Matt DamonQuotes

Odysseus: Why can't gods speak in ways we understand?

Athena: Who doesn't understand thunder? Fire? A child's smile? A good harvest?

Tiresias: Your men don't want you to defy the gods. But the gods say only you make it home.

Odysseus: Then I defy the gods.

Eurylochus: What was the song of the sirens like?

Odysseus: All the things you wanted to be and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch but you find it under the skin and can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have and that the most you can't have is what you already had and lost. It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don't really want to go home.

Eurylochus: Do we have enough provisions to get home?

Odysseus: We've taken enough from Troy. A couple of stops on the way home won't kill us.

Odysseus: Hunting's nothing but fighting with stealth.

Odysseus: The clearest view of a man is from below.

Odysseus: Fortune favors the brave.

Odysseus: The power of the sacrifice is in the cost of the person making it.

Odysseus: Ten years on this fucking beach. Let's go home!

Odysseus: After years of war, no one could stand between my men and home. Not even me.

Charlie Dillon: You know something? I'm still gonna get into Harvard. And in 10 years no one will remember any of this. But you'll still be a goddamn Jew.

David Green: And you'll still be a prick.

McGivern: If I don't get total tit tonight, I will be using this razor to cut my throat. As I see it, sex is my only reason for living.

Charlie Dillon: Then be careful you don't cut your hand.

Charlie Dillon: [about David] It turns out our golden boy is nothing but a lying, backstabbing kike.

Charlie Dillon: True story, last weekend there was a religious revival at Madison Square Garden. Bishop Fulton Sheen made such a stirring speech that 10,000 people converted to Catholicism. Then Billy Graham got up and did some inspired preaching and 10,000 people converted to Protestantism, then to close the program, Pat Boone got up and sang "There's A Gold Mine In The Sky" and 20,000 Jews joined the Air Force!

Rudy Baylor: I'm curious.

Leo F. Drummond: About what?

Rudy Baylor: I'm just wonderin'... do you even remember when you first sold out?

Judge Kipler: Are you in over your head, son?

Rudy Baylor: Absolutely!

Rudy Baylor: Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn't really mean to cross... it just happens... And if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothin but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water.

Rudy Baylor: There's gotta be a hundred years of law experience sitting at this very table. My staff has flunked the bar exam six times.

Rudy Baylor: How do you know when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving.

Rudy Baylor: What's the difference between a lawyer and a hooker? A hooker'll stop screwing you when you're dead.

Rudy Baylor: I knew exactly what was going on here. Just like when Daddy was in the bedroom crying and Mommy was sitting in the kitchen, face all bloody, saying that Daddy was sorry.

Rudy Baylor: Sworn in by a fool and vouched for by a scoundrel. I'm a lawyer at last.

Rudy Baylor: My dad hated lawyers. You might think I became one just to piss him off, but you'd be wrong. Did piss him off so much though that when he heard he fell off a ladder and didn't know who to sue first.

Frank Toomey: Who are you?

Rory: She's our hostage.

Cobby Murphy: She's our psychiatrist.

Dr. Donna Rivera: I'm not your psychiatrist.

Frank Toomey: You're underpaid.

Dr. Donna Rivera: Yeah, no shit.

Rory: You're gonna love him.

Nelson Mandela: I want to thank you for what you have done for your country.

Francois Pienaar: No, Mr. President. Thank you for what you have done for our country.

Nerine: Thinking about tomorrow?

Francois Pienaar: No. Tomorrow's taken care of, one way or another. I was thinking about how you spend 30 years in a tiny cell, and come out ready to forgive the people who put you there.

Nelson Mandela: How do you inspire your team to do their best?

Francois Pienaar: By example. I've always thought to lead by example, sir.

Nelson Mandela: Well, that is right. That is exactly right. But how do we get them to be better then they think they CAN be? That is very difficult, I find. Inspiration, perhaps. How do we inspire ourselves to greatness when nothing less will do? How do we inspire everyone around us? I sometimes think it is by using the work of others.

Francois Pienaar: Can I ask you a question, Lieutenant?

Hendrick Booyens: Ja, of course.

Francois Pienaar: What's he like?

Hendrick Booyens: When I worked for the previous President, it was my job to be invisible. This President... Well, he found out I like English toffee, and he brought me some back from his visit to England.

Francois Pienaar: I may break my arm, my leg, my neck, but I will not let that freaking guy go.

Francois Pienaar: [when asked what Mandela wanted during their meeting] I think he wants us to win the World Cup.

Jason Bourne: [last lines] Get some rest, Pam. You look tired.

Jason Bourne: [from the alternate ending] What do you want from me? Everything I know is history. Everyone I knew is dead.

Jason Bourne: It changes things, that knowledge, doesn't it? When what you love gets taken from you... You'd wanna know the truth.

Jason Bourne: A week ago, I was 4,000 miles away, in India, watching Marie die. They came for me, and they killed her instead. This ends now.

Jason Bourne: Look at us. Look at what they make you give.

Jason Bourne: I remember. I remember everything.

Jason Bourne: This is where it started for me. This is where it ends.

Jason Bourne: I've tried to apologize for what I've done. For what I am. None of it makes it any better.

Jason Bourne: Someone started all this. And I'm gonna find them.

Jason Bourne: My argument is not with you.

Tom Ripley: Nothing is more naked than your handwriting. See how nothing's quite touching the line? That's vanity.

Dickie Greenleaf: Well, we certainly know that that's true.

Tom Ripley: That ring is superb.

Marge Sherwood: Oh, Tom, I love you! See?

Dickie Greenleaf: I had to promise, capital p, to never take it off. Otherwise I'd give it to you.

Marge Sherwood: Isn't it great? I found it in Naples. I had to bargain for it for about two weeks!

Dickie Greenleaf: Uh, I hope it wasn't cheap, Marge?

Marge Sherwood: Oh, it was!

Marge Sherwood: [about Tom] I like him.

Dickie Greenleaf: Marge, you like everybody.

Tom Ripley: [Imitating Marge's voice; imitating Dickie's voice] I like him. Marge, you like everybody.

Dickie Greenleaf: Everybody should have one talent, what's yours?

Tom Ripley: Telling lies, forging signatures and impersonating almost anybody.

Dickie Greenleaf: That's three. Nobody should have more than one talent. So, do an impression.

Tom Ripley: What, now?

Dickie Greenleaf: Yeah.

Tom Ripley: [imitating Dickie's father] The only talent my son has is for cashing his allowance.

Dickie Greenleaf: [stunned] What?

Tom Ripley: Oh, I love to sail, believe me, I love to sail. Instead, I make sailboats, and other people sail them.

Dickie Greenleaf: Stop! It's too much. You're making the hairs on my neck stand up!

Tom Ripley: Oh, yes, jazz? Let's face it, jazz is insolent noise.

Dickie Greenleaf: It's like he's here. Horrible, like the old bastard's here! That's brilliant! Brilliant! How do you know him?

Tom Ripley: Oh, I met him in New York.

Dickie Greenleaf: Marge, you have to hear this! This is scary. Marge Sherwood, I'd like you to meet my father, Herbert Richard Greenleaf, the First.

Tom Ripley: How do you do, Marge. Dickie's made a fine catch. I know Emily thinks so.

Marge Sherwood: I... I don't get it.

Dickie Greenleaf: It's uncanny!

Tom Ripley: [turning to Dickie] Could you ever conceive of going to Italy, Tom? Bring him back?

Dickie Greenleaf: [confused] What?

Tom Ripley: I'd pay you if you would go to Italy and persuade my son to come home. I'd pay you a thousand dollars.

Tom Ripley: [while planning to kill Marge] And that's the irony, Marge. I loved you. You may as well know it, Marge: I loved you. I don't know... maybe it's grotesque of me to say this now, so just write it on a piece of paper or something and put it in your purse for a rainy day. Tom loves me. Tom loves me.

Tom Ripley: Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it, in your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person.

Tom Ripley: I could live Dickie's life for him.

Tom Ripley: I really feel happy. As if I had been handed a whole new life.

Tom Ripley: You're the brother I never had. I'm the brother you never had. I would do anything for you, Dickie.

Tom Ripley: I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Tom Ripley: If I could just go back... if I could rub everything out... starting with myself.

Jason Bourne: I told you, Christian Dassault is going to get you killed.

Nicky Parsons: We don't have a choice, Jason. It started again. A new program. Iron Hand. It's even worse than before.

Bourne: What's that got to do with me?

Nicky: Because it matters. It matters.

Bourne: Not to me, it doesn't. All that matters is staying alive. You get off the grid, survive.

Nicky: I don't believe that and neither do you. Look at yourself. Look at what you're doing. You can't live like this for much longer.

Jason Bourne: [in response to Heather Lee's offer to rejoin the CIA] Let me think about it.

Jason Bourne: You were never here.

Jason Bourne: I volunteered because I thought our enemies killed him. I volunteered because of a lie.

Jason Bourne: The next bullet's in your head!

Jason Bourne: [first lines] I remember. I remember everything.

Girl 1: I hope we're just as popular in college as we were in high school.

Girl 2: We will be.

Girl 1: I know.

Girl 2: [[w:Chablis wine|needs more Chablis] Who ]?

Girl 1: Candy, wanna come with?

Candy: No, I'll stay here.

Cooper: [[w:R rating|there's your R-rating right there; ''He jumps into hot-tub''] Well, ]. Whoops! Holy cow! Oh, this isn't where I parked my car!

Donny: I can't believe He's so trusting! While I'm right behind you thrusting!

Candy: [[w:chauvinism|you're a pig!] Cooper Harris, ]

Cooper: [[w:gaslighting|Uh... Candy, you should clean that off before you go.] ]

Candy: Clean what off?

Cooper: You got a little something on you.

Candy: Where?

Cooper: Right there. It's like a smudge, or something.

Candy: Where?

Cooper: It's like dirt, or something. Just go like this.

Candy: Is it off?

Cooper: No, keep rubbing it.

Donny: I did it with her on his birthday.

Cooper: Mmm-hmm... mmm-hmm... No, it's just not coming off.

Candy: What is it?

Cooper: Maybe tree sap or something. Try pinching it. No, it's just not coming off. I'll tell you what. Lick your fingers, get some saliva going.

Candy: Like this?

Cooper: Yeah. Again, not enough saliva.

Candy: Is it off yet?

Cooper: Fine, I'll do it. Come here.

Girl 1: Oh, my God! Candy! Cooper!

Cooper: Hey... This isn't where I parked my car. Hey. This band rocks! Yeah!

Weird Italian Guy: [''On train''] Mi Scusi!

Donny: Scotty doesn't know that Fiona and me do it in my van every Sunday.

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Madame Vandersexxx: [[w:American people|He's American] ]. How sad for you to grow up in a country founded by prudes. A country overrun with crime and illiteracy. A country where a man is forced to make sex to only one woman at a time, and one must learn the woman's name beforehand.

Frontman Donny of rock band Lustra: [''Taps on microphone to get attention of the party''; [w:nymphomania|the nastiest, freakiest little sex puppet I know...; ''Fiona bursts out from crowd and jumps on stage''; ''Band starts playing''; [w:sex addicition|do it in my van every Sunday; ''Scott watches unimpressed''] Hey, listen up, everybody. Gotta a little special thing I'd like to do tonight. Going to play a little song for you about ] Fiona. This one's for you, baby. Happy anniversary. Scotty doesn't know, that Fiona and me, ]. She tells him she's in church. But she doesn't go. Still she's on her knees, and Scotty doesn't know... Oh, Scotty doesn't know... So don't tell Scotty, Scotty doesn't know...

Narrator: For decades the American financial system was stable and safe. But then something changed. The financial industry turned its back on society, corrupted our political system and plunged the world economy into crisis. At enormous cost, we've avoided disaster and are recovering. But the men and institutions that caused the crisis are still in power and that needs to change. They will tell us that we need them and that what they do is too complicated for us to understand. They will tell us it won't happen again. They will spend billions fighting reform. It won't be easy. But some things are worth fighting for.

Narrator: For the first time in history, average Americans have less education and are less prosperous than their parents.

Narrator: Most of the benefits of these tax cuts went to the wealthiest 1% of Americans.

Narrator: Inequality of wealth in the United States is now higher than in any other developed country.

Narrator: The financial industry also exerts its influence in a more subtle way, one that most Americans don't know about: It has corrupted the study of economics itself.

Narrator: The Bush administration sharply reduced taxes on investment gains, stock dividends and eliminated the estate tax.

Narrator: After the crisis, the financial industry, including the Financial Services Roundtable, worked harder than ever to fight reform. The financial sector employs 3,000 lobbyists, more than five for each member of Congress.

Narrator: Between 1998 and 2008 the financial industry spent over $5 billion on lobbying and campaign contributions. And since the crisis, they're spending even more.

David Norris: I guess you're not supposed to identify with your subjects. You're not supposed to feel guilt.

Harry Mitchell: We're not built to lead with our emotions like you are, but that doesn't mean we don't have them.

David Norris: So you handle the important things? The last time I checked, the world is a pretty screwed-up place.

Thompson: It's still here. If we had left things in your hands, it wouldn't be.

David Norris: [[w:Free will|Free Will] What ever happened to ]?

Thompson: [[w:Roman Empire|Roman Empire; [w:Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages; [w:Renaissance|Renaissance; [w:Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment; [w:Scientific revolution|Scientific Revolution; [w:World War I|World War I; [w:Great Depression|Depression; [w:Fascism|Fascism; [w:The Holocaust|Holocaust; [w:Cuban missile crisis|Cuban Missile Crisis] We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the ], we stepped back to see how you'd do on your own. You gave us the ] for five centuries... until finally we decided we should come back in. The Chairman thought maybe we just needed to do a better job of teaching you how to ride a bike before taking the training wheels off again. So we gave you the ], the ], the ]. For six hundred years, we taught you to control your impulses with reason, then in 1910, we stepped back. Within fifty years, you'd brought us ], the ], ], the ] and capped it off by bringing the entire planet to the brink of destruction in the ]. At that point, a decision was taken to step back in again before you did something that even we couldn't fix. You don't have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will...You have free will over which toothpaste you use or which beverage to order at lunch, but humanity just isn't mature enough to control the important things.

David Norris: Who the hell are you guys?

Richardson: We... are the people that make sure things happen according to plan.

Elise Sellas: I'm not some hopeless romantic. I would never allow myself to be that way, but once I've felt, even for a moment, what I felt with you. You ruined me. I didn't want to settle for less.

David Norris: I know the feeling.

Elise Sellas: It scares the shit out of me.

David Norris: I'm not going to hurt you.

Elise Sellas: You don't need to say that.

David Norris: I'm not going to hurt you.

Elise Sellas: Were you just looking at my legs while I slept?

David Norris: I was helpless against the dress.

Elise Sellas: It's a skirt.

David Norris: It's a belt!

Elise Sellas: You're that guy running for Senate, aren't you?

David Norris: I am that guy... yeah. Are you a registered New York voter?

Elise Sellas: Do I sound like I am?

David Norris: [to Elise] I can go through this door alone. You'll never see me or the people chasing us again, or you can come with me, and I don't know what's on the other side, but you'd be next to me and that's all I've wanted since the minute I met you.

David Norris: All I have are the choices I make, and I choose her, come what may.

Bryan Woodman: Do you understand what that means, it's like someone put a giant ATM on our front lawn.

Julie Woodman: Here's a question. How do you think it looks to profit off the death of your six year old?

Bryan Woodman: (pause) Fuck you.

Julie Woodman: Arabs are very family-oriented. As a people. Is that racist?

Bryan Woodman: Sure! A little.

Prince Nasir Al-Subaai: What are they thinking, my brother and these American lawyers?

Bryan Woodman: What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out... and ninety percent of what's left is in the Middle East. This is a fight to the death.

Bryan Woodman: [to Prince Nasir Al-Subaai] What are they thinking *hah*? What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out, and 90% of what's left is in the Middle East. Look at the progression: Versailles, Suez, 1973, Gulf War 1, Gulf War 2. This is a fight to the death. So what are THEY thinking? Great! They're thinking keep playing, keep buying yourself new toys, keep spending $50,000 a night on your hotel room, but don't invest in your infrastructure... don't build a real economy. So that when you finally wake up, they will have sucked you dry, and you will have squandered the greatest natural resource in history.

Bryan Woodman: Great. How much for my other kid?

Bryan Woodman: [to Prince Nasir Al-Subaai; [GNP] But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest ] in the world, now you're tied with Albania. So, good job. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, followed closely by dates for which you lose five cents a pound. You know what the business world thinks of you? They think a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's exactly where you'll be in another hundred years- so on behalf of my firm, yes, I accept your money.

Bryan Woodman: Beirut, it's great! It's like the Paris of the Middle East.

Bob: [to Walt, on the operating table just before the twins are anesthetized for dangerous separation surgery] Promise me you'll still be there when I wake up.

Walt: She'll be back. Where else is she gonna find a guy like you?

Bob: I don't know. Chernobyl?

Walt: Christ, Bob, you haven't been laid in five years.

Bob: [Walt gives him a serious look] Hey, how you know? Damn.

Bob: We flew over the Grand Canyon on our way out here.

May: Really?

Bob: Yeah, it's way different from the Vineyard. You know, with the big hole and shit. Um, and it's orange.

Mimmy: Bob, the people at Table 14 are really hungry, where's the food?

Bob: How much time have I got left?

Mimmy: You're already 14 minutes over!

Bob: Well, then, what are they bitching about? They're gonna get a free meal.

Bob: Hey, I'm alone!

Convenience Store Patron: Great, buddy, you're gonna stay that way, too!

Walt: Hey, Dave. How about another tall one?

Dave: Got it. How about you there, Bob?

Bob: No, no. No, I'm cool. I'm the designated walker tonight.

Walt: All right. Burgers on the house!

Bob: He's just kiddin', you cheap bastards.

Bob: [to Walt] Don't you walk away from me!

Man in burger bar: [to Rocket] Hey! I ordered diet coke!

Rocket: Enjoy your meal.

Man in burger bar: [to Bob] Hey, you shouldn't have freaks in here!

Bob: You know, you're absolutely right, we don't want freaks in here, so Rocket, would you kindly show this freak to the door?

Rocket: [Bob is doing a bad job of cooking burgers by himself] Hey, Bob, get the lead out of your ass!

Bob: Hey, up yours, Rocket!

Rocket: [sarcastically] Oh, nice comeback.

Walt: [whispering] Think about it. You'll be able to read a book alone, play golf by yourself, masturbate in private like the good Lord intended.

Bob: What are you talking about?

Walt: Oh, please. Last night, it was like trying to sleep next to a paint-shaker.

Bob: We share a liver.

April: Are you sure you even need a liver?

Walt: What's a four-letter word for snatch?

Bob: Grab.

Walt: Oh... right. Whoopsie.

Morty O'Reilly: I'm gonna have to level with you. Siamese twins ain't the easiest sell I've ever had.

Bob: We're not Siamese. We're American.

Mike McDermott: It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money.

Mike McDermott: [[w:Nature Channel|Nature Channel] We're not playing together. But then again, we're not playing against each other either. It's like the ]. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you?