Aaron Eckhart Quotes

Jack Do you hear that?

Nick Naylor No.

Jack Exactly!

Dr. Elizabeth Davis First Officer Skiles, is there anything you would have done differently?

Jeff Skiles Yes. I would've done it in July.

Serge Leveque Excuse me Dr. Brazzelton, when do you think the ship will be operational?

Dr. Ed Braz Brazzelton When I get my fabrication methods perfected, twelve... ten years. Ten years.

General Thomas Percell What would it take to get it done in three months?

Dr. Ed Braz Brazzelton $50 billion, I...

General Thomas Percell Will you take a cheque?

Dr. Josh Keyes You should use a credit card. You get miles.

General Thomas Percell Hmm.

Jeff Skiles The ribeye will break your heart.

Chesley Sully Sullenberger I'm more of a Porterhouse Man.

Jeff Skiles Porterhouse will stop your heart.

James Gordon I'm sorry about Rachel. The doctor says you’re in agonizing pain, but won't accept medication. That you're refusing to accept skin grafts.

Harvey Dent Remember that name you all had for me when I was in Internal Affairs? What was it, Gordon?

Gordon Harvey, I—

Dent Say it...SAY IT!

Gordon Two-Face. Harvey Two-Face.

Dent Why should I hide who I am?

Gordon I know you tried to warn me. I'm sorry. Wuertz picked you up. Was he working for them? You know who picked up Rachel? Harvey, I need to know which of my men I can trust.

Dent Why would you listen to me now?

Gordon I'm sorry, Harvey.

Dent No. No, you're not. Not yet.

Nick Naylor In 1910, the US was producing ten billion cigarettes a year, by 1930 we were up to one hundred twenty three billion, what happened in between? Three things: a ], Dieting and movies. 1927, talking pictures are born. Suddenly directors need to give their actors something to do while they're talking. Cary Grant and Carole Lombard are lighting up, Bette Davis, a chimney, and Bogart, remember the first picture with him and Lauren Bacall? She sort of shimmies in through the doorway. Nineteen years old. Pure sex. She says "Anyone got a match?" and Bogie throws the matches at her... and she catches them. Greatest romance in the century, how did it start? Lighting a cigarette. In these days, when someone smokes in the movies, they're either a psychopath... or an European. The message that Hollywood needs to send out is "Smoking is Cool!". We need the cast of, uh, ] smoking in their living room, ] puffing away between his box of chocolates, ] earning back the love of ] by buying her favorite brand - her Virginia Slims. Most of the actors smoke already. If they start doing it on screen... We can put the sex back into cigarettes.

Jeff Megall Do you know what time it is in Tokyo, Nick?

Nick Naylor No.

Jeff Megall 4 pm tomorrow. It's the future, Nick. Anyway for Pitt to smoke it's 10 million, for the pair it's 25.

Nick Naylor 25?! Usually when I buy 2 of something I get a discount. What's the extra 5 for?

Jeff Megall Synergy. These are not stupid people, they got it right away. Pitt and Zeta-Jones lighting up after some cosmic fucking in the bubble suite's gonna sell a lot of cigarettes.

Nick Naylor Well for that kind of money, my people will expect some very serious smoking. Can Brad blow smoke rings?

Jeff Megall I don't have that information.

Nick Naylor Well for 25 million, we'd want smoke rings.

Jeff Megall Oh, one other thing. You'll be co-financing this picture with the Sultan of Glutan.

Nick Naylor The Sultan of Glutan, the one that massacred and enslaved his own people? Aren't they calling him the Hitler of the South Pacific?

Jeff Megall I can't speak to that. In all my dealings with him he's been a very reasonable and sensitive guy, he's fun, you'll like him. Oh, thats London calling, it's 7 am in the old empire.

Nick Naylor Jeff, when do you sleep?

Jeff Megall Sunday.

Nick Naylor After watching the footage of the Kent State shootings, Bobby Jay, then seventeen, signed up for the National Guard so that he too could shoot college students. But, the National Guard recruiter was out to lunch, so Bobby Jay ended up shooting Panamanians instead. Which was almost as good as college students, only they shoot back.

Nick Naylor Everyone's got a mortgage to pay. The Yuppie Nuremberg defense.

Nick Naylor Now, what we need is a smoking role model, a real winner.

Jeff Megall ] meets ].

Nick Naylor Right, on two packs a day.

Adam I'm a dozen different parts of eight different corpses. I'm a monster.

Terra You're only a monster if you behave like one.

Jeff Skiles Can you believe they charge $5 for a snickers? I could bankrupt the airline in about four bites.

Nick Naylor I speak on behalf of cigarettes.

Child My mommy says that cigarettes kill.

Nick Naylor Now, is your mommy a doctor?

Child No.

Nick Naylor A scientific researcher of some kind?

Child No.

Nick Naylor Now, she doesn't exactly sound like a credible expert now, does she?

Nick Naylor Look at it this way. How many you want to be lawyers? Lawyers earn money to talk.

Nick Naylor OK, let me try this again. How many of you want to be movie stars?

Multiple children Yes!

Nick Naylor Movie stars get paid to talk! That is what I do, I talk.

Batman You'd leave a man's life to chance?

Harvey Dent Not exactly.

Batman His name's Schiff, Thomas. He's a paranoid schizophrenic. Former patient at Arkham - the kind of mind the Joker attracts. What do you expect to learn from him?

Dent The Joker killed Gordon. He's gonna kill Rachel!

Batman You're the symbol of hope I could never be. Your stand against organized crime is the first legitimate ray of light in Gotham in decades. If anyone saw this, everything would be undone. All the criminals you pulled off the streets would be released, and Jim Gordon will have died for nothing. You're going to hold a press conference, tomorrow morning.

Dent Why?

Batman No one else will die because of me. Gotham's in your hands now.

Dent You can't. You can't give in! YOU CAN'T GIVE IN!

Joey What happens when you're wrong?

Nick Naylor See, Joey, that's the beauty of argument. When you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Jeff Skiles You've got to be kidding me. We've been through all this before.

Charles Porter Look, I'm sorry if you're frustrated, but our job is to investigate how a plane ended up in the Hudson River.

Jeff Skiles On the Hudson River.

Jeff Megall Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they're looking to make, Message from Sector Six.

Nick Naylor Cigarettes in space?

Jeff Megall It's the final frontier, Nick.

Nick Naylor But wouldn't they blow up in an all-oxygen environment?

Jeff Megall Probably. But, you know, it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue: "Thank God we created the, you know, whatever device." You ought to make a product to tie in with the movie, such as a new brand of cigarettes.

Nick Naylor Sector Sixes?

Jim Gordon I hear you've got a hell of a right cross. It’s a shame Sal's going to walk.

Harvey Dent Well, good thing about the mob is they keep giving you second chances. Lightly irradiated bills. Fancy stuff for a city cop. Have help?

Gordon We liaise with various agencies-

Dent Save it, Gordon. I want to meet him.

Gordon Official policy is to arrest the vigilante know as “Batman” on sight.

Dent And that flood light on top of M.C.U.?

Gordon If you have problems with malfunctioning equipment, I suggest you take them up with maintenance, counselor.

Dent I've put every known money launderer in Gotham behind bars but the mob is still getting its money out. I think you and your "friend" have found the last game in town and you're trying to hit them where it hurts: their wallets. It's bold. You gonna count me in?

Gordon In this town, the fewer people know something, the safer the operation.

Dent Gordon, I don't like that you've got your own special unit, and I don't like that it's full of cops I investigated while I was at at internal affairs.

Gordon If I didn't work with cops you'd investigated while you were making your name at I.A.- I'd be working alone. I don't get political points for being an idealist. I have to do the best I can with what I have.

Dent You want me to back warrants for search and seizure on five banks without telling me what we're after?

Gordon I can give you the names of the banks.

Dent Well, that's a start. I'll get you your warrants. But I want your trust.

Gordon You don’t have to sell me, Dent. We all know you’re Gotham’s white knight.

Dent I hear they have a different name for me down at M.C.U.

Gordon I wouldn’t know about that..

Nick Naylor ] plays ball. ] kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent.

George How many numbers you got?

Erin Brockovich Oh, I got numbers comin outta my ears. For instance: ten.

George Ten?

Erin Brockovich Yeah. That's how many months old my baby girl is.

George You got a little girl?

Erin Brockovich Yeah. Yeah, sexy, huh? How bout this for a number? Six. That's how old my other daughter is, eight is the age of my son, two is how many times I've been married -- and divorced; sixteen is the number of dollars I have in my bank account. 850-3943. That's my phone number, and with all the numbers I gave you, I'm guessing zero is the number of times you're gonna call it.

Nick Naylor How many alcohol related deaths a year? 100,000? That's, what, 270 a day? Tragedy. How many firearms related deaths a year? 11,000? That comes out to a measly 30 a day!

Nick Naylor Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organization that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; 1200 people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's ], ], and me, Nick Naylor, the face of cigarettes, the ] of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were going to claim cigarettes were not addictive, they better have proof. This is the man they rely on—Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany; I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius—he could disprove gravity. Then we got our sharks. We draft them out of ] law, schools and give them timeshares and sports cars. It's just like a ] novel, well—you know—without all the espionage. Most importantly, we've got spin control. That's where I come in. I get paid to talk. I don't have an MD or law degree. I have a bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. You know that guy who can pick up any girl? I'm him, on crack.