Goodness quotes

“It's not like there's a line between the good people and the bad people. It is not like you're one or the other.”
Ron Canada - Otis

When you went to see the good doctor, before you left you said "I almost thought". What did you think? Maybe that you saw a little bit of me, Hyde, in him?

Spencer Tracy - Mr. Edward Hyde

“The truth is hard. Sometimes it looks so wrong, y'know. The color's off, the style's wrong, but I guess... I guess it's where the good ones live.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Joe Nast

“I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either, it's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“I am Will Stanton, Seventh son of a seventh son, I have read the book, I have walked through time, I have gathered five signs, the sixth could not be found because it was not hidden from me. I am the Sixth sign, and I have restored the power of the Light.”
Alexander Ludwig - Will Stanton

“- Ironhide: Why are we fighting to save the humans? They're a primitive and violent race.
- Optimus Prime: They're a young species. They have much to learn. But I've seen goodness in them. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”
Jess Harnell - Ironhide
Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime

“- Madeleine: How can we know who is good - and who is evil?
- Coulmier: All we can do is guard against our own corruption.”
Kate Winslet - Madeleine
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier

“- Roland: Man, why do you always do that? If you want the last piece, why did you ask me if I want the last piece?
- Slim: I didn't ask you. But the reason I asked Mike is the same reason you asked Lisa to marry you. It sounds nice, man.”
Taye Diggs - Roland
Richard T. Jones - Slim

“We have to be better than what they feared we would be. We have to surprise them with compassion, with restraint and generosity.”

Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“You know, Bill, no one expects you to be perfect. But there's just a few basic things you gotta get right. Always do the best you can by your family. Go to work every day. Always speak your mind. Never hurt anyone that doesn't deserve it.”
Mel Gibson - Craven

“Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you.”
Linda Manz - Linda

“This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.”

Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern

“You don't have to be good all the time. Just when it matters.”
Christopher Lambert - Beowulf

“- Charles Halloway: You are known in this town. My father knew you.
- Mr. Dark: Your father? The preacher? That half-man?
- Charles Halloway: He lived on goodness.”
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway
Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark

“The Americans believe everyone is born good. You must be judged.”
Ruocheng Ying - The Governor

“Not all wizards are good. Some of them go bad. A few years ago there was one wizard that went as bad as you can go, and his name was V...”

Robbie Coltrane - Hagrid

“- Dr. Bill Perlman: He and your wife are the only survivors I can't reach. She won't talk and he won't admit the crash was bad.
- Manny Rodrigo: Is that right? He says it was good?
- Dr. Bill Perlman: Says it was the best thing that ever happened to him.”

John Turturro - Dr. Bill Perlman
Benicio del Toro - Manny Rodrigo

“- The Iron Giant: Soul?
- Hogarth Hughes: Mom says it's something inside of all good things, and that it goes on forever and ever.”
Vin Diesel - The Iron Giant
Eli Marienthal - Hogarth Hughes

“I'm so tired of being good.”
Amy Locane - Allison Vernon-Williams

“- Warden: This country is safe again, Superman, thanks to you.
- Superman: No, sir. Don't thank me, Warden. We're all part of the same team. Good night.”
Roy Stevens - Warden
Christopher Reeve - Superman

“- Momma: You're my knight in shimmering armor. Did you know that?
- Gilbert: I think you mean shining.
- Momma: No shimmering. You shimmer, and you glow. ”
Darlene Cates - Bonnie Grape
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape

“From now on I was gonna be good. And if anyone was looking for Francie the Bad Bastard, they wouldn't find him. Because he was busy gettig the Francie-Not-a-Bad-Bastard-Anymore diploma.”

Stephen Rea - Narrator

“There's any amount of love and good in the world, you know? It doesn't just come to you. You have to search for it.”
Wendy Hughes - Aunt Helen

“It's so hard to be good under the capitalist system!”
Glenda Farrell - Genevieve Larkin

“What do the good know except what the bad teach them by their excesses?”
Tony Todd - The Candyman