Movie Quotes

Forrest Gump: Hello… my name’s Forrest. Forrest Gump.

Lt. Dan: Gump, Have you found Jesus?
Forrest Gump: I didn’t know I was suppose to be looking for him, sir.

Forrest Gump: Stupid is what stupid does.

Forrest Gump: She got the cancer and died on a Tuesday.

Forrest: We was always taking long walks, and we was always looking for a guy named Charlie

Forrest Gump: I can’t help it; I love you Jenny.
Jenny: Forrest, you don’t know what love is.

Forrest: Momma always says there’s an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes. Where they’re going. Where they’ve been. I’ve worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard I could remember my first pair of shoes.

Forrest Gump: Will you marry me?
[Jenny turns and looks at him]
Forrest Gump: I’d make a good husband, Jenny.
Jenny Curran: You would, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: …But you won’t marry me.
Jenny Curran: [sadly] … You don’t wanna marry me.
Forrest Gump: Why don’t you love me, Jenny?
[Jenny says nothing]
Forrest Gump: I’m not a smart man… but I know what love is.

Forrest: My Momma always said life was like a box of chocolates…. you never know what you’re gonna get.

Bubba: The name’s Benjamin Buford Blue, people call me Bubba.
Forrest: My name’s Forrest Gump, people call me Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump: We go together like peas and carrots.

Lieutenant Dan Taylor: I never thanked you for saving my life.

Jenny Curran: Why are you so good to me?
Forrest Gump: You’re my girl!
Jenny Curran: [pause] I’ll always be your girl.

Jenny: Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here.

Forrest: Mama always said, dying was a part of life.

Mrs. Gump: Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You’re the same as everybody else. You are no different.
Principal: Your boy’s… different, Mrs. Gump. Now, his I.Q. is seventy-five.

Forrest Gump: He should not be hitting you, Jenny.

Mrs. Gump: Don’t ever let anybody tell you they’re better than you, Forrest. If god intended everybody to be the same, he’d have given us all braces on our legs.
Forrest: Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

Principal: Well, your mama sure does care about your schoolin’, son. Mmm-mmm-mmm. You don’t say much, do you?
Young Forrest: “Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee!”

Jenny Curran: You can’t keep trying to rescue me all the time.
Forrest Gump: They was trying to grab you.
Jenny Curran: A lot of people try to grab me.

Mrs. Gump: Vacation’s when you go somewhere… and you don’t ever come back.

Forrest: I’m sorry I ruined your New Year’s Eve party, Lieutenant Dan. She tasted like cigarettes.

Forrest: I ran for three years, two months, fourteen days and sixteen hours. When I was hungry, I ate. When I was tired, I slept. When I had to go, you know, I went!

Bus Driver: Are you comin’ along?
Forrest: Momma said not to be taking rides from strangers.
Bus Driver: This is the bus to school.
Forrest: I’m Forrest Gump.
Bus Driver: I’m Dorothy Harris.
Forrest: Well, now we ain’t strangers anymore.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Where are you boys from in the world?
Forrest Gump, Bubba: Alabama, sir!
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: You twins?
Forrest Gump: No, we are not relations, sir.

Young Forrest: I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel.

Forrest Gump: [in the Watergate hotel; on phone with security] Yeah, sir, you might want to send a maintenance man over to that office across the way. The lights are off, and they must be looking for a fuse box, ’cause them flashlights, they keep me awake.