Forest Gump Quotes

Bubba: My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that?

Forrest Gump: My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.

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[Jenny has told Forrest that she has an incurable disease and the doctors don't know what to do]

Forrest Gump: You could come home with me, to my house in Greenbow, Jenny, you and little Forrest. If you're sick I'll take care of you.

Jenny Curran: Will you marry me, Forrest?

Forrest Gump: Okay...

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Bumper Sticker Guy: [running after Forrest] Hey man! Hey listen, I was wondering if you might help me. 'Cause I'm in the bumper sticker business and I've been trying to think of a good slogan, and since you've been such a big inspiration to the people around here I thought you might be able to help me jump into - WOAH! Man, you just ran through a big pile of dog ****!

Forrest Gump: It happens.

Bumper Sticker guy: What, ****?

Forrest Gump: Sometimes.

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Forrest Gump: When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.

Elderly Southern Woman on Park Bench: And so, you just ran?

Forrest Gump: Yeah.

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[Forrest Gump referring to Apple Computer]

Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing.

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Forrest Gump: [running] I had run for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours.
[he stops and turns around]

Young Man Running: Quiet, quiet! He's gonna say something!

Forrest Gump: [pause] I'm pretty tired... I think I'll go home now.

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[last lines]

Dorothy Harris: You understand this is the bus to the school, now, don'tcha?

Forrest Gump Jr.: Of course; and you're Dorothy Harris, and I'm Forrest Gump.

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Jenny Curran: Were you scared in Vietnam?

Forrest Gump: Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out... and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water... like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It's so beautiful.

Jenny Curran: I wish I could've been there with you.

Forrest Gump: You were.

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Forrest Gump: In the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.

John Lennon: No possessions?

Forrest Gump: And in China they never go to church.

John Lennon: No religion too?

Dick Cavett: Ah. Hard to imagine.

John Lennon: Well it's easy if you try, Dick.

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Forrest Gump: [to Jenny] They're sendin' me to Vietnam...
[Jenny is despondent]

Forrest Gump: ...It's this whole 'nuther country.

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Principal: [after Mrs. Gump had been entertaining him] You're momma sure does care about your education, son.

Principal: [Forrest remains quiet] You don't say much do you?

Young Forrest Gump: [imitates the noises he has just heard] eh, eh, eh, eh, eh...

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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?

Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.

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Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Mama?

Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself.

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Jenny Curran: Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?

Forrest Gump: I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time.

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Forrest Gump: And cause I was a gazillionaire, and I liked doin it so much, I cut that grass for free.

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Forrest Gump: I gotta save Bubba!

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Forrest Gump: Sometimes, I guess there's just not enough rocks.

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Forrest Gump: I'm sorry I had to fight in the middle of your Black Panther party.

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Forrest Gump: I'm sorry I ruined your New Year's Eve party, Lieutenant Dan. She tasted like cigarettes.

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[repeated line]

Forrest Gump: That's all I have to say about that.

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Forrest Gump: [in the Watergate hotel; on phone with security] Yeah, sir, you might want to send a maintenance man over to that office across the way. The lights are off, and they must be looking for a fuse box, 'cause them flashlights, they keep me awake.

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[Describing Vietnam]

Forrest Gump: We was always taking long walks, and we was always looking for a guy named Charlie.

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Forrest Gump: She got the cancer and died on a Tuesday.

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Forrest Gump: One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath.

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Forrest Gump: And cause I was a gazillionaire, and I liked doin it so much, I cut that grass for free.

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[repeated line]

Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does.

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Pvt. Dallas from Phoenix: [Forrest is watching "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C."] Gump, how can you watch that stupid shit? Turn it off.

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Forrest Gump: You know it's funny what a young man recollects? 'Cause I don't remember bein' born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.

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Mrs. Gump: Life's a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

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[repeated line]

Forrest Gump: That's all I have to say about that.

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