“- Gareth Peirce: It's not the stairs that are killing your father.
- Gerry Conlon: Aye, what is it then?
- Gareth Peirce: It's your lack of faith.”
Emma Thompson - Gareth Peirce
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.”

John Marwood Cleese - Brian Stimpson

“You wish to know what I am? To you, I am this: the cry of the abandoned child. The whimper of the whipped beast. I am the face that stares back at you from the shadows of your mirror. The hollowness at the heart of all your hopes, Alexandra. I am despair.”
Andrew Divoff - The Djinn

“I guess if marriage is the death of hope; then, the night before marriage, there's still hope.”
Tony Roberts - Maxwell

“We came to Redbud filled with hopes and dreams of a better life. And basically, we've seen those hopes and dreams crushed and battered before our very eyes.”
Chevy Chase - Andy Farmer