Freedom quotes

“I had enough bad luck to keep me laughin' the rest of my life. Sat in that jail. I sat in that jail ’til I nearby done rot to death. I know what it’s like, Ms. Celie, to wanna go somewhere and can’t.”
Oprah Winfrey - Sofia

“- Samuel: I want a chance to escape. To be free or at least a chance to die trying.
- Leon Feldhendler: Better to escape and live.”
Emil Wolk - Samuel
Alan Arkin - Leon Feldhendler

“I'm a free man, and I'm going out the front door.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon

“Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.”
Sean Lawlor - Malcolm Wallace

“Now for years and years and years people in my hometown were telling me I was a freak because of my sexual orientation, until I came to San Francisco, and I found a community of freaks just like me. We stood together. We stood together! And it took a long time. But we finally forced this one tiny spot of the universe, the Castro, to realise that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donal Logue - Bobbi Campbell

“I'm out to make a new life for myself. I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure, now I've retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free.”
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“You ready to be born again, Miss Bowden?”
Robert De Niro - Max Cady

“- Sailor Ripley: Did I ever tell ya that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom?
- Lula Fortune: About fifty thousand times.”
Nicolas Cage - Sailor Ripley
Laura Dern - Lula Fortune

“- Martin: You'll stay in here 'til you rot! Well, you're free to go!
- Renfield: Why? How?
- Martin: Good behavior.
- Renfield: But I've only been here for a moment.
- Martin: For that moment, you were very good.”
Mark Blankfield - Martin
Peter MacNicol - Renfield

“- Hillary: Now at least I know what I am.
- Jane: What are you?
- Hillary: I'm an animal in the zoo but I've escaped. Yes, from like these little cages that they try to put you in to make you some quiet little pussy and to grow up like some stupid normal bitch like you.”
Renée Humphrey - Hillary
Leslie Hope - Jane

- Stan "Zeedo" Zedkov: You're not under arrest, Meg, which means you have no right to an attorney.
- Meg Coburn: It also means I can walk out the fucking door.
Michael Rooker - Stan "Zeedo" Zedkov
Mira Sorvino - Meg Coburn

“Why did we come here to America? For freedom! Why are they building that statue on the harbor? What does it stand for? Freedom!”
Madeline Kahn - Gussie Mausheimer

“You live in a free society; you have no choice.”
Ken Russell - Walter

“I thought that maybe I could give you a taste of my world. A world without anger, without fear, without attitude. Where the underachiever goes home at night to parents who care. The jock can be smart, the ugly duckling beautiful, and the class wuss doesn't have to live in terror.”
Laura Harris - Marybeth Louise Hutchinson

“I'm free! I'm free at last! The body is dead! The body is dead, long live the head, it's finished, finito, heh-heh! Bye, body! Ha-ha! I shall prove a head does not need a body to survive!”
Robin Williams - King of the Moon

“This world is an uncertain realm, filled with danger. Honor underminded by the pursuit of power, freedom sacrificed when the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honor, and freedom. These men are known as Musketeers. Rise, D'Artagnan, and join them.”
Hugh O'Conor - King Louis

"We live in a free Country" and that is a powerful idea that is a magnificent way to live but there is a price for that freedom which is sometimes we have to tolerate things we don't necessarily like.

Edward Norton - Alan Isaacman

“Listen up, you fucking daffodils! You gonna leave me hanging here all night, huh? Get me down, you goddamn cuckoos! Get me some fucking Band-Aids! Come on, you fucking daffodils! Get me out of here!”
Rubén Blades - Martinez

“The church I go to is the one that emancipated the slaves, that gave women the right to vote, that gave us every freedom that we hold dear.”
Joan Allen - Laine Hanson

“Living alone has its compensations. Heaven knows it's marvelous being able to spread out in bed like a swastika.”

Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead

“The natural state of mankind is, and I know this is a controversial idea, is freedom. Is freedom. And the proof is the length to which a man, woman or child will go to regain it once taken. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try, against all odds, against all prejudices, to get home.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John Quincy Adams

“- Surplus Store Owner: Fuck you. Who the fuck are you? Are you fucking with me? You're fucking with me!
- D-Fens: I am just disagreeing with you! In America, we have the freedom of speech, the right to disagree!
- Surplus Store Owner: Fuck you and your freedom.”
Frederic Forrest - Surplus Store Owner
Michael Douglas - D-Fens

“- Johnny Rico: I wanna join up. I think I got what it takes to be a Citizen.
- Jean Rasczak: Good for you! Go find out...
- Johnny Rico: Well... my parents are against it... and I know it's my choice. I was wondering. What would you do if you were me?
- Jean Rasczak: Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use...” (continue)(continue reading)
Casper Van Dien - Johnny Rico
Michael Ironside - Jean Rasczak

“- Hades: Meg, listen. Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of your freedom, fluttering away, for ever!
- Meg: I don't care, I'm not going to help you hurt him!
- Hades: I can't believe you're getting all worked up over some guy.
- Meg: This one is different. He's strong, he's caring, he would never do anything to hurt me...”

James Woods - Hades
Susan Egan - Meg

“It's nice to live in a country where life, liberty... and all the rest of it still stand for something.”
Nicole Kidman - Suzanne Stone