Robin Williams (James deMonaco & Gary Nadeau): 'Make your life spectacular', Jack — 1996

The premise of this film is that the Jack character is a rapidly aging child, who is graduating the fifth grade

I don't have very much time these days, so I'll make it quick Like my life. As we come to the end of this phase of our life, we find ourselves trying to remember the good times, and trying to forget the bad times. And we find ourselves thinking about the future. We start to worry, thinking, what am I going to do? Where am I going to be in 10 years? But I say to you, 'Hey, look at me, please, don't worry so much.' Because in the end, none of us have very long on this earth. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky, when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting stars streaks through the blackness, turning night into day. Make a wish. Think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did. I made it, Mom. I'm a grownup. Thank you.

Jack Black (by Mike White): 'We roll tonight to the guitar bite!' Motivational speech to band - 2003

Released 20 November 2003

So get your rest, no late night parties drinking tequila and trying to get lucky. Chances like this do not come along every day. Now you played hard in here, people, and I am proud of every last stinking one of you. So let's just give this everything we got. We may fall on our faces, but if we do, we will fall with dignity! With a guitar in our hands, and rock in our hearts! And in the words of AC/DC: "We roll tonight to the guitar bite, and for those about to rock, I salute you."

Tom Hanks (by Robert Rodat): 'That's my mission', Saving Private Ryan - 1998

Released 24 July 1998, USA

Mike, what’s the pool on me up to right now? What’s it up to? What is it? 300 dollars? Is that it? 300? I’m a schoolteacher. I teach English composition. In this little town called Addley, Pennsylvania. The last 11 years I’ve been at Thomas Alva Edison High School. I was a coach of the baseball team in the springtime. Back home, I tell people what I do for a living and they think, well, now that figures, but over here, it’s a big, a big mystery. So I guess I’ve changed some. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her. And how I’ll ever be able to tell her about days like today. Ah, Ryan… I don’t know anything about Ryan, I don’t care. The man means nothing to me, he’s just a name. But if, you know, if going to Ramelle, and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to get back to my wife, well then, then that’s my mission.

Brad Pitt (by Jim Uhls and Chuck Palahniuk): 'The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club', Fight Club - 1999

released 15 October 1999, USA

Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.

Heather Donahue (by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez): 'I just want to apologise to Mike's mom', The Blair Witch Project - 1999

released 30 July 1999, USA

I just want to apologize to Josh's mom, and Mike's mom, and my mom. I am so sorry! Because it was my fault. I was the one who brought them here. I was the one that said "keep going south". I was the one who said that we were not lost. It was my fault, because it was my project. Everything had to be my way. And this is where we've ended up and it's all because of me that we're here now - hungry, cold, and hunted. I love you mom, dad. I am so sorry. What is that? I'm scared to close my eyes, I'm scared to open them! I am so scared! I don't know what's out there. We are going to die out here! I am so scared!

Don Hertzfeldt: 'Bill lives and lives, forever', 'It's Such a Beuatiful Day' - 2012

Released 21 May 2016, Japan

He will spend hundreds of years traveling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control pain, as wars will be fought and great loves found, and lost, and found, lost, and found, and found, and found, and memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children, whose own exponential offspring he’ll slowly lose track of through the years, whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history. But death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go, until names lose all meaning, until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living, until the earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the positions of the stars, and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open, until he forgets his name, and the place where he’d once come from. He lives, and he lives, until all of the lights go out.