Albert Finney movie quotes

“Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

“He on whose heart the dust of Mexico has lain, will find no peace in any other land.”
Albert Finney - Geoffrey Firmin

“You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.”

Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

“The wine will always whisper into your mouth with complete, unabashed honesty every time you take a sip.”
Albert Finney - Uncle Henry

“- Geoffrey Firmin: Have a drink with me.
- Yvonne Firmin: No, you'll have one. I'll cheer.”
Albert Finney - Geoffrey Firmin
Jacqueline Bisset - Yvonne Firmin

“- Hugh Firmin: Geoff, what possess you?
- Geoffrey Firmin: Sobriety, I'm afraid. Too much moderation. I needdrink desperatly to get my balance on.”
Anthony Andrews - Hugh Firmin
Albert Finney - Geoffrey Firmin

“- Alfie Byrne: Dancing is neither modest or immodest. It's either well-done, or badly done.
- Christy Ward: Is that a quote?
- Alfie Byrne: Almost.”
Albert Finney - Alfred Byrne
David Kelly - Christy Ward

“I'm dying. I know this because my physician has stopped talking about my health and begun discussing the weather.”
Albert Finney - Uncle Henry

“- Ed Bloom - Senior: Havin' a kidchanges everything. There's burping, the midnightfeeding, and the changing.
- Will Bloom: You do any of that?
- Ed Bloom - Senior: No. But I hear it's terrible. Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill his head with nonsense, and still it turns out perfectly fine.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“- Leo: Dammit, Tom, I forgive you!
- Tom Reagan: I didn't ask for that and I don't want it. Good-bye, Leo.”
Albert Finney - Leo
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“Once you find something good, you need to take care of it. You need to let it grow.”

Albert Finney - Uncle Henry

“I enjoy making wine, because this sublime nectar is quite simply incapable of lying. Picked too early, picked too late, it matters not.”
Albert Finney - Uncle Henry

“- Geoffrey Firmin: Knock! Knock!
- Yvonne Firmin: Who's there?
- Geoffrey Firmin: Cat.
- Yvonne Firmin: Cat who?
- Geoffrey Firmin: Catastrophe.”
Albert Finney - Geoffrey Firmin
Jacqueline Bisset - Yvonne Firmin

“- Tom Reagan: Think about what protecting Bernie gets us. Think about what offending Caspar loses us.
- Leo: Oh, come on, Tommy. You know I don't like to think.
- Tom Reagan: Yeah. Well, think about whether you should start.”
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan
Albert Finney - Leo

“There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost... the ship has sailed and only a fool would continue.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

“There is nothing more real than magic.”
Albert Finney - Geoffrey Firmin

“How, unless you drink as I do, can you hope to understand the beauty of an old indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”
Albert Finney - Geoffrey Firmin

“- Dewey Wilson: They kill to protect family?
- Old Indian: In the end, it's all for the hunting ground.”
Albert Finney - Dewey Wilson
Dehl Berti - Old Indian

“- Robbie Fay: Don't you be dirtying that nice cleanbus, now.
- Alfie Byrne: You have it lovely, Bosie. I can see myself in it, like Narcissus.
- Robbie Fay: You're at it again.
- Alfie Byrne: At what?
- Robbie Fay: That stuff you do. Big words. Poetry.”
Rufus Sewell - Robbie Fay
Albert Finney - Alfred Byrne

- Leo: Seein' you mope around here ruins my, whaddya call it, "joy de veever"?
- Tom Reagan: "Joie de vivre".
Albert Finney - Leo
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“- Leo: So you wanna kill him...
- Eddie Dane: For starters.”
Albert Finney - Leo
J.E. Freeman - Eddie Dane

“- Alfie Byrne: I've learned a horrible lesson.
- Adele Rice: About me.
- Alfie Byrne: About myself.”
Albert Finney - Alfred Byrne
Tara Fitzgerald - Adele Rice

“227 Lears... 227 performances of King Lear and I can't remember the first line.”
Albert Finney - Sir

“The critics? No, I have nothing but compassion for them. How can I hate the crippled, the mentally deficient, and the dead?”
Albert Finney - Sir