The Best Movie Quotes of 2023 So Far…

Time. It’s not what you think it is. It’s a cage. And it does everything it can to break you. It’s not until you free yourself from it that you see just how small it always was.Kang the Conqueror, (to Janet), Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

There’s a term for being beaten in four moves. Fool’s mate.Orson Fortune, (to Nathan), Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

Let go of whatever was, and walk into what is.Tony 'Little Duke' Evers, (to Donnie), Creed III

In the right circumstances, the fear of shame, the fear of being called out, the fear of being caught is way more powerful than the fear of death.John Luther, Luther: The Fallen Sun

I used to think that I couldn’t do anything right, that I didn’t deserve my powers, but there’s something that I can do. I can save all of you.Shazam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Cats die. Music fades. But art is for keeps.Nemo, Inside

Friendship means little when it’s convenient.Koji Shimazu, John Wick: Chapter 4

We must never stop failing, because the minute we do, we’ve failed.Edgin Darvis, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

In an insane world, it is the sane who is called crazy.Lumalee, The Super Mario Bros. Movie

A shoe is always just a shoe until someone steps into it.Rob Strasser, Air (2023)

You kill 100 fathers, you give 300 sons a reason to defy you.Uhtred, (to Aethelstan), The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die

There is a hook in me. One that you cannot see. But it is there.John Kinley, The Covenant

Do you know what really hurts about getting old? It’s not the creaking bones or the dashed dreams or even the sense of death drawing ever the nearer. It’s knowing your best friend can stare you in the eyes and not recognize you.Captain Hook, (to Peter), Peter Pan & Wendy

Someday, I’m gonna make great machines that fly. And me and my friends are gonna go flying together into the forever and beautiful sky.Rocket, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Life is unpredictable, and it’s the surprises that make it worth living.Vivian, Book Club: The Next Chapter

Pass it down. Each generation better than the last.Dominic Toretto, (to Han), Fast X

Don’t be held back by what you think should be; think only of what is.Grimsby, The Little Mermaid (2023)

Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah, I’ma do my own thing.Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Embrace the light while it burns because it won’t always last forever.Ember Lumen, (to Wade), Elemental

These scars we have make us who we are. We’re not meant to go back and fix them.Bruce Wayne, The Flash

In my loneliness, or perhaps because of it, I’ve learned not to judge people, to take people as I find them, not as others find them, and most of all, to give complete and unquestioning faith to the people I love.Stanley Zak, Asteroid City

You can’t go your whole life scared of everything.Maddie Barker, (to Percy), No Hard Feelings

It’s not so much what you believe, it’s how hard you believe it.Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

You can sell a bag of cocaine one time. But a child, the most precious child, you can sell a five-year-old kid 5 to 10 times a day for 10 years straight.Tim Ballard, Sound of Freedom

We live and die in the shadows, for those we hold close, and for those we’ve never met.Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Amateurs seek the sun and get eaten. Power stays in the shadows.Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer

I want to be a part of the people that make meaning, not the thing that’s made.Barbie, Barbie

You wanna know how great men get power? It’s not because they earn it, or because they deserve it. It is because when the moment comes, they take it.Parker, (to Keya), Heart of Stone