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Which character in "The Life of David Gale" said...

So you think you are a fan of "The Life of David Gale." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. I'm no more afraid of the Grim Reaper than I am of a Presbyterian on Mother's Day.

  2. [Giving a lecture to his college students] Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.

  3. You work so hard not to be seen as a sex object. Before long, you're not seen at all.

  4. Of course he sympathizes with murderers... he is one!

  5. 73% of all serial killers vote Republican

  6. [Giving a lecture to his college students] Living by your wants will never make you happy; what it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you ever attain in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.

  7. They wanted me to die knowing the key to my freedom was out there somewhere!

  8. [while drunk] Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, and, um, and Aristotle was a prissy dresser!

  9. Death is a gift.

  10. Hate's no fun if you keep it to yourself.

  11. We spend our whole lives trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. But there comes a point in life - a moment - when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift. You wonder. All I can tell you is that by this time tomorrow I'll be dead. I know when. I just can't say why. You have 24 hours to find out.

  12. This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness.