Albert Finney Quotes

Skyfall

Confrontation of Roles in a Shared Struggle

Kincade So who are we supposed to be fighting?

James Bond No "we" in it, Kincade. This is not your fight.

Kincade Try and stop me, you jumped-up little shit. Now remember what I taught you. Don't let it pull to the left.

James Bond I'll do my best.

[deadpan]

Kincade What did you say you did for a living?

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Murder on the Orient Express

A Conversation About Gratitude and Departure

A.D.C. Ah, here's your ticket, Monsieur Poirot. I'm afraid you've still got another hour.

Hercule Poirot Then, please, do not wait.

A.D.C. Not wait? Hah. After all you've done for us, Monsieur Poirot? Ha ha. Oh. Uh, my general's orders were to ensure your safe departure. He also wished to thank you again for saving the honour of the British garrison in Jordan. The Brigadier's, uh, confession, was opportune. I say, how did you do it? Was it the old, uh, thumbscrew, you know, the rack, huh?... Oh. Well, uh, you'll be able to rest as soon as you get to Stamboul. The, uh, the Church of Santa Sophia is absolutely magnificent.

Hercule Poirot You have seen it?

A.D.C. No.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Murder and Justice on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot Ladies and gentlemen, you are all aware that a repulsive murderer has himself been repulsively and, perhaps, deservedly murdered.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Language Barriers on the Orient Express

Beddoes Oh, yes, sir, the Italian person.

Hercule Poirot Eh, does he speak English?

Beddoes A kind of English, sir. I think he learnt it in a place called Chicago.

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Scrooge

A Diabolical Honor Awaits Scrooge

Jacob Marley's Ghost Your activities in life were so pleasing to Lucifer that he has appointed you to be his personal clerk. A singular honor. You will be to him, so to speak, what Bob Cratchit was to you.

Ebenezer Scrooge That's not fair! It's... it's...

Jacob Marley's Ghost Diabolical. I must confess, I find it not altogether unamusing.

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Two for the Road

Changing Agreements in Marriage

Mark Wallace We agreed before we were married we weren't gonna have any children.

Joanna Wallace And before we were married we didn't.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Too Many Clues in the Room

Hercule Poirot Bianchi, Doctor, has it occurred to you that there are too many clu-ues in this room?

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Scrooge

The Importance of Making the Most of Time

Ghost of Christmas Present There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

Ebenezer Scrooge Yes, but...

Ghost of Christmas Present Remember, Scrooge, time is short, and suddenly, you're not there anymore.

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Two for the Road

Conversation About Virginity and Experience

Mark Wallace Are you a virgin?

Mark Wallace Thought you were. Can always tell.

Joanna Wallace Congratulations.

Mark Wallace I was two years at the University of Chicago.

Joanna Wallace Studying virgin detection?

Mark Wallace Only at night school.

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Two for the Road

Perceptions of American Women in Relationships

Mark Wallace I always thought American women would be different. I thought in America they'd broken the inhibitions barrier and it was all one long sex feast.

Joanna Wallace No?

Mark Wallace But no. But no. The nicely brought-up American girl plays cool and modern. but what she wants - is what her grandmother wanted: Your head stuffed and mounted on the living room wall.

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Two for the Road

Silence Between Married Couples

Mark Wallace What kind of people just sit like that without a word to say to each other?

Joanna Wallace Married people?

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Erin Brockovich

Conflict Over Financial Resources

Ed Masry Didn't you hear? They have $28 billion at their disposal!

[after a meeting with a PG&E representative]

Erin Brockovich So?

Ed Masry You think I'm MADE of money?

Erin Brockovich What are you yelling at me for?

Ed Masry Because I'm pissed off!

Erin Brockovich Good!

Ed Masry Fuck you!

[throws down tie]

Erin Brockovich Fuck you back!

Ed Masry I really hate you sometimes, I really do.

[starts laughing]

Erin Brockovich Aww, you love me.

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Two for the Road

Communication in Relationships and Dining Experiences

Joanna Wallace What sort of people sit in a restaurant and don't even try to talk to each other?

Mark Wallace Married people.

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Murder on the Orient Express

A Humble Acknowledgment of Ignorance

Hercule Poirot Forgive me, I'm only an ignorant Belgian!

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Murder on the Orient Express

Caution Against Disturbing Evidence

Hercule Poirot Ah, touch nothing!

[To Pierre and Beddoes, upon discovering Ratchett's body]

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Two for the Road

Conflict in Expectations and Desire

Mark Wallace Why is it whenever you give a woman everything she wants, you get so bloody minded.

Joanna Wallace You don't give me everything I want, you give me everything you want to give me.

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Murder on the Orient Express

The Importance of Observation and Memory

Hercule Poirot Observe, memorize! You're my only witnesses!

[To Bianchi and the doctor as he lights the slightly burned paper to see what was originally written]

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Amazing Grace

Reflection on Sin and Salvation

John Newton Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly. I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Concealing Emotions in Love and Relationships

Hercule Poirot Forgive me, Miss Debenham, I must be brief. You met Colonel Arbuthnott and fell in love with each other in Baghdad. Why must the English conceal even their most impeccable emotions?

Mary Debenham To answer your observations, in order, of course: Yes, yes, and I don't know.

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Erin Brockovich

The Value of Lives Over Money

Ms. Sanchez Let's be honest here. $20 million dollars is more money then these people have ever dreamed of.

Erin Brockovich Oh see, now that pisses me off. First of all, since the demur we have more than 400 plaintiffs and... let's be honest, we all know there are more out there. They may not be the most sophisticated people but they do know how to divide and $20 million isn't shit when you split it between them. Second of all, these people don't dream about being rich. They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they'll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of twenty. Like Rosa Diaz, a client of ours. Or have their spine deteriorate, like Stan Blume, another client of ours. So before you come back here with another lame ass offer, I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth, Mr. Walker. Or what you might expect someone to pay you for your uterus, Ms. Sanchez. Then you take out your calculator and you multiply that number by a hundred. Anything less than that is a waste of our time.

Erin Brockovich By the way, we had that water brought in special for you folks. Came from a well in Hinkley.

Ms. Sanchez I think this meeting is over.

[''Eyes the water warily and sets the glass back down'']

Ed Masry Damn right it is.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Navigating Choices with Care

Hercule Poirot Mon pauvre, if you must go woop-woop, please go woop-woop not to windward, but to leeward.

[After uncovering Ratchett's stab wounds, Bianchi starts to waver]

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Erin Brockovich

Confidence in the Face of Skepticism

Ed Masry What makes you think you can just walk in there and take whatever you want?

Erin Brockovich They're called boobs, Ed.

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Amazing Grace

The Subtlety of Divine Influence

John Newton God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms. Drip. Drip. Drip.

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Two for the Road

Memory and Beauty in Relationships

Joanna Wallace You just want me to become a beautiful memory, the sooner the better!

[upset]

Mark Wallace Who said anything about beautiful?

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Amazing Grace

Transformation and Redemption in Perspective

John Newton I once was blind but now I see." Didn't I write that?

[old and blind]

William Wilberforce Yes, you did.

John Newton Well, now at last it's true.

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Two for the Road

A Brief Reunion Between Two Characters

Mark Wallace Hello.

[Joanna has returned from an affair]

Joanna Wallace Hello.

Mark Wallace Well?

Joanna Wallace I'm back.

[softly, on the verge of tears]

Mark Wallace Enjoy yourself?

Joanna Wallace Yes, thank you. But I missed you.

[nods]

Joanna Wallace I did.

Mark Wallace Why?

Joanna Wallace Because he's so serious.

Mark Wallace I thought you liked people who were serious.

Joanna Wallace But he's so serious.

Mark Wallace Well, I'd better make some funny faces...

Joanna Wallace You don't need to make funny faces.

[softly]

Joanna Wallace Mark, I'm back!

Mark Wallace You humiliate me. You humiliate me... and then you come back.

Joanna Wallace That's right.

[nods tearfully]

Mark Wallace Thank God!

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Miller's Crossing

A Conversation About Intentions and Consequences

Leo So you wanna kill him...

Eddie Dane For starters.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Dwindling Interest in a Case

Hercule Poirot Mr. Ratchett, I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is, uh... dwindling.

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Erin Brockovich

Unexpected Strategies in Legal Advocacy

Kurt Potter Wha... how did you do this?

Erin Brockovich Well, um, seeing as how I have no brains or legal expertise, and Ed here was losing all faith in the system, am I right?

Ed Masry Oh, yeah, completely. No faith, no faith...

Erin Brockovich I just went out there and performed sexual favors. Six hundred and thirty-four blowjobs in five days... I'm really quite tired.

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Skyfall

A New Beginning Awaits

Kincade Welcome to ].

[after shooting two of Silva's men dead.; [Scotland]

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Two for the Road

Conflicting Desires in Relationships

Joanna Wallace What do people have rows about, dear?

Mark Wallace Money, sex. Sex, money. He wants, she doesn't want.

Joanna Wallace She wants, he doesn't want.

Mark Wallace He thinks that the counter is all in the wrong place.

Joanna Wallace Counter and display cases. It's very funny.

Mark Wallace Yeah, that's marriage for you.

Joanna Wallace That's marriage for them.

Mark Wallace That's marriage. Full stop.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Unraveling Lies in a Train Mystery

Hercule Poirot If all these people are not implicated in the crime, then why have they all told me, under interrogation, stupid and often unnecessary lies? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Dr. Constantine Doubtless, Monsieur Poirot, because they did not expect you to be on the train. They had no time to concert their cover story.

Hercule Poirot I was hoping someone other than myself would say that.

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Murder on the Orient Express

A Princess's Dilemma on Smiling

Hercule Poirot You never smile, madame la princesse.

Princess Dragomiroff My doctor has advised against it.

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Erin Brockovich

Trust and Value in Professional Relationships

Ed Masry It's not exactly what we discussed.

[giving Erin her bonus check]

Erin Brockovich You know why everyone thinks that all lawyers are back stabbing, blood sucking scum bags? Cause they are! And I can not believe you expect me to go out, leave my kids with strangers and get people to trust you with THEIR lives while all the while you're screwing me! You know, Ed, it's not about the number! It's about the way my work is valued in this firm...

Ed Masry Like I was saying, I thought that the number you proposed was inappropriate, so I increased it.

Ed Masry Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you sure suck at it!

Erin Brockovich Uh, Ed... Uh... thank you...

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Two for the Road

Communication Breakdown in Relationships

Mark Wallace Just wish that you'd stop sniping.

Joanna Wallace I haven't said a word!

Mark Wallace Just because you use a silencer doesn't mean you're not a sniper.

Murder on the Orient Express

Questioning the Value of References

Hercule Poirot Cassetti was responsible for her murder. How does that strike you?

Beddoes I have often felt, sir, that instead of our employers requiring references from us, we should require references from them.

Skyfall

The Loss of Innocence

Kincade The night I told him his parents had died, he hid in here for two days. When he did come out, he wasn't a boy anymore.

[showing M a concealed passage under Bond's family home.]

Murder on the Orient Express

The Complexity of Truth in Interrogation

Hercule Poirot Only by interrogating the other passengers could I hope to see the light, but when I began to question them, the light, as ] would have said, thickened.

[[Macbeth]

Two for the Road

The Humorous Side of Marriage Dynamics

Mark Wallace Do you know what marriage is?

Joanna Wallace Hmm, you tell me, and see if we're thinking of the same thing.

Mark Wallace Marriage is when the woman tells the man to take off his pajamas... and it's because, she wants to send them to the laundry.

Two for the Road

Exploring Control and Independence in Relationships

Mark Wallace Come on, baby.

[to Joanna]

Howard Manchester Well that, if I may say so, is a very revealing usage. Calling her baby, at this point, shows you're prepared to do her thinking and her deciding for her. Now I warn you solemnly, Marcus. You're denying Joanna the right to be her own paradoxical self.

Mark Wallace Howard, you're the largest pocket of untapped natural gas known to man.

Amazing Grace

Haunting Remembrance of Lost Souls

John Newton I wish I could remember all their names. My 20,000 ghosts, they all had names, beautiful African names. We'd call them with just grunts, noises. We were apes, they were human. I'm weeping. I couldn't weep till I wrote this.

[tears up]

Two for the Road

Skepticism Towards Commitment in Relationships

Mark Wallace It's not that I have anything against sex. It's contracts I don't go for. Promise of long service and good conduct.

Two for the Road

Reflections on Marriage and Happiness

Joanna Wallace They don't look very happy.

[referring to a pair of newlyweds seated in the back of a Rolls Royce]

Mark Wallace Why should they? They just got married.

Murder on the Orient Express

Conspiracy and Means in a Murder Case

Dr. Constantine He had the means to do it. The passkey to Ratchett's room.

[referring to Pierre]

Hercule Poirot And a knife borrowed from the chef.

Bianchi With whom he was in league.

Hercule Poirot Which he plunged, repeatedly and without motive, into the body of his suitably astonished victim.

Two for the Road

Labels and Limitations in Relationships

Mark Wallace The trouble with women is they try to label you - put you in a pigeonhole. What they don't realize is - the only thing that fits in a pigeonhole is a pigeon.

Erin Brockovich

Fashion Choices in the Workplace

Ed Masry In a law firm you may want to re-think your wardrobe a little.

Erin Brockovich Well Ed, I think I look nice. And as long as I have one ass instead of two I'll wear what I like if that's all right with you? You might want to re-think those ties.

Murder on the Orient Express

Confronting Conscience and Responsibility

Bianchi Hercule. I thank you.

Hercule Poirot My friend. Now I must go and wrestle with my report to the police and with my conscience.

Erin Brockovich

A Significant Challenge Ahead

Ed Masry This is a whole different ball game. A much bigger deal.

Erin Brockovich Kind of like David and whats-his-name.

Ed Masry Kind of like David and whats-his-name's whole fucking family. Okay, here's the deal: If, and only if, you find all the evidence to back this up, I'll do it, I'll take it on.

[sighs]

Erin Brockovich You're doing the right thing, Mr. Masry.

Ed Masry Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remind me of that when I'm filing for bankruptcy.

Miller's Crossing

Power Dynamics and Personal Identity

Caspar You think that I'm some guinea, fresh off the boat, and you can kick me! But I'm too big for that now. I'm sick a takin the scrap from you, Leo. I'm a of marching into this goddamn office to kiss your Irish ass. And I'M SICK A THE HIGH HAT!

Caspar Youse fancy pants, all a youse.

Leo Johnny, you're exactly as big as I let you be, and no bigger, and don't forget it, ever.

Caspar That's right, Leo. You're the big shot around here, and I'm just some schnook likes to get slapped around.

Murder on the Orient Express

The Dangers of Hypnotics Explained

Countess Andrenyi As is my custom on night trains, I took ].

[[w:Trional|trional]

Dr. Constantine Diethylsulphone dimethyl methane. One dilutes the white crystals with water. It is a strong hypnotic.

Countess Andrenyi Ha, ha! He makes it sound like a poison!

Dr. Constantine As with most sleeping drugs, if taken in sufficient quantities it IS a poison.

Count Andrenyi You are not-!

[jumping up]

Hercule Poirot Ah, you are not accused... you are ex-cused! Thank you both for your help and cooperation.

Two for the Road

Conflict Between Joanna and Mark Wallace

Mark Wallace Bitch.

Joanna Wallace Bastard.

Two for the Road

Disdain for Dependable Women

Mark Wallace If there's one thing I really despise, it's an indispensable woman.

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