Quotes from the movie
"I did not hit her, it's not true! That's bullshit, I did not hit her! I DID NAHHHHT!...O hai Mark."
—Johnny
"Ha ha ha! What a story, Mark!"
—Johnny
"You are TEARING ME APART, LISA!"
—Johnny, arguably the most famous line of the entire movie.
"You don't understand anything, man. Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!"
—Mark
"If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live."
—Johnny, speaking his piece
"What are you, nuts? GOD!"
—Peter, seconds after almost being murdered by Mark.
"What are these characters doing here?"
—Claudette
Quotes about the movie
In an entertainment culture in which everything from quiet domestic dramas to battling-robot fantasias is target-audienced with laserlike precision, The Room is as bereft of familiar taxonomy as a bat from Mars. In an entertainment culture in which bad and good movies alike have learned to wink knowingly at their audiences, The Room is rivetingly unaware of itself or its effect. In an entertainment culture in which “independent filmmaking” is more of a calculated stance than accurate accounting of means, The Room is a film of glorious, horrifying independence.
—Tom Bissell, in his essay for Harper's Magazine
, "Cinema Crudité."
, "Cinema Crudité.""Well, roses had a good 2000-year run as symbols of love and beauty, but that's all over now."
—Mike Nelson in reaction to the first of this movie's many Cinemax-style love scenes.
"It sucks out your mind and replaces it with stupid!"
"And looming over it all: Tommy Wiseau, a colossus of terrible movie making; a mystery to this very day; a man who made such an exquisitely awful movie that countless articles have been written about it AND THIS IS ONE MORE; a man who occasionally tries to hint that this was his intention all along -- to make a "comedy!" He is some sort of twisted marketing genius, and his money may well have come from selling Serbian children's kidneys on the black market. But no, The Room was not an intentional comedy. You cannot fake stuff this bad. It is a relationship melodrama gone unimaginably wrong, and one of the funniest movies you'll ever see."
—RiffTrax, via Cracked
"The Room is a phenomenon because it is the perfect storm of incompetency and passion. But it also contains a serious intellectual component. Watching the film is like watching a child throw a temper tantrum all the while deconstructing the language and grammar of mainstream Hollywood cinema. Yet the film isn’t satire; the audience needs to laugh at it and make jokes out of it to turn it into satire... The pleasure of watching The Room comes from interacting with it. It’s like a game. I think most audiences know that the cinema-machine is designed to put us to sleep and fill our heads with ideas and dreams; The Room is the exact opposite of that. It activates the audience and gives them control. It is an intellectual and social EVENT."
"So remember kids, if you ever decide to go and watch The Room…
…You'll learn that you don't need common sense to enjoy a bad movie. All you need is Tommy Wiseau, a football to play catch with, a framed picture of a spoon and Sexilisa always wanting to have sex with you."
…You'll learn that you don't need common sense to enjoy a bad movie. All you need is Tommy Wiseau, a football to play catch with, a framed picture of a spoon and Sexilisa always wanting to have sex with you."
—The ending title cards of the AniMat Watches episode of the film
"A bona fide classic of midnight cinema, Tommy Wiseau's misguided masterpiece subverts the rules of filmmaking with a boundless enthusiasm that renders such mundanities as acting, screenwriting, and cinematography utterly irrelevant. You will never see a football the same way again. "
—Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus
