Redemption Quote
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Ellis Boyd Redding, your files say you've served 40 years of a life sentence. Do you feel you've been rehabilitated?
Red: Rehabilitated?
Red: [sighs] Well now, let's see.
Red: [pauses] You know, I don't have any idea what that word means.
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means you are ready to rejoin society...
Red: [interrupting] I know what you think it means sonny.
Red: To me it's just a made-up word
Red: A politician's word; so, young fellows like yourself wear a suit and a tie... and have a job
Red: What do you really want to know?
Red: Am I sorry for what I did?
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, are you?
Red: There's not a dya goes by I don't feel regret.,
Red: Not because I'm in here and because you think I should.
Red: I look back on the way I was then... a stupid, young kid who committed that terrible crime.
Red: I want to talk to him.
Red: I want to try and talk some sense to him.
Red: Tell him the way things are, but I can't.
Red: That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.
Red: I gotta live with that.
Red: Rehabilitated?
Red: It's just a bull**** word.
Red: So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.
Red: Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a ****.
Red: Rehabilitated?
Red: [sighs] Well now, let's see.
Red: [pauses] You know, I don't have any idea what that word means.
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means you are ready to rejoin society...
Red: [interrupting] I know what you think it means sonny.
Red: To me it's just a made-up word
Red: A politician's word; so, young fellows like yourself wear a suit and a tie... and have a job
Red: What do you really want to know?
Red: Am I sorry for what I did?
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, are you?
Red: There's not a dya goes by I don't feel regret.,
Red: Not because I'm in here and because you think I should.
Red: I look back on the way I was then... a stupid, young kid who committed that terrible crime.
Red: I want to talk to him.
Red: I want to try and talk some sense to him.
Red: Tell him the way things are, but I can't.
Red: That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.
Red: I gotta live with that.
Red: Rehabilitated?
Red: It's just a bull**** word.
Red: So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.
Red: Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a ****.
Movie: Redemption
