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[Inmates are working on the roof of the prison plate factory spreading tar; as they are, Byron Hadley is talking to some of the other guards] Byron Hadley: So, this big-shot lawyer calls me long-distance from Texas. I say, "Yeah?" He says, "Sorry to inform you, but your brother just died." Youngblood: Oh, damn. Byron, I'm sorry to hear that. Byron Hadley: I'm not. He was an asshole. Ran off years ago. Figured him for dead anyway. So anyway, this lawyer fellow says to me, "Your brother died a rich man. Oil wells and shit. Close to a million bucks. Trout: A million bucks? Byron Hadley: Yeah, fuckin' incredible how lucky some assholes get. Trout: Jeez-Louise, you gonna see any of that? Byron Hadley: Thirty-five thousand. That's what he left me. Trout: Dollars? Byron Hadley: Yup. Trout: Holy shit! That's great! That's like winning the sweepstakes! Isn't it? Byron Hadley: Dumb shit, what you think the government's gonna do to me? Take a big, wet bite out of my ass is what. Heywood: Poor Byron. Terrible fuckin' luck, huh? Red: Crying shame. Some people really got it awful. [Red glances over to see Andy looking in the guards' direction, listening to them talk] Andy, are you nuts? Keep your eyes on your mop, man! Trout: [continues talking to Hadley] Well, all right. You're gonna pay some tax, but you'll still end up... Byron Hadley: Oh, yeah, yeah. Maybe enough to buy a new car, and then what? I gotta pay tax on the car. Repair, maintenance, goddamn kids pestering you to take them for a ride all the time. Then at the end of the year, you figure the tax wrong, you gotta pay 'em out of your own pocket. I tell you, Uncle Sam. He puts his hand in your shirt and squeezes your tit till it's purple. [Andy, still listening, starts walking in Hadley's direction.] Red: Andy. Andy! Floyd: Gettin' himself killed. Heywood: Keep tarrin'. Byron Hadley: Some brother. Shit. Youngblood: [sees Andy approaching, points and cocks his rifle] Hey! Andy: Mr. Hadley, do you trust your wife? Byron Hadley: [pulls out his baton] Oh, that's funny. You're gonna look funnier suckin' my dick with no teeth. Andy: What I mean is, do you think she'd go behind your back, try to hamstring you? Byron Hadley: That's it. Step aside, Mert, this fucker's having himself an accident! [Hadley grabs Andy by the collar of his shirt and begins dragging him towards the edge of the roof.] Heywood: He'll push him off the roof! Andy: Because if you do trust her, there's no reason you can't keep that thirty-five thousand! Byron Hadley: [stops, holding Andy over the edge of the roof] What did you say? Andy: Thirty-five thousand. Byron Hadley: Thirty-five thousand? Andy: All of it. Byron Hadley: All of it?! Andy: Every penny. Byron Hadley: You better start making sense. Andy: If you want to keep all that money, give it to your wife. The IRS allows a one-time-only gift to your spouse for up to sixty-thousand. Byron Hadley: Bullshit! Tax free? Andy: Tax free. IRS can't touch one cent. Byron Hadley: You're that smart banker what killed his wife, aren't you? Why should I believe a smart banker like you? So I can wind up in here with you? Andy: It's perfectly legal, go ask the IRS; they'll say the same thing. Actually, I feel stupid telling you this. I'm sure you would've investigated the matter yourself. Byron Hadley: Yeah, fuckin' A'! I don't need no smart, wife-killin' banker to tell me where the bear shit in the buckwheat! Andy: Of course not. But you do need someone to set up the tax-free gift for you. That'll cost you. A lawyer, for example. Byron Hadley: Bunch of ball-washing bastards! Andy: Right. I suppose I could set it up for you. That would save you some money. If you get the forms, I'll prepare them for you, nearly free of charge. I'd only ask three beers apiece for each of my co-workers. Trout: [chuckles] "Co-workers"! Get him! That's rich, ain't it? Andy: I think a man working outdoors feels more like a man if he can have a bottle of suds. That's only my opinion... sir. Byron Hadley: [turns to the other inmates] What are you jimmies starin' at?! Back to work! Heywood: Let's go, work! [The inmates resume their work. Hadley glares back at Andy but says nothing and releases his grip on him and pushes him back towards the others.] – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Red: [playing checkers with Andy] King me. Andy: Chess. Now there's a game of kings. Red: What? Andy: Civilized, strategic. Red: And a total fucking mystery. I hate it. Andy: Well, maybe you'll let me teach you someday. Red: [chuckles] Sure. Andy: I've been thinking of getting a board together. Red: Well, hey, you're talking to the right man. I'm the guy that can get things, right? Andy: We might do business on a board, and I'll want to carve the pieces myself. One side in alabaster, the opposing side in soapstone. What do you think? Red: I think it'll take years. Andy: Well, years I got. What I don't have are the rocks. Pickings are pretty slim in the yard. Pebbles, mostly. Red: Andy, we're getting to be kind of friends, aren't we? Andy: Yeah, I guess. Red: Can I ask you something? Why'd you do it? Andy: I'm innocent, Red. Just like everybody else here. What are you in here for? Red: Murder. Same as you. Andy: Innocent? Red: Only guilty man in Shawshank. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Red: [about Norton] He's got his fingers in a lot of pies, from what I hear. Andy: What you hear isn't half of it. He's got scams you haven't even dreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks. There's a river of dirty money running through this place. Red: Yeah, but the problem with having all that money is sooner or later, you're gonna have to explain where it came from. Andy: Well, that's where I come in. I channel it, filter it, funnel it. Stocks, securities, tax free municipals. I send that money out into the real world and when it comes back... Red: Clean as a virgin's honeypot, huh? Andy: Cleaner. By the time Norton retires, I'll have made him a millionaire. Red: If they ever catch on, though, he'll wind up in here wearing a number himself. Andy: Oh, Red, I thought you had more faith in me than that. Red: I know you're good, Andy, but all that paper leaves a trail. Now, anybody gets curious, FBI, IRS, whatever, it's gonna lead to somebody. Andy: Sure it is, but not to me, and certainly not to the Warden. Red: All right, who? Andy: Randall Stevens. Red: Who? Andy: The "silent" silent partner. He's the guilty one, Your Honor, the man with the bank accounts. It's where the filtering process starts. They trace anything, it's just gonna lead to him. Red: But who is he? Andy: He's a phantom, an apparition. Second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit. I conjured him, out of thin air. He doesn't exist, except on paper. Red: Andy, you just can't make a person up. Andy: Sure you can, if you know how the system works, where the cracks are. It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail. Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate, driver's license, Social Security number. Red: You're shitting me. Andy: If they ever trace any of those accounts, they're gonna wind up chasing a figment of my imagination. Red: [smiles] Well, I'll be damned. Did I say you were good? Shit, you are Rembrandt. Andy: 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. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Norton: [after Andy tells him Tommy could prove Andy's innocence] I have to say, that's the most amazing story I ever heard. What amazes me most is that you were taken in by it. Andy: Sir? Norton: Well, it's obvious this fellow Williams is impressed with you. He hears your tale of woe and quite naturally, wants to cheer you up. He's young, not terribly bright. Not surprising he wouldn't know what a state he put you in. Andy: Sir, he's telling the truth. Norton: Well, let's say for the moment this Blatch does exist. You think he'd just fall to his knees and cry "Yes, I did it, I confess! Oh, and by the way, add a life term to my sentence." Andy: You know that wouldn't matter. With Tommy's testimony I can get a new trial. Norton: Well, that's assuming Blatch is still there. Chances are excellent he'd be released by now. Andy: Well they'd have his last known address, names of relatives. It's a chance, isn't it? [Norton shakes his head] How can you be so obtuse? Norton: What? What did you call me? Andy: Obtuse. Is it deliberate? Norton: Son, you're forgetting yourself. Andy: The country club will have his old time cards. Records, W-2s with his name on them. Norton: Dufresne, if you want to indulge this fantasy, that's your business. Don't make it mine. This meeting is over. Andy: Sir, if I ever get out, I'd never mention what happens here. I'd be just as indictable as you for laundering that money. Norton: [slams his fist on the table, stands angrily] Don't you ever mention money to me again, you sorry son of a bitch; not in this office, not anywhere! [presses buzzer on his desk] Get in here! Andy: I was just trying to set your mind at ease, that's all. Sir, I didn't-- Norton: [as guards enter] Solitary. A month! Guard: Yes, sir. [grabs Andy] Come on! [The guards start to drag Andy out of the office] Andy: What's the matter with you? Norton: Get him out of here. Andy: This is my chance to get out! Don't you see that?! It's my life! Don't you understand?! My life! Norton: Get him out! GET HIM OUT! – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Floyd: A month in the hole. That's longest damn stretch I ever heard of. Tommy: It's all my fault. Red: Oh, bullshit. You didn't pull the trigger, and you certainly didn't convict him. Heywood: Red, are you saying that Andy is innocent? I mean, for real innocent? Red: Well, it looks that way. Heywood: Sweet Jesus. How long has he been here now? Red: 1947. What is that, nineteen years? Heywood: Nineteen years... – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
[Tommy is led outside the prison walls into an open courtyard to talk with Norton] Norton: Tommy, I'm asking you to keep this conversation just between us. I feel awkward enough as it is. [Norton offers Tommy a cigarette and lights it for him] We got a situation here. I think you can appreciate that. Tommy: Yes, sir. I sure can. Norton: I tell you, son, this thing really came along and knocked my wind out. It's got me up nights; that's the truth. The right thing to do, sometimes it's hard to know what that is. Do you understand? [Tommy nods] I need your help, son. If I'm going to move on this, there can't be the least little shred of doubt. I have to know if what you told Dufresene was the truth. Tommy: Yes, sir. Absolutely. Norton: Would you be willing to swear before a judge and jury, having placed your hand on the Good Book and taken an oath before Almighty God himself? Tommy: Just give me that chance. Norton: That's what I thought. [Norton pats Tommy on the shoulder, drops his cigarette on the ground and stubs it out, and gestures to Hadley in the watchtower, who fires four shots at Tommy from his rifle, killing him.] – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
[Norton visits Andy in solitary after Tommy's murder] Norton: I'm sure by now you've heard. Terrible thing. Man that young, less than a year to go, trying to escape. Broke Captain Hadley's heart to shoot him. Truly it did. We just have to put it behind us... move on. Andy: I'm done. Everything stops. Get someone else to run your scams. Norton: Nothing stops. Nothing... or you will do the hardest time there is. No more protection from the guards. I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton and cast you down with the Sodomites. You'll think you've been fucked by a train. And the library? Gone... sealed off, brick-by-brick. We'll have us a little book barbecue in the yard. They'll see the flames for miles. We'll dance around it like wild Injuns. You understand me? Catching my drift... or am I being obtuse? [beat, to Hadley] Give him another month to think about it. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Andy: My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She was beautiful. God, I loved her. I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger. But I drove her away. And that's why she died, because of me. The way I am. Red: [sits next to Andy] That don't make you a murderer. A bad husband, maybe. Feel bad about it if you want to, but you didn't pull the trigger. Andy: No, I didn't. Somebody else did. And I wound up in here. [scoffs] Bad luck, I guess. Red: [sighs] Yeah. Andy: It floats around. It's got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. [sighs] I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. Think you'll ever get out of here? Red: Me? [sighs] Yeah, one day when I got a long, white beard and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs, they'll let me out. Andy: I tell you where I'd go. Zihuatanejo. Red: Say what? Andy: Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? Red: No. Andy: They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. 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. Red: Zihuatanejo. Andy: In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things. Red: I don't think I could make it on the outside, Andy. I been in here most of my life. I'm an institutional man now. Just like Brooks was. Andy: Well, you underestimate yourself. Red: I don't think so. In here, I'm the guy who can get things for you, sure, but outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. Hell, I wouldn't know where to begin. Pacific Ocean? Shit. Might scare me to death, something that big. Andy: Not me. I didn't shoot my wife, and I didn't shoot her lover. Whatever mistakes I made, I've paid for them and then some. That hotel, that boat, I don't think that's too much to ask. Red: I don't think you ought to be doing this to yourself, Andy. This is just shitty pipe dreams. I mean, Mexico is way the hell down there and you're in here, and that's the way it is. Andy: Yeah, right. That's the way it is. It's down there and I'm in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. [stands to leave] Red: Andy. Andy: Red. If you ever get out of here, do me a favor. Red: Sure, Andy. Anything. Andy: There's a big hayfield up near Buxton. You know where Buxton is? Red: Well, there's... there's a lot of hayfields up there. Andy: One in particular. It's got a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end. It's like something out of a Robert Frost poem. It's where I asked my wife to marry me. We went there for a picnic and made love under that oak and I asked and she said yes. Promise me, Red. If you ever get out... find that spot. At the base of that wall, you'll find a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. Piece of black, volcanic glass. There's something buried under it I want you to have. Red: What, Andy? What's buried under there? Andy: You'll have to pry it up... to see. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Andy Dufresne: Yeah, right. That's the way it is. It's down there and I'm in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Andy Dufresne: Forget that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone, that there's a… there's something inside that they can't get to and they… they can't touch. It's yours. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Andy Dufresne: It was in here...in here. That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you. Haven't you ever felt that way about music? – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Andy Dufresne: 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. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Andy Dufresne: [Scrawled in a Bible he hollowed out to make space for the rock hammer he used to tunnel through his cell wall, and placed in the Warden's safe the night before his escape] "Dear Warden; You were right. Salvation lay within. Andy" – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Andy Dufresne: [in a letter] Dear Red, If you're reading this, you've gotten out. And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further. You remember the name of the town, don't you? I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready. Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. Your friend, Andy. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Andy Dufresne: Do you know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life; A warm place with no memory. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: There must be a con like me in every prison in America. I'm the guy who can get it for you: cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if that's your thing, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high school graduation, damn near anything within reason. Yes sir, I'm a regular Sears and Roebuck. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell, when those bars slam home, that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it. Most new fish come close to madness the first night. Somebody always breaks down crying. Happens every time. The only question is, who's it gonna be? It's as good a thing to bet on as any, I guess. I had my money on Andy Dufresne. I remember my first night. Seems like a long time ago. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: These prison walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. They send you here for life, that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyways. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure, and time. That and a big damn poster. Like I said, in prison, a man will do almost anything to keep his mind occupied. Turns out Andy's favorite hobby was totin' his wall out into the exercise yard, a handful at a time. I guess after Tommy was killed, Andy decided he'd been here just about long enough. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Andy did like he was told; buffed those shoes to a high mirror shine. The guards simply didn't notice. Neither did I... I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a man's shoes? Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine- or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields; just shy of half a mile. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side. Andy Dufresne, headed for the Pacific. Those of us who knew him best talk about him often. I swear, the stuff he pulled... Sometimes it makes me sad, though, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: I like to think the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was how the hell that Andy Dufrense ever got the best of him. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 2 years ago

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