# Elizabethtown (film)

Elizabethtown is a 2005 film in which, during a hometown memorial for his Kentucky-born father, a young man begins an unexpected romance with a too-good-to-be-true stewardess.
    Directed and written by Cameron Crowe.

## Claire Colburn

* I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.
* Sadness is easier because it's surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one hand waving free.
* Trust me. Everybody is less mysterious than they think they are.
* Most of the sex I've had in my life was not as personal as that kiss.
* Welcome to the annual meeting of people who annually meet, and we'll see ya'll next year.
* I'm going to miss your lips. And everything attached to them.
* I don't know a lot about everything, but I do know a lot about the part of everything that I know, which is people.
* To have never taken a solitary road trip across country? I mean everybody's got to take a road trip, at least once in their lives. Just you and some music.
* Some music needs air. Roll down your window.
* Men see things in a box, and women see them in a round room.
* I spend so much time thinking about all the answers to the problem ... that I forget what the problem actually was.
* I want you to get into the deep beautiful melancholy of everything that's happened.
* And so we all became helpers, which I so can't help. I can't help helping.
* Life cannot be so cruel that we don't deserve to be together... to eat.
* I'm wearing these clothes. I mean... Have you ever had unlucky clothes? This dress that you like? Good things have not happened to me in this dress. But I saw it tonight and I said: "I'm gonna give you one more chance." And I refuse to be let down by this dress again.
* I'm completely cool with anything you want to say or not say.
* You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery. Enjoy it, embrace it, discard ...and proceed.

## Drew Baylor

* As somebody once said, there's a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-present of success. Any fool can accomplish failure. But a fiasco, a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. A fiasco is a folktale told to others, that makes other people feel more... alive. Because it didn't happen to them.
* No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy. A motto of the British Special Air Force is: 'Those who risk, win.' A single green vine shoot is able to grow through cement. The Pacific Northwestern salmon beats itself bloody on it's quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose, sex of course, but also... life.
* In that moment, I knew success, not greatness, was the only god the world served.
* Because we have a moment here, let me tell you that I have recently become a secret connoisseur of 'last looks'. You know the way people look at you when they believe it's for the last time? I've started collecting these looks. There's one right now.
* You know, there is nothing greater than deciding in your life that things maybe really are black and white! And this guy Ben, who clearly takes you for granted, who serially takes advantage of you, is bad! And what I'm saying is good! See what I mean? You shouldn't be the substitute for anybody. This guy should be right here, right now, doing this. [kisses Claire]

## Other

* Hollie Baylor: We were complete opposites and it worked. And something happened between us that was not part of the plan... we were in love.
* Jessie Baylor: I teach my kids about the things that really matter. I will teach them about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zandt, because they are equally important in my house.

## Dialogue

    Claire Colburn: I think I've been asleep most of my life.
    Drew Baylor: Me too.
    Drew Baylor: I'm gonna have to call you back...
    Heather Baylor: Okay, just dial HELL and I'll answer.
    Claire Colburn: Do you ever just think I'm fooling everyone?
    Drew Baylor: You have no idea.
    Claire Colburn: Hey, you're only 45 minutes away. You wanna meet halfway and see the sunrise? At this point it's probably easier to stay up!
    Drew Baylor: You think so?
    Claire Colburn: I think that's what "they" say!
    Claire Colburn: What they say is that it will hit you. Could be ten minutes or ten years from now. So it's good that you talk about it, or don't talk about it... we have talked about it.
    Drew Baylor: I've always wondered something... who are "they"?
    Claire Colburn: You know... "Them"
    Drew Baylor: Them?
    Claire Colburn: The inimitable collective, "them".
    Drew Baylor: And who says we have to listen to "them"?
    Claire Colburn: "THEY" do!
    Claire Colburn: So, you failed.
    Drew Baylor: No, you don't get it.
    Claire Colburn: All right, you really failed. You failed, you failed, you failed. You failed, you failed, you... You think I care about that? I do understand. You're an artist, man. Your job is to break through barriers. Not accept blame and bow and say thank you, I'm a loser, I'll go away now. Oh, Phil's mean to me, whaa, whaa, So what.
    Drew Baylor: I don't cry.
    Claire Colburn: You want to be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling. That's true greatness to me. But... don't listen to me, I'm a Claire.
    Claire Colburn: You know, You're always trying to break up with me, and we're not even together.
    Drew Baylor: I know... We're not?

## Cast

* Orlando Bloom - Drew Baylor
* Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn
* Susan Sarandon - Hollie Baylor
* Alec Baldwin - Phil DeVoss
* Bruce McGill - Bill Banyon
* Judy Greer - Heather Baylor
* Jessica Biel - Ellen Kishmore
* Paul Schneider - Jesse Baylor
* Loudon Wainwright III - Uncle Dale
* Gailard Sartain - Charles Dean
* Jed Rees - Chuck Hasboro
* Jim Fitzpatrick - Rusty
* Paula Deen - Aunt Dora
* Dan Biggers - Uncle Roy
* Alice Marie Crowe - Aunt Lena
* Tim Devitt - Mitch Baylor
* Ted Manson - Sad Joe
* Shane Lyons - Charlie Bill
* Emily Rutherfurd - Cindy Hasboro

## External links

* Elizabethtown quotes at the Internet Movie Database