“The Life of David Gale” quotes
(2003)
Title The Life of David Gale
Year 2003
Director Alan Parker
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller
Year 2003
Director Alan Parker
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller
Plot – While he's in prison waiting for his execution, David Gale, an estimated philosophy professor and an activist against the death penalty, gets the permission to give an interview to a journalist, Bitsey. Gale confides her he has never raped or killed his friend Constance. He's only the victim of a plot and he wants to confess everything to explain how the events has taken place indeed.
All actors – Kate Winslet, Cleo King, Constance Jones, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Lee Ritchey, Gabriel Mann, Matt Craven, Brandy Little, Cindy Waite, Jim Beaver, Leon Rippy, Jesse De Luna, Vernon Grote, Rhona Mitra, Kimberly Tortorice, Katie Lott, Noah Truesdale, Larissa Wolcott, Chuck Cureau, Sean Hennigan, Charles Sanders, Mike Fontaine, Marco Perella, Michael Crabtree, Julio Cedillo, Chris Meister, Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Gast, Cliff Stephens, Chris Drewy, Jeff Gibbs, Katina Potts, Katherine James, James Huston, Cindy Michelle, Chris Warner, Jennifer Dorsey, Maurice Moore, Brenda Sendejo, Julia Lashae, Rick Morrow, Matthew Posey, Julia Kay-Laskowski, Donald Braswell, Jack Gould, Lynn Mathis, Jack Watkins, Robert Lott, Mark Voges, Katherine Willis, Gwyn Little, Patrick Fries, Pilar Ferreiro, Amparo Moreno, Claudia Parker, Joan Gispert, Janis Kelly, Mark Richardson, Justin Lavender, Barbara Petricini-Buxton, David Dahl, Asia De Marcos, Amparo García, Catenya McHenry, Brian Orr, Kirk Sisco, Cassandra L. Small, Oliver Tull, Michelle Valen, Tanya Zieger, Nick Dawson, Steve Flanagin, George Haynes, Kathy Lamkin, Evelyn Lindsey, T.J. McFarland, Deborah Abbott, Stacy Lynn Austin, Jerry M. Barker, Johnny Bartee, Richard R. Bartholomew, Keith Bright, Ryan A. Brooks, Pei-San Brown, Starla Christian, Peter Cornwell, Wade Couturiaux, Steve Crawford, Matthew J. Dunn, Ken Edwards, Nikki Folsom, Joanna Gallagher, Ryan Hancock, Garrett Hargrove, Peyton Hayslip, David Scott Heck, Landon Kash, Robert H. Lambert, Gabriel R. Martinez, Frank Matthews, C.K. McFarland, Josh Meyer, Brent Mitchell, Cindy Palla, Roger Eduardo Palomino, Alan Parker, Keith Poulson, Michael Schmid, Ryan Schneider, Robin Simmons, Melanie Stovall, Ryan Wickerham, Michele Williams, Christine Wolf
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“Hate's no fun if you keep it to yourself.”
“The only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.”
“When you kill someone, you rob their family - not just of a loved one, but of their humanity. You harden their hearts with hate, you take away their capacity for civilized dispassion, you condemn them to bloodlust.”
“73% of all serial killers vote Republican.”
“A civilized society must live with a hard truth: he who seeks revenge digs two graves.”
“Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, and, um, and Aristotle was a prissy dresser!”
In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it".
“You work so hard not to be seen as a sex object. Before long, you're not seen at all.”
“Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore.”
“We spend our whole life trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back.”
“- Bitsey Bloom: You know you are in the bible belt when there are more churches than Starbucks.
- Zack: When there are more prisons than Starbucks.”“They wanted me to die, knowing the key to my freedom was out there somewhere!”
“There comes a point - a moment - in life when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift.”
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