Top 100 Bourne Quotes
#1. I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.
Katie Aselton
#2. Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
Matt Damon
#3. Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.
Donnie Yen
#4. Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.
Tom Duff
#5. How long has it been since you've slept?" Chase asked.
"I sleep." Not much.
"How long since you've slept more than an hour here and there?"
"I do not require a mother."
Chase lifted a brow. "Perhaps a wife, then?"
Bourne wished Chase were in the damn ring, too.
Sarah MacLean
#6. I am surprised. 'A disk? A bloody disk. What do I look like to you? Jason goddamn Bourne?
Eoin Colfer
#7. When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.
Doug Liman
#8. I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
James McAvoy
#9. I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.
Doug Liman
#10. I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.
Michael Ealy
#11. There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Joe Wright
#12. The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.
Chris Terrio
#13. I was originally set to star in 'The Bourne Identity,' but I found it too difficult to even pretend to forget who I was.
Zach Braff
#14. Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.
[Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum
Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
Catullus
#15. And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.
Sean William Scott
#17. I don't know where I find the air and I keep getting the words wrong: From out our bourne of death and space the flood will wash me far- but it doesn't even matter. I never knew that words might not matter.
Ally Condie
#18. More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.
Doug Liman
#19. I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.
Max Beesley
#20. I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
Doug Liman
#21. 'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to take it away from that. I believe there was, many years ago, before the Bourne movies, a lawsuit that made it so they couldn't be published in English.
Roger Avary
#22. I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.
Joel Edgerton
#23. All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.
Richard Le Gallienne
#24. If any man has a ghost
Bourne has a ghost
a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak
hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone streets still left in downtown New York,
crying out in a shrill soundless giggle:
War is the health of the State.
John Dos Passos
#25. When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
Shailer Mathews
#26. Even with some of the best action films like The Bourne Ultimatum, which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.
William Friedkin
#27. Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.
Ato Essandoh
#28. Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.
Alex Berenson
#29. He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.
Robert Ludlum
#30. Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana
Meg Cabot
#31. That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.
Doug Liman
#32. The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or something.
Judy Greer
#33. I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.
Robert Gottlieb
#34. I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.
Platon
#35. Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence - a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.
Eric Van Lustbader
#36. First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy."
~Lord Bourne
Sarah MacLean
#37. Pleasure doing business with you, Chad," Holloway said, setting down the infopanel. "Please die in a fire, Jack," Bourne said.
John Scalzi
#38. My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.
Ali Larter
#39. CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
William Shakespeare
#40. Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.
Pierce Brosnan
#41. Now, Shay Bourne isn't the first person to come along and stir the pot," King said. "Few years back, a Florida State football quarterback was found lying in the street, claiming to be God.
Jodi Picoult
#42. Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.
Robert Ludlum
#43. everything we knew, everything we felt!' 'Not quite everything,' he said, touching her cheek. 'I'm Jason to you, Bourne to me, because that's the name I was given, and have to use it because I don't have any other. But it's not mine.
Robert Ludlum
#44. My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy; she likes big blockbusters. She loved that I did 'I Am Legend.' My passion for acting came with my passion for movies.
Alice Braga
#45. Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
Joanna Lumley
#46. With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.
Matthew Bourne
#47. Carrying lockpicks was one bad sign. On the other hand, Owl was taking long enough getting the lock open she almost counted as honest.
"I'm not going to offer to do that," he said. "It'd just annoy you."
"If you do not wish to annoy me, be silent. I'm trying to be quiet about this.
Joanna Bourne
#49. She needed to understand her pain and why it had brought her here.
Holly Bourne
#50. You have captured my soul in a cocoon of love. My heart will be forever yours.
Shae-Lynn Bourne
#51. The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.
Randolph Bourne
#52. Learning anything interesting?"
"Not really. Psychology sounds a lot more interesting than it actually is."
Dad looked at me over the paper. "I'm afraid that's the same with most things in life.
Holly Bourne
#53. A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph Bourne
#54. The true test of life isn't how you cope when everything is going in your favour; it's how you deal with things that could destroy you, if you let them.
Holly Bourne
#55. If we expect all men to have six-packs and biceps, we can't get mad when they expect us to be stick-figures with DD boobs.
Holly Bourne
#56. You know every alley in my mind, every broken bottle and rat scuttling in there.
Joanna Bourne
#57. To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to give
yoursel f permission to fai l . In fact , bet ter yet , don' t even wor ry about winning or
losing. Just DO.
Scott Bourne
#58. Yeah, well, your penis seemed to really like someone else on Saturday.
Holly Bourne
#59. Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
Randolph Bourne
#60. I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.
Matthew Bourne
#61. Choose life. Choose love. And always remember to live.
Holly Bourne
#62. All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.
Randolph Bourne
#63. Everyone's always scared for someone else's generation
Holly Bourne
#64. A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.
Randolph Bourne
#65. The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.
Randolph Bourne
#66. British?" I tried to explain. "We make jokes about uncomfortable topics to feel less awkward about them?" How Hard Can Love Be? chapter 22
Holly Bourne
#67. I don't know if tea really helps when one feels precarious, but it does give one something warm to hold on to. A kitten would work just as well, but we don't have one at the moment. They will grow into cats.
Joanna Bourne
#68. Most of the time, life is all "What's next?" "Who's next?" "Where the HELL am I going, please?" But on anniversaries, you take the time to stop and look back and it's like watching a play of your past dance across your memory. At
Holly Bourne
#69. Nobody really likes coffee. They just pretend to because drinking coffee makes them feel like a proper adult.
Holly Bourne
#70. Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
Matthew Bourne
#71. She wakes up all at once, all over, smooth as a cat. Probably there's cat in her ancestry someplace. Those old noble French families ... " "No telling, with the French. Inventive people.
Joanna Bourne
#72. I don't like your eyes. They belong on a dead fish.
Robert Ludlum
#73. I can't, guys," I said. "Tonight I'm making a cherry pie from scratch.
Holly Bourne
#74. A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.
Randolph Bourne
#75. Do you think maybe your writing isn't going anymore because you're unhappy? Because you're not living the life you could? A life worth writing about? You must know that cliche-write what you know-but what do you know, Bree, when you shut the world out?
Holly Bourne
#76. People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.
Matthew Bourne
#77. And fetch some straw.
We'll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn't sleep soft tonight."
"Straw. I love luxury.
Joanna Bourne
#79. Ha, that's the problem. You have to exert brain control in order to do it, and isn't a lack of control over your brain why you're in therapy in the first place?
Holly Bourne
#80. The good news was, she probably hadn't brought him here to gut him. If she wanted him dead, she'd be sensible about it and stab him in the street. She was complex, not perverse.
Joanna Bourne
#82. When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
Matthew Bourne
#83. Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.
Randolph Bourne
#84. Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's being
you.
Scott Bourne
#85. Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.
Randolph Bourne
#86. I want to climb on top and lace my fingers right down into the marrow of your bones and cast off and fly. I want to sail you like a kite in the sky. I want you holding on to me for dear life.
Joanna Bourne
#87. She has her own brand of strength,brought to the surface by the dim glow of the streetlight and the whisper of night air on her skin.
Holly Bourne
#88. Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.
Randolph Bourne
#89. I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.
Matthew Bourne
#91. How precious you are in my life. I am forever grateful that God sent an angel to me. I love you most dearly.
Shae-Lynn Bourne
#92. Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne
#93. I'm terrified that my journey won't tie up all the loose ends nicely. Because this is a life, not just a story, and life doesn't always go the way stories tell you.
Holly Bourne
#94. Whether the circus travels far up in the North, or down South, whether it takes place in a tent or in a building, it is always the same strange world that knows no distinctions of race or creed -- it is the same fantastic place of glitter, hard work, courage and heartbreak.
Patricia Bourne
#95. Who do you belong to, Jess?" he asked, real quiet.
"I belong to myself.
Joanna Bourne
#96. We classify things for the purpose of doing something to them. Any classification which does not assist manipulation is worse than useless.
Randolph Bourne
#97. Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.
Holly Bourne
#98. So to all who are situated as I am, I would say
Grow up as fast as you can.
Randolph Bourne
#99. You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.
Shae-Lynn Bourne
#100. Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne
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