Richard Jenkins movie quotes

“Y'know, uh - cornflakes were invented to prevent masturbation. It didn't work.”
Richard Jenkins - Giles

“Have you always been alone? Did you ever have someone? Do you know what happened to you, do you? Because I don't. I don't know what happened to me. I don't know! I look in the mirror and the only thing I recognize, are these eyes. In this old man's face. You know sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life. Maybe we're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Richard Jenkins - Giles

“The end comes no matter what, the only thing that matters is how do you wanna go out, on your feet or on your knees?”
Richard Jenkins - Robert Grace

“Do you know what the Bible says about fucking your own sister? Don't.”
Richard Jenkins - Walter Wingfield

“- Michael McCarty: You are a salesman, sir.
- Walter Sullivan: Selling sin is easy.”
Richard Jenkins - Michael McCarty
E.G. Marshall - Walter Sullivan

“Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.”
Richard Jenkins

“- Ted: I'm not comfortable with this, and I want this out of Hardbodies. We're running a gym here. God.
- Chad Feldheimer: Manolo, you didn't find this.
- Manolo: I found it on the floor there.
- Chad Feldheimer: Yeah, I know, but...
- Manolo: Right there on the floor there. Just lying there.”

Richard Jenkins - Ted
Brad Pitt - Chad Feldheimer
Raul Aranas - Manolo

“- Cale: You are a goddamn traitor, sir.
- Raphelson: Now when the country finds out that your belovedPresident helped a maniac open the nuclear football, who do think they'll believe? Now you would be a nobody, whereas I am the President of the United States.
- President Sawyer: Oh no, you're not!”
Channing Tatum - Cale
Richard Jenkins - Raphelson
Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer

“When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day. Now, I can either save him... or let him die.”

Richard Jenkins - Giles

“- Bernard: Oh, and they want the - them happier. The family.
- Giles: Happier?
- Bernard: Mm.
- Giles: Happier? The father looks like he just discovered the missionary position!”
Stewart Arnott - Bernard
Richard Jenkins - Giles

“- Jackie: You ever kill anyone?
- Driver: No.
- Jackie: It can get touchy-feely.
- Driver: Touchy-feely?
- Jackie: Emotional, not fun, a lot of fuss. They cry. They plead. They beg. They piss themselves. They call for their mothers. It gets embarrassing. I like to kill them softly, from a distance. Not close enough for feelings. Don't like...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Pitt - Jackie
Richard Jenkins - Driver

When I think of her, of Elisa, the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love hundreds of years ago. "Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere".
Richard Jenkins - Giles

“- Raphelson: You won't get away with this. I have friends, powerful friends!
- President Sawyer: And I'll make sure every single one of them joins you in prison!”
Richard Jenkins - Raphelson
Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer

“He's a wild creature. We can't ask him to be anything else.”

Richard Jenkins - Giles

“I’m going to be synchronizing our watches just like they do in the movies.”

Richard Jenkins - Giles

“- Kemp: So many hotels you can't see the sea.
- Lotterman: You can see the sea by checking into the hotels.
- Kemp: Pay to see the sea?
- Lotterman: What's the matter with that? You're paying to be in the dream...”
Johnny Depp - Kemp
Richard Jenkins - Lotterman

“- Giles: Oh! God, to be young and beautiful. If I could go back to when I was 18 - I didn't know anything about anything - I'd give myself a bit of advice.
- Elisa: [in sign language] What would you say?
- Giles: I would say: Take better care of your teeth and fuck, a lot more.”
Richard Jenkins - Giles
Sally Hawkins - Elisa Esposito

“- Raphelson: You can't do this! I am still the President of the United States!
- President Sawyer: Then consider this a coup d'état!”
Richard Jenkins - Raphelson
Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer

“- Freddy Bender: Objection, Your Honor: strangling the witness.
- Judge Marva Munson: I'm going to allow it.”
Richard Jenkins - Freddy Bender
Isabell O'Connor - Judge Marva Munson

“You do know it is a federal offense to destroy a United States Post Office?”

Richard Jenkins - Paul Harmon

“- Chicory: That tea smells gruesome.
- Sheriff Franklin Hunt: It's soup.
- Chicory: Oh. You think I can have some?”
Richard Jenkins - Chicory
Kurt Russell - Sheriff Hunt

“I'm surprised she didn't give up the sausage and become a vagina-tarian.”
Richard Jenkins - Walter Wingfield

“- Shake: We're having adult time here, boys.
- Kyle Baker: No idea what that means.
- Tom Baker: Well, it's this crazy thing where grown-ups actually get to have a conversation without being interrupted by kids.”
Richard Jenkins - Shake
Shane Kinsman - Kyle Baker
Steve Martin - Tom Baker

“- Detective Wade: We got five new murders. What is there about a full moon?
- Detective Bridger: More light.”
Brian Markinson - Detective Wade
Richard Jenkins - Detective Bridger

“I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I'm costing somebody money. I like a sense of freedom.”
Richard Jenkins