Before Sunset Quotes

Before Sunset is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Before Sunset ended in 1970.

It features Richard Linklater as producer, Cliff Eidelman in charge of musical score, and Lee Daniel as head of cinematography.

Before Sunset is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Before Sunset is 80 minutes long. Before Sunset is distributed by Warner Independent Pictures.

The cast includes: Julie Delpy as Celine, Ethan Hawke as Jesse, and Louise Lemoine Torres as Journalist #1.

Before Sunset Quotes

Julie Delpy as Celine

• (Julie Delpy) "The past is the past. It was meant to be that way."
• (Ethan Hawke) "What, you really believe that? That everything's fated?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Well, you know, the world might be less free than we think."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, when given these exact circumstances, that's what will happen every time: two part hydrogen, one part oxygen, you get water every time."
• (Ethan Hawke) "No, no, I; I; I mean what if your grandmother had lived a week longer, or, you know, or passed away a week earlier, days even. You know things might have been different. I believe that."
• (Julie Delpy) "You can't think like that, it's --"
• (Ethan Hawke) "No, I mean, I know you shouldn't on most things, but; It's just, on this one it seemed like something was off, you know?"

• (Julie Delpy) "One night I heard some noise on my fire excape, so I called 911. And the cops came eventually --"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah like three hours later."
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, after I had been raped and killed about 10 times."

• (Julie Delpy) "You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details."

• (Julie Delpy) "I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32."

• (Julie Delpy) "Were you there in Vienna, in December?"

• (Julie Delpy) "Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past."

• (Julie Delpy) "So, I want to try something."
• (Ethan Hawke) "What?"
• (Julie Delpy) "I want to see if you stay together or if you dissolve into molecules."
• (Ethan Hawke) "How'm I doing?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Still here."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Good, I like being here."

• (Julie Delpy) "Baby, you are gonna miss that plane."
• (Ethan Hawke) "I know."

• (Julie Delpy) "There are so many things I want to do, but I end up doing not much."

• (Julie Delpy) "Do I look any different?"
• (Julie Delpy) "I do?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "I'd have to see you naked."

• (Julie Delpy) "Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past."

• (Julie Delpy) "You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details."

• (Julie Delpy) "The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil. Right?"

• (Julie Delpy) "Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women."
• (Ethan Hawke) "I think I'm one of those guys."
• (Julie Delpy) "I wanna kill them. Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked."

• (Julie Delpy) "Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand"

• (Julie Delpy) "They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day."

• (Julie Delpy) "So what's it like to be married? You haven't talked much about that."
• (Ethan Hawke) "I haven't? How weird."

• (Julie Delpy) "It's amazing what perverts we've become in the past nine years."

• (Julie Delpy) "I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader."

• (Julie Delpy) "Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand"

• (Julie Delpy) "I love my kitty."
• (Ethan Hawke) "What's his name?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Che."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Che?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Mmm hmm."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Uh huh --"
• (Julie Delpy) "What?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Commie."

• (Julie Delpy) "They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day."

• (Julie Delpy) "Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely."

• (Julie Delpy) "The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil. Right?"

• (Julie Delpy) "Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past."

• (Julie Delpy) "I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader."

• (Julie Delpy) "Tell him to pick you up at Quai Henri Quatre."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Oh, s***. K-kay --"
• (Julie Delpy) "Henri Quatre. Quai --"
• (Ethan Hawke) "K-k-k --"
• (Julie Delpy) "Henri Quatre."
• (Ethan Hawke) "On --"
• (Julie Delpy) "What's wrong with you? No, do you want be to; Henri Quatre."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Henry Four?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Yes."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Come one, why didn't you say so."
• (Julie Delpy) "I'm sorry, okay?"

• (Julie Delpy) "I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32."

Ethan Hawke as Jesse

• (Ethan Hawke) "I'm designed to feel slightly dissatisfied."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we do that?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Because we were young and stupid."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Do you think we still are?"
• (Julie Delpy) "I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times."
• (Ethan Hawke) "And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect."

• (Ethan Hawke) "In the months leading up to my wedding, I was thinking about you all the time. I mean, even on my way there; I'm in the car, a buddy of mine is driving me downtown and I'm staring out the window, and I think I see you, not far from the church, right? Folding up an umbrella and walking into a deli on the corner of 13th and Broadway. And I thought I was going crazy, but now I think it probably was you."
• (Julie Delpy) "I lived on 11th and Broadway."
• (Ethan Hawke) "You see?"

• (Ethan Hawke) "Okay, I realize there are a lot of serious problems in the world."
• (Julie Delpy) "Okay, thank you."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Okay. I mean, I don't even have one publisher in the whole Asian market."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I heard this story once about when the Germans were occupying Paris and they had to retreat back. They wired Notre Dame to blow, but they had to leave one guy in charge of hitting the switch. And the guy, the soldier, he couldn't do it. You know, he just sat there, knocked out by how beautiful the place was. And then when the allied troops came in, they found all the explosives just lying there and the switch unturned, and they found the same thing at Sacre Couer, Eiffel Tower. Couple other places I think --"
• (Julie Delpy) "Is that true?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "I don't know. I always liked the story, though."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Oh, God, why weren't you there, in Vienna?"
• (Julie Delpy) "I told you why."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Well, I know why, I just; I wish you would have been. Our lives might have been so much different."
• (Julie Delpy) "You think so?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "I actually do."
• (Julie Delpy) "Maybe not. Maybe, we would have hated each other eventually."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Oh what, like we hate each other now?"
• (Julie Delpy) "You know, maybe we're; we're only good at brief encounters, walking around in European cities in warm climate."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Skinnier, I think. A little thinner."
• (Julie Delpy) "Did you think I was fat before?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "No."
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, you thought I was a fatty. No, you thought I was a fatty. Yeah, you, you wrote a book about a fat French girl."
• (Ethan Hawke) "No, listen --"
• (Julie Delpy) "Oh, no --"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Seriously, all right, you look beautiful."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Do you believe in, like -- ghosts or spirits?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Uhm, no."
• (Ethan Hawke) "No?"
• (Julie Delpy) "No."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Ok, what about reincarnation?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Not at all."
• (Ethan Hawke) "God?"
• (Julie Delpy) "No."
• (Julie Delpy) "That sounds -- that sounds terrible. No, no, no. But, at the same time I don't wanna be one of those people that don't believe in any kind of magic, you know?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "So then, astrology."
• (Julie Delpy) "Yes, of course."
• (Ethan Hawke) "There we go, right."
• (Julie Delpy) "I mean, that makes sense, right? You're a Scorpio, I'm a Sag, so we get along."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Do you have kids?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Yes, two;"
• (Julie Delpy) "s***."
• (Ethan Hawke) "What?"
• (Julie Delpy) "I left them in the car. With the windows rolled up. It was six months ago. Think they're okay?"

• (Ethan Hawke) "What do you think were the chances of us ever meeting again?"
• (Julie Delpy) "After that December, I'd say almost zero. But we're not real anyway, right? We're just, uh, characters in that old lady's dream. She's on her deathbed, fantasizing about her youth. So of course we had to meet again."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I have this idea of my best self, and I wanted to pursue that even if it might have been overriding my honest self."

• (Ethan Hawke) "You want to know why I wrote that stupid book?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Why?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "So that you might come to a reading in Paris and I could walk up to you and ask, "Where the f*** were you?""
• (Julie Delpy) "No; you thought I'd be here today?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "I'm serious. I think I wrote it, in a way, to try to find you."
• (Julie Delpy) "Okay, that's; I know that's not true, but that's sweet of you to say."
• (Ethan Hawke) "I think it is true."

• (Ethan Hawke) "What is love, if it's not respect, trust, admiration? And I felt all those things. So cut to the present tense: I feel like I'm running a small nursery with somebody I used to date."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I don't have any permanent place here. You know, in eternity, or whatever. And the more I think that, I can't go through life saying that this is no big deal. I mean, this is it. This is actually happening. What do you think is interesting, what do you think is funny, what do you think is important? You know, every day is our last."

• (Ethan Hawke) "At least now we don't have to pretend that each new sexual experience is a life-altering event."
• (Julie Delpy) "I know. By now, you know, you've stuck it in so many places, it's like about to fall off."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah, you know, and I can't realistically expect that you've become anything but a total ho, at this point."
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, thank you."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I feel like if someone were to touch me, I'd dissolve into molecules."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything."

• (Ethan Hawke) "You know, I think that book that I wrote, in a way, was like building something. So that I wouldn't forget the -- details of the time that we spent together. You know, like just a reminder that -- that once we really did meet. You know, that this was real. That this happened."
• (Julie Delpy) "Celine: I'm happy you're saying that, because -- I mean, I always feel like a freak, because I'm never able to move on like -- this. You know. People just have an affair, or even entire relationships -- they break up and they forget. They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals. I feel I was never able to forget anyone I've been with. Because each person have -- their own, specific qualities. You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost. Each relationship, when it ends, really damages me. I never fully recover. That's why I'm very careful with getting involved, because -- It hurts too much. Even getting laid. I actually don't do that -- I will miss on the other person the most mundane things. Like I'm obsessed with little things. Maybe I'm crazy, but -- when I was a little girl, my mom told me that I was always late to school. One day she followed me to see why. I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees, rolling on the sidewalk, or -- ants crossing the road, the way a leaf casts a shadow on a tree trunk -- Little things. I think it's the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them, that move me, and that I miss, and -- will always miss. You can never replace anyone, because everyone is made of such beautiful specific details. Like I remember the way, your beard has a bit of red in it. And how the sun was making it glow, that -- that morning, right before you left. I remember that, and -- I missed it. I'm really crazy, right?"

• (Ethan Hawke) "Maybe what I'm saying is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was whacked with insecurity. Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them."

• (Ethan Hawke) "We're just living in a pretense of a marriage responsibility, and all these ideas of how people are supposed to live."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them."

• (Ethan Hawke) "There's gotta be something more to love than commitment."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I'm designed to feel slightly dissatisfied."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing."

Louise Lemoine Torres as Journalist #1

• (Louise Lemoine Torres) "Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Uh, well, I mean -- isn't everything autobiographical?"

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