The Best Movie Quotes of 2023

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

If you leave something behind, you gain something too.Nora's Mom, Past Lives

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

Things don’t last. La familia, that’s forever. That lasts.Alberto Reyes, (to Jaime), Blue Beetle

Sometimes a couple is kind of a chaos and everybody is lost. And sometimes we fight together, and sometimes we fight alone, and sometimes we fight against each other, that happens.Sandra Voyter, Anatomy of a Fall

Sometimes when I’m driving, I can be going so fast, and everything else is moving so slow, and it’s like the rest of the world just falls away. It’s just you and the car and that’s it. It’s kind of magic.Jann Mardenborough, (to Audrey), Gran Turismo

Scary stories make life less scary.Ariadne Oliver, A Haunting in Venice

Then we’re the same, we can’t go to heaven. Because you’re not good, and I’m not a person.Alphie, (Joshua Taylor: You gotta be a good person to go to heaven.), The Creator

Money’s dignity. Not having to beg for a break. Can’t tell you what it meant to finally be one of those people you can’t shame, shake down, or f*** over.Liza Drake, Pain Hustlers

There might be a public outcry for a while. But then you know what happens? People forget. They don’t remember. They don’t care. They just don’t care. It’s just going to be another everyday, common tragedy.William Hale, (to Ernest), Killers of the Flower Moon

I just want to say three things. One, never, ever give up. Two, you’re never too old to chase your dreams. And three, it looks like a solitary sport, but it takes a team.Diana Nyad, Nyad

Win or lose, we’ll do it together.Anne Yum, (to Jenny), Quiz Lady

We have to control our desires, otherwise they’ll control us.Elvis Presley, Priscilla

Sometimes being in love is lonelier than being alone.Anna, Fingernails

Stick to the plan. Anticipate, don’t improvise. Trust no one. Never yield an advantage. Fight only the battle you’re paid to fight. Forbid empathy. Empathy is weakness. Weakness is vulnerability. Each and every step of the way, ask yourself, “What’s in it for me?” This is what it takes. What you must commit yourself to. If you want to succeed. Simple.The Killer, (repeated line), The Killer

Confusion is but the first step on the journey to knowledge.Henry 'Hank' McCoy, The Marvels

Life is like a henhouse ladder. Shitty and short.Paul Hunham, The Holdovers

The pacifist is opposed to using violence, but must be prepared to receive it.Bayard Rustin, Rustin

A gun is just a tool. It’s a crude expression of what’s inside.Dad Dan, (to Ralphie), Manodrome

The whole world is an arena and we need the Hunger Games every year to remind us all who we truly are.Coriolanus Snow, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Your responsibility, ultimately, is to yourself.Elizabeth Berry, (to Joe), May December

I was a lesbian for a while, you know. But it was all just too wet for me in the end. Men are so lovely and dry.Elsbeth Catton, (to Oliver), Saltburn

The stars are there to guide us, to inspire us, to remind us to believe in possibility. Asha, Wish

That might be what is most difficult in life. Accepting the failures of others.Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon

If summer doesn’t sing in you, then nothing sings in you. And if nothing sings in you, then you can’t make music.Felicia Montealegre, Maestro

Do you really think I’m that cool? Do you think I could handle the emotional burden of having an affair?Paul Matthews, (to Janet), Dream Scenario

It’s hard to accept that your glory days are behind you, but would I trade what I have now for anything? No way. Being your dad has been the rock ‘n’ roll adventure of a lifetime.Bill Walker, (as Wyatt, to Wyatt), Family Switch

If only some people can have it, that’s not happiness. That’s just nonsense. Happiness is something anyone can have.Fushimi, Monster

We f*** each other over all the time, without even realizing it. We f*** every living thing on this planet over and think it’ll be fine because we use paper straws and order the free range chicken. And the sick thing is, I think deep down we know we’re not fooling anyone. I think we know we’re living a lie. An agreed upon mass delusion to help us ignore and keep ignoring how awful we really are.Amanda Sandford, Leave the World Behind

Money is its own form of sickness.Bella Baxter, Poor Things

Every good thing in this world started with a dream. So you hold on to yours.Willy's Mother, Wonka

Nothing brings the family together like a road trip.Dan Morgan, The Family Plan

Potential is what people see when they think what’s in front of them isn’t good enough.Sintara Golden, American Fiction

Kindness is a virtue worth dying for.Kora, (to Gunnar), Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire

Sometimes not giving up is the most heroic thing you can do.Tom Curry, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

In all life, when a thing works better, usually it is more beautiful to the eye.Enzo Ferrari, Ferrari

I’ve built a lot of good boats, but the best ones, the boats where every part fits exactly as it should, where every man trusts the one behind him, they are the boats people remember forever.George Pocock, The Boys in the Boat