Sinema tarihinin en iyi ikinci adamı olan Morgan Freeman 'dan kaynaklanmış olacak ki yıllardır bu film IMDB top 250 listesinde The Godfather filminin arkasında 2.film olarak kaldı. The Dark Knight filminin listelere dahil olup zirveleri biraz karıştırmasından faydalanmış olacak ki o makus talihini yendi ve 1. sıraya yükseldi. ileriki zamanlar neyi gösterir bilinmez.

Forrest Gump: Will you marry me?
Forrest Gump: I'd make a good husband, Jenny.
Jenny Curran: You would, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: ...But you won't marry me.
Jenny Curran: ... You don't wanna marry me.
Forrest Gump: Why don't you love me, Jenny?
Forrest Gump: I'm not a smart man... but I know what love is.

Mathilda: Leon, I think I'm kinda falling in love with you.
Mathilda: It's the first time for me, you know?

Léon: How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?

Mathilda: 'Cause I feel it.

Léon: Where?

Mathilda: In my stomach. It's all warm. I always had a knot there and now... it's gone.

Léon: Mathilda, I'm glad you don't have a stomach ache any more. I don't think it means anything.