Determination quotes

“Misery and death and all the evils that God and man could have ever done would never have parted us.”

Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff

“Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
Linus Roache - Thomas Wayne

“You don't say much but you get your point across.”
Linda Cardellini - Cassie

“- Queen Mousette: You wish to enter the Battle of the Bands contest.
- Mighty Mack: We wish to win first prize!”
Erykah Badu - Queen Mousette
John Goodman - Mighty Mack McTeer

“I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar Hoover

“The world ain't fair. You've gotta take what you need when you can get it. You've gotta learn to stand up for yourself.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Willie

“The winner ain't the one with the fastest car, son. It's just the one who refuses to lose.”
J.K. Simmons - Ralph Earnhardt

“Someday I'll come back to you with a whole trunkful of clippings, and when you marry me, you'll marry the first torero of Spain, not the second or third, but the first, the greatest!”

Tyrone Power - Juan

“I am the plumed serpent, I fly, and I crawl... I have fallen, but I shall rise again!”
Shelly Desai - Kahea

“- Tracy Turnblad: You haven't heard the last of me. Things need to change, and I won't stop trying to change them. I don't care how long it takes.
- Prudy Pingleton: Good! You'll be waiting twenty to life.”
Nikky Blonsky - Tracy Turnblad
Allison Janney - Prudy Pingleton

“- Mr. Smith: Tell me why he's dead.
- Gene Watson: Because you killed him.
- Mr. Smith: That's right, I did. I killed him. He fucked up one too many times. So, I put a bullet in his eye. Then, I put two more into him just to make sure. Now, that was somebody I loved; I loved him! But I got the call, and I put him down like a sick animal.”

Christopher Walken - Mr. Smith
Johnny Depp - Gene Watson

“- Peejoe: Uncle Dove, do you really think Aunt Lucille stole that car?
- Dove Bullis: Absolutely. Baby sister wants a car, she's gonna get one!”
Lucas Black - Peejoe
David Morse - Dove

“Look, I fight for what's mine, I make no apologies. You can call me a ballbuster but it's just the way I am.”
Mercedes Ruehl - Connie Russo

“Nothing is going to stop me. I'm going to find out how it feels to be in trouble. Without friends, without credit, without checkbook, without name. Alone.”

Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan

“With so many fine young men and women from all corners of the Earth, all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.”

Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.”
George Lucas

“- Henry Nash: Captain, hadn't you better get down?
- Capt. Bucky O'Neil: There ain't a Spanish bullet made that can kill me!”
Brad Johnson - Henry Nash
Sam Elliott - Capt. Bucky O'Neil

“I'd fight ten thousand devils to save a New Hampshire man.”
Edward Arnold - Daniel Webster

“All the power in the world rests in the eyes.”
Michael Wincott - Top Dollar

“I think I've kind of been in a bubble: thinking that fairness was gonna just happen. It's not. People like me are gonna have to get up off their fathers' laps and go out and fight for it.”
Nikky Blonsky - Tracy Turnblad

“I know all there is to know about screwing your way into a wealthy family and there's no way I'm gonna let you screw your way into mine.”

Will Patton - Lloyd Abbott

“- Shen: Are you willing to die to find the truth?
- Po: You bet I am. Although, I'd prefer not to.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Shen
Jack Black - Po

“You had better decide if you're hanging on the cross, or banging in the nails.”
Mel Gibson - Craven

“- Fred Ritter: You're not in top form, and your backup battery is all used up!
- Johnny 5: I'm okay-kay, just a few biddly-biddly Bugs Bunny to work out in out in! Perfectly functionality, functionality!
- Fred Ritter: Oh yeah sure, listen to yourself, you can't even talk straight!
- Johnny 5: Derf, a life-form's gotta do what a life-form's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter
Tim Blaney - Johnny 5

“Until the last line has been spoken, the curtain cannot come down.”
Alan Arkin - Frankfurter