Conviction quotes

“- Po: It's just plain old noodle soup? You don't add some kind of special sauce or something?
- Mr. Ping: Don't have to. To make something special you just have to believe it's special.”
Jack Black - Po
James Hong - Mr. Ping

“Cameron's got me towed up tighter than Hitler has Mussolini.”

Russell Hicks - Pringle

“I'm going on with my work because, as you said, it is important. At least we believe it's important, and we must live what we believe.”

Leslie Howard - R.J. Mitchell

“- Det. Rocco Klein: Errol. I thought you were dead.
- Errol Barnes: I was. I came back.”
Harvey Keitel - Det. Rocco Klein
Thomas Jefferson Byrd - Errol Barnes

“For fifteen years, everybody told me I was making it up. Everyone said it was just a story. There's no such thing as the Boogeyman. But I was right.”

Barry Watson - Tim

“- El Guapo: Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you.
- Jefe: So when do you think Carmen will open up her flower to you?
- El Guapo: Tonight, or I will kill her!”
Alfonso Arau - El Guapo
Tony Plana - Jefe

“There will be no cross-examination in this court. You may speak, if you like. But let me warn you, Mr. Webster - if you fail to convince us, then you, too, are doomed.”

H.B. Warner - Justice John Hathorne

“- Emma Woodhouse: How fascinating that any discordancy between us must always arise from my being wrong.
- Mr Knightley: Not fascinating, but true.”
Gwyneth Paltrow - Emma Woodhouse
Jeremy Northam - Mr Knightley

“There are those that do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to Earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But, how else to explain love at first sight? We were convinced that there was no other life beneath the sky but...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp - Don Juan DeMarco

“- Dean Corso: L... C... F... Who is LCF?
- Ceniza: Think.
- Dean Corso: Lucifer?
- Ceniza: Very perceptive of you, señor! Torchia was burned alive because he wrote this book in collaboration with someone else.
- Dean Corso: Come on! You can't honestly believe...
- Ceniza: The man who wrote this book did so in alliance with the Devil, and went to...” (continue)(continue reading)

José López Rodero - Pablo & Pedro Ceniza
Johnny Depp - Dean Corso

“She honestly believes that peasants are as good as we are.”

Alejandro Bracho - Ankaris

“- Torrance Shipman: Ever been to a cheerleading competition?
- Missy Pantone: Oh, you mean like a football game?
- Torrance Shipman: No, not a game, those are like practices for us. I'm talking about a tournament. ESPN cameras all around. Hundreds of people cheering.
- Cliff Pantone: Wait a minute, people cheering... cheerleaders?
- Torrance...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kirsten Dunst - Torrance Shipman
Eliza Dushku - Missy Pantone
Jesse Bradford - Cliff Pantone

“Idealists are such a problem. You can't convince them there's no such thing as the ideal.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“The problem with you boys is simple. You're all a bunch of dummies 'cause you think you know it all.”

Nick Benedict - Press Maravich

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always, that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.”
David Strathairn - Edward R. Murrow

“Our brilliant stage manager insists there's a malicious ghost prowling about the Opera. If anything goes wrong, he thinks this ghost did it!”
J. Edward Bromberg - Amiot

“- Philo Vance: Any one of seven people might have done it.
- Detective Heath: We couldn't convict seven people, Mr. Vance.
- Philo Vance: You couldn't convict one with the evidence you've got.”

William Powell - Philo Vance
Eugene Pallette - Detective Heath

“Do not give up hope. There are other women where I was held and I believe in my heart that they are still alive.”

Ashley Judd - Dr. Kate McTiernan

“- Kristen Connor: Why don't I stay with you tonight? We could stay up and talk...
- Taryn: Are you sure you're ready for that? Don't do it just 'cause you're fascinated. I want you to be sure.”
Kristy Swanson - Kristen Connor
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Taryn

“- Jackie Brown: The money won't convict him, guns will.
- Max Cherry: You're rationalizing.
- Jackie Brown: That's what you do to go through with the shit you start, you rationalize. I can do it, Max, I know I can. I just can't do it without you.”

Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“- Martin Kurtz: I trust you will not immediately foam at the mouth if I add that we are also Israeli citizens.
- Charlie: Israelis?
- Martin Kurtz: Unless it's your conviction that Israel should be swept into the sea. Is that your conviction Charlie?
- Charlie: Israelis, huh?
- Martin Kurtz: Do you feel you are among enemies here?
- Charlie: Oh...” (continue)(continue reading)
Klaus Kinski - Martin Kurtz
Diane Keaton - Charlie

Pre was stubborn. He insisted on holding himself to a higher standard than victory. "A race is a work of art"; that's what he said, that's what he believed and he was out to make it one every step of the way.

Donald Sutherland - Bill Bowerman

“There are two things I always wanted to believe in but didn't dare. One is that there was one man, somewhere, who was made just for me. The other is that I just might deserve him.”
Joanna Going - Rosalyn Willoughby

- Frollo: The Gypsies live outside the normal order. Their heathen ways inflame the people's lowest instincts. And they must be stopped.
- Phoebus: I was summoned from the wars to capture fortune-tellers and palm readers?
- Frollo: Ah, the real war, Captain, is what you see before you. For twenty years I have been "taking care" of the Gypsies...
Tony Jay - Frollo
Kevin Kline - Phoebus

- Arnold "Chick" Gandil: You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.
- Joseph 'Sport' Sullivan: You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find that hard to believe.
- Arnold "Chick" Gandil: You never played for Charlie Comiskey.

Michael Rooker - Arnold "Chick" Gandil
Kevin Tighe - Joseph "Sport" Sullivan