Donald Sutherland movie quotes

“- Agar: We're partners, aren't we? Of course, if you're trying to say that you don't trust me completely...
- Pierce: I don't trust you at all.”
Donald Sutherland - Agar
Sir Sean Connery - Pierce

“You help the ones you can.”
Donald Sutherland - Ben Hillard

“- Elizabeth Driscoll: I keep seeing these people, all recognizing each other. Something is passing between them all, some secret. It's a conspiracy, I know it.
- Matthew Bennell: There can't be a conspiracy!
- Elizabeth Driscoll: Matthew, I'm telling you something is going on here.”
Brooke Adams - Elizabeth Driscoll
Donald Sutherland - Matthew Bennell

“- Melanie: You'd better put your rage into perspective, Benjamin Du Toit. This is a long distance race, you'll need to pace yourself.
- Ben: I suppose cynicism goes with the job!
- Melanie: It's not cynicism, it's realism.”
Susan Sarandon - Melanie
Donald Sutherland - Ben

“- Brian Costello: Tell me something. Do you think I'm corrupt?
- Nora McPhee: Aren't we all, just a little bit?”
Donald Sutherland - Brian Costello
Marsha Mason - Nora McPhee

“- Ben: You must not give up hope, Emily.
- Stanley: Hope's a white word, laanie. It's not hope we need.”
Donald Sutherland - Ben
Zakes Mokae - Stanley

“- John Bridger: I'm sending you something.
- Stella Bridger: Does it smell nice?
- John Bridger: No. But it's sparkly.
- Stella Bridger: Does it have a receipt?”

Donald Sutherland - John Bridger
Charlize Theron - Stella Bridger

“- Nora McPhee: I don't have it anymore, it was stolen in the parking lot. But I told the police. I'm surprised they didn't tell you.
- Brian Costello: They tell me when other vehicles are stolen. They don't tell me when it's mine.”

Marsha Mason - Nora McPhee
Donald Sutherland - Brian Costello

“It ain't easy saving the world, even one case at a time.”
Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks

“- Gordon: They've arrested Jonathan.
- Ben: Again? What for?
- Gordon: There is big trouble in the townships. They're killing our children! I saw the bodies, Mr. Ben. Many have been detained. I went to the hospital. To the mortuary. Everywhere! The police deny they have Jonathan.”
Winston Ntshona - Gordon
Donald Sutherland - Ben

“- Doctor Sid: Stay away from your friend the Captain. You save his life, he saves yours, one thing leads to another... I was young once too.
- Doctor Aki Ross: Doctor, there's a war going on. Nobody's young anymore.”
Donald Sutherland - Dr. Sid
Ming-Na Wen - Doctor Aki Ross

“- Flan Kittredge: Why do you stay in South Africa?
- Geoffrey: One has to stay there. To educate the black workers. And we'll know we've been successful when they kill us.
- Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, goodness.
- Flan Kittredge: Planning the revolution that will destroy you.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan
Sir Ian McKellen - Geoffrey
Stockard Channing - Ouisa

“- Doctor Aki Ross: What we need now is some luck.
- Dr. Sid: Luck has nothing to do with it! Faith and hard work, girl.”
Ming-Na Wen - Doctor Aki Ross
Donald Sutherland - Dr. Sid

“- Jake Tyler Brigance: I can't be you, Lucian.
- Lucien Wilbanks: Don't be me, Jake. Be better than me.”
Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks

“- Jake Tyler Brigance: I need a drink.
- Lucien Wilbanks: At three o'clock in the afternoon? What would your wife think?
- Jake Tyler Brigance: I'm my own man, Lucien. I drink when I want to.
- Lucien Wilbanks: When did she leave town?
- Jake Tyler Brigance: This morning.”
Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks

“- Vernon Pinkley: [impersonating a General] Where are you from, son?
- Soldier: Madison City, Missouri, sir!
- Vernon Pinkley: Never heard of it.”
Donald Sutherland - Vernon Pinkley

“- Matthew Bennell: What is that suppose to be?
- Chef: It is cervelles en matelote.
- Matthew Bennell: In English, what would I be eating if I ate that?
- Chef: Ah. Calves' brain in red wine.
- Matthew Bennell: Red wine and what else?”
Donald Sutherland - Matthew Bennell
Maurice Argent - Chef

“Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.”
Donald Sutherland - Bill Bowerman

“What did Darth Vader say to Luke Skywalker? Come over to the dark side. Come over, Annibal. You have no idea of the power we have.”
Donald Sutherland - Jack Shaw

“- Elizabeth Driscoll: Oh, Matthew, I can't go on! I wanna go to sleep. I can't stay awake any more.
- Matthew Bennell: You have to. You have to stay awake.”
Brooke Adams - Elizabeth Driscoll
Donald Sutherland - Matthew Bennell

“- Andrew Nivens: I can't believe you shot me.
- Sam Nivens: Well, what would you have done?
- Andrew Nivens: Oh, I'd have shot you, of course.”
Donald Sutherland - Andrew Nivens
Eric Thal - Sam Nivens

“If you win this case, justice will prevail. And if you lose, justice will also prevail. Now, that is a strange case.”

Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks

“- Brian Costello: Did you leave the vehicle unlocked?
- Nora McPhee: I just told you they broke into it last month. The locks didn't work.
- Brian Costello: On each side of the vehicle?
- Nora McPhee: Why do you keep calling it a vehicle, it's hardly even a car.
- Brian Costello: Don't you watch TV? We all talk like that.”

Donald Sutherland - Brian Costello
Marsha Mason - Nora McPhee

“- Maj. Reisman: Which one of you guys wants to be a general? Pinkley?
- Vernon Pinkley: What kind of general, sir?
- Maj. Reisman: Just a plain, ordinary, every day, home-lovin' American general.
- Vernon Pinkley: I'd rather be a civilian, sir.”
Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman
Donald Sutherland - Vernon Pinkley

“They're gonna break that door down, Frank. And when they come in here, they're gonna take you're fucking skull apart! You're going to beg me to let them kill you!”
Donald Sutherland - Warden Drumgoole