Big Lebowski Quotes

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man...

Fuck it, Dude.

Life does not start and stop at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit.

Yeah? Well, you know, that's just uh like, your opinion man. ~The Dude~ The Big Lebowski

While eating our feast, we watch The Big Lebowski, which is sort of bizarre, because Alex was trying to get me to watch this a couple of months ago. And the Roths have it on DVD, so they are all amazed I’ve never seen it. Turns out, it’s really good. And what’s even better, in addition to Porter preparing me for the sound of gunshots in the movie—so I won’t be caught off guard—and quoting lines along with the actors, which makes me smile despite the dreary events of the day, is when he leans close and whispers into my ear, “You belong here with me.” And for that moment, I believe that I do.

This is not 'Nam, this is bowling there are rules

Well that's like, your opinion, man.

Nietzsche wrote, "One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic". Or, as The Dude put it: "You're not wrong, Walter - you're just an asshole". Less quotable, and often overlooked, is Walter's response: "Okay, then." The Walters of the world don't mid being assholes; what matters to them is being right.

It’s a male myth about feminists that we hate sex.

The Kevster’s a friend,” I shared with Ren. At my words, Ren’s brows shot together and he asked, “The Kevster?” “His preferred handle,” I explained. Ren looked to the ceiling. I figured he did this because Ren might be a member of a crime family but he reeked class. He likely had no friends with “handles.” Or that smoked doobies. And I didn’t ask because I was scared of the answer, but there was a high probability Ren would not like The Big Lebowski and that might mean I’d have to question his taste. Since he very much liked the taste of me, I didn’t want to do that.

Goodman, a friend of the Coens since he worked with them on their second movie, Raising Arizona, laughed about the scene where William Macy tried to escape out of a motel window, only to be dragged back inside by the cops. “Macy in his underwear,” Goodman said, giggling. “That’s our answer to everything,” Ethan said. “You need a dramatic fall, put a character in his undies.

They talked about Brando. Bridges said that his brother, Beau, once worked with Brando and the great actor said, “I want to have eye contact with you, do you mind putting the lines on your forehead?

Indeed it’s well known that many people don’t “get” The Big Lebowski because they find the plot wanting. Yet what makes the film such a treasure is not the story itself, nor even its characters, but the mind-blowing verbal pleasure they afford us.

Shut the fuck up Donnie.

Michael Gambon, the British actor best known in the States for Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective (and later for playing professor Albus Dumbledore in the final six Harry Potter movies), was a contender for the role of the Big Lebowski. Joel had met him in New York, Ethan said, “Yeah, he’s … a good actor and we have a mutual friend and he’s supposed to be perfectly pleasant to work with …” “But?” “But …” Gambon was British. The idea didn’t seem … right, not for a real Pasadena guy.

Fargo was a vicious little crime drama shot on a shoestring budget. Ethan’s college friend, William Robertson, begged the brothers not to make it: You’ve just had a huge flop, now you want to make a crime drama set in North Dakota? Nobody will watch it,

To paraphrase Jesus from The Big Lebowski, ‘I’m going to shove this gun up her ass and pull the trigger until it goes click.

Turturro is coming in to play the pederast," Joel said. "He said he’d do his best F. Murray Abraham.

Nihilists... F#$% me. I mean say what you will about the tenets of national socialism dude, at least it's an ethos