Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump:
Will you marry me?

Forrest Gump:
I'd make a good husband, Jenny.

Jenny Curran:
You would, Forrest.

Forrest Gump:
But you won't marry me.

Jenny Curran:
You don't wanna marry me.

Forrest Gump:
Why don't you love me, Jenny? I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

Forrest Gump:
I'm not a smart man. But I *know* what love is.

Forrest Gump:
Momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Forrest Gump:
Stupid is as stupid does.

Jenny Curran:
Run Forrest! Run!

Young Jenny Curran:
Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here.

Forrest Gump:
My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Mrs. Gump:
You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Forrest Gump:
Mama always said, dying was a part of life.

Forrest Gump:
Her dream had come true. She was a folk singer.

Forrest Gump:
When I was in China on the All-American Ping Pong team, I just loved playing ping-pong with my Flexolite ping pong paddle.

Forrest Gump:
Mama says they was magic shoes. They could take me anywhere.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:
Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?

Forrest Gump:
I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.

Forrest Gump:
Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing here?

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:
I'm here to try out my sea legs.

Forrest Gump:
But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.

Jenny Curran:
Do you think I could fly off this bridge, Forrest?

Forrest Gump:
What do you mean , Jenny?

Jenny Curran:
Nothing.

Forrest Gump:
Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.

Forrest Gump:
DONE, DRILL SERGEANT!

Drill Sergeant:
GUUUUUUMP! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?

Forrest Gump:
Because you told me to, Drill Sergeant?

Drill Sergeant:
Outstanding, Gump! This is a new company record! If it weren't such a waste of a fine enlisted man I'd recommend you for OCS! You are gonna be a general someday, Gump!

Bubba:
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

Bubba:
Have you ever been on a shrimp boat?

Forrest Gump:
No, but I've been on a real big boat.

Forrest Gump:
Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!

Mrs. Gump:
Life's a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

Forrest Gump:
Sometimes, I guess there's just not enough rocks.

Drill Sergeant:
Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army?

Forrest Gump:
To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant!

Drill Sergeant:
God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump. Listen up, people...

Forrest Gump:
Now for some reason I fit in the army like one of them round pegs. It's not really hard. You just make your bed real neat and remember to stand up straight and always answer every question with "Yes, drill sergeant."

Drill Sergeant:
...Is that clear?

Forrest Gump:
Yes, drill sergeant!

Fat Man at Bench:
It was a bullet, wasn't it?

Forrest Gump:
A bullet?

Fat Man at Bench:
That jumped up and bit you.

Forrest Gump:
Oh, yes sir. Bit me right in the buttocks. They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money 'cause I still haven't seen a nickel of that million dollars.

Forrest Gump:
I'm sorry I had to fight in the middle of your Black Panther party.

Bubba:
My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that?

Forrest Gump:
My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump:
We were like peas and carrots, Jenny and I.

Forrest Gump:
I'm sorry I ruined your New Year's Eve party, Lieutenant Dan. She tasted like cigarettes.

Jenny Curran:
His name's Forrest.

Forrest Gump:
Like me.

Jenny Curran:
I named him after his daddy.

Forrest Gump:
He got a daddy named Forrest, too?

Jenny Curran:
You're his daddy, Forrest.

Forrest Gump:
When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.

Elderly Southern Woman on Park Bench:
And so, you just ran?

Forrest Gump:
Yeah.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:
Where are you boys from in the world?

Forrest Gump:

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:
You twins?

Forrest Gump:
No, we are not relations, sir.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:
That's what all these cripples down at the VA talk about: Jesus this and Jesus that. They even had a priest come and talk to me. He said God is listening and if I found Jesus, I'd get to walk beside him in the kingdom of Heaven. Did you hear what I said? WALK beside him in the kingdom of Heaven! Well kiss my crippled ass. God is listening? What a crock of sh*t.

Forrest Gump:
Hello. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.

Recruit Officer:
Nobody gives a hunky sh*t who you are, pus ball. You're not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot. Get your faggoty ass on the bus, you're in the army now!

Jenny Curran:
Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?

Forrest Gump:
I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time.

Richard M. Nixon:
Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice president Ford will be sworn into office at that hour in this office.

Recruit Officer:
Have you given any thought to your future, son?

Forrest Gump:
"Thought"?

Forrest Gump:
We was always taking long walks, and we was always looking for a guy named "Charlie".

Forrest Gump:
The best thing about visiting the President is the food! Now, since it was all free, and I wasn't hungry but thirsty, I must've drank me fifteen Dr. Peppers.

Forrest Gump:
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

Forrest Gump:
Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing.

Forrest Gump:
It happens.

Forrest Gump:
Sometimes.

Dorothy Harris:
Are you coming along?

Young Forrest Gump:
Mama said not to be taking rides from strangers.

Dorothy Harris:
This is the bus to school.

Young Forrest Gump:
I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.

Dorothy Harris:
I'm Dorothy Harris.

Young Forrest Gump:
Well, now we ain't strangers anymore.

Jenny Curran:
Were you scared in Vietnam?

Forrest Gump:
Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out... and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water... like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It's so beautiful.

Jenny Curran:
I wish I could've been there with you.

Forrest Gump:
You were.

Forrest Gump:
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

Forrest Gump:
What's my destiny, Mama?

Mrs. Gump:
You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself.

Forrest Gump:
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going.

Forrest Gump:
I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both.

Forrest Gump:
In the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.

John Lennon:
No possessions?

Forrest Gump:
And in China they never go to church.

John Lennon:
No religion too?

Dick Cavett:
Ah. Hard to imagine.

John Lennon:
Well it's easy if you try, Dick.

Coach Bryant:
He may be the stupidest son of a b*tch, but damn, he sure is fast!

Mrs. Gump:
Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're no different than anybody else is. Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You're the same as everybody else. You are no different.

Mrs. Gump:
Well, we're all different, Mr. Hancock.

Mrs. Gump:
Vacation's when you go somewhere... and you don't ever come back.

Jenny Curran:
Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?

Forrest Gump:
Who I'm gonna be?

Jenny Curran:
Yeah.

Forrest Gump:
Aren't-aren't I going to be me?

Jenny Curran:
You can't keep trying to rescue me all the time.

Forrest Gump:
They was trying to grab you.

Jenny Curran:
A lot of people try to grab me.

Jenny Curran:
Can I have a ride?

Pickup-Truck Driver:
Where are you going?

Jenny Curran:
I don't care.

Forrest Gump:
He was from a long great military tradition. Somebody from his family had fought and died in every single American war. I guess you could say he had a lot to live up to.

Forrest Gump:
Lieutenant Dan was always getting these funny feelings about a rock or a trail or the road, so he'd tell us to get down, shut up.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:
Get down! Shut up!

Forrest Gump:
So we did.

Forrest Gump:
There was Dallas, from Phoenix; Cleveland - he was from Detroit; and Tex... well, I don't remember where Tex come from.

Jenny Curran:
Run, Forrest! Run!

Forrest Gump:
Forrest, don't...

Forrest Gump:
I just wanted to tell you I love you.

Forrest Gump Jr.:
I love you too, Daddy.

Forrest Gump:
You could come home with me, to my house in Greenbow, Jenny, you and little Forrest. If you're sick I'll take care of you.

Jenny Curran:
Will you marry me, Forrest?

Forrest Gump:
Okay...

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:
I never thanked you for saving my life.

Young Jenny Curran:
You can sit next to me, if ya like

Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what your gonna get.

Forrest:
And then Bubba said somethin Ill never forget

Bubba:
I-I wana go home

Forrest Gump:
Mama always said... "Life is like a box of chocolates— you never know what you're gonna get." Mama was a real smart lady."

Forest:
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

He got a daddy named Forrest, too?

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] You know, it's funny what a young man recollects. 'Cause I don't remember being born. I, I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But, I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.

Young Jenny:
You can sit here if you want.

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel.

Young Jenny:
Well, are you gonna sit down, or aren't ya?

[Young Forrest sits down next to Jenny]

Young Jenny:
What's wrong with your legs?

Young Forrest:
Um, nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy.

Young Jenny:
Then why do you have those shoes on?

Young Forrest:
Momma says my back is as crooked as a question mark. These shoes are gonna make me as straight as an arrow. They're my magic shoes.

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] I just sat next to her on that bus and had conversation all the way to school. And next to Momma, no one ever talked to me or asked me questions.

Young Jenny:
Are you stupid or something?

Young Forrest:
Momma says stupid is as stupid does.

Young Jenny:
I'm Jenny.

Young Forrest:
I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] From that day on, we was always together. Jenny and me was like peas and carrots.

Forrest Gump:
Hello. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.

Recruit Officer:
Nobody gives a horse's sh*t who you are, fuzzball! You're not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot! Get your faggoty ass on the bus, you're in the Army now!

[Forrest quickly gets on the Army bus.]

Recruit #1:
Seat's taken.

Recruit #2:
Taken.

Forrest Gump:
[describing his induction] At first it seemed like I made a mistake, seeing how it was my induction day and I was already gettin' yelled at.

Bubba Blue:
You can sit down... if you want to.

[Forrest sits down next to Bubba.]

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] I didn't know who I might meet or what they might ask?

Bubba Blue:
Have you ever been on a real shrimp boat?

Forrest Gump:
No, but I've been on a real big boat.

Bubba Blue:
I'm talkin' about a shrimp-catchin' boat. I've been workin' on shrimp boats all my life. I started out on my uncle's boat, that's my mother's brother, when I was maybe about nine. I was just lookin' into buyin' a boat of my own and got drafted. My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me "Bubba." Just like one o' them ol' redneck boys; can you believe that?

Forrest Gump:
My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] So Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and his momma cooked shrimp. And her momma before her cooked shrimp. And her momma before her momma cooked shrimp, too. Bubba family knew everything there was to know about the shrimpin' business.

Bubba Blue:
I know ever'thing there is to know about the shrimpin' business. Matter of fact, I'm goin' into the shrimpin' business for myself after I get out o' the Army.

Forrest Gump:
Okay.

[The recruits are stripping down and reassembling their M-14 rifles; Forrest finishes well ahead of the others]

Forrest Gump:
Done, Drill Sergeant!

Drill Sergeant:
[off screen] GUMP! [Hurrying over] Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?!

Forrest Gump:
You told me to, Drill Sergeant.

Drill Sergeant:
[Looks at a stopwatch he is holding] Jesus H. Christ! This is a new company record. If it wouldn't be a waste of such a damn fine enlisted man, I'd recommend you for OCS, Private Gump! You are gonna be a general someday, Gump! Now, disassemble your weapon and continue!

Lt. Dan Taylor:
There are two standing rules in this outfit. One, take care of your feet. Two, don't go doing something stupid, like getting yourself killed!

Forrest Gump:
[to Bubba] I sure hope I don't let him down.

Bubba Blue:
I'm gonna lean up against you, you just lean right back against me. This way, we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud. You know why we a good partnership, Forrest? 'Cause we be watchin' out for one another. Like brothers and stuff. Hey, Forrest, there's somethin' I've been thinkin' about. I got a very important question to ask you. How would you like to go into the shrimpin' business with me?

Forrest Gump:
Okay.

Bubba Blue:
Man, I tell you what, I got it all figured out, too. So many pounds of shrimp to pay off the boat, so many pounds for gas, we can just live right on the boat. We ain't got to pay no rent. I'll be the captain; we can just work it together. Split everything right down the middle. Man, I'm tellin' you, fifty-fifty. And, hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat.

Forrest Gump:
That's a fine idea.

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] Bubba did have a fine idea.

Dick Cavett:
Here he is, Forrest Gump. Right here. Mr. Gump, have a seat. Forrest Gump, John Lennon.

John Lennon:
Welcome home.

Cavett:
You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?

Forrest Gump:
Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.

Lennon:
No possessions?

Gump:
And in China they never go to church.

Lennon:
No religion, too?

Cavett:
Ah, it's hard to imagine.

Lennon:
Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.

Gump:
[narrating] Some time later, that nice young man from England was coming home to see his little boy, and he was signin' some autographs when, for no reason at all, somebody shot him.

[John Lennon's picture fades into snow.]

Forrest Gump:
What's the matter, Momma?

Mrs. Gump:
I'm dyin', Forrest. Come on in, sit down over here.

Forrest Gump:
Why are you dyin', Momma?

Mrs. Gump:
It's my time. It's just my time. Oh, now, don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. It's something we're all destined to do. I didn't know it, but I was destined to be your momma. I did the best I could.

Forrest Gump:
You did good, Momma.

Mrs. Gump:
Well, I happened to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Forrest Gump:
What's my destiny, Momma?

Mrs. Gump:
You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

Mrs. Gump:
I will miss you, Forrest.

Forrest Gump:
[narrating] She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. And that's all I have to say about that.

Two men sitting in the diner- see Forrest run by

" that boy is just a running fool"

Forrest- Jenny showed me how to climb, I showed her how to dangle

"and that's all I have to say about that."

Sometimes they just ain't enough rocks

Forrest Gump:
Now, when I was a baby, Momma named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we was related to him in some way. And what he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. They'd all dress up in their robes and their bedsheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something. They'd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around. And anyway, that's how I got my name, Forrest Gump. Momma said that the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.

Forrest Gump:
[at Jenny and her boyfriend] You know what I think? I think you should go home to Greenbow, ALABAMA!

Forrest Gump:
Yes, drill sergeant!

Forrest Gump:
Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, and a national celebrity, and a shrimpin' boat captain, and a college graduate, the city of fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get together and offered me a fine job. So I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan, though he did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company. And so then I got a call from him saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said "That's good. One less thing." Now, Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off. So, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Foursquare Gospel Church and I gave a whole bunch to the Bayou La Batre Fishing Hospital. And even though Bubba was dead, and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, I gave Bubba's momma Bubba's share. And you know what? She didn't have to work in nobody's kitchen no more. And 'cause I was gazillionaire and I liked doing it so much, I cut that grass for free. But at nighttime, when there was nothing to do and the house was all empty, I'd always think of Jenny. And then, she was there.

Forrest Gump:
[to Jenny's grave] You died on a Saturday morning and I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. [begins to cry] He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. [puts letter at foot of tombstone] Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. [voice shakes] Jenny? Is that you? Jenny! I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.

Lt. Dan Taylor:
Now, you listen to me. We all have a destiny. Things don't just happen, it's all part of a plan.

Lt. Dan Taylor:
You'll never... sink this boat! Come on! You call this a storm?! Blow, you son of a b*tch! It's time for a showdown! You and me! I'm right here! Come and get me! You'll never... sink... this... BOAT!

Fisherman:
Well, how’d ya do?

Forrest:
I caught 5.

Fisherman:
Well, catch a couple more and you can have yourself a cocktail.

Lieutenant Dan, you ain't got no legs

– Forrest Gump

[Jenny and Forrest are talking about their son, Forrest Jr.]

Jenny:
Isn't he beautiful?

Forrest Gump:
He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...but... [uneasily] is- is he s- smart, or did he... [gesturing towards self]

Jenny:
He's very smart. He's one of the smartest in his class.

[Forrest, though holding back tears, sighs in relief]

Forrest Gump:
[recalling saving Lt. Dan; we see him carrying Dan away through the jungle.] [narrating] Then it felt like somethin' just jumped up and bit me! [A muzzle flash is briefly visible from the trees as a gunshot rings out; Forrest is hit in the rear] OW! SOMETHING BIT ME!