Determination quotes

“- Dr. Alex Cross: Kate, I know how you feel, honestly.
- Dr. Kate McTiernan: Would you please stop treating me like I'm a victim? You think I'm some kind of tourist in all this because I wasn't raped? Every night when I go to sleep, I hear those women's voices. You want to save your niece? Guess what: so do I.”
Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross
Ashley Judd - Dr. Kate McTiernan

“- Mrs. Tingle: You present yourself with such self-assured tenacity, but your fear shows around the edges. You can do better.
- Jo Lynn Jordan: We're trying, Mrs. Tingle. Work with us.”
Helen Mirren - Mrs. Tingle
Marisa Coughlan - Jo Lynn Jordan

“Your will is strong, Van Helsing.”

Béla Lugosi - Dracula

“No duck is an island. And if fate sent me here to save Earth, then Howard the Duck is ready to fight!”
Chip Zien - Howard T. Duck

“We face up to things we're afraid of because we can't go 'round 'em.”
Dame Judi Dench - Agnis Hamm

“If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.”
Sir Sean Connery - Allan Quatermain

“Don't lose the dream!”
Patrick Swayze - Pecos Bill

“Just remember, Fievel - one man's sunset is another man's dawn. I don't know what's out there beyond those hills. But if you ride yonder... head up, eyes steady, heart open... I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.”
James Stewart - Wylie Burp

“I don't want him understood. I want him out here and arrested.”

Ted Levine - Lemke

“If I were afraid, there might be hope for you, but I am not. There are certain things you cannot take away from me. What is mine, is mine. Do you think you can stop the working of my brain and my heart?”

Morris Carnovsky - Sixtus Andresen

“- Sara Crewe: Papa? Maya told me that all girls are princesses.
- Capt. Crewe: Maya... is a very wise woman.
- Sara Crewe: Then it's true?
- Capt. Crewe: You can be anything you want to be, my love, as long as you believe.”
Liesel Matthews - Sara Crewe
Liam Cunningham - Capt. Crewe

“- Rosette LaRue: You could dream better if you'll get to sleep.
- Janie Barlow: I'm through dreaming. I'm gonna start doing. I'm going up where it's art: uptown.”
Winnie Lightner - Rosette LaRue
Joan Crawford - Janie Barlow

“You can have anything in this world, if you want it badly enough, and you're willing to pay the price.”
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay

“- Lorraine Danel: You've tried everything else and failed. No matter what you do, you'll always fail!
- Stephen Danel: I've never failed and I never will fail.”

Rochelle Hudson - Lorraine Danel
Peter Lorre - Stephen Danel

“You all talk as though the world owed you a living. Maybe if you tried to do something for the theatre, the theatre would do something for you.”

Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“I don't want to win unless I know I've done my best, and the only way I know how to do that is to run out front, flat out until I have nothing left. Winning any other way is chicken-shit.”
Billy Crudup - Steve Prefontaine

“So it's come to this. A pointless, miserable end to a shallow, meaningless life. But it's as it should be. It's the hand I've been dealt, and I have to play it as it lays. Oh, I'm not going to cry because life's thrown me a curve. I'm not going to whine because I got mashed potatoes when French fries is what I really wanted. It's time for me to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell

“Build up your resolve, not your genitals!”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

“I knew at that moment I had to make a choice. I could submit to everything that was happening and live a life of excuses or I could push myself make my life good.”

Thora Birch - Liz Murray

“Nothing is impossible, Mr. Warren, if the necessity of doing it is great enough.”

Noel Madison - Fissue

“Gotta come down out of the clouds gentlemen, and get into the business... of winning the war.”
Paul Newman - Gen. Leslie R. Groves

“Believe me, Penny. My life isn't my own. And on top of everything else, there's my real estate responsibilities, which are considerable. Some landlords will allow a place to go to Hell in a trash can, but not me. Constant repairs, constant maintenance, constant outlays of time and money.”
Elliott Gould - Max Devlin

“We're on the clock, sister. This is time to clear the board, win the game, chambers loaded, hammers cocked, and our fingers are itching like a cat with a serious case of fleas.”
Michael Dudikoff - Marlowe Hammer

“You're the skipper now. And the skipper always knows what to do whether he does or not.”
Harvey Keitel - CPO Henry Klough

“I don't make deals with anybody... they make deals with me.”

Eduardo Ciannelli - Johnny Vanning