Freedom quotes

“There were nights when the winds of the Etherium, so inviting in their promise of flight and freedom, made one's spirit soar.”
Tony Jay - Narrator

“I've never belonged to anyone!”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert

“- Harry Lime: Smell that?
- Marv Merchants: [sniffs] Yeah.
- Harry Lime: Know what that is?
- Marv Merchants: Fish.
- Harry Lime: It's freedom.
- Marv Merchants: No, it's fish.
- Harry Lime: It's freedom, and it's money.”

Joe Pesci - Harry Lime
Daniel Stern - Marv Merchants

“I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.”
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“You can't let Dick control your life!”

Kirsten Dunst - Betsy Jobs

“- Alexis Zorba: Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it. You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
- Basil: Or else?
- Alexis Zorba: ...he never dares cut the rope and be free.”
Anthony Quinn - Alexis Zorba
Alan Bates - Basil

“I wanna be free. I wanna be gay and have fun. Life's short. And I wanna live while I'm alive.”
Jean Harlow - Helen

“Never give anyone the power to take away your freedom. That's yours. It doesn't belong to nobody but you. Remember that.”
Sonja Sohn - Lauren Bell

“To be free, one must give up a part of oneself.”
Alberta Watson - Hansel's Mom

“If you want wild bird to sing do not put it in cage.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“I think freedom's overrated. What you're talking about. You know, if there isn't something bigger than, uh, than freedom, then freedom is just entertainment.”

David Morse - John Booth

“If you're not willing to sacrifice scum like Schmidt for those that want nothing more than their freedom, then you better take a long hard look at your chosen profession my friend. Because it doesn't get any easier.”

Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“- Sheriff Hunt: I was for you then. Believed in you. You made a fool of me. Look, what you did to yourself. Why, Norman, why? Good God son. You'll never get out again. We're gonna have you locked up forever.
- Norman Bates: But I'll be free. I'll finally be free.”

Hugh Gillin - Sheriff John Hunt
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“It has been surmised that perhaps my lord had become like a wild animal that had been kept too long. Perhaps, but whatever... freedom... so long an unremembered dream, was his.”
Mako - The Wizard

“Each of us has within us a weak aspect, eager to give up freedom for the comfort of being dominated. But we also have a will to power that desires freedom, that insists on deciding for ourselves, each of us, individually, what is good, and what is evil.”
Michael Pitt - Justin Pendleton

“- Mr. McCoy: You know I have always been a great believer in the truth. I have lived my life as honestly as I can. I, I believe in the truth as an essential companion to a man of conscience. A beacon in this vast and dark wasteland, that is our modern world. And yet...
- Sherman McCoy: Yes.
- Mr. McCoy: ...in this case, if the truth won't set...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donald Moffat - Mr. McCoy
Tom Hanks - Sherman McCoy

“- Doyle: If I'd gotten married, I wouldn't be where I am now.
- Spats: In a tavern?
- Doyle: Free! Living like a king!”
Milo O'Shea - Doyle
Bert Remsen - Spats

“- Belinda Mart: Ivan, why aren't you helping Josh set up the equipment?
- Ivan Alexeev: He's an artist. He's hands-on. You know what I do? I use my selling techniques to give my artist friend the personal freedom he needs. Freedom, choices, possibilities. That's what I'm about. The boring administrative stuff, you know? I envy him.”
Katy Boyer - Belinda Mart
John Cusack - Ivan Alexeev

“I realised I'm lucky because in this country, I can rant and rave and call the Prime Minister a dickhead without the army coming in and shooting me, and stopping you all from listening. And I figured that in this country, we don't vote to keep the best party in - cos there's no such thing - but we vote to keep the worst party out.”
Kick Gurry - Jacob Coote

“- Miranda Presley: You're always asking everyone else what they think.
- Linda Lue Linden: That's right. And you know what? I'm not going to do it anymore. If I don't feel like bein' nice to somebody, I'm just goin' to be mean... or at least impolite.”
Samantha Mathis - Miranda Presley
Sandra Bullock - Linda Lue Linden

“Flesh is a trap... that's what he used to say... flesh is a trap, and magic sets us free.”

Famke Janssen - Dorothea Swann

“Fulfilling the Fremen prophecy. Where there was war, Muad'Dib would now bring peace. Where there was hatred, Muad'Dib would bring love. To lead the people to true freedom and to change the face of Arrakis.”
Virginia Madsen - Princess Irulan

“You were going on as if one of you had to own me. But, nobody owns me, see; excepting, myself. I'll do what I please and no man, I don't give a darn who he is, can tell me what to do.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Christie

“- Prince Colwyn: The reward is freedom... and fame!
- Torquil: Freedom? We have it! And fame? Nah. It's an empty purse. Count it, go broke. Eat it, go hungry. Seek it, go mad!”
Ken Marshall - Colwyn
Alun Armstrong - Torquil

“- Abu: How can you be so ungrateful?
- Djinn: Grateful? Slaves are not grateful. Not for their freedom!”
Sabu - Abu
Rex Ingram - Djinn