Perseverance quotes

“She was a waitress at a jazz bar. I'd sit in her section, wouldn't let anybody else serve me. She's change sections, I'd change tables. Persistance that's the key.”

Hugh Laurie - Captain James Biggs

“I never knew when to quit. Just ask my fourth grade teacher.”
Jim Varney - Ernest

“Mr. Koontz, I don't think you understand me. Let me clear: I'm accustomed to getting what I want. I want that bear!”
Charlton Heston - Perry

“- Dale Tremont: Madge, have you any objections if I scare your husband so that he'll never look at another woman?
- Madge Hardwick: Dale, no husband is ever too scared to look.”
Ginger Rogers - Dale Tremont
Helen Broderick - Madge Hardwick

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne

“- Kathie Moffat: I think we deserve a break.
- Jeff Bailey: We deserve each other.”
Jane Greer - Kathie Moffat
Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey

- Dr. Richard Kimble: I found him, Chuck. I found the man who killed Helen.
- Dr. Charles Nichols: What?
- Dr. Richard Kimble: It was me they were after.
- Dr. Charles Nichols: Who? Who are "They"?
- Dr. Richard Kimble: Devlin MacGregor and Lentz.

Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Kimble
Jeroen Krabbé - Dr. Charles Nichols

“I'll follow you into your grave. I'll write my name on your tombstone.”
Laird Cregar - Ed Cornell

“I was never so sure of anything in my life. In the moment you left me after the air raid, I knew I must find you again. I've found you and I'll never let you go.”

Robert Taylor - Roy Cronin

“Initiative comes to thems that wait.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“British tenacity with Chinese patience like royal flush in poker game - unbeatable.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

- Sergeant Flaherty: You'd better give up, Rico. You haven't got a chance.
- Little Caesar, alias "Rico": You want me, you'll have to come and get me.
Thomas E. Jackson - Sergeant Flaherty
Edward G. Robinson - Little Caesar, alias "Rico"

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.”
W.C. Fields

“- Doctor Watson: But Holmes, that's impossible.
- Sherlock Holmes: Anything is possible until proven otherwise.”
Nigel Bruce - Dr. Watson
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Bobby DeLaughter: I think about her keeping this thing alive all this time. Imagine a woman loving a man so much.
- Charlie Crisco: Hell, I can't even get a woman to love me while I'm still alive.”

Alec Baldwin - Bobby DeLaughter
William H. Macy - Charlie Crisco

“- Coach: What is it that I always said?
- J.D., Wayne: If you can dream it, you can do it.”
R. Lee Ermey - Coach
Jack Black - J.D.

“It's gonna be the toughest five weeks that you ever lived through! Do you all get that? Now, anybody who doesn't think he's gonna like it had better quit right now.”

Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

- Marge Converse: What's it say?
- Ray Hicks: "In danger, all that counts is going forward".
- Marge Converse: What else?
- Ray Hicks: "By growing used to danger a man can allow it to become part of him. He grows used to evil".
Tuesday Weld - Marge Converse
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“- Nonnie Parker: Dad, wasn't it you who told me people need to stand up for what they believe in, or nothing's ever gonna change.
- Paul Parker: People need to sit down and talk, otherwise people won't change.”

Reese Witherspoon - Nonnie Parker
Robert John Burke - Paul Parker

“I'll walk a million miles for one of your smiles.”

Al Jolson - Jakie Rabinowitz

“I came here to do something. So, we are gonna stand around, or we are gonna do something?”
Pedro Miguel Arce - Pillsbury

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

Let me tell you somethin' my father told me, is: "If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger".
Steve Harvey - Mr. Rad

“I don't want to be molded! I believe in acting with my brain.”

Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“- Rev. Mother Maria-Veronica: It must be a great blow to you, to see your beautiful church so wantonly destroyed.
- Father Francis Chisholm: No one can destroy my church. I shall build it again. As long as I live I shall build my church.”
Rose Stradner - Rev. Mother Maria-Veronica
Gregory Peck - Father Francis Chisholm