Garden State Quotes:

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

- Bob Hope

topic: Garden State, Decent

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

- Natalie Portman

topic: Laughing, Garden State, Life Is, Laugh At Yourself

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

- Peter Sarsgaard

topic: Sleep, Okay, Garden State

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

- Zach Braff

topic: Garden, Lines, Directors, Garden State

Complete garbage. It's like Garden State, but in outer space.

- Zach Braff

topic: Garden, Space, Garbage, Garden State

Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.

- Zach Braff

topic: Winning, Garden, People, Garden State, Half A Century

I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State

- Zach Braff

topic: Garden, Way, States, Garden State

If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?

- Zach Braff

topic: Player, Garden, Dvds, Garden State, Amenities

Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.

- Zach Braff

topic: Character, Garden, Way, Garden State

People always say The God Father is the #1 movie of all time. But ask yourself, did you see Zach Braff in it....No you didn't. So then by default it goes to Garden State..and if youwatch two episodes of scrubs back to back that counts as the #2.

- Zach Braff

topic: Father, Garden, Two, Garden State, God Father

I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

- Zach Braff

topic: Baby, Art, Winning, Close Minded, Garden State

People still make New Year's resolutions? Wow. I figured those were pointless once I perfected myself by directing, writing, and acting in Garden State. I guess it makes sense, though. It gives people a chance to hope that they can become as great as me someday.

- Zach Braff

topic: New Year, Writing, Garden, Garden State

People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

- Zach Braff

topic: Garden, People, Lasts, Garden State

It's... it's such a weird thing. After Garden State, so many companies wanted to make my movies, and after The Last Kiss, I realized people would make anything I was in. As long as I keep this up I'll be swimming in chubby indie girl pussy.

- Zach Braff

topic: Girl, Kissing, Swimming, Last Kiss, Garden State

If you're dumb enough to volunteer for the army, I don't see why we're supposed to feel so bad when you get shot. I'm not saying we should throw a party or anything, but is it such a tragedy? If I'd gotten shot before I made 'Garden State', yeah, that's a tragedy, but some red-state hick getting his legs blown off? Come on.

- Zach Braff

topic: Party, Army, Garden, Hicks, Garden State

I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.

- Zach Braff

topic: Garden, Thinking, Two, Movie Industry, Garden State

I feel really bad for everyone who died on 9/11. Not just the people in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or Flight 93, but all of the terrorists, too. 'Garden State' came out in 2004. That means none of them got a chance to see it. Let that sink in for a second. No wonder they're building a memorial.

- Zach Braff

topic: Mean, Garden, People, World Trade Center, Garden State

If I could change anything about Garden State, it would be to cast somebody else for the female lead. Natalie just isn't really that good of an actress. Especially when compared to me. Just watch the two of us, it's light and dark. I am by far the better Jew.

- Zach Braff

topic: Dark, Garden, Light, Garden State, Two Of Us

Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.

- Zach Braff

topic: Garden, Thinking, Citizens, Citizen Kane, Garden State

Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade ... Such was that happy garden-state, ...

- Andrew Marvell

source: Andrew Marvell (2016). “"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Ocean, Garden, Sea, Garden State