Andy Dufresne Quotes & Sayings

“You need it so you don't forget.”

“I'm innocent, Red. Just like everybody else here.”

“Dear Red, if you're reading this, you've gotten out. If you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further.”

“Dear Warden: You were right. Salvation lay within.”

“You'll like it. It's about a prison break.”

“I send that money out into the real world, and when it comes back...”

“By the time Norton retires, I'll have made him a millionaire.”

“Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate, driver's license, Social Security number.”

“If they ever trace any of those accounts, they're going to wind up chasing a figment of my imagination.”

“She was beautiful. God, I loved her.”

“Open up a little hotel, right on the beach, buy some worthless old boat, and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.”

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.”

“That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you.”

“I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has.”

“In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things.”

“That hotel, that boat, I don't think that's too much to ask.”

“Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean.”

“Sure you can, if you know how the system works, where the cracks are. It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail.”

“Remember, Red: Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

“You know, the funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.”

“Watch therefore; you do not know when the master of the house will come.”

“I just didn't know how to show it. That's all.”

“Whatever mistakes I made, I've paid for them and then some.”

“I didn't shoot my wife, and I didn't shoot her lover.”