Responsibility quotes

“You can't do yourself in! Kids just rob you of that option!”

Phoebe Cates - Sophia Gold

“- Leonardo: This Nightwatcher character has been going around like some vigilante showboat, but his days are over.
- Raphael: Hey, the Nightwatcher was the only one around to pick up the slack while you were gone. Crime didn't take a break... you did.”
James Arnold Taylor - Leonardo
Nolan North - Raphael

“- Clark Kent: I have to go back.
- Lois Lane: You can't go back, there's no way now.
- Clark Kent: I have to. I've gotta try dammit, I've got to try something. Anything!
- Lois Lane: It's not your fault. You didn't know this was going to happen.
- Clark Kent: They knew. They tried to tell me. But, I didn't listen.”
Christopher Reeve - Clark Kent
Margot Kidder - Lois Lane

“I told you that you couldn't kill me, Jeff, but I didn't tell you why. The answer is simple. I am the person responsible for the loss of your child. I am the only person who knows where your daughter is. She only has a limited supply of air, Jeff, and if you want to get her back, you'll have to play a game.”
Tobin Bell - Jigsaw

Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and "trust" in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a "contract", in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a "moral and ethical principal" is? Do you? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future,... (continue)(continue reading)

Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance

“- Wick: Who's the leader, Mr. Vaughn? Who makes decisions on the mountain that mean other people live or die? Who plays God, so to speak?
- Elliot: There can only be one leader. It's always the best climber. In this case I've made it clear to everyone Tom McLaren is that man.”
Scott Glenn - Montgomery Wick
Bill Paxton - Elliot Vaughn

“- Prime Minister Winston Churchill: You know how to take charge.
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: It's not about power. It is simply the judicious use of the responsibility you entrusted me with.”
Ian Mune - Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Dede says I don't have dad. She says I'm the immaculate conception. That's a pretty big responsibility for a little kid.”
Adam Hann-Byrd - Fred Tate

“There will come a time when you might have to decide who lives and dies out there. It's a terrible responsibility but it's one you will have to make as a rescue swimmer. The bigger reality is also something you are going to have to live with as a human being.”
Kevin Costner - Ben Randall

“Don't do anything stupid and nothing stupid will happen.”
Anthony Mangano - Rico

“Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free.”
Mia Wasikowska - India Stoker

“Curiosity responsible for cat needing nine lives.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.”
Eugene Hugh Beaumont

“- Meryl Burbank: We have mortgage payments, Truman. We have car payments. What, we're going to just walk away from our financial obligations?
- Truman Burbank: It would be an adventure!
- Meryl Burbank: I thought we were gonna try for a baby. Isn't that enough of an adventure?”
Laura Linney - Meryl Burbank
Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank

“There are 16,800 magazines in this country, but only one calls itself the inflight magazine for Air Force One. That's the thrill of working at The New Republic. You're underpaid, the hours are brutal, but what you write gets read by people who matter: presidents, lawmakers. Your work can actually influence public policy. That's an amazing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“- Matthew Trant: What time you got?
- Billy Sanders: 6:13.
- Matthew Trant: You're responsible for my daughter for the next 5 hours and 7 minutes.
- Billy Sanders: Yes sir, Mr. Trant. You don't have a thing to worry about.
- Matthew Trant: Then neither will you.”
Sam Waterston - Matthew Trant
Bentley Mitchum - Billy Sanders

“Grow up. You are so afraid to take things seriously.”

Elisha Cuthbert - Carly Jones

“Being a leader isn't about ability. It's about responsibility.”
Bruce Greenwood - Commander Richard Iverson

“To be a soldier and a coward is to be an impostor, a menace to the men whose lives are in your hands.”
John Clements - Harry Faversham

“- Pete: Don't talk to me about responsibilities. I have a life. I have a family. I can't afford to sit in my apartment getting high, jerking off, and then going to Tommy's Chili Burgers at three o'clock in the morning.
- Ronnie: That's not even the order that happens in!”
Paul Rudd - Pete
Chris O'Dowd - Ronnie

“- Coulmier: An innocent child is dead.
- The Marquis de Sade: So many authors are denied the gratification of a concrete response to their work. I am blessed.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

“The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. I wish I could believe that.”
Nick Stahl - John Connor

“The truth was, in 1914, Germany doesn't want war. Yeah, there's an arms race, but it's Britain who's leading it. So, why does no one admit this?”
Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“Men thinks they are each alone in this world. It is not true. You are all connected. One act can one day affect all.”
Bryce Dallas Howard - Story

“Horrible thing, to stand with your toes at the edge of the precipice. You can say anything you like, as long as you make it sound like it was a joke.”
Jim Broadbent - John Bayley