Memorable Quotes from Kenneth Cranham
4 quotesThe Dark Side of the Business
Jimmy Price
You know why people like you can't leave this business? Because you make too much money for people like me.
Cody
Black! You can't have black. Black's the color for a hearse or a taxi.
Shanks
Now, his party piece, right... is lopping people's heads off, then fetching em back to his boss.
Gene
If you have to kill a person, never ever tell a living soul.
Dragan
Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining.
Duke
Oh, you give a fuckin aspirin a headache, pal!
Tammy
I was just rubbing the phone against my fanny. Oooh it's fresh this morning. And look at my nipples, standing up like little soldiers. What's a poor girl to do?
Crazy Larry
Fucking females is for poofs!
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Tensions Rise Among Military Leaders
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
I have better things to do with my time than to come down here and clean up your mess! If you were enough of a man to run this department, I wouldn't have to do it myself! You're an old woman, Fromm! I'd send you to the front if I didn't think you'd surrender, just to be Montgomery's whore!
[storms out as Fromm's secretary brings Stauffenberg and Olbricht in.]
General Friedrich Fromm
What is it you want?
General Friedrich Olbricht
I wanted to introduce our new man, Colonel Stauffenberg.
Fromm
Ah! From Africa. Well, I'd offer you my hand, but I might not get it back.
Col. Claus von Stauffenberg
I'd say the General's lost more important things this morning.
Fromm
It's about time they put somebody with balls into this office, Please sit down, Colonel. And you, Olbricht, if you must. They tell me you're critical of the war, Colonel, not that you don't seem to have good reason.
[breaks out in laughter; laughs; Stauffenberg and Olbricht sit at Fromm's desk]
Stauffenberg
I am critical of indecision, General.
Fromm
In the field?
Stauffenberg
In Berlin.
Fromm
So, that's why you're here, I take it. To make decisions...
Stauffenberg
I've already made my decision. I'm here to help others make theirs.
Fromm
They say when there's no clear option, the best thing is to do nothing.
Stauffenberg
We're at war. We must act. Sometimes rashly.
Fromm
And what rash action did you have in mind, Colonel?
Stauffenberg
That would be a decision for the supreme military commander, sir.
Fromm
A supreme commander. Second only to the Chancellor. If I were that man, this war would be going quite differently.
Olbricht
Well, we were thinking the same thing.
[pause]
Fromm
I don't need to remind you that we have all sworn an oath to the Führer. Having said that, I'm going to forget this conversation ever took place, in the strict understanding that such talk never occurs again under this roof. Is that clear?!
[Carefully disables a listening device in his telephone]
Stauffenberg
Yes, sir.
Olbricht
Yes, sir.
Fromm
Now you can tell your friends, Colonel, that I always come down on the right side, and as long as the Führer is alive, you know what side that is.
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The Importance of Focus Over Details
Jimmy Price
Details, details. Things to do. Things to get done. Don't bother me with details, just tell me when they're done." Who said that, son?
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[[Winston Churchill]
Jimmy Price
Close. No, I said it. James Lionel Price.
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Questioning Language and Identity in Conversation
XXXX
That's a very expansive question.
Jimmy Price
Expansive? Tell me son, are you a homosexual? The day was when only homosexuals used words like "expansive". You're not a homosexual are you? Not behind in your rent?
[laughs]
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