Meet Joe Black Quotes

Meet Joe Black is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Meet Joe Black completed its run in 1970.

It features Martin Brest as producer, Thomas Newman in charge of musical score, and Emmanuel Lubezki as head of cinematography.

Meet Joe Black is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Meet Joe Black is 181 minutes (original) long. Meet Joe Black is distributed by Universal Studios.

The cast includes: Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish, Claire Forlani as Susan Parrish, Marcia Gay Harden as Allison, Brad Pitt as Joe Black, Lois Kelly-Miller as Jamaican Woman, Jake Weber as Drew, and Jeffrey Tambor as Quince.

Meet Joe Black Quotes

Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish

• (Anthony Hopkins) "It's hard to let go, isn't it?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Yes it is,Bill."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "What can I tell you? That's life."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "I loved Susan from the moment she was born, and I love her now and every minute in between. And what I dream of is a man who will discover her, and that she will discover a man who will love her, who is worthy of her, who is of this world, this time and has the grace, compassion, and fortitude to walk beside her as she makes her way through this beautiful thing called life."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "Who is you? Did you tell her who you are?"
• (Brad Pitt) "No."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Does she know here she's going? Huh? You see, Susan went for that poor son of a bitch whose body you took. And everything else since has been aftermath. You say you love her but you don't know what love is. She loves you, she doesn't know who you are. You make a deal you're breaking it. Bottom line is, Joe, you're swindling her soul, and you're doing it with your eyes wide open."
• (Brad Pitt) "I don't like what you're saying."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "I'm past caring what you like and what you don't like. You're stealing my daughter and I'm not gonna let you."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "It's not what you say about Drew, it's what you don't say."
• (Claire Forlani) "Maybe you're not listening."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Oh yes, I am. There's not an ounce of excitement. Not a whisper of a thrill. This relationship has all the passion of a pair of tit mice. I want you to get swept away out there. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a Dervish."
• (Claire Forlani) "Oh, that's all?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Yeah. Be deliriously happy or at least leave yourself open to be."
• (Claire Forlani) "Okay. Be deliriously happy. I shall -- uhh -- I shall do my utmost."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "I know it's a cornball thing, but love is passion. Obsession. Someone you can't live without. I say fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy, and who'll love you the same way back. How do you you find 'em? Well, you forget your head and you listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Because the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "How's your working going? I mean elsewhere --"
• (Brad Pitt) "While you were shaving this morning, you weren't just shaving, you weren't just shaving."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "What do you mean?"
• (Brad Pitt) "You were hatching ideas, making plans, arriving at decisions, right?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Yeah, I guess so."
• (Brad Pitt) "So you understand the concept. While part of you is busy doing one thing, another part of you is doing another, perhaps even attending to the problems of your work. Correct?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Of course."
• (Brad Pitt) "So you understand the concept, Bill. Now multiply that by infinity, take that to the depths of forever, and you still barely have a glimpse of what I'm taking about."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "You're at the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong woman."
• (Brad Pitt) "Are you threatening me?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Yeah, I certainly hope so."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "I want you to know how much I love you, that you've given a meaning to my life that I had no right to expect, that no one can ever take from me."
• (Claire Forlani) "Dad --"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "No. I love you so much. And I want you to promise me something. I don't want you to ever worry about me. And if anything should happen, I'm gonna be okay. And everything's gonna be all right. And I have no regrets. And I want you to feel the same way."
• (Claire Forlani) "I love you, Daddy."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "That's why it's okay."

• (Voice) "Yes."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Yes what?"
• (Voice) "'Yes' is the answer to your question."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "What question?"
• (Voice) "Oh, Bill. Come on. The question. The question you've been asking yourself with increased regularity, at odd moments, panting through the extra game of handball, when you ran for the plane in Delhi, when you sat up in bed last night and hit the floor in the office this morning. The question that is in the back of your throat, choking the blood to your brain, ringing in your ears over and over as you put it to yourself."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "The question."
• (Voice) "Yes, Bill. The question."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "-- Am I going to die?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Yes."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "You want me to be your guide?"
• (Brad Pitt) "You fit the bill, Bill."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "Should I be afraid?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Not a man like you."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "What do you want? Everybody wants something, Joe."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "It's hard to let go, isn't it?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Yes it is, Bill."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "And that's life -- what can I tell you."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "Hello? Is anyone here?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "I said is anyone here?"
• (Voice) "Quiet down."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Where are you?"
• (Voice) "I'm here."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "What is this a joke, right? Some kind of elaborate practical joke? Heh, at my fortieth reunion we delivered a casket to the class presidents hotel room and uh --"
• (Voice) "QUIET."
• (Voice) "Where are you going Bill?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "I uh --"
• (Voice) "The great Bill Parrish at a loss of words? The man from whose lips fall "rapture" and "passion" and "obsession"? All those admonitions about being "deliriously happy, that there is no sense in living your life without" all the sparks and energy you give off, the rosy advice you dispense in round pear shaped tones."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "What the hell is this?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Who are you?"
• (Voice) "Just think of millenniums multiplied by eons compounded by time without end. I've been around that long. But it's only recently your affairs here have piqued my interest. Call it boredom. The natural curiosity of me the most lasting and significant element in existence has come to see you."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "About what?"
• (Voice) "I want to have a look around before I take you."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Take me where?"
• (Voice) "It requires competence wisdom and experience, all those things they say about you in testimonials. And you're the one."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "The one to do what?"
• (Voice) "Show me around, be my guide. And in return you get --"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "I get what?"
• (Voice) "Time: minutes, days, weeks, lets not get encumbered by detail, what matters is that I stay interested."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "I don't think this is the lightning you're looking for."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "I thought I was going to sneak away tonight. What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together, and you're mine for a night. And I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one candle wish: that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, "I don't want anything more." Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?"

• (Anthony Hopkins) "You're not Death. You're just a kid in a suit."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "Tell me who you are."
• (Voice) "Are you giving me orders?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "No. I'm sorry, I --"
• (Voice) "No. You're not. You're trying to handle the situation. But this is the one situation you knew you never could handle."

• (Anthony Hopkins) "Do you know about money?"
• (Brad Pitt) "It can't buy happiness?"

Marcia Gay Harden as Allison

• (Marcia Gay Harden) "I should have my head examined again."

• (Marcia Gay Harden) "If food is the prose of poetry, then lights are its poetry. I like that. If music were the food of love, play on. I'm going out of my mind."

• (Marcia Gay Harden) "I've felt loved, and that's all that matters. So, never mind favorites. You're allowed to have one. The point is, you've been mine."

Brad Pitt as Joe Black

• (Brad Pitt) "Happy birthday Bill."

• (Brad Pitt) "You're the poison Drew. You've operated behind the scenes to suborn the trust of a man who has stamped you with his imprimatur of class, elegance and stature. I've had the opportunity to be a witness to every kind and degree of deception but Bill Parish has been on the receiving end of machinations so Machiavellian that it has rarely been my experience to encounter and yet he has combated them himself stoically and selflessly without revealing my identity. Had he violated the vow of secrecy he took, his task would have been far easier, he could have turned defeat into victory. But he is too honorable of a man to have done that, because of me, he has lost his work, his company, his reputation, so now, given these losses, I'm compelled to end the need for secrecy."

• (Brad Pitt) "You got enough nice pictures?"

• (Brad Pitt) "-- But Allison loves you?"
• (Brad Pitt) "How do you know?"
• (Jeffrey Tambor) "Because she knows the worst thing about me and it's okay."
• (Brad Pitt) "What is it?"

• (Brad Pitt) "How are you doing?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "What the hell do you care?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Just asking, Bill."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "You wanna know? I'll tell you. You're looking at a man who is not walking through the valley of the shadow of death. He's galloping into it. At the same time, the business he built with his own hands and head has been commandeered by a couple of cheap pirates. Oh, yes. I almost forgot. My daughter's fallen in love with Death."

• (Brad Pitt) "Are you threatening me?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Yeah, I certainly hope so. Yeah. I loved Susan from the moment she was born, and I love her now and every minute in between. And what I dream of is a man who will discover her, and that she will discover a man who will love her, who is worthy of her, who is of this world, of this time, and has the grace, compassion and fortitude to walk beside her as she makes her way through this beautiful thing called life."

• (Brad Pitt) "Bill, why at this juncture are you letting yourself be so concerned by business matters?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "I don't want anybody buying up my life's work. Turning it into something it wasn't meant to be. A man wants to leave something behind. And he wants it left behind the way he made it. He wants it to be run the way he run it, with a sense of honor, of dedication, of truth. Okay?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Easy, Bill. You'll give yourself a heart attack and ruin my vacation."

• (Brad Pitt) "Thank you for loving me."

• (Brad Pitt) "I would like it if we were friends."
• (Claire Forlani) "I've got plenty of friends."
• (Brad Pitt) "I don't have any."
• (Claire Forlani) "Well, I can see why."

• (Brad Pitt) "I don't care Bill. I love her."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "How perfect for you; to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love."
• (Brad Pitt) "Then what is it?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging; it's missing everything that matters."
• (Brad Pitt) "Which is what?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love."
• (Brad Pitt) "So that's what love is according to William Parrish?"
• (Anthony Hopkins) "Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about."
• (Brad Pitt) "Those were my words."
• (Anthony Hopkins) "They're mine now."

• (Brad Pitt) "Careful Bill, you'll give yourself a heart attack and ruin my vacation."

Claire Forlani as Susan Parrish

• (Claire Forlani) "So you're a one-girl guy?"
• (Young Man in Coffee Shop) "Yes, I am. That's right. Looking for her right now actually. Who knows, you might be her."

• (Young Man in Coffee Shop) "You know I was thinking, I don't want you to be my doctor. I don't want you to examine me."
• (Claire Forlani) "Why?"
• (Young Man in Coffee Shop) "Because I like you so much."
• (Claire Forlani) "And I- I don't want to examine you."
• (Young Man in Coffee Shop) "You don't? Why not?"
• (Claire Forlani) "Because I like you so much."

• (Claire Forlani) "I wish -- you could have known my father."

• (Claire Forlani) "Do you love making love to me?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Yes"
• (Claire Forlani) "More than peanut butter?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Yes. Much more."

• (Claire Forlani) "Tell me you love me now."
• (Brad Pitt) "I love you now. I love you always."

• (Young Man in Coffee Shop) "Listen, could I buy you a cup of coffee?"
• (Claire Forlani) "Um, I have some patients coming and so I should probably go."
• (Young Man in Coffee Shop) "Yeah, I gotta get up to the apartment and get off to work. But I'd still like to have another cup of coffee. Would you let me do that?"
• (Claire Forlani) "Well, yeah, um, okay."
• (Young Man in Coffee Shop) "Deal."

• (Claire Forlani) "My mom always said you could set your heart by that clock."

• (Claire Forlani) "Love, passion, obsession, all those things you told me to wait for, well, they've arrived. What are you afraid of, Dad? That I'll fall head over heels for Joe? Well, I have."

• (Claire Forlani) "What will we do now?"
• (Brad Pitt) "It will come to us."

• (Claire Forlani) "So tell me Joe -- How come a man as attractive, intelligent, well-spoken -- diffident in the most seductive way, and yet -- powerful -- is all alone in this world?"

• (Claire Forlani) "Joe?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Mmm?"
• (Claire Forlani) "May I kiss you?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Why, yes, you can."
• (Brad Pitt) "Thank you."
• (Claire Forlani) "You're welcome."
• (Claire Forlani) "Joe?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Mmm --"
• (Claire Forlani) "I don't know who you are."
• (Brad Pitt) "I'm Joe --"
• (Claire Forlani) "Mm-hmm --"
• (Brad Pitt) "and, uh, you're Susan."
• (Claire Forlani) "Mmm --"
• (Brad Pitt) "And -- I have this -- weak feeling in my knees."
• (Claire Forlani) "And is your heart beating strangely?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Yes."
• (Claire Forlani) "Mm-hmm --"
• (Brad Pitt) "Faster."
• (Brad Pitt) "The taste of your lips and the touch of your tongue -- that was wonderful."

Jake Weber as Drew

• (Jake Weber) "It's just life, Quincie. Wake up and smell the thorns."

• (Jake Weber) "And who would've thought -- you, an IRS agent."
• (Brad Pitt) "Death and Taxes."

• (Jake Weber) "We all know this deal is as certain as death and taxes."
• (Brad Pitt) "Death and taxes?"
• (Jake Weber) "Yes."
• (Brad Pitt) "Death and taxes?"
• (Jake Weber) "Yes."
• (Brad Pitt) "What an odd pairing."

Lois Kelly-Miller as Jamaican Woman

• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "It nice it happen to you. Like you come to the island and had a holiday. Sun didn't burn you red-red, just brown. You sleep and no mosquito eat you. But the truth is, it bound to happen if you stay long enough. So take that nice picture you got in your head home with you, but don't be fooled. We lonely here mostly too. If we lucky, maybe, we got some nice pictures to take with us."

• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "Mr. Bad News. 'Bout time you show up."
• (Brad Pitt) "Don't be feisty, sister."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "I'm not feisty, mister. You come for me? That's good news."
• (Brad Pitt) "No, I come to see the doctor."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "Doctor?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Mm-hmm."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "What could be wrong with you?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Nothin'."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "Ohh. You come to see doctor lady?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Yeah, man."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "My doctor lady?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Mine too, you know."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "You're in love?"
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "You're loved back?"
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "She know your real self?"
• (Brad Pitt) "She know how she feel."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "Backside. What the hell kind of business this is?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Don't need you okayin'."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "Schoolboy things in your head. Badness for you. Badness for her. Badness for me, lyin' here, tumor big as a breadfruit, poisonin' me inside, and waitin'."
• (Brad Pitt) "Bring you flowers, and all I's gettin' is aggravation."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "The only flowers I want to see -- is the ones over my peaceful self resting in the dirt."
• (Brad Pitt) "Can't do no right by people. Come to take you, you want to stay. Leave you stay, you want to go. Rahtid."

• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "You waiting here to take us? Like you is a bus driver to there?"
• (Brad Pitt) "No man, I on 'olliday."
• (Lois Kelly-Miller) "Some spot you pick."

Jeffrey Tambor as Quince

• (Jeffrey Tambor) "Do you like me, Joe?"
• (Brad Pitt) "Oh, yes, Quince. You're one of my favorites."

• (Jeffrey Tambor) "You're free. You're free to l; love each other completely, totally. Just no fear. So there's nothing you don't know about each other, and it's okay."

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