Brendan Gleeson movie quotes

“Your job is not to think. It is to follow orders, to execute plans and to be a good soldier. You're a goddamn great soldier because you leave the planning and fixing to me.”

Brendan Gleeson - Jack Van Meter

“- Wiglaf: Your legend is known from the high seas and the snow barriers to the Great Island Kingdom - you are the Monster Slayer.
- Beowulf: We men are the monsters now. The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf - the Christ God has killed it, leaving humankind with nothing but weeping martyrs, fear, and shame.”
Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf
Ray Winstone - Beowulf

“- Sheriff Hank Keough: I told you two days we'd have to camp.
- Kelly Scott: Yes! Camp! But I thought that meant Ramada Inn. I never heard tents! Will there be toilets?
- Jack Wells: Maybe we should just take you back.
- Kelly Scott: Why? Because I prefer toilets? Maybe I should just wipe myself with some leafy little piece of poison oak. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells

“- Beowulf: This is not battle, Wiglaf. This is slaughter.
- Wiglaf: The Frisians want to make themselves heroes, my lord. They want the bards to sing of their deeds.
- Beowulf: It's going to be a short song.”
Ray Winstone - Beowulf
Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf

“If you're not strong you'd better be smart'. Now I don't know if you're being too clever or too dumb, but whichever it is just remember this much. For all his faults, your father was a man who loved his people.”

Brendan Gleeson - Walter 'Monk' McGinn

“- Sheriff Hank Keough: I never heard of a crocodile crossing an ocean.
- Hector Cyr: Well, they conceal information like that in books.”
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr

“- Sheriff Hank Keough: I'm a little unclear as to why the museum would send somebody here.
- Kelly Scott: You got a thing against museums?
- Sheriff Hank Keough: Naw, I got nothin' against museums.
- Kelly Scott: Ever been in one?”
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott

“- Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still.
- Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake Placid, but someone said that name was taken.”
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough

“- Kelly Scott: His scales were oval. He's an Asian Crocodile.
- Sheriff Hank Keough: Why... why would he come here? I mean, it's impossible. Asia. How would he get here?
- Hector Cyr: Obviously some asshole in Hong Kong flushed him down the toilet.”
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr

“- Hector Cyr: What'd Bickerman say?
- Jack Wells: Well, she didn't want to tell us about the second croc 'cause she was afraid we'd blow its head off.
- Sheriff Hank Keough: Women's intuition.”
Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough

“- Mrs. Bickerman: Murders and rapes in the city, people bomb planes, can the police stop 'em? No! But feed one little cow to a crocodile...
- Sheriff Hank Keough: You're gonna stay right here until the police show. You're under full house arrest.
- Mrs. Bickerman: Thank you, officer fuck-meat!”
Betty Marion White - Mrs. Delores Bickerman
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough

“- Sheriff Hank Keough: Ma'am, your husband Bernie... you didn't by any chance lead him to the lake blindfolded?
- Mrs. Bickerman: If I had a dick, this is where I'd tell you to suck it!”
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Betty Marion White - Mrs. Delores Bickerman

“- Sheriff Hank Keough: Who are you?
- Hector Cyr: Hector Cyr, I said it once. Lemme know when it sinks in, ok?”
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr