Peter SarsgaardQuotes

Andrew Largeman: I think we've corrupted this innocent girl enough for one day!

Sam: I'm not innocent.

Andrew Largeman: [[w:Newark|Newark; [w:cocaine|crack; [w:Prostitution|whores; [w:turpentine|turpentine; [w:pit bulls|pit bulls; [w:rape|raping] Yes, you are. That's what I like about you, okay? And I don't want this guy taking you to some sketchy quarry in the middle of ] to find ] ] huffing ] or ] ] each other, or whatever else is down here!

Mark: Man, that's the most worked up I've ever seen you.

Sam: He's protecting me.

Andrew Largeman: So?

Sam: He likes me!

Andrew Largeman: Don't be cute.

Sam: [[w:knight|knight] He's my ] in shining armor.

Andrew Largeman: Don't talk about knights in front of Mark. It's a sore subject.

Mark: I'm gonna kill that motherfucker.

Andrew Largeman: [[w:Pun|Pun] ] intended?

Mark: Hey, if you ever need a Kato, you know where to find me.

Mark: Come on, please. If I was going to get you coke we would've gone to the fucking high school football practice. We would've been rolling five hours ago.

Mark: I'm okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

Mark: Don't tease me about my hobbies. I don't tease you about being an asshole.

Mark: The only thing worse than a favor is a favor involving money.

Esther: I like it when it's just the two of us. You don't know how long I've waited for a daddy just like you.

John: Mommy too, right?

Esther: I don't think Mommy likes me very much.

John: Hey. That's not true, Mommy loves you.

Esther: It's all right. It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own.

John: Sweetheart, you're just as much part of this family as Danny and Max, okay? Why don't you do something nice for Mommy, show her how much you love her?

Esther: That's a wonderful idea.

Kate: We've had some behavioral problems, but...

John: Yeah, nothing like that. I mean, right?

Kate: Yes, we have.

John: Really, hon, think about it.

Sister Abigail: I've tried to reach the Russian orphanage where she was raised. I think we need to know what we're dealing with.

John: Oh-uh, I'll tell you what we're dealing with. We're dealing with...

Kate: N-no, you know what?

John: [turns to Kate.; turns back to Sister Abigail.] Stop. Listen. We're dealing with a 9-year-old girl who's an orphan,---

Kate: Y-yeah, that's it...

John: [to Sister Abigail] ...okay?

Kate: We're taking her to Dr. Browning.

John: We can take her to Dr. Browning.

Sister Abigail: I'm afraid I may have made a mistake. There could be something wrong with Esther.

John: What? What do you mean? You told us that you'd never had any trouble with her.

Sister Abigail: I didn't. But trouble does have a way of finding her.

Kate: What kind of trouble?

Sister Abigail: Two girls get into a fight, there she is. Someone gets caught stealing, there she is again.

John: So, does that mean-?

Kate: [to John] John, just let her finish.

Sister Abigail: After you told me about the girl in the playground, I called her old school. While she was there, there was a boy who fell with a pair of scissors in his hand and accidentally stabbed himself through the jaw. And Esther was there again.

John: I don't understand. He accidentally stabbed himself.

Sister Abigail: But the most troubling thing is the Sullivan house fire. I checked into it further, it was arson. They have never found the person who did it.

John: What are you suggesting here? That she had anything to do with any of this? It's ridiculous.

Sister Abigail: That a child could commit such crimes. It just flies in the face of everything I believe.

John: Oh... well, yeah.

John: Kate... Kate. You can't get jealous of every woman that I talk to, right? It's been like ten years.

Kate: What does that mean, "It's been ten years"? You say that like it, it, it actually means something. It's only been two years since you told me.

John: You know how sorry I am; I just feel like I've earned a little trust here. I gave you a second chance.

Kate: That's not fair... that's not fair.

John: Let me get this straight: We can talk about my mistakes, but not yours?

Kate: I was sick! You're an asshole who wanted to fuck somebody else!

John: [while signing] Brenda's father says... that you pushed her.

Esther: That's not true, we were just playing. I swear.

John: Okay.

Kate: [to Max, signing] And did you see what happened?

Max: [signing back, but not speaking] She slipped.

Clyde Martin: Just one more question. You've just told me your entire history: childhood, family, career, every person you've ever had sex with. But there hasn't been a single mention of love.

Alfred Kinsey: That's because it's impossible to measure love. And, as you know, without measurements there can be no science. But I have been thinking a lot about the problem lately.

Clyde Martin: Mmh, "problem"?

Alfred Kinsey: When it comes to love, we're all in the dark.

Clyde Martin: So, you do think it matters?

Clyde Martin: When did you first begin masturbating?

Old Woman: I invented masturbation.

Clyde Martin: [to Alfred Kinsey] You just told me your entire history, but there hasn't been a single mention of love.

Clyde Martin: Sex is a risky game, because if you're not careful, it will cut you wide open.

Professor Hardy: [''To Leda at a dinner party''] I didn't realize you were here. It's really great to meet you.

Young Leda: It's really great to meet you, too.

Professor Hardy: [''Shakes her hand''] Your work is thrilling.

Young Leda: Thank you.

Professor Hardy: [''Walks away to other end of dinner table''] Thrilling.

Young Leda: Thank you.

Professor Cole: He is a serious scholar but- it's amazing to see. Amazing.

Young Leda: What is?

Professor Cole: Well... it would be interesting to see his tactics as he renews his pursuit this evening.

Young Leda: Don't cry! No, no, no. I love- I loved the jokes about their names! It made you seem more human.

Professor Hardy: Human? As opposed to what?

Young Leda: As opposed to a god.

Professor Hardy: Ah. Hmm. Your name is very provocative.

Young Leda: You're thinking about the Yeats. Very high-minded. It always brings rape to mind.

Professor Hardy: Jesus.

Young Leda: I bet you know it by heart. In Italian.

Professor Hardy: Ah. Tutto d'un colpo... (all at once) la grand ala... (the grand wing) palpitante... (palpitating) sulla ragazza... (on the girl) uh, mmm... staggering girl.

Young Leda: Sconcertante. (Disconcerting)

Professor Hardy: Si, ragazza. Sconcertante. Mmm.

Professor Hardy: Thank God, because whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

Professor Hardy: I want to go to bed with you. But it looks like you're married, so... you'll have to start this.

Professor Hardy: Bourdieu's mistake is that he often forgot the first part of his own name.

Professor Hardy: Camus posits that the ontological emptiness of the universe chafes against the intrinsically human desire for metaphysical meaning.

Professor Hardy: As Simone Weil says, "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Dwight: Of course we can't get married! You lied to me!

Jasmine: Oh no!

Dwight: Up and down the line!

Jasmine: No, no, no! I wanted to tell you the truth! I just didn't wanna ruin everything!

Dwight: What?! Are you delusional?! Didn't you think I'd eventually find out?! What were you thinking?!

Jasmine: I don't know what I was thinking! I don't know! That everything happened in the past! You and I loved each other and get married--

Dwight: And what?! And what?! That it would just vanish?! Didn't you think that I would find out, if not today, or immediately eventually? Like after we were married? Or is that what you wanted? That you'd wait until it was too late?!

Jasmine: [bitterly] Too late for what?! For your future plans where you needed the appropriate wife?!

Dwight: I'm not saying that it would've been an issue, but that you could stand by and deceive me until I married you!

Jasmine: [bitterly] Oh, no, no, no, you mean till I trapped you, is what you mean.

Dwight: Your ethical behavior is equal to your ex-husband.

Jasmine: I wasn't deceiving you when I said I loved you.

Dwight: God, I found out by chance! It was just by sheer chance!

Jasmine: [begins mumbling to herself] Okay, if it's over, it's over. I get it. You're not marrying me. I brought everything on myself. I've only got myself to blame. I did it to myself, as usual. As usual. You and your stupid little French whore.

Dwight: [confused] I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm taking you home.

Jasmine: Let me out of the car. Let me out of the car.

Dwight: Don't be ridiculous.

Jasmine: Can you just - can you just please let me out of the car.

Dwight: But how are you gonna get home?

Jasmine: I'm not going home. Can you let me out of the car. Let me out of the car!

Jasmine: Oh! That's... sudden.

Dwight: What's your reaction?

Jasmine: My reaction is you can do it again if you want.

Roone Arledge: I know it might not feel like it, but you did a great job today.

Geoffrey Mason: It was a catastrophe.

Marvin Bader: You don't want anybody to see their kid executed on live television.

Roone Arledge: Of course not, Marv...

Marvin Bader: So I... I don't know about the Israelis, but David Berger's folks are in Ohio, so I'm pretty sure they'll watch.

Roone Arledge: Well, someone should tell them not to watch it.

Peter Jennings: [over the phone] Whatever conception you have of Arabia or Arabs, you need to understand how sensitive this situation is. This is no longer the Olympics.

Marvin Bader: Thank you, Peter, for, uh, clarifying. It does bring up a good question. What should we call them on the air?

Peter Jennings: In News, we would refer to them as commando guerrillas.

Roone Arledge: Commando? That sounds like we're in Vietnam or something.

Geoffrey Mason: What was it they called them in German radio?

Marianne Gebhardt: Terrorists.

Roone Arledge: What was that?

Marianne Gebhardt: They used "terrorists.

Roone Arledge: Okay. Let's... let's go with that.

Peter Jennings: That's a charged term. Terrorism is the organized and systematic use of violence against civilians to affect a political goal.

Marvin Bader: Isn't that pretty much what's happening here?

Peter Jennings: Nobody knows yet what is happening here. So we have to be very careful about everything we say on air.

Roone Arledge: Okay, look, I know this isn't a responsibility that everyone wants. But does it make more sense to have a talking head from News take over from halfway across the fucking world? Our job is to tell the stories of these individuals, whose lives are at stake, 100 yards away. And our job is really straightforward. We put the camera in the right place, and we follow the story as it unfolds in real time. News can tell us what it all meant after it's over. And I'm sure they're gonna try. But this is our story. And we're keeping it.

Hector Hammond: You're just as much of a failure as I am, and just as afraid... Well, I used to fight my fears. But now that I've tasted its true power, I'll NEVER GO BACK!