Sam Rockwell
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An idiosyncratic actor known for both his versatility and sinewy, off-kilter sexiness, Sam Rockwell is one of the stage and screen's most imaginative and least predictable performers. Once dubbed "the male Parker Posey" for his voluminous work in independent films, Rockwell has also earned notice for his work in more mainstream fare, including Frank Darabont's The Green Mile (1999).Born in Daly City, CA, on November 5, 1968, Rockwell enjoyed a steadfastly bohemian upbringing. The son of artists and actors, Rockwell moved to New York City with his parents when he was two. Three years later, his parents divorced, and he spent much of his youth traveling back and forth between them. Raised by his father in San Francisco, he spent his summers in New York with his mother, whose unconventional lifestyle -- replete with sex, drugs, and flamboyant hippies -- introduced Rockwell to some very adult pastimes at an extremely young age. It was through his mother that he became involved in theater, making his stage debut at the age of ten. He later attended San Francisco's High School of the Performing Arts, where, at the age of 18, he was chosen to star in Clown House (1988), an ill-fated thriller revolving around three brothers' fight to the death with a group of maniacal circus entertainers.Following his screen debut, Rockwell moved to New York and proceeded to make 20 more films, including Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990) and Tom Di Cillo's Box of Moonlight (1996). It was the actor's work in the latter film that first won him recognition: as The Kid, a coonskin cap-clad free spirit whose backwoods existence alters the mundane life of a burnt-out engineer (John Turturro), Rockwell gave an engaging performance that sparked industry attention; unfortunately, the independent film disappeared at the box office. The actor next garnered attention for his lead role in John Duigan's Lawn Dogs (1997), a tale about the unconventional friendship between a white trash lawn boy (Rockwell) and a ten year-old girl (Mischa Barton) with a heart problem. Employing a heavy helping of magical realism to tell its story, the film earned fairly positive reviews, and Rockwell drew particular praise for his complex, low-key performance.The actor subsequently appeared in a series of comedies that made good use of his quirky persona, most notably Safe Men (1998), which cast him and Steve Zahn as two singers of dubious quality who find themselves the unwitting targets of the Jewish mafia. In 1999, more mainstream audiences were introduced to Rockwell thanks to his memorable work in three films: A Midsummer Night's Dream, which cast him as the cross-dressing Francis Flute; Galaxy Quest, a comedy spoof in which Rockwell played a cast member of a failing circa-'70s sci-fi TV series; and The Green Mile, in which the actor got to fully exhibit his twisted versatility as Wild Bill, a death-row inmate whom Rockwell himself characterized as "a disgusting, racist, pedophile freak." Switching gears almost as much as humanly possible, Rockwell's following role in Galaxy Quest (1999) found him a quirky cast member of a Star Trek-like television sci-fi series. The contrast between Rockwell's ultra-lightweight Galaxy Quest characterization and his former role as a genuinely revolting criminal was a testament to his versatility, and though he would stick to comedy with Charlie's Angels, a series of small roles would follow before Rockwell teamed with actor George Clooney for Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002). Appearing as former host of the cult television sensation The Gong Show in the latter, Rockwell brought Chuck Barris' compellingly quirky (and partially fictionalized) biography to the screen under first-time director George Clooney. In addition to his work onscreen, Rockwell has continued to act on the stage, appearing in such productions as a 1998 off-Broadway run of Mike Leigh's Goosepimples.Over the next several years, Rockwell would remai
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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70% | The One and Only Ivan |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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71% | Trolls World Tour |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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No Score Yet | Trolls World Tour |
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77% | Richard Jewell |
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— | 2019 |
80% | Jojo Rabbit |
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— | 2019 |
54% | The Best of Enemies |
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— | 2019 |
65% | Vice |
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— | 2018 |
39% | Blue Iguana |
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— | 2018 |
95% | Blaze |
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— | 2018 |
53% | Woman Walks Ahead |
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— | 2018 |
21% | Mute |
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— | 2018 |
83% | One Million American Dreams |
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— | 2018 |
90% | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
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$52.1M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 1 Mile to You |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Axis |
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44% | Mr. Right |
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$25.9k | 2016 |
29% | Don Verdean |
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$31k | 2015 |
64% | Digging For Fire |
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$0.2M | 2015 |
30% | Poltergeist |
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$40M | 2015 |
33% | Loitering With Intent |
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— | 2015 |
65% | Laggies |
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— | 2014 |
52% | Trust Me |
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— | 2014 |
36% | Misery Loves Comedy |
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$5.8k | 2014 |
22% | Better Living Through Chemistry |
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$52.3k | 2014 |
47% | A Case of You |
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— | 2013 |
49% | A Single Shot |
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— | 2013 |
83% | The Way Way Back |
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$21.6M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Schooled: The Price of College Sports |
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— | 2013 |
83% | Seven Psychopaths |
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$15.1M | 2012 |
22% | The Sitter |
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$30.2M | 2011 |
44% | Cowboys & Aliens |
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$100.3M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Gettysburg |
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— | 2011 |
68% | Conviction |
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$6.8M | 2010 |
50% | The Winning Season |
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— | 2010 |
72% | Iron Man 2 |
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$312.1M | 2010 |
48% | Everybody's Fine |
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$8.9M | 2009 |
19% | Gentlemen Broncos |
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— | 2009 |
22% | G-Force |
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$119.5M | 2009 |
90% | Moon |
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$4.8M | 2009 |
80% | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale |
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— | 2009 |
93% | Frost/Nixon |
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$18.6M | 2008 |
56% | Choke |
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$2.9M | 2008 |
76% | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford |
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$4M | 2007 |
62% | Joshua |
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$0.5M | 2007 |
67% | Snow Angels |
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$0.3M | 2007 |
60% | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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$51.1M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | The F Word |
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No Score Yet | Piccadilly Jim |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Nobody Wants Your Film |
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— | 2005 |
82% | Matchstick Men |
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$36.9M | 2003 |
79% | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind |
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— | 2003 |
55% | Welcome to Collinwood |
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$75.7k | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 13 Moons |
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— | 2002 |
66% | Heist |
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$23.3M | 2001 |
71% | Made |
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$3.7M | 2001 |
68% | Charlie's Angels |
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$124.5M | 2000 |
90% | Galaxy Quest |
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— | 1999 |
78% | The Green Mile |
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— | 1999 |
67% | William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' |
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— | 1999 |
80% | The Thin Red Line |
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— | 1998 |
40% | Celebrity |
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— | 1998 |
57% | Safe Men |
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— | 1998 |
72% | Lawn Dogs |
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— | 1998 |
75% | Jerry and Tom |
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— | 1998 |
61% | Box of Moonlight |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Mercy |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Glory Daze |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Somebody to Love |
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— | 1996 |
68% | Basquiat |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | The Search for One-Eye Jimmy |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Bad Liver & a Broken Heart |
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— | 1996 |
57% | Drunks |
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— | 1995 |
88% | Light Sleeper |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Jack and His Friends |
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— | 1992 |
92% | In the Soup |
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— | 1992 |
10% | Strictly Business |
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— | 1991 |
40% | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie |
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— | 1990 |
33% | Clownhouse |
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— | 1989 |
74% | Last Exit to Brooklyn |
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— | 1989 |
TV
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81% |
Fosse/Verdon
2019
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Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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Close Up With the Hollywood Reporter
2015
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Saturday Night Live
1975
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2015-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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Drunk History
2013
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Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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Last Call With Carson Daly
2007-2019
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32% |
Napoleon Dynamite
2012
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67% |
Stella
2005
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83% |
NYPD Blue
1993-2005
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Law & Order
1990-2010
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Quotes from Sam Rockwell's Characters
Randy: | You want to prove where you really got some hair? |
Randy: | Oh, you're sleeping bare ass now. Mom's gonna love that. |
Owen: | I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave. You're having way too much fun, it's making everyone uncomfortable. |
Owen: | Don't die wondering. |
Billy: | You're fucked from birth. The Spanish got bullfighting. The French got cheese. And the Irish have alcoholism. |
Marty: | And what do the Americans have? |
Billy: | Tolerance. |
Owen: | Good, always take things literally. How's that working out for you, does that get you laid? |
Al Fountain: | You live here? Where's the rest of your house? |
Kid: | Oh, I only bought half. I got a really good dea. |
Kid: | Oh, I only bought half. I got a really good idea. |
Guy Fleegman: | oh that is just not right |
Marty: | I don't have a drinking problem. I just like drinking. |
Billy: | Of course you do, Marty. One: You're a writer. Two: You're from Ireland. It's part of your heritage. You're fucked! |
Bill: | Art and peace and all that shit can wait |
Sam Bell: | I’ve set your computer to reboot the second I’ve blasted off. |
Sam Bell: | I've set your computer to reboot the second I've blasted off. |
Gerty: | Okay, Sam. |
Sam Bell: | Thanks for all your help, Gerty. I wish I could say I was going to miss you, buddy, but to be honest, I can’t wait to get away from here. |
Sam Bell: | Thanks for all your help, Gerty. I wish I could say I was going to miss you, buddy, but to be honest, I can't wait to get away from here. |
Gerty: | I understand, Sam. I hope life is everything you remember it to be. |
Gerty: | I understand, Sam. I hope life is everything you remember it to be. |
Sam Bell: | Thanks. Are you |
Sam Bell: | Thanks. Are you |
Gerty: | Of course. The new Sam and I * will be back to our programming as soon as I have finished rebooting. |
Gerty: | Of course. The new Sam and I will be back to our programming as soon as I have finished rebooting. |
Sam Bell: | Gerty, I’m not programmed. |
Sam Bell: | Gerty, I'm not programmed. |
Sam Bell: | Why are there so many of them? |
Sam Bell: | The cryo pod in the Return Vehicle is an incinerator. |
Sam Bell: | What? |
Sam Bell: | We don’t go home. We’re burned to death up there. Then the company wakes up a new one. Every three years. Like clock work. |
Sam Bell: | Gerty, am I a clone? |
Gerty: | Yes, Sam. |
Gerty: | We could run some tests. (a beat) I haven’t reported anything to central, Sam. They don’t know you were recovered alive from the accident. |
Gerty: | We could run some tests. [a beat] I haven?t reported anything to central, Sam. They don't know you were recovered alive from the accident. |
Sam Bell: | Recovered alive? What do you mean? Why haven’t you reported to central? |
Sam Bell: | Recovered alive? What do you mean? Why haven't you reported to central? |
Gerty: | I’m here to keep you safe, Sam. I want to help you. Are you hungry? |
Gerty: | I'm here to keep you safe, Sam. I want to help you. Are you hungry? |
Gerty: | Sam, what is it? |
Sam Bell: | Something doesn’t feel right, that’s all. |
Sam Bell: | Something doesn't feel right, that's all. |
Gerty: | Sam, it might help to talk about it. |
Billy: | You know, Marty, the way you're feeling today--all depressed and alcoholic and shit-- you know what you should do? Put it into your writing, man! Use it! Bad idea? |
Marty: | Thanks, Billy. Great idea. I'll put the way I'm feeling today into my writing. Then I'll go blow my fucking brains out. |
Billy: | Come on, man! You know your writing helps alleviate your suicidal self-loathing and shit! |
Marty: | I don't have suicidal self-loathing and shit. |
Billy: | Five...four...three...two |
Charlie: | Wait! Please go back to five. Please. |
Billy: | I'm not going back to five, man. I'm not going back to five............Five |
Billy: | (to zachariah) ok you seem normal come on in, we have to get this dog off the street cause its kidnapped from a manic. |
Billy: | [to Zachariah] Okay you seem normal come on in, we have to get this dog off the street cause its kidnapped from a manic. |
Marty: | No shoot-outs, no pay-offs. Just human beings talking. |
Bill: | What, are we making French movies now? That sounds like the stupidest ending. No shoot-outs? That sounds like the stupidest ending I've ever fucking... No shoot-outs!? |
Marty: | No? |
Bill: | No! |
Billy: | That, right there, is not a deal. Equally cool. *Big grin* |
Hans: | An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. |
Billy: | No, it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy gonna take out the eye of the last guy left? |
Billy: | I wasn't trying to break his nose, his nose was just in the middle of what I was punching! |
Billy: | (Speaking in Marty's Irish accent) You'll be grand! .. Sure of course we're friends |
Billy: | [speaking in Marty's Irish accent] You'll be grand! Sure of course we're friends. |
William "Wild Bill" Wharton: | i'd rather fuck your tight asshole then your sisters pussy |
William "Wild Bill" Wharton: | I'd rather fuck your asshole than your sister's pussy, I think. |
Paul Edgecomb: | I think Mr. Jingles happened by accident. I think when we electrocuted Del, and it all went so badly... well, John can feel that you know... and I think a part of... whatever magic was inside of him just lept through my tiny friend here. As for me, John had to give me a part of himself; a gift the way he saw it, so that I could see for myself what Wild Billy had done. When John did that; when he took my hand, a part of the power that worked through him spilled into me. |
Elaine Connely: | He... what? He infected you with life? |
William "Wild Bill" Wharton: | That's as good a word as any. He infected us both, didn't he, Mr. Jingles? With life. I'm a hundred and eight years old, Elaine. I was forty-four the year that John Coffey walked the Green Mile. You mustn't blame John. He couldn't help what happened to him... he was just a force of nature. Oh I've lived to see some amazing things Elly. Another century come to past, but I've... I've had to see my friends and loved ones die off through the years... Hal and Melinda... Brutus Howell... my wife... my boy. And you Elaine... you'll die too, and my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my attonement you see; it's my punishment, for letting John Coffey ride the lightning; for killing a miracle of God. You'll be gone like all the others. I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually, that I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality, but I will wished for death... long before death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already. |
William "Wild Bill" Wharton: | I just wanted some cornbread, you motherfuckers! |
Billy: | "You forgot about the flare gun you fuckin' idiot!" |
Billy: | You forgot about the flare gun you fuckin' idiot! |
James Reston Jr.: | David Frost: Are you really saying the President can do something illegal? Richard Nixon: I'm saying that when the President does it, it's *not* illegal! David Frost: I'm sorry? |
David Frost: | Are you really saying the President can do something illegal? |
Richard Nixon: | I'm saying that when the President does it, it's *not* illegal! |
David Frost: | I'm sorry? |
Hans: | As Gandhi said..."An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind". I believe that whole heartedly. |
Hans: | As Gandhi said...'An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind'. I believe that whole heartedly. |
Bill: | No it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy going to take out the eye of the last guy left whose still got one eye left? All that guy has to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Ghandi was wrong. It's just that nobody's got the balls to come out and say it. |
Bill: | Ghandi was wrong! Its just that nobody has had the balls to say it! |
Ivan Vanko/Whiplash: | Hey, I want my bird. |
Justin Hammer: | Uh, a bird? You want a bird? |
Ivan Vanko/Whiplash: | I want my bird. |
Justin Hammer: | I can get you a bird, I can get you ten birds. |
Ivan Vanko/Whiplash: | I want MY bird! |
Justin Hammer: | Well, nothing's impossible. Are we talkin--is this a bird, uh, back in Russia? |
Guy Fleegman: | HEY! Don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there air? You don't know! |
Sam Bell: | Wake me up when it's quitting time. |
Tony Stark: | Yeah i'd say most countries 5-10 years away....Hammer Industries 20. |
Justin Hammer: | I'd like to point out that that test pilot survived. |
William "Wild Bill" Wharton: | A prisoner with a belt? |
Zaphod Beeblebrox: | I'll pull your spleen out through your throat. |
Bronco/Brutus: | Cyclops there... cyclops there... cyclops THERE... turrets... moon buggies... oh, my holy crap: surveillance does. I hate those. |
Zaphod Beeblebrox: | Humma Kavula! |
Bill: | Listen, you know, kids are stupid. |
Kathy: | Yeah, but it's not just the kids. |
Bill: | Well, you know, people are stupid. lt starts in childhood and then continues all the way to death. |
Sam Bell: | "I know you can't kill anybody, 'cause i can't kill anybody." |
Sam Bell: | I know you can't kill anybody, 'cause I can't kill anybody. |
Jason Nesmith: | You're not gonna die on the planet, Guy. |
Guy Fleegman: | I'm not? Then what's my last name? |
Jason Nesmith: | It's... uh... uh... I don't know. |
Guy Fleegman: | Nobody knows. Do you know why? Because my character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die five minutes in! |
Gwen DeMarco: | Guy, you have a last name. |
Guy Fleegman: | DO I? DO I? For all you know, I'm Crewman Number Six! Mommy... mommy... |
Bronco/Brutus: | You sole my nads Denis! |
Bronco/Brutus: | You took my nads Denis! |
Bronco/Brutus: | You took my nads, Dennis! |
Sam Bell: | You look like a radioactive tampon... like a banana with a yeast infection. |
Charley Ford: | You think it's all made up don't yea, think it's all yarns and newspaper stories. |
Robert Ford: | He's just a human being |
Robert Ford: | He's just a human being. |
Chuck Barris: | Whatever your hand finds to do , do it gladly , because there is no work, love, knowledge or wisdom in the grave. |
Chuck Barris: | Whatever your hand finds to do, do it gladly, because there is no work, love, knowledge or wisdom in the grave. |
Sam Bell: | We're not programs Gerty we're people |
Sam Bell: | We're not programs Gerty, we're people. |
Sam Bell: | Who's the guy in the rec room? |
Gerty: | Sam Bell...You are Sam Bell |
Gerty: | Sam Bell...You are Sam Bell. |
Karl: | I am now accepting applications for my 8th bestfriend.. |
Karl: | I am now accepting applications for my 8th best friend. |
Karl: | "you're as queer as a football bat". |
Karl: | You're as queer as a football bat, and that's fine. |
Karl: | Can't buy underwear, balls don't fit. |
Karl: | i let my haters be my motivators |
Karl: | I let my haters be my motivators! |
Bronco/Brutus: | ..Its a friendship stone... Lets blow on it... fhooooooooowww |
Bronco/Brutus: | It's a friendship stone. Let's blow on it. |
Sam Bell: | "Jesus Christ there are so many of 'em. Why are their so many of 'em" |
Sam Bell: | You look like a radioactive tampon... like a banana with a yeast infection. |
Justin Hammer: | I wanna make Iron Man look like an antique. |