Abandonment quotes

“That son of a bitch got away with everything that I had. And I was so scared that I shit my pants.”
Rob Lowe - Skip

“I am wonderful, I'm nuts about me, and if you're stupid enough to throw someone sensational like me aside, you don't deserve as good as you've got.”

Marsha Mason - Jennie MacLaine

“I think the reason why Mommy left... was because for a long time... I kept trying to make her be a certain kind of person. A certain kind of wife that I thought she was supposed to be. And she just wasn't like that. She was... She just wasn't like that. I think that she tried for so long to make me happy... and when she couldn't, she tried to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dustin Hoffman - Ted Kramer

“You can't just go away. I have abandonment issues!”
Marisa Tomei - Lexi

“- Annette: He'll be back. I know that in my heart.
- Bobby: You know, you're awful sweet, Mom.
- Annette: And then I'll make him suffer.”

Annette Funicello - Annette
Demian Slade - Bobby

“- Sydney Schanberg: I got a story to get to New York!
- Dith Pran: Don't leave me!
- Sydney Schanberg: I won't leave you.”
Sam Waterston - Sydney Schanberg
Haing S. Ngor - Dith Pran

“- Carly: Can you help me find the bathroom?
- Scott: I think this is the bathroom.”

Emmanuelle Chriqui - Carly
Jeremy Sisto - Scott

“I'm not leaving you because I couldn't kill you. I'm leaving you because I could.”
Angelina Jolie - Lara Croft

“- Gilbert's Father: She is a veritable gorgon.
- William Schwenck Gilbert: She is indeed, and she has chosen her own path, and in so doing, she has turned her back on yourself and myself. And for that small mercy we should both of us be eternally grateful.”

Charles Simon - Gilbert's Father
Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert

“- Jake Malloy: I don't get it. Why do you put yourself through this?
- McKenzie: You got family, Malloy?
- Jake Malloy: No, I don't.
- McKenzie: Neither do I, anymore. The job is all I've got.”
Sylvester Stallone - Jake Malloy
Robert Prosky - McKenzie

“We help them. We work for them. We tolerate that stupid boochy-boochy baby talk crap. And for what? So that when they go off to college, they can dump you off with some old lady who can't throw a ball without so much as breaking her hip!”

Alec Baldwin - Butch

“The British and the American governments must do something to bring these hijackers to justice! Fifteen people died! My wife, my daughters, and neither the Americans under whose flag the airplane was flying, nor the British government, can just be allowed to abandon them, and walk away!”
Jeremy Irons - Jack Elgin

“- Honey Daniels: You know your lil homies that have always got your back?
- Benny: Yeah
- Honey Daniels: Have any of them come to visit you?”

Jessica Alba - Honey Daniels
Romeo Miller - Benny

“- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: When did your wife leave?
- Barney Coopersmith: October.
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antoneli: That's when my wife left! What is it about the month of October?
- Barney Coopersmith: I dunno. The pressure of Halloween? You never know what to go as!”

Steve Martin - Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli
Rick Moranis - Barney Coopersmith

“I haven't left the scene of the accident, I'm in it!”
Dominic Chianese - Carl Travers

“Marianne, please try... I cannot... I cannot do without you. Oh, please, I have tried to bear everything else... I will try... Please, dearest, beloved Marianne, do not leave me alone.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“- Kovu: Let's get outta here. We'll run away together! And start a pride... all our own.
- Kiara: Kovu... we have to go back.
- Kovu: You're kidding. But we're finally together!
- Kiara: Our place is with our pride. If we run away, they'll be divided forever.”
Jason Marsden - Kovu
Neve Campbell - Kiara

“- Sulley: Boo's in trouble. I think there might be a way to save her if we can just get down to that...
- Mike: We? Whoa, whoa. We? No. There's no we this time, pal. If you wanna go out there and freeze to death, you be my guest, because you're on your own.”
John Goodman - Sullivan
Billy Crystal - Mike

“Everyone's your brother until the rent comes due.”
Jean Reno - Vincent

“I'm a dead man, you call yourself a doctor? You should be ashamed of yourself, a real doctor wouldn't turn his back at someone who's suffering.”

Robert De Niro - Paul Vitti

“Some day you'll have my children. In fact, they're in the car if you want them.”
John Turturro - Roland T. Flakfizer

“I asked myself... would I come back for you? And the only answer is a Godless, empty, evil... no. I'm sorry I wouldn't have come back. I'm sorry.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Lewis McBride

“I always figured I'd leave my mother. But she left me first.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz

“- Margaret Phelps: Joanna is a very unhappy woman and it took a lot of courage to walk out this door.
- Ted Kramer: How much courage does it take to walk out on your kid?”
Jane Alexander - Margaret Phelps
Dustin Hoffman - Ted Kramer

“Hang on. Hang on! It's all coming back. I've-I've been stuck here for over twenty years, ever since you were last here on the moon. You abandoned me here! You swine! You toddled off with that old queen of tarts and left me to rot in that parrot cage, didn't you? And now you come back here, just because it suits you, after wasting half my life...” (continue)(continue reading)
Eric Idle - Berthold