Vincent Freeman quotes
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No, there's truly nothing remarkable about the progress of Jerome Morrow... except that I am not Jerome Morrow.
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They used to say that a child conceived in love has a greater chance of happiness. They don't say that anymore.
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I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. We now have discrimination down to a science.
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There's no gene for fate.
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My real resum? was in my cells.
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...the impossible happened. It was the moment that made everything else possible.
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It's not too late to back out. This is the last day you're gonna be you and I'm gonna be me.
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[About cleanliness] It's next to godliness; isn't that what they say?
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Don't eat that, that's Pluto!
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You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking so hard for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible.
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It's funny: you work so hard, you do everything you can to get away from a place, and when you finally get your chance to leave, you find a reason to stay.
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Are we brothers?
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There is more vodka in this piss than there is piss!
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[On how he was finally able to beat Anton in their swimming contests] You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton -- I never saved anything for the swim back.
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I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.
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Mine's already ten thousand beats overdue.
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Just remember that I was as good as any, and better than most. I could have gone up and back, and nobody woulda been the wiser.
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For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home. [A reference to the opening monologue of the play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds]
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I took my mind off the pain by reminding myself that when I eventually did stand up, I'd be exactly two inches closer to the stars.
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There is still a few million miles left to go.
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Is it the only way you can succeed is to see me fail?