Forest Gump Quotes

Pvt. Dallas from Phoenix: [Forrest is watching Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.] Gump, how can you watch that stupid ****? 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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John F. Kennedy: Congratulations, how do you feel?

Forrest Gump: I gotta pee.

John F. Kennedy: [turning to camera] I believe he said he had to go pee. Heh heh.

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Forrest Gump: That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going.

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Jenny Curran: You can't keep trying to rescue me all the time.

Forrest Gump: They was trying to grab you.

Jenny Curran: A lot of people try to grab me.

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Forrest Gump: He was from a long great military tradition. Somebody from his family had fought and died in every single American war. I guess you could say he had a lot to live up to.

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Jenny Curran: Why are you so good to me?

Forrest Gump: You're my girl!

Jenny Curran: [pause] I'll always be your girl.

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Forrest Gump: So what are you doing in New York, Lt. Dan?

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: I am living off the government tit! Sucking it dry!

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Forrest Gump: Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots.

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Forrest Gump: Her dream had come true. She was a folk singer.

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Forrest Gump: Mama says they was magic shoes. They could take me anywhere.

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Forrest Gump: Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!

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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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Jenny Curran: Why are you so good to me?

Forrest Gump: You're my girl!

Jenny Curran: [pause] I'll always be your girl.

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Forrest Gump: She got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. And that's all I have to say about that.

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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. Shoot, it even rained at night...

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Forrest Gump: So Bubba was from Bayou la Batrie, Alabama, and his mama cooked shrimp. And her mama before her cooked shrimp, and her mama before her mama cooked shrimp, too. Bubba's family knew everything there was to know about the shrimpin' business.

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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: That's what all these cripples down at the VA talk about: Jesus this and Jesus that. They even had a priest come and talk to me. He said God is listening and if I found Jesus, I'd get to walk beside him in the kingdom of Heaven. Did you hear what I said? WALK beside him in the kingdom of Heaven! Well kiss my crippled ass. God is listening? What a crock of ****.

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Richard M. Nixon: Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice president Ford will be sworn into office at that hour in this office.

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Old man in barbershop: That boy sure is a runnin' fool!

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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: [while being ambushed] You guys get that pig un****ed and get it on the tree line!

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Richard M. Nixon: Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice president Ford will be sworn into office at that hour in this office.

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Old man in barbershop: That boy sure is a runnin' fool!

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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: I never thanked you for saving my life.

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[Forrest is waiting with Forrest Jr. for the school bus on little Forrest's first day of school in Greenbow. The bus arrives and little Forrest is about to board it]

Forrest Gump: Forrest, don't...
[pause, then]

Forrest Gump: I just wanted to tell you I love you.

Forrest Gump Jr.: I love you too, Daddy.

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Mrs. Gump: Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're no different than anybody else is. Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You're the same as everybody else. You are no different.

Principal: Your boy's... different, Miz Gump. His IQ's 75.

Mrs. Gump: Well, we're all different, Mr. Hancock. There must be something that can be done?

Principal: Is there a Mr. Gump, Miz Gump?

Mrs. Gump: He's on vacation.

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Jenny Curran: His name's Forrest.

Forrest Gump: Like me.

Jenny Curran: I named him after his daddy.

Forrest Gump: He got a daddy named Forrest, too?

Jenny Curran: You're his daddy, Forrest.

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Jenny Curran: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?

Forrest Gump: Who I'm gonna be?

Jenny Curran: Yeah.

Forrest Gump: Aren't-aren't I going to be me?

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Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing here?

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: I'm here to try out my sea legs.

Forrest Gump: But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: [mildly irritated, but understanding] Yes... yes, I know that. You wrote me a letter, you idiot!

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