Commitment quotes

“- H.M. Tilford: We'll make you a millionaire while you're sitting here from one minute to the next.
- Plainview: What else would I do with myself?
- H.M. Tilford: Take care of your son. I don't know what you would do.”
David Warshofsky - H.M. Tilford
Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview

“12 is still our number. It's the number of months my book was on the bestseller list. It's the number of job offers Tom turned down before we found one close to home. And each day it's the number of times I'm thankful there's such a thing as family.”
Bonnie Hunt - Kate Baker

“It's gonna be the toughest five weeks that you ever lived through! Do you all get that? Now, anybody who doesn't think he's gonna like it had better quit right now.”

Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

“My grandfather built this bank on sweat and steel, not bullshit and nepotism. He put the bank first, and so I do too.”
Peter Jason - Bill Gartin

“- Robert Crosbie: I'll do whatever you think is right.
- Howard Joyce: I don't think it's right, but I think it's expedient.”
Herbert Marshall - Robert Crosbie
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“This is no Mickey Mouse school. You're not getting off easy. Because you're talented, you'll work twice as hard. Now, I don't care how well you dance or how many colored tutus you have. If you don't give your academic subjects equal time, you're out.”
Anne Meara - Mrs. Sherwood

“Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five Winters. Seventy-five Springtimes. Seventy-five Summers. And Seventy-five Autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Eddie Murphy - G'

“This is for you, Damien! All of this is for you!”

Amy Huck - Nanny

“- Dr. Werner Ernst: It's important to say we did as much as we could.
- Stella: Which is doctor-speak for we put this patient through hell before he died.”
James Spader - Dr. Werner Ernst
Helen Mirren - Stella

“I want to build something. Make things grow. That takes hard work. A lifetime of it. That's not why a man comes to a pretty woman. After a while I won't be so pretty. But this land will be.”

Rosanna Arquette - Hannah

“- Derek: It's my fault. I just can't commit to anything in my life.
- Gwyn Marcus: Why do you assume that it's you? Maybe I have a fear of commitment, you know? Maybe I have the Peter Pan syndrome?”

Donal Logue - Derek
Sarah Jessica Parker - Gwyn

“- Freedonia's Secretary of War #1: I give all my time and energy to my duties, and what do I get?
- Rufus T. Firefly: You get awfully tiresome after a while!”
Edwin Maxwell - Freedonia's Secretary of War #1
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.”
Linda Hunt - Grandmother Willow

“Boy, when you pick a lost cause, you really commit. Where do they make dreamers like you?”
Paul Giamatti - Tim the Gate Guard

“- Aunt Fanny: Fighting never solved anything.
- Bigweld: Quitting's not so productive, either.”
Jennifer Coolidge - Aunt Fanny
Mel Brooks - Bigweld

“- Roger Maris: Mick, did you ever stop and think, if you took better care of yourself, you wouldn't be getting hurt all the time. Did you see what you did out there today with only one arm, and tonight you're out screwing around! How can you do that? You're Mickey Mantle for Christ's Sake!
- Mickey Mantle: What's that supposed to mean huh? What...” (continue)(continue reading)
Barry Pepper - Roger Maris
Thomas Jane - Mickey Mantle

“Nobody is gonna be everything to you, and that ultimately it's just a simple action of committing yourself, meeting your responsibilities that matters.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

I'd prepared a case and old man White said to me, "How did you do?". And, I said, "Did my best". And he said, "You're not paid to do your best. You're paid to win".
James Mason - Ed Concannon

“- Aulon: Jeanne! Are you all right?
- Joan of Arc: Yes, I'm fine. Why are you staring at me?
- Aulon: Because there's an arrow in your leg.
- Joan of Arc: So there is. But that doesn't stop you from climbing!”

Desmond Harrington - Aulon
Milla Jovovich - Joan of Arc

“You can never tell yourself there is only one thing you could be. If you are a priest or if you marry a woman it's the same challenge. You cannot make a real commitment unless you accept that it's a choice that you keep making again and again and again.”
Milos Forman - Father Havel

“Everything is possible and is done in the name of love and solicitude.”
Ingrid Bergman - Charlotte Andergast

“I commit you to His mercy.”

Delroy Lindo - Jackson

“- Old Man Phil: Larry Benjamin was the first director to deal with the subject of AIDS way back in 1985.
- Casey: Right, you call having a mindless nymphet getting raped by an evil general with AIDS is dealing with the subject?”
Michael Locascio - Old Man Phil
Will Keenan - Casey Kaufman

- Eleanor "Nell" Vance: You have trouble with commitment?
- Theo: Well, my boyfriend thinks so, my girlfriend doesn't. We could all live together, but they hate each other.
Lili Taylor - Nell
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Theo

“I am going to teach you the meaning of commitment. Fourteen years ago I was forced to make a commitment to an eight by nine cell, now you are going to be forced to make a commitment. You could say I'm here to save you.”
Robert De Niro - Max Cady