Memorable Quotes from James Nesbitt
10 quotesExcessive Cheese Knife Dialogue in The Hobbit
Bilbo
A tad excessive, isn't it? Have you got a cheese knife?
Bofur
Cheese knife?" He eats it by the block.
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Struggle Between Revenge and Reconciliation
Joe Griffin
I can do handshakes, Michael! And I can do victim. I can do handshake and victim both at the same time. But I've made a decision on this one. Reconciliation? You have no idea. A handshake? For killing my brother? For me taking the blame? 33 years of that? What do you think I am, a joke? If ever a man deserved a knife run through him, that scum of the earth. Truth and reconciliation? I'm going for revenge.
[voiceover]
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Discovery of Nola Rice's Diary
Detective Banner
Have you seen this before?
[Holds up Nola's diary]
Christopher "Chris" Wilton
No.
Detective Banner
Were you aware that Nola Rice kept a diary?
Christopher "Chris Wilton
No.
[defeated]
Christopher "Chris" Wilton
Look, you can't blame me for trying to hide the fact that I had an affair with her. I know that it's not the most honorable thing to cheat on your wife, but that does not make me a murderer!
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Reflections on Conflict and Responsibility
Reporter
Mr. Cooper, what do you say to those people that might be joining the IRA, and what message do you want to give them?
Ivan Cooper
I feel very ill-equipped to do any preaching to them after today.
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Discussion of Risks and Responsibilities
Balin
It's just the usual; summary of out-of-pocket expenses, time required, remuneration, funeral arrangements, so forth.
Bilbo
Funeral arrangements"? Oh...
[reads contract]
Thorin
I cannot guarantee his safety.
[whispering to Gandalf]
Gandalf
Understood.
Thorin
Nor will I be responsible for his fate.
Gandalf
Agreed.
[hesitates]
Bilbo
Uh, "Terms: cash on delivery, up to but not exceeding one fourteenth total profit, if any." Seems fair...Uh, "Present Company shall not be liable for injuries inflicted by, or sustained as a consequence thereof, including, but not limited to...la-ce-ra-tions..." "Evisceration"?..."Incineration"?
Bofur
Oh, aye. He'll melt the flesh off your bones in the blink of an eye.
Balin
You all right, laddie?
Bilbo
Huh? Yeah, I'm okay. Feeling a bit faint.
[trying to take it in]
Bofur
Think "furnace with wings.
[not noticing]
Bilbo
Yeah, I...I...I need air.
Bofur
Flash of light, searing pain, then poof! You're nothing more than a pile of ash.
Bilbo
...Nope.
[faints]
Gandalf
Oh, very helpful, Bofur.
[sarcastically]
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Consequences of Government Actions on Civil Rights
Ivan Cooper
I just want to say this to the British Government... You know what you've just done, don't you? You've destroyed the civil rights movement, and you've given the IRA the biggest victory it will ever have. All over this city tonight, young men... boys will be joining the IRA, and you will reap a whirlwind.
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Misunderstanding a Doily and a Dishcloth
Bilbo
Excuse me, that is a doily, not a dishcloth.
[grabbing a doily from Nori]
Bofur
But it's full of holes!
Bilbo
It's supposed to look like that, it's crochet.
Bofur
Oh, and a ] it is too, if you've got the balls for it.
[[w:Croquet|wonderful game; laughs]
Bilbo
Bebother and confusticate these dwarves!
[annoyed, but quietly]
Gandalf
My dear Bilbo, what on earth is the matter?
Bilbo
What's the matter? I am surrounded by dwarves! What are they doing here?
Gandalf
Oh, they're quite a merry gathering, once you get used to them.
Bilbo
I don't want to get used to them! The state of my kitchen! There's mud trod into the carpet! They pillaged the pantry. I'm not even gonna tell you what they've done in the bathroom. They've all but destroyed the plumbing! I don't understand what they're doing in my house.
Ori
Scuse me. I'm sorry to interrupt, but what should I do with my plate?
[walks up]
Fíli
Here you go, Ori, give it to me.
Bilbo
Excuse me! That's my mother's West Farthing pottery, it's over 100 years old! And can you not do that? You'll blunt them!
[mortified; to the other dwarves clashing the cutlery together]
Bofur
Oh, did you hear that, lads? He says we'll blunt the knives!
Kíli
Blunt the knives, bend the forks!
[singing]
Fíli
Smash the bottles and burn the corks!
[singing]
Dwarves
Chip the glasses and crack the plates...That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!Cut the cloth, tread on the fat!Leave the bones on the bedroom mat!Pour the milk on the pantry floor!Splash the wine on every door!Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl!Pound them up with a thumping pole!And when you're finished, if they are whole...Send them down the hall to roll!That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!
[singing]
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The Burden of Guilt and Recognition
Joe Griffin
Swanning around the world talking about your feelings. A ticket to paradise. For killing a man! I mean, where would he have been without me? 40 years in the factory in Lurgan making egg cartons like the rest of us. Aye, not him! He can make a living telling the Pope, and the Queen, the Dalai fucking Lama how it feels to kill a man. How it feels, the suffering I have, the burden I carry. Why should you get women in pastel shades and rosy perfumes giving you tea and buns and wine from fucking Chile, just so's you can tell them how it feels to be putting three bullets into my brother's head?
[voiceover, about Alistair]
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The Burden of Blame and Guilt
Joe Griffin
She's been staring at me for 33 years, do you know that? What it's like? Your mother blaming you for 33 years? Three bullets went into his head. You'd know that, though. Did you know another one hit a picture of a cat on the wall? It wasn't me who broke that picture, I never got the blame for that one, and if it wasn't me who broke the picture on the wall, it wasn't me who killed my brother. I didn't kill him like she said I did. It was you. It was you in the car arriving at her house and shooting three bullets into her son's head, making her grieve the way she did, blaming me the way she did. Well, I'm the one in the car now, visiting you. I'm the one in the car now. I'm the one in the car now.
[voiceover]
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Conflicted Feelings About Violence and Redemption
Joe Griffin
The trouble with me is, I've got all the wrong feelings. But him! Oh, his feelings! They are just right, just perfect! He did it in cold blood, but now look at the man he has become! What is it like to kill a man," they all ask him? "Well, you have to understand..." And off he goes again, telling them all about this and that. But hats off to him, he's cracked it! He knows they all love to shake hands with a killer.
[to Vika]
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