The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - 19 quotes

Captain Hadley: That's it. Step aside, Mert, this fucker is having himself an accident!

Andy Dufresne: I understand you're a man who knows how to get things.

Andy Dufresne: I have no enemies here.

Red: Yeah? Wait a while. Word gets around. The Sisters have taken quite a likin' to you. Especially Boggs.

Andy Dufresne: I don't suppose it would help if I told them that I'm not homosexual.

Red: Neither are they. You have to be human first. They don't qualify.

Heywood: The Count of Monte Crisco...

Floyd: That's "Cristo" you dumb shit.

Heywood: ...by Alexandree Dumb-ass. Dumb-ass.

Andy Dufresne: Dumb-ass? "Dumas". You know what it's about? You'll like it, it's about a prison break.

Red: We oughta file that under "Educational" too, oughten we?

Tommy Williams: So I'm backing out the door, right, and I got the TV, like this; it was a big old thing, I couldn't see shit; suddenly I hear this voice, "Police, kid, hands in the air." You know, I was standing there, holdin' on to that TV, so finally the voice says, "You hear what I said, boy?" And I say, "Yes sir, I sure did, but if I drop this fucking thing you got me on destruction of property too."

Andy Dufresne: She was beautiful. God I loved her. I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger, but I drove her away. And that's why she died, because of me.

Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Captain Hadley: What the Christ is this happy horseshit?

Prisoner: Hey, he took the Lord's name in vain! I'm tellin' the warden!

Captain Hadley: You'll be tellin' the warden about my baton up your ass!

Fat Ass: I don't belong here! I want to go home! I want my mother!

Another Prisoner: I had your mother, she wasn't that great!

Red: Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.

Tommy Williams: I don't read so good.

Andy Dufresne: Well. You don't read so *well*. Uh, we'll get to that.

Red: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

Captain Hadley: What is your malfunction, you fat barrel of monkey spunk?

District Attorney: And that also is very convenient, isn't it, Mr. Dufresne?

Andy Dufresne: Since I am innocent of this crime, sir, I find it decidedly *inconvenient* that the gun was never found.

Red: I must admit I didn't think much of Andy first time I laid eyes on him; looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over. That was my first impression of the man.

Warden Samuel Norton: I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

Red: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.

Andy Dufresne: You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?

Red: No.

Andy Dufresne: They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

Andy: The funny thing is, when I was on the outside, I was an honest man...straight as an arrow...I had to come to prison to learn how to be a crook.