“The Pursuit of Happyness” quotes
(2006)
Title The Pursuit of Happyness
Year 2006
Director Gabriele Muccino
Genre Drama, Biography
Year 2006
Director Gabriele Muccino
Genre Drama, Biography
Plot – Chris Gardner is a family man who struggles to scrape out a living. His wife leaves him and their child Christopher soon and the man looks for a better paid job. Thanks to his remarkable sale skills, he manages to get an unpaid internship at a prestigious stock market firm. Chris accepts it and hopes to have the job at the end of the internship. In the meantime, Chris and his son are evicted from the apartment and are forced to sleep in shelters for the homeless, in bus stations, public bathrooms or wherever they can.
All actors – Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer, Kevin West, George Cheung, David Michael Silverman, Domenic Bove, Geoff Callan, Joyful Raven, Scott Klace, Rashida Clendening, Eric Schniewind, Peter Fitzsimmons, Maurice Sherbanee, Zuhair Haddad, Victor Raider-Wexler, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Darryl Fong, George Maguire, Joe Nunez, Adam Del Rio, Rocky LaRochelle, Erin Beers, Rueben Grundy, Ming Lo, John Kovacevich, Bonnie Akimoto, Stu Klitsner, Esther Scott, Tina D'Elia, Cecil Williams, David Fine, George Moffatt, Amir Talai, Mike Garibaldi, Jason Frazier, Kevin Crook, David Haines, James Finnerty, Abigail Van Alyn, Bob Greene, Robert Anthony Peters, Terri Orth-Pallavicini, John Robb, Daniel Wilder, Cathy Fithian, Keith Stevenson, Jeff Applebaum, Victor Hoagland, Richard Bischoff, Edward Donlin, Larry Hunt, Rose Aispuro, Arbin C. Kumar, Ensemble The Glide, Jerry Edward McLilly, Shareef Allman, Jeffrey Moon, Peaches Hutchinson, Brandon Deadwiler, Tateanna Wheeler-Lezine, Karen Kahn, Alissa Anderegg, Martin Andris, Elise Angell, Regina Antoinette, Phil Austin, Rick Camp, Doug Campbell, Stefano Capone, Brad Carr, Molly Celaschi, Cabran E. Chamberlain, Kimberly Contreras, James Cotner, Alexander Cukor, Zachary Culbertson, Bill Dietz, Ryan Else, Travis Fields, Yeena Fisher, Garrett Forbes, Ben Fritz, Chris Gardner, Daryl Anthony Harper, David Kiiskinen, Shawn Kresal, Brendan Kruse, Mark Lavell, Steven Lindo, Tyler MacNiven, Tommy Maples, David Pearl, David Alan Poe, Steve Potts, Rob 'Captain Rob' Robinson, John Patrick Shulak, Donn Andrew Simmons, William Paul Smith, Phil Talsky, Adam Wang, Cindy Warner
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“You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it.”
There was a man who was drowning, and a boat came, and the man on the boat said "Do you need help"? and the man said "God will save me". Then another boat came and he tried to help him, but he said "God will save me", then he drowned and went to Heaven. Then the man told God, "God, why didn't you save me"? and God said "I sent you two boats, you... (continue)(continue reading)
“The important thing about that freedom train, is it's got to climb mountains. We all have to climb mountains, you know. Mountains that go way up high, and mountains that go deep and low.”
“Don't ever let somebody tell you... You can't do something.”
“I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.”
“It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it.”
“If you want somethin', go get it. Period.”
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