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There are always possibilities. William Shatner, Star Trek II (1982) Everything is illuminated in the past. Eugene Hutz, Everything is Illuminated (2005) What are you prepared to do? Sean Connery, The Untouchables (1987) Don’t give in to hate or fear. They lead to the dark side. Sir Alec Guinness, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) You have a choice. Tom Cruise, Minority Report (2002) You have a choice. Tom Cruise, Minority Report (2002) What one man can do, another can do. Anthony Hopkins, The Edge (1997) How hard is it just to decide to be in a good mood and then be in a good mood? John Cusack, Say Anything (1989) Paris is always a good idea. I was happy there. You would be, too. Julia Ormond, Sabrina (1995) Out there are all the answers. Bruno Kirby, City Slickers (1991) Make your lives extraordinary. Robin Williams, Dead Poet’s Society (1989) Don’t give in to emotion. Emotion is the enemy. Jason Scott Lee, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) You should never swallow tea without testing it. That’s the real thing experience teaches you, isn’t it? How not to get burned. Emma Thomson, Primary Colors (1998) Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut. Robert DeNiro, Goodfellas (1990) I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really: Get busy living, or get busy dying. Tim Robbins, The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home. John Candy, Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) Language was developed for one endeavor and that is...to woo women. Robin Williams, Dead Poet’s Society (1989) You know what the meaning of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean sh&^. Jack Palance, City Slickers (1991) I don’t think necessarily what a person does for a living reflects who he is. John Cusack, Gross Pointe Blank (1997) You pray for one face that didn’t change, one face that still knows you, looks at you the same way it always did. Al Pacino, Carlito’s Way (1993) Go into the forest. If you find truth, come back and tell me about it. Amrik Singh, Siddartha (1972) There’s something immoral about abandoning your own judgment. Bruce Greenwood, Thirteen Days (2000) That’s what it is to be human: To make yourself more than you are. Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: Nemisis (2002) It’s the hardest thing, forgiveness. Maybe that’s where love and justice finally meet. Jeffrey Wright, Angels in America (2003) Is it disloyal to defend something one believes in passionately? Anthony Brophy, The Gathering Storm (2002) That’s what it is to be human: To make yourself more than you are. Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: Nemisis (2002) You just do what you got to do to survive, somehow. Al Pacino, Carlito’s Way (1993) Life seems so sweet, and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day’s a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something’s bound to turn up. Harvey Pekar, American Splendor (2003) Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you find anything. Burt Reynolds, Deliverance (1972) The river is everywhere, everywhere at the same time. It is at its source and at the mouth. It is everywhere. The river only lives in the present. We, too, must learn to live in the present. Zul Vellani, Siddartha (1972) A man should acknowledge his losses just as gracefully as he celebrates his victories. ... You’ll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. It’s inevitable to lose now and again. Albert Finney, A Good Year (2006) In this world there’s a kind of painful progress, longing for what we’ve left behind and dreaming ahead. Mary-Louise Parker, Angels in America (2003) I believe in behavior. Not fate. Joseph Fiennes, The Darwin Awards (2005) Sometimes you just have to make the decision to be happy. Just decide. Things aren’t ever what you hoped they’d be. Not ever, for anybody. The only thing that separates one kind of person from another is, there are some who stay angry about it and there are some who accept what comes their way. Olympia Dukakis, Away From Her (2006) Surely it would make you happier just to be yourself. Why fight to be accepted by people you don’t actually want to be like? Charlie Cox, Stardust (2007) Always negative. Always destructive. Well now’s your chance to do something positive for a change. Are you quitting? Red Buttons, The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Never give up your friends; no matter what. Al Pacino, Carlito’s Way (1993) What’s wrong with being an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our times? Peter Finch, Network (1976) The yearning, the suffering, the woman you’ll pursue through blizzards, across continents. That’s all I want. John Cusack, Must Love Dogs (2005) Never give up your friends; no matter what. Al Pacino, Carlito’s Way (1993) Get down on your knees and pray to God for help? And then maybe everything’ll work out fine? Garbage. Not where I come from. You can wear off your knees praying to God for heat in a coldwater flat in February. And icicles would grow from your upraised palms. If you’re freezing to death you burn the furniture, you set fire to the building, but you get off your knees. Gene Hackman, The Poseidon Adventure (1972) A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely: A legend. Liam Neeson, Batman Begins (2005) Save yourself... Don’t wait for somebody to throw you a rope. Eli Wallach, King of the Corner (2005) Did you ever think about that? That your whole life is building toward something? Jim Carey, The Truman Show (1998) Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. Jim Cavizeil, The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) It doesn’t have to be good and it doesn’t have to be beautiful. It just has to be true. John Cusack, Max (2002) Begin each day as if it were on purpose. Will Smith, Hitch (2005) If you tell life what it has to be, you limit it. But if you let it show you what it wants to be, it will open doors you never knew existed. Nikolai Kinski, Tortilla Soup (2001) If every single living thing is different from every living thing, then diversity becomes life’s one irreducible fact; only variations are real. And to see them, you simply have to open your eyes. Liam Neeson, Kinsey (2004) We all need the same thing: patience, understanding, love. Anne Francis, Blackboard Jungle (1955) Most likely, the secret, most precious, most beautiful things in your heart and in your life, just ain’t on any map. But you’ve been there. You know they’re real, they’re’ true, whether you can prove it or not. So don’t ever let anybody talk you out of what you know is true. Leland Crooke, Scorchers (1991) You gotta fight for every breath and tell death to go to hell. Gael Garcia Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Never get off the boat...unless you’re going all the way. Martin Sheen, Apocalypse Now (1979) Dear God, let us be alive before we die. Anne Reid, The Mother (2003) Stick to the fundamentals. That’s how IBM and Hilton were built. Good things sometimes take time. Hal Holbrook, Wall Street (1987) You say you are waiting for something. I say to you: Yes, yes, we all wait. Tom Hanks, The Terminal (2004) We knew exactly where we were and exactly where we were going. It was grand. Richard Dreyfuss, Stand By Me (1986) Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love, that give meaning to the indifferent universe. Martin Bergmann, Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989) It’s the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what’s right. Tobey Maguire, Spider-Man 3 (2007) The past is only a memory, the future a fantasy. It’s only in the present that we truly live. Alan Rickman, Snow Cake (2006) The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. Don Cheadle (quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), Talk to Me (2007) What you see is a guy who never a man’s success by the size of his wallet. Martin Sheen, Wall Street (1987) A lot of bad sh#@ is going to happen to you. People are not going to love you back. ... And listen, you’re gonna die, okay? Relatively soon, okay? So that being said, you have nothing to worry about. No matter what happens in this life, you have two options. Only two options. You can handle things well, and be happy. Or you can handle them poorly, and be miserable. It’s up to you. Laura Linney, The Hottest State (2006) Each silent second gives you time to think about the grand scheme of life. Are you thinking...? Do you see the big picture? Gary Oldman, Dead Fish (2005) Return to MQP Home