Antwone Fisher Quotes

  • Antwone Fisher: It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

  • [Antwone's all-purpose conversation starter]

    Antwone Fisher: I could eat.

  • [last lines]

    Jerome Davenport: Are you hungry, sailor?

    Antwone Fisher: I could eat, sir.

  • Jerome Davenport: Where'd you spend your childhood?

    Antwone Fisher: Cleveland.

    Jerome Davenport: Parents still live there?

    Antwone Fisher: I never had any parents.

    Jerome Davenport: They deceased?

    Antwone Fisher: I never - I never had parents.

    Jerome Davenport: That would make you a medical miracle, Seaman Fisher. Where you from?

    Antwone Fisher: I'm from under a rock.

    [pause]

    Jerome Davenport: Okay!

  • Jerome Davenport: "Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone / Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own"

    Antwone Fisher: "Who will cry for the little boy, he cried himself to sleep / Who will cry for the little boy, who never had it for keeps / Who will cry for the little boy, who walked on burning sands / Who will cry for the little boy, the boy inside a man / Who will cry for the little boy, who knew well hurt and pain / Who will cry for the little boy, who died and died again / Who will cry for the little boy, a good boy he tried to be / Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me"

    Jerome Davenport: Who will cry for the little boy Antwoine?

    Antwone Fisher: I will, I always do.

  • Jerome Davenport: "Regard without ill-will despite an offense." That's Webster's definition of forgiveness.

    Antwone Fisher: Why do I have to forgive?

    Jerome Davenport: So you can get on with your life.

  • Antwone Fisher: Where's your wife?

    Jerome Davenport: She couldn't make it. Sends along her congratulations. A small gift for you.

    [hands Antwone a book]

    Antwone Fisher: [reads book cover] The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Thank you sir.

    Jerome Davenport: You're welcome.