Memorable Quotes from Michael Shannon
28 quotesA Call to Serve and Protect
Dave Karnes
God gave me a gift to be able to help people, to defend our country. And I feel him calling on me now for this mission.
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General Zod's Ultimatum to Earth
General Zod
My name is General Zod. I come from a world far from yours. I have journeyed across an ocean of stars to reach you. For some time, your world has sheltered one of my citizens. I request that you return this individual to my custody. For reasons unknown, he has chosen to keep his existence a secret from you. He will have made efforts to blend in. He will look like you, but he is not one of you. To those of you who may know of his current location: the fate of your planet rests in your hands. To Kal-El, I say this: surrender within twenty-four hours, or watch this world suffer the consequences...
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Smoke as a Barrier to Harsh Realities
Dave Karnes
What's the status here?
Fireman
The search has been called off. They say the Marriott's gonna go too, and until it's more stable, we're out. This whole thing is crap, man. Our guys are in there. They're dying in there.
Dave Karnes
It's like God made a curtain with the smoke, shielding us from what we're not yet ready to see.
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Family Betrayal and Disinheritance Explained
Walt Thrombey
I think it means that our father finally came to his senses and cut this worthless little brat out of his will. (to Ransom) So I guess you're gonna have to sell the Beamer and give your notice at the country club and kick whatever fashion drug you're on, because if you think that after all the bridges you've burned, after all the shit you've said and after everything that you've put this family through for the past ten years that any of us are going to support you, that any of us are going to give you - like DAD liked to say - "a single red DIME", you're NUTS!
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Krypton's Impending Doom and Possible Escape
Jor-El
Will you not understand? Krypton's core is collapsing. We may only have a matter of weeks. I warned you, harvesting the core was suicide. It has accelerated the process of implosion.
Lor-Em
Our energy reserves were exhausted. What would you have us do, El?
Jor-El
Look to the stars, like our ancestors did. There are habitable worlds within reach. We can begin by using the old outposts.
Ro-Zar
Are you seriously suggesting that we evacuate the entire planet?
Jor-El
No, everybody here is already dead! Give me control of the Codex. I will ensure the survival of our race. There is still hope. I have held that hope in my hands.
General Zod
This council has been disbanded!
Ro-Zar
On whose authority?
General Zod
Mine.
General Zod
The rest of you will be tried and punished accordingly.
Jor-El
What are you doing, Zod? This is madness!
General Zod
What I should have done years ago. These lawmakers with their endless debates have led Krypton to ruin.
Jor-El
And if your forces prevail, you'll be the leader of nothing!
General Zod
Then join me. Help me save our race. We'll start anew. We'll sever the degenerative bloodlines that led us to this state.
Jor-El
And who will decide which bloodlines survive, Zod? You?
General Zod
Don't do this, El. The last thing I want is for us to be enemies.
Jor-El
You have abandoned the principles that bound us together. You've taken up the sword against your own people. I will honor the man you once were, Zod. Not this monster you have become.
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Confrontation Between Zod and Kal El
General Zod
There is only one way this ends, Kal: either you die or I do.
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Krypton’s Future and the Fight for Destiny
General Zod
I know you stole the Codex, Jor-El. Surrender it and I'll let you live.
Jor-El
This is a second chance for all of Krypton, not just the bloodlines you deem worthy.
General Zod
What have you done?
Jor-El
We've had a child, Zod. A boy child. Krypton's first natural birth in centuries, and he will be free, free to forge his own destiny.
General Zod
Heresy! Destroy it!
General Zod
Lara, listen to me, the Codex is Krypton's future. Abort the launch!
General Zod
NOOOOOOO! Your son, Lara, where have you sent him?
[Zod stabs and kills Jor-El. Lara runs over to his fallen body and mourns him]
Lara
His name is Kal, son of El. And he is beyond your reach.
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Fate and Presence in Unlikely Circumstances
Peter Evans
AGNES! I don't believe that my presence here is accidental.
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General Zod Demands the Return of His Citizen
General Zod
My name is General Zod, I come from a world far from yours, for some time, your world has sheltered one of my citizens, I request that you return this individual to my custody.
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Zod's Defiance Against His Sentence
Lor-Em
General Zod, for the crimes of murder and high treason, the council has sentenced you and your fellow insurgents to 300 cycles of somatic reconditioning. Do you have any last words?
General Zod
You won't kill us yourself! You wouldn't sully your hands, but you'll damn us to a black hole for eternity! Jor-El was right! You're a pack of fools! Every last one of you! And you...You believe your son is safe? I will find him. I will reclaim what you have taken from us! I will find him. I will find him, Lara. I WILL FIND HIM!
[He spits at him in disgust; He approaches Lara but is held back by a guard]
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Consequences of Disappointment and Betrayal
Frankie Lombardo
Sal is very disappointed to hear you lost that money. It's too late for that, Charlie. This time you screwed up big, final straw big. This from Sal Maggio. You don't get it, do you, Charlie? Sal's not disappointed cause he cares about the money. He's disappointed cause you two aren't dead! What do you think he was paying Smith fifty grand for?
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A Dangerous Misunderstanding of Loyalty
Frankie Lombardo
This is from Sal Maggio. He's very disappointed in you, Charlie.
[Cocks his pistol; points it at Charlie]
Charlie
Frankie! We got the money. We got it back! We got it!
[Picks up the package]
Frankie Lombardo
You don't get it, do ya, Charlie? Sal's not disappointed because he cares about the money. He's ‘disappointed because you two aren't dead. What do think he was payin Smith 50 grand for?
[Shakes his head]
Louis
You mean we traveled halfway across the world to pay for our own execution?
Frankie Lombardo
Yeah. You two were the bag men for your own hit. Pretty clever, eh?
[Smiles sinisterly]
Charlie
Not on our part.
Frankie Lombardo
Say good night.
[Prepares to shoot Charlie and Louis]
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Comparing Hurricanes to Two Characters' Impact
Frankie Lombardo
Hurricanes leave smaller trails than you two morons.
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Warrior Training and Origins in Conflict
General Zod
I was bred to be a warrior, Kal-El, trained my entire life to master my senses. Where did you train? ON A FARM?
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General Zod Asserts Authority Over Council
General Zod
This council has been disbanded! Mine.
['''Ro-Zar''': On whose authority?]
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The Importance of Listening to Understand Reality
Peter Evans
If you want to know what is going on, you have to listen to me! You have to, because you don't know, the fucking enormity of what we're dealing with!
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Threatening Words from Frankie Lombardo
Frankie Lombardo
You pansy-ass retards are dead. You hear me? Dead! I'll ] you like veal! I'll wear your eyeballs like jewelry!
[as he gets arrested by the police; [Ralph Breaks the Internet|slaughter]
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General Zod's Vow of Retribution
General Zod
You won't kill us yourself! You wouldn't sully your hands, but you'll damn us to a black hole for eternity! Jor-El was right! You're a pack of fools! Every last one of you! And you... you believe your son is safe? I will find him. I will reclaim what you have taken from us! I will find him. I will find him, Lara. I WILL FIND HIM!
[to Lara]
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Envelope Retrieval Request in Campus Conflict
Bobby Monday
Hey! Hey, excuse me, messenger guy. That envelope you picked up, I gotta ask for it back.
Wilee
Who are you?
Monday
Forrest J. Ackerman, head of Campus Security. The woman who gave you the envelope, she's not authorized to use the school account. It's an internal matter I've been investigating. Not your problem. Can I have the envelope, please?
Wilee
Yeah, the thing is, once it goes in the bag, it's gotta stay in the bag unless I hear from a dispatcher.
Monday
Fine. Call him. I'll talk to him. I got the receipt right here.
Wilee
Nima gave that to you?
Monday
Who?
Wilee
Nima. You don't know the name of the woman you're investigating?
Monday
Yeah. Nima, right. I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. Your mouth was full.
Wilee
Thing is, man, company I work for, it's called "Security Courier." The "Security" part means that once people give us their shit, we don't just hand it out to random strangers on the street, so... Listen, I just spent $7 on this delicious urban food log, so if you'd step aside and let me eat, that'd be great.
Monday
What's your name?
Wilee
Wilee.
Monday
Wilee. Wile E? Like the coyote? That's cute.
Wilee
Thanks.
Monday
You got a real name? A girlfriend? Family? People who give a shit if they see you again?
Wiley
Who are you, man?
Monday
I'm the guy you don't fuck with.
Wilee
Hold my log.
[pauses]
Monday
Hey!
Wilee
Have a nice day, douche bag!
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Zod's Loyalty to Krypton and Loss
General Zod
Look at this. We could have built a new Krypton in this squalor, but you choose the humans over us. I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born, and every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people. And now, I have no people. My soul... that is what you have taken from me!
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Zod's Threat to Rebuild Krypton
General Zod
Tell me, you have Jor-El's memories, his conscience, can you experience his pain? I will harvest the Codex from your son's corpse, and I will rebuild Krypton atop his bones.
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General Zod's Threat to Humanity
General Zod
I am going to make them suffer, Kal, these humans you've adopted. I will take them all from you, one by one!
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Zod's Warning About Krypton's Destruction
General Zod
If you destroy this ship, YOU DESTROY KRYPTON!
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Assemble the Pieces for Clarity
Peter Evans
Put it together, the pieces'll fit, okay?
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Divine Shielding Amidst Chaos
Dave Karnes
It's like God made a curtain with the smoke, shielding us from what we're not yet ready to see.
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Tension During Will Reading Discussion
Ransom Drysdale
That's some heavy-duty conjecture.
Walt Thrombey
Funny, Ransom, you skipped the funeral, but you're early for the will reading.
Ransom Drysdale
Up your ass.
Meg Thrombey
Oh, very nice!
Ransom Drysdale
Matter of fact, eat shit. How's that? Eat shit, eat shit, eat shit... definitely eat shit... We gotta do this more often.
[pointing to each family member who is shouting at him]
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A Warning About Curiosity and Secrets
Louis
Hey, what's in here, man?
Frankie Lombardo
You will not look in that envelope under any circumstances, understood?
Louis
I can't hear you--
Frankie Lombardo
UNDERSTOOD!?
[shouts loud enough for Louis to hear him]
Louis
Oh, yeah.
[understands him better]
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Denial of Violent Intentions
Peter Evans
I'm not an axe murderer.
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