Lions for Lambs (2007)

Robert Redford: Professor Stephen Malley

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• Professor Stephen Malley : The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore.

  Todd Hayes : Are you assuming I already made a decision? And also that I'll live to regret it?

  Professor Stephen Malley : All I'm saying is that you're an adult now... And the tough thing about adulthood is that it starts before you even know it starts, when you're already a dozen decisions into it. But what you need to know, Todd, no Lifeguard is watching anymore. You're on your own. You're your own man, and the decisions you make now are yours and yours alone from here until the end.

• Professor Stephen Malley : [to Todd metaphorically]  Rome is burning. And the problem is not just with the people who started it. They're past irredeemable. The problem's with all of us who do nothing.

• Professor Stephen Malley : [quoting a German General]  Nowhere else have I seen such lions led by such lambs.

• Professor Stephen Malley : You're good with words, Todd. But you know what would make them even better? If they had a heartbeat.

• Professor Stephen Malley : You know, professors aren't teachers, they're salesman.

  Todd Hayes : Okay, so what do you sell?

  Professor Stephen Malley : You, to you.

• Professor Stephen Malley : Have you ever been to Greece?

  Todd Hayes : Greece? No.

  Professor Stephen Malley : No, because their government makes ours look like a streamlined version of the future.