Jack Fate Quotes in Masked and Anonymous (2003)

Jack Fate: I was always a singer and maybe no more then that. Sometimes it's not enough to know the meaning of things, sometimes we have to know what things don't mean as well. Like what does it mean to not know what the person you love is capable of? Things fall apart, especially all the neat order of rules and laws. The way we look at the world is the way we really are. See it from a fair garden and everything looks cheerful. Climb to a higher plateau and you'll see plunder and murder. Truth and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. I stopped trying to figure everything out a long time ago.

Jack Fate: All of us in some way are trying to kill time. When it's all said and done, time ends up killing us.

Uncle Sweetheart: I'm only human.

Jack Fate: I know, it ain't easy being human.

Jack Fate: By the way, which side of the political fence are you on?

Desk Clerk: I do not belong to any political party, sir. I guess you could call me... a feminist

Soldier: I wish I could live in my dreams. Do you dream?

Jack Fate: Yeah, I dream. I dream that I'm walking through fire... Intense heat. I don't pay much attention to my dreams.

Jack Fate: Some of us pursue perfection and virtue and if we're lucky, we catch up to it. But happiness can't be pursued. It either comes to your or it don't. You can always say, "if only this and if only that", but if only is a state of mind that we get into when we feel deprived.