Responsibility quotes

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Katharine Hepburn

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
Carol Burnett

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey

“We are seeing a globalization of indifference. There is a culture of conflict, which makes us think only of ourselves. Makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are also insubstantial. We've become used to the suffering of others. It doesn't affect me. No one in our world feels responsible. Who is responsible for the blood of our...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“You need to stop carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.”

Marisa Tomei - May Parker

“People do bad things; if you're lucky, you get a chance to set it right, but most of the time it goes unpunished. This ain't one of them times.”
Denzel Washington - Robert McCall

“- Ben Bradlee: We have to be the check on their power. If we don't hold them accountable, then, my God, who will?
- Kay Graham: Well, I've never smoked a cigar. And I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jack or Bob or any of them accountable. We can't hold them accountable if we don't have a newspaper.”
Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“- David Drumlin: I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
- Ellie Arroway: Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.”
Tom Skerritt - David Drumlin
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“Film is too vast a medium for self-indulgence. It's a dangerous tool and you must be responsible when you use it.”
Fritz Lang

“We make our own choices, we pay our own prices.”
Jennifer Tilly - Violet

“I forgot that I was hired to do a job for you and that it was just a temp job at that. I forgot that I had two hundred and fifty million people who were paying me to make their lives a little better and I didn't live up to my part of the bargain.”
Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

Every piece of this is man's bullshit. They call this war "a cloud over the land" but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say "Shit, it's raining!".
Renee Zellweger - Ruby Thewes

“- Matt Weston: I'm responsible for you.
- Tobin Frost: You're responsible for yourself.”

Ryan Reynolds - Matt Weston
Denzel Washington - Tobin Frost

“Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children.”
Laurence Fishburne - Furious Styles

“Wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them?”
Kevin Costner - The Postman

“There's no play here. There's no angle. There's no champagne room. I'm not a miracle worker, I'm a janitor.”

George Clooney - Michael Clayton

“You will say that I should have known terrible things were about to happen. You will say that I was responsible. But even so, what could I have done by then? Wade lived on the edge of his emotions. He was always first to receive the brunt of our father's anger. He had no perspective to retreat to, even in a crisis.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse

“- Bert: Let's sit down. You know, begging your pardon, but the one my heart goes out to is your father. There he is, in that cold heartless bank day after day, hammed in by mounds of cold heartless money. I don't like to see any living thing caged up.
- Jane: Father in a cage?
- Bert: They makes cages of all sizes and shapes, you know....” (continue)(continue reading)
Dick Van Dyke - Bert
Karen Dotrice - Jane Banks

“Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

“I'm the President and, as they say, the buck stops here. So I take full responsibility for each one of my illegalactions. But that's not the whole story. I think the American people are entitled to the real truth. I have here evidence in the form of notes, letters, and written memoranda, proving that Bob Alexander was involved in each of these...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

There's an old saying: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost.
For want of a horseshoe, the steed was lost. For want of a steed, the message was not delivered.
For want of an undelivered message, the war was lost".
Shin'ichi Chiba - Kamata

“You feel a huge sense of responsibility when you're playing a real person.”
Jeremy Strong

“You just have to decide what kind of a man you want to grow up to be, Clark; because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's... he's gonna change the world.”
Kevin Costner - Jonathan Kent

“Sooner or later, the time comes when we all must become responsible adults, and learn to give up what we want, so we can choose to do what is right. Of course, a lifetime of responsibility isn’t always easy, and as the years go on, it’s a burden that can become too heavy for some to bear. But still we try to do what is best, what is good; not...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brenda Strong - Mary Alice Young