Responsibility quotes

“No man is really dead unless he breaks faith with the future, and no man is really alive unless he accepts his responsibility to it.”
Lionel Barrymore - The General

“I mean, you're the grown-up here. If a kid is experimenting and says something flirtatious, you ignore it, you don't encourage it! If a kid says 'Hey, let's make screwdrivers!', you take the alcohol away, and you don't race them to the next drink!”
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“You hesitate. But as a captain, you can't. You have to act. If you don't, you put the entire crew at risk. Now that's the job. It's not a science. You have to be able to make hard decisions based on imperfect information. Asking men to carry out orders that may result in their deaths. And if you're wrong, you suffer the consequences. If you're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bill Paxton - Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren

“With strength goes responsibility - to others and to yourselves. For you cannot conquer injustice with more injustice - only with justice and the help of God.”
Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“I'm looking for the least possible amount of responsibility.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“Nicky doesn't want to be in a relationship with someone who's irresponsible. And I don't want to be in a relationship with someone who isn't Nicky.”
Craig Ferguson - Matthew

“Someone has to pay, Lenny. Somebody always pays.”
Joe Pantoliano - Teddy

“Sometimes not knowing how crazy something is, is a good thing.”
Joey Slotnick - Steve Wozniak

“When you make a blame sandwich, you gotta be ready to eat it yourself.”

Seann William Scott - John Farley

“- Maggie Barnes: Will, come with me. You're not safe here. You need to give me the Signs.
- Will Stanton: No, they're my responsibility. I can handle it.”
Amelia Warner - Maggie Barnes
Alexander Ludwig - Will Stanton

“- Ranger Bob: It's your responsibility as campers, and honourable men on this planet, to cut through the connections of these nooses waiting to happen before discarding them in a proper refuse container.
- Sam: What the fuck are you talkin' about?”

Stephen Tobolowsky - Ranger Bob
Adam Horovitz - Sam

“- Penny Travis: He's losing his mind.
- Sandy Travis: Penny. Things fall apart. And we put them back together.”
Michelle Williams - Penny Travis
Sigourney Weaver - Sandy Travis

“You know son, the only reason I'm hard on you is well because one day you'll wear the pants in your own family, people will depend on you, and how can they do that if your pants are all hanging of your behind? I mean have you thought about what you're 'gonna do if this whole rap thing don't work out?”
Cedric the Entertainer - Nate Johnson

“We have things those computers can never have like instincts and feelings and moral judgment. You can call me old-fashioned, you can call it whatever you want but I just don't think that in war the action should ever be divorced from the consequences.”
Josh Lucas - Lt. Ben Gannon

“From that moment on, I realized Bobby was my responsibility.”

Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“- Pasha: Is it that shit-head Pribluda?
- Arkady Renko: That's like asking if the girl is a virgin when you see her in bed with a man on top of her.”

Michael Elphick - Pasha
William Hurt - Arkady Renko

“We're not like other people, we're artists, you know with great talent comes responsibility.”
John Malkovich - Clown

“- Anna: Did they all died?
- Neville: Yes.
- Anna: My God.
- Neville: God didn't do this. We did.”

Alice Braga - Anna
Will Smith - Neville

“It was my finger that pulled the trigger but morally I'm not responsible.”
Tygh Runyan - Stephen Geller

“- Garbageman: The question here is garbage. Who picks up this mess?
- Mr. Rumsfield: Who picks up this mess? Well you're going to pick up the mess, because you are a garbage man.
- Garbageman: I pick up garbage from cans, not from the street!”
Dick Miller - Garbageman
Bruce Dern - Mark Rumsfield

“If request music, must be willing to pay for fiddler.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“- Prof. John Thurston: Why didn't you warn us? Your carelessness is responsible for that boy's death!
- Charlie Chan: Most regretful. Impossible to prepare defense unless direction of attack is known.”
Frank Conroy - Prof. John Thurston
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

- McKittrick: "Defcon". That indicates our current defense condition. It should read "Defcon 5", which means peace. It's still on 4 because of that little stunt you pulled. Actually, if we hadn't caught it in time, it might have gone to Defcon 1. You know what that means, David?
- David Lightman: No. What does that mean?
- McKittrick: World War... (continue)(continue reading)
Dabney Coleman - McKittrick
Matthew Broderick - David

“I'm not being overly dramatic, Mr. Palmer, when I say the fate of the world is in your hands.”
Sir Michael Gambon - Alex

“- Emily: When I am not here... Andrea, you are chained to that desk!
- Andy Sachs: But what if I have to...
- Emily: What? No! Nothing! One time an assistant left the desk. Oh, because she sliced her hand open with a letter opener, and Miranda missed Lagerfeld just before he was about to board a 17 hour flight to Austrailia. She now works at TV...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emily Blunt - Emily
Anne Hathaway - Andy Sachs