Susan Sarandon aufgeführt in der Rolle von...
Sister Helen Prejean
- Prison Guard: Tell me something, Sister. What is a nun doing in a place like this? Shouldn't you be teaching children? Do you know what this man has done? How he killed them kids?
- Sister Helen Prejean: What he was involved with was evil. I don't condone it. I just don't see the sense of killing people to say killing people's wrong.
- Prison Guard: You know how the Bible says "an eye for an eye."
- Sister Helen Prejean: You know what else the Bible asks for? Death as a punishment for adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, trespass upon sacred ground, profaning the Sabbath, and contempt of parents.
- Prison Guard: I ain't gonna get into no Bible quoting with no nun, 'cause I'm gonna lose.
- Sister Helen Prejean: You are a son of God.
- Matthew Poncelet: [in tears] Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before.
- [laughs slightly]
- Matthew Poncelet: I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.
- Sister Helen Prejean: I want the last face you see in this world to be the face of love, so you look at me when they do this thing. I'll be the face of love for you.
- Sister Helen Prejean: Show me some respect, Matthew.
- Matthew Poncelet: Why? 'Cause you're a nun?
- Sister Helen Prejean: Because I'm a person.
- Matthew Poncelet: I like rebels. Some blacks is ok. Martin Luther King, he led his people all the way to DC and kicked the white man's butt.
- Sister Helen Prejean: You respect Martin Luther King?
- Matthew Poncelet: He put up a fight. He wasn't lazy.
- Sister Helen Prejean: What about lazy whites?
- Matthew Poncelet: Don't like 'em.
- Sister Helen Prejean: So it's lazy people you don't like?
- Sister Helen Prejean: Look at you. Death is looking down your neck, and you're playing your little male come-on games.
- Sister Colleen: If Matt dies, guess who he'll be buried next to?
- Sister Helen Prejean: Who's the last person to die?
- Sister Colleen: Sister Celestine.
- Sister Helen Prejean: Oh Lord.
- Sister Colleen: You remember when that sweet little girl in the convent came after her wedding day to introduce her husband to us?
- Sister Helen Prejean: Sister Celestine said, "I'm glad I never had to share my bed with a man."
- Sister Colleen: She loved her celibacy so much.
- Sister Helen Prejean: I know. She's gonna be lying next to a man for all eternity.
- Clyde Percy: How can you stand next to him?
- Sister Helen Prejean: Mr. Percy, I'm just trying to follow the example of Jesus, who said that a person is not as bad as his worst deed.
- Clyde Percy: This is not a person. This is an animal.