Before Sunrise Quotes

Before Sunrise is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Before Sunrise ended its run in 1970.

It features Anne Walker-McBay as producer, Fred Frith in charge of musical score, and Lee Daniel as head of cinematography.

Before Sunrise is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Before Sunrise is 101 minutes long. Before Sunrise is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Julie Delpy as Celine, Ethan Hawke as Jesse, and Haymon Maria Buttinger as Bartender.

Before Sunrise Quotes

Julie Delpy as Celine

• (Julie Delpy) "You know, I've been wondering lately. Do you know anyone who's in a happy relationship?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Uh, yeah, sure. I know happy couples. But I think they lie to each other."
• (Julie Delpy) "Hmf. Yeah. People can lead their life as a lie. My grandmother, she was married to this man, and I always thought she had a very simple, uncomplicated love life. But she just confessed to me that she spent her whole life dreaming about another man she was always in love with. She just accepted her fate. It's so sad."
• (Ethan Hawke) "I guarantee you, it was better that way. If she'd ever got to know him, I'm sure he would have disappointed her eventually."
• (Julie Delpy) "How do you know? You don't know them."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah, I know, I know. It's just, people have these romantic projections they put on everything. That's not based on any kind of reality."

• (Julie Delpy) "Maybe we should meet here in five years or something."
• (Ethan Hawke) "All right, all right, five year- Five years. That's a long time."
• (Julie Delpy) "It's awful. It's like a sociological experiment."

• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah."
• (Ethan Hawke) "OK, well this was my thought: 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there's, like, two million people on the planet. Now there's between five and six billion people on the planet, right? Now, if we all have our own, like, individual, unique soul, right, where do they all come from? You know, are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? 'Cause if they are, that represents a 5,000 to 1 split of each soul in the last 50,000 years, which is, like, a blip in the Earth's time. You know, so at best we're like these tiny fractions of people, you know, walking -- I mean, is that why we're so scattered? You know, is that why we're all so specialized?"
• (Julie Delpy) "I don't know. Wait a minute, I'm not sure -- I don't --"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah, hang on, hang on. It's a, it's a totally scattered thought. It -- which is kind of why it makes sense."

• (Julie Delpy) "But then the morning comes, and we turn back into pumpkins, right?"

• (Julie Delpy) "Its just -- its depressing, no? That the -- the only thing we're gonna think of is when we're gonna have to say goodbye tomorrow."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Well, we could say goodbye now. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it in the morning."

• (Julie Delpy) "When you talked earlier about after a few years how a couple would begin to hate each other by anticipating their reactions or getting tired of their mannerisms-I think it would be the opposite for me. I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone-the way he's going to part his hair, which shirt he's going to wear that day, knowing the exact story he'd tell in a given situation. I'm sure that's when I know I'm really in love."

• (Julie Delpy) "Did your parents divorce?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah. Finally. They should have done it a lot sooner, but they stuck together for a while for the "well-being of my sister and I", thank you very much."

• (Julie Delpy) "Wait. I have to say something stupid."

• (Julie Delpy) "No, then it's like some male fantasy. Meet a French girl on the train, f*** her, and never see her again."

• (Julie Delpy) "You know what I want?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "What?"
• (Julie Delpy) "To be kissed."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Well I can do that."

• (Julie Delpy) "Each time I wear black, or like, lose my temper, or say anything about anything, you know, they always go, "Oh it's so French. It's so cute." Ugh. I hate that."

• (Julie Delpy) "Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?"

• (Julie Delpy) "I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt."

• (Julie Delpy) "Even though I reject most of the religious things I can't help but feeling for all those people that come here lost or in pain, guilt, looking for some kind of answers. It fascinates me how a single place can join so much pain and happiness for so many generations."

• (Julie Delpy) "I used to think that if none of your family or friends knew you were dead, it was like not really being dead. People can invent the best and the worst for you."

• (Julie Delpy) "If there's any kind of magic in this world -- it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know it's almost impossible to succeed -- but who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt."

• (Julie Delpy) "I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away."

• (Julie Delpy) "I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?"

Ethan Hawke as Jesse

• (Ethan Hawke) "Everybody's parents f***ed them up. Rich kids parents gave them too much. Poor kids, not enough. You know, too much attention, not enough attention. They either left them or they stuck around and taught them the wrong things."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Well, I was driving around with this buddy of mine, he was a big atheist, and we came to a stop, next to this homeless guy. And my buddy takes out a 100 dollar bill, and leans out the window, and he says, "Do you believe in God?". And the guy looks at my friend, and he looks at the money, he says, uh, "Yes, I do". My friend says, "Wrong answer", and we drove away."

• (Ethan Hawke) "You know what drives me crazy? It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. You never hear somebody say, "With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out". I mean, you never hear that."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Listen, if somebody gave me the choice right now, of to never see you again or to marry you, alright, I would marry you, alright. And maybe that's a lot of romantic bulls***, but people have gotten married for a lot less."
• (Julie Delpy) "Actually, I think I had decided I wanted to sleep with you when we got off the train. But now that we've talked so much, I don't know anymore."
• (Julie Delpy) "Why do I make everything so complicated?"

• (Ethan Hawke) "I kind of see this all love as this, escape for two people who don't know how to be alone. People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, there's nothing more selfish."

• (Ethan Hawke) "This friend of mine had a kid, and it was a home birth, so he was there helping out and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath -- all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gonna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all; everything is so finite. But don't you think that that's what, makes our time, at specific moments, so important?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, I know. It's the same for us, tonight, though. After tomorrow morning, we're probably never going to see each other again, right?"
• (Julie Delpy) "We, maybe we should try something different. I mean, it's no so bad if tonight is our only night, right? People always exchange phone numbers, addresses, they end up writing once, calling each other once or twice --"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Right. Fizzles out. Yeah, I mean, I don't want that. I hate that."
• (Julie Delpy) "I hate that too, y'know."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Why do you think everybody thinks relationships are supposed to last forever anyway?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, why. It's stupid."

• (Ethan Hawke) "You know what's the worst thing about somebody breaking up with you? It's when you remember how little you thought about the people you broke up with and you realize that is how little they're thinking of you. You know, you'd like to think you're both in all this pain but they're just like "Hey, I'm glad you're gone"."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Alright, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life"
• (Julie Delpy) "What?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Um -- I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, me too."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah, right, well, great. So listen, so here's the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the capital."
• (Julie Delpy) "What?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Come on. It'll be fun. Come on."
• (Julie Delpy) "What would we do?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Umm, I don't know. All I know is I have to catch an Austrian Airlines flight tomorrow morning at 9:30 and I don't really have enough money for a hotel, so I was just going to walk around, and it would be a lot more fun if you came with me. And if I turn out to be some kind of psycho, you know, you just get on the next train."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Alright, alright. Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you're married. Only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have, y'know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you'd picked up with one of them, right? Well, I'm one of those guys. That's me y'know, so think of this as time travel, from then, to now, to find out what you're missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything. I'm just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and, uh, you made the right choice, and you're really happy."
• (Julie Delpy) "Let me get my bag."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I know what you mean about wishing somebody wasn't there, though. It's just usually it's myself that I wish I could get away from. Seriously, think about this. I have never been anywhere that I haven't been. I've never had a kiss when I wasn't one of the kissers. Y'know, I've never, um, gone to the movies, when I wasn't there in the audience. I've never been out bowling, if I wasn't there, y'know making some stupid joke. I think that's why so many people hate themselves. Seriously, it's just they are sick to death of being around themselves."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Let's say that you and I were together all the time, then you'd start to hate a lot of my mannerisms. The way every time we would have people over, uh, I'd be insecure, and I'd get a little too drunk. Or, uh, the way I'd tell the same stupid pseudo-intellectual story again, and again. Y'see, I've heard all those stories. So of course I'm sick of myself. But being with you, uh, it's made me feel like I'm somebody else."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I'm having kind of an odd situation here, which is that -- is -- you see that girl over there? Yeah, well, this is our only night together. Here's the problem: The problem is that she wants a bottle of red wine, and I don't have any money. I was thinking that you might want to, um, give me the address of this bar, no, I know -- and I would promise to send you the money, and you would make our night complete"
• (Haymon Maria Buttinger) "You would send me the money?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yes."
• (Haymon Maria Buttinger) "Your hand?"
• (Haymon Maria Buttinger) "Okay. For the greatest night in your life."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Thank you very much"

• (Ethan Hawke) "Sometimes I dream about being a good father and a good husband. And sometimes it feels really close. But then other times it seems silly like it would ruin my whole life. And it's not just a fear of commitment or that I'm incapable of caring or loving because -- I can. It's just that, if I'm totally honest with myself I think I'd rather die knowing that I was really good at something. That I had excelled in some way than that I'd just been in a nice, caring relationship."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah. So, uh, were we having our first fight back there?"
• (Julie Delpy) "v"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yeah, I think so, I think we were."
• (Julie Delpy) "Well, even if we were a little bit, y'know. Why does everyone think conflict is so bad. There's a lot of good things coming out of conflict."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Would you be in Paris by now, if you hadn't gotten off the train with me?"
• (Julie Delpy) "No not yet. What would you be doing?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "I'd probably be hanging around the airport, reading old magazines, crying in my coffee cause you didn't come with me."
• (Julie Delpy) "Aww -- Actually, I think I'd probably have gotten off the train in Salzburg with someone else."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Oh, yeah? Oh, I see. So, I'm just that dumb American momentarily decorating your blank canvas."
• (Julie Delpy) "I'm having a great time."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Really?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Me too."

• (Ethan Hawke) "You're close with your grandmother?"
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah. i think it's because i always have this strange feeling that i'm this very old woman laying down, about to die. You know, that my life is just her memories or something."
• (Ethan Hawke) "That's so wild."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I feel like this is, uh, some dream world we're in, y'know."
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, it's so weird. It's like our time together is just ours. It's our own creation. It must be like I'm in your dream, and you in mine, or something."
• (Ethan Hawke) "And what's so cool is that this whole evening, all our time together, shouldn't officially be happening."
• (Julie Delpy) "Yeah, I know. Maybe that's why this feels so otherworldly."

• (Ethan Hawke) "There's these breeds of monkeys, right, and all they do is have sex, all the time, you know? And they turn out to be the least violent, the most peaceful, the most happy, you know? So maybe fooling around isn't so bad."
• (Julie Delpy) "Are you talking about monkeys?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Yes I'm talking about monkeys."
• (Julie Delpy) "Ah, I thought so --"

• (Ethan Hawke) "I mean, just once, I'd love to see, some little old lady save up all her money, to go to the fortune teller, and she'd get there, all excited about hearing her future, and the woman would say, "Um-humm. Tomorrow, and all your remaining days will be exactly like today. A tedious collection of hours. And you will have no new passions, and no new thoughts and no new travels, and when you die, you'll be completely forgotten."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I don't know, I think that if I could just accept the fact that my life is supposed to be difficult. You know, that's what to be expected, then I might not get so pissed-off about it and I'll just be glad when something nice happens."

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