Memorable Quotes from Bryan Cranston
17 quotesDesperation for Truth Amidst Chaos
Joe Brody
You're not fooling anybody when you say that what happened 15 years ago was a natural disaster, all right? It was not an earthquake, it wasn't a typhoon, okay?! So stop... I'm tired of talking to you about this. I want to see my son. I want to know that he's alright. This guy, this guy knows. Musuko wa, doko da? I want my son, and I want my bags, and discs, and I want to talk to somebody in charge. No, not you. I'm done talking to you! Alright? You're looking at me, right now, like I'm in a fish tank, right? That's fine, because I know what happened. You keep telling everybody that this place is a death zone, but it's NOT! You're lying. Because what's really happening, is that you're hiding something out there. I'm right, aren't I? MY WIFE DIED HERE! Something...killed my wife...AND I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW! I deserve answers! See? You see? There it is again! That is not a transformer malfunction, that is an electromagnetic pulse! It affects everything electrical from miles and miles, and it is happening again! This is what caused everything in the first place! Don't you see that?! And it's gonna send us back to the Stone Age! You have no idea what's coming!
[fumes at Japanese officials over him and Ford being caught at Janjira; sighs; points to Japanese guard; Where is my son?; stands up; brushes off official's appeal; to Dr. Serizawa and Dr. Graham; later sits down; reacts to flickering lights]
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Questioning the Town's Missing Ashtrays
Shannon
What happened to all the ashtrays in this town?
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Meeting of Unlikely Allies
Shannon
Kid, I want you to meet Mr. Bernie Rose!
Bernie Rose
Nice to meet you.
[Sticks out his hand to shake; Driver does not take it]
Driver
My hands are a little dirty.
Bernie Rose
So are mine.
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Restrain This
Walter White
I've got your restraining order right here.
Walter White
Restrain this!
[grabs crotch]
CIA's Hollywood Operations Discussed in Meeting
Stansfield Turner
You're telling me there's a movie office in Hollywood right now that's funded by the CIA.
Tony Mendez
Yes, sir.
Cyrus Vance
What's wrong with the bikes again?
Jack O'Donnell
We tried to get the message upstairs.
Turner
You think... You think this is more plausible than teachers?
O'Donnell
Yes we do. One, there are no more foreign teachers in Iran.
Mendez
And, we think everybody knows Hollywood people. And everybody knows they would shoot in Stalingrad with ] directing if it'd sell tickets. There are only bad options. It's about finding the best one.
[[Pol Pot]
Turner
You don't have a better bad idea than this?
O'Donnell
This is the best bad idea we have, sir. By far.
Turner
The United States government just sanctioned your science fiction movie.
[short pause]
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Unusual motivations behind a reckless act
Shannon
A lot of guys mess around with married women, but you're the only one I know who robs a joint just to pay back the husband. Crazy.
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Seeking Recognition Beyond the Spotlight
Jack O'Donnell
If we wanted applause, we would have joined the circus.
[Explaining the lack of fanfare regarding the awarding of Mendez' Intelligence Star]
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Desperation Amidst a Crisis
Joe Brody
I'll meet them down there myself. Put the safety doors on manual override.
Takashi
Joe, I cannot do that!
Joe Brody
Keep the doors open! My wife is still in there!
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Anticipating Retirement in Law Enforcement
Mickey Haller
When do you retire, Lankford?
Detective Lankford
When do I retire?
Mickey Haller
Yeah.
Detective Lankford
Eighteen months. Why?
Mickey Haller
I wanna make sure I show up the next morning so I can kick your ass.
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A Special Driver's Unique Potential
Bernie Rose
What do you got that the big professional race teams don't?
Shannon
I got the driver.
Bernie Rose
You just told me they had half a dozen drivers.
Shannon
Not like this. This kid is special. I've been working with him for a while. I've never seen anything like it. If I had the money, I'd back him myself.
Bernie Rose
Yeah, but you don't have the money.
Shannon
Mr. Rose, you put this kid behind the wheel, there's nothing he can't do.
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Family Updates Amidst Chaos
Joe Brody
Hey! How's Elle doing? And Sam? Oh, my god! He must be, what, three? Three and a half?
Ford Brody
He's almost five.
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Challenges of Rescuing Embassy Hostages
Jack O'Donnell
The six of them went out a back exit. Brits turned them away, Kiwis turned them away, Canadians took them in. Traffic calls them the Houseguests'; they haven't left the Canadian ambassador's house since it happened.
Tony Mendez
Why didn't we get them ten weeks ago?
O'Donnell
Too dangerous. You've got ] going door to door like Jehovah's Witnesses. Half of them think Khomeini's been too lenient on the ones in the embassy.
[[w:Revolutionary Guards|Revolutionary Guards]
Mendez
What about the White House?
O'Donnell
Carter's shitting enough bricks to build the pyramids. The Canadians are done; they say they're bearing too much risk. Their foreign secretary corners ] in Brussels and told him she wants the six of them out.
[[w:Cyrus Vance|Vance]
Mendez
Who else knows?
O'Donnell
Just the families. Meanwhile, some genius in our embassy was keeping a mug book on everybody who worked there.
Mendez
Jesus Christ!
O'Donnell
We think it got shredded before they got in. But now the bastards are using sweatshop kids to reassemble the shreds, and once they reassemble that book, they'll know six Americans got out and they'll know what they look like. Standing room only for beheadings in the square.
Mendez
Who's handling?
O'Donnell
State is coordinating in house.
Mendez
State? They don't do exfils.
O'Donnell
They do now. They want to run it by us, strictly as consultants. Engell says its a lose-lose. These people die, they die badly. Publicly. State wants the blame, we'll give it to them.
Mendez
What does he want me here for?
O'Donnell
So he can tell State he ran it by his best exfil guy.
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Value Beyond Appearance in High-Stakes Conversations
Nino
You paid three-hundred fucking grand for this piece of shit?
Bernie Rose
I paid for it - out of my own pocket. This is just the shell; it's the inside that counts, not the outside, right Shannon?
Shannon
You are correct, sir.
Nino
Fuck that shit; I pay three-hundred for something, I want everybody to fucking see it!
Bernie Rose
Of course you do.
Nino
Now this... that is one motherfucking, fine-ass, pussy-mobile, motha-fucka'! Damn!
[sees a collectible car]
Bernie Rose
Shannon, sell him the car.
Shannon
He wouldn't be able to find pussy in a whore house...
Shannon
You know what? This car will even make you good-looking.
[begins hobbling over to Nino]
Nino
I'm already good-looking, pal.
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Bicycle Escape Plan for Hostages
Robert Pender
What we like for this now are bicycles. We've identified back roads from the Shemiran district — a couple of rat lines through the mountains to the crossing at Tabriz. Cars are off the table because of the roadblocks.
Jon Bates
We wait until the weather clears up then deliver the six bikes, provide them with maps to the Turkish border.
Adam Engell
We have intelligence they can ride bicycles or we’re prepared to send in somebody to teach them.
Tony Mendez
Or you could just send in training wheels and meet them at the border with Gatorade. It's 300 miles to the Turkish crossings. They'd need a support crew behind them with a tire pump.
Engell
We've only been asked to sharpshoot this, State's handling the op.
Pender
Who is...?
Jack O'Donnell
Tony's an exfil spesh. He got a lot of the ]'s people out after the fall.
[[w:Shah Reza Pahlavi|Shah]
Mendez
Sir, if these people can read or add, pretty soon they're gonna figure out they're six short of a full deck. It's winter. You can't wait around until spring when it's nice enough to take a bike ride. The only way out of that city is the airport. You build new cover identities for them, you send in a Moses, he takes them out on a commercial flight.
Bates
We've explored those options.
Engell
They're never going to get past airport control. Komiteh own the place.
Bates
They could pose as reporters. The government issued seventy-something visas for American journalists.
Mario Malinov
Seventy-four. And the Revolutionary Guards keep them on 74 leashes.
Mendez
If they're caught with fake journalist creds, it's ] head in a noose in an hour. Sir, exfils are like abortions. You don't want to need one, but when you do, you don't do it yourself.
[[w:Peter Jennings|Peter Jennings'; ...]
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A Tense Conversation Between Partners
Nino
Take a fucking hike. I want to talk to my partner. I'm just fucking with you. How you doing, Shannon? How's the fucking leg?
[tense pause]
Shannon
I paid my debt.
[nervous]
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Walter White Tells Skylar Why He Did It
Skyler White
If I have to hear one more time that you did this for the family...
Walter White
I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And... I was really... I was alive.