Great Expectations (1998 film) Quotes
1998 films, 1990s American films, Drama films, Films based on novels, Films based on works by Charles Dickens, Films directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Films set in Florida
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“Ethan Hawke – Finn”
“Gwyneth Paltrow – Estella”
“Let desire be your destiny.”
“Anne Bancroft – Ms. Dinsmoor”
“It's my heart, and it's broken.”
“Robert De Niro – Prisoner / Lustig”
“What's it like not to feel anything?”
“We are who we are. People don't change.”
“Everything I have ever done, I've done for you.”
“If this isn't love, I don't think I can handle the real thing, baby.”
“Nothing harder than being given your chance. At least, that's what I hear.”
“I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it.”
“Chris Cooper – Uncle Joe”
“Hank Azaria – Walter Plane”
“I knew that little girl and I saw the light in her eyes, and no matter what you say or do, that's still what I see.”
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“She'll only break your heart, it's a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you'll still pursue her. Ain't love grand?”
“Seven years passed, I stopped going to Paradiso Perduto, I stopped painting. I put aside the fantasy and the wealthy, and the heavenly girl who did not want me. None of it would happen to me again. I'd seen through it. I elected to grow up.”
“The night all of my dreams came true, and like all happy endings, it was a tragedy, of my own device, for I succeeded. I had cut myself loose from Joe, from the past, from the Gulf, from poverty I had invented myself. I'd done it cruelly, but I had done it. I was free!”