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Finding Forrester Quotes

Finding Forrester is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . Finding Forrester completed its run in 1970.

It features Sean Connery as producer, Terence Blanchard in charge of musical score, and Harris Savides as head of cinematography.

Finding Forrester is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Finding Forrester is 136 minutes long. Finding Forrester is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Sean Connery as Forrester, and Rob Brown as Jamal.

Finding Forrester Quotes

Sean Connery as Forrester

  • (Sean Connery) "Punch the keys, for God's sake."
  • (Sean Connery) "What's your name?"
  • (Rob Brown) "Jamal Wallace."
  • (Sean Connery) "Sounds like some kind of marmalade. How old are you?"
  • (Rob Brown) "I'm sixteen."
  • (Sean Connery) "Sixteen? And you're black. It's remarkable."
  • (Rob Brown) ""Remarkable"? It's remarkable that I'm black? What does me being black have to do with anything?"
  • (Sean Connery) "You don't know what to do right now, do you? If you say what you really want to, I may not read any more of this. But if you let me run you down with this racist bulls*** -- what does that make you?"
  • (Rob Brown) "I'm not playing this game, man."
  • (Sean Connery) "I say you are playing it. An expression is worth a thousand words. Perhaps in your case, just two."
  • (Sean Connery) "The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time."
  • (Sean Connery) "My name is William Forrester."
  • (Sean Connery) "I'm that one."
  • (Sean Connery) "In some cultures it's good luck to be wearing something inside-out."
  • (Rob Brown) "And you believe that?"
  • (Sean Connery) "No, but it's like praying: what do you risk?"
  • (Sean Connery) "Let me ask you a question -- those two foul shots at the end of the game -- did you miss them, or did you miss them?"
  • (Rob Brown) "Not exactly a soup question, now is it?"
  • (Sean Connery) "You're the man now, dog."
  • (Sean Connery) "Writers write things to give readers something to read."
  • (Sean Connery) "Whatever we write in this apartment stays in this apartment."
  • (Sean Connery) "I have an homeland that I have not seen for too long."
  • (Rob Brown) "Oh, you mean Ireland?"
  • (Sean Connery) "Scotland, for God's sakes."
  • (Rob Brown) "I'm messing with you, man."
  • (Sean Connery) "Bolt the door, if you're coming in."

Rob Brown as Jamal

  • (Rob Brown) "Did you ever enter a writin' contest?"
  • (Sean Connery) "Yeah, once."
  • (Rob Brown) "Did you win?"
  • (Sean Connery) "Well of course I won."
  • (Rob Brown) "You win like money or somethin'?"
  • (Sean Connery) "No."
  • (Rob Brown) "Well, whadchu win?"
  • (Sean Connery) "The Pulitzer."
  • (Rob Brown) "I ain't seen nothing change."
  • (Sean Connery) "You ain't seen nothing? What the hell kind of sentence is that?"
  • (Rob Brown) "Man, f*** you William. You wanna know what the real bulls*** is? How about you let me take on this one cause you're too damn scared to walk out that door and do something for somebody else. You're too damn scared, man. That's the only reason."
  • (Sean Connery) "You don't know a god**** thing about reason; There are no reasons. Reasons why some of us live and why some of us don't. Fortunately for you, you have decades to figure that out."
  • (Rob Brown) "Yeah, and what's the reason in having a file cabinet full of writing and keeping the s*** locked so nobody can read it? What is that man? I'm done with this s***."
  • (Rob Brown) "We've been talking about your book at school."
  • (Sean Connery) "People have been talking about it for years. They just haven't been saying anything."
  • (Rob Brown) "I think I got it down, though. I figure you were writing about how life never works out."
  • (Sean Connery) "Really? You had to read a book to figure that out?"
  • (Rob Brown) "Opens the letter"
  • (Sean Connery) "Dear Jamal, Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed. You need to know that while I knew so very early that you would realize your dreams, I never imagined I would once again realize my own. Seasons change young man, and while I may have waited until the winter of my life, to see the things I've seen this past year, there is no doubt I would have waited too long, had it not been for you."
  • (Rob Brown) "I'll take poor assumptions for $800, Alex."
  • (Rob Brown) ""The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow." You wrote that in your book."
  • (Rob Brown) "Women will sleep with you if you write a book?"
  • (Sean Connery) "Women will sleep with you if you write a bad book."
  • (Rob Brown) "I was wondering if I could bring you more of my stuff. Or maybe I could write something else."
  • (Sean Connery) "How about 5,000 words on why you should stay the f*** out of my house."
  • (Rob Brown) "Be sure to write."
  • (Prof. Robert Crawford) "Perhaps the challenge should have been directed elsewhere. "It is a melancholy truth that even --"
  • (Rob Brown) ""great men have poor relations" Dickens."
  • (Prof. Robert Crawford) ""You will hear the beat of -- ""
  • (Rob Brown) "Kipling."
  • (Prof. Robert Crawford) ""All great truths begin -- ""
  • (Rob Brown) "Shaw."
  • (Prof. Robert Crawford) ""Man is the only animal --"
  • (Rob Brown) ""that blushes -- or needs to." That's Mark Twain."
  • (Rob Brown) "Come on, Professor Crawford --"
  • (Prof. Robert Crawford) "Get out."
  • (Prof. Robert Crawford) "Get -- out."
  • (Rob Brown) "Yeah. I'll get out."

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