Alive (1993)

Ethan Hawke: Nando Parrado

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Quotes 

• Nando : Between these mountains somewhere there's a green valley. See these mountains over here? There's no snow on them.

  Roberto Canessa : Those mountains must be fifty miles away. You think you can walk fifty miles?

  Nando : If we have to, we will.

  Roberto Canessa : I can't.

  Nando : Yes, you can.

  Roberto Canessa : I can't. I'm not as strong as you.

  Nando : Do you know what it is that we've lived this long the way we have? Seventy days? That we climbed this mountain. You know what it is? It's impossible. It's impossible and we did it. I'm proud to be a man on a day like this. Alive. That I lived to see it, and see it in such a place. Take it in. I love you, man. Look, it's magnificent. It's God. And it'll carry us over every stone, I swear. I swear to you.

• Roberto Canessa : We're gonna die, you know.

  Nando : Maybe. But if we die, we're gonna die walking.

• Nando : [addressing the survivors]  Okay, uh, I got something to tell you. Good news - they called off the search.

  Carlitos Páez : [everyone objects and argues]  Why the hell is that good news?

  Nando : Because it means we're gonna get out of here on our own.

• Felipe Restano : What's more important to you, rugby or girls?

  Nando : Girls. You?

  Felipe Restano : Girls.

  Nando : But when I'm playing rugby, rugby's the most important thing.

  Felipe Restano : Yeah, unless girls are watching.

  Nando : Right.

  [both Laugh] 

• Nando : [the search for the survivors has just been called off]  Better go tell the others.

  Antonio Balbi : I can't. It'll kill everybody's hope.

  Nando : [sighs]  Well, what's so great about hope?

• Nando : I'm proud to be a man on a day like this.