“Think you'll ever get out of here?” – Andy, The Shawshank Redemption ... Movie Quotes Database

Andy

Think you'll ever get out of here?

Ellis

Me? Yeah, one day when I got a long, white beard and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs, they'll let me out.

Andy

I tell you where I'd go: Zihuatanejo.

Ellis

Say what?

Andy

Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?

Ellis

No.

Andy

They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life: a warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel, right on the beach, buy some worthless old boat, and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.

Ellis

Zihuatanejo.

Andy

In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things.

Ellis

I don't think I could make it on the outside, Andy. I been in here most of my life. I'm an institutional man now.

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