Shawshank Redemption - "Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying."

35

Think you'll ever get out of here?

Me?

Yeah.

One day, when I got

a long, white beard

and two or three marbles

rolling around upstairs.

I tell you where I'd go.

Zihuatanejo.

Say what?

Zihuatanejo.

It's in Mexico.

A little place on the Pacific Ocean.

You know what the Mexicans say

about the Pacific?

They say it has no memory.

That's where I want to live

the rest of my life.

A warm place with no memory.

Open up a little hotel

right on the beach.

Buy some worthless old boat

and fix it up new.

Take my guests out

charter fishing.

Zihuatanejo.

In a place like that, I could use

a man that knows how to get things.

I don't think I could make it

on the outside.

I been in here most of my life.

I'm an institutional man now.

Just like Brooks was.

You underestimate yourself.

I don't think so.

In here I'm the guy who can get things

for you, sure, but

outside all you need

is the Yellow Pages.

Hell, I wouldn't know

where to begin.

Pacific Ocean?

Shit.

Scare me to death,

something that big.

Not me.

I didn't shoot my wife,

and I didn't shoot her lover.

Whatever mistakes I made,

I've paid for them and then some.

That hotel, that boat

I don't think that's too much to ask.

You shouldn't be doing this to yourself.

This is just shitty pipe dreams.

Mexico is way down there

and you're in here

and that's the way it is.

Yeah, right.

That's the way it is.

It's down there and I'm in here.

I guess it comes down

to a simple choice.

Get busy living

or get busy dying.