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"[about his love for country music] I love the stories. You know about fallin' in love and have love knock you around, and then the pressures of the world on you so tough, it makes you feel small. You just want to give your soul to God. You might as well, your ass belongs to Him."
"George, I miss you. I miss you, George."
"Aretha Robinson: Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothin' turn you into no cripple."
"Della Bea Robinson: [about one of Ray's sons] He isn't my gift to you, he's your son."
"The extraordinary life of Ray Charles. A man who fought harder and went further than anyone could imagine."
"The one thing more extraordinary than the music is the man behind it: Ray Charles."
"Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles"
"Sharon Warren - Aretha Robinson"
"Kerry Washington - Della Bea Robinson"
"Regina King - Margie Hendricks"
"Larenz Tate - Quincy Jones"
"Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun"
"Richard Schiff - Jerry Wexler"
"C.J. Sanders - Young Ray Robinson"
"[To Michelle] Your world is not black."
"Mr. Sahai. . . light up the darkness."
"I know now that there is God... He is not in the holy spirit we pray to... He isn't written about in religious texts.... He is someone who is part of our lives... Whom we live for ... Because of whom we live..."
"Some seeing eye dog, more like sleeping eye dog."
"I may not have been a lot of places - but I read about things, then make an image up here --(points to his head)--that works for me."
"Listening - the rain - it brings out the contours of everything, gives life to a room I can't see. You hear it?...on the roof dripping down the walls on every side. On the right, on the drainpipe, it's drumming with a deeper, steadier sound - - like a timpani - echoing across the room - tells me the room is large - open. You feel it - in your chest? On the left, the rain says...a fire escape, with its own rhythm - ping - ping. Then listen - there..."
"The world is invisible to me - with my touch it comes alive. But only one thing at a time. But when it's raining, I feel everything at once. Sometimes, I wish it could rain inside rain all around us."
"Of course, most people avoid the subject. You tell them you're blind and they act surprised. "You're blind? Really? I didn't know - you hide it so well." And then they wave their hand in front of your face just to make sure."
"Just for a second I felt like I could see you - all of you."
"Amy. I want the chance to see. The chance to see Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, apples, raisins, a buffalo, a carburetor and the man in the moon. But I would give all that up - just to see this face."
"This is just great - I don't believe this. What's that saying - stop the world I wanna get off."
"I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I've woken up from a thirty year sleep - and the world's passed me by."
"I was better off blind. People don't have these expectations of you you can't live up to. You're blind - fine - they deal with it."
"Growing up blind - I had two dreams. One was to see. The other - to play for the New York Rangers. After the 'miracle' of my short period of sight - I realize - I'd rather play for the Rangers. It's not that it was so awful - I saw many things - some good, some back some that I'm already forgetting. But I realized that our eyes aren't what make us see. We only live in darkness when we don't look - look at what is genuine about ourselves - genuine about others - you don't need eyes for that."
"I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for."
"I've spent the last five years of my adult life with a man who has the emotional content of a soap dish. The only time I saw him cry was doing our tax return three years ago. I need more than that, Betsy. For once in a long, long time I feel like I can breathe again. Just the way he touches me I know I found someone I can connect with."
"I can tell he's sensing everything about me with a simple touch. He listens to my every word as if it's the only sound on the planet - I feel like even though he can't see me, he knows everything about me. He just moves me - does that sound crazy."
"When there's something you've adapted to, accepted - you'd just want to change it without even thinking about it?"
"Hope is like fire, it can keep you warm - or it can burn you."
"Amy - when Virgil was very young, he couldn't see those close to him - so he never learned to reach out. Don't expect him to reach out when he's in pain, or confused, or unhappy. If you really care about him you have to just be there for him."
"Virgil - look - you have to learn to see - just like you learned to speak. Only this is not like learning a new language - it's like learning language for the first time. Perception - sight - life, is about experience - about reaching out and exploring the world for yourself. It's not enough to just see Virgil—we've got to look as well."
"Limbo is like New Jersey. You can see all the good stuff, you just have to get there."
"Only Love Can Bring You To Your Senses."
"Science gave him sight. She gave him vision."
"Mira Sorvino - Amy Benic"
"Val Kilmer - Virgil Adamson"
"Kelly McGillis - Jennie Adamson"
"Steven Weber - Duncan Allanbrook"
"Bruce Davison - Dr. Charles Aaron"
"Nathan Lane - Phil Webster"
"Drena De Niro - Caroline"
"You mean I'm not white?!?"
"I hear prison isn't so bad if you like it up your butt."
"Today, I threatened to shoot a naked woman with my erection. That doesn't happen every day."
"Well excusez-moi, monsieur hot shit!"
"We're in a warehouse, and you just hit a cow. I think we better back up."
"Did she say ship, or shit?"
"Captain Braddock: What's the story here, Gatlin? I got the commissioner crawling up my ass!"
"One's blind. The other's deaf. The girl's a killer. And they're in it over their heads."
"The first drop dead comedy of the year."
"MURDER! The blind guy couldn't see it. The deaf guy couldn't hear it. Now they're both wanted for it."
"Richard Pryor – Wallace "Wally" Karew"
"Gene Wilder – Dave Lyons"
"Joan Severance – Eve"
"Kevin Spacey – Kirgo"
"Alan North – Braddock"
"Anthony Zerbe – Sutherland"
"Louis Giambalvo – Gatlin"
"Kristen Childs – Adele"
"MURDERED!... But his eyes lived to condemn his killer...!"
"Screen's Newest Inner Sanctum Mystery!"
"Screen's Newest Most Amazing Inner Sanctum Mystery!"
"Lon Chaney — David 'Dave' Stuart"
"Acquanetta — Tanya Czoraki"
"Jean Parker — Heather 'Brat' Hayden"
"Paul Kelly — Dr. Alan Bittaker"
"Thomas Gomez — Capt. Drury"
"Jonathan Hale — Dr. Sam Welles"
"Edward Fielding — Dr. Stanley 'Dad' Hayden"
"George Meeker — Nick Phillips"
"Pierre Watkin — The Lawyer"
"Will It Dare You To Dream of Things You're Ashamed to Admit!"
"WILLIAM CASTLE warns you that your dreams can make you a ..."
"Barbara Stanwyck — Irene Trent"
"Robert Taylor — Barry Morland"
"Judi Meredith — Joyce"
"Hayden Rorke — Howard Trent"
"Rochelle Hudson — Hilda"
"Jess Barker — Malone"
"Marjorie Bennett — The Manager"
"Tetsu Komai — The Gardener"
"Paul Frees — Narrator"
"Lloyd Bochner — The Dream"
"I am in love with you. And I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed. And that one day all our labor will be returned to dust. And I know that the sun will swallow the only earth we will ever have. And I am in love with you."
"That's a thing about pain. It demands to be felt."
"Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory."
"I fell in love with him the way you fall asleep: Slowly, and then all at once."
"Funerals, I've decided, are not for the dead. They are for the living."
"The only thing worse than biting it from cancer is having a kid bite it from cancer."
"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"
"Let's imagine you are racing a tortoise, the tortoise has a 10 yard lead in the start, and in the time it takes you to run 10 yards, the tortoise's moved maybe one yard. So alright, you're faster than the tortoise but you cannot never catch it, you can only decrease his lead. Now certainly you can run past the tortoise as long as you don't contemplate the mechanics of that, but the question of how turns out to be so complicated that no one really solved it until Cantor proved that some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I think that answers your question."
"One sick love story."
"They don't have forever, they have each other."
"Shailene Woodley – Hazel Grace Lancaster"
"Ansel Elgort – Augustus "Gus" Waters"
"Nat Wolff – Isaac, Augustus' best friend"
"Laura Dern – Frannie Lancaster, Hazel's mother"
"Sam Trammell – Michael Lancaster, Hazel's father"
"Willem Dafoe – Peter Van Houten"
"Lotte Verbeek – Lidewij Vliegenthart, Van Houten's assistant"
"Mike Birbiglia – Patrick, the support group leader"
"Ana Dela Cruz – Dr. Maria"
"Milica Govich – Mrs. Waters, Augustus's mother"
"David Whalen – Mr. Waters, Augustus's father"
"Emily Peachey – Monica"
"Emily Bach – Monica's Mom"
"Carole Weyers – the voice of Anne Frank"
"Everyone knows about the disadvantages of being blind. Let me tell you about its benefits."
"[repeated line] A cricket ball hit my head when I was 14. The optic nerve was damaged."
"Some things are complete, only because they are unfinished."
"[watching news about Akash and Simi] They've eloped."
"It's said that crabmeat is an aphrodisiac. Don't ask me to spell it. But I can tell you what it means."
"Raghavan's ability to shock an entire cinema hall including the most immovable, emotionless fan coupled with his ability to make the audience laugh during these moments where your heart is in your mouth defines his unique brand of cinema."
"The surroundings – high-rises, leafy streets and old houses in Pune – seem perfectly normal but what’s happening inside is deliciously twisted. There’s murder, betrayal, sex and a mountain of lies. In short, you can’t look away."
"There is a strong flavour of the Coen brothers at their peak, but also enough nods to Raghavan’s longstanding interest in the dynamics of the perfect crime and the hustlers and flimflam artists who populate pulp detective stories. Even at its current run-time of 139 minutes, Andhadhun slides into place as smoothly as one of Akash’s piano pieces."
"Sriram has done a fab job in keeping dark humour intact. There are so many quirky and surprise elements that will make you cover your face too."
"Andhadhun deserves praise and full attention. Make sure to not miss anything, not the opening scene nor the end credits."
"Ayushmann Khurrana – Aakash Saraf"
"Tabu – Simi Sinha"
"Radhika Apte – Sophie"
"Anil Dhawan – Pramod Sinha"
"Zakir Hussain – Dr. Swami"
"Ashwini Kalsekar – Rasika Jawanda"
"Manav Vij – Inspector Manohar Jawanda"
"[Moze caught with her silver in hand] You ever try and steal anything from me again, I'll shoot you myself, you understand that? [Moze nods]"
"[to Moze] You took a no-account piece of land and a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doin' and you farmed that land better than anybody could - colored or white. You're the one that brought in the first bale of cotton this year. Don't you ever forget that."
"Forgot to tell you, we got a letter from your Aunt Gladys. She was hoping we could come to Oklahoma and visit them... during your vacation. But I don't know. I was hoping we could paint the house."
"Mrs. Spalding, believe me, if I had anyplace else to go tonight besides the State Home for the Infirm, I'd gladly leave right now. Now, when I came here, all I asked was to be left alone. I am not some kind of freak that is here on display for the amusement of those hooligans you call children."
"Right on my biscuit!"
"Albert Denby: Mrs. Spalding, when tragedies like this happen sometimes we have to face up to things that are real hard."
"W.E. Simmons: You know what your trouble is, Mrs. Spalding? You are the victim of unbridled greed."
"Sally Field - Edna Spalding"
"Lindsay Crouse - Margaret Lomax, Edna's sister"
"Ed Harris - Wayne Lomax, Margaret's husband"
"Amy Madigan - Viola Kelsey"
"John Malkovich - Mr. Will"
"Danny Glover - Moses "Moze" Hadner"
"Lane Smith - Albert Denby (Banker)"
"Terry O'Quinn - Buddy Kelsey, Viola's husband"
"Bert Remsen - Tee Tot Hightower"
"Yankton Hatten - Frank Spalding, Edna's son"
"Gennie James - Possum Spalding, Edna's daughter"
"Ray Baker - Sheriff Royce Spalding, Edna's late husband"
"Jay Patterson - W.E. Simmons"
"Toni Hudson - Ermine"
"DeVoreaux White - Wylie"
"Bill Thurman - Homer"
"Jerry Haynes - Deputy Jack Driscoll"