- Antwone Fisher: It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.
- Jerome Davenport: "Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone / Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own"
- Antwone Fisher: "Who will cry for the little boy, he cried himself to sleep / Who will cry for the little boy, who never had it for keeps / Who will cry for the little boy, who walked on burning sands / Who will cry for the little boy, the boy inside a man / Who will cry for the little boy, who knew well hurt and pain / Who will cry for the little boy, who died and died again / Who will cry for the little boy, a good boy he tried to be / Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me"
- Jerome Davenport: Who will cry for the little boy Antwoine?
- Antwone Fisher: I will, I always do.
- Jerome Davenport: "Regard without ill-will despite an offense." That's Webster's definition of forgiveness.
- Antwone Fisher: Why do I have to forgive?
- Jerome Davenport: So you can get on with your life.
- Jerome Davenport: [last "question"] Are you hungry, sailor?
- Antwone Fisher: [last "conversation starter"] I could eat, sir.
- Antwone Fisher: Where's your wife?
- Jerome Davenport: She couldn't make it. Sends along her congratulations. A small gift for you.
- [hands Antwone a book]
- Antwone Fisher: [reads book cover] The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Thank you sir.
- Jerome Davenport: You're welcome.
- Jerome Davenport: Where'd you spend your childhood?
- Antwone Fisher: Cleveland.
- Jerome Davenport: Parents still live there?
- Antwone Fisher: I never had any parents.
- Jerome Davenport: They deceased?
- Antwone Fisher: I never - I never had parents.
- Jerome Davenport: That would make you a medical miracle, Seaman Fisher. Where you from?
- Antwone Fisher: I'm from under a rock.
- [pause]
- Jerome Davenport: Okay!
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