Movie Quotes From My Own Private Idaho (1991)

1. My Own Private Idaho - Wikiquote

  • Dialogue ; Scott Favor: It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings. Isn't that right, Mike. ; Mike Waters: What? ; Scott Favor: Wings, ...

  • My Own Private Idaho is a cult 1991 road movie set mainly in Portland, Oregon. A character study about a young street hustler's search for home and family, the film incorporates parts of William Shakespeare's Henry IV parts 1 and 2.

2. My Own Private Idaho - Quotes.net

  • Scott Favor: It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings. Isn't that right, Mike. Mike Waters: What? Scott Favor:

  • Great memorable quotes and script exchanges from the My Own Private Idaho movie on Quotes.net

3. My Own Private Idaho Quotes - Movie Quotes

4. My Own Private Idaho - Quotes.net

  • My Own Private Idaho1991 ... Scott Favor: Getting away from everything feels good. Mike Waters: Yeah, it does. Scott Favor: When I left home, the maid asked me ...

  • A great memorable quote from the My Own Private Idaho movie on Quotes.net - Scott Favor: Getting away from everything feels good. Mike Waters: Yeah, it does. Scott Favor: When I left home, the maid asked me where I was off to. I said "Wherever. Whatever. Have a nice day." Mike Waters: You had a maid. If I had a normal family, and a good up-bringing, then I would have been a well-adjusted person. Scott Favor: It depends on what you call normal. Mike Waters: Yeah, it does. Well, you know. Normal. Like a mom and a dad and a dog, and shit like that. Normal. Normal. Scott Favor: So, you didn't have a normal dog? Mike Waters: No, I didn't have a dog. Scott Favor: Didn't... or... didn't have a normal dad? Mike Waters: Didn't have a dog or a normal dad anyway, yeah. That's alright. I don't feel sorry for myself. I mean, I feel like I'm... I feel like I'm... you know... well-adjusted.

5. Movie Quote of the Day – My Own Private Idaho, 1991 (dir. Gus Van ...

  • Jul 24, 2012 · Mike Waters: How'd we get home? Scott Favor: That German guy. Hans. He brought you downtown, you were passed out.

  • Mike Waters: How’d we get home? Scott Favor: That German guy. Hans. He brought you downtown, you were passed out. He said he was heading to Portland, so I asked him for a ride. Mike Waters: F…

6. The Ending - My Own Private Idaho (1991) Discussion | MovieChat

  • eyes are still watery..): "I'm a connoisseur of roads. I've been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes ...

  • Hi all,

    Okay this is a really stupid question I am sure, but what does everyone gather from the ending? Does it symbolize starting from the beginning, how Mike will always live his life? Who is the man who picks him up, after he has fallen asleep at the very end?

    Please share your thoughts. I am so confused about this.



    "when ya got nothin, ya got nothin to lose"!!

7. "My Own Private Idaho" (1991) - the DataLounge

  • It wasn't great but it wasn't bad (pretty much sums up every Gus Van Sant movie). Seeing how Phoenix's character at the end is kind of heart broken still kills ...

  • God, has it been 28 years? Can you remember the first time you saw it?

8. My Own Private Idaho | Rotten Tomatoes

  • In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves) is ...

  • In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

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