Past quotes

“- Bruce Wayne: Should I just bury the past out there with my parents, Alfred?
- Alfred: I wouldn't presume to tell you what to do with your past, sir. Just know that there are those of us who care about what you do with your future.”
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne
Sir Michael Caine - Alfred

“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
Mary Pickford

“On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence.”

Stan Jones - Narrator

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

Joe Mantegna - David Rossi

“Never look backwards, only forward. It don’t do any good digging through mud. All you get is dirty. Best wash yourself clean and move on.”
Brianne Howey - Georgia Miller

“We struggle so hard to hold on to these things that we know are gonna disappear eventually. And that’s really noble.”
Alyson Hannigan - Lily Aldrin

“I've lived in a world of death. I've watched people I've loved die. Some fast with a bullet, some not enough left to bury. All these years I've kept my secrets, but the time has come to face my past. And if they come looking for me, they will welcome death.”
Sylvester Stallone - Rambo

“Every drink of liquor you take kills a thousand brain cells. Now that doesn't much matter 'cause we got billions more. And first the sadness cells die so you smile real big. And then the quiet cells go so you just say everything real loud for no reason at all. That’s ok, that's ok because the stupid cells go next, so everything you say is real...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Damon - Rannulph Junuh

“- Felicity Shagwell: I want to see what happens in the 70s and 80s.
- Austin: The 70s and the 80s? You're not missing anything, believe me. I've looked into it. There's a gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls. That's about it.”
Heather Graham - Felicity Shagwell
Mike Myers - Austin Powers

“- Leonard Dekkom: Tomorrow, the sun will rise, all our enemies will be gone. Wiped away as if by the Hand of God.
- President Andrew Palma: Why would you do this?
- Leonard Dekkom: Because no-one else would. I'm turning the clock back to 1945, when America was a shining city on a hill, not just a bank disguised as a country.
- President Andrew...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - Leonard Dekkom
Andy Garcia - President Andrew Palma

“- Callum Lynch: What do you want from me?
- Sophia Rikkin: Your past.”
Michael Fassbender - Callum Lynch
Marion Cotillard - Sophia Rikkin

“I was a big slut, but I'm not anymore. There will always be a part of me that is sloppy and dirty, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.”

Jennifer Lawrence - Tiffany

“There is no future until we settle our past.”
Kristin Lehman - Shirah

“Those were not welcome days. We buried sons, brothers, mothers, fathers, fiancés. Clocks ticked, but time did not pass. The sun rose and the sun set, but the shadows remained. When once there was sound, now there was silence. What once was whole, now was shattered.”
Kate Mara - Annie Cantrell

“- Katie: Wouldn't it be lovely if we were old? We'd have survived all this. And everything would be easy and uncomplicated, the way it was when we were young.
- Hubbell: Katie, it was never uncomplicated.”
Barbra Streisand - Katie
Robert Redford - Hubbell

“They are my past. Everyone is haunted by their past.”

Russell Crowe - John Nash

“There is no future. There is no past. I live this moment as my last!”
Rosario Dawson - Mimi Marquez

“The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that's life.”
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“If a man does not embrace his past, he has no future.”
Oded Fehr - Ardeth Bay

“Careful, Chief. Dig up the past, all you get is dirty.”

Tim Blake Nelson - Gideon

“You think too much about the time you have left. You don't spend it living.”

Gena Rowlands - Violet Devereaux

“- Nick Mercer: Forget the past. Forget the pain. And remember what an incredible woman you are. You do that and he'll realize what he lost.
- Kat Ellis: Holy crap. You're worth every penny.”
Dermot Mulroney - Nick Mercer
Debra Messing - Kat Ellis

“- Sally Carrera: Back then, cars came across the country a whole different way.
- Lightning McQueen: How do you mean?
- Sally Carrera: The road didn't cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn't drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time.”

Bonnie Hunt - Sally Carrera
Owen Wilson - Lightning McQueen

“When some things happen, it can leave other traces behind. Not things anyone can notice, but things that only people with shine can see. Just like they can see things that haven't happened yet, sometimes they can see things that happened a long time ago. I think a lot of things happened in this particular hotel over the years... and not all of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Scatman Crothers - Hallorann

“- McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now.
- Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lloyd Bridges - McCroskey
Stephen Stucker - Jacobs