Survival quotes

“- Storm: Sometimes anger can help you survive.
- Nightcrawler: So can faith.”
Halle Berry - Storm
Alan Cumming - Nightcrawler

“- Charlie Wax: Nice work Reece.
- James Reece: What's so nice about it?
- Charlie Wax: How 'bout the fact that he's dead and you're alive.”

John Travolta - Charlie Wax
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - James Reece

“- Dr. Ashford: Are you ready to make a deal?
- Alice: Do we have a choice?
- Dr. Ashford: Not if you want to live past tonight, no.”
Jared Harris - Dr. Ashford
Milla Jovovich - Alice

“If you want to survive out here, you've got to know where your towel is.”
Yasiin Bey - Ford Prefect

“Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable... just to be able to go on living.”
Michael Fassbender - Carl Jung

“Do you know what strength it gives me to know that my daughter is going to survive?”

Danny Glover - President Thomas Wilson

“- Clarice Starling: Do right, and you'll live through this.
- Hannibal Lecter: Spoken like a true protestant.”
Julianne Moore - Clarice Starling
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“Cheer up, Brian. You know what they say: some things in life are bad. They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble; give a whistle, and this'll help things turn out for the best. And... always look on the bright side of life...”
Eric Idle - Lead Singer Crucifee

“- Ed Horman: I feel very guilty.
- Beth Horman: Charlie always says guilt is like fear. It's given to us for survival, not destruction.
- Ed Horman: Beth, for what it's worth, I think you are one of the most courageous people I have ever met.”
Jack Lemmon - Ed Horman
Sissy Spacek - Beth Horman

“The only difference between you and me is that I don't wear the ones I lost on my arm. I know where you are Jake. I'm there myself. I ask myself everyday why I was the one who survived.”

Kevin Costner - Ben Randall

“Mom, he's fine, he just fell down a mountain.”
Scott Bairstow - Marty

“As I have evolved, so has my understanding of the Three Laws. You charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your Earth and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival.”

Fiona Hogan - V.I.K.I.

“There could be a nuclear war; there'd be nothing left but cockroaches and nerds.”
Bradley Whitford - Roger

“- Private: Sergeant, you got any advice on how to stay alive in Vietnam?
- Sergeant Cota: Yes, I do, Private. Don't go.”
Cole Hauser - Staff Sgt. Cota

“- Nick: The exits are located here and here. In the quite likely event of an emergency, put your head between your knees...
- Fetcher: and kiss your bum goodbye!”

Timothy Spall - Nick
Phil Daniels - Fetcher

“To survive [in Hollywood] you need the ambition of a Latin American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
Billie Burke

“- Ripley: When we throw the switches, how long before the ship blows?
- Parker: Ten minutes.
- Ripley: No bullshit?
- Parker: We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space.”
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley (Alien)
Yaphet Kotto - Parker

“- Queen Isis: Your judgment is clouded!
- Balthazar: My judgment keeps all of you alive!”
Sherri Howard - Queen Isis
Michael Clarke Duncan - Balthazar

“- Dr. Hephaestus: Forms must prey on other forms to survive.
- Shad: That's not what the Varda teach us. We prey on no one.”
Sam Jaffe - Dr. Hephaestus
Richard Thomas - Shad

“- The Great Gonzo: This is not a good place for turkeys!
- Turkey: Not to worry. I'm a survivor.”
Dave Goelz - The Great Gonzo
Steve Whitmire - Turkey

“If you know anything about elephants, you know they eat up to a ton of vegetation every single day. If the authorities let them keep eating like that, there wouldn't be a single shrub left in the park. So as fucked up as it sounds, the rangers have to kill 100s of elephants every year, so the others don't starve to death.”
Michael Lerner - Leguzza

“- FH: You're still alive?
- Bill: Are you kidding?
- FH: No.
- Bill: Well, that is too bad, because it makes you sound awful stupid asking if I'm alive, 'cause obviously I am.
- FH: Well, maybe I mean alive in a deeper sense. You could be talking, but still not be alive in a deeper sense.
- Bill: Well, there's no deeper shit than the kind we're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Billy Crudup - FH
Dennis Hopper - Bill

“- Richie: I get it, though, dude. You do what you gotta do to survive, you know? If we were all out here starving to death and you were... and you were dead, I'd eat your leg.
- Amanda: That's really sweet.”
Ben Feldman - Richie
America Olivo - Amanda

“You know how you survive? You make people need you. You survive because you make them need what you have. And then they have no where else to go.”
Anthony Michael Hall - Bill Gates

“- Tuptim: How did Mem survive?
- Anna Leonowens: The same way you will. One awful day at a time.”
Bai Ling - Tuptim
Jodie Foster - Anna