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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Fan (2016)

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Don't Think Twice picture

Miles: Not funny. Skillful, but not funny.
Allison: It's like when something sounds funny, but it isn't funny.

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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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LBJ (2016)

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The Birth of a Nation picture

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

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Love Is All You Need? picture

Susan Miller: Some people are born attracted to the same sex, some people are born attracted to the opposite sex. I prefer to think of it as giving love and being loved in return. The rest is just... plumbing.

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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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Ben-Hur picture

Jesus: Hate, anger, fear. Those are lies they use to turn you against each other. When you set aside the hate they force you to carry, that's when you know love is our true nature.

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Tallulah picture

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

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Lady Macbeth picture

Katherine: I'd rather stop you breathing than have you doubt how I feel.

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The Light Between Oceans picture

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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Morgan picture

Dr. Lui Cheng: Do you know the cruelest thing you can do to someone you've locked in a room? Press their face to the window.

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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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The Tale picture

Jennifer: When I was a child, I was obsessed with changing myself.

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Dan Frost: Them Bishop boys are coming for you? You don't need a gunslinger. You need a goddamn regiment.

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Robert Mazur: Roberto, I am glad you are here. But there is a part of me that wishes you hadn't taken that risk.
Roberto Alcaino: Without family or friends what kinda world it is be. There will be no reason to be alive. Hmm? It's a good day.

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Elle picture

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

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Bono: Some people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in.

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