The Green Mile

"You can't hide what's in your heart."

"I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not."

"I think this boy's cheese has done slid off his cracker."

Paul Edgecomb: "What did you just do to me?"
John Coffey: "I helped it. Didn't I help it? I just took it back, is all. Awful tired now, boss. Dog tired."

"I tried to take it back... but it was too late."

"Honey, if you don't tell me what's on your mind, I'm afraid I'll have to smother you with a pillow."

Paul Edgecomb: "John, do you know where we're taking you?"
John Coffey: "Help a lady?"
Brutus Howell: "That's right. But how do you know?"
John Coffey: "Don't know. To tell the truth, Boss, I don't know much'o anything."

Paul Edgecomb: "Men under strain can snap; hurt themselves, hurt others. That's why our job is talking, not yelling. You'll do better to think of this place like an intensive care ward in a hospital."
Percy Wetmore: "I think of it as a bucket of piss to drown rats in! That's all! Anybody doesn't like it can kiss my ass!"