"Listen, they're gonna be playing with my hands alright. Cuz it ain't what they say, it's what we say. And nobody ain't gonna listen to us unless we make 'em."

"Never fear, Brooklyn is here!"

"I say, that what you say...is what I say."

"Hey, glum and dumb! What'sa matta with you? You get your picture in the papes, you're famous. You're famous, you get anything you want! That's what's so great about New York!"

"What are we supposed to do to the bums, kiss 'em?"

"Hey Cowboy! Nice shine-a'!"

"Five to one that Cowboy skunks 'em! Huh, who's bettin'?"

"Five bucks? We ain't got five bucks! We ain't even got five cents! Hey your honor how bout I roll ya for it, double or nothin'?"

"[first lines; opening narration] In 1899, the streets of New York City echoed with the voices of newsies, peddling the papers of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and other giants of the newspaper world. On every corner you saw them carrying the banner, bringing you the news for a penny a page. Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a ragged army without a leader, until one day, all that changed."

"Oh, you mean Jack Kelly. Yeah, he was here. But he put an egg in his shoe and...beat it."

"Look at this. "Baby Born With Two Heads". Must be from Brooklyn."

"[singing] If I hate the headline I'll make up a headline and I'll say anything I havta!"

"Nope, it's nineteen, Weasel. It's nineteen, but don't worry about it; it's an honest mistake. See Morris, he can't count to twenty with his shoes on."

"We sell together, we split 70-30, plus you get the benefit of observin' me no charge!"

"Remember Crutchie? [said to Morris Delancy before headbutting him]"

"[David: Hey, hey, hey! What do you think you're doin'?] Runnin'! [continues running from the Delancy brothers as the Newsies cheer him on]"

"[singing] We're a union just by sayin' so."

"You got no brains! Why are we starting to fight each other? It's just what the big shots want to see that we're street trash; street rats with no brains with no respect for nothin' including ourselves! So here's how it is: if we don't act together, then we're nothin', if we don't stick together, we're nothin', and if we can't even trust each other, then we're nothin'."

"Well, dat's da foist thing ya gotta learn - headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes."

"[singing] When I dream on my own I'm alone but I ain't lonely. For a dreamer, night's the only time-a day."

"There are ideas in this film. The most pointed is V's belief: "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." I am not sure V has it right; surely in the ideal state governments and their people should exist happily together. Fear in either direction must lead to violence. But V has a totalitarian state to overthrow, and only a year to do it in, and we watch as he improvises a revolution."

"John Hurt – Chancellor Adam Sutler"

"Stephen Fry – Gordon Dietrich"

"Stephen Rea – Eric Finch"

"Hugo Weaving – V"

"Natalie Portman – Evey Hammond"

"Ideas are bulletproof."

"England prevails."

"Strength through unity, unity through faith!"

"FREEDOM! FOREVER!"

"Remember, remember the 5th of November."

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

"An uncompromising vision of the future from the creators of the Matrix trilogy."

"It seemed to me the two more absolute extremes were anarchy and fascism. This was one of the things I objected to in the recent film, where it seems to be, from the script that I read, sort of recasting it as current American neo-conservatism vs. current American liberalism. There wasn't a mention of anarchy as far as I could see. The fascism had been completely defanged. I mean, I think that any references to racial purity had been excised, whereas actually, fascists are quite big on racial purity."

"The dark and stylized V for Vendetta is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing. Set in a slightly futuristic world (London in 2020), Vendetta is an action thriller that also stimulates thought... Despite its disparate influences, Vendetta feels captivatingly original. The multilayered film can be appreciated strictly as an action thriller or for its deeper message about personal responsibility, political oppression and revolutionary change. One powerful theme centers on the notion that ideas live forever, their power undiminished even as those who espouse them die."

"Brutal, audacious and very slippery, V for Vendetta is the ballsiest major studio release I've ever seen… Vendetta is as rousing, engaging and devious as only the best propaganda can be — a call to rebellion that dares to question our respect for authority and gives us a masked terrorist and his manipulated prodigy as our heroes. And unlike other political thrillers that seem content to simply wallow their dissatisfaction with the state of the world, Vendetta demands that we take personal responsibility for our actions and for the administrations that we allow to come into power... Vendetta is a thematic powderkeg... Straight up, this is as invigorating, challenging and moving a film as one can hope to expect, especially from a major studio (and the first). Don't miss the movie of the year."

"I wish I believed that was possible. But every time I've seen this world change, it's always been for the worse."

"Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up."

"I remember them arguing at night. Mum wanted to leave the country. Dad refused. He said if we ran away, they would win. Win, like it was a game."

"No-one will ever forget that night, and what it meant to this country. But I will never forget the man, and what he meant to me."