190 quotes found
"Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for eighteen years, then I can survive anything."
"Cook the man some fuckin' eggs!"
"I bought seafood today - bloody everything! Just wanted to put a smile on her face. Think she'd let me? Not a chance. All I said was that I got laid off. Anybody would've thought I'd told her my prick had dropped off!"
"Barman! 6 milkshakes, easy on the ice-cream."
"You're a fuckin' mess! Don't you ever speak to me again, you hear?"
"[after beating up a patron] I was right. Too much weights, not enough speedwork. Useless prick."
"[reading about Grace's rape in her diary, clearly shocked] Uncle Bully... [begins trembling with insane rage] UNCLE FUCKIN' BULLY!!!"
"Her only chance for the future is to embrace the power of her past."
"A family in crisis, a life in chaos... Nothing is more powerful than a mother's love."
"Rena Owen — Beth Heke"
"Temuera Morrison — Jake Heke"
"Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell — Grace Heke"
"Julian Arahanga — Nig Heke"
"Taungaroa Emile — Boogie Heke"
"Rachael Morris Jr. — Polly Heke"
"Joseph Kairau — Huata Heke"
"Cliff Curtis — Bully"
"Pete Smith — Dooley"
"George Henare — Bennett"
"Mere Boynton — Mavis"
"Shannon Williams — Toot"
"Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. It's kindly a long wood handle, kinda like an axe handle, with a long blade on it shaped kindly like a bananer. Mmm hmm. Sharp on one edge, and dull on the other 'un. Mmm hmm. It's what the highway boys use to cut down weeds and what not, y'know."
"I guess I am going to have to get used to lookin at perty people, and perty people going to have to get used to lookin at me."
"[to Vaughn] I don't reckon you have to go with women to be a good daddy to a boy. You been real square-dealin' with me. The Bible says two men ought not lay together. But I don't reckon the Good Lord would send anybody like you to Hades. That Frank, he lives inside of his own heart. That's an awful big place to live in. You take good care of that boy."
"I like them French fried potaters."
"There were these two fellars standin' on a bridge, a-goin' to the bathroom. One fellar said, "The water's cold" and the other fellar said, "The water's deep". I believe one fella come from Arkansas. Get it?"
"I don't think anything bad ought to happen to children. I think the bad stuff should be saved up for the people who's grown up. That's the way I see it."
"[on the phone] Yes, ma'am. I I need the police over at the Wheatley house, mmm. I've killed Doyle Hargraves with a lawnmower blade. Yes, ma'am, I'm right sure of it. I hit him two good whacks in the head with it. That second one just plum near cut his head in two... It's a lil' ol' white house on the corner of Vine Street and some other street. There's a pick-up truck out front that says "Doyle Hargraves Construction" on it. Doyle said besides sending the police, you might wanna send an ambulance or a "hearst". I'll be sitting here, waiting on ye."
"[to Charles Bushman, final words of the film] Don't you say another word to me. I ain't listenin' to you no more."
"Not that you two afflicted sumbitches know anything about this, but you're sitting in a crew cab dualie pickup. In some circles, this is considered a piece of automotive art."
"You believe in the bible do ya Karl?… Well I can't understand none of it. This one begat this one. This one begat that one, begat, begat. Lo and behold someone says some shit or another. Just how retarded are you?"
"If you all don't shut up I'm about to go out of my mind. Ol' Karl over here is about to bust a spring. He's already off balance."
"A simple man. A difficult choice."
"Sometimes a hero comes from the most unlikely place."
"Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers"
"Dwight Yoakam - Doyle Hargraves"
"J. T. Walsh - Charles Bushman"
"John Ritter - Vaughan Cunningham"
"Lucas Black - Frank Wheatley"
"Natalie Canerday - Linda Wheatley"
"James Hampton - Jerry Woolridge"
"Robert Duvall - Frank Childers, Karl's father"
"Jim Jarmusch - Deke, the Frostee Cream employee"
"A story about the memories that haunt us, and the truth that sets us free."
"Barbra Streisand - Dr. Susan Lowenstein"
"Nick Nolte -Tom Wingo"
"Blythe Danner - Sallie Wingo"
"Kate Nelligan - Lila Wingo Newbury"
"Jeroen Krabbé - Herbert Woodruff, Lowenstein's husband"
"Melinda Dillon -Savannah Wingo"
"George Carlin - Eddie Detreville, Savannah's neighbor"
"Jason Gould - Bernard Woodruff, Lowenstein's son (and Streisand's real life son with Elliot Gould)"
"Pussy...need pussy..."
"I'm gonna fuck you so hard, you'll be coming out of your ears. Fuck you..."
"You think I don't appreciate art? You think I don't understand fashion? You think I'm not hip? You think I'm pathetic? A nerd? A lard-ass fatso? You think I'm shit? Well, you're wrong, 'cause I'm champagne, and you're shit. Until the day you die, you, not me, will always be shit!"
"I want kids that love me as much as I hated my mother."
"It's just I'm... I'm so tired of being admired all the time. All these men I mean... they're all beautiful, artistic minds, great sex, the whole package, but hollow, you know what I mean? I feel nobody's really honest with me. Nobody wants me for me."
"Y'know, people are always putting New Jersey down. None of my friends can believe I live here. But that's because they don't get it: I'm living in a state of irony."
"If only I had been raped as a child! Then I would know authenticity!"
"How come no matter how much you treat me like shit, I can't help loving you even more?"
"I wake up happy, feeling good... but then I get very depressed, because I'm living in reality."
"Jane Adams - Joy Jordan"
"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Allen"
"Dylan Baker - Bill Maplewood"
"Lara Flynn Boyle - Helen Jordan"
"Cynthia Stevenson - Trish Jordan"
"Louise Lasser - Mona Jordan"
"Ben Gazzara - Lenny Jordan"
"Jared Harris - Vlad"
"Jon Lovitz - Andy"
"Camryn Mannheim - Kristina"
"From that moment on, I realized Bobby was my responsibility."
"There are seven lost secret fascinations and abilities. They are that: animals can talk; your favorite blanket is woven from a fabric so mighty, that once pulled over your head, it becomes an impenetrable force field, nothing is too heavy to lift with the aid of a cape; your hand, held forefinger out and thumb up, actually fires bullets; jumping from any height with an umbrella is completely safe; monsters exist and can be both seen an done battle with; and the greatest, most special and regrettable loss of all: the ability to fly."
"[When the bullies showed up] We knew we were dead instantly, the way you always know you're in for it when bigger kids show up. It's a sixth sense you never lose."
"[on getting the idea to sell golf balls] It was money, I didn't know how it would help but I knew we were better off if we had some than if we didn't."
"We called him 'The king', because... that's what he liked to be called."
"History is all in the mind of the teller. Truth is all in the telling."
"[about The King] Bobby: He's coming back, Mike. It's not mom's fault, but he's coming back."
"Powered by imagination."
"Somewhere inside every person...someplace inside every heart...is a power that turns fear into courage...and makes dreams take flight. ...Powered by imagination."
"Elijah Wood - Mike"
"Joseph Mazzello - Bobby"
"Tom Hanks - Older Mike / Narrator (uncredited)"
"Lorraine Bracco - Mary"
"John Heard - Jim Daugherty"
"Adam Baldwin - Jack "The King""
"Ben Johnson - Geronimo Bill"
"Garette Ratliff - Chad"
"Thomas Ian Nicholas - Ferdie"
"My name is Claireece Precious Jones. I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with real nice hair. And I wanna be on the cover of a magazine. But first I wanna be in one of them BET videos. Momma said I can't dance. Plus, she said who wants to see my big ass dancing, anyhow?"
"There's always something wrong with these tests. These tests paint a picture of me with no brain. These tests paint a picture of me and my mother, my whole family as less than dumb. Just ugly black grease, need to be wiped away, find a job for."
"I'm gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me."
"The other day, I cried. I felt stupid. But you know what? Fuck that day. That's why God, or whoever, makes new days. Still hungry, though."
"[to her mother] You know, to this day, I never even knew who you was, not even after all them things you did. Maybe I was too stupid. Maybe I just didn't want to. You ain't gonna see me no more."
"See, I think right now you think you becomin' a grown woman. 'Cause that shit you pulled in the kitchen... I shoulda fucked you up. But I let you walk away. And I let you get yourself together. But, bitch, I'mma let you know, don't you ever pull that shit again. That'll be your last mothafuckin' day stayin here. I promise you that. You gon' send a white bitch to my mothafuckin' buzzer? Talkin' 'bout some higher education? You're a dummy, bitch! You will never know shit! Don't nobody want you, don't nobody need you! You done fucked around and fucked my mothafuckin' man? And had two mothafuckin' children? And one of 'ems a goddamn animal, runnin' 'round lookin' crazy as a mothafucka? Bitch, you know what? See, I think you... I think you tryin' me. I think you tryin' to fuck with me. You fuckin' with my money... and you gon' stand up there and look at me like you a mothafuckin' woman? I'mma show you what real women do, bitch. See, you don't know what real mothafuckin' women do. Real mothafuckin' women sacrifice! I shoulda aborted your mothafuckin' ass! 'Cause you ain't shit! I knew it when the doctor put you in my goddamn hand you wasn't a goddamn thing! You wear that smirk on your face, bitch?"
"Gabourey Sidibe - Claireece Precious Jones"
"Mo'Nique - Mary Jones"
"Paula Patton - Ms. Blu Rain"
"Mariah Carey - Mrs. Weiss"
"Lenny Kravitz - Nurse John"
"See what happens when you put things into people's heads? It steam-rollers on... and other people start to believe it. You gotta get rid of these thoughts, Tom. You gotta stop it. They're wrong, you know they're wrong. You're not sick, you're just, erm... just going through your teens. It happened to me. Are you pregnant? Is that what it is? Is it? See how you can put things into people's heads? I suppose I'll be doing it with him next. You can't keep saying these things, darling."
"Don't you fucking talk to me! Get to fucking bed! How can you fucking say that to me?! You're fucking sick! You talk to me like that in front of your sister?! You're ill! You go behind my fucking back to your mother. You break this family up and I'll kill you. You're so fucking sick, you're going into care, Son! You're fucking going, you shit! You tell me things like that?! You're a fucking animal. Who the fucking hell are you?! You fucking talk like that? You're fucking ill. You're going to a fucking home. You're fucking scum! What are you doing to me?! What are you fucking doing?! You're fucking killing me. Fucking kid. Fucking animal. How can you talk like that? You go to your mother behind my back and talk shit?! You're fucking sick in the head. Something fucking wrong with you. Two years! Two years I've had this fucking kid. Two schools I've pulled him out of. Fucking trouble. You're breaking my family up, breaking this fucking family up. You break this family up and I swear, I'll fucking kill you. I'll fucking kill you. What are you doing to me? What are you doing to me? I'm going to the hospital... talk to your mother. He's filth. You're going into fucking care. I'll fucking sort this out. Getting fucking paranoid. Everyone's getting fucking paranoid. I can't fucking deal with this."
"I don't fucking need this, Tom. I don't understand this. You know it hurts us. Are you just Iying or do you believe it? It's gotta stop. Can't have it, mate. Sorry I smacked you, but you hurt me. You don't know how feel. Mummy's all upset... Is it an attention thing. Alice...is that what it is? Sometimes it happens when a baby comes along. You know, it's the facts of life. I'd never put you in a home. I love you, I'd never put..."
"Ray Winstone - Dad"
"Tilda Swinton - Mum"
"Lara Belmont - Jessie"
"Freddie Cunliffe - Tom"
"Colin Farrell - Nick"
"Aisling O'Sullivan - Carol"
"Kate Ashfield - Lucy"
"Kim Wall - Barman"
"Annabelle Apsion - Nurse"
"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell."
"I've been waiting for you, baby, you know. I've been waiting for you for two hours now, you know. Where have you been? The shop's round the corner."
"You've either got the cigarettes or you've got the money, Lucy. Where is it?"
"You did! You did! You don't just fucking lose money like that. That's all we had. That's all we had. What am I gonna do? What am I to do with you now? You're gonna make me angry. You're making me angry now. You're making me angry now. You've got one last chance. Where's the money? Where's the fucking money?"
"Don't lie to me, Lucy. Last time. Where's the money."
"I don't want to do this to you. I don't want to do this to you. Tell me where the fucking money is! What did you do with the money? Where did you put it? Did you smoke the cigarettes? Are you smoking the cigarettes? What am I supposed to do?"
"Molly Windsor – Lucy"
"Susan Lynch – Mother"
"Robert Carlyle – Father"
"Lauren Socha – Lauren"
"Craig Parkinson – Boahen"
"Andrea Lowe – Vicky"
"Kerry Stacey – Social worker"
"Michael Socha – Michael"
"Katie Withers – Jules"
"Hope for the unknown is good. It is better than hatred of the familiar."
"Why does love - the absence of love, the end of love, the need for love - result in so much violence?"
"Surely, there must be something worth living for in this life, not only in the next."
"When we have liberated ourselves, we will have to ask ourselves who we are."
"I will destroy any living thing that harms my child. I will tear it limb from limb. I will desecrate its body and I will bury it alive. I will challenge God on the spot to strike me dead if I have sinned by protecting my child from evil, and my destroying that evil that it may not harm another. I will lie, I will hunt, I will kill. I will dance on graves and I will burn forever in hell before I allow another man to satisfy his violent urges with the body of my four year old child."
"I cannot forgive them. I will never forgive them."
"We know we were made to sleep with cow tranquilizer!"
"I will become a murderer if I stay."
"We do not need to be forgiven by the men of God for protecting our children from the depraved actions of vicious men, who are often the very same men we're meant to ask for forgiveness."
"It was a yes or no question. You shit like any other man, why don't you talk like one?"
"[narrating] We didn't talk about our bodies. So when something like this happened there was no language for it. And without language for it, there was a gaping silence. And in that gaping silence was the real horror."
"Sometimes I think people laugh as hard as they'd like to cry."
"We saw our bodies from above, not knowing if this was how God saw us, or because we didn't want to be in them."
"The attacks were originally attributed to ghosts and demons. When the women woke up feeling drowsy and in pain, their bodies bruised and bleeding, many believed they were being made to suffer as punishment for their sins. Many accused the women of lying for attention or to cover up adultery."
"They said later, it should have taken longer to pack up a whole life. It was disappointing to realize that everything that ever mattered to you could be gathered up in a few short hours."
"[to Ona's baby] Your story will be different from ours."
"Forgiveness can look like permission."
"We have been preyed upon like animals. Maybe we should respond like animals."
"Leaving is how we demonstrate our faith. We are leaving because our faith is stronger than the rules. Bigger than our life."
"If we do not forgive these men, we give up our place in Heaven."
"Rooney Mara - Ona"
"Claire Foy - Salome"
"Jessie Buckley - Mariche"
"Judith Ivey - Agata"
"Ben Whishaw - August"
"Frances McDormand - Scarface Janz"
"Sheila McCarthy - Greta"
"Michelle McLeod - Mejal"
"Kate Hallett - Autje"
"Liv McNeil - Neitje"
"August Winter - Melvin"
"Kira Guloien - Anna"
"Shayla Brown - Helena"
"Nathaniel McParland - Aaron"
"Eli Ham - Klaas"
"Emily Mitchell - Miep"
"Burn in hell for gettin' free, and burn in hell for showin' the way!"
"[To his dog] Shut the FUCK up!"
"Kiss your ass goodbye, boy!"
"What's a mother to do? Lazy brat sits in her room all day, sewing dolls. Children misbehaving in the basement! And one in the wall, doing his business God knows where. You kids will be the death of me... the death of me."
"I don't want to see another cop or cookie in my life. I don't know which one makes me sicker."
"You didn't lick this, did you?"
"Then she can burn in hell. Both of them."
"[Looking over money stash of the landlords] No wonder there's no money in the ghetto!"
"How did Spenser get past her? She's got X-Ray eyeballs!"
"[To Rottweiler dog] Hey fuzzball! Your mother sleeps with cats!"
"That X-ray lady's back, she's out back right now by the van. She's got a man with her the size of Detroit."
"Yeah, and maybe the President will make me Secretary of Pussy."
"We done popped this house's cherry."
"He came at me like an airplane or something!"
"Just because a man's lying down doesn't mean he's dead!"
"Nice to see the rich folks' got rats too."
"[To the woman] Go to hell!"
"Brandon Quintin Adams as Fool"
"Everett McGill as Man"
"Wendy Robie as Woman"
"A.J. Langer as Alice"
"Ving Rhames as Leroy"
"Sean Whalen as Roach"
"Bill Cobbs as Grandpa Booker"
"Kelly Jo Minter as Ruby Williams"
"Jeremy Roberts as Spenser"
"Conni Marie Brazelton as Mary"