Perfection is not just about control. It’s also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence!

Thomas Leroy, Black Swan (2010)

The truth, Helen, is always the right answer

Amon Goeth - Schindler’s List (1993)

Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

Philippe Petit - Man on Wire (2008)

For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.

Richard, The Beach (2000)

At the temple, there is a poem called “Loss” carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read Loss, only feel it

Sayuri, Memoirs of Geisha (2005)

Ultimately, we’re all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how but, what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men.

Proximo, Gladiator 2000

A story like mine should never be told. For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile. Without its mysteries it cannot survive. I certainly wasn’t born to the life of a geisha. Like so much in my strange life, I was carried there by the current.

Sayuri Nitta, Memoirs of Geisha

Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I’m not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain’s going to be? He’s the exact opposite of the hero.And most times they’re friends, like you and me!

Elijah Price, Unbreakable 2000

Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you’re gonna be?
Who I’m gonna be?
Yeah.
Aren’t-aren’t I going to be me?

Forrest Gump 1994