Responsibility quotes

“- Shinzon: If you had lived my life, and experienced the suffering of my people, you'd be standing where I am.
- Jean-Luc Picard: And if you had lived my life, you would understand my responsibility to the Federation.”
Tom Hardy - Shinzon
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“- Jack Godell: What makes you think they're looking for a scapegoat?
- Ted Spindler: Tradition.”
Jack Lemmon - Jack Godell
Wilford Brimley - Ted Spindler

“- Ted the Bellhop: This New Year's Eve is not starting off well! This one is going pretty fucking badly!
- Margaret: How come?
- Ted the Bellhop: Well, Betty leaves me to run this entire hotel by myself. And first thing, right off the bat, I get fucked by a coven of witches!”
Tim Roth - Ted the Bellhop
Marisa Tomei - Margaret

“- Sean Barnes: Look! It wasn't my fault!
- Ben: Son, in Alaska; if it happens to you, it's your fault.”

Vincent Kartheiser - Sean Barnes
Gordon Tootoosis - Ben

“A king knows what to do and does it. Even when it's hard.”
Laura Linney - Annabeth Markum

“You mess with the bull, you get the horns.”
Brad Garrett - Vice Principal Dwayne Murney

“Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.”
Tom McCarthy

“You need to learn to control your men, Lieutenant. I am not here to clean up your fucking mistakes. Your men, your fucking responsibility, not mine.”
Sean Harris - Captain Sandy Browning

“Now you can exercise your responsibility to help your fellow man or I will exercise that responsibility for you.”
Julianne Moore - Callie Ferris

“- Anna Leonowens: You have the power to lead your people...
- King Mongkut: Now is not the time to change the way that things are done!
- Anna Leonowens: Well, if not now, then when? How many more people must die so that you might save face?”
Jodie Foster - Anna
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“You've been given a gift. With great power, comes great responsibility.”

Cliff Robertson - Ben Parker

“Each of us has made it possible for the other to do terrible things.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“- Max Rosenbaum: He knew exactly what he was doing.
- Retirement Home Senior: What? What are you talking about, Max?
- Max Rosenbaum: The man he killed was named Kunibert Sturm. And Zev's name was Otto Wallisch. They were the men who... murdered my family.”

Martin Landau - Max Rosenbaum
Hazel Gorin - Retirement Home Senior #1

“I believe the prospect of responsibility has rendered you impotent, and that's why you're working at this old precinct behind a desk.”
Maria Bello - Dr. Alex Sabian

“Death demands responsibility.”
Don Cheadle - Hugh Lang

“Cliff, you publish this you will have a storm of shit rain down on you.”
Alfred Molina - Dick Suskind

“You're not just responsible for the good ones. You've got to be responsible for the bad ones. You've got to be ready to make the shitty call.”

Bruce Greenwood - Commander Robert Iverson

What the hell kind of word is "deniability"? I'm just the man holding this office. If I dirty it, the dirt doesn't leave with me when I go, it stays here to rub off on whoever comes after me from now on.

Gary Sinise - Harry S. Truman

“This is your mother's fault. It's like voodoo. She knows where I am every second.”

Billy Crystal - Dr. Ben Sobel

“- Tony Mendez: We are responsible for these people.
- Jack O'Donnell: What we are is required to follow orders.”
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez
Bryan Cranston - Jack O'Donnell

“- James Hunt: In many ways, I feel responsible for what happened.
- Niki Lauda: You were, but trust me... watching you win those races while I was fighting for my life, you were equally responsible for getting me back in the car.”
Chris Hemsworth - James Hunt
Daniel Brühl - Niki Lauda

“When he gets nervous, he gets completely honest. That is a major business liability.”

Kirstie Alley - Mollie Ubriacco

“- Chief: The fate of the entire world is in your hands.
- Maxwell Smart: Oh no, not again. Well, ok this time, but next week I'm on vacation, Chief. If you get in trouble then, it's your ass.”
Dana Elcar - Chief
Don Adams - Maxwell Smart

“You take on a job, you finish it. Any man who can't be depended on steady, ain't worth the trouble of having around.”
Gene Hackman - Nicholas Earp

“All the respectable, straight-arrow guys were busy doing what they always do, which is be respectable. Which meant the rest of us could run around acting like crazies, which is what we did best. I miss those days.”

Joey Slotnick - Steve Wozniak