Now, don't you do that. Don't infect him with the idea that it's okay to quit. That it's okay to be a failure, because it's not okay.

— Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård)

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10 seconds sound clip from the Good Will Hunting movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:44:57 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Because any one of them, if you asked them to, would take a fuckin' bat to your head. Okay? That's called loyalty.

- Yeah, that's very touching.

- And who is he handling? He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defence mechanism, all right?

- And for 20 years he's been alone because of that.

- And if you push him right now, it's gonna be the same thing all over again. And I'm not gonna let that happen to him.

- Now, don't you do that. Don't infect him with the idea that it's okay to quit. That it's okay to be a failure, because it's not okay.

- And if you're angry at me for being successful, for being what you could have been...

- I'm not angry at you.

- Oh, yes, you're angry at me, Sean. You resent me.

- But I'm not gonna apologize for any, any success I've had.

- You're angry at me for doing what you could have done.

[...]

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