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"[Scrawled in a Bible he hollowed out to make space for the rock hammer he used to tunnel through his cell wall, and placed in the Warden's safe the night before his escape] "Dear Warden; You were right. Salvation lay within. Andy""
"[in a letter] Dear Red, If you're reading this, you've gotten out. And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further. You remember the name of the town, don't you? I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready. Remember, Red: hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. Your friend, Andy."
"There must be a con like me in every prison in America. I'm the guy who can get it for you: cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if that's your thing, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high school graduation, damn near anything within reason. Yes sir, I'm a regular Sears and Roebuck."
"The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell, when those bars slam home, that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it. Most new fish come close to madness the first night. Somebody always breaks down crying. Happens every time. The only question is, who's it gonna be? It's as good a thing to bet on as any, I guess. I had my money on Andy Dufresne. I remember my first night. Seems like a long time ago."
"These prison walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. They send you here for life, that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyways."
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."
"In 1966 Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty."
"Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure, and time. That and a big damn poster. Like I said, in prison, a man will do almost anything to keep his mind occupied. Turns out Andy's favorite hobby was totin' his wall out into the exercise yard, a handful at a time. I guess after Tommy was killed, Andy decided he'd been here just about long enough."
"Andy did like he was told; buffed those shoes to a high mirror shine. The guards simply didn't notice. Neither did I... I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a man's shoes? Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine- or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields; just shy of half a mile."
"Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side. Andy Dufresne, headed for the Pacific. Those of us who knew him best talk about him often. I swear, the stuff he pulled... Sometimes it makes me sad, though, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
"I like to think the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was how the hell that Andy Dufrense ever got the best of him."
"There's harsh truth to face. No way I'm gonna make it on the outside. All I do in remorse is to think a way to break my parole, so they may send me back. Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. All I want is to be back where things make sense, where I won't have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy."
"I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope!"
"I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank."
"If you wanna indulge in this fantasy, that's your business. Don't make it mine. This meeting is over."
"Nothing stops. Nothing, or you will do the hardest time there is. No more protection from the guards. I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton and cast you down with the Sodomites. You'll think you've been fucked by a train. And the library? Gone. Sealed off brick-by-brick. We'll have us a little book barbecue in the yard. They'll see the flames for miles. We'll dance around it like wild Injuns. You understand me? Catching my drift? Or am I being obtuse? [to Hadley] Give him another month to think about it."
"I want him found. NOT TOMORROW, NOT AFTER BREAKFAST! NOW!"
"This is a conspiracy. That's what it is. One... BIG... DAMN CONSPIRACY! AND EVERYONE'S IN ON IT! Including her!"
"[in a letter to Red after being released on parole] Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello, but he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doin' okay and makin' new friends. I have trouble sleepin' at night. I have bad dreams like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense any more. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me. P.S: Tell Heywood I'm sorry I put a knife to his throat. No hard feelings. Brooks."
"His Judgement Cometh and that Right Soon.…"
"Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne"
"Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd"
"Bob Gunton - Warden Samuel Norton"
"William Sadler - Heywood"
"Clancy Brown - Captain Byron T. Hadley"
"Gil Bellows - Tommy Williams"
"Mark Rolston - Bogs Diamond"
"James Whitmore - Brooks Hatlen"
"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"
"What is it in us that seeks the truth? Is it our minds or is it our hearts?"
"I had a great summation all worked out, full of some sharp lawyering, but I'm not going to read it. I'm here to apologize. I am young, and I am inexperienced. But you cannot hold Carl Lee Hailey responsible for my shortcomings. Do you see, in all this legal maneuvering, something has gotten lost. That something is the truth. Now, it is incumbent upon us lawyers not to just talk about the truth but to actually seek it, to find it, to live it. My teacher taught me that. Let's take Dr. Bass, for example. I would have never knowingly put a convicted felon on the stand. I hope you can believe that. But what is the truth? That, that he's a disgraced liar? What if I told you that the woman he was accused of raping was 17, he was 23, that she later became his wife, bore his child and is still married to the man today? Does that make his testimony more or less true? What is it in us that seeks the truth? Is it our minds, or is it our hearts? I set out to prove a black man could receive a fair trial in the South, that we are all equal in the eyes of the law. That's not the truth 'cause the eyes of the law are human eyes, yours and mine, and until we can see each other as equals, justice is never going to be even-handed. It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices. So until that day, we have a duty under God to seek the truth - not with our eyes, and not with our minds where fear and hate turn commonality into prejudice, but with our hearts - but we don't know better. [pause] I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I want you to picture this little girl. Suddenly a truck races up. Two men jump out and grab her. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up and they rip her clothes from her body. Now they climb on. First one, then the other, raping her, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. And when they're done, after they've killed her tiny womb, murdered any chance for her to bear children, to have life beyond her own, they decided to use her for target practice. They start throwin' full beer cans at her. They throw them so hard that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. Then they urinate on her. Now comes the hanging. They have a rope. They tie a noose. Imagine the noose going tight around her neck and with a sudden blinding jerk, she's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking. They don't find the ground. The hanging branch isn't strong enough. It snaps and she falls back to the earth. So they pick her up, throw her in the back of the truck and drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge. Pitch her over the edge. And she drops some thirty feet down to the creek bottom below. Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. [He holds back his tears as his voice breaks] Now imagine she's white."
"Matthew McConaughey - Jake Brigance"
"Sandra Bullock - Ellen Roark"
"Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey"
"Kevin Spacey - Rufus Buckley"
"Brenda Fricker - Ethel Twitty"
"Oliver Platt - Harry Rex Vonner"
"Charles S. Dutton - Ozzie Walls"
"Ashley Judd - Carla Brigance"
"Patrick McGoohan - Judge Omar Noose"
"Kiefer Sutherland - Freddie Lee Cobb"
"Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks"
"John Diehl - Tim Nunley"
"Doug Hutchison - James Louis "Pete" Willard"
"Nicky Katt - Billy Ray Cobb"
"Chris Cooper - Dwayne Looney"
"Anthony Heald - Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver"
"Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly - Tonya Hailey"
"[about Mari and Paige] These are two lovely girls, Justin."
"[to Justin, after raping Mari] You missed out."
"[to Justin] You keep your mouth shut, you hear me? Don't you fuck up again."
"[after being attacked by John and Emma] Who are you crazy fucks?!"
"[to John] What are the odds, man? Of course your little girl had a lot to do with it. You should be proud. How'd you make us, anyway? Did my fucking kid rat us out? That's it, isn't it? My fucking kid! Figured out who you were and blabbered his brains. Hey, by the way, y'all did a bang up job on my brother. He is really fucking dead down there!"
"I'd expect a lot more fight outta you, John."
"[to Krug] Did I do good?, Tell me I did good!"
"[to Krug, after Mari's car crashed] Do I look O-fucking-kay?!"
"[when she looks in the mirror, being scarred] No, no, no, no, no! It's gonna scar, It's gonna scar forever!"
"[attacking Mari] Bitch! Fuck you! Fuck you that you burnt my fucking face! Fuck you!"
"[to Paige, when chasing her] Come back here, you stupid cunt!"
"[while destroying Mari's cellphone] I hate cell phones! Everywhere you turn, nothing but texting and yakking and texting!"
"[about Emma] I think she likes me."
"[after he beats Emma] You fucking bitch! Who the fuck are you?!"
"[waking up to rap music] Yo yo, wassup wassup!"
"[to John, about their guests] They're just so... weird."
"You know what, Mari? I think Justin here could be kind of cute if he lost his whole, like, creepy, hooded Unabomber kind of vibe he's got going on. Don't you think?"
"You know, I didn’t want the casting to be obvious. I didn’t want to go sexy in a very superficial way and make the hard scenes titillating or enjoyable in any way, and I think what made me choose Sara was sitting in the room with her for an hour. Her audition was good, but I felt this intelligence and this intensity which was great combined with this very innocent face she has. Ideally, I wanted a face that looked innocent, I wanted a face that looked wholesomely American, because Sara for me, as a European, she has this very American physique, and at the same time I wanted someone who you couldn’t in any way enjoy seeing going through those scenes. Sara has that. It’s just heartbreaking to see her in these situations and she does an amazing job too. She’s an extremely brave and intelligent actress, and she’s been amazing."
"We tried to make this a bit more psychological and more of a real time movie where you’re thrown into this situation and there’s nowhere to go. But we’ve had a lot of problems and the basic thing they kept telling us is it’s too real."
"If bad people hurt someone you love, how far would you go to hurt them back?"
"Tony Goldwyn - John Collingwood"
"Monica Potter - Emma Collingwood"
"Garret Dillahunt - Krug"
"Aaron Paul - Francis"
"Spencer Treat Clark - Justin"
"Riki Lindhome - Sadie"
"Martha MacIsaac - Paige"
"Michael Bowen - Morton"
"Sara Paxton - Mari Collingwood"
"This is what the jury is going to see. And they are going to see the girl too and you can't tell it from these. But she's tiny. She's the most defenseless looking thing you you ever saw."
"Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Paulsen has told you that the testimony of Sarah Tobias is nothing. Sarah Tobias was raped, but that is nothing. She was cut and bruised and terrorized but that is nothing. All of it happened in front of a howling crowd and that is nothing. Well, it may be nothing to Mr. Paulsen, but it is not nothing to Sarah Tobias and I don't believe it is nothing to you. Next, Mr. Paulsen tried to convince you that Kenneth Joyce was the only one in that room who knew that Sarah Tobias was being raped - the only one! Now you watched Kenneth Joyce, how did he strike you? Did he seem especially sensitive, especially observant? Did he seem so remarkable that you said to yourselves, 'Of course! This man would notice things other people wouldn't.' Do you believe that Kenneth Joyce saw something in that room that those three men didn't see? In all the time that Sarah was pinned down on that Pinball machine that other people didn't know? Kenneth Joyce confessed to you that he watched a rape and did nothing. He told you that everyone in that bar behaved badly - and he was right. But no matter how immoral it may be, it is not the crime of criminal solicitation to walk away from a rape. It is not the crime of criminal solicitation to silently watch a rape. But it is the crime of criminal solicitation to induce or entreat or encourage or persuade another person to commit a rape. 'Hold her down! Stick it to her! Make her moan!' These three men did worse than nothing. They cheered, and they clapped, and they rooted the others on. They made sure that Sarah Tobias was raped, and raped, and raped. Now you tell me, is that nothing?"
"What the hell are you talking about? You saw me at the hospital, what you think I asked for that? Is that what you think? If that's what you think then you get the fuck out of my house!"
"You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as shit hope it was worth it!"
"Kelly McGillis - A. D. A. Kathryn Murphy"
"Jodie Foster - Sarah Tobias"
"Bernie Coulson - Ken Joyce"
"Leo Rossi - Cliff "Scorpion" Albrect"
"Ann Hearn - Sally Fraser"
"Carmen Argenziano - D. A. Paul Rudolph"
"Steve Antin - Bob Joiner"
"Tom O'Brien - Larry"
"Peter Van Norden - Attorney Paulsen"
"Terry David Mulligan - Lieutenant Duncan"
"Woody Brown - Danny"
"Scott Paulin - Attorney Ben Wainwright"
"Kim Kondrashoff - Kurt"
"You don't make history by following the rules, you make it by seizing the moment."
"You have no idea what it's like. The power of it, the freedom. I can’t let that go."
"It's amazing what you can do when you don't have to look at yourself in the mirror anymore."
"[last words; to Linda] One last kiss. For old times' sake."
"Let me tell you a little secret. The concept of Sebastian is much more appealing than Sebastian himself."
"My 5th grade teacher told me that "Genius is the ability to go from A to D without having to go through B and C." Sebastian can do that, but for me, I gotta have the B and C."
"[to Sebastian] What happened to you, huh? Was it the serum that fucked you up, or was it the power?!"
"I decided after Hollow Man, this is a movie, the first movie that I made that I thought I should not have made. It made money and this and that, but it really is not me anymore. I think many other people could have done that. I don't think many people could have made RoboCop that way, or either Starship Troopers. But Hollow Man, I thought there might have been 20 directors in Hollywood who could have done that. I felt depressed with myself after 2002"
"What would you do if you were invisible? How far would you go?"
"Think You're Alone? Think Again."
"There's more to fear than you can see"
"You trust your eyes. You rely on your senses. You think you're alone. Think again."
"Open your eyes"
"Think Invisible, Be Invisible"
"What would you do if you knew you couldn't be seen?"
"If you can't see him, if you can't find him, you can't stop him."
"Elisabeth Shue - Linda McKay"
"Kevin Bacon - Dr. Sebastian Caine"
"Josh Brolin - Matthew "Matt" Kensington"
"Kim Dickens - Dr. Sarah Kennedy"
"Greg Grunberg - Carter Abbey"
"Joey Slotnick - Frank Chase"
"Mary Randle - Janice Walton"
"William Devane - Dr. Howard Kramer"
"Rhona Mitra - Sebastian's neighbor"
"Pablo Espinosa - Ed"
"Margot Rose - Martha Kramer"
"[trying to get his girlfriend to have sex with him] Why don't you lay back and enjoy being inferior?"
"We don't wanna off someone first night out. I mean, it'd be a shame to get this floor all messed up with blood."
"You must think we're stupid, right? No, we're not stupid. We might be horny old pigs, but we ain't stupid."
"Goddamn high-class, tight-ass freakos. All that goddamn silverware. Who do they think they are, anyway? People in China eat with sticks, and these freaks got 16 utensils for every pea on the plate."
"Mari, she was a lot tougher than you, doc. She took a while to kill. She was really tough. We had a hard time with her, but you're just a pussy!"
"Listen to daddy. I want you to take the gun, and I want you to put it in your mouth, and I want you to turn around and blow your brains out. Blow your brains out. BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT!"
"How'd we get into the sex-crime business anyway? My brother Saul, a plumber, makes twice as much money as I do and gets three weeks vacation, too."
"I wonder what the meanest, foulest, rottenest, woodsiest sex crime ever was? Hey, Krug, what do you think the sex crime of the century was?"
"[to Estelle] I could make love to a looker like you with my hands tied behind my back."
"Estelle Collingwood: If God had meant women to go around with their busts exposed, Mari Collingwood, he wouldn't have given us clothes!"
"To avoid fainting, keep repeating: "It's only a movie, only a movie, only a movie...""
"Mari, 17, is dying. Even for her the worst is yet to come."
"It rests on 13 acres of earth over the very center of hell...!"
"WARNING: Not Recommended for Persons Over 30!"
"David A. Hess - Krug Stillo"
"Sandra Peabody - Mari Collingwood"
"Lucy Grantham - Phyllis Stone"
"Fred Lincoln - Fred "Weasel" Podowski"
"Jeramie Rain - Sadie"
"Marc Sheffler - Junior Stillo"
"Cynthia Carr - Estelle Collingwood"
"Gaylord St. James - Dr. John Collingwood"
"Marshall Anker - Sheriff"
"Martin Kove - Deputy"
"Ada Washington - Ada"
"Steve Miner (uncredited) - Hippie taunting Deputy"
"The bad news is you're never gonna be the same. "You'll never be whole. Not ever again.""
"Look how easy that was. I guess you just had to think about it in the right way. I guess it feels different when it's someone you love."
"Nina was extraordinary. So smart. Weirdly smart. She was so completely herself. Even when she was four years old. She was fully formed from day one. Same face, same walk. And funny. Like a grownup is funny, kind of shrewd. I was just in awe of her. I couldn't believe she wanted to be my friend. She didn't give a fuck what anyone thought apart from me, because she was just... Nina. And then she wasn't. Suddenly she was something else. She was yours. It wasn't her name she heard when she was walking around. It was yours. Your name all around her. All over her, all the the time. And it just... squeezed her out. So when I heard your name again, your filthy fucking name, I wondered, when was the last time anyone had said hers? Or thought it even, apart from me? And it made me so sad because, Al... [holds up a scalpel] YOU should be the one with her name all over you."
"[Sarcastically] Who needs brains? They never did a girl any good."
"Oh, don't cry."
"[last lines - in a text to Ryan] You didn't think this was the end, did you? It is now. Enjoy the wedding! Love, Cassie & Nina."
"Stanley Thomas: We miss her, Cassie. But god, we've missed you too."
"Gail: And if you two decide to have sex on the counter, the bleach is in the back room. I don't want to walk in here tomorrow morning and see ass prints in the coffee grains. Got it?"
"Al Monroe: [while smothering Cassandra] Fucking... stop moving! Stop fucking moving! Stop fucking moving! Fuck you!"
"Ryan Cooper: Do you want to go to dinner, you miserable asshole?"
"Madison McPhee: They all want a feminist in college, because it’s cool to have a girlfriend who cares about something. And statistically, feminists are more likely to do anal. That’s literal fact, by the way."
"Revenge never looked so promising."
"Take her home and take your chances."
"This Christmas. Plan to make them pay."
"There aren’t many films at this year’s Sundance film festival that boast a premise quite as tantalising as that of Promising Young Woman, a candy-coloured yet darkly themed comic thriller. It goes like this: Cassie (Carey Mulligan) spends her weekends feigning close-to-blackout drunk behaviour in order to lure guys who see her as easy prey, to see how far they’re willing to go sexually with someone unable to provide consent... It’s a canny setup, from the devious mind of Killing Eve show-runner Emerald Fennell who acts here as writer-director, and while we’ve seen films where women violently fight back against rape culture before (from Ms 45 to Dirty Weekend), we haven’t seen one that feels quite as female and quite as well-rooted in the conversations we’re still somehow having to have. Cassie’s modus operandi is designed to root out the bad guys but quite often they’re not the guys who think that they’re bad in the first place.... Watching Cassie regain this power over these odious men is a deliciously giddy thrill."
"Carey Mulligan - Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas"
"Bo Burnham - Ryan Cooper"
"Alison Brie - Madison McPhee"
"Clancy Brown - Stanley Thomas"
"Jennifer Coolidge - Susan Thomas"
"Laverne Cox - Gail"
"Chris Lowell - Alexander "Al" Monroe"
"Connie Britton - Dean Elizabeth Walker"
"Adam Brody - Jerry"
"Max Greenfield - Joe Macklemore III"
"Christopher Mintz-Plasse - Neil"
"Sam Richardson - Paul"
"Alfred Molina - Jordan Green (uncredited)"
"Molly Shannon - Mrs. Fisher"
"Steve Monroe - Detective Lincoln Waller"
"People aren't always what they appear to be. Don't forget that."
"[taking off Kelly's panties] Guidance counselors get to find out all sorts of interesting things."
"No little bitch could ever make me cum."
"Sure took you guys long enough to get here. What if someone was trying to strangle me, or... fuck me up the ass or something?"
"He said "Don't worry, I didn't come." I can't forget that. He said "No little girl can ever make me come.""
"Tom Baxter: Maybe you didn't hear me, Lombardo. You're finished in Blue Bay. And if I find you around my daughter again, you'll be finished, period. Get the fuck out of here."
"Be wild. Be wicked. Beware."
"They're dying to play with you."
"They can turn you on or turn on you."
"Kevin Bacon - Sergeant Ray Duquette"
"Matt Dillon - Sam Lombardo"
"Neve Campbell - Suzie Toller"
"Theresa Russell - Sandra Van Ryan"
"Denise Richards - Kelly Lanier Van Ryan"
"Daphne Rubin-Vega - Detective Gloria Perez"
"Carrie Snodgress - Ruby"
"Jeff Perry - Bryce Hunter"
"Robert Wagner - Tom Baxter"
"Bill Murray - Kenneth Bowden"
"Dennis Neal - Art Maddox"
"Marc Macaulay - Walter"
"Cory Pendergast - Jimmy Leach"
"Toi Svane Stepp - Nicole"
"Paulo Benedeti - Kirk"
"Eduardo Yáñez - Frankie Condo"
"Jennifer Taylor - Barbara Baxter"
"Don’t worry. Burn them all (the witnesses)."
"But they are Rajput and we are Yadav"
"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"
"I will follow you until I die."
"This place is rotten. The landscape, the food we eat. This whole country is rotten."
"Last night I met God. He gave me permission to call Him by His name."
"Losing a mother, it's an unfathomable loss. To lose one's birth mother is to lose the very foundation on which we stand. The mind may not know its loss, but the heart does."
"I've found our conversation persuasive and intellectually stimulating."
"When dogs get sick, they often bite the hand of those who fed them, until someone mercifully puts them down."
"This is why I never do business with Italians. The spics of Europe."
"What have you done to yourself? It's a shame seeing how your people treat themselves. If you resent your persecution, why then do you make of yourself such an easy target? If you act as a loafer living off handouts, a societal leech, how can you rightfully expect a different result?"
"We tolerate you."
"My uncle is, above all, a principled artist. His lifelong ambition was not only to define an epoch but to transcend all time. In his memoirs, he described his designs as machines with no superfluous parts, that at their best, at his best, possessed an immoveable core; a "Hard Core of Beauty." A way of directing their inhabitant's perception to the world as it is. The inherent laws of concrete things such as mountains and rock define them. They indicate nothing. They tell nothing. They simply are. Born in 1911 in a small fishing village in Austria-Hungary, László Toth looked out upon the Adriatic Sea. He was a boy with eyes wide open, full of yearning. New borders would eventually rip this expanse of sea away from him but never did he cease to try and fill its void. Forty years later, he survived the camps at Buchenwald, as did his late wife, and myself, in Dachau. His first American masterpiece, the Van Buren institute outside of Philadelphia, remained unfinished until 1973. The building referenced his time at Buchenwald as well as the deeply felt absence of his wife, my Aunt Erzsébet. For this project, he re-imagined the camp's claustrophobic interior cells with precisely the same dimensions as his own place of imprisonment, save for one electrifying exception; when visitors looked 20 meters upwards, the dramatic heights of the glass above them invited free thought; freedom of identity. He further re-imagined Buchenwald and his wife's venue of imprisonment in Dachau on the same grounds, connected by a myriad of secret corridors re-writing their history and transcending space and time so that he and Erzsébet would never be apart again. Uncle, you and Aunt Erzsébet once spoke for me, I speak for you now, and I am honored. "Don't let anyone fool you, Zsófia" he would say to me as a struggling young mother raising my daughter during our first years in Jerusalem, "no matter what the others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey." Thank you."
"Adrien Brody - László Tóth"
"Felicity Jones - Erzsébet Tóth"
"Guy Pearce - Harrison Lee Van Buren"
"Joe Alwyn - Harry Lee Van Buren"
"Raffey Cassidy - Zsófia"
"Stacy Martin - Maggie Van Buren"
"Alessandro Nivola - Attila Miller"
"Emma Laird - Audrey Miller"
"Isaach de Bankolé - Gordon"
"Michael Epp - Jim Simpson"
"Jonathan Hyde - Leslie Woodrow"
"Peter Polycarpou - Michael Hoffman"
"Maria Sand - Michelle Hoffman"
"Salvatore Sansone - Orazio"
"[to AJ] You cannot get it upset."
"[to skeptical cops] Look, I'm not a Crackhead! I'm someone who's escaped being captured! What do you want me to say?"
"[leaving a drunken message] Hi, Megan. This is AJ. Uh... I'm guessing you probably don't wanna talk to me, but I, um... I just wanna say I'm really, really sorry if I did anything that night that might've like... Offended you or... 'Cause you know, people can have different versions of the same thing. And... I'm actually not even mad at you about it. And I hope you're not mad at me 'cause I really... I really am sorry. And if you call me back, I'll apologize to you again. So... Please call me back, and I'll apologize to you again. Okay."
"[to Frank, after watching him do something horrific on a video tape] What is wrong with you? The fuck is wrong with you? Hey! Hey, I'm talking to you, you fuck! [Frank pulls a gun out of his drawer] Hey, hey, hey, whoa. [Frank points the gun at his own head] No, no, no, wait! [Bang!]"
"[to Tess] I can get away, but you're gonna have to slow her down. [to The Mother] Hey, come get your baby! [throws Tess off the side of the water tower. The Mother dives off the water tower after Tess, and lands underneath her on the ground]"
"Andre: You make a Copy of a Copy of a Copy, you get that."
"Georgina Campbell - Tess"
"Bill Skarsgård - Keith"
"Justin Long - AJ"
"Matthew Patrick Davis - "The Mother""
"Richard Brake - Frank"
"Kurt Braunohler - Doug"
"Jaymes Butler - Andre"
"Sophie Sörensen - Bonnie"
"J.R. Esposito - Jeff"
"Kate Nichols - Catherine"
"Brooke Dillman - AJ's mother"
"Will Greenberg - Robert"
"Zach Cregger - Everett (unseen cameo)"
"Kate Bosworth - Melissa (voice cameo)"
"Sara Paxton - nursing video narration / assistant / Megan (voice cameo)"
"Truth shall always prevail."
"Deputy Solicitor General of India OM Shalina told the Kerala High Court that the name Janaki, being another name for goddess Sita, could hurt religious sentiments. However, Justice N Nagaresh disagreed, stating, “She is the victim? If the rapist’s name was Ram, Krishna or Janaki, then it would have been understandable. Here she is the heroine, who is fighting for justice.”"
"The judge strongly asserted that it is not for the censor board to dictate the creative choices of filmmakers, including the names of characters. “What is wrong with the name Janaki? How is this an insult to religion? This is the freedom of the artist,” Justice Nagaresh asked pointedly."