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Drama (film)304 quotes
You can't handle the truth! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992It's classified. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya. — Maverick · 1986My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999Wax on, wax off. — Mr. Miyagi · 1984All 304 quotes →Drama302 quotes
You can't handle the truth! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992It's classified. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya. — Maverick · 1986My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999Wax on, wax off. — Mr. Miyagi · 1984All 302 quotes →Crime27 quotes
Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. — Terry Malloy · 1954Cause she got a great ass...and you got your head all the way up it! — Lt. Vincent Hanna · 1995The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. — Tony Montana · 1983No room in this city for big hearts like hers. — Carlito · 1993In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves. — Tony Montana · 1983All 27 quotes →Crime (film)27 quotes
Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. — Terry Malloy · 1954Cause she got a great ass...and you got your head all the way up it! — Lt. Vincent Hanna · 1995The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. — Tony Montana · 1983No room in this city for big hearts like hers. — Carlito · 1993In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves. — Tony Montana · 1983All 27 quotes →Sports20 quotes
If you build it, he will come. — Shoeless Joe Jackson · 1989If he dies, he dies. — Ivan Drago · 1985One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time. — Rocky Balboa · 2015Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose. — Tony D'Amato · 1999You see this guy here staring back at you? That's your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that's who you're going against. I believe that in boxing and I do believe that in life. — Rocky Balboa · 2015All 20 quotes →Sports (film)20 quotes
If you build it, he will come. — Shoeless Joe Jackson · 1989If he dies, he dies. — Ivan Drago · 1985One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time. — Rocky Balboa · 2015Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose. — Tony D'Amato · 1999You see this guy here staring back at you? That's your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that's who you're going against. I believe that in boxing and I do believe that in life. — Rocky Balboa · 2015All 20 quotes →Historical drama16 quotes
Are you not entertained? — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Brothers, what we do in life...echoes in eternity. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. — Itzhak Stern · 1993Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life. — Minny Jackson · 2011My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup · 2013All 16 quotes →Historical drama (film)16 quotes
Are you not entertained? — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Brothers, what we do in life...echoes in eternity. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. — Itzhak Stern · 1993Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life. — Minny Jackson · 2011My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup · 2013All 16 quotes →Psychological drama16 quotes
You may keep one of your children. The other one must go. — SS Doctor · 1982You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. — Sean · 1997You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997People call these things imperfections, but they're not. That's the good stuff and then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds. — Sean · 1997There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job. — Fletcher · 2014You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you've met, she's isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other. — Sean · 1997All 16 quotes →Psychological drama (film)16 quotes
You may keep one of your children. The other one must go. — SS Doctor · 1982You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. — Sean · 1997You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997People call these things imperfections, but they're not. That's the good stuff and then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds. — Sean · 1997There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job. — Fletcher · 2014You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you've met, she's isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other. — Sean · 1997All 16 quotes →Coming of age14 quotes
If God was a bitch, there wouldn't be no nuclear bombs, no wars, no shit like that, cause that ain't in a bitch's nature. — Doughboy · 1991You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children. — Furious Styles · 1991At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016Ain't nobody from outside bringing down the property value. It's these folk, shootin' each other and sellin' that crack rock and shit. — The Old Man · 1991All 14 quotes →Coming of age (film)14 quotes
If God was a bitch, there wouldn't be no nuclear bombs, no wars, no shit like that, cause that ain't in a bitch's nature. — Doughboy · 1991You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children. — Furious Styles · 1991At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016Ain't nobody from outside bringing down the property value. It's these folk, shootin' each other and sellin' that crack rock and shit. — The Old Man · 1991All 14 quotes →Biography12 quotes
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him. — Malcolm X · 1992God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992All 12 quotes →Biography (film)12 quotes
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him. — Malcolm X · 1992God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992All 12 quotes →Romantic drama11 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970If I could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me. — Jesse · 2013It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. — Celine · 2004Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004All 11 quotes →Romantic drama (film)11 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970If I could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me. — Jesse · 2013It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. — Celine · 2004Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004All 11 quotes →Teen11 quotes
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. — John Keating · 1989The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? — John Keating · 1989No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is...to woo women. — John Keating · 1989We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989All 11 quotes →Teen (film)11 quotes
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. — John Keating · 1989The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? — John Keating · 1989No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is...to woo women. — John Keating · 1989We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989All 11 quotes →Epic10 quotes
Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!" — Moses · 1956Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? It could be better. — Mr. O'Brien · 2011I drink your milkshake! I drink it up! — Daniel Plainview · 2007There are times when I...I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone. — Daniel Plainview · 2007I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people. — Daniel Plainview · 2007The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith—only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so. — Moses · 1956All 10 quotes →Epic (film)10 quotes
Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!" — Moses · 1956Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? It could be better. — Mr. O'Brien · 2011I drink your milkshake! I drink it up! — Daniel Plainview · 2007There are times when I...I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone. — Daniel Plainview · 2007I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people. — Daniel Plainview · 2007The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith—only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so. — Moses · 1956All 10 quotes →Prison drama10 quotes
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand. — Luke · 1967What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some man you just can’t reach. — Captain (Cool Hand Luke) · 1967I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. — Brooks Hatlen · 1994All 10 quotes →Prison drama (film)10 quotes
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand. — Luke · 1967What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some man you just can’t reach. — Captain (Cool Hand Luke) · 1967I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. — Brooks Hatlen · 1994All 10 quotes →Comedy drama9 quotes
Always do the right thing. — Da Mayor · 1989Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982Fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra! — Mookie · 1989The last time I trusted you we ended up with a son. — Tina · 1989I'm down. But, I'm down for somethin' positive in the community. Are you down for that? — Jade · 1989Who told you to step on my sneakers, who told you to walk on my side of the block, who told you to be in my neighborhood? — Buggin Out · 1989All 9 quotes →Comedy drama (film)9 quotes
Always do the right thing. — Da Mayor · 1989Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982Fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra! — Mookie · 1989The last time I trusted you we ended up with a son. — Tina · 1989I'm down. But, I'm down for somethin' positive in the community. Are you down for that? — Jade · 1989Who told you to step on my sneakers, who told you to walk on my side of the block, who told you to be in my neighborhood? — Buggin Out · 1989All 9 quotes →Fantasy drama8 quotes
I am Death. — Death · 1957If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call. — Antonius Block · 1957All 8 quotes →Fantasy drama (film)8 quotes
I am Death. — Death · 1957If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call. — Antonius Block · 1957All 8 quotes →Film noir7 quotes
Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. — Norma Desmond · 1950Talk or dance, but, don't do both things at the same time. — Gilda · 1946In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. — Harry Lime · 1949Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead. — Joe Gillis · 1950Doesn't it bother you at all that you're married? — Johnny Farrell · 1946It is so crowded and yet so lonely, isn't it? — Uncle Pio · 1946All 7 quotes →Courtroom drama6 quotes
You can't handle the truth! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. — Lt. Daniel Kaffee · 1992Ever put your life in another man's hands, asked him to put his life in yours? — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities—we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. — Juror #8 · 1957What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket? — Juror #11 · 1957Courtroom drama (film)6 quotes
You can't handle the truth! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. — Lt. Daniel Kaffee · 1992Ever put your life in another man's hands, asked him to put his life in yours? — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities—we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. — Juror #8 · 1957What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket? — Juror #11 · 1957Musical6 quotes
When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad. — Maria (The Sound of Music) · 1965Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted? One moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip? — Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith · 2002Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Til you find your dream. — Sister Margaretta · 1965When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window. — Maria (The Sound of Music) · 1965I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and gay,
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today. — Maria (West Side Story) · 1961I like to be in America,
OK by me in America,
Everything free in America. — Anita · 1961