“Trumbo” quotes
(2015)
Title Trumbo
Year 2015
Director Jay Roach
Genre Drama, Biography
Year 2015
Director Jay Roach
Genre Drama, Biography
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Plot – Dalton Trumbo is the highest paid writer in Hollywood during the '40s. He's politically active and sides with the unions. Along with his colleagues, Trumbo is called to testify in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. It investigates any communist activity in the United States. Trumbo refuses to answer and is arrested. In the following thirteen years, all the major Hollywood companies refuse to hire him. Trumbo is forced to sell his house. His friends, colleagues and neighbors avoid him. To support his family, the writer accepts low-budget jobs under a false name.
All actors – Bryan Cranston, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Maldonado, John Getz, Diane Lane, Laura Flannery, Helen Mirren, David James Elliott, Toby Nichols, Joseph S. Martino, Madison Wolfe, Jason Bayle, James DuMont, Alan Tudyk, Louis C.K., Dan Bakkedahl, Richard Portnow, Roger Bart, Johnny Sneed, Rio Hackford, Dane Rhodes, Peter Mackenzie, John Neisler, Sean Bridgers, J.D. Evermore, P.J. Marshall, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Meghan Wolfe, Mitchell Zakocs, Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Stephen Root, Jason Kirkpatrick, Wayne Pére, A.J. Allegra, Mattie Liptak, Becca Nicole Preston, Dean O'Gorman, Garrett Hines, Chris LeBlanc, Ron Fassler, Christian Berkel, Mark Harelik, Jim Gleason, Rick Kelly, Billy Slaughter, Griff Furst, John Mark Skinner, , Eddie Albert, Jerome Andries, Michael D. Anglin, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Henry Bauer IV, Tony Beard, Jaclyn Bethany, Humphrey Bogart, Patton Brantley, Eugene Brezany, Kina Dach'e Bullock, David Michael Cefalu, Ron Centanni, John C. Coffman, Jim Conroy, Robert D'Arensbourg, Andrew Downs, Ted Ferguson, Joseph Fischer, Brandon Fontenot, James Garner, Cary Grant, Allyson Guay, Richard Halverson, Gene Kevin Hames Jr., Bob Hartnack, Elton Hartzler, Audrey Hepburn, Nick Hwang, Don Jarrells, Pat Jarrells, Tiffany Michaela Jones, Danny Kaye, Patrick Kearns, Ed Kendrick, John F. Kennedy, Deborah Kerr, Steve Kish, Donald M. Krause, Kate Kuen, Jenny Lacey, Rhonda Laizer, Robert Larriviere, Jesse Lasky Jr., C.J. LeBlanc, Cynthia LeBlanc, Elton LeBlanc, Justin Lebrun, Gerard 'Jerry' Lewis, Jerry Lewis, Joseph McCarthy, Carlye McIntosh, Chris McKnight, Elijah Miskowski, Duane Moseley, Richard Nixon, Laurence Olivier, Veronica Parks, Ron M Patterson, Gregory Peck, Charles Pitre, Philippe Radelet, Ronald Reagan, Gus Rhodes, Roger Rignack, Michael Rollins, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, Daniel Ross Owens, William Schaff, Louis Scherschel, Kari Shemwell, Paula Shreve, Jean Simmons, Anne Speed, Joseph Stalin, Laura Stratton, Woody Strode, Robert Taylor, John Teal Jr., Yana Trofimova, Dalton Trumbo, Bob Walker, Luke J. Watson, Mark Webster, Brian Les Weinberger, Michael Wozniak
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“What the imagination can't conjure, reality delivers with a shrug.”
“- Dalton Trumbo: Oh, one problem though.
- Hymie King: Expensive?
- Dalton Trumbo: Worse. It's good.”“You go and ask the studio how they would like having to reshoot this movie without me because for better or for worse [shouting] I am Spartacus!”
“Ever since I’ve known you, you talk like a radicle, but you live like a rich guy. I don’t think you’re willing to lose all of this just to do the right thing.”
“- Hedda Hopper: Drinking alone?
- Dalton Trumbo: Preferably.
- Hedda Hopper: And what are you up to these days?
- Dalton Trumbo: You know, Hedda, another one of these and I just might tell you.
- Hedda Hopper: Oh, then I'm buying.”“What we're about to do is the one thing everyone says we can't. We work.”
“- Cleo Fincher Trumbo: You have no idea what you could lose.
- Dalton Trumbo: Oh, please. My career and the first amendment and the country, am I missing anything?
- Cleo Fincher Trumbo: Us! You're losing us! Since prison, you don't talk or ask. You just snap, bark. I keep waiting for you to start pounding the dinner table with a gavel.”“- Hedda Hopper: Now what do you do when you love something but it stops loving you back?
- Louis B. Mayer: You fight.
- Hedda Hopper: No, no, no. You love it more until it surrenders.”“- J. Parnell Thomas: Mr. Trumbo, are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
- Dalton Trumbo: Am I accused of a crime?”“I'm in this for the money and the pussy and they're both falling off the trees!”
“They're Nazis. They're just too cheap to buy the uniforms.”
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