The Best Movie Quotes of the Decade (2010-19) - MagicalQuote (2025)

From Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and Django Unchained to Interstellar, Avengers: Endgame and Joker, this decade has been full of great movies.

Here are some of the most popular quotes and sayings from the famous films of the 2010s.

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The only way to achieve the impossible, is to believe it’s possible.Charles Kingsleigh, Alice in Wonderland (2010)

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An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.Cobb, Inception (2010)

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A guy who builds a nice chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair.Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network (2010)

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You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide.Pius Thicknesse, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

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Perfection is not just about control. It’s also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them.Thomas Leroy, Black Swan (2010)

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My true disability is not having to be in a wheel chair. It’s having to be without her.Philippe, The Intouchables (2011)

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A gentleman allows a lady to maintain her fictions.Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

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It is the quality of one’s convictions that determine success, not the number of followers.Remus Lupin, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

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You can’t change who your parents are. The only thing you can change is how you choose to deal with that.Katherine McKay, 50/50 (2011)

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If you’ve ever wondered where your dreams come from, you look around… this is where they’re made.Georges Méliès, Hugo (2011)

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The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain.Martin Vanger, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

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You owe the world your gifts. You just have to figure out how to use them.Ben Parker, The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

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A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.Batman, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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We can’t choose where we come from but we can choose where we go from there.Charlie Kelmeckis, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

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Youth is not a guarantee of innovation.James Bond, Skyfall (2012)

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I suppose, in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.Adult Pi Patel, Life of Pi (2012)

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It is the small things everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.Gandalf, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

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To love another person is to see the face of God.Jean Valjean, Les Miserables (2012)

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Gentlemen, you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.Calvin Candie, Django Unchained (2012)

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The only way you could meet my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you. I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I’m sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.Patrizio 'Pat' Solitano Jr., (to Tiffany), Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

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None of us are the same as we were a moment ago and we shouldn’t try to be.Samantha, Her (2013)

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Failure is the fog through which we glimpse triumph.Aldrich Killian, Iron Man 3 (2013)

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All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back.Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby (2013)

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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.Spock, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

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If history has proven anything, it is that evolution always wins.Faora-Ul, Man of Steel (2013)

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A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.Niki Lauda, Rush (2013)

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If you let yourself be overcome by sorrow, you will drown in it.Solomon Northup, 12 Years a Slave (2013)

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Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

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Some people are worth melting for.Olaf, Frozen (2013)

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Words are life, Liesel. All those blank pages, they’re for you to fill.Max Vandenburg, The Book Thief (2013)

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Crazy thing about people, the more you say no, the more they want in.Irving Rosenfeld, American Hustle (2013)

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Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty. I’ve been a rich man, and I’ve been a poor man. And I choose rich every f***ing time.Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

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The only thing anyone needs to be special is to believe that you can be.Vitruvius, The Lego Movie (2014)

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Rudeness is merely the expression of fear. People fear they won’t get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved, and they will open up like a flower.M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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The world is not a wish-granting factory.Gus, The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

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The sole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned.Professor Norman, Lucy (2014)

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When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too.Robert McCall, The Equalizer (2014)

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Marriage is hard work. And compromise and more work.Amy Dunne, Gone Girl (2014)

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There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.Terence Fletcher, Whiplash (2014)

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Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.Don Collier, Fury (2014)

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.Louis Bloom, Nightcrawler (2014)

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Once you’re a parent, you’re the ghost of your children’s future.Cooper, Interstellar (2014)

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Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige.Mike Shiner, Birdman (2014)

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There should be no boundary to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. While there is life, there is hope.Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything (2014)

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If more people valued home above gold this world would be a merrier place.Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

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Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they’re expecting to be lied to.Alan Turing, The Imitation Game (2014)

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As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe… keep breathing.Hugh Glass, The Revenant (2015)

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Keep your friends rich, and your enemies rich, and wait to find out which is which.Ultron, Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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Hope is a mistake. If you can’t fix what’s broken, you’ll go insane.Max Rockatansky, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control.Simon Masrani, Jurassic World (2015)

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They say that once you grow crops somewhere, you officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong.Mark Watney, The Martian (2015)

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The coward must abandon his dignity before he abandons the field of battle.James B. Donovan, Bridge of Spies (2015)

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Visionaries… Psychiatric wards are full of them.James Bond, Spectre (2015)

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If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight (2015)

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Time, you know, takes everybody out, it’s undefeated.Rocky Balboa, Creed (2015)

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If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people.Maz Kanata, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

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Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal, and I’ll have my wife’s brother arrested.Jared Vennett, The Big Short (2015)

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You really only need to hang mean bastards. But mean bastards, you need to hang.John Ruth, The Hateful Eight (2015)

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Separate and equal are two different things. Just ’cause it’s the way, doesn’t make it right.Dorothy Vaughan, Hidden Figures (2016)

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Life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness.Wade Wilson, Deadpool (2016)

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Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you.Judy Hopps, Zootopia (2016)

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Criminals are like weeds, Alfred. Pull one up, another grows in its place.Bruce Wayne, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

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Our very strength invites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict breeds catastrophe.Vision, Captain America: Civil War (2016)

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Normal’s a setting on the dryer. People like us, we don’t get normal!Harley Quinn, Suicide Squad (2016)

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With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to wanna put a little bit of it back together.Desmond T. Doss, Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

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You cannot beat a river into submission. You have to surrender to its current and use its power as your own.The Ancient One, Doctor Strange (2016)

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Language is the foundation of civilization, it is the glue that holds the people together, it is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.Ian Donnelly (quoting Louise), Arrival (2016)

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Worrying means you suffer twice.Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

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When you love someone, you work it out. You don’t just throw it away. You have to be careful with it, you might never get it again.Edward Sheffield, Nocturnal Animals (2016)

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Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, Director.Darth Vader, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

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We all have dreams. We plan our futures like we’re the captains of our fates. But we’re passengers. We go where fate takes us.Aurora Lane, Passengers (2016)

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People love what other people are passionate about.Mia Dolan, La La Land (2016)

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We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster, that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty. And have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste!Mr. Perlman, Call Me by Your Name (2017)

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You know, Logan, this is what life looks like. A home, people who love each other. Safe place. You should take a moment and feel it.Charles Xavier, Logan (2017)

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When you’re ugly, and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are. Beautiful people never know who to trust.Drax the Destroyer, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

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What one does when faced with the truth is more difficult than you would think.Diana Prince, Wonder Woman (2017)

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The moment you catch feelings is the moment you catch a bullet.Bats, Baby Driver (2017)

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Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you’ll never make it through the night.Leia Organa, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

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Sometimes to love someone, you gotta be a stranger.Rick Deckard, Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

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Hope is like your car keys. Easy to lose, but if you dig around, it’s usually close by.Superman, Justice League (2017)

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Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle. And if you really wanna see what people are, all you have to do is look.August 'Auggie' Pullman, Wonder (2017)

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You don’t need everyone to love you. Just a few good people.Charity Barnum, (to Phin), The Greatest Showman (2017)

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In times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers.T'Challa, Black Panther (2018)

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The hardest choices require the strongest wills.Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

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Assume everyone will betray you and you will never be disappointed.Tobias Beckett, Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

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Eyes, lungs, pancreas… so many snacks, so little time.Venom, Venom (2018)

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They say money can’t buy happiness, darlings! But it does allow you to give it away!Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

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The world is full of lonely people afraid to make the first move.Tony Lip, Green Book (2018)

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No amount of money ever bought a second of time.Tony Stark, Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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Men and women grow apart, but the journey they share together will always be a part of them.Ned Leeds, Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)

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Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It’s called manslaughter.Cliff Booth, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019)

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The worst part about having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t.Arthur Fleck (written in his notebook), Joker (2019)

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Always charge a guy with a gun. With a knife, you run away.Jimmy Hoffa, The Irishman (2019)

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