Responsibility quotes

“I've dragged myself through the blood and sand of a thousand arenas. In the end there's only one thing I regret - I never learned to read or write. I was obliged to renounce education... but I make the whole world responsible for my ignorance.”

John Carradine - El Nacional

“Tracy, we all have responsibilities in life. You may think owning The Hardy Har Joke Shop is all drudgery. Unwrapping dribble glasses, checking doggy doo, but I love it.”
Jerry Stiller - Wilbur Turnblad

“- Angela Stone: I think it's wonderful that Martha and Bill have a marriage contract that spells out everything. I wish we had a contract.
- Sam Stone: You mean like who takes out the garbage? That kind of everything?
- Bill: Every kind of everything. How often, who starts it, everything.”
Nita Talbot - Angela
Bill Macy - Sam
Sam Chew Jr. - Bill

I had the fire in the belly just like you and the odd thing is I still have it. Never left me! I had the dream... and I had the weight. Like one of those guys before me said "If a sparrow falls in Central Park, I feel responsible".

Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“- Dr. Raymond: Norman was not convicted of murder. He was found not guilty by reasons of insanity, and since he is no longer insane, he has the right to live a normal life like you and I.
- Lila Loomis: That's just legal hocus pocus, and when he murders again you will be directly responsible.”
Robert Loggia - Dr. Bill Raymond
Vera Miles - Lila Loomis

“You know, you and my wife have a lot in common. You both think you have some right to life working out the way you want it to, and when it doesn't, you get to act the way you want. The only trouble with that is someone has to be responsible”

Kevin Spacey - Lloyd

“You're too busy to do what needs to be done, huh?”
Vanilla Ice - Johnny

“I accept the responsibility with a sense of both humility, satisfaction and gratitude.”

Raymond Walburn - Mayor Everett J. Noble

“If I never came to this place, these people would be somewhere else right now. Out shopping or watching TV. But instead, they're here looking for Gene. Afraid something bad has happened. But who could say? My opinion is you could miss a body in a search like this. We keep our eyes to the ground, but we're told to look at the trees as well. I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Owen Wilson - Vann

“Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.”
John Wayne - The Ringo Kid

“- Shadow: I shouldn't have made her come.
- Chance: It's not your fault, she wanted to come.
- Shadow: But it's my responsibility. I had a responsibility to Sassy, to love her and protect her; the same as I have to you and to Peter.”

Don Ameche - Shadow
Michael J. Fox - Chance

“You can't ask government to be infallible, but you can ask it to be accountable.”
Jeff Bridges - Michael Faraday

“The tough part is, uh... Not knowing if you're doing any good. That's the hard part.”
Elias Koteas - Capt. Staros

“I think we need a responsible body of people that can actually represent us rather than Big Business. This body of people must not allow the introduction of anything into our environment that is not absolutely biodegradable or able to be chemically neutralized upon production.”
Steven Seagal - Forrest Taft

“Perhaps some day, you will be ready. Until then, Mogwai waits.”

Keye Luke - Grandfather

“- Sporty Spice: Look, Clifford, we're old enough to take responsibility for our own lives, do you know what I mean?
- Clifford: You don't have a life, you have a schedule! You are part of a well-oiled, global machine! There are people everywhere working their butts off for you! People like Deborah, here.”
Melanie C - Sporty Spice
Richard R. Grant - Clifford

“- Grasshopper: This is all my fault.
- Earthworm: Hey don't take all the credit, I helped too!”
Simon Callow - Grasshopper
David Thewlis - Earthworm

“We alone decide how our talents are bestowed upon the world. This is our destiny and we hold it in the palm of our hands.”
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden

“Now I see, good lord, how we must look from out there. Our addiction is evil. The propensity for this evil lies in our weakness before it. Kierkegaard was right, there is an awful precipice before us. But he was wrong about the leap, there's a difference between jumping and being pushed. You reach a point where you are forced to face your own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lili Taylor - Kathleen Conklin

“- Capt. Hermann Musk: Otto, I'm not a Nazi.
- Otto: No, you're worse. Lousy officers. You went along with it all, even though you knew who was in charge.”
Karel Hermánek - Hauptmann Musk
Sylvester Groth - Otto

“- Sergeant Edgar Millen: Purer fact is that he's running to save his hide, and every man he killed, he killed to protect himself.
- Constable Alvin Adams: What about Hawkins or Sundog or any of them? What did any of them die for, Millen?
- Sergeant Edgar Millen: Johnson didn't do anything I wouldn't do if I was in his boots. If I thought the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lee Marvin - Millen
Andrew Stevens - Alvin

“Like Icarus we too have been given gifts: knowledge, education, experience. And with these gifts comes the responsibility of choice.”
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden

“- Augusto Odone: They've got Lorenzo on a turvy-topsy diet. And that bloody immunosuppression is brutal and useless. Michaela, we should not have consigned him blindly into their hands. He should not suffer by our ignorance. We take responsibility. So... we read a little. And we go out and inform ourselves.
- Michaela Odone: But... to miss time...” (continue)(continue reading)

Nick Nolte - Augusto Odone
Susan Sarandon - Michaela Odone

“- Dr. Serizawa: The Oxygen Destroyer cannot be used.
- Ogata: If we don't defend ourselves from Godzilla now, what will become of us?
- Dr. Serizawa: And what will become of us if a weapon, such as I now have, falls into the wrong hands?
- Ogata: Then you have a responsibility no man has ever faced. You have your fear which might become reality....” (continue)(continue reading)

Akihiko Hirata - Dr. Serizawa
Akira Takarada - Ogata

“- The Governor: You couldn't possibly have known about the Japanese biological warfare experiments in Harbin! Could you? So why did you sign these papers?
- Pu Yi - Adult: I was responsible for everything.
- The Governor: You are responsible for what you do! All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. Now you think you're the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ruocheng Ying - The Governor
John Lone - Pu Yi - Adult