Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks in the 1994 film, tells his whole life story from a bus-stop bench in Savannah. He is a slow-spoken man who keeps stumbling into history, and most of his wisdom is really his mother's, repeated word for word. These are his real lines, with the scene each one comes from.
“My mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'”
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
“Mama always said dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.”
“My mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”
“Mama always said there's an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes. Where they going, where they been.”
“I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.”
“And that's all I have to say about that.”
“Jenny and me was like peas and carrots.”
“Those must be comfortable shoes. I bet you could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing.”
“Now, when I was a baby, Momma named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest.”
“Hello. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.”
“Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner.”
“There's only so much fortune a man really needs, and the rest is just for showin' off.”
“That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run.”
“That's good. One less thing.”