Almost Famous (2000) quotes
Director
Cameron Crowe.
Cast
Billy Crudup.
Patrick Fugit.
Kate Hudson.
A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
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.
– Lester Bangs
Well, it was fun.
– William Miller
Because they make you feel cool. And hey. I met you. You are not cool.
– Lester Bangs
I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn’t.
– William Miller
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.
– Lester Bangs
I can really see that now.
– William Miller
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.
– Lester Bangs
I’m glad you were home.
– William Miller
I’m always home. I’m uncool.
– Lester Bangs
Me too!
– William Miller
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.
– Lester Bangs
I feel better.
– William Miller
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.
– Lester Bangs
If you think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age fifty, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
– Dennis Hope
How old are you?
– Penny Lane
Eighteen.
– William Miller
Me too! How old are we really?
– Penny Lane
Seventeen.
– William Miller
Me too!
– Penny Lane
Actually, I’m sixteen.
– William Miller
Me too. Isn’t it funny? The truth just sounds different.
– Penny Lane
I’m fifteen.
– William Miller
Listen to Tommy with a candle burning, and you’ll see your entire future.
– Anita Miller
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 go to the record store and visit your friends.
– Penny Lane
I didn’t invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella.
– Dennis Hope
We are not Groupies. Groupies sleep with rockstars because they want to be near someone famous. We are here because of the music, we inspire the music. We are Band Aids.
– Penny Lane
I have to go home.
– William Miller
You are home.
– Penny Lane
So Russell… what do you love about music?
– William Miller
To begin with, everything.
– Russell Hammond
Call me if you need a rescue, we live in the same city.
– Penny Lane
Sometimes I think I live in a different world.
– William Miller
FECK YOU!
– Anita Miller
HEY!
– Elaine Miller
This is a house of lies!
– Anita Miller
Well there it is, your sister used the “F” word.
– Elaine Miller
I think she said “feck.”
– Young William
What’s the difference?
– Elaine Miller
The letter “u.”
– Young William
It’s all happening!
– Polexia Aphrodisia
Is it that hard to make us look cool?
– Jeff Bebe
Some people have a hard time explaining rock ‘n’ roll. I don’t think anyone can really explain rock ‘n’ roll. Maybe Pete Townshend, but that’s okay. Rock ‘n’ roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking… and it’s not about money and popularity. Although, some money would be nice. But it’s a voice that says, “Here I am… and fuck you if you can’t understand me.” And one of these people is gonna save the world. And that means that rock ‘n’ roll can save the world… all of us together. And the chicks are great. But what it all comes down to is that thing. The indefinable thing when people catch something in your music.
– Jeff Bebe
It’s okay! I’m easy to forget! Just leave me behind! I’m only the fucking lead singer!
– Jeff Bebe
Please don’t give him any more acid.
– William Miller
One day you’ll be cool. Look under your bed, it’ll set you free.
– Anita Miller
Music, you now, true music – not just rock n roll – it chooses you. It live in your car, or alone listening to your headphones, you know, with the cast scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. It’s a place apart from the vast, benign lap of America.
– Lester Bangs
Let’s deflower the kid.
– Polexia Aphrodisia
You’re not there to party. We’ve already got *one* Hunter Thompson.
– Ben Fong-Torres
Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and there’s no glass slipper.
– Elaine Miller
Does anybody remember laughter?
– Sapphire
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?
– William Miller
When did you get so professional?
– Russell Hammond
I’m never as good as when you’re there.
– Russell Hammond
I am a golden god!
– Russell Hammond
They don’t even know what it is to be a fan. Y’know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts.
– Sapphire