The Departed
“Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don’t know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you.” – Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello
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True Grit (2010)
“People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood. But it did happen. I was just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down and robbed him of his life.” – Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross
The Best Years of Our Lives
“You know, I had a dream. I dreamt I was home. I’ve had that same dream hundreds of times before. This time, I wanted to find out if it’s really true. Am I really home?” – Frederic March as Al Stephenson
Midnight Cowboy
“Uh, well, sir, I ain’t a f’real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud!” – Jon Voight as Joe Buck
Ordinary People
Ordinary People (1980) Directed by Robert Redford Starring: Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch Conrad Jarrett (Hutton)
Marty
“All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don’t get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.” – Ernest Borgnine as Marty
A Room with a View
“I have no profession. My attitude – quite an indefensible one – is that as long as I am no trouble to anyone, I have the right to do as I like. It is, I dare say, an example of my decadence.” – Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse
Did You See That One? 