Best drama movie quotes of 2016

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Passengers picture

Aurora: You can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be, that you forget to make the most of where you are.

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The Siege of Jadotville picture

General McEntee: Carry out your orders, commandant. Hold your ground. Defend Jadotville.
Pat Quinlan: With what? A firm tone?

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I, Daniel Blake picture

Daniel: It's a monumental farce, isn't it? You sitting there with your friendly name tag on your chest, Ann, opposite a sick man looking for nonexistent jobs, that I can't take anyway. Wasting my time, employers' time, your time. And all it does is humiliate me, grind me down. Or is that the point, to get my name off those computers? Well, I'm not doing it any more. I've had enough. I want my date for my appointment for my appeal for Employment and Support.

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Alton Meyer: Dad?
Roy: Yeah?
Alton Meyer: Are you scared?
Roy: Yes.
Alton Meyer: You don't have to worry about me.
Roy: I like worrying about you.
Alton Meyer: You don't have to anymore.
Roy: I'll always worry about you Alton. That's the deal.

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Me Before You picture

Lou Clark: I don't do much, okay. I go to work and I go to home and that's it.
Will Traynor: Wow, your life is even duller than mine.

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Lion picture

Saroo Brierley: My mum could not read... Or write
Dinner Guests: What did she do?
Saroo Brierley: A laborer... She carried rocks.

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10 Cloverfield Lane picture

Howard: Crazy is building your ark after the flood has already come.

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Silence picture

Father Valignano: An army of two.

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Swiss Army Man picture

Manny: So now when you masturbate you think about your mom?

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The Handmaiden picture

Lady Hideko: You can even curse at me or steal things from me. But please don't lie to me. Understand?

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A Cure for Wellness picture

Volmer: Do you know what the cure for the human condition is? Disease. Because that's the only way one could hope for a cure.

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Newton Knight: It ain't just for us. Black, white, rich, poor, it's for everybody.

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The Exception picture

Kaiser Wilhelm II: I'm ashamed to say that before and after my first marriage I, myself, fathered at least two illegitimate children: one with an Austrian countess, another with a French prostitute who was known in court circles as Madame L'Amour. Both of them, incidentally, blackmailed me for huge sums of money, the Countess and the prostitute. I expected better of the prostitute.

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War Dogs picture

News Anchor: Now to the question that has no clear answer. How did two twenty-something young men land a three-hundred-million-dollar Pentagon contract?

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Café Society picture

Bobby: Life is a comedy written by a sadistic comedy writer.

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The Finest Hours picture

Richard Livesey: Maybe we take these guys in and come back out.
Bernie Webber: We can't live 'em out here alone. That boat won't last. We all live, or we all die.

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La La Land picture

Sebastian: I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope.

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Collateral Beauty picture

Claire: What was that thing you said about Einstein in there?
Raffi: Einstein called time a stubbornly persistant illusion.
Claire: Whats that even mean.
Raffi: Time doesn't go from January to December, or from noon to midnight. You know we all just make it that way in our heads.
Claire: That's absurd! Try telling that to a person who's an hour late to a wedding, or that's just been sentenced to 20 years in jail.
Raffi: Or someone fighting the baby clock.

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Edward Sheffield: When you love someone you have to be careful with it, you might never get it again.

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