Brendan Gleeson movie quotes

“- Gerry Boyle: There were gay lads in the IRA?
- Colum Hennessey: Mmm... one or two. It was the only way we could successfully infiltrate the MI5.”
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle
Pat Shortt - Colum Hennessey

“Sail boats. I don't understand 'em. I prefer a big boat with a big motor on a big lake behind a big dam.”
Brendan Gleeson - Jack Van Meter

“The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.”
Brendan Gleeson - Tom Nickerson

“- Inspector Arthur Steed: You might lose your life before this is over.
- Maud Watts: We will win.”

Brendan Gleeson - Inspector Arthur Steed
Carey Mulligan - Maud Watts

“We were headed for the edge of sanity... like we were aberrations, phantoms. Trust gave way to doubt. Hope to superstition.”
Brendan Gleeson - Tom Nickerson

“Don't bother arresting them. Let their husbands deal with them.”
Brendan Gleeson - Inspector Arthur Steed

“- Herman Melville: Something else you've given me tonight.
- Tom Nickerson: And what's that?
- Herman Melville: The courage to go where one does not want to go.”
Ben Whishaw - Herman Melville
Brendan Gleeson - Tom Nickerson

“- Inspector Arthur Steed: My job is to enforce the law.
- Maud Watts: It all means nothing to me, I’ve had no say in making it the law.”
Brendan Gleeson - Inspector Arthur Steed
Carey Mulligan - Maud Watts

“I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.”
Brendan Gleeson

“Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys.”
Brendan Gleeson

“When I first was able to fill in A-C-T-O-R for the occupation line on my passport, that was the first time I really felt, 'Wow, I'm home.”
Brendan Gleeson

“- Gabriela McBride: He's gay. Like when one man put's his...
- Gerry Boyle: I'm familiar with the mechanics of it, yea.”
Katarina Cas - Gabriela McBride
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle

“- Aidan McBride: Little early for a drink. You're still on duty. You've been gone all afternoon.
- Gerry Boyle: You gonna continue to make a series of declarative statements, or are you gonna fuckin' tell me something?”
Rory Keenan - Aidan McBride
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle

“- Liam O'Leary: You should get a dog. Or a parrot, maybe. Something to raise the alarm, you know. Ned Kelly had a peacock.
- Gerry Boyle: I've always wanted a giraffe.”
David Wilmot - Liam O'Leary
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle

“- Gerry Boyle: It's not as if you're that hard to please.
- Eileen Boyle: Yeah, that's what they said to me at the orgy.”
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle
Fionnula Flanagan - Eileen Boyle

“These men are armed and dangerous, and you being an FBI agent you're more used to shooting at unarmed women and children...”
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle

“I thought only black lads were drug dealers!”
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle

“- Sinead Mulligan: Now it can be revealed. I have very small breasts.
- Gerry Boyle: That's okay, I have a very small penis.”
Sarah Greene - Sinead Mulligan
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle

“You better be listening! I don't need you making shit up as you go along! Take the warrant and serve it with Rico's platoon.”
Brendan Gleeson - Jack Van Meter

“- Hector: Is this the man that was killed?
- Sheriff Hank Keough: He seemed... taller.”

Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough

“- Gerry Boyle: I don't want to see it. Babies all look the same. The only time a baby doesn't look like every other baby is when it's a really ugly baby. So unless you're about to show me a photo of a really ugly baby then I don't want to see it.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: That's pretty fucking rude.
- Gerry Boyle: Maybe it is maybe it isn't.”
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle
Don Cheadle - FBI Agent Wendell Everett

“Is that myself looking as sober as the day I was born?”
Brendan Gleeson - Walter 'Monk' McGinn

“- Gerry Boyle: This is a Gaelic speaking region. Did they not teach you that at Langley?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: No, they did not teach us that at Langley. For the simple fact that Langley is the CIA, you idiot, not the FBI!”
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle
Don Cheadle - FBI Agent Wendell Everett

“- Sheriff Hank Keough: I brought a pork chop for luck. Maybe you could hang it around your neck.
- Hector Cyr: That's sweet. Maybe later you can chew the bark off my big fat log.”

Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr

- Jack Wells: Ma'am...
- Kelly Scott: Look, if you call me "ma'am" one more time I'll sue you, and with today's laws it's possible.
- Sheriff Hank Keough: She's good.
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough