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.
Doctor Newman: I'm actually a pediatric doctor by training, so any bad news I have to give usually involves a lollipop. Would you like one? It's grape.
The I Inside | Stephen Rea | Screenplay: Michael Cooney and Timothy Scott Bogart
Joyce: A love-hate relationship can last a very long time.
Black Rain | Kate Capshaw | Screenplay: Craig Bolotin, Warren Lewis
Ethan Wate: Being human is feeling bad, it's feeling pissed off, it's feeling scared, it's you not being able to do anything about it until you don't feel that way anymore till you can just see your way out of it. And I yelled at you because I care about you, that's what normal people do who love each other!
Beautiful Creatures | Alden Ehrenreich | Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese
Adrian: Einstein flunked out of school, twice. Beethoven was deaf. Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky's got a good chance.
Rocky | Talia Shire | Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone
Liberace: I want to be everything to you, Scott. I want to be father, brother, lover, best friend.
Behind the Candelabra | Michael Douglas | Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese
Myrlie Evers : When you hate, the only one that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
Ghosts of Mississipi | Whoopi Goldberg | Screenplay: Lewis Colick
One Stab: Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.
Legends of the Fall | Gordon Tootoosis | Screenplay: Susan Shilliday and William D. Wittliff
Peter Parker: Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man.
Spiderman | Tobey Maguire | Screenplay: David Koepp
Older Norman: My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.
A River Runs Through It | Arnold Richardson | Screenplay: Richard Friedenberg
Hans: Is Alena a friend of yours? She's a friend of mine. Any friend of Alena's is a friend of mine. Do you want to be my friend?
My Own Private Idaho | Udo Kier | Screenplay: Gus Van Sant
Ripley: Don't you put the past in a room, in the cellar, and lock the door and just never go in there? Because that's what I do.
The Talented Mr Ripley | Matt Damon | Screenplay: Anthony Minghella
Alvy: I remember the staff at our public school. You know, we had a saying, uh, that - Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, teach gym. And ...uh, h'h, of course, those who couldn't do anything, I think, were assigned to our school.
Annie Hall | Woody Allen | Screenplay: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Erin Brockovich: Are you going to be something else I have to survive? Cause I'll tell you the truth, I'm not up to it.
Erin-brockovich | Julia Roberts | Screenplay: Susannah Grant
Hanna Schmitz: You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.
The Reader | Kate Winslet | Screenplay: David Hare
Bagger Vance: Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing... Somethin' we was born with... Somethin' that's ours and ours alone... Somethin' that can't be taught to ya or learned... Somethin' that got to be remembered...
The Legend of Bagger Vance | Will Smith | Screenplay: Jeremy Leven
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* The Departed, screenplay written by William Monahan
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