The dialogue in Good Will Hunting cuts deep because it’s raw, unfiltered, and full of emotional truth. The film doesn’t rely on big speeches for drama—it leans into quiet revelations, devastating honesty, and intimate confrontations that feel achingly real. The quotes stay with us because they speak to the parts of ourselves that we rarely articulate. They don’t just sound good—they feel true.
Here are the best quotes from Good Will Hunting:
1.
“Personally… I don’t give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can’t learn anything from you, I can’t read in some fuckin’ book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I’m fascinated. I’m in. But you don’t want to do that do you sport? You’re terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.”
– Sean (Robin Williams)
2.
“If I ask you about women, you’d probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy.”
– Sean (Robin Williams)
3.
“I’d ask you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. “
– Sean (Robin Williams)
4.
“I just slid my ticket across the table, and I said, ‘Sorry, guys; I gotta see about a girl.’”
– Sean (Robin Williams)
5.
“It’s not your fault.”
– Sean (Robin Williams)
6.
“You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal. That’s what intimacy is all about. Now you can know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you’re finding’ out that one is by giving’ it a shot.”
– Sean (Robin Williams)
7.
“You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you’re always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.”
– Sean (Robin Williams)
8.
“Yeah, but those are the things I miss the most. Those little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about. That’s what made her my wife. Boy, and she had the goods on me too. She knew all my little peccadillos. People call these things “imperfections,” but they’re not. That’s the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.”
– Sean (Robin Williams)
9.
“Yeah, but those are the things I miss the most. Those little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about. That’s what made her my wife. Boy, and she had the goods on me too. She knew all my little peccadillos. People call these things “imperfections,” but they’re not. That’s the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.”
– Sean (Robin Williams)
10.
“Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you, is that your thing, you come into a bar, read some obscure passage and then pretend – you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girls, embarrass my friends? See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you’re gonna start doin’ some thinkin’ on your own and you’re going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don’t do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin’ education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!
– Will (Matt Damon)