Josh BrolinQuotes

Brand: [discovering that the Fratellis have been making counterfeit money] Hold on. Quiet! They're fake, they're bogus. They're phony, they're phony!

Brand: Why couldn't I have a sister? A little sister instead of that?

Brand: I am gonna hit you all so hard that when you wake up, your clothes will be out of style!

Brand: Forget about any adventures, limp lungs. If I let you out, mom will ground my ass and I got a date with Andi on Friday.

Brand: [while Mikey tells the story of One-Eyed Willy] You sound just as corny as Dad does.

Brand: [after Chunk glued the penis piece upside down on the mini replica of Michelangelo's David] Dork. If God made you do it that way, you'd all be pissin in your faces.

Dan Killian: Hey, we've been crushing the ratings for twenty years. I own that audience. You don't think I can turn this around?

Bobby Thompson: You're the one who wanted to make him a star, Dan. Mission accomplished. It's his show now.

Dan Killian: Not all accidents are happy.

Dan Killian: The audience lives for these happy accidents.

Nick: You know, not everything in the world revolves around fucking.

Bryce: No, just most things.

Bryce: She's sixteen. I mean, what 21-year-old carries around a fake ID saying she's 16? The girl downstairs is 16. Sixteen! I mean, it doesn't matter if she said no. It doesn't matter if she screamed yes, and had a notary public certify it; she's underage! It's statutory! If she presses charges, I will go to jail!

Nick: So I guess a second date's out of the question, then, huh?

Bryce: I only wanted to get laid, instead I'm getting fucked.

George W. Bush: What about projected casualties?

General: Well, I think now more in the neighborhood of several hundred, no more than 1,000.

George W. Bush: Just remember, Americans don't like to see dead boys on their television sets.

Donald Rumsfeld: Yes, death tends to give war a depressing image.

Karl Rove: If you can't stand in front of those guys two minutes and come up with one plausible answer what the hell are we running for governor for?

George W. Bush: Just tell me what to do, whatever it takes. Look if I need to read the whole damn Constitution I'll do it.

Karl Rove: Here they come. They'll be bringing the heat.

George W. Bush: I know, don't swing at anything I can't hit.

Reporter #1: Mr. Bush, Mr. Bush, you didn't talk much about education. What are your plans for reform?

George W. Bush: Well, uh, I'm gonna deregulate school districts so that teachers and administrators can, you know, can develop programs to best fit their kids.

Reporter #2: Sir, are you proposing to measure student's progress?

George W. Bush: Oh, well, we need to make a wholesale effort against racial profiling, you know? Which is, uh, illiterate children. You need to be able to teach a child to read and then he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Karl Rove: We're in the very early stages of developing our program.

Reporter #2: How do you plan to change the school finance formula?

George W. Bush: I for one will not stand for the subsidization of failure. How do you know if you measure up if you have a system that simply suckles them through.

Reporter #2: What about our failed schools? Do you think the state needs to take them over?

George W. Bush: More government's not the answer. We must have the attitude that every child in America, regardless where raised can learn. Rarely is the question asked is their children learning.

George W. Bush: Now I don't believe in forcing myself on people, so I'm just gonna ask for your phone number, not your vote.

Laura Bush: [laughs] You're a devil! Devil in a white hat!

Journalist: Mr. President, what place do you think you will have in history?

George W. Bush: History? In history we'll all be dead!

George W. Bush: Who's ever remembered the son of a president?

Laura Bush: [[John Quincy Adams] ]!

George W. Bush: Yeah, but that was like, 300 years ago, wasn't it?

Karl Rove: You look down.

George W. Bush: Just tired, that's all. Just wondering what's gonna happen next.

Karl Rove: What do you mean?

George W. Bush: Well, my father's not going to give me a position, because he can't. And I'm not going to sit around and become a lobbyist, that's for sure.

Karl Rove: George, I've been a lifelong student of political horseflesh. From what I see, you've got a natural talent. You've got the people touch. But you need to go out into the world and do something. I don't know how else to say it, but you haven't done jack shit yet.

George W. Bush: [[Helen Thomas] So, what did that old battleaxe ] say about Iraq?

Ari Fleischer: [[Saddam Hussein|Saddam] Oh, you know the rap. "What makes ] different than any other dictator?" "What right do we have to go into Iraq?

George W. Bush: Did you tell her I don't like mud-suckers who gas their own people? Did you tell her I don't like assholes that try to kill my father? Did you tell her I'm gonna kick his sorry mother-frickin ass all over the Middle East?

Ari Fleischer: Uh, I told her about... half of that.

George W. Bush: I hear you're looking for me! Wanna go a few rounds mano-a-mano right here?

George H.W. Bush: You want an ass-whipping?

George W. Bush: Try it, old man!

George H.W. Bush: Go ahead, take a swing!

Dick Cheney: [talking about torture methods] They utilize fear scenarios.

George W. Bush: You mean like pulling out their toenails?

George W. Bush: Iran is not Iraq and Iraq is not Iran. I know that.

George W. Bush: [''repeated line''] Just tell me what to do!

George W. Bush: [after U.S. troops invade Iraq] That's for everyone who doesn't think I won in 2000!

George W. Bush: I believe God wants me to be president. I can't explain it, but something's going to happen, and America's going to need me.

George W. Bush: Whose job is it, to find these damn weapons?

George W. Bush: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... you can't get fooled again.

George W. Bush: God bless us all, and may God continue to bless America.

George W. Bush: [''On his father''] This is my war, not his!

George W. Bush: I'll never get out of Poppy's shadow!

Eric Marsh: Fire's making a run for our line, and by the time she gets here she's going to be too strong to hold. Gonna crown that ridge, spot over and run straight into town. If we back burn this side of the mountain, by the time that bitch comes over it won't have no fuel to feed into.

Evaluator Hayes: That's a god-awful idea. All the conditions favor the fire, and when that blaze comes down that mountain it's gonna kick your ass and use your burn to get even stronger, we won't be able to stop it.

Eric Marsh: Well our line's not gonna hold unless we burn it off.

Evaluator Hayes: Well then slow it down until we get more resources up here.

Eric Marsh: What you don't understand sir...

Evaluator Hayes: What you don't understand is forty years, son. I was on the job when you were still shitin yellow, so if you think you're gonna to make a big move and impress me, i'm tellin you right now, don't!

Eric Marsh: Due respect sir, you are just an observer, so let us do our job...

Evaluator Hayes: No, you...

Eric Marsh: No no no! Step off, now! Step... off!

Amanda Marsh: You got something to say to me before you walk out that door?

Eric Marsh: Well, I guess I said some shit last night I shouldn't have.

Amanda Marsh: Yeah. You did. Why?

Eric Marsh: Because.

Amanda Marsh: Because what?

Eric Marsh: Cause... you're smarter than I am, especially when we squabble. And it pisses me off.

Amanda Marsh: Well, I can appreciate that.

Eric Marsh: I bet you can.

Eric Marsh: The world's full of people taking chances.

Carson Wells: You don't have to do this. I'm a day trader. I could just go home.

Anton Chigurh: You could?

Wells: I could make it worth your while. I could take you to an ATM with 14 grand in it, and everyone just walks away.

Chigurh: [amused] An ATM.

Wells: I know where the satchel is.

Chigurh: If you knew, you would have it with you.

Wells: I can find it from the riverbank. I know where it is.

Chigurh: I know something better. I know where it's going to be.

Wells: Where's that?

Chigurh: It will be brought to me and placed at my feet.

Wells: You don't know to a certainty. Twenty minutes, it could be here.

Chigurh: I do know to a certainty, and you know what's going to happen now, Carson. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.

Wells: You go to hell.

Chigurh: All right. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Wells: Do you have any idea how crazy you are?

Chigurh: You mean the nature of this conversation?

Wells: [The phone rings. Wells looks at it briefly before looking back to Chigurh, who shoots him dead. He picks up the phone.] I mean the nature of you. You...You can have the money, Anton.

Llewelyn Moss: Hello?

Anton Chigurh: Yes?

Moss: Is, uh, Carson Wells there?

Chigurh: [glances at Wells' corpse] Not in the sense that you mean. You need to come and see me.

Moss: Who is this?

Chigurh: You know who it is.

Moss: [sighs] Yeah, I know who it is.

Chigurh: You need to talk to me.

Moss: I don't need to talk to you.

Chigurh: I think you do. Do you know where I'm going?

Moss: Why would I care where you're going?

Chigurh: I know where you are.

Moss: Yeah? Where am I?

Chigurh: You're in the hospital across the river. But that's not where I'm going. Do you know where I'm going?

Moss: [quietly] Yeah, I know where you're going. She's not gonna be there.

Chigurh: It won't make a difference if she's there.

Moss: So what are you going up there for?

Chigurh: You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?

Moss: No. Do you?

Chigurh: I think you do, so this is what I'll offer: you bring me the money and I'll let her go. Otherwise she's accountable, the same as you. That's the best deal you're going to get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.

Moss: Yeah, I'm goin to bring you somethin', all right. I've decided to make you a special project of mine. You ain't goin to have to look for me at all.

Carson Wells: Buenos días. I'm guessing this isn't the future you had planned for yourself when you first clapped eyes on that money. Don't worry. I'm not the man who's after you.

Llewelyn Moss: I know that. I've seen him.

Wells: You've seen him, and you're not dead?

Moss: What's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?

Wells: No, I wouldn't describe him as that.

Moss: How would you describe him?

Wells: I guess I would say he doesn't have a sense of humor.

Carla Jean Moss: What're you goin to do?

Llewelyn Moss: I'm fixin to do somethin dumber'n hell but I'm goin anyways. If I don't come back, tell Mother I love her.

Carla Jean: Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.

Llewelyn: Well then, I'll tell her myself.

Dan White: You have an issue.

Harvey Milk: It's more than just an issue. This is our lives we're fighting for.

Beck Weathers: Hi, Peachy.

Peach Weathers: [into his arms] Hey.

Beck Weathers: Thank you so much, darling.

Counselor: There’s not a right or a wrong way to grieve. We might experience emotions that we don’t like. Emotions besides just sadness. It’s important not to judge ourselves when we feel emotions like anger. Anger is a very healthy part of the grief cycle. It can be especially powerful in instances of abandonment. There are often--

Archer: What does that mean?

Counselor: I'm explaining that--

Archer: Especially powerful in... in instances of abandonment? Are you saying we should be upset with Matthew for what happened to him?

Counselor: I'm saying it wouldn't be abnormal to--

Archer: Cause I’ll tell you right now that you might call what happened abandonment but I don’t. I don’t see it that way! I see something that doesn’t make any sense at all. We’re talking about seventeen kids. In one classroom. And none of them talked about it? And we got forty parents in here and none of us saw it coming? I wanna know what happened in that classroom! Why just her classroom? Why only hers?

Counselor: I'm picking up a lot of emotion, and that's--

Archer: So you’ll forgive me if I’m not particularly interested in hearing any more out of you. I want to hear from Justine Gandy! She’s here! I wanna know exactly what she was doing in there!

Baird Whitlock: These guys are pretty interesting, though. They've actually figured out the laws that dictate - everything! History! Sociology! Politics! Morality! Everything! It's all in a book called Capital - with a "K".

Eddie Mannix: Is that right?

Baird Whitlock: Yeah. You're not going to believe this. These guys even figured out what's going on here at the Studio. Because the Studio is nothing more than an instrument of capitalism. Yeah, so we blindly follow these laws like any any other institution. Laws that these guys figured out. The Studio makes pictures to serve the System. That is its function! That's really what we're up to here.

Eddie Mannix: Is it?

Baird Whitlock: Yeah. It's just confirming what they call - the status quo. I mean, we may tell ourselves that we're creating something of artistic value or there's some sort of spiritual dimension to the picture business. But, what it really is, is this fat cat, Nick Skank, out in New York, running this factory, serving up these lollipops to the - what they used to call the bread and circuses for the...

Eddie Mannix: [Grabs Baird and slaps him] Now, you listen to me, buster. Nick Skank and the Studio have been good to you and to everyone else who works here. If I ever hear you bad mouthing Mr. Skank again, it'll be the last thing you say before I have you tossed in jail for colluding in your own abduction.

Baird Whitlock: Eddie, I wouldn't, I would never do that!

Eddie Mannix: [Slaps Baird some more; slaps Baird some more] Shut up! You're gonna go out there and you're going to finish "Hail Caesar!" You're gonna give that speech at the feet of the penitent thief and you're gonna believe every word you say. You're going to do it because you're an actor and that's what you do. Just like the director does what he does and the writer and the script girl and the guy who claps the slate. You're gonna do it because the picture has worth! And you have worth if you serve the picture and you're never gonna forget that again.

Baird Whitlock: I won't forget, Eddie.

Eddie Mannix: Damn right, you won't. Not as long as I run this dump.

Eddie Mannix: What's on your mind, Laurence?

Laurence Laurentz: Hobie Doyle cannot act!

Eddie Mannix: Hobart Doyle is one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

Laurence Laurentz: On horseback! But, this is a drama, Mannix, a real drama. It's an adaptation of a Broadway smash! it requires the skills of a trained thespian, not a rodeo clown.

Eddie Mannix: Any more thought about who you might marry?

DeeAnna Moran: I ain't doin that again! I had two marriages. It just cost the Studio a lot of money to bust them up.

Eddie Mannix: Well, we had to have those annulled. One was to a minor mob figure...

DeeAnna Moran: Vince was not minor!

Eddie Mannix: And Buddy Flynn was a bandleader with a long history of narcotics use.

DeeAnna Moran: Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm sayin'! They were both louses! Marryin a third louse ain't gonna do me no good.

Eddie Mannix: I've offered you some very suitable young men.

DeeAnna Moran: Pretty boys, saps and swishes! What you think if there wasn't a good reliable man, I wouldn't have grabbed him?

Eddie Mannix: What about Arne Seslum? He is the father isn't he?

DeeAnna Moran: Yeah. Yeah.

Eddie Mannix: A marriage doesn't have to last forever; but, DeeAnna having a child without a father would present a public relations problem for the Studio.

Eddie Mannix: Let me see if Arne is open to matrimony. You sure he's the father?

DeeAnna Moran: [Mannix starts to walk away] Yeah, yeah. Absolutely, he's the father, yes! ...Pretty sure.

Eddie Mannix: We don't need to agree on the nature of the deity here. If we could focus on the Christ, whatever his parentage. My question is: is our depiction fair?

Eastern Orthodox Clergyman: I have seen worse.

Eddie Mannix: Reverend?

Protestant Clergyman: There's nothing to offend a - reasonable man.

Eddie Mannix: Father?

Catholic Clergyman: The motion picture teleplay was respectful and exhibited tastefulness and class.

Rabbi: Who made you an expert all of the sudden?

Eddie Mannix: And, what do you think, Rabbi?

Rabbi: Eh? I haven't an opinion.

Catholic Clergyman: It's the foundation of our belief that Christ is most properly referred to as the Son of God. It's the Son of God who takes the sins of the world upon himself, so that the rest of God's children, we imperfect beings, through faith, may enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Eddie Mannix: So, God is - split?

Catholic Clergyman: Yes! And no.

Eastern Orthodox Clergyman: There is unity in division.

Protestant Clergyman: And division in unity.

Eddie Mannix: I'm not sure I follow padre.

Rabbi: Young man, you don't follow for a very simple reason. These men are screwballs.

Eddie Mannix: As for the religious aspect, does the depiction of Christ Jesus cut the mustard?

Catholic Clergyman: Well, the nature of Christ is not quite as simple as your photoplay would have it.

Eddie Mannix: How so, father?

Catholic Clergyman: It's not the case, simply, that Christ is God or God - Christ.

Rabbi: You can say that again! The Nazarene was not God.

Eastern Orthodox Clergyman: He was not not God.

Rabbi: He was a man.

Protestant Clergyman: Part God.

Rabbi: No, sir!

Eddie Mannix: Rabbi, all of us have a little bit of God in us, don't we?

Protestant Clergyman: Who plays Christ?

Eddie Mannix: A kid we're all very excited about, Todd Hocheiser, a wonderful young actor we found in Akron, Ohio, after a nationwide talent hunt. But Hocheiser is seen only fleetingly and with extreme taste. Our story is told through the eyes of a Roman tribune, Autochlus Antonius, an ordinary man, skeptical at first, but who comes to a grudging respect for this swell figure from the East.

Eddie Mannix: Bless me Father, for I have sinned.

Priest: How long since your last confession my son?

Eddie Mannix: Twenty-seven hours.

Priest: It's really too often, you're not that bad.

Eddie Mannix: Here at Capitol Pictures, as you know, an army of technicians, actors, and top notch artistic people are working hard to bring to the screen the story of the Christ. It's a swell story.

Eddie Mannix: Tell them, "Thanks, but no thanks." That short enough for you?

Kate Macer: Are we going to Tucson?

Matt Graver: Yeah, you gotta learn how to sleep on a plane. They let me on the base when you need a ride, don't they?

Reggie Wayne: [to Kate as they approach] You okay?

Matt Graver: She's fine.

Reggie Wayne: I didn't ask you.

Matt Graver: And yet I answered...

Kate Macer: You used me as bait.

Matt Graver: Nah, you used yourself as bait.

Kate Macer: [after an illegal gun battle] What am I doing here?

Matt Graver: What you're doing here is you're giving us the opportunity to shake the tree and create chaos. That's what this is! In the meantime, just sponge everything up you see. Learn! That's why you're here.

Kate Macer: What's our objective?

Matt Graver: [smiles] To dramatically overreact.

Matt Graver: Medellin refers to a time when one group controlled every aspect of the drug trade, providing a measure of order that we could control. And until somebody finds a way to convince 20% of the population to stop snorting and smoking that shit, order's the best we can hope for. And what you saw up there, was Alejandro working toward returning that order.

Kate Macer: Alejandro works for the fucking Colombian Cartel.

Matt Graver: He works for the competition. Alejandro works for anyone who will point him toward the people who made him. Us. Them. Anyone who will turn him loose. So, he can get the person that cut off his wife's head, and threw his daughter into a vat of acid. Yeah. That's what we're dealing with.

Matt Graver: You saw things you shouldn't have seen.

Matt Graver: [after interrogating Ted] You know what the beauty is of you being so beat to a pulp? Cause no one's gonna notice a few more scratches.

Thanos: [as he straightens the Gauntlet on his hand; grinning maniacally; snaps his fingers, but nothing happens except a metallic clink. Looking confused, he turns the Gauntlet around to find the Stones gone, then sees Iron Man with the Stones on the back hand on his suit, looking wide-eyed] I am… inevitable.

Iron Man: [[Iron Man (2008 film)|I... am... '''''Iron Man.'''''; snaps his fingers] And ]

Iron Man: What's he been doing?

Thor: Absolutely nothing.

Captain America: Where are the stones?

Iron Man: Somewhere under all this. All I know is he doesn't have them.

Captain America: So we keep it that way.

Thor: You know it's a trap, right?

Iron Man: Yeah. And I don't much care.

Thor: [Summons Mjølnir and Stormbreaker] Good. Just as long as we are all in agreement... Let's kill him properly this time.

Thanos: You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me. I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you've shown me that's impossible. And as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist.

Iron Man: Yep, we're all kinds of stubborn.

Thanos: [Thor starts up Stormbreaker and Mjolnir] I'm thankful. Because now, I know what I must do. I will shred this universe down to its last atom - and then, with the stones you've collected for me, create a new one. Teeming with life, that knows not what it has lost, but only what it has been given. A grateful universe.

Captain America: Born out of blood.

Thanos: [The three fight Thanos] They'll never know it. Because you won't be alive to tell them.

Rocket: Oh, no...

Captain America: [to Thanos] Where are they?

Captain Marvel: [Tightens her vise grip on Thanos' throat] Answer the question.

Thanos: The universe required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose beyond temptation.

Bruce: [[Avengers: Infinity War|You murdered TRILLIONS!; shoves Thanos to the ground] ]

Thanos: [gets punched by Bruce] You should be grateful.

Black Widow: Where are the stones?

Thanos: Gone. Reduced to atoms.

Bruce: You used them two days ago!

Thanos: [[Avengers: Infinity War|I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me, but the work is done. It always will be. I am... inevitable] ].

War Machine: We have to tear this place apart. He has to be lying!

Nebula: My father is many things. A liar is not one of them.

Thanos: [Gets decapitated by Thor] Ahhh. Thank you, daughter. Perhaps I treated you too harshly–

Rocket: What? What did you do?

Thor: [[Avengers: Infinity War|I went for the head.] ]

Duke Leto Atreides: What do they say about this hellhole again?

Gurney Halleck: To shower, you scrub your ass with sand," my lord. That's what they say.

Paul Atreides: I guess I'm not in the mood today.

Gurney Halleck: Mood? What's mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises, no matter the mood. Now fight!

Paul: I have you.

Gurney Halleck: [Paul does, and sees Gurney's blade to his ribs.] Aye, but look down, my lord. We'd have joined each other in death. I see you found the mood.

Duke Leto Atredies: Smile, Gurney.

Gurney Halleck: [stoic] I am smiling.