Survival quotes

“I don't want to survive. I want to live.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup

“- Laura Klein: Why didn't you call and say you were alive?
- Max Klein: I thought I was dead.”
Isabella Rossellini - Laura Klein
Jeff Bridges - Max Klein

“We must become invisible, travel silently, for there are forces that would seek to destroy us.”
Jim Carrey - Horton

“- Sean: Who gave you the right to play God with her life?
- Nick: This all about survival of the fittest! You don't learn that and you are going to die... or worse...”
Kerr Smith - Sean
Brendan Fehr - Nick

“Hello, Jack. Thanks for saving our little girl.”

Joan Allen - Nancy

“I've been dropped into the Kalahari desert, carrying nothing more than a toothbrush and a pack of Sherbet Lemons, and I still found my way to Bulawayo before Ramadan.”
Rowan Atkinson - Johnny English

“- Willy Bank: This town might have changed, but not me. I know people highly invested in my survival, and they are people who really know how to hurt in ways you can't even imagine.
- Danny Ocean: Well, I know all the guys that you'd hire to come after me, and they like me better than you.”
Al Pacino - Willy Bank
George Clooney - Danny Ocean

“Hi, I'm Mark Watney and I'm still alive... obviously.”
Matt Damon - Mark Watnay

“The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel. It's a wonderful way to live. It's the only way to drive, as if each day is your last.”
Chris Hemsworth - James Hunt

“- James Donovan: What about my client, the other person in this equation? My guy.
- Allen Dulles: Your guy? You mean the Russian? He's not your guy anymore, Counselor. Your guy is Francis Gary Powers now.
- James Donovan: What do I tell Rudolf Abel?
- Allen Dulles: Tell him not to drop dead.”
Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan
Peter McRobbie - Allen Dulles

“You want me to get down on my knees and beg you to save the Baker boys from doom? Forget it, sweetheart. We survived for 15 years before you strutted onto the scene. Fifteen years.”

Jeff Bridges - Jack Baker

“- Vitruvius: Look at what you did when you believed you were special. You just need to believe it some more.
- Emmet: But how could I just decide to believe that I'm special when I'm not?
- Vitruvius: Because the world depends on it.”
Morgan Freeman - Vitruvius
Chris Pratt - Emmet

“Hate makes you impotent, Love makes you crazy. Somewhere in the middle you can survive.”
Billy Crystal - Larry

“Xenia, Ohio. A few years ago, a tornado hit this place. It killed the people, left and right. Dogs died. Cats died. Houses were split open, and you could see necklaces hanging from branches of trees. People's legs and neck bones were sticking out. Oliver found a leg on his roof. A lot of people's fathers died, and were killed by the great...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jacob Reynolds - Solomon

“If we want to save our skins, we've got to fight!”
Ralph David Richardson - Frank Lockwood

“Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!”
Melody Anderson - Dale Arden

“We came here from a dying world. We drift through the universe, from planet to planet, pushed on by the solar winds. We adapt and we survive. The function of life is survival.”
Leonard Nimoy - Dr. David Kibner

“I'm immune to 179 different types of poison. I know because I ingested them all at once when I was deep undercover in an underground poison-ingesting crime ring.”
Jason Statham - Rick Ford

“- Ben: That's Scout Leader Rogers!
- Carter: He looks like shit!
- Augie: I set him on fire.
- [everyone looks at him]
- Augie: He tried to eat me!”

Tye Sheridan - Ben Goudy
Logan Miller - Carter Grant
Joey Morgan - Augie Foster

“I had the best Assistant Driver in the entire Ninth Army in that seat. I promised my crew a long time ago I'd keep them alive. You're getting in the way of that.”
Brad Pitt - Wardaddy

“- Edwin: We're on an alien hunting planet. You really think the solution is to walk more?
- Royce: It wants us to run. That's how it hunts. This is its jungle. Its game. Its rules. We run, we die.
- Isabelle: What's the alternative?
- Royce: We need to know what we're dealing with. Dog tracks go that way. We go after it.”
Christopher Grace - Edwin
Adrien Brody - Royce
Alice Braga - Isabelle

“You're acting like a pack of rabid dogs. And that, gentlemen, simply will not do. Not if you expect to defeat the vampires on their own ground. Not if you expect to survive at war.”
Michael Sheen - Lucian

“What do we do for our dream to survive? How do we keep all our passions alive as we used to do? Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say.”

Madonna - Eva Perón

“I am not going to drink. And I am not going to smoke. I'm going to write and I'm going to meditate and I'm going to eat healthy and I'm going to swim and I'm going to work out and I'm going to write about all those feelings that are welled up inside me.”
Christopher Abbott - James White

“- Aladar: We're not meant to survive.
- Baylene: Oh, yes we were! We're here, aren't we?”

D.B. Sweeney - Aladar
Joan Plowright - Baylene