Braveheart Quotes

• Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!

  Mel Gibson

  Movie, Running, Fighting

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• They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

  Mel Gibson

  Movie, Veterans Day, Freedom

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  There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it

  William Wallace

  Inspirational, Country, Freedom

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• We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.

  William Wallace

  Ends, Brave Heart

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• Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I

  William Wallace

  Country, Mean, Men

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• I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

  William Wallace

  Men, Given, Brave Heart

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• Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

  Robert the Bruce

  Liars, Hero, England

  "Fictional character: Robert the Bruce". "Braveheart", 1995.

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• When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

  Eddie Izzard

  People, Tears, Scottish

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• I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.

  Terry Pratchett

  Littles, Kingdoms, Tiny

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• I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.

  Kirk Cameron

  Moving, Inspiration, Hero

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• I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

  Channing Tatum

  Stars, War, Wish

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• I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

  Peter Mullan

  Cutting, Winning, Thinking

  "NEDS’ Director Peter Mullan Almost Helmed ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ (Until He Botched The Pitch)". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. April 27, 2011.

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• Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Cutting, Thinking, Want

  Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.303, MIRA

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• I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

  Brian Blessed

  Two, Climbing, Scotland

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• Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty.

  P. C. Cast

  School, Sleep, Sight

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion.

  Peter Mullan

  Real, Trainspotting, Directors

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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