Take the Cannoli: Favorite Movie Quotes

Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption):

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.  That there’s a – there’s a – there’s something inside that’s yours, that they can’t touch. 

Dumbledore (Harry Potter films):

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… it is our choices.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. 

But you know happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light. 

Dark and difficult times lie ahead, Harry.  Now is the time that we must choose between what is right, and what is easy. 

Neo (The Matrix):

I don’t know the future.  I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin.  I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see.  I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries.  A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you. 

from Billy Elliot: 

Billy answers the question:  “What does it feel like when you’re dancing?”

Don’t know. Sorta feels good. Sorta stiff and that, but once I get going… then I like, forget everything.  And… sorta disappear.  Sorta disappear.  Like I feel a change in my whole body.  And I’ve got this fire in my body. I’m just there.  Flyin’ ilke a bird.  Like electricity.  Yeah, like electricity. 

Hogarth Hughes (The Iron Giant): [to the Giant, in battle mode]

It’s bad to kill. Guns kill.  And you don’t have to be a gun.  You are what you choose to be.  You choose.  Choose. 

Westley (The Princess Bride):

Death cannot stop true love.  All it can do is delay it for a while. 

Homer (October Sky): [to John]

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world.  And it’s not because I’m so different from you either, it’s because I’m the same.  I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough.  I only hope I can be as good a man as you.  Sure, Warner Von Braun is a great scientist… but he isn’t my hero. 

Toulouse-Lautrec (Moulin Rouge!)

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.