Brian Cox Quotes

Dr. Nelson Guggenheim We're putting you on what we call sudden death academic probation.

Max Fischer And what does that entail?

Dr. Nelson Guggenheim It entails that if you fail another class, you'll be asked to leave Rushmore.

Max Fischer In other words, I'll be expelled.

Dr. Nelson Guggenheim That's correct.

Max Fischer Can I see some documentation on that, please?

Dr. Nelson Guggenheim Too many extracurricular activities, Max. Not enough studying.

Max Fischer Dr. Guggenheim, I don't want to tell you how to do your job. But the fact is, no matter how hard I try, I still might flunk another class. If that means I have to stay on for a post-graduate year, so be it...

Dr. Nelson Guggenheim - We don't offer a post-graduate year.

Max Fischer Well, we don't offer it yet.

Rachel What did you do to her?! She was your daughter! You killed Samara, didn't you? You killed her, and when your wife found out …

Richard Morgan MY WIFE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A CHILD!

James Brogan You've never been west of Philly, have ya? This is a beautiful country Monty, it's beautiful out there, like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches. I drove out west with your mother one time, before you was born. Brooklyn to the Pacific in three days. Just enough money for gas, sandwiches, and coffee, but we made it. Every man, woman, and child alive should see the desert one time before they die. Nothin at all for miles around. Nothin but sand and rocks and cactus and blue sky. Not a soul in sight. No sirens. No car alarms. Nobody honkin atcha. No madmen cursin or pissin in the streets. You find the silence out there, you find the peace. You can find God. So we drive west, keep driving till we find a nice little town. These towns out in the desert, you know why they got there? People wanted to get way from somewhere else. The desert's for startin over. Find a bar and I'll buy us drinks. I haven't had a drink in two years, but I'll have one with you, one last whisky with my boy. Take our time with it, taste the barley, let it linger. And then I'll go. I'll tell you don't ever write me, don't ever visit, I'll tell you I believe in God's kingdom and I'll see you and your mother again, but not in this lifetime. You'll get a job somewhere, a job that pays cash, a boss who doesn't ask questions, and you make a new life and you never come back.

Ward Abbott You talk about this stuff like you read it in a book.

John Landon I get more peace in the God-damned ape house.

Alec Hewett To Terrance.

Eleanor Hewett, Chloe Hewett Wilton, Heather To Terrance.

Alec Hewett And all that sail on him.

Ward Abbott I've given thirty years and two marriages to this agency. I've shoveled shit on four continents. I'm due to retire next year, but if you think I'm gonna sit here and let you dangle me with this, you can go to hell.

James Brogan You're a New Yorker, that won't ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you're still a New Yorker. You'll miss your friends, you'll miss your dog, but you're strong. You got your mother's backbone in you, you're strong like she was. You find the right people, and you get yourself papers, a drivers license. You forget your old life, you can't come back, you can't call, you can't write. You never look back. You make a new life for yourself and you live it, you hear me? You live your live the way it should have been. But maybe, this is dangerous, but maybe after a few years you send word to Naturelle. You get yourself a new family and you raise them right, you hear me? Give them a good life Monty. Give them what they need. You have a son, maybe you name him James, it's a good strong name, and maybe one day years from now years after I'm dead and gone reunited with your dear ma, you gather your whole family around and tell them the truth, who you are, where you come from, you tell them the whole story. Then you ask them if they know how lucky they are to be there. It all came so close to never happening. This life came so close to never happening.

John Landon Well, I can't say that I approve. They're not people, you know.

Minister Breteuil To Jeanne, the whole of the necklace was not as glorious as what its parts could yield. It was a means to an end. And though I will not justify the actions of the young countess, I late came to understand her reasoning. (pauses) Who does not aspire to take back what was taken from them? Who does not dream of returning home?

Ward Abbott I don't suppose it'll do me much good to cry for help, huh?

Ward Abbott I was recalling a conversation we had some time ago, talking about Treadstone. I seem to remember Nykwana Wombosi's name might have come up.

Conklin I'm not sure what we're talking about.

Abbott Someone tried to take him out. Tried, and failed. Was this Treadstone?

Conklin You're asking me a direct question?

Abbott Yes.

Conklin I thought you were never gonna do that.

Abbott What happened?

Conklin Well... We, uh, lost communication with our man.

Abbott This was almost two weeks ago.

Conklin We've been working round the clock, the whole unit. We've been sleeping down there. Believe me, we're doing everything we can.

Abbott And you don't let me know this?

Conklin You never wanted to before.

Abbott You never made a mistake before.

Ward Abbott Nothing in those files makes their sacrifice worthwhile.

Ward Abbott You're in a big puddle of shit, Pamela, and you don't have the shoes for it.

Robert McKee I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes the film. Wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina. Your characters must change, and the change must come from them. Do that, and you'll be fine.

Mr. Kreeg Spike! Spike! Get your ass in here. Are you finished crapping or what? Who the hell is that?

Mr. Kreeg I've got an NRA membership in my pocket and a shotgun over the fireplace, so get outta here before I...

Steven It's me, Mr. Kreeg. Steven, Steven Wilkins.

Mr. Kreeg What in God's name are you doing down there, Wilkins? Hiding Bodies?

Mr. Kreeg What did you say?

Steven Nothing, its... Uh, septic tank is acting up.

Mr. Kreeg Is that what that smell is?

Steven I'm afraid so.

Mr. Kreeg Then fix it. It stinks like a dead whore out here.

Steven I'm... ...trying.

Mr. Kreeg And keep your kid out of my yard. Goddamn freak.

Steven Happy Halloween.

Mr. Kreeg Screw you!

Ward Abbott I'm a patriot. I served my country.

Professor Charles Xavier William?

Colonel William Stryker Please, Xavier, don't get up!

Colonel William Stryker I call it the neural inhibitor. It keeps you outta here. (he taps his forehead)

Professor Xavier What have you done with Scott?

Colonel William Stryker Oh, don't worry. I'm just giving him a little re-education. Of course, you know all about that, don't you?

Professor Xavier William, you wanted me to cure your son, but mutation isn't a disease...

Colonel William Stryker (enraged) YOU'RE LYING! You were even more frightened of him than I was! You know, just one year after Jason returned from your school', my wife...! You see, he resented us, he blamed us for his condition, so he would toy with our minds, projecting visions and scenarios into our brains. Well, my wife, in the end she took a power drill to her left temple in an attempt to bore the images out. (contemptuously) My boy, the great illusionist!

Professor Xavier For someone who hates mutants, you certainly keep some strange company.

Colonel William Stryker Oh, they serve their purpose... as long as they can be controlled.

Colonel William Stryker You didn't even have to read my mind. You know, I've been working with mutants as long as you have, Xavier...but the most frustrating thing I've learned is that nobody really knows how many even exist, or how to find them - except you. Unfortunately this little potion won't work on you, will it? You're much too powerful for that. Instead we'll go right to the source. Allow me to introduce mutant 143. The fluid secreted by his brain acts as a mind-controlling agent.

William Stryker But that's only where it begins.

Colonel William Stryker NO, Charles! My son is dead... just like the rest of you.

Minister Breteuil The queen offers up a sweet plum before ravens. Pray none takes a bite.

Marshall That's Nykwana Wombosi speaking in Paris the day before yesterday. He was an irritation before he took power, a problem when he was in power, and he's been a disaster for us in exile.

Nicky Parsons It's Bourne, isn't it?

Ward Abbott Okay, this is... ]. Blackbriar is a joint DOD communications program that we really feel has good traction to it. It's got legs. It'll run and run.