- Great Movie Character Quotes - Part 2

Great Movie Character Quotes




So many screenplays, so many character quotes. Inspirational, funny, dramatic. Always unique.

Many of them contributed to make their characters memorable and avoid one of the Top 7 Deadly Flaws of a Bad Screenplay: uninteresting characters.

If you're committed to get your screenplay read, not tossed, study these film quotes and their skillful use of dialogue techniques.
And check this page regularly as we keep updating it with our daily character quotes.

             Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Peter Parker - The Amazing Spider-Man

Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Lambeau - Good Will Hunting

take aim before you fire

Lambeau: It's not how hard you look at things, young man, it's the way you look at them. If you take aim before you fire, you will find the most difficult problems become, quite literally, child's play.


Good Will Hunting | Stellan Skarsgård | Screenplay: Matt Damon & Ben Affleck


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Maximus - Gladiator

Eternity

Maximus: What we do in life echoes in eternity.




Gladiator | Russel Crowe | Screenplay: David Franzoni, John Logan


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Erica - Something's Gotta Give

I'm so glad

Erica: I'm so glad they still work. I haven't used them for kissing in such a long time, more like for wearing lipstick and whistling.



Something's Gotta Give | Diane Keaton | Screenplay: Nancy Meyers


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Rhodes - bridesmaid

We're just like priests

Rhodes: Do you want to tell a cop about it? We're just like priests except we would tell everybody afterwards.



Bridesmaid | Chris O'Dowd | Screenplay: Annie Mumolo


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Han Solo - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

let's get one thing straight!

Han Solo: Look, Your Worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight!
I take orders from one person! Me!



Star Wars: A New Hope | Harrison Ford | Screenplay: George Lucas


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - William Wallace - Braveheart

Every man dies

William Wallace: Every man dies but not every man really lives.




Braveheart | Mel Gibson | Screenplay: Randall Wallace


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Mohandas Gandhi - Gandhi

An eye for an eye

Mohandas Gandhi: An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.



Gandhi | Ben Kingsley | Screenplay: John Briley


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Donnelly - Sudden Impact

a nasty habit

Donnelly: People have a nasty habit of getting dead around you.




Sudden Impact | Michael Currie | Screenplay: Joseph Stinson


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Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Earle - Batman Begins

I am firing you

Earle: I'm merging your department with Archives, and I am firing you. Didn't you get the memo?



Batman Begins | Rutger Hauer | Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Elliot - True Romance

Club Scouts

Elliot: Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Club Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree.


True Romance | Bronson Pinchot | Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Keating - Dead Poets Society

change the world

Keating: Now in my class you will learn to think for yourselves again. You will learn to savor words and language. No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.


Dead Poets Society | Robin Williams | Screenplay: Tom Schulman


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Major Henry Terrill - The Big Country

Dedicated

Major Henry Terrill: If there's anything I admire more than a dedicated friend, it is a dedicated enemy.



The Big Country | Charles Bickford | James Webb & Sy Bartlett, Robert Wilder


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Conklin - The Bourne Identity

body bag

Conklin: I want Bourne in a body-bag by sun-down.




The Bourne Identity | Chris Cooper | Tony Gilroy and W. Blake Herron


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Craig Schwartz - Being John Malkovich

inside John Malkovich

Craig Schwartz: There's a tiny door in my office, Maxine. It's a portal and it takes you inside John Malkovich. You see the world through John Malkovich's eyes... and then after about 15 minutes, you're spit out... into a ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike.
Being John Malkovich | John Cusack | Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman


Whatascript! compilation of movie character quotes - Peter Parker - The Amazing Spider-Man

Secrets

Peter Parker: We all have secrets: the ones we keep... and the ones that are kept from us.


The Amazing Spider-Man | Andrew Garfield | Screenplay: James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves






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