15 Best Quotes from Asteroid City (2023)

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (2023) is another beautifully shot and empathetically emotive film set in a quirky desert town during a Junior Stargazer convention. The film garnered critical acclaim with its intricate storytelling, deadpan humour, and heartfelt moments. As one of the year’s most celebrated films, it garnered nominations and awards from the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice Awards, and several film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, confirming its status among the year’s top films.

1. Midge Campbell: I wish I felt guilty at least, but I don’t experience that emotion, if I understand it correctly. I’ve played it, of course.
   Augie Steenbeck: So you’re saying you never feel guilty in real life?
   Midge Campbell: Not to my knowledge.
2. Montana: I figure this here alien come from a tribe we don’t know nothing ’bout, do we? Anything we say’d just be pure speculation. But I tell you what I reckon. I reckon that alien don’t mean no harm at all. I reckon he just took hisself down here to have a look-see at the land and the peoples on it. In the spirit of exploration. See, I don’t look on a feller alien all suspicious-like. No, he ain’t American. No, he ain’t a creature of God’s green Earth, but he’s a creature of somewheres, and so are we. Now, let’s show the old feller some hospitality, and if he turns out to be a dirty dog, which I reckon he ain’t, well, that’ll be a job for the United States armed forces, and they ain’t never lost a war yet. Thanky-do.
3. Augie Steenbeck: 5 Flapjacks and a Black Coffee.
4. Stanley Zak: In my loneliness, and perhaps because of it, I’ve learned not to judge people, to take people as I find them, not as others find them. And most of all, to give complete and unquestioning faith to the people I love.
5. Augie Steenbeck: The Meaning of Life!
   Schubert Green: Maybe there is one!
6. Midge Campbell: I mean, I think I know now what I realize we are. Two catastrophically wounded people who don’t express the depths of their pain because we don’t want to. That’s our connection.
   Augie Steenbeck: Uh-huh.
7. Augie Steenbeck: Time heals all wounds. No. Maybe it can be a Band-Aid.
8. The Alien: [behind the scenes] I don’t play him as an alien, actually. I play him as a metaphor. That’s my interpretation.
   Augie Steenbeck: Metaphor for what?
   The Alien: I don’t know yet. We don’t pin it down.
9. Montana: This bucket of nuts stole my quarter!
10. Augie Steenbeck: Is she a Ghost?
    Midge Campbell: It’s not Clear.
11. Midge Campbell: Are you married?
    Augie Steenbeck: I’m a widower, but don’t tell my kids.
12. Host: There is little Entertainment to be had in watching a man type.
13. Augie Steenbeck: Mind if I crack open a window?
    Conrad Earp: Uh, not at all. It’s sweltering, isn’t it? Even the daisies and buttercups are drooping…
    [Augie tries to open the window]
    Conrad Earp: That window sticks a bit. That window sticks a bit! You broke my window.
14. Clifford: You dare me?
    J. J. Kellogg: Dare you what?
    Clifford: To press that button.
    J. J. Kellogg: I will break your neck.
15. Augie Steenbeck: I still don’t understand the play.
    Schubert Green: Doesn’t matter. Just keep telling the story.

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