Key quotes from American Beauty
Appearances Quotes
CAROLYN: Jane, honey, are you trying to look unattractive?
Family and Marriage Quotes
LESTER: Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser, and they're right.
Love and Sex Quotes
LESTER: It's the weirdest thing. I feel like I've been in a coma for about twenty years, and I'm just now waking up.
Mortality and Time Quotes
LESTER: My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This is my life. I'm forty-two years old. In less than a year, I'll be dead.
Violence Quotes
FRANK: You know I don't like locked doors in my house, boy.