From: As Good As It Gets
Genre: Movies
Who said it?: Melvin Udall
The story behind the quote: The quote from the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good As It Gets. Melvin Udall (played by Jack Nicholson) is a successful but neurotic novelist. His general bad attitude combined with his obsessive compulsive disorder has pretty much alienated him from others. However, he comes in contact with Carol Connelly (played by Helen Hunt), a waitress at the diner where he regularly eats, his homosexual neighbor Simon Bishop (played by Greg Kinnear) and Simon’s dog. Because of these people, Melvin starts to question his current status in life.
The quote comes rather early in the film. Extremely agitated, Melvin barges into his psychiatrist’s office asking for help. However, the doctor says he will have to make an appointment. As the novelist enters the psychiatrist’s lobby with all the other patients, he turns and delivers the quote.
Geek wisdom: During the times when you feel like something is missing, it can be very easy to think that life is hopeless and has no meaning. The thing that people always forget is like is always what you make of it. Life doesn’t have to be dreary and dull. If it does feel that way, it’s your choice to either wallow in despair or do something about it.
My Geek Wisdom 
Thanks… needed to read this. My husband just died… we had been married for 51 years…friends 3 yrs before that… now I am thinking…I truly believe that that life was “as good as it gets”….corny, right? my grief is huge right now, so the good I had …. gone. time will help but oh my gosh😔
Keep getting out there and exploring and doing what makes YOU happy. That’s my answer to the quote, shut yourself down you get no answers.
…when things seem to have gotten as good as it is going to get, just remember…you were the artist paying with drying clay, and every piece added to your artwork was painstakingly walling yourself…in. You are now exactly where you placed yourself…sealed from everyone else …who may have…or not, succeeded in what they have built with the time of their lives. The results are not there to learn who the winners are…rather, it is an observation for those who built a chair facing the activities of mankind, then, ponder if there was a better choice for the observers.
You, soon find that even God, who was lonely then created life to watch. So, are you hoping to find a group of people to perform an activity that is truly worth their lifetime?….what might that be? Maybe, just maybe, you would have to live forever, then the next day you would be the only person to succeed.