The Academy Awards are renowned for great acceptance speeches, but actors couldn’t thank the academy without reading great lines from films first.
’12 Years a Slave’
“I don’t want to survive. I want to live.”
— Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor)
“I will not fall into despair ’til freedom is opportune!”
— Solomon Northup
‘American Hustle’
“Did you ever have to find a way to survive and you knew your choices were bad, but you had to survive?
— Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale)
“When you are offered a favor or money, take the favor, not the money. Jesus said that, didn’t he?”
— Irving Rosenfeld
‘Captain Phillips’
“I am the captain now!”
— Muse (Barkhad Abdi)
Phillips: “There’s got to be something other than being a fisherman or kidnapping people.”
Muse: “Maybe in America.”
— Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) speaking with Muse
‘Dallas Buyers Club’
“I’m the drug dealer? No, you’re the (expletive) drug dealer. I mean, (expletive), people are dying, and y’all are up there afraid that we’re gonna find an alternative without you.”
—- Ron Woodroof (Mathew McConaughey)
“Let me give y’all a little news flash. There ain’t nothin’ out there that can kill (expletive) Ron Woodroof in 30 days.”
— Ron Woodroof
‘Her’
“I’m different from you. That doesn’t make me love you any less. It actually makes me love you even more.”
— Samantha (Scarlett Johansson)
“Sometimes I think I have felt everything I’m ever gonna feel, and from here on out I’m not gonna feel anything now. Just lesser versions of what I’ve already felt.”
— Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix)
‘Nebraska’
“Have a drink with your old man. Be somebody!”
— Woody Grant (Bruce Dern)
Will: “So, you told the sheriff that you were walking to Nebraska?”
Woody: “That’s right. To get my million dollars.”
— David Grant (Will Forte) talking with father Woody.
‘Philomena’
“I’d like to know if Anthony ever thought of me.”
— Philomena (Judi Dench)
“I did not abandon my child. He was taken away from me.”
— Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
“My Name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off, because it was three shy of a million a week.”
— Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio)
“Sell me this pen!”
— Jordan Belfort