Belfast (film)

"Every night, before I go to sleep, when I say my prayers, I ask God if He could fix it so that when I wake up in the morning, I'm the best footballer in the world. And then I also ask another thing as well. That when I grow up .. Can I marry Katherine? Even if she loves Ronnie Boyd. But she could still see 'im. But she'd marry me. That's what I want."

"She never sees me. She's always doing her bloody homework. If she were a wee bit more stupid like me, we'd be sitting together by now."

"So, the doctor says, 'Listen, John, I've got some bad news and worse.' And John says, 'Oh, no. What's the bad news?' And he goes, 'Well, you've only got 24 hours to live.' John says, 'That's, that's awful. What could be worse than that?' Doctor says, 'Well, I've been trying to get ahold of you since yesterday.'"

"Folks always have a problem with change. But you'd better get used to it, mister. People like me run this town now. And it's people like you that bring us all down."

"Granny: I'm always saying to your man there, what's yours is mine, and what's mine's me own."

"Pop: Oh, that puts me in mind of a great wee system we had in the old days for paying the rent. The rent man would come round and collect the money for every house in the whole street, and once he had done and all the rent books were marked up to date, one of the boys would hold him up at gunpoint in the back entry and take all the money back off him, and then he'd hand it straight back to all the residents in the street, with a little commission for the service. Yeah, it was a very effective system. And the rent man was so good about it in the end that eventually they cut him in for a wee bit, too, and everybody was happy. Except for the council, I suppose."

"Miss Lewis: Well, I'm pleased to say your times tables were a lot more impressive to hear than your test scores were to read. The whole point of these weekly tests is to monitor your progress. The best will sit directly by my desk, the seat of learning, and the rest of you will view your Sisyphean struggles from the distance you have imposed upon yourself by a lack of application."

"No matter how far you go, you never forget where you came from."

"Our memories make us."

"Belfast 1969. Everything was about innocence. Everything was about family. Everything was about to change."

"Jude Hill - Buddy"

"Caitríona Balfe - "Ma", Buddy's mother"

"Jamie Dornan - "Pa", Buddy's father"

"Judi Dench - "Granny", Buddy's grandmother"

"Ciarán Hinds - "Pop", Buddy's grandfather"

"Lewis McAskie - Will, Buddy's older brother"

"Colin Morgan - Billy Clanton"

"Lara McDonnell - Moira"

"Michael Maloney - Frankie West"

"Olive Tennant - Catherine"

"Gerard Horan - Mackie"

"Josie Walker - Aunt Violet"

"Turlough Convery - Minister"

"Vanessa Ifediora - Miss Lewis"

"Conor MacNeill - McLaury"

"Drew Dillon - Mr. Kavanagh"

"Victor Alli - Soldier"

"Gerard McCarthy - Bobby Frank"

"Ian Dunnett Jnr - Uncle Tony"

"John Sessions - Joseph Tomelty playing Jacob Marley"

"Mark Hadfield - George Malpass playing Ebenezer Scrooge"