Movie Quotes A - L

A Few Good Men
Col. Jessup: Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have more responsibility here than you could 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 that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. I know deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you don't 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 punch line. 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 I provide, then question the manner in which I provide it. I prefer you said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand to post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

Lt. Kaffee: I want the truth
Col. Jessup: You can't handle the truth

American History X
Danny Vinyard: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Danny Vinyard: I'm sorry, Derek. I'm sorry that happened to you.
Derek Vinyard: I'm not. I'm lucky. I feel lucky because it's wrong, Danny. It's wrong and it was eating me up, it was going to kill me. And I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this shit? It was because I was pissed off, and nothing I ever did ever took that feeling away. I killed two guys, Danny, I killed them. And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. I'm just tired of it.

Braveheart
William Wallace: Aye. Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live, at least a while. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

William Wallace: We all end up dead. It's just a question of how and why.

William Wallace: Men don't follow titles, they follow courage.

Casablanca
Rick Blaine: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Rick Blaine: Here's looking at you, kid.

Rick Blaine: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Castle in the Sky
Sheeta: This is no longer a throne room. This is a tomb for the both of us. You see, a king without compassion does not deserve a kingdom. You will never possess the crystal! You and I will die here, together. Now I understand why the people of Laputa vanished. This is a song from my home in the valley of Gondoa that explains everything. It says, "Take root in the ground, live in harmony with the wind, plant your seeds in the winter, and rejoice with the birds in the coming of Spring." No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

Cinema Paradiso
Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people; the land where you were born; But now, no. It's not possible. Right now you're blinder than I am.
Salvatore: Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?
Alfredo: No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it's all me. Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder.

Citizen Kane
Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud.

Edward Scissorhands
Kim: You see, before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. If he weren't up there now... I don't think it would be snowing. Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it.

Equilibrium
John Preston: What's the point of your existence?
Mary: To feel. Cause you've never done it, you can never know it. But it's as vital as breath. And without it, without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock ticking.

John Preston: If I was gonna shoot you; I'd shoot you in the face. Now go.

Evening
Lila Wittenborn: We are mysterious creatures, aren't we? And at the end so much of it turns out not to matter.

Five People you meet in heaven
Captain: People stop sacrificing for one another, they lose what keeps them human.

Ruby: Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves...

Blue Man: There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

Blue Man: Fairness does not govern life and death...If it did, no good man would ever die young...

Blue Man: In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

Marguerite: Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't.

Blue Man : Strangers are family you have yet to come to know.

Forest Gump
Forrest Gump: Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.

The Godfather
Michael Corleone: My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Michael Corleone: There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Gone with the wind
Rhett Butler: No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you! You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Hook
Tinkerbell: Peter, you know that place between sleep and awake. That place you still remember your dreams....that's where I will always love you...Peter Pan.

It's a wonderful Life
George Bailey: Just remember this, Mr. Potter: that this rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?

George Bailey: What do you want, Mary? Do you want the moon? If you want it, I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down for you.

Clarence: One man's life touches so many others, when he's not there it leave an awfully big hole.

Clarence: Remember George, No man is a failure who has friends.

Clarence: You see, George, you really have had a wonderful life.

Independence Day
President Thomas J. Whitmore: In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And, you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind," that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps, its fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom--not from tyranny, oppression, or Persecution, but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live--to exist. And, should we win the day; the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish, without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our Independence Day.

David Levinson: Forget the fat lady. You're obsessed with the fat lady.

Capt. Steven Hiller: This was supposed to be my weekend off, but no. You got me out here dragging your heavy ass through the desert, with your dreadlocks sticking out the back of my parachute. You got to come down here with an attitude, acting all big and bad. And, what the Hell is that smell?!

Capt. Steven Hiller: I have got to get me one of these!

King Arthur
Lancelot: There is a large number of lonely men out there.
Guinevere: Don't worry; I won't let them rape you.

Cerdic: Finally... a man worth killing.

Arthur: Be my friend now and do not dissuade me. Seize the freedom you have earned and live it for the both of us. I cannot follow you, Lancelot. I now know that all the blood I have shed, all the lives I have taken have led me to this moment.

Guinevere: Animals live! It's the natural state of any man to want to live free... in their own country. I belong to this land. Where do you belong, Arthur?

Arthur: My faith is what protects me, Lancelot. Why do you challenge this?
Lancelot: I don't like anything that puts a man on his knees.
Arthur: No man fears to kneel before the God he trusts. Without faith, without belief in something, what

Cerdic: While my heart beats, my word is law and you hold your tongue... or I'll cut it out.

Lancelot: I don't believe in Heaven, I've been living in this Hell. But if you're what Heaven looks like, then take me there.

Lancelot: And as for the knights who gave their lives, their deaths were cause for neither mourning nor sadness. For they will live forever, their names and deeds handed down from father to son, mother to daughter, in the legends of King Arthur and his knights.

Arthur: There is no worse death than that of hope.