John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) with Billie “Blackbird” Frechette (Marion Cotillard) in a fancy restaurant in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies:

She feels uncomfortable, telling Johnny what’s on her mind: “They’re looking at me cause they’re not used to seeing a girl in their restaurant, in a 3 dollar dress.”

“Listen doll,” he says, “That’s cause they’re all about where people come from. The only thing that’s important is where someone’s going.”

“Where are you going?”

John Dillinger: “Anywhere I want.”

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• Title/Year: Public Enemies/2009
• Written by: Screenplay by Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman, Michael Mann
• Directed by: Michael Mann
• Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard

“God don’t care about you. Don’t care about me. In all of everything we don’t mean nothing. He don’t know us. We be. And that’s the onliest thing He did. But that’s good, that’s why we’re free. But free ain’t easy. Free is real. And real’s a motherfucker. It eats raw meat. It walks in its own shoes. It don’t even waiver. Yeah.”

Drew Bundini Brown to Muhammad Ali in Michael Mann’s Ali. (Photo: John Shearer).

If you think Ali felt depressed after this little speech, imagine how he’s gonna feel the next minute … when Bundini tells him he just sold his belt for 500 bucks to get some booze and smack. What belt? Oh, I forgot, it’s the one they give you when you become The Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World.

One question though, is this a motivational movie quote? I mean — for sure?

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• Title/Year: Ali/2001
• Written by: Screenplay by Michael Mann, Eric Roth, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson
• Directed by: Michael Mann
• Starring:Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Jada Pinkett Smith