Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
“I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.”
run across Greenbow County. Now, thinking since I’d run this far, maybe I’d just run across the great state of Alabama. And that’s what I did.
I ran clear across Alabama. No particular reason.
I just kept on going. […] I’d think a lot about Mama
and Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. But most of all, I thought about Jenny. I thought about her a lot.”
1424 
6.8 
7.4Kevin Spacey as Prot
“I am from K-PAX”
“K-PAX is about 1 ,000 of your light-years away from here… in what you would call Your constellation Lyra (…) K-PAX is most lovely when K-MON and K-RIL are in conjunction. Those are our two suns. What you would call Agape and Satori (…)
On K-PAX, we don’t have families (…) On K-PAX, children are not raised by their biological parents, but by everyone. They circulate among us, learning from one and then another (…) We do not have marriage on K-PAX. There are no wives. There are no husbands. There are no families.”
5740 7.7 8Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko
“She said that every living creature on Earth dies alone (…) It reminded me of my dog, Callie. She died when I was eight, and she crawled underneath… the porch. – To die? – To be alone. – Do you feel
alone right now? – I don’t know. I’d like to believe I’m not, but I just… I’ve just never seen any proof, so I… I just don’t debate it anymore, you know? It’s like I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighing the pros and cons, and in the end, I still wouldn’t have any proof. So I just… I just don’t debate it any more. It’s absurd. – The search for God is absurd? – It is if everyone dies alone. – Does that scare you?
– I don’t want to be alone.”
8490 7.7 7.9Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands
“And once there was even a man who had scissors for hands (…) A long time ago… an inventor lived in that mansion. He made many things,
I suppose. He also created a man. He gave him insides, a heart, a brain, everything. Well, almost everything. You see, the inventor was very old. He died before he got to finish the man he invented. So the man was left by himself… incomplete and all alone (…) His name was Edward.”
987 6.2 6.4Robert De Niro as Creature
“And as I killed him, I saw your face. You gave me these emotions. But you didn’t tell me how to use them. (…) There’s something at work in my soul which I do not understand. What of my soul? Do I have one? Or was that a part you left out? Who were these people of which I am comprised? Good people? Bad people? (…) Do you know I knew how to play this? In which part of me did this knowledge reside? In these hands? In this mind? In this heart? And reading and speaking… Not things learned, so much as things remembered (…) Did you ever consider the consequences of your actions? You gave me life, and then you left me to die. Who am I? – You… I don’t know. – And you think “I’m” evil (…) There is something I want. A friend (…) Companion. A female. Someone like me. So she won’t hate me (…) I do know that for the sympathy of one living being. I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. And rage, the likes of which you would not believe.”
4565 7.9 8Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers
“I had the craziest dream last night. I was dancing the White Swan.”
“Virginal girl, pure and sweet, trapped in the body of a swan. She desires freedom that only true love can break the spell. Her wish is nearly granted in the form of a Prince. But before he can declare his love, The lustful twin, the Black Swan, tricks and seduces him. Devastated, the White Swan leaps off a cliff, killing herself. And in death… finds freedom.”
“In four years, every time you dance, I see obsess getting each and every move perfectly right, but I never see you lose yourself. Ever. All that discipline for what? (…) – I want to be perfect. – Perfection is not just about control. It’s also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence.”
“The only person standing in your way is you. It’s time to let it go. Lose yourself.”
“I felt it (…) I felt perfect. I was perfect.”
1520 6.4 6.8Robin Williams as Seymour ‘Sy’ Parrish
“Family photos depict smiling faces. Births, weddings, holidays… children ‘s birthday parties. People take pictures of the happy moments in their lives. Someone looking through our photo album… would conclude that we had led a joyous, leisurely existence… free of tragedy. No one ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget.”
“I’ve been doing P. O.S. Mini-lab work for over 20 years now. I consider it an important job. When houses are on fire… what’s the first thing people save after their pets and loved ones? The family photos. Some people think this is a job for a clerk. They actually believe that any idiot attending a two-day seminar… can master the art of making beautiful prints in less than an hour. But of course, like most things… there’s far more to it than meets the eye. I’ve seen the prints they fob off on people at the Rexall or Fotek. Milky, washed-out prints. Too dark prints. There’s no sense of reverence for the service they’re providing people. I process these photos as if they were my own.”
“I’m sure my customers never think about it… but these snapshots are their little stands against the flow of time. The shutter is clicked… the flash goes off… and they’ve stopped time… if just for the blink of an eye. And if these pictures have anything to say to future generations… it’s this: “I was here. I existed. I was young. I was happy… and someone cared enough about me in this world… to take my picture. ” (…) Most people don ‘t take snapshots of the little things: The used Band-Aid… the guy at the gas station… the wasp on the Jell-O. But these are the things that make up the true picture of our lives. People don ‘t take pictures of these things.”
4788 7.6 8.2Russell Crowe as John Forbes Nash Jr.
“I’ve always believed in numbers. In the equations and logics… that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, what truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional… and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career. The most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love… that any logical reasons can be found. I’m only here tonight because of you. You are the reason
I am. You are all my reasons.”
“I am crazy. I take the newer medications, but I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I choose not to indulge certain appetites. Like my appetite for patterns.Perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.”
5389 8 8.6Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey
“I’m tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I’m tired of never having me a buddy to be with… to tell me where we’s going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I’m tired of people being ugly to each other. I’m tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world… every day. There’s too much of it. It’s like pieces of glass in my head… all the time.”
7194 7.7 8.2Hugo Weaving as V
“Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot”
“Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than 400 years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.”
“In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous”
1264 5.2 5.5Donnie Wahlberg and Andrew Robb as Douglas ‘Duddits’ Cavell
“I Duddits”
“We all have this other friend by the name of Duddits. And our friend Duddits, well, he’s not your average old buddy. One day, a long time ago, he gave us all this kind of gift. It’s this…. How shall I put it? This ability. This ability to know things… to talk to each other without talking at all, just mind-to-mind (…) Lately, I’ve been having this dream… and in the dream, I understand how Duddits could give us a gift like that. I think maybe our friend Duds is not from this planet. I think Duddits is from somewhere else… and he came here to prepare us for something. It’s crazy. Talking shit about the only perfect person I ever knew. He’s so goddamned good. I can’t believe he’s a human.”
“Duddits can do anything”
884 6.7 7Jet Li as Danny
“You know a lot of people think because a piano’s so big, it is very strong and you can just pound it any way you want to and nothing will happen, but that’s not so at all. Pianos are a lot like people. I mean, you pound on a person, they get out of tune. . Same with a piano. You pound on ’em and…”
“This is it? This is your refuge? Your home away from home? This is your place of… awakening? Art, books, music? For what? Did it make you a better person? (…) you’re not meant for this kind of life, Danny. You’re a dog. You’re my dog. I fed you. I trained you. I own you. And I should kill you.”
“I don’t want to hurt people anymore (…) No more killing!”
4292 7.7 8.2Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels
“She’s fucking with your head. She’s going to kill you. (…) You want to uncover the truth? You got to let it go. – I can’t (…) – Then you’ll never leave this island.”
“Your crime is terrible. One you can’t forgive yourself for. So you invented another self (…) You’ve created a story in which you’re not a murderer, you’re a hero (…) I wish I could let you just live in your fantasy world. I really do. But you’re violent, trained, dangerous. You’re the most dangerous patient we have.”
“- Why’re you here? – Because I killed my wife (…) She murdered our children. And she told me to let her go (…) I can’t take knowing that Dolores killed our children (…) I killed them, because I didn’t, I didn’t get her help. I killed them (…) My name is Andrew Laeddis. And I murdered my wife in the spring of ’52.”
“Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?”
5151 8 8.4Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby
“lf you have a piece of information which… is… vital, writing on your body instead of on a piece of paper can be the answer. lt’s a permanent way of keeping a note.”
“There are things you know for sure (…) l know what that’s gonna sound like when l knock on it. l know what that’s gonna feel like when l pick it up. See? Certainties. lt’s the kind of memory you take for granted. You know, l can remember so much. The feel of the world… And her. She’s gone. And the present is trivia which l scribble down as fucking notes.”
“l don’t even know how long she’s been gone. lt’s like l’ve woken up in bed and she’s not here… because she’s gone to the bathroom or something. But somehow l just… l just know she’s never gonna come back to bed. lf l could just… reach over and touch her side of the bed,… l would know that it was cold. But l can’t. l know l can’t have her back. But l don’t want to wake up in the morning thinking she’s still here. l lie here not knowing how long l’ve been alone. So how… How can l heal? How am l supposed to heal if l can’t… feel time?”
“l have to believe in a world outside my own mind. l have to believe that my actions still have meaning. Even if l can’t remember them. l have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still here. Do l believe the world’s still here? ls it still out there? Yeah. We all need memories to remind ourselves who we are. l’m no different.”
5976 8.6 9.3Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne
“Andy got two weeks in the hole for that little stunt (…) – Was it worth two weeks? – Easiest time I ever did. – No such thing as easy time in the hole. – A week in the hole is like a year (…) – I had Mr. Mozart to keep me company (…) It was in here. In here. That’s the beauty of music. They… can’t get that from you. Haven’t you ever felt that way about music? – Well, I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it, though. Didn’t make much sense in here. – Here’s where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don’t forget (…) Forget that there are… places… in the world that aren’t made out of stone. There’s something… inside… that they can’t get to… that they can’t touch. That’s yours. – What are you talking about? – Hope.”
“My wife used to say I’m a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She was beautiful. God, I loved her. I didn’t know how to show it, that’s all. I killed her, Red. I didn’t pull the trigger… but I drove her away. That’s why she died, because of me… the way I am. – That don’t make you a murderer. Bad husband, maybe. Feel bad about it if you want, but you didn’t pull the trigger. – No, I didn’t. Somebody else did. And I wound up in here. Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It’s got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that’s all. I was in the path of the tornado. I just didn’t expect the storm
would last as long as it has.”
“I tell you where I’d go. Zihuatanejo (…) A little place on the Pacific Ocean (…) That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel… right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat… and fix it up new. Take my guests out… charter fishing (…) I didn’t shoot my wife, and I didn’t shoot her lover. Whatever mistakes I made, I’ve paid for them and then some. That hotel, that boat… I don’t think that’s too much to ask (…) It’s down there and I’m in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice. Get busy living… or get busy dying.”
“…hope is a good thing… maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.”
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