Movie Info
Starring: Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, Peter Sarsgaard, Max Casella, Beth Grant, Billy Crudup, Richard E. Grant, John Hurt, Caspar Phillipson
Story: Bio-drama directed by Pablo Larraín which film follows Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman) seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady. The story places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s, President John F. Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson), assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of “Camelot” that they created and loved so well.
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Top Jackie Movie Quotes
Jackie Kennedy: The more I read, the more I wonder, when something is written down, does that make it true?
Jackie Kennedy: Objects and artifacts last far longer than people, and they represent important ideas in history, identity, beauty.
Jackie Kennedy: Well, for royalty you need tradition. And for tradition, you need time.
The Journalist: I’m just trying to get to the truth. That’s what reporters do.
Jackie Kennedy: Oh, the truth. Well, I’ve grown accustomed to a great divide between what people believe and what I know to be real.
The Journalist: Fine, I will settle for a story that’s believable.
Jackie Kennedy: A moment-by-moment account. That’s what you came here for, isn’t it? You want me to describe the sound the bullet made when it collided with my husband’s skull.
Jackie Kennedy: A first lady must always be ready to pack her suitcases. It’s inevitable.
Jackie Kennedy: Perfect people can’t change. Jack was always getting better, stronger. Sometimes he would walk into the desert alone, just to let himself be tempted by the devil. But he’d always come back to us, his beloved family.
The Priest: God isn’t interested in stories. He’s interested in the truth.
Jackie Kennedy: I think God is cruel.
The Priest: Well, now you’re getting into trouble. God is love, and God is everywhere.
Jackie Kennedy: Was he in the bullet that killed Jack?
The Priest: Absolutely.
Jackie Kennedy: Is he inside me now?
The Priest: Yes, of course. Of course he is.
Jackie Kennedy: Well, that’s a funny game he plays, hiding all the time.
Jackie Kennedy: There are two kinds of women. Those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed.
The Priest: Jesus once passed a blind beggar on the road, and his disciples asked, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?” And Jesus said, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. He was made blind so that the works of God could be revealed in him.” And with that, he placed mud on his eyes and told him to wash in the Pool of Siloam. And the man did, and he came back seeing. Right now you are blind, not because you have sinned, but because you have been chosen so that the works of God can be revealed in you.
Bill Walton: People need their history. It gives them strength. They need to know that real men actually lived here, not ghosts and storybook legends, people who faced adversity and overcame it.
Jackie Kennedy: Pretty soon he’ll just be another oil portrait lining these hallways.
Bobby Kennedy: History is harsh.
The Priest: Famous life, famous death.
Jackie Kennedy: But I never wanted fame. I just became a Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy: Every quote out of Jack’s mouth was either Greek or Roman. And that last song, that last side of Camelot, is all that keeps running through my mind. “Don’t let it be forgot, that for one brief, shining moment there was a Camelot.”
Jackie Kennedy: There will be other great presidents. The Johnsons have been so generous to me. But there won’t be another Camelot. Not another Camelot.
The Priest: There comes a time in man’s search for meaning, when one realizes that there are no answers. And when you come to that horrible, unavoidable realization, you accept it or you kill yourself. Or you simply stop searching.
The Priest: I have lived a blessed life. And yet, every night, when I climb into bed, turn off the lights, and stare into the dark, I wonder, “Is this all there is?”
Jackie Kennedy: You wonder?
The Priest: Every soul on this planet does. But then, when morning comes, we all wake up and make a pot of coffee.
Jackie Kennedy: Why do we bother?
The Priest: Because we do. You did this morning, you will again tomorrow. But God, in his infinite wisdom, has made sure it is just enough for us.
Jackie Kennedy: People like to believe in fairytales.
Jackie Kennedy: The characters we read about on the page end up being more real than the men who stand beside us.
The Priest: The darkness may never go away, but it won’t always be this heavy.
Jackie Kennedy: I was just so happy that he could be proud. Because then I was having a baby, and I couldn’t campaign, and then we got in the White House, and all of the things I’d always done, and suddenly they became wonderful. Because anything the First Lady does that is different everyone seizes on. And I was just so happy for Jack that he could be proud of me. Those were our happiest years.