Ricky Fitts, American Beauty
Tagged: ugly, Boring, Ordinary
“Look at me, jerking off in the shower….This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Jerking Off, all downhill
“I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.”
— Angela Hayes, American Beauty
Tagged: Ordinary
“Everybody forgives everybody for everything.”
— Nate Fisher, Six Feet Under, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: forgiveness
“[Lester has just caught Caroline cheating with the Real Estate King]
Carolyn Burnham: Uh, Buddy, this is my...

Lester Burnham: Her husband. We've met before, but something tells me you're going to remember me this time.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Cheating, Cuckolding
“Mr. Smiley's Counter Girl: Whoa! You are so busted.

Carolyn Burnham: You know, this really doesn't concern you.

Lester Burnham: Well, actually, Janine is Senior Drive-thru Manager so you are on her turf.”
— Carolyn Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: busted
“I swear I try not to listen, but I can't always keep my guard up.”
— Sookie Stackhouse, True Blood, Season 1: The First Taste
Tagged: Listen, guard, swear, Always
“You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too fucking awful to even have a name.”
— Brenda Chenowith, Six Feet Under, Season 1: Life's Too Short
Tagged: Widow, Widower, Orphan, Loss of a Child
“Well, hello hotness.”
— Lafayette Reynolds, True Blood, Season 1: Mine
Tagged: Greeting, hello, hotness, Attractive
“Evil is makin' the pre-medicated choice to be a dick.”
— Jason Stackhouse, True Blood, Season 2: Shake and Fingerpop
Tagged: Evil, Choice, dick, mean, pre-medicated
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