Here's my page dedicated to my favorite quotes, Monkees or otherwise. Enjoy. :)
Monkee Quotes!
"Due to a lack of interest, tomorrow has been cancelled." - Mike
"You're ugly. You're an ugly person. Ugly...ugly...ooh are you ugly. Nobody likes you, least of all me." - Mike
"Don't forget to free the serfs." - Micky
"You're a nailbiter. You're a nailbiter and your mother never, ever loved you." - Davy
"Dont fly. If you get too close to the sun, your wings will melt." - Peter
"Behind a dark cloud there's usually rain." - Mike
"It's not how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose." - Davy
Mike: Welcome to Swineville, Peter. A happy, sleepy little hillbilly town where seemingly innocent, nice, naive people turn just like that into a vengeful, hateful mob.
Peter: How do you know that?
Mike: Cause these are my people.
"Ah, hello. My name is Michael Nesmith and, as most of you know, I’ve been running as an independent candidate for mayor of this city. And, uh, politics is a real interesting game, but it’s a dirty one too, as I found out, and I don’t guess I’m tough enough to play that game. Um, in the beginning, when I started this, I wanted to do something for the city, because…uh, well you see…Mrs. Filchach, well you don’t know who Mrs. Filchach is, but there are some people in this town who are the little people. Well, no, they’re not the little people. What I mean to say is, there are some people in this town without any power, and they’re people like my next door neighbors, and what I wanted to do was go down to City Hall and make their voice be heard. Because I didn’t think it was right that just because they didn’t have any power that nobody would listen to ‘em. Well, that was a noble enough motive, but somehow in doing that I got sucked up in the very forces that I was trying to conquer. Well, the newspaper ads and the skywriting and this television show, as much as I hate to say it, were all financed by funds from an improper source. I didn’t know they were improper, I don’t suppose that’s any excuse, but if I can be tricked like that I don’t suppose I’m smart enough to be your mayor. So I’d like to take this opportunity to say I’m withdrawing from the competition." - Mike, "Monkee Mayor"
"There's no Monkee philosophy, because there is no Monkees," - Micky
Micky: The Monkees becoming a band is the equivalent of Leonard Nimoy becoming a Vulcan.
Mike: Or Laurence Olivier becoming the Prince of Denmark.
Peter: It's like Roy Rogers becoming a real cowboy.
Other Quotes!
"You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you. You've never understood that it ain't no good, you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you." - Bob Dylan (From the song Like a Rolling Stone)
"Well, my road might be rocky, the stones might cut my face. My road it might be rocky, the stones might cut my face. But as some folks ain't got no road at all, they gotta stand in the same old place. Hey, hey, so I guess I'm doin' fine." - Bob Dylan (From the song Guess I'm Doin' Fine
"While one who sings with his tongue on fire gargles in the rat race choir bent out of shape from society's pliers ...cares not to come up any higher...but rather get you down in the hole that he's in." - Bob Dylan (From the song It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding))
"Screws fall out all the time. The world's an imperfect place." - John Bender, The Breakfast Club
"If he gets up, we'll all get up...it'll be ANARCHY!" - John Bender, The Breakfast Club
"I don't think it's cool to be an anarchist, though." - Bob Dylan, after being called an anarchist in an English newspaper article
Bob Dylan: Have you heard me sing?
Interviewer: I like Caruso better.
Bob: Ohhh...well, you see right there now, right there we have a little disagreement. I happen to be as good as him...a good singer, have to listen closely...but I hit all the notes and I can hold my breath three times as long if I have to.
"Jesus I'm late!" - unidentified actor on Dark Shadows, my favorite TV show. Long story...when I get around to making a Dark Shadows webpage I'll be sure to tell it.
"My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself." - Lestat from one of those Vampire Chronicles.
"Good God...what have you done now?" - Louis to Lestat, from The Tale of the Body Thief.
"I don't like myself, you know. I love myself, of course. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself." - Lestat, from one of the Vampire Chronicles...ain't that the truth?
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie
"It is better to have one friend with a full plate of food than a hundred with just a sigh." - An old Yiddish saying
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Conolly
Brian: I'm a fucking idiot 'cause I can't make a lamp?
Bender: No, you're a genius 'cause you can't make a lamp.
Brian: What do you know about trigonometry?
Bender: I could care less about trigonometry.
Brian: Bender, did you know without trigonometry there would be no engineering?
Bender: Without lamps there'd be no light. - The Breakfast Club
"A person should not believe in an '-ism,' he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, 'I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.' - Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
[W]e're all disturbed! And, if not, why not?! Doesn't this blend of blindness and blandness wanna make you do something crazy?! Then, why not do something crazy?! It makes a Hell of a lot more sense than blowing your fucking brains out. You know, go nuts, go crazy, get creative. You got problems? You just chuck 'em--nuke 'em! They think you're moody, make 'em think you're crazy. Make 'em think you might snap! They think you got attitude? You show 'em some real attitude!" - Mark Hunter, Pump Up the Volume
"Hi I'm Woody! Howdy, howdy, howdy!" - The Shark from Toy Story
"Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it." - Hal 9000, 2001: a Space Odessey
"Landing in a bed of gold-how like me!" - Autoloces, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
"As a villain you were awesome. As a hero you're nothing but a sentimental fool." - Callisto to Xena, "Xena Warrior Princess"
"My mother is not a whore! She's...she's a waitress!" - Beverly Marsh, It by Stephan King
"When we started, I said, 'Ok, when we do this scene, I'll say my lines, and when they start dancing, I'll wander off.' But when you're right in the center of making a musical, you can't help it. And at some point, the Julie Andrews in you comes out. I had a thoroughly good time. And I'll never do a musical again." - Christian Bale on the musical Newsies
