Confession quotes

“Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Our whole church is in need of forgiveness. Where is our humility? Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“- Baroness Kessler: I saw him one day. I was fifteen years old, and I saw him as plain as I see you now. It was love at first sight.
- Dean Corso: You know, 300 years ago, you'd have been burned at the stake for saying something like that.
- Baroness Kessler: 300 years ago I wouldn't have said it!”

Barbara Jefford - Baroness Kessler
Johnny Depp - Dean Corso

“- Winston Smith: It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
- Julia: If you mean confessing, we're bound to do that. Everybody does. You can't help it.
- Winston Smith: I don't mean confessing. Confessing isn't betrayal. I mean feelings. If they can make me change my...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith
Suzanna Hamilton - Julia

“I've been in love with you since I was eleven, and the shit won't go away.”
Sanaa Lathan - Monica Wright

“With all my heart, I still love the man I killed.”

Bette Davis - Leslie Crosbie

“The Catholic Church should go to confession, not you!”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“Confession may be good for the soul, but for marriage, it’s a hot, lead enema.”
Holland Taylor - Evelyn Harper

“- Father Barre: If they are not driven out, your devils might, by their infernal arts, prevent the torture being as excruciating as it should be. Then you would never confess, and your soul would be damned for eternity. Are you ready to confess?
- Urbain Grandier: I have been a man. I have loved women. I have enjoyed power.
- Father Barre:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Gothard - Father Barre
Oliver Reed - Urbain Grandier

“- Father Pirrone: Is Your Excellency here for confession?
- Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: Confession? It's not Saturday.
- Father Pirrone: Listen to me. Come to confession.
- Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: There's no need. You know it all already.
- Father Pirrone: The power of confession lies not only in telling our sins, but in repentance.”
Romolo Valli - Father Pirrone
Burt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

“It's not too late to free yourself. Confession is a relief, I'm told, a great weight lifted. Regret is my constantcompanion. Do not let it become yours.”

Jude Law - Albus Dumbledore

“I want to confess... everything.”

Jesse Plemons - Floyd landis

“-Eli Sunday: We have a sinner with us here who wishes for salvation. Daniel, are you a sinner?
- Plainview: Yes. What do you want me to say?
- Eli Sunday: Oh, Daniel, you've come here and you've brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You've lusted after women, and you have abandoned your child - your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Dano - Eli Sunday
Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview

“Woman, I have killed fifteen men.”

Tobey Maguire - Jake Roedel

“- Eddie Mannix: Bless me, father, for I have sinned.
- Priest: How long since your last confession, son?
- Eddie Mannix: 27 hours.
- Priest: It's really too often. You're not that bad.”
Josh Brolin - Eddie Mannix
Robert Pike Daniel - Catholic Clergyman

“Cut the crap. I don't have all day. It's been 20 years since my last confession. I had a lot of things to do.”

Charles Durning - Jack Amsterdam

“I don't care what your past has been. To me, you'll always be my good woman. Because I love you.”

Groucho Marx - Otis B. Driftwood

“I didn't mean it when I compared you to our waitress. I was only trying to hurt you. I could've been meaner about your looks, and what I would've said would have made you cry.”

Billy Crudup - Henry

“Grandma says hi. She says she's sorry for taking the bumblebee pendant. She just likes it a lot.”

Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear

“- Victor Lyons: You slept with someone? Why didn't you tell me?
- Jennifer Lyons: I just did.
- Victor Lyons: Now you tell me? What good does it do me now?
- Jennifer Lyons: What good is it supposed to do you?”
Joseph Bologna - Victor Lyons
Michelle Johnson - Jennifer Lyons

“- Father Garcia: How long has it been since your last confession, my son?
- Abel Wood: 'Bout twenty years. I just have to get a few things off my chest... Lets see, first there was, uh, this girl in El Paso... her mother... and her grand-mother.”
Cesar Romero - Father Garcia
Tab Hunter - Abel Wood

“Okay, uh, before we can, uh... work effectively with one another, I think we should be comfortable. So, ten minutes, okay? Then - then work. Okay? Go. Okay, I'll start. Uh, I hate my mother. I hate my goddamn dead father more. Rudy was the only friend I ever had. I had a girlfriend once who I used to like to masturbate to more than have sex...” (continue)(continue reading)

Billy Crudup - Henry

You said "I Love You" while you were sleeping in the hotel bed, but I didn't told you that. Because I want to be the one to say it first.
Ashton Kutcher - Spencer

“I have a confession to make to you: you like me. In fact, you're crazy about me.”

Kay Francis - Madame Mariette Colet

“- Steve Arlo: He can elicit a confession from a criminal without their realizing they're being questioned.
- Gregory Stark: How does he do it?
- Steve Arlo: He has a deeply nuanced and thoroughly functional understanding of human behavior to rival the great psychoanalytical minds of our time. He understands the criminal mind as well as the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo
Ryan O'Neal - Gregory Stark

“- Cynthia Rose: I have a confession to make.
- Fat Amy: We all know where this is going. Lesbi-honest.
- Cynthia Rose: This is hard for me to admit to you guys, but for the past two years, I have had a serious gambling problem.
- Fat Amy: What?
- Cynthia Rose: It all started when I broke up with my girlfriend.
- Fat Amy: Whomp, there it is!”
Ester Dean - Cynthia Rose
Rebel Wilson - Fat Amy