15 Movie Quotes about Legends and Myths
From the movie: Jackie
“People need their history. It gives them strength. They need to know that real men actually lived here. Not ghosts, and storybook legends- People who faced adversity and overcame it.”
Richard R. Grant - Bill Walton
From the movie: Tolkien
“I made stories, legends. After all, what is language for? It's not just the naming of things, is it? It's the lifeblood of a culture, a people.”
Nicholas Hoult - J.R.R. Tolkien
From the movie: The Final Girls
“Oooh, I love legends! Loch Ness, Bigfoot, Bon Jovi... all of 'em!”
Angela Trimbur - Tina
From the movie: Ghost Rider
“It's said that the West was built on legends. And that legends are a way of understanding things greater than ourselves. Forces that shape our lives, events that defy explanation. Individuals whose lives soar to the heavens or fall to the earth. This is how legends are born.”
Sam Elliott - Caretaker
From the movie: A Little Romance
“What are legends anyway but stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things? Of course, it takes courage and imagination... not everybody has that.”
Laurence Olivier - Julius
From the movie: Prophecy
“When I was a child, every rock, every tree had a story. The whole forest was filled with legends.”
Victoria Racimo - Ramona
From the movie: Legends of the Fall
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.”
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Gordon Tootoosis - One Stab
From the movie: Ghost Rider
“The thing about legends is... sometimes, they're true.”
Sam Elliott - Caretaker
From the movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger
“The legends tell of men who died to open up the West. They rode through hell to find their promised land. The legends tell of one who tried to fight for all the rest; his name unknown, a stranger alone, the Man in the Mask.”
talking about The Lone Ranger
Merle Haggard - Balladeer
From the movie: Legends of the Fall
“The old ones say when a man and an animal have spilled each other's blood, they become one.”
Gordon Tootoosis - One Stab
From the movie: Urban Legends: Final Cut
“- Reese: I know a good story. It's about a campus serial killer who murders eight people...
- Amy Mayfield: Yeah, I heard that one. It supposedly happened at Pendleton. It's just an urban legend.”
Loretta Devine - Reese
Jennifer Morrison - Amy Mayfield
From the movie: Dracula
“Modern medical science does not admit of such a creature! The vampire is a pure myth, superstition.”
Herbert Bunston - Doctor Seward
From the movie: Last of the Dogmen
“They gave us romance, myths, legends. They gave us a history. The Indians shaped the character of our entire nation.”
talking about the Indians
Barbara Hershey - Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
From the movie: Anna and the King
“Everyone should have legends, I think. They allow us to dream.”
Jodie Foster - Anna
From the movie: The Sandlot
“Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong.”
Art LaFleur - The Babe
