"How come former lives are always famous people?"

[Seabiscuit]

"Why not just Joe Schmoe?"

What movie?
What character said it?
Which actor played the character?
Said to what character?
Played by which actress?

Bonus points if you can give a meaningful answer to the "subject" question.

[eleonora]

1. they're famous because people can't stand to just be 'normal'

they have to be feeling superior..psssh

edit:typo

[Seabiscuit]

23. If you'd answered the original questions correctly, you'd be

scoring a bonus point for that answer.

[eleonora]

33. sorry buddy

I don't know what quote it is

[maveric]

2. It sounds like a Steve Buscemi character said that

in a movie I cant recall.

[Seabiscuit]

5. Sorry. No cigar.

[WCGreen]

3. Defending your life

Daniel Miller, Albert Brooks, to Julia, Meryl Streep...

Do I win.....

That scene were Brooks is the native getting chased down by the tiger, very funny indeed....

[Seabiscuit]

4. Sorry. No cigar.

[WCGreen]

6. Damn,,,,

It sounds just like that would be an Albert Brooks quote.....

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. in a past life i was Shecky McCrackin

a divorced, balding plumber who died by accidentally peeing on an electric fence while stopping for a break from a drunken drive home from a night of wallowing in my own sorrow

[Kurovski]

8. On a clear day you can see forever?

Brad?

Jack Nicholson?

Daisy something?

Barbra Streisand?

[Seabiscuit]

21. See below: Carson won.

[Carson]

9. Bull Durham

Crash Davis, played by Kevin Costner, said it to Annie, played by Susan Sarandon.

Am I right?

[Crankie Avalon]

18. Correct...

...this was on early this very morning on HBO. I turned on the TV just when this scened was being shown. I guess the OP must have seen it, too.

[Seabiscuit]

20. You got that right - I watched it on HBO just before posting.

[Seabiscuit]

19. WE HAVE A WINNER, FOLKS!!! Carson: want to try for the bonus points?

[Carson]

27. I suppose I could give it a try,

I don't believe in reincarnation so my answer would be people are looking for attention and validation. Plus, isn't more interesting to be Marie Antoinette or Napoleon than just "Joe Schmoe?"

That's all I've got.

(By the way, "Bull Durham" is one of my favorite movies.)

[Seabiscuit]

28. That's worth a bonus point!

My answer would be: it keeps the psychics in business by flattering the customers.

[Carson]

30. LOL--I like your answer better. And I tend to agree. nt

[Carson]

31. Also, as for the belief in reincarnation in general

I can see where the idea is appealing and even comforting. One gets more than one chance and can make up for past wrongs.

However, I believe one shot is all you get; make it count!

My humble opinion, of course.

[Kurovski]

10. Did Shirley Mac Clain say it

to the astronaut character of Jack nicholson's in that movie about crazy-assed Southern broads?

[Carson]

11. I think you are thinking of "Terms of Endearment" n/t

[Kurovski]

12. I think you're correct

Where the hell is Seabiscuit?

[WCGreen]

13. He's off racing somewhere in the great beyond....

No wait, he's come back as Barry Bonds.....

[Kurovski]

16. I love being the straight man

...not literally , of course.

[Seabiscuit]

22. Here I am. I've handed Carson the prize - now he gets to try for

the "bonus points"

[Seabiscuit]

25. Did you forget that my two favorite pasttimes are sleeping and eating?

I can't spend ALL my time on DU. :)

[Carson]

26. I'm a "she", by the way. : - ) n/t

[Seabiscuit]

29. Sorry. How presumptuous of me. :)

[Forkboy]

14. Rimmer on Red Dwarf was Alexander the Great's chief eunuch

:)

[ikojo]

15. I asked this very question to a former friend who is deep

into the New Age movement. She did not have a satisfactory answer. I suspect that it's more American exceptionalism, how could an AMERICAN be nothing but a famous or wealthy person in a former life?

[Kurovski]

17. Well, supposedly I was a woman with many beloved children

and a prostitute shot in a cab in New York in the 50's.

No big deal.

[hyphenate]

24. Depends on why

you're "back here." In any regressions I've had, there were no famous people. Slave in Egypt, died when one of the stones we were using to build the pyramids fell on me; slave in Rome, died of natural causes; some sort of well-off, but not rich English girl who ran off and married the man she loved instead of who her daddy picked out for her--died naturally and happily ever after; in Louisiana in late 1800s or Everglades (lots of swamps and water ways) as some sort of river hound--died when my partner betrayed me and shot me; and at one time a Frenchman who was a mountain guide in the mountains--died from suicide. No one famous, just ordinary people.

The Ouija board had a different answer, which we all accepted as tongue in cheek. According to the Ouija board, I was Adolph Hitler in my previous life. :) Of course, if that were true, it would mean my life here and now is punishment for Adolph's high crimes and misdemeanors. Hmmmm.....maybe there is some truth to that......

[WildClarySage]

32. I've been there done that too

and never been there as someone famous, not that I know of. I know that I died once burned as a witch, and once died from shark attack after the (battle?)ship on which I was a sailor sank. There was nothing identifying about either memory, but then again, I learned what I needed to know for this life in both deaths. War is hell, and people will kill you if they are suspicious enough.