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(Carolyn)"Uh, whose car is that out front?" (Lester)"Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted, and now I have it. I rule!"

(Lester)"You are beautiful. You are so beautiful, and I would be a very lucky man."

(Lester)"My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This is my life. I'm forty-two years old. In less than a year, I'll be dead."

(Lester)"It's the wierdest thing-I feel like I've been in a coma for about twenty years, and I'm just now waking up."

(Lester)"I am sick and tired of being treated like I don't exist!"

(Lester)"Any friend of Janie's is a f-friend of mine."

(Lester)"I didn't lose it. It's not like, 'Whoops, where'd my job go?' I quit!"

(Lester)"Well, then c'mon baby, I'm ready!"

(Lester)"I want you. I've wanted you since the first moment I saw you. You are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."

(Lester)"I'll be whatever you want me to be."

(Lester)"Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*ck himself . . ."

(Carolyn)"Oh, you don't complain! Oh, please! Excuse me! . . ."

(Lester)"I think you just became my personal hero . . ."

(Lester)"We have a very healthy relationship . . ."

(Lester)"You don't get to tell me what to do-ever again."

(Lester)"Well, don't you think it's weird and kind of fascist? (Carolyn)"Possibly, but you don't want to be unemployed."

(Lester)"That's fifty-thousand dollars! That's somebody's salary!. . ."

(Ricky Fitts)"If I had to leave, tonight, would you come with me?"

(Lester)"And your mother seems to prefer that I go through life like a f*cking prisoner while she keeps my dick in a mason jar under the sink!"

(Lester)"Oh, what? You're mother of the year?"

(Lester)"I wanna look good naked!"

(Carolyn)"Morning, Jim! I love your tie, that color!"

(Carolyn)"I see you're smoking pot now . . ."

(Lester)"Oh, all right, so shoot me, I was whackin' off . . ."

(Lester)"Have you done something different? You look great."

(Lester)"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself . . ."

(Lester)"Well, guess what? I've changed. And the new me whacks off when he feels horny . . ."

(Lester)"Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the high point of my day. It's all downhill from here."

(Lester)"We've met before, but something tells me you're going to remember me this time."

(Lester)"You're one to talk, you bloodless, money-grubbing freak."

(Lester)"Honey, do me a favor. Would you just say whatever you want to say and spare me the propaganda?"

(Lester)"Did you ever see that movie where the body is walking around carrying its own head, and then the head goes down on that babe?" (Ricky)"Reanimater."

(Lester)"I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose."

(Ricky)"Never underestimate the power of denial."

(Lester)"Don't interrupt me, honey."

(Lester)"When did you become so joyless?"

(Carolyn)"There happens to be a lot about me that you don't know, Mr. Smarty Man"

(Lester)"I'm looking for the least possible amount of resonsibility."

(Carolyn)"Oh! I am so proud of you! You know, I watched you very closely, and you didn't screw up once!"

(Carolyn)"I will sell this house today."

(Lester)"Sit down!"

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