“People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.”
Michael Clarke Duncan - John Coffey

“- Eddie Jessup: I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.
- Emily Jessup: We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We writepoems...”

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup
Blair Brown - Emily Jessup

“There is so little beauty in this world, and so much suffering. Do you suppose that is what God had in mind? That is to say if there is a God at all. Perhaps there is nothing in this universe but ourselves. And our thoughts.”
Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham

“I certainly had a lot of nerve wanting to make a picture about human suffering.”
Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan

“It's not about understanding, it's about not giving up.”
Robin Williams - Chris Nielsen