"Dave, your father loved you. Just like my daddy loved me. And I know it hurts. But maybe-maybe that's the real meaning of being a superhero. It's taking that pain and turning it into something good. Something right. Remember what you told me? "This is your life. You got to live it." Now help me find some pliers. I'm gonna make this guy eat his own dick."

"This 15 year old girl just owned your ass."

"You're gonna pay for what you did to my dad."

"What is wrong with you, dude?! This is not a comic book, it's real life! When you're dead, it's done! There's no sequel!"

"What's the matter, Chris? Shit hit your shorts?"

"There’s no room for punks in suits. Just real heroes who can really kick ass."

"What an asshole."

"Game on, cocksuckers!"

"Get the word out that I'm building an evil army."

"You and me, like Batman and Robin."

"Anthony Quayle - Doctor Murray"

"I'm going to make Kick-Ass pay for what he did to my Dad."

"Corin Redgrave - Inspector Robert Dixon"

"Gerard McSorley - Detective Pavis"

"Don Baker - Joe McAndrew"

"Frank Harper - Ronnie Smalls"

"Beatie Edney - Carole Richardson"

"Emma Thompson - Gareth Peirce"

"Jamie Harris - Deptford Jim"

"Anthony Brophy - Danny"

"Pete Postlethwaite - Giuseppe Conlon"

"John Lynch - Paul Hill"

"Mark Sheppard - Paddy Armstrong"

"Tom Wilkinson - Grant Richardson"

"[after his case is dismissed, and the guards try to escort him out] I'm a free man, and I'm going out the front door."

"[outside the courtroom] I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on. In the name of my father and of the truth!"

"[after hearing of Gerry's father's death] Well, I think they ought to take the word 'compassion' out of the English dictionary."

"[to Robert Dixon at the appeal] Well then, would you be so kind as to read the statement that you took from him on the third of November 1974? A statement, Milord, which vindicates these people, all these innocent people. Someone, either that man, or his superior, or his superior's superior, ordered that these people be used as scapegoats by a nation that was baying for blood in return for the innocent blood spilled on the streets of Guildford! And by God, you've got your blood, Mr Dixon! You've got the blood of Giuseppe Conlon, you've got the lifeblood of Carole Richardson and you've got fifteen years of blood and sweat and pain from my client, whose only crime was he was bloody well Irish, and he was foolish and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time!"

"Milord, this alibi for Gerry Conlon was taken by Mr Dixon one month after Gerry Conlon was arrested. This note was attached to it when I found it in police files. It reads "Not to be Shown to The Defence". [she holds up the note, to gasps of disbelief from the gallery] I have one question to ask you, Mr Dixon. Why was the alibi for Gerry Conlon, who was charged with the murder of five innocent people...kept from the defence?"

"Falsely accused. Wrongly imprisoned. He fought for justice to clear his father's name."

"In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love."

"Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon"

"John Hargreaves — Bruce Haigh"

"John Thaw — Jimmy Kruger"

"Denzel Washington — Steve Biko"

"Penelope Wilton — Wendy Woods"

"Kevin McNally — Ken"

"We are going to change South Africa. What we've got to decide is the best way to do that. And as angry as we have the right to be, let us remember that we are in the struggle to kill the idea that one kind of man is superior to another kind of man. And killing that idea is not dependent on the white man. We must stop looking to him to give us something. We have to fill the black community with our own pride. We have to teach our black children black history, tell them about our black heroes, our black culture, so that they don't face the white man believing they are inferior. Then we'll stand up to him in anyway he chooses. Conflict, if he likes. But with an open hand, too, to say we can all build a South Africa worth living in - a South Africa for equals, black or white, a South Africa as beautiful as this land is, as beautiful as we are."

"My lord, blacks are not unaware of the hardships they endure or what the government is doing to them. we want them to stop accepting these hardships - to confront them. People must not just give in to the hardship of life, they must find a way, even in these environments, to - to develop hope - hope for themselves, hope for this country. now I think that is what black consciousness is all about. Not without any reference to the white man. To try to build up a sense of our own humanity - our legitimate place in the world."

"I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are."

"You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!"

"When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I suddenly realized that it wasn't just good jobs that were white. The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black. I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man."

"Kevin Kline — Donald Woods"

"It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you. Then you go to the city to work or shop, and you see their streets, their cars, their houses, and you begin to feel there is something not quite right about yourself. About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child is he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are born into this. And smart or dumb you die in it."