“The Counselor” quotes

“- Westray: I'm perfectly willing to believe you had nothing to do with this but I'm not the party you have to convince.
- Counselor: Convince of what, for Christ sake?
- Westray: That this is some sort of coincidence. Because they don't really believe in coincidences. They've heard of them. They've just never seen one.”
Brad Pitt - Westray
Michael Fassbender - Counselor

“The world in which you seek to undo the mistakes that you made is different from the world where the mistakes were made. You are now at the crossing. And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there. There's only accepting. The choosing was done a long time ago...”
Rubén Blades - Jefe

“You are the world you have created. And when you cease to exist, this world that you have created will also cease to exist. But for those with the understanding that they're living the last days of the world, death acquires a different meaning. The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. And then, all the grand...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rubén Blades - Jefe

“To partake of the stone's endless destiny, is that not the meaning of adornment? To enhance the beauty of the beloved is to acknowledge both her frailty and the nobility of that frailty. At our noblest, we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.”
Bruno Ganz - Diamond Dealer

“- Counselor: I want her to have something that she would not be uncomfortable wearing. I don't want to give her a diamond so big she'd be afraid to wear it.
- Diamond Dealer: She is probably more courageous than you imagine.”
Michael Fassbender - Counselor
Bruno Ganz - Diamond Dealer

“- Malkina: To see quarry, killed with elegance, it's just moving to me.
- Banker: Is it sexual?
- Malkina: Yes, of course. A thing like that is always sexual. The hunter has grace, beauty, and purity of heart to be found nowhere else. You can make no distinction between what they are and what they do. And what they do is kill. We, of course, are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cameron Diaz - Malkina
Goran Visnjic - Banker

“Life is being in bed with you. Everything else is just waiting.”
Michael Fassbender - Counselor

“- Malkina: Greed really takes you to the edge, doesn't it?
- Reiner: That's not what greed does. That's what greed is.”
Cameron Diaz - Malkina
Javier Bardem - Reiner

“Actions create consequences which produce new worlds, and they're all different.”
Rubén Blades - Jefe

“Where women are concerned, they've got their own agenda. I always liked smart women, but it's been an expensive hobby.”
Javier Bardem - Reiner

“- Reiner: Are you really that cold?
- Malkina: The truth has no temperature.”
Javier Bardem - Reiner
Cameron Diaz - Malkina

“Machado would have traded every word, every poem, every verse he ever wrote for one more hour with his beloved. And that is because when it comes to grief, the normal rules of exchange do not apply, because grief transcends value. A man would give entire nations to lift grief off his heart. And yet, you cannot buy anything with grief, because...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rubén Blades - Jefe

“Men are attracted to flawed women too of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. They just want to be entertained. The truth about women is that you can do anything to them except bore them.”
Javier Bardem - Reiner

“Reflective men often find themselves at a place removed from the realities of life. In any case, we should all prepare a place where we can accommodate all the tragedies that sooner or later will come to our lives. But this is an economy few people care to practice.”
Rubén Blades - Jefe