The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)

Actors

• Tomas Chovanec (actor)
• Stan Coles (actor)
• Hakan Coskuner (actor)
• Wayne Curnew (actor)
• Sergio Di Zio (actor)
• Andrew Dolha (actor)
• Daniel Enright (actor)
• David Ferry (actor)
• Domenico Fiore (actor)
• Peter Fonda (actor)
• Patrick Garrow (actor)
• John Lefebvre (actor)
• Rene Lemieux (actor)
• Thomas Lundy (actor)
• Donald Carrier (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama

Quotes:

Barbara: I didn't know you were an actor.::Frank: Neither did anyone else in Hollywood.

Frank: [talking about Ayn] She had a typewriter, a Remington Rand, crazy about movies. Came right up to me and said 'you are the embodiment of my ideal man'. I never had a chance.

Ayn Rand: Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential, the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.

Ayn Rand: Tell me your principles.::Nathaniel Branden: To think for myself. To reach my own conclusions. To seek truth, wherever it might lead.

Nathaniel Branden: I feel as if... as if my whole life I've been on a leaky raft in the middle of the ocean and, and as soon as I cover one leak with my foot, there's another and...::Barbara: [Interrupting] Yes, alone and sinking.::Nathaniel Branden: Yes, but after tonight, I think... it's possible to stand on solid ground, to understand, to really know.

Ayn Rand: You respect his intellect?::Barbara: Very much.::Ayn Rand: You share the same principles?::Barbara: Absolutely.::Ayn Rand: You accept that emotion ultimately derives from the thinking one has done, or has failed to do?::Barbara: I do.::Ayn Rand: Then there is only one possible conclusion. Nate is your ideal man.

Caroline: I know I still care what other people think. I know I am guilty of social metaphysics. And I know my wish to correct my thinking comes from a desire to please Nathan, who I respect tremendously. And I know that that desire is very, very, very, very wrong.

Caroline: I do not exist for other people. I must not rely on other people. I must... identify the origins of my emotions. I must establish a rational... I can't.::Nathaniel Branden: Can't what?::Caroline: I can't stop thinking about you.

Wise-ass Man: Excuse me, Miss Rand. I was wondering if you could give us the essence of your philosophy - standing on one leg.::1st Supporter: Go on!::2nd Supporter: Sit down!::Ayn Rand: [Stands on one leg] Metaphysics: objective reality. Epistemology: reason. Ethics: self-interest. Politics: capitalism.

Rand, Ayn Filmography

• Atlas Shrugged: Part III
  2014, role: writer
• Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream
  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
  2012, role: writer
• Atlas Shrugged: Part I
  2011, role: writer
• Ayn Rand: In Her Own Words
  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• In Search of Steve Ditko
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Ideal
  2004, role: writer
• Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself - Testifies Before HUAC
• We the Living
  1986, role: writer
• Understanding Our World: An Interview with Ayn Rand
  1961, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Fountainhead
  1949, role: writer
• The Fountainhead
  1949, role: writer
• You Came Along
  1945, role: writer
• Love Letters
  1945, role: writer
• Noi vivi
  1942, role: writer
• Addio Kira!
  1942, role: writer
• Night of January 16th
  1941, role: writer
• The King of Kings
  1927, role: actress

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Famous quotes by Ayn Rand:

"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others"

"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."

"To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'"

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."

"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind."

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."

"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."

"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason."

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."

"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property."

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• In A Brown House - Jenn Grant
• White Horses - Jenn Grant
• Oh My Heart - Jenn Grant
• Unique New York - Jenn Grant

The finale was over She laced up her boots And she walked out the doorway But you were still waiting For the encore And you're under a big yellow moon And she's still in the band room
But meanwhile the baby is born With a brother just two years old
Two curly brown-haired boys In a brown house with their mother In a brown house with their father Who could have loved you more? How's that for the encore?
The finale was over She laced up her boots And she walked out the doorway But someday you'll find her Singing for two little boys
Two curly brown-haired boys In a brown house with their mother In a brown house with their father Who could have loved you more?
Who could have loved you more? Who could have loved you more? Who could have loved you more?

All the white horses have gone I see them running through the dust at dawn All the white clouds have gone and parted I see a sunset like something's been started
A Lightning bolt hits the cheek of your skin And I feel a tremble from the audience And the sun is rising Somewhere in the east Remember what I told you I was fighting for peace
But everybody Is making love for you For you For you
For you For you For you For you

You look like a movie star from this angle
Oh tell me I've got my bangles on
I can dance and dance while the band plays on
Oh you took me by surprise
White coat in arms and sweet lullabies
[Chorus:]
Oh my heart
Oh my heart
Oh my heart
Oh my heart (2x)
Well I've got something that can be wasted
So tell me all your dreams and lets get wasted
Oh you took me by the nile
We made a bed of grass and layed there for a while
[Repeat Chorus:]
You look like a movie star from this angle
Oh tell me I've got my bangles on
I can dance and dance while the band plays on
Oh you took me by surprise
White coat in arms and sweet lullabies
Chorus
You buy me
You buy me your love
You buy me
You buy me your love x2

The car is parked outside your front door But you don't even travel for an hour anymore Since you learned to fly From your apartment window It's nearby
And for now This is all you'll ever be For now it's better Than something you had in-between For now this is all you'll ever need And I'll be waiting at the shoreline For you hopefully
And lately I've noticed that You haven't been around And I guess it must be cozy On the other side of town 'Cause you take the ferry boat ride Waiting for the moment there When someone will arrive and sing
And when you feel that It's quittin' time Just look up And see the sun is on the rise And move on Move on