Elias Koteas movie quotes

“I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.”
Elias Koteas

“- Thomas Daggett: I have my soul. I have my faith. What do you have, angel?
- Lucifer: Leave the light on, Thomas.”

Elias Koteas - Thomas Dagget
Viggo Mortensen - Lucifer

“God will forgive me. The transformation is near.”

Elias Koteas - John Townsend

“- Geneticist: You have specified hazel eyes, dark hair and fair skin. I've taken the liberty of eradicating any potentially prejudicial conditions. Premature baldness, myopia... alcoholism and addictive susceptibility... propensity for violence, obesity, etc.
- Marie Freeman: We didn't want... Diseases, yes, but..
- Antonio Freeman: We were just...” (continue)(continue reading)

Blair Underwood - Geneticist
Jayne Brook - Marie Freeman
Elias Koteas - Antonio Freeman

“- Jack Payne: You know what they say is the first thing that a man feels when he shoots a civilian?
- Bob Lee Swagger: The recoil of the rifle?
- Jack Payne: [snickers] Yeah.
- Bob Lee Swagger: Very original.”
Elias Koteas - Jack Payne
Mark Wahlberg - Bob Lee Swagger

“I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in.”
Elias Koteas

“To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.”
Elias Koteas

“The class is Pain 101. Your instructor is Casey Jones.”
Elias Koteas - Casey Jones

“- Splinter: There must have been a battle.
- Casey Jones: I knew it, I'm missing all the fun.”
James Murray - Splinter
Elias Koteas - Casey Jones

“Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?”
Elias Koteas - Thomas Dagget

“What is it that gives a schoolgirl her special innocence? Her sweet fragrance... Fresh flowers, light as a spring rain... Oh, my god, my god... Or is it her firm, young flesh, inviting your every caress, enticing you to explore her deepest and most private secrets?”
Elias Koteas - Eric

- April O'Neil: Oh, Casey, hi.
- Casey Jones: Hi? I look like I just called Mike Tyson a sissy and all you can say is "Hi"?".
Judith Hoag - April O'Neil
Elias Koteas - Casey Jones

“- Peter Brandt: You two make quite a team. A fireman and a refugee. Sounds like a TV show.
- Gordy Brewer: Mm-Hmm, and you could play the asshole.”

Elias Koteas - Peter Brandt
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Gordy Brewer

“Some people lose their faith because heaven shows them too little. But how many people lose their faith because heaven showed them too much?”
Elias Koteas - Thomas Dagget

“He comes in here every other night. He has his favorite drink, and his favourite table, with his favorite dancer. Sometimes he has to wait for her, and sometimes she's waiting for him, to protect him. She's his angel.”
Elias Koteas - Eric

“- Christina: Do you have a lot of friends?
- Eric: Not really...
- Christina: Do you ever wish you did?
- Eric: Yeah.”
Mia Kirshner - Christina
Elias Koteas - Eric

“- April O'Neil: My nearest neighbors are about four miles away. I need to get to a phone and call my boss.
- Casey Jones: You mean Charles?
- April O'Neil: Yes; how did you know that?
- Casey Jones: He left a message on your machine, uh, just before we got out...
- April O'Neil: And?
- Casey Jones: Well, hey, you just saved yourself an...” (continue)(continue reading)
Judith Hoag - April O'Neil
Elias Koteas - Casey Jones

“- Whit: I think she's telling the truth.
- Walker: Really? Well, I don't pay you to think, do I? I pay you to lie, cheat, and steal.”
Elias Koteas - Whit
Stuart Wilson - Walker

“- Casey Jones: Bet you guys feel lucky to be going back, right?
- Benkei: We're lucky. We're going back.
- Guards in unison: Not!
- Casey Jones: This is really gonna screw up history.”

Elias Koteas - Casey Jones
Mak Takano - Benkei - Honor Guard #1

“Remember this, Hobbes: what goes around really goes around.”

Elias Koteas - Edgar Reese

“The tough part is, uh... Not knowing if you're doing any good. That's the hard part.”
Elias Koteas - Capt. Staros

“- Lenny Ish: What is the worst thing that you have ever done?
- Sonny Rose: Me? Uh, uh... I don't really know.
- Lenny Ish: That means you haven't done it yet.”
Philip Baker Hall - Lenny Ish
Elias Koteas - Sonny Rose

Years later, of all the Gospels I learnt in seminary school, a verse from St. Paul stays with me, it is perhaps the strangest passage in the Bible, in which he writes: "Even now in heaven there are angels carrying savage weapons”.
Elias Koteas - Thomas Dagget