Cast Away (2000) Poster

(2000)

Tom Hanks: Chuck Noland

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  • Chuck Noland : We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

  • Chuck Noland : WILSON!

  • Chuck Noland : I'm sorry, Wilson. Wilson, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

  • Chuck Noland : Aha. Look what I've created. I have made FIRE.

  • Chuck Noland : We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time.

  • Chuck Noland : Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something Gilligan never told us.

  • Kelly Frears : I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You're the love of my life.

    Chuck Noland : I love you too, Kelly. More than you'll ever know.

  • Chuck Noland : Don't worry Wilson, I'll do all the paddling. You just hang on.

  • Chuck Noland : [to Wilson]  We might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking...

    [suddenly yelling] 

    Chuck Noland : ...TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!

  • Chuck Noland : I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing.

  • Stan : We buried you. There was a coffin, a gravestone... the whole thing.

    Chuck Noland : I had a coffin?

    [Stan nods] 

    Chuck Noland : Well what was in it?

  • Kelly Frears : You said you'd be right back.

    Chuck Noland : I'm so sorry.

    Kelly Frears : Me too.

  • Chuck Noland : [reading from a birthday card]  The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  • [last lines] 

    Bettina Peterson : You look lost.

    Chuck Noland : I do?

    Bettina Peterson : Where're you headed?

    Chuck Noland : Well, I was just about to figure that out.

    Bettina Peterson : Well, that's 83 South. And this road here will hook you up with I-40 East. If you turn right, that'll take you to Amarillo, Flagstaff, California. And if you head back that direction, you'll find a whole lot of nothing all the way to Canada.

    Chuck Noland : I got it.

    Bettina Peterson : All right, then. Good luck, cowboy.

    Chuck Noland : Thank you.

  • Chuck Noland : I know what I have to do now. I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring.

  • Chuck Noland : You wouldn't have a match by any chance would you?

  • Chuck Noland : I should've never gotten on that plane. I should've never gotten out of the car.

  • Chuck Noland : I'm always going to keep this watch on Memphis time. Kelly time.

  • Chuck Noland : 87 hours is an eternity! The cosmos was created in less time. Wars have been fought and nations toppled in 87 hours! Fortunes made and squandered.

  • Chuck Noland : We live and we die by the clock, that's all we have.

  • [Chuck talks to Wilson, the volleyball] 

    Chuck Noland : Hey, you want to hear something funny? My dentist's name is James Spalding.

  • Chuck Noland : Do, do you have to keep bringing that up, huh? Ok, so it was a good thing we did a test because it wasn't going to be just a quick snap. Would've broken my neck, or leg or my back. Would've bled to death on the beach, but it's in the past. It was what, a year ago? SO let's just forget it.

  • Chuck Noland : Time rules over us without mercy, not caring if we 're healthy or ill, hungry or drunk, Russian, American, beings from Mars. It's like a fire. It could either destroy us or keep us warm. That's why every FedEx office has a clock. Because we live or we die by the clock. We never turn our back on it. And we never, ever allow ourselves the sin of losing track of time!

  • Chuck Noland : Hey, is all this turbulence from Santa and those eight tiny reindeer?

  • Chuck Noland : So, let me get one thing straight here... We have a pro football team now, but they're in Nashville?

  • Chuck Noland : First thing it's two minutes, then four, then six, then the next thing you know, we're the U.S. mail.

  • Chuck Noland : [after seeing his "sail" fall over]  This could work! This could work...

  • [reading label on portable outhouse that has washed ashore] 

    Chuck Noland : Bakersfield? BAKERSFIELD! BAKERSFIELD!

  • Chuck Noland : That's a search area of 500,000 square miles. That's twice the size of Texas. They may never find us.

  • Chuck Noland : I'll be right back.

  • Chuck Noland : [to Kelly]  You need to go home.

  • Chuck Noland : You just delivered your very first FedEx package. That deserves something special, like, a Snickers bar and a CD player and something to listen to, a CD. There, Elvis Presley. "50,000,000 Fans Can't Be Wrong."

  • Chuck Noland : I make fire

  • Chuck Noland : Nickolai. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.

  • Chuck Noland : I will be here New Year's Eve. I promise.

  • Chuck Noland : Hey, HEY, It's a ship. HEY. HEY. HEY SHIP. HEY. Wait, look look, S.O.S... Oh come on. HELP. Please.

  • Chuck Noland : If I'm here New Year's Eve, then I'm here. If I'm not, I'm not.

  • Chuck Noland : Hello! Anybody? Anybody? Anybody! Help! Help!

  • Chuck Noland : You can program it. It vibrates. It lights up. You can see it in the dark.

  • Chuck Noland : [opening a box in Russia]  I took the liberty of sending this to myself, I FedEx'd in before I left Memphis. Wonder what it could be, architectural drawings? Wallpaper for the kitchen? It is... a clock. Which I started at absolute zero, and it is now at eighty-seven hours, twenty-two minutes and seventeen seconds. From Memphis America, to Nicolai in Russia, eighty-seven hours. Eighty-seven hours is a shameful outrage!

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