The Shawshank Redemption Famous Lines

Here are a few of our favorite lines from The Shawshank Redemption.

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Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins):
"I guess it comes down to a simple choice. Get busy living or get busy dying."


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Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore):
"Easey, peasey, Japanesy."


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Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins):
"Remember Red. Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And hope never dies."


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Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins):
"It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail."


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Red Redding ( Morgan Freeman ):
"His first night in the joint Andy Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes. He never made a sound."


Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins):
"As I am innocent of this crime, Sir. I find it decidedly inconvenient that the gun was never found."


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Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins):
"The funny thing is that on the outside I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to become a crook."


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Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins):
"A man working outdoors feels more like a man if he can have a bottle of suds. That's only my opinion, Sir."


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Red Redding ( Morgan Freeman ):
"Prison life consists of routine and more routine."


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Red Redding ( Morgan Freeman ):
"Rehibiliated? Well, now, let me see. I don't have any idea what that means."


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Warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton):
"I believe in two things. Discipline and the bible. Put your trust in the Lord. Your ass belongs to me."


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Red Redding ( Morgan Freeman ):
"They send you here for life and that's exactly what they take. At least the part of it that counts anyway."


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Red Redding ( Morgan Freeman ):
"Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man inside. It's got no use on the inside."


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Red Redding ( Morgan Freeman ):
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. And the truth is I don't want to know. Somethings are best left unsaid."


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Red Redding ( Morgan Freeman ):
"I must admit I didn't think much of Andy when I first laid eyes on him. Looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over. That was my first impression of the man."


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