Morgan Freeman movie quotes

View Quote Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine. Or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards. That's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.

View Quote Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure and time. That and the big god-damn poster. Like I said, in prison, a man'll do most anything to keep his mind occupied. It turns out Andy's favorite hobby was totin' his wall out into the exercise yard a handful at a time.

View Quote All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole so maybe they'd send me back. Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy.

View Quote The Lord said, "Do whatever you have to do." And he didn't say "Joe, be polite."

View Quote [with a baseball bat in his hand] They used to call me Crazy Joe. Well, now they can call me Batman!

View Quote I don't have to do nothin' but stay black and die!

View Quote English! English! Behold, Azeem Edin Bashir Al Bakir! I am not one of you, but I fight! I fight with Robin Hood! I fight against a tyrant who holds you under his boot! If you would be free men, then you must fight! Join us now, join Robin Hood!

View Quote You have saved my life, Christian. Now, I will stay with you until I have saved yours. That is my vow.

View Quote The hospitality of this country is as warm as the weather.

View Quote [Realizing what's inside the package] California, tell your people to stay away. Stay away now, don't ... don't come in here. Whatever you hear, stay away! John Doe has the upper hand! John Doe has the upper hand!

View Quote But you got to be a ... a hero. You want to be a champion. Well, let me tell you, people don't want a champion. They want to eat cheeseburgers, play the lotto and watch television.

View Quote [At the library] Gentlemen, gentlemen. I'll never understand. All these books. A world of knowledge at your fingertips. And what do you do? Play poker all night.

View Quote One day, a talented lass or fellow, a special one with face of yellow, will make the Piece of Resistance found from its hiding refuge underground, and with a noble army at the helm, this Master Builder will thwart the Kragle and save the realm, and be the greatest, most interesting, most important person of all times. All this is true because it rhymes.

View Quote Believe... I know it sounds like a cat poster but it's true.

View Quote Emmet: You... don't have to be... the bad guy. You are the most talented... most interesting... and extraordinary person in the universe. And you are capable of amazing things, because you are the Special.
[Lord Business looks shocked and lowers the Kragle]
Emmet: And so am I, and so is everyone, the prophecy is made up, but it's also true, it's about all of us, right now, it's about you, and you, still, can change everything.
[he holds up the Piece of Resistance. Business, touched by Emmet's speech drops the Kragle and starts walking over to him. Cut to the real world where Finn's father approaches his son, kneels down and hugs Finn, at the same time in Lego world, we see Lord Business is hugging Emmet.]
Emmet: Oh, we got a hugger. [Emmet hands the Piece of Resistance to Lord Business] Be careful, I have been told... it might explode.
[Lord Business winks at Emmet, makes his way to the Kragle, in the real world Finn's father places the lid on the Krazy Glue, at the same time Lord Business places the Piece of Resistance on to the Kragle and into the TAKO device]
Lord Business: [strains, exhales deeply] Emmet, thank you.
[Emmet inhales]
Lord Business: And I just want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, from this moment forward, I solemnly promise that I will never--
Emmet: [screaming]
[suddenly the Kragle explodes causing all the micro-managers to de-activiate. Emmet lands in the middle of the city where his friends are.]
Benny: EMMET!
Metalbeard: Emmet, arr!
Emmet: [Chuckling] Hey, everyone! Is everyone, okay. Where's Lucy? [Unikitty laughs, as the micro-managers fall down] [Wyldstyle comes up from under a micro-manager]
Wyldstyle: Emmet!
Emmet: Lucy! [Emmet rushes over to her and Wyldstyle jumps into his arms]
Wyldstyle: We did it! [Unikitty laughs] [Batman clears throat. Just as Emmet and Wyldstyle are about to hold hands Batman interrupts them] [Emmet gasps] Oh, eeehhh. Emmet, wait, Batman, there's something I need to say to you!
Batman: No, Wyldstyle. I mean, Lucy! [he points to Emmet] He's the hero you deserve!
Wyldstyle: [Wyldstyle smiles and Emmet looks behind him to see who Batman was pointing at] Thanks, Batman!
Unikitty: [giggles]
[Wyldstyle turns Emmet's face towards her and they finally hold hands, everyone cheers for them, then we see Vitruvius's ghostly form hovering over the city watching them] Vitruvius: [whispers] I liked Emmet before he was cool. [we see Lord Business is pouring an antidote to unstick everybody]
Lord Business: Whoops! I have the antidote for the Kragle! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!
[at the same time in the real world Finn's father is pouring glue remover all over the Lego pieces as Finn watches]
Finn: De-kragler!
The Man Upstairs: Watch this. YEAH! [as Finn's father pours glue remover onto Pa and Ma Cop Finn reunites Bad Cop with his parents]
Finn: Oh, Mommy, Daddy, you're okay!
[scene changes to Bad Cop reunited with his parents]
Ma Cop: [Ma Cop chuckles] Oh, son! [Bad Cop who's now using his drawn on Good Cop face hugs his parents]
Good Cop: Hi, Mom, hi, Dad.
Pa Cop: [chuckles] We're okay, son. [Pa Cop chuckles, in the real world as Finn and his father are playing with the Lego pieces Mom calls out]
Mom: [he door opens calls out something] Uh, hey, guys? Time to come up for dinner! It’s Taco Tuesday, your favorite!
The Man Upstairs: Okay, honey, well, be up in a sec.
Finn: Oh, yeah, we'll be up in a sec!
The Man Upstairs: Well, I got to tell you something.
Finn: [hysterically] What?
The Man Upstairs: [to Finn the antidote for the Kragle, favorite and his father Lego pieces] Now that I'm letting you come down here and play, guess who else gets to come down here and play?
Finn: Who?
The Man Upstairs: Your sister.
Finn: [surprised] What?
[last lines; as everyone Emmet and the gang are having a feast on the Double-Decker couch]
Emmet: We'll things sure have a way of working out smoothly. Am I right, guys? [suddenly an alien spaceship hovers above them] Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...?
[a trio of Duplo alien figures descend into the Lego world]
Duplo: [Baby voice] Well, we're from the planet Duplon, and we're here to destroy you.
Emmet: ... Oh, man. [End of The Lego Movie]

View Quote Are you familiar with the schmoo, Mr. Fisher?

View Quote I bet it was that mouth that got you that nose.

View Quote [After he and Slevin approach a large freezer and look inside] Hey Slim, you know this cat? Slim? I'm sorry, it's no use. [Slim turns out to be a frozen corpse] Ever since somebody shot him ol' Slim's gone deaf.

View Quote Daisy Werthan: Hoke?
Hoke Colburn: Yes'm?
Daisy Werthan: You're my best friend.
Hoke Colburn: No, go on Miss Daisy.
Daisy Werthan: No, really, you are... [takes Hoke's hand] You are.
Hoke Colburn: Yes'm.

View Quote [Hoke is trailing Daisy in the car as she walks to the supermarket]
Daisy Werthan: What are you doing?
Hoke Colburn: I'm tryin' to drive you to the store!

View Quote Daisy Werthan: Did you have the air-conditioning checked? I told you to have the air-conditioning checked.
Hoke Colburn: I had the air-conditioning checked. I don't know what for. You never allow me to turn it on
Daisy Werthan: Hush up!

View Quote Bruce: Where ya goin'?
God: I'm... taking a vacation.
Bruce: Wait, God doesn't take vacations! Does he? Do... ye?
God: Ever heard of the Dark Ages? Besides, I'm covered. You can fix up everything in five minutes if you wanted to. Right? Ciao.

View Quote God: (commenting on why he gave Bruce seven fingers) I did the same thing to Gandhi. He didn't eat for three weeks.
Bruce: Holy sh... cow.

View Quote God: It's good.
Bruce: It's good.
Both: s'goood!

View Quote (to Evan) Build the ark. And if anybody asks, just say, a flood is coming.

View Quote I now issue a new commandment: "Thou shalt do the dance."

View Quote Tell you what. You build it and I'll fill it. Oh and you might need this. [Holds up a book titled "Ark Building for Dummies"]

View Quote You criticize without understanding. You seek only to address your own personal feelings. That is selfish thinking, Zindzi. It does not serve the nation.

View Quote Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

View Quote I thank whatever gods maybe, For my unconquerable soul. I am the master of my fate...I am the captain of my soul!

View Quote One neuron, you're alive. Two neurons you're moving. And with movement, interesting things begin to happen.

View Quote And it is going through time that seems to be also the only real purpose of each of the cells in our bodies. To achieve that aim, the mass of the cells that make up earthworms and human beings has only two solutions—be immortal or to reproduce.

View Quote If you're asking me what to do with all this knowledge you're accumulating, I say, pass it on … just like any simple cell, going through time.

View Quote "Now, if any of you feel the need to follow the code of the Fraternity to the letter, I invite you to take your gun, put it in your mouth, and pull the trigger. That is what Wesley demands. Otherwise, shoot this mother****er, and let us take our Fraternity of assassins to heights reserved only for the gods of men! You choose."

View Quote You really want to know who you are?

View Quote We call this the Loom of Fate.

View Quote If tomorrow is our great getting up moment...If tomorrow we have to meet the judgment day...Heavenly Father, we want you to let our folks know...that we died facing the enemy. We want'em to know, that we went down standing up! Amongst those that are fighting against our oppression. We want ‘em to know, Heavenly Father, that we died for freedom!

View Quote Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins: That's right, Hines. Ain't no dream. We runaway slaves but we come back fightin' men. Go tell your folks how kingdom come in the year of jubilee!

View Quote Rawlins: Where about you from?
Trip: I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
Sharts: What ya doin' since then?
Trip: I've been running for President. I ain't winning though.

View Quote Secretary Rittenhouse served his country with full devotion. he resigned for personal reasons. Now, I can promise you this, Miss Lerner, all of you, everyone in this room and everyone listening to my voice, that at some point over the next ten months, all of us will entertain out worst fears and concerns. But I can also promise you this. Life will go on, we will prevail.

View Quote [last lines] We watched at the bombs shattered the second comet into a million pieces of ice and rocks that burned harlmessly in our atmosphere, and lit up the sky for an hour. Still, we were left with the devastation of the first. The waters reached as far inland as the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. It washed away farms and towns, forests and skyscrapers, but the water receded. The wave hit Europe and Africa, too. Millions were lost, countless more left homeless, but the waters receded. Cities fall, but they are rebuilt. And heroes die, but they are remembered. We honor them with every brick we lay, with every field we sow, with every child we comfort and then teach to rejoice in what we have been regiven. Our planet, our home. So now, let us begin.

View Quote Good evening. A few minutes ago, the United States ambassadors to every country in the world told the leaders of those nations what I'm about to tell you. It's a bit complicated, so we'll take some time, so I hope you'll bear with me, hear what I have to say. A little over a year ago, two American astronomers, Marcus Wolf and Leo Biederman, working on a mountaintop in Arizona, saw something in the night sky that caused them great concern. A comet. But the comet was... well, there was a remote possibility that the comet was on a path that could bring it into direct contact with the Earth. Now, we get hit all the time by rocks and meteors, some of them the size of cars, some no bigger than your hand. But the comet we discovered is the size of New York City, from the North side of Central Park to the Battery. About seven miles long. Put another way, this comet is larger than Mount Everest. It weighs 500 billion tons.

View Quote Frankie likes to say that boxing is an unnatural act, that everything in boxing is backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back... But step back too far and you ain't fighting at all.

View Quote Anybody can lose one fight, anybody can lose once, you'll come back from this you'll be champion of the world.

View Quote 110, get a job punk.

View Quote [Alex and Jezzie are examining Soneji's handiwork]
Alex Cross: Wow. Imagine the patience... the dedication...
Jezzie Flannigan: You sound like an admirer.
Alex Cross: Well, he's like a spider. I happen to like spiders.

View Quote Vickie: It's time you forgave yourself.
Alex Cross: Vickie, you know that forgiving yourself is the one thing a person cannot do.

View Quote Megan Rose: Who are you?
Alex Cross: I'm a policeman. My name is Alex Cross. I'm a friend of your parents.
Megan Rose: Can you take me to them?
Alex Cross: Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Could you... [she helps him up] Ah, thanks.

View Quote [Bruce has just test-driven the "Tumbler".]
Lucius Fox: So, what do you think?
Bruce Wayne: Does it come in black?

View Quote [Bruce wants Lucius Fox to mass-produce the antidote for Crane's fear gas.]
Lucius Fox: Planning on gassing yourself again, Mister Wayne?
Bruce Wayne: Well, you know how it is: it's late at night, and you're out looking for kicks, and somebody starts passing out the weaponised hallucinogens...

View Quote Lucius Fox:: ...and over here on the throttle, [flips open afterburner guard] flip that open and throttle up, this will boost you into a rampless jump. [Bruce presses the button] NOT NOW!!!

View Quote [after seeing the looks of hope on the Scavs thanks to Jack] Welcome back, Commander.

View Quote [after Jack prepares the bomb and drone to attack the Tet]
Malcolm Beech: Ah I would love to be there to see that thing's face when this goes off!
Jack Harper: That'd be a one-way trip.
Malcolm Beech: Yeah. But it'd be worth it.

View Quote Sykes: We're wasting our time. The drone will track him here.
Malcolm: That's Sergeant Sykes. He thinks I'm a fool for having brought you here. I hope you prove him wrong.

View Quote You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

View Quote You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ 'Has your life brought joy to others?'

View Quote [Cole has learned that his favorite drink gets its unique taste from going through a cat's digestive system.]
Edward Cole: You're shitting me.
Carter Chambers: Cats beat me to it!

View Quote [Lucius has just explained to Bruce a new cell phone sonar technology developed by Wayne Enterprises]
Bruce: Sonar? [getting excited] Just like a...
Lucius: [cutting him off in a "don't get any ideas" tone] ...A submarine, Mr. Wayne. Like a submarine.

View Quote [One of Wayne Enterprises' accountants has traced the money and figured out that Bruce Wayne must be Batman, and confronts Lucius Fox with schematics of the Wayne Enterprises prototype Tumbler, which is obviously the Batmobile]
Coleman Reese: I want $10 million a year, for the rest of my life.
Lucius: Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands...and your plan is to blackmail this person? [pauses, smiles] Good luck.
[The accountant slowly realizes what Wayne/Batman could do to him. He gets up from his seat and leaves the schematics on Fox's desk]
Coleman Reese: You can...keep these...
[Lucius calmly goes back to reading his paperwork]

View Quote Bruce Wayne: I need a new suit.
Lucius: [looking at the business suit Bruce is wearing] Three buttons is a little 90's, Mr. Wayne.
Bruce Wayne: I'm not talking fashion, so much as function. [Fox inspects the new designs.]
Lucius You want to be able to turn your head.
Bruce Wayne: [dryly] Well, it would make backing out of the driveway easier.

View Quote Whatever this grand trick is, it was designed a long time ago, and I believe that what's about to follow, is really going to amaze. So I suggest you sit back and enjoy your front row seat. You paid quite a lot of good money for it.

View Quote Want to know how they did it? Just say the magic word.

View Quote There is a legend of a secret order born in ancient Egypt called "the Eye". It is said that they perfected sleight of hand to steal food from the Pharaohs and give it to the slaves. Their purpose: using magic and illusion to even the scales of justice. Are the Horsemen the next in a long line of fools to believe this myth? Will they evade the rules of law and logic like they did in Las Vegas? Or will the dark mysticism of this Southern swampland get the better of them?

View Quote Ned Logan: I sure do miss my bed.
Will Munny: You said that last night.
Ned Logan: No last night I said I missed my wife, tonight I just miss my dadgummed bed.

View Quote Ned Logan: Hell, Will. We ain't bad men no more. Shit, we're farmers.
Will Munny: Should be easy killing them, supposing they don't go on down to Texas first.
Ned Logan: How long has it been since you fired a gun at a man, Will? Nine, ten years?
Will Munny: Eleven.
Ned Logan: Easy, huh? Hell, I don't know that it was all that easy even back then. And we was young and full of beans. I mean, if you was mad at 'em, Will, I mean. If they'd done you some wrong, I could see shooting 'em.
Will Munny: We done stuff for money before, Ned.
Ned Logan: Yeah, we thought we did. All right, so what did these fellas do? Cheat at cards? Steal some strays? Spit on a rich fella? What?
Will Munny: No, they cut up a woman.
Ned Logan: What?
Will Munny: Yeah, they cut up her face, cut her eyes out, cut her fingers off, cut her teats, everything but her cunny, I suppose.
Ned Logan: I'll be dogg - Golly, I guess they got it comin'. 'Course, you know, Will, if Claudia was alive you wouldn't be doin' this.

View Quote Will Munny: I ain't like that no more. I ain't the same, Ned. Claudia, she straightened me up, cleared me of drinkin' whiskey and all. Just 'cause we're goin' on this killing, that don't mean I'm gonna go back to bein' the way I was. I just need the money, get a new start for them youngsters. Ned, you remember that drover I shot through the mouth and his teeth came out the back of his head? I think about him now and again. He didn't do anything to deserve to get shot, at least nothin' I could remember when I sobered up.
Ned Logan: You were crazy, Will.
Will Munny: Yeah, no one liked me. Mountain boys all thought I was gonna shoot 'em out of pure meanness.
Ned Logan: Well, like you said, you ain't like that no more.
Will Munny: That's right. I'm just a fella now. I ain't no different than anyone else no more.

View Quote A four year old child is on the street. It's seventy-six hours and counting. And the prospects for where she might be are beginning to look grim, you understand? Half of all the children in these cases are killed, flat out. If we don't catch the abductor by day one, only about ten percent are ever solved. This is day three

View Quote Thought you would've done that by now. You know why you haven't? Because you think this might be an irreparable mistake. Because deep inside you, you know it doesn't matter what the rules say. When the lights go out, and you ask yourself "is she better off here or better off there", you know the answer. And you always will. You... you could do a right thing here. A good thing. Men live their whole lives without getting this chance. You walk away from it, you may not regret it when you get home. You may not regret it for a year, but when you get to where I am, I promise you, you will. I'll be dead, you'll be old. But she... she'll be dragging around a couple of tattered, damaged children of her own, and you'll be the one who has to tell them you're sorry.

View Quote Do you have any children? My only child was murdered. She was twelve. Did you hear about it? What you probably didn't hear, and what I hope you never have to deal with is what that feels like. What I have to deal with. Knowing that my little girl likely died crying out for me to come and save her. And I never did. My little girl died afraid and alone in a shallow ditch bank by the side of the road, not ten minutes from my house. I know what it feels like to lose a child. Now damn it, you force my hand and then you question the way I handle it. I honor my child with this division. So that no parent has to go through what I've known. This child. That's all I care about. I'm gonna bring her home.

View Quote Are you listening, Horsemen? When you emerge, and I know you will, I will be there, waiting for you. 'Cause mark my words, you will get what's coming to you... in ways you can't expect, or imagine, but very much deserve. Because one thing I believe in is an eye for an eye.

View Quote The Eye. It may not lie, but don't think for a moment that it can't be lying, too. Seeing is believing. But is it truth... or just an illusion? People see the Horsemen as noble Robin Hoods. But are they? Or are they nothing more than common thieves? Depends on your point of view. Here's what you know: they robbed a bank in Paris from a stage in Las Vegas. They fleeced an insurance magnate out of hundreds of millions of dollars and disappeared from a roof in New York, always showering their devoted fans with money. Here's what you don't know: they left one man behind, framed, holding the bag... me.

View Quote Dylan Rhodes: Hey, tell me you're safe. Where are you?
Thaddeus Bradley: Right where you left me. 18 months ago, Agent Rhodes.
Dylan: Thaddeus?
Thaddeus: How does it feel to lose everything? Your job. Your identity. Your reason for living. How does it feel to be out of control, perhaps for the first time?
Dylan: What do you want?
Thaddeus: You're a fool, Agent Rhodes. You always have been.
Dylan: Where are they?
Thaddeus: I'm not telling you on the phone!
Dylan: Don't lie to me, Thaddeus. Where are they?!
Thaddeus: And if you're wondering if I was behind the Horsemen's recent debacle... well, I'll let you work that out for yourself.
Dylan: Hey, I burned you once; I'll burn you again. And I'm not playing, Thaddeus.
Thaddeus: It's not my game, Agent Rhodes. It's yours. You started it when you locked me in a cell. This is simply my move. Next one is yours, and yours alone.

View Quote [about identifying the envelope of fingers] This used to be a gentleman's game.

View Quote Joe: I'm 80 years old. I got stage 4 liver cancer. What the hell can they do to me?
Frank: They can still shoot you.
Joe: Well…I never thought this would happen to me.
Frank: What?
Joe: Getting old. Well I mean, Vietnam, Afghanistan. The Green Springs Rest Home? Go figure!

View Quote Joe: Sarah, this is Victoria. Best wet work asset in the business and a true artist with an RPN.
Sarah: Oh wow. Um…what's that?
Victoria: [smiling sweetly] I kill people, dear.

View Quote [at a Russian nuclear-weapons lab]
Cabot: What's the t-shirt say?
General Saratkin: "I am a bomb technician, if you see me running" [laughs] try to catch up."

View Quote [Bill Cabot summons John Clark]
Bill Cabot: How's your Russian?
John Clark: It still works. Why?
Cabot: Three Russian nuclear scientists are missing. I need to know where they are.

View Quote [en route to Russia]
Cabot: Jack...Jack what are you doing?
Jack: Oh... I had a date tonight so I have to call and cancel.
Cabot: Well don't be stupid! Tell her where you're going. In fact tell her who you work for. She'll be impressed.
Jack: [to Cathy, his girlfriend, over the phone] OK. I work for the CIA, and the Director asked me at the last minute to come with him to Russia with him to do a nuclear arms inspection. Hello?
Cathy: That is so lame.
Jack: No, I swear, it's because of the START treaty, we get to inspect to make sure they're really decommissioning their nuclear arsenal [Cathy hangs up] Hello?...Hello? [sees Cabot laughing at him] Thanks a lot.

View Quote Multiply your anger by about 100, Kate. That's how much he thinks he loves you.

View Quote Davey: Sure picks lookers, dosen't he?
Alex: Yeah, he does. But you know these women are more than just attractive. They're all extaordinary in some way. Smart, talented.
Davey: He ain't choosing them just for their congeniality.
Alex: Oridinarily, they don't. But I think our guy is a little different.
Nick: How so?
Alex: I think killing's not his ulterior motive. This guy's a collector. I bet these women are alive.
Dave: Come on, doc. Our boy's brain is soft as a two-minute egg and nothing personal, but I figure every one of them gals is tied to a tree just waiting to get found.
Alex: Think about it, Sikes. The three you found were killed out of sequence. They weren't even among the first abducted.
Davey: That's right.
Nick: That don't mean they're not still out there.
Alex: But you would have found them by now. He makes absolutely no attempt to hide them and the way they were killed, very revealing. The last long walk through the woods.
Kyle: Marching to their fate.
Alex: Exactly. The rape, cutting off their hair.
Kyle: It's punishment.
Alex: Maybe for violating some trust.