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Cast Away Quotes

Cast Away is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Cast Away ended in 1970.

It features Tom Hanks, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, and Robert Zemeckis as producer, Alan Silvestri in charge of musical score, and Don Burgess (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Cast Away is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Cast Away is 143 minutes long. Cast Away is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, Nick Searcy as Stan, Lari White as Bettina Peterson, and Helen Hunt as Kelly Frears.

Cast Away Quotes

Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland

  • (Tom Hanks) "87 hours is an eternity. The cosmos was created in less time."
  • (Tom Hanks) "We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time."
  • (Tom Hanks) "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
  • (Tom Hanks) "Hello. Anybody?"
  • (Tom Hanks) "Let's not commit the sin of turning our back on time."
  • (Tom Hanks) "Don't worry Wilson, I'll do all the paddling. You just hang on."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I'm always going to keep this watch on Memphis time. Kelly time."
  • (Tom Hanks) "We might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this s***hole island, spending the rest of my life talking --"
  • (Tom Hanks) "-- TO A god**** VOLLEYBALL."
  • (Tom Hanks) "If I'm here New Year's Eve, then I'm here. If I'm not, I'm not."
  • (Tom Hanks) "Hey, is all this turbulence from Santa and those eight tiny reindeer?"
  • (Tom Hanks) "I'll be right back."
  • (Tom Hanks) "Aha. Look what I've created. I have made FIRE."
  • (Tom Hanks) "You need to go home."
  • (Tom Hanks) "We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and -- knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had -- lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So -- I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I;, I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass -- And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
  • (Tom Hanks) "First thing it's two minutes, then four, then six, then the next thing you know, we're the U.S. mail."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I'm sorry, Wilson. Wilson, I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
  • (Tom Hanks) "WILSON."
  • (Tom Hanks) "Bakersfield? BAKERSFIELD. BAKERSFIELD."
  • (Tom Hanks) "So, let me get one thing straight here -- We have a pro football team now, but they're in Nashville?"
  • (Tom Hanks) "We live and we die by the clock, that's all we have."
  • (Tom Hanks) "You wouldn't have a match by any chance would you?"
  • (Tom Hanks) "Hey, you want to hear something funny? My dentist's name is James Spalding."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing."
  • (Tom Hanks) "Nickolai. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock."
  • (Tom Hanks) "Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something Gilligan never told us."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I should've never gotten on that plane. I should've never gotten out of the car."

Helen Hunt as Kelly Frears

  • (Helen Hunt) "You said you'd be right back."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I'm so sorry."
  • (Helen Hunt) "Me too."
  • (Helen Hunt) "I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You're the love of my life."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I love you too, Kelly. More than you'll ever know."

Lari White as Bettina Peterson

  • (Lari White) "You look lost."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I do?"
  • (Lari White) "Where're you headed?"
  • (Tom Hanks) "Well, I was just about to figure that out."
  • (Lari White) "Well, that's 83 South. And this road here will hook you up with I-40 East. If you turn right, that'll take you to Amarillo, Flagstaff, California. And if you head back that direction, you'll find a whole lot of nothing all the way to Canada."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I got it."
  • (Lari White) "All right, then. Good luck, cowboy."
  • (Tom Hanks) "Thank you."

Nick Searcy as Stan

  • (Nick Searcy) "We buried you. There was a coffin, a gravestone -- the whole thing."
  • (Tom Hanks) "I had a coffin?"
  • (Tom Hanks) "Well what was in it?"

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