Choice quotes

“You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.”
Danny Glover

“- Amber Atkins: My mom never hid the fact that my dad chose his career over us. What was it she always said?
- Loretta: Once a carnie, always a carnie.
- Amber Atkins: Mom still cries every time she sees a tilt-a-whirl or a fat lady in a tube top.”
Kirsten Dunst - Amber Atkins
Allison Janney - Loretta

“- Dancer Backstage 1: Fuck him! He never picks me!
- Dancer Backstage 2: Honey, I did fuck him and he never picks me either.”

“Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.”
Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime

“Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels

“We don't get to choose the people in our lives. For us, it's all chance.”
Alan Cumming - Black Beauty

“Funny, ain't it, how it comes around. Right way's the hardest, wrong way's the easiest. Rule of nature, like water seeks the path of least resistance. So you get crooked rivers, crooked men.”

Rip Torn - Sheriff Hank Pearson

“- Rodrigo Mendoza: For me, there is no redemption.
- Father Gabriel: God gave us the burden of freedom. You chose your crime. Do you have the courage to choose your penance?”
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“- Sonny: There's only three things you can do in the joint, kid: lift weights, play cards, or get in trouble.
- Calogero (Age 9): What did you do?
- Sonny: Me, I read.”
Chazz Palminteri - Sonny
Francis Capra - Calogero (Age 9)

“Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside us, we always have a choice. My friend taught me that. He chose to be the best of himself. It's the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what's right.”

Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker

“It's not how many you shoot. It's who you shoot.”
Eddie Murphy - Quick

“East High is a place where teachers encouraged us to break the status quo and define ourselves as we choose. Where a jock can cook up a mean crème brulee, and a brainiac can break it down on the dance floor. It's a place where one person, if it's the right person, changes us all. East High is having friends we'll keep for the rest of our lives,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
Rupert Evans - John Myers

“- Mr. Pink: Why am I Mr. Pink?
- Joe Cabot: Because you're a faggot, alright?
- Mr. Pink: Why can't we pick our own colors?
- Joe Cabot: No way, no way. Tried it once, it doesn't work. You get four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Mr. Pink. Be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Buscemi - Mr. Pink
Lawrence Tierney - Joe Cabot

“We choose the right to be who we are. We know the difference between the reality of freedom and the illusion of freedom. There is a way to live with the earth and a way not to live with the earth. We choose the way of earth. It's about power, Ray.”
John Trudell - Jimmy Looks Twice

“- Elinor Dashwood: Poor Willoughby. He will always regret you.
- Marianne: But does it follow that, had he chosen me, he would have been content? He would have had a wife he loved, but no money, and might soon have learned to rank the demands of his pocketbook far above the demands of his heart. If his present regrets are half as painful as mine...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood

“It's easy to tell the difference between right and wrong. What's hard is choosing the wrong that's more right.”
Annette Bening - Elise Kraft

“Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Jack Lewis

“- Elijah Price: Why is it, do you think, that of all the professions in the world you chose protection?
- David Dunn: You are a very strange man.
- Elijah Price: You could have been a tax accountant. You could have owned your own gym. You could have opened a chain of restaurants. You could've done of ten thousand things, but in the end, you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Samuel L. Jackson - Elijah Price
Bruce Willis - David Dunn

“Who cares what these creeps think of you? They don't make you what you are, you do. You are who you choose to be.”
Harry Connick Jr. - Dean McCoppin

“- Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.
- Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
- Captain Spock: They're dying.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!”

William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“I have come to the cross-roads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew, but I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard.”
Al Pacino - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
Nora Ephron

Should we remain in Algeria? If you answer "yes," then you must accept all the necessary consequences.
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu