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Top 15 John Hughes Quotes (2025 Update)

John Hughes Quote: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

1. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

— John Hughes

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John Hughes Quote: “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.”

2. “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going to take a stand. I’m going to defend it.”

3. “I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going to take a stand. I’m going to defend it.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?”

4. “Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.”

5. “People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, ’cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!”

6. “I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, ’cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.”

7. “All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “Those who say ‘you only live once’ have never read a book.”

8. “Those who say ‘you only live once’ have never read a book.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “At that age, it feels as good to feel bad as it does to feel good.”

9. “At that age, it feels as good to feel bad as it does to feel good.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “I’m a former hippie, so clothes are important to me – your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I’m in my Brooks Brothers period now.”

10. “I’m a former hippie, so clothes are important to me – your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I’m in my Brooks Brothers period now.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “The outpouring of generosity is overwhelming. People across the Lehigh Valley are moved by the images they are seeing on TV and they want to know how they can help.”

11. “The outpouring of generosity is overwhelming. People across the Lehigh Valley are moved by the images they are seeing on TV and they want to know how they can help.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “A man’s tie should never be louder than his wife.”

12. “A man’s tie should never be louder than his wife.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I’m done is write another one. Then I don’t feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.”

13. “I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I’m done is write another one. Then I don’t feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I’d like to think common sense would prevail and we’d have the use of both of them.”

14. “It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I’d like to think common sense would prevail and we’d have the use of both of them.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.”

15. “Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.”

— John Hughes

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John Hughes Quote: “I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

16. “I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

— John Hughes

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John Hughes Quote: “Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything’s dark, dingy – what a great time for a movie!”

17. “Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything’s dark, dingy – what a great time for a movie!”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.”

18. “I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.”

— John Hughes

John Hughes Quote: “I like young actors because they’re so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.”

19. “I like young actors because they’re so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.”

— John Hughes

Perspective Quotes

Perspective Quotes

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Appreciation Quotes

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Carpe Diem Quotes

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Perspective Quotes

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