OneLiner — July 3, 2026
Three movie quotes from this date. Featuring Moana (2016), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Requiem for a Dream (2000).
The ocean chose you for a reason.
Answer: Moana ()
Disney's 2016 Polynesian voyaging tale, with Auli'i Cravalho in the title role and Dwayne Johnson as Maui. Gramma Tala delivers the line. Lin-Manuel Miranda co-wrote the songs.
Madness! Madness!
Answer: The Bridge on the River Kwai ()
The final line of David Lean's 1957 war epic, spoken as the bridge is destroyed. Won seven Oscars including Best Picture. Alec Guinness's Colonel Nicholson is one of cinema's great obsessives.
I'm going to be on television.
Answer: Requiem for a Dream ()
Ellen Burstyn's Sara Goldfarb repeats it as her diet-pill addiction spirals. Darren Aronofsky's 2000 adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr. Burstyn earned an Oscar nomination.