The best Quotes from The Holiday

Amanda: "Sex makes everything more complicated. Even not having it, because the not having it makes it complicated."
Graham: "That's why it's better to have it... some say."

I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said 'Journeys end in lovers meeting.' What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said 'love is blind'. Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms.

Call me old fashioned but one doesn't have sex with women who are unconscious.

Graham: "Long distance relationships can work, you know."
Amanda: "Really? I can't make one work when I live in the same house with someone."

I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

I don't get hung up on weight.

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.

If you want more sex, just ask for it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

It may seem as the hardest thing in the world, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

Will Traynor: "Will you stay?"
Lou Clark: "For as long as you want me to."

There's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived your life at all.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

I have loved her even when I hated her... only married couples'll understand that one.

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

I think it's the ending of a relationship, that's what makes a love story so memorable.

Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!

Here's looking at you, kid.