Choice quotes

“You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there. ”
Brandon Lee

“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”
Mae West - The Frisco Doll

“You can either choose to leavehere and not graduate, or you can stay and put up with me. It may not be a choice that you like, but you do have a choice.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Louanne Johnson

“- Waitress: You want strawberry pie or apple pie?
- Radio: I wan' both!”
Rebecca Koon - Waitress
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Radio

“You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.”
Kumail Nanjiani

“Our job was to select someone to speak for everybody. And I just couldn't in good conscience vote for a person who doesn't believe in God. Someone who honestly thinks the other ninety five percent of us suffer from some form of mass delusion.”
Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss

“There are two places you can be in this world. You can be out here, like us [gesturing toward the farmhands], or you can be in there, like them [gesturing toward the sheep]. You waste time hemming and hawing and someone else is gonna make that choice for you. Except you won't know it, until you feel that bolt between your eyes.”
Steven Williams - Leroy Hanlon

“God doesn't ask if we accept this life. There is no choice. Life is forced upon you. The only choice is how we live it. Or not. That's a choice as well.”
Emily Browning - Frances Shea

“At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.”
Mahershala Ali - Juan

“You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.”
David Spade

- Lloyd Dobler: I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the "Gas 'n' Sip" on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?
- Joe: By choice, man.
John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler
Loren Dean - Joe

“I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me. ”
Zsa Zsa Gabor

“From the moment I fell down that rabbit hole I've been told where I must go and who I must be. I've been shrunk, stretched, scratched, and stuffed into a teapot. I've been accused of being Alice and of not being Alice but this is my dream. I'll decide where it goes from here.”
Mia Wasikowska - Alice in Wondeland

“What may have been badchoices have all led me to this moment.”
Minnie Driver

“You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.”
Danny Glover

“- Amber Atkins: My mom never hid the fact that my dad chose his career over us. What was it she always said?
- Loretta: Once a carnie, always a carnie.
- Amber Atkins: Mom still cries every time she sees a tilt-a-whirl or a fat lady in a tube top.”
Kirsten Dunst - Amber Atkins
Allison Janney - Loretta

“- Dancer Backstage 1: Fuck him! He never picks me!
- Dancer Backstage 2: Honey, I did fuck him and he never picks me either.”

“Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels

“- Rodrigo Mendoza: For me, there is no redemption.
- Father Gabriel: God gave us the burden of freedom. You chose your crime. Do you have the courage to choose your penance?”
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“- Sonny: There's only three things you can do in the joint, kid: lift weights, play cards, or get in trouble.
- Calogero (Age 9): What did you do?
- Sonny: Me, I read.”
Chazz Palminteri - Sonny
Francis Capra - Calogero (Age 9)

“It's not how many you shoot. It's who you shoot.”
Eddie Murphy - Quick

“East High is a place where teachers encouraged us to break the status quo and define ourselves as we choose. Where a jock can cook up a mean crème brulee, and a brainiac can break it down on the dance floor. It's a place where one person, if it's the right person, changes us all. East High is having friends we'll keep for the rest of our lives,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
Rupert Evans - John Myers

“- Mr. Pink: Why am I Mr. Pink?
- Joe Cabot: Because you're a faggot, alright?
- Mr. Pink: Why can't we pick our own colors?
- Joe Cabot: No way, no way. Tried it once, it doesn't work. You get four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Mr. Pink. Be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Buscemi - Mr. Pink
Lawrence Tierney - Joe Cabot