Determination quotes

“Have we come, so far that we've forgotton what it's like to start out with nothing but a dim chance and a bright hope? I will not be the one to snuff that hope gentlemen. Not I.”

David Ogden Stiers - J.W. Harper

“While you sleepyheads are in that hay, I'll be dancing! I'm gonna be dancing with a sun-kissed baby. And I'm on my way, here's my beret, I'm going Hollywood!”

Bing Crosby - Bill Williams

“- Helen Sinclair: Make love to me.
- David Shayne: Here? Now?
- Helen Sinclair: I see no reason to wait.
- David Shayne: Jerome Kern is on the other side of the door.
- Helen Sinclair: Yes, he's a wonderful composer. You'll have to meet him. Now hang up your pants.”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
John Cusack - David Shayne

You know what I used to tell all my racers? "Don't look back, leave it all on the track".
Dustin Hoffman - Tucker

“So you failed. Alright you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn

“If I were free, there would be only one thing I'd want to do - prove you're not immune to happiness.”

Paul Henreid - Jerry Durrance

“You and Ursula together would be unbefitting to her social stature, you see? Let me put it in the way you might understand. Where you come from, zebras marry zebras and leopards marry leopards. Stripes for stripes. Spots for spots. Ursula is a stripe and you are a spot. One which I intend to have removed as soon as possible.”

Holland Taylor - Beatrice Stanhope

“- John Glenn: If you don't want the Vice President or the TV networks or anybody else to come into the house, then that's it, as far as I'm concerned. They are not coming in, and I will back you all the way, a hundred percent on this. And you tell them that, ok? I don't want Johnson or any of the rest of them to set as much as one toe inside our...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - John Glenn
Mary Jo Deschanel - Annie Glenn

“If we gonna become a team, we gotta go out there and do what we gotta do.”
Jade Yorker - Willie Weathers

“I certainly had a lot of nerve wanting to make a picture about human suffering.”
Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
Meat Loaf - Travis W. Redfish

“- Basil of Baker Street: I'll see you behind bars yet!
- Professor Ratigan: You fool! Isn't it clear to you? The superior mind has triumphed! I've won!”
Barrie Ingham - Basil of Baker Street
Vincent Price - Professor Ratigan

“My battle with the world is almost over. Yours I'm afraid has just begun.”

James Cromwell - William Randolph Hearst

“Dying's the easy way out. You won't catch me dying. They'll have to kill me before I die!”
Graham Arthur Chapman - Yellowbeard

“KGB decides what interests KGB.”
Rikki Fulton - Maj. Pribluda

“You better be listening! I don't need you making shit up as you go along! Take the warrant and serve it with Rico's platoon.”
Brendan Gleeson - Jack Van Meter

“I don't know much about the law. Ain't had much book learning. But the good Lord gave me a nose for smelling a horse thief a mile off. And what you need in these parts is a marshal that's better at smelling than spelling.”

John Wayne - Bob Seton

“If I have to, I will blast your aero-elastic ass right out of the sky.”
Jamie Foxx - Lt. Henry Purcell

“I never left a source hang out to dry, ever! Abandoned! Not 'til right fucking now. When I came on this job, I came with my word intact. I'm gonna leave with my word intact. Fuck the rules of the game!”
Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman

“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”
Patricia Neal

“I'm going to smoke everyone involved in this op and then I'm going to kill bin Laden.”
Jessica Chastain - Maya

- Newswoman: If you could've found out what "Rosebud" meant, I bet that would've explained everything.
- Jerry Thompson: I don't think so; Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe "Rosebud" was something he couldn't get, or something he lost.
Petra R. de Silva - Newswoman
William Alland - Jerry Thompson

“- Cadet Connors: Katrina, how can I help you?
- Katrina: You ever want something so badly it hurts?
- Cadet Connors: Yes.
- Katrina: No matter how much you wait and hope and wait more, you don't get what you want?
- Cadet Connors: Well, yeah. But my advice is don't give up. Just go for it.”
Charlie Schlatter - Cadet Connors
Claire Forlani - Katrina

“You do what you are. You're born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you're good at, you don't take for granted. You don't betray it.”

Morgan Freeman - Alex Cross

“You must be imaginative, strong-hearted. You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. What I say is true - anyone can cook... but only the fearless can be great.”
Brad Garrett - Gusteau