Hector and the Search for Happiness Movie Quotes
Hector
1. Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
Hector
2. A lot of people think happiness means being richer or more important.
Hector
3. Many people only see happiness in their future.
Hector
4. Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time.
Hector
5. Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
Hector
6. Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.
Hector
7. Does this person bring you predominantly a. up b. down?
Hector
8. Happiness is answering your calling.
Hector
9. Happiness is being loved for who you are.
Hector
10. Sweet Potato Stew!
Hector
11. Fear is an impediment to happiness.
Hector
12. Happiness is feeling completely alive.
Hector
13. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.
Hector
14. Listening is loving.
Hector
15. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
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Professor Coreman
We should concern ourselves, not so much with the pursuit of happiness, but with the happiness of pursuit.
[class laughs and applauds]
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Professor Coreman
How many of us, I wonder, can recall that childhood moment when we experienced happiness as a state of being. That single moment of untarnished joy. That moment when everything in our world, inside and out, was alright. Everything was alright.
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Dying Woman on Plane
I'm not afraid, Hector. People who are afraid of death are afraid of life.
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Hector
You've been a fugitive. You've been in prison for your beliefs, you've lost family and loved ones. I mean, you've just been through so much. How is it you're so happy?
Old Monk
Because I've been through so much.
Hector
I mean, searching for happiness is one thing, but making it the goal, it just doesn't work, does it?
Old Monk
Higher than that, Hector. More important than what we are searching for is what we are avoiding.
Hector
Like unhappiness. So, don't make unhappiness *not* the goal?
Old Monk
Higher than that.
Hector
Avoiding unhappiness is *not* the road to happiness.
Old Monk
You hold all the cards, Hector.
[both laugh]
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Edward
You're a very very strange person, Hector. The kind of person I normally avoid like the plague. I'm glad I didn't.
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Old Monk
Would you like to come in?
Hector
Yes, please. 'Cause I might not be around next week.
Old Monk
The moment of death is indeed uncertain. Come in.
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Hector
Your English is very good. Where are you from?
Diego Baresco
Would you like to see my passport?
[shows him a $100 bill]
Hector
I prefer your hair that way it is now.
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French Proprietress
[Startles Hector]
You are intriguing me. Come over us play vu. You are not wacking like these people.
Hector
Oh no, I'm Hector. I'm a psychiatrist.
French Proprietress
Psi-kay-trist! Alloh, you can elp me.
Hector
Oh, I think not.
French Proprietress
But, I want a penis... a penis.
French Proprietress
Everybody want a penis, but you cannot ol the penis.
Hector
Yes, sorry.
[laughs]
Hector
It's... uh... it's illusive, yeah. You can't touch happiness.
French Proprietress
You cannot touch a penis.
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Hector
You know what smothering is, Clara? It's mothering, with an S!
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Alan
There a big difference between being here, and being here to be photographed being here.
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[last lines]
Professor Coreman
Everything was up for change. And he loved like he never loved before.
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Hector
I can't wait to tell my patients.
Old Monk
Tell them what?
Hector
We all, all of us have the capacity to be happy.
Old Monk
Higher than that Hector.
Hector
We all have a right to be happy?
Hector
I see. We all have an obligation to be happy.
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Agnes
Kids, this is... this is mommy's Hector.
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Diego Baresco
I bet what I farm makes more people happy than what you dish out.
Hector
I see, farmer. I get it, drugs. Forgive me, but if your happiness causes other people's unhappiness, then how can there be happiness. Doesn't that bother you?
Diego Baresco
[throws him onto the bar for the second time]
I don't cause unhappiness, I respond to it, same as you! We both feel the need, but the demand we don't create.
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Professor Coreman
Where were you thinking of going on this journey of yours?
Hector
I was thinking China.
[a large metallic lid falls on the floor sounding like a chinese bell]
Professor Coreman
Brilliant.
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[first lines]
Clara
Hector... Morning, sweetheart. Time to raise and shine.
Hector
[narrating]
One upon a time, there was a young psychiatrist called Hector, who had a very satisfactory life. His world was tidy, uncomplicated. And he liked it that way. He took great comfort in its predictable patterns. Patterns his girl friend Clara was happy to maintain.
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Professor Coreman
[narrating]
One upon a time, there was a young psychiatrist called Hector, who was very satisfied with his life.
Hector
[to stewardess]
Far be it for me, and forgive me for asking, and I don't mean to pry, but can this plane go any faster?
Professor Coreman
His world was complex, sometimes even chaotic. And he liked it that way. He took comfort in the rich, random patterns of his life. He listened to his patients with real patience.
[chuckling about an encounter]
Professor Coreman
Oh ho, see what I mean? Sometimes with surprising results.
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