Responsibility quotes

“You think that just because you're not doing it yourself, you're not a part of it? Well, I'm sick and tired of doing my part.”
Frank Whaley - Arvid

“It doesn't matter what you thought. It matters what you did. It matters what you didn't do.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Paul Zara

“When this war is over, there will be a reckoning.”
Nicole Kidman - Ada Monroe

“You haven't kept your word once. Not once. In our family, the Bush family, we honor our commitments.”

James Cromwell - George H. W. Bush

“- Reuben Tishkoff: If, God forbid, anything does happen to you, we will not be involved.
- Terry Benedict: You better not be, Reuben. You better not be.”

Elliott Gould - Reuben Tishkoff
Andy Garcia - Terry Benedict

“- Lewis: Look, I'm sorry your life turned out so bad. But don't blame me you messed it up yourself. You just focused on the bad stuff when all you had to do was... let go of the past and keep moving forward...
- Bowler Hat Guy: Hmm, let's see... take responsiblity for my own life or blame you? Dingdingdingdingding! Blame you wins hands down!”
Daniel Hansen - Lewis
Stephen J. Anderson - Bowler Hat Guy

“We must all bear the cross that's given us, I always say.”

Grace Hayle - Mrs. Titcomb

“The responsibility for recording a marriage has always been up to woman. If it wasn't for her, marriage would have disappeared long since. No man is going to jeopardize his present or poison his future with a lot of little brats hollering around the house unless he's forced to.”
Al Bridge - Mr. Johnson

“Each life is made up of big decisions and each day is made up of a million little decisions. What shirt to wear, what street to walk on, what to eat for lunch. Now all of these seemingly inconsequential choices may change your life forever. But who can handle that kind of responsibility? It would paralyze you to think about it. So you have to...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Duchovny - Dr. Eugene Sands

“You know what the difference between you and me is? We both do the same thing. You just do it for a country, so you don't have to admit you like it.”

Adrien Brody - Royce

“- Juno MacGuff: I'm not ready to be a mom.
- Mac MacGuff: Damn skippy you're not! You don't even remember to give Liberty Bell her breathing meds.
- Juno MacGuff: God, that was one time! And she did not die, if you recall.”
Ellen Page - Juno MacGuff
J. K. Simmons - Mac MacGuff

“- Ellie: You were on the cutting edge of everything.
- Val: So, how did I go from the cutting edge to the buttering edge?”
Téa Leoni - Ellie
Woody Allen - Val

“I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.”
Will Smith - Christopher Gardner

“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: What about freedom of speech? The Constitution?
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: You don't have any rights. You got any complaints you complain to Saddam Insane. You are a marine. There is no such thing as speech that is free. You must pay for everything that you say.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“I am the only person who can stop them. If they are not stopped, it is only a matter of days, perhaps hours, before the secret is out of the country.”

Lucie Mannheim - Miss Smith

“- Jane Caldwell: I wanted to inform you that you've been promoted to executive vice president of external relations.
- Jack Issel: But this is just my first week.
- Jane Caldwell: Then you must have good friends upstairs. But don't give your hopes up. It's basically the same job you had in the complaints department but with 10% more salary and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Seymour - Jane Caldwell
Judge Reinhold - Jack Issel

“With dreams begin responsibilities.”
Jeff Goldblum - David Jason

“If you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody!”

Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“- George: We can't throw out the option of having a babysitter just because we had a bad one. We'll find somebody really responsible to look after the kids.
- Alice: Over my dead body.”

Charles Grodin - George Newton
Bonnie Hunt - Alice Newton

“- David Graham: Help me to prove that he was responsible for this and I'll put him where he won't kill anybody.
- Mary Dwight Strauber: You don't know what he's like! He stops at nothing. People just disappear and are never heard of again. I don't want that to happen to me.”

Humphrey Bogart - David Graham
Bette Davis - Mary Dwight Strauber

“You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you.”

Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

“- Gifford Hoyt: I don't want that girl to die here like the Englishman.
- Gunther Beckdorff: How can I be responsible, whether she lives or dies? Death comes to us all, Giff, at one time or another. And to die in Caboblanco, well... there's always that colorful cemetery on the beach.”
Charles Bronson - Gifford Hoyt
Jason Robards - Gunther Beckdorff

“I'd like to offer my condolences to those families. But Nixon can't.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“You're half-way up a mountain. Crime is the easy path to the bottom. Responsibility is the hard path to the top. But when you get there it's a great view.”
Steve Coogan - Simon Garden

“Just because you were honest and you didn't take money like every other cop, I left you? No, you don't take money for one reason. To buy being dishonest about everything else. And that's worse than taking money.”

Carla Gugino - Laurie Roberts: