Always Say Always Again Trivia Quiz

Answer: chatter

The full quote "I saw my whole life as if I'd already lived it... an endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches... always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared... or even noticed." is a rather depressing reflection.

This is spoken in voice-over by the old Rose DeWitt Bukater (from the movie "Titanic") on her protected, rich life that she had been living but not enjoying at the time of the fateful journey.

While she is saying this, images of her younger self, sitting through a formal first class dinner, play on the screen.

Answer: prison

In this quote from "Goodfellas", Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) reflects about one of the few high points that life behind bars has. This quote, continued with details of how the inmates prepared food and how each contributed a special skill, is also spoken as a self-reflecting voice-over, over the images of the food being prepared, just after Henry has submitted to being taken to jail.

Answer: life

Taken from the wisdom of the title character of 1994's "Forrest Gump", the full quote is "My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." It was said to a nurse at a bus stop, right at the beginning of the movie. This is really more Forrest, the autism sufferer, talking to himself, than to the nurse.

Answer: strangers

In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Blanche DuBois is an aging belle who suffers from self-delusion and alcohol abuse. Finally committed to a mental institution after having suffered rape, she remarks to her doctor: "Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers", summarizing her inability to manage her life in a rather resigned way.

Answer: hobbit

Which quiz about movie quotes would be complete without a line from the great one-person dialogs of Smeagol and Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy? This one is taken from the middle segment, "The Two Towers", with Gollum's dual personalities discussing whether he/they should trust the hobbits or not.

It is spoken by the "good" Smeagol personality as an argument why the "evil" Gollum should not try anything dishonest on Frodo. The distrust between Sam and Gollum is mutual and runs very deep.

Answer: Paris

In context, this quote from "Casablanca", said by Rick to Ilsa in a reminiscence of their time together in German-occupied Paris, is "We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we... we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night." She replies "When I said I would never leave you", thus re-establishing the loving relationship they cannot live due to Rick's role in liberating fugitives from the Nazi territories.

Answer: fight

In the historic epic "Gladiator" (2000), Emperor Marcus Aurelius wishes to reward General Maximus for another triumphant victory. "There is always someone left to fight. How can I reward Rome's greatest General?" Maximus replies he'd rather go home and end the bloodshed, but the ailing Emperor has a different vision - to make him his successor as protector of Rome, a fate that would not come to be when Commodus, the Emperor's son, kills his father the following night.

Answer: Force

In the original "Star Wars" trilogy, "May the Force be with you" is a customary goodbye phrase among the Rebel Alliance. Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and, after his death, his spiritual form use the more encouraging and definite variant in "A New Hope" several times, to reassure the young Luke Skywalker in the moments of greatest doubt, including the crucial final scene where his starfighter approaches the weak spot of the Death Star for a final chance at victory.

Answer: alone

From "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", Captain James T. Kirk gives us this quote to retroactively explain why he was so sure he would successfully get out of a dangerous rock climbing situation during a Yosemite shore leave - he was with his friends so, according to his beliefs, he could not be not in any mortal danger. Ultimately, Kirk is proven wrong as he would die in "Star Trek: Generations" (the seventh movie of the series) after fighting Soran, in the arms of his 24th century successor, Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Answer: needed

Ending this quiz on a truly inspiring quote, this is said by the good witch Glinda, from "The Wizard of Oz", to the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion. She explains that the protagonists, who each sought out the Wizard to request something they felt they sorely lacked, actually had the abilities they were so desperately seeking - they just needed to believe in themselves and unlock their abilities. Glinda follows this up with several examples of where these characters, during their journey, have demonstrated the very traits they believed they lack.