David Thewlis movie quotes

“- Johnny: You know what frightens me about the human body?
- Sophie: What?
- Johnny: Well, it's like the most sophisticated mechanism in the entire universe, and yet it's so fucking quiet, isn't it?”
David Thewlis - Johnny
Katrin Cartlidge - Sophie

“I've got an infinite number of places to go, the problem is where to stay.”
David Thewlis - Johnny

“I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody - you're all so bored. You've had nature explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the living body explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the universe explained to you and you're bored with it.”

David Thewlis - Johnny

“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion, I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God.”
David Thewlis - Hospitaler

“Some are good at hunting men, some are good at hunting money. Both have value for me.”
David Thewlis - King Einon

“In the hovels where we got drunk he wept looking at those who surrounded us, the cattle of poverty. He lifted up drunks in the black streets. He had the pity a bad mother has for small children. He moved with the grace of a little girl at catechism. He pretended to know about everything, business, art, medicine. I followed him, I had to!”

David Thewlis - Paul Verlaine

“- Cow Pat Keegan: Funny what attracts people, innit?
- Dan Starkey: Sorry?
- Cow Pat Keegan: Me & Margaret. You & Margaret. You & your wife. Me & your wife. I suppose really to complete the circle, you should sleep with my wife. But I wouldn't recommend it.”
Jason Isaacs - Cow Pat Keegan
David Thewlis - Dan Starkey

“No atheists in foxholes.”
David Thewlis - Keith Jennings

“When I was 8-years-old, I woke up in the middle of the night and found my brother pissing on my typewriter. I decided then and there that there was something wonderful about alcohol.”
David Thewlis - Dan Starkey

“I've always said death is a release, not a punishment!”
David Thewlis - King Einon

“Some are good at hunting men, some are good at hunting money. Both have value for me.”
David Thewlis - King Einon

“- King Einon: Next time stab more flesh. Less cloth.
- Kara: I'll pierce your heart!
- King Einon: You already did.”

David Thewlis - King Einon
Dina Meyer - Kara

“You don't even have a fucking future, I don't have a future. Nobody has a future. The party's over. Take a look around you man, it's all breaking up.”

David Thewlis - Johnny

“- Brian: I don't believe that. Life can't just come to a stop.
- Johnny: I'm not saying that life will end or the world will end, or the universe will cease to exist. But man will cease to exist! Just like the dinosaurs passed into extinction, the same thing will happen to us! We're not fucking important! We're just a crap idea!”

Peter Wight - Brian
David Thewlis - Johnny

“It doesn't matter how many past or future existences you have, because they're all gonna be riddled with grief and anguish and sickness and death. You see, Brian, God doesn't love you. God despises you. So there's no hope, and mankind is just a component of the device by which the devil creates itself.”

David Thewlis - Johnny

“Good exists in order to be fucked up by evil. The very existence of good enables evil to flourish. Therefore, God is bad.”
David Thewlis - Johnny

God is a hateful god. Must be, because if God is good, then why is there evil in the world? Why is there pain and hate and greed and war? Doesn't make sense. But if God is a nasty bastard, then you can say: "Why is there good in the world? Why is there love and hope and joy?".

David Thewlis - Johnny

“- Edward Douglas: Are you a doctor?
- Montgomery: Well, I'm more of a vet.”
David Thewlis - Edward Douglas
Val Kilmer - Montgomery

“- James: When I had a problem, my mom and dad would tell me to look at it another way.
- Earthworm: How? First, I was bird bait, then I was shark bait.
- James: I suppose, but you could say you gave us wings to fly, and defeated a giant shark single-handedly.
- Earthworm: No-handedly.
- James: You're a hero.
- Earthworm: I am? I'm Wonder Worm!
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Paul Terry - James
David Thewlis - Earthworm

“Be good. If you can't be good, be careful.”
David Thewlis - Johnny

“- Paul Verlaine: You don't care about my happiness, do you?
- Arthur Rimbaud: No, neither should you.”
David Thewlis - Paul Verlaine
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arthur Rimbaud

“- Grasshopper: This is all my fault.
- Earthworm: Hey don't take all the credit, I helped too!”
Simon Callow - Grasshopper
David Thewlis - Earthworm

“- Brian: Whatever happens mankind will not cease to exist.
- Johnny: We must! By the very definition of apocalypse, mankind must cease to exist, at least in a material form.
- Brian: What do you mean, in a material form?
- Johnny: We will evolve.”
Peter Wight - Brian
David Thewlis - Johnny

“- Grasshopper: No-one is going to squoosh you, old boy. You're six feet long now.
- Earthworm: Bigger targets.”
Simon Callow - Grasshopper
David Thewlis - Earthworm

“- Louise: What are you doing here? You look like shit.
- Johnny: I'm just trying to blend in with the surroundings.”
Lesley Sharp - Louise
David Thewlis - Johnny