Limelight – Movie Quotes

I also hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

What a sad business, being funny.

— You make it difficult for me to know you.
— Read my memoirs in the Police Gazette.

Life is a desire, not a meaning. Desire is the theme of all life. It's what makes a rose want to be a rose... want to grow like that... and a rock want to contain itself and remain like that.

— Why didn't you let me die?
— What's your hurry? Are you in pain? That's all that matters. The rest is fantasy. Billions of years it's taken to evolve human consciousness... and you want to wipe it out. Wipe out the miracle of all existence. More important than anything in the whole universe. What can the stars do? Nothing... but sit on their axis. And the sun, shooting flames... 280,000 miles high... so what? Wasting all its natural resources. Can the sun think? Is it conscious? No, but you are.

Time is the great author. It always writes the perfect ending.

We're all grubbing for a living, the best of us.