Oscar nominee and winner of 2025 Best Adapted Screenplay, Conclave follows Cardinal Lawrence, played by Ralph Fiennes, who is tasked with leading one of the world’s most secretive events, selecting a new Pope.

Here are the best quotes from Conclave:

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“Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. And let him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and who carries on.”

– Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes)

2.

“Although we sisters are supposed to be invisible, God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears.”

– Sister Agnes (Isabella Rossellini)

3.

Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes): Defeat? This is a conclave, Aldo. It’s not a war.

Bellini (Stanley Tucci): It is a war, and you have to commit to a side.

4.

“I’m sorry, but I cannot vote for a man unless I deem him the most worthy to be Pope. And for me, that is not Tremblay. It’s you.”

– Benitez (Carlos Diehz)

5.

“The church is not the past. It is what we do next.”

– Benitez (Carlos Diehz)

6.

“I am what God made me.”

– Benitez (Carlos Diehz)

7.

“I could never become Pope on those circumstances. A stolen document, the smearing of a brother cardinal. I’d be the Richard Nixon of Popes.”

– Bellini (Stanley Tucci)

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“Hell arrives tomorrow when we bring in the cardinals.”

– Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes)

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“Is this what we’re reduced to? To vote for the least worst option?”

– Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes)

10.

“Ambition the moth of holiness.”

– Bellini (Stanley Tucci)