Best drama movie quotes of 2016

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A Monster Calls picture

Conor: Your stories never made sense to me.
The Monster: Because humans are complicated beasts. You believe comforting lies, while knowing full well the painful truth that makes those lies necessary. In the end, Conor, it is not important what you think. It is only important what you do.
Conor: So what do I do?
The Monster: What you did just now. You speak the truth.
Conor: That's all?
The Monster: You think it's easy? You were willing to die rather than speak it.

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Elle picture

Robert: What did you do?
Michèle Leblanc: I stopped lying.

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Moonlight picture

Black: So you're Cuban now?
Kevin: Only in the kitchen, Papi.

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Before I Wake picture

Jessie: No one ever really goes away. Not completely. Because they live in our minds, and in our hearts.

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LBJ (2016)

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Lyndon B. Johnson: You know, this could be your lucky day. You might be able to vote your conscience on the Farm Bill.
Senator Ralph Yarborough: I like to think that is the only way that I ever vote.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Spoken like a true one-term senator.

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A Hologram for the King picture

Yousef: You like Chicago?
Alan: Not in the winter.
Yousef: No, the band.

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Love & Friendship picture

Lady Susan Vernon: Ah, mortality. Our mortality and that of others, but most particularly our own, is the hardest and most intractable hand life can deal us.

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A Kind of Murder picture

Kimmel: Proof is not the key thing. It's doubt.

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Bridget: To watch a strong man broken down is a terrible thing.

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Lindsay: You were never inches away from anything.
Miles: Fuck you Lindsay.
Lindsay: You won't. 'Coz I'm not 22 and I'm not your student.

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The Founder picture

Ray Kroc: If you've got time to lean, then you've got time to clean.

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The Huntsman: Winter's War picture

Sara: Dead? Is that what you told everyone? You poor heartbroken widower. That story must have wet the eyes of many young lasses. Maybe more than their eyes.

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Tallulah picture

Detective Richards: So you make a habit of taking toddlers into protective custody?

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Fan (2016)

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Frank Roennfeldt: You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day, all the time. You have to keep remembering the bad things. It's too much work.

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The Jungle Book picture

Kaa: Are you alone out here? What are you doing so deep in the jungle? Don't you know what you are? I know what you are. I know where you came from. Poor, sweet little cub. I'll keep you clossse. Let go of your fear now... And trussst in meee.

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Shut In picture

Stephen: You're replacing me.
Mary: No one could ever replace you. I promise. Please, just put the ax down, and we can talk about this.

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