Decision quotes

“All the arguing in the world can't change the decision of the umpire.”
Gary Cooper - Lou Gehrig

“Your day will come too, Eragon, and you will decide for yourself the kind of life you wish to lead.”
Alun Armstrong - Uncle Garrow

“You hesitate. But as a captain, you can't. You have to act. If you don't, you put the entire crew at risk. Now that's the job. It's not a science. You have to be able to make hard decisions based on imperfect information. Asking men to carry out orders that may result in their deaths. And if you're wrong, you suffer the consequences. If you're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bill Paxton - Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren

“Are you sure you're making the right decision? I think we should stop.”
Douglas Rain - HAL 9000

“- Karen Kelly: Are you saying you want Peyton to live here with you?
- Joe Kingman: Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
- Karen Kelly: You haven't even been in her life.
- Joe Kingman: That's not my fault. I didn't even know she existed! And we've come such a long way in a short time.”
Paige Turco - Karen Kelly
The Rock - Joe Kingman

“Never climb a fence if you can sit on it.”
Michael Redgrave - Gilbert

“The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... and in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... but you're never gonna be the same person you are right now.”
Robert Redford - Professor Stephen Malley

“- Carole: Hey, Goose, you big stud!
- Goose: That's me, honey.
- Carole: Take me to bed or lose me forever.
- Goose: Show me the way home, honey.”
Meg Ryan - Carole
Anthony Edwards - Goose

“- Preacher: Do you take this woman to be your wedded wife?
- Betelgeuse: Oh geez, I don't know. I mean, it's kind of a big decision isn't it? I mean, I always said if I ever did it, I was gonna do it once and that was it.”
Tony Cox - Preacher
Michael Keaton - Betelgeuse

“For a long time I didn't understand what he did that day. I figured he tossed a gold shield career into the shitter. But it started to hit me what the job had become for Buster. And for my too. Buster left his regrets, and what didn't work no more, in the Sing Sing Death House, and pushed on for better days. He never looked back.”
James Gandolfini - Det. Charles Hilderbrandt

“If there was ever a time a decision had to be made, it's now, now!”
Richard France - Scientist

“The time to make up your mind about people is never.”
Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord

“It's funny, cause I think I can even remember being born. For the first two weeks of my life I didn't even have a name. Dede couldn't make up her mind. She finally decided on Fred. She said that she had never heard of a little kid named Fred before.”
Adam Hann-Byrd - Fred Tate

“I'll give you anything you ask for as long as it's not something I don't want to give.”

Billy Bob Thornton - The US President

“- Spider-Man: I've always imagined you getting you married on a hill top.
- Mary Jane Watson: Who's the groom?
- Spider-Man: You hadn't decided yet.”
Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man
Kirsten Dunst - Mary Jane Watson

“- Porter: Who makes the decisions?
- Carter: Well, a committee would make the decision in this case...
- Porter: One man... you go high enough you always come to one man... who?”
Mel Gibson - Porter
William Devane - Carter

“When I left the Marines I made myself a promise. Never again am I going to be fucked around by morons. The next mother who tries to make me back off is going to have to live it out with me.”
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“- Michael Jordon: Where do you wanna go, honey?
- Janet Dunn: Uh...
- Michael Jordon: To your place or to mine?
- Janet Dunn: I don't care. Let's just go.
- Michael Jordon: Just go straight up Park Avenue, all right? We'll tell you exactly where once we finish negotiating.”
Gene Wilder - Michael Jordon
Kathleen Quinlan - Janet Dunn

“I'm thinking that sometimes you just have to make the decision to be happy. Just decide. Things aren't ever what you hoped they'd be.”
Olympia Dukakis - Marian

There will come a time when you will have to say no. The most important person to keep alive is yourself. You'll be facing crews from 5 to 20 all saying "Save me, save me". They're looking for a miracle. You have to find a way to be that miracle.
Kevin Costner - Ben Randall

“Never again will I allow women to wear my dresses!”
Erik Rhodes - Alberto Beddini

“- Old King Cole: I'll give 50,000 guineas for the capture of that scoundrel, dead or alive.
- Stan: Dead or alive?
- Old King Cole: Dead or alive!
- Stan: Can't you make up your mind how you want him?”

Kewpie Morgan - Old King Cole
Stan Laurel - Stan

“I don't mind taking orders, but there's one decision that's always up to me.”
Jean Harlow - Daisy

“- Arthur Stanhope: Beatrice, this is supposed to be her wedding, not yours. I know you're upset, and so am I, but we can't force her to marry someone against her will.
- Beatrice Stanhope: Why not?
- Ursula Stanhope: Mom, dad, I'm ready to go out there and apologize to everybody and tell them what really happened.”

John Bennett Perry - Arthur Stanhope
Holland Taylor - Beatrice Stanhope
Leslie Mann - Ursula Stanhope

“I reckon you done what you done because you didn't know we was who we was. And if we hadn't been who we was, we'd have still been much obliged for you to have done what you done.”
Jim Varney - Jed Clampett