Movie Quotes: The Magic of Belle Isle

Girls, it's not polite to stare.
- Charlotte

Finnegan: What's he yellin' at?
Henry: Life.

Henry: I think you should hear what he has to say.
Monte: ...And what might be the topic of that conversation?
Nobody cares about a writer, and nobody reads.
Henry: Nobody reads you because you don't write.
Monte: Drinking is the very demanding profession,
and I can't hold down two jobs at once.
Henry: You've always been your own words in you.

Step your ideas in the suggestion's box on your way out.
- Monte

Finnegan: You write stories?
Monte: I used to.
Finnegan: My favorite stories from outer space.
Monte: Extraterrestials have their place,
and I have met too.
But you don't have to leave this planet
to tell a good story.
Finnegan: How, how do you make them laugh?
Monte: Imagination.. the most powerful force ever
made available to humankind.

There are people in life you avoid
and others you go out of the way
to bump into.
- Monte

I'm gonna answer your question
and return for glits of silence.
- Monte

Monte: Can you keep a secret?
Finnegan: Even if they torture me.

It's John Milton once said,
"the mind is its own place."
- Monte

See with your minds eye.
- Monte

Carl: Do you always wear a white hat?
Monte: I wear a white hat Diego so folks can tell a good guy
if I'm the bad guy if in case I've done void.
What's with the gaggles.
Carl: Then no one knows I'm Carl.
Monte: Good thinking.

You drawn from your own experiences.
- Monte

Most times, real life doesn't measure
up to what's in our heads,
but every now and then
it comes pretty close.
- Monte

I don't believed in last chances, Joe.
I've met too many of them.
- Monte