The Green Mile (film)

"You can come in here on your legs, but you'll go out on your backs. Billy the Kid gonna guarantee ya that."

"Dead man walking, we got a dead man walking here."

"Adios, Chief. Drop us a card from Hell. Let us know if it's hot enough."

"Miracles happen in the most unexpected places."

"Paul Edgecomb didn't believe in miracles. Until the day he met one."

"Miracles do happen."

"Tom Hanks — Paul Edgecomb"

"David Morse — Brutus "Brutal" Howell"

"Bonnie Hunt — Jan Edgecomb"

"Michael Clarke Duncan — John Coffey"

"James Cromwell — Warden Hal Moores"

"Doug Hutchison — Percy Wetmore"

"Sam Rockwell — "Wild Bill" Wharton"

"Michael Jeter — Eduard "Del" Delacroix"

"Barry Pepper — Dean Stanton"

"Jeffrey DeMunn — Harry Terwilliger"

"Patricia Clarkson — Melinda Moores"

"Harry Dean Stanton — Toot-Toot"

"Dabbs Greer — Old Paul Edgecomb"

"Eve Brent — Elaine Connelly"

"I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. Usually, death row was called "the last mile"; we called ours "the Green Mile" — the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair — "Old Sparky," we called it. Oh, I've lived a lot of years, Ellie, but 1935 — that takes the prize. That year, I had the worst urinary infection of my life, and that was also the year of John Coffey and the two dead girls."

"All I wanted me was a little corn bread, you motherfuckers! All I wanted me was a little corn bread!"

"What happens on the Mile, stays on the Mile. Always has."

"Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block! [Percy leaves]"

"[about Percy] The man is mean and careless and stupid, and that's a bad combination in a place like this. Sooner or later, he's gonna get somebody hurt, or worse."

"[as Brutal grabs onto Percy's ears] A big man is ripping your ears off, Percy, I'd do as he says."

"[grabs Percy, who is trying to turn away from the botched execution he caused] You watch, you son of a bitch!"

"I've done some things in my life I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real danger of hell."

"Elaine — you'll die, too. And my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement, you see — it's my punishment for lettin' John Coffey ride the lightning. For killing a miracle of God. You'll be gone like all the others, and I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually; of that, I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality. But I will have wished for death long before Death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already."

"We each owe a death — there are no exceptions. But, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long."

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

"I think about all of us. Walking our own Green Mile, each in our own time."

"On the day of my judgement, when I stand before God, and he asks me why... did I... did I kill one of his true... miracles... what am I going to say? That it was my job? It was my job..."

"John Coffey, just like the drink, only not spelled the same."

"I tried to take it back, but it was too late. (crying)"

"You be still, now ... you be so quiet and so still."

"Why, they's angels. Angels, just like up in heaven."

"I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it — it's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time. Can you understand?"

"He killed them with their love. That's how it is every day, all over the world."

"(singing quietly) Heaven … I'm in heaven … heaven …"

"Barbecue! Me and you! Stinky-pinky, Pew-Pew-Pew! Weren't Billy, Jilly, Hilly, or Pa! It was a French-fried Cajun named Delacroix! WOO!"