You gotta be somebody ain’t ya? ibid.
You’ve got to be part of a gang, haven’t ya? Eh? You’ve got to be a Mod or this or that. I mean haven’t you got a mind of your own? ibid. Jimmy’s Dad
We are the Mods, We are the Mods, We are, we are, we are the Mods. ibid. gang-handed along promenade
These long-haired mentally unstable petty little hoodlums. ibid. magistrate to mob
You can take that mail and that franking machine and all that other rubbish I have to go about with and you can stuff ’em right up your ass. ibid. Jimmy to boss
I ain’t mad you know. ibid. Jimmy to Steph
You’ve killed me scooter. ibid. Jimmy to Post Office bloke
Night and the City. The night is tonight. The City is London. Night and the City 1950 starring Richard Widmark & Gene Tierney & Googie Withers & Hugh Marlowe & Francis L Sullivan & Herbert Lom & Stanislaus Zbyszko & Mike Mazurki et al, director Jules Dassin
This is different, Mary. This can’t lose. ibid. him to her
You got to get hold of yourself. You can’t go on for ever, always running, always in a sweat. ibid. her to him
I just want to be somebody. ibid. him to her
I’ll be back with two hundred and you match it. I’ll show you. ibid. Harry to Phil
I know you: born a hustler, you will die a hustler. ibid. Kristo to Harry
Your father shall learn Mr Fabian is not an honourable man. ibid. Phil to Kristo
A thousand pounds for the man who gets Fabian. ibid. Kristo
Tonight the whole underworld’s after ya. ibid. Fiddler to Harry
How much are you selling me for? ibid. Harry to Fiddler
Harry Fabian: stop running. ibid. Harry
Harry, you could have been anything. Anything. You had brains, ambition. You worked harder than any ten men. The wrong things. Always the wrong things. ibid. her to him
1957: the Height of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union fear each other’s nuclear capabilities – and intentions. Both sides deploy spies – and hunt for them. Bridge of Spies 2016 starring Tom Hanks & Mark Rylance & Amy Ryan & Sebastian Koch & Alan Alda & Austin Stowell & Scott Shepherd & Billy Magnussen & Eve Hewson & Jillian Lebling et al, director Steven Spielberg, opening caption
Hanks: You don’t seem alarmed.
Rylance: Would it help? ibid.
I’m not afraid to die, Mr Donovan. Although it wouldn’t be my first choice. ibid.
Can I be honest with you? I am bad fucking news. I’m not your friend. I’m not gonna help you. I’m gonna break you. Any questions? Zero Dark Thirty 2012 starring Jessica Chastain & Jason Clarke & Joel Edgerton & Jennifer Ehle & Mark Strong & Kyle Chandler & Edgar Ramirez & James Gandolfini & Chris Pratt et al, director Kathryn Bigelow, Dan to Abu Faraj al-Libbi
I want to make something absolutely clear. If you thought there was some secret cell somewhere working al-Qaeda, I want you to know that you are wrong! This is it. There’s no working group coming to the rescue. There’s nobody else hidden away on some other floor. This is just us. And we are FAILING. We’re spending billions of dollars. People are dying. We’re still no closer to defeating our enemy. They attacked us on land in ’98, by sea in 2000, and from the air in 2001. They murdered three thousand of our citizens in cold blood, they’ve slaughtered our forward deployed. And what the fuck have we done about it? What have we done? We have twenty leadership names and we’ve only eliminated four of them. I want targets! Do your fucking jobs! Bring me people to kill! ibid. George
I want you to open up your hearts. And open up your wallets ... I should be in a Rolls Royce. Angel Heart 1987 starring Mickey Rourke & Robert De Niro & Lisa Bonet & Charlotte Rampling & Stocker Fontelieu & Brownie McGhee & Michael Higgins & Elizabeth Whitcraft & Charles Gordone & Dann Florek & Kathleen Wilhoite et al, director Alan Parker, preacher
Who the fuck are you, Cypher? ibid. Rourke
The Prince of Darkness protects the powerful. ibid. bloke
Only the soul is immortal. And yours belongs to me. ibid. Lucifer
I know who I am! ibid. Rourke
You’re gonna burn for this, Angel. ibid. rozzer
Why is Control calling me back? The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 1966 starring Richard Burton & Claire Bloom & Oskar Werner & Peter van Eyck & Sam Wanamaker & Rupert Davies & Cyril Cusack & George Voskovec & Michael Hordern & Robert Hardy & Bernard Lee et al, director Martin Ritt, Leamas to driver
It’s like metal fatigue. We have to live without sympathy, don’t we. We can’t do that for ever. One can’t stay outdoors all the time. One needs to come in. In from the cold. ibid. Control to Leamas
Our work as I understand it is based on a single assumption that the West is never going to be the aggressor. Thus, we do disagreeable things, but we are defensive. Our policies are peaceful but our methods can’t afford to be less ruthless than those of the opposition. Can they? I’d say er since the war our methods, our techniques that is and those of the communists have become very much the same. Yes. I mean occasionally we have to do wicked things. Very wicked things indeed. ibid.
New employer: Is your handwriting legible?
Leamas: Except at weekends. ibid.
Communism, capitalism, it’s the innocents who get slaughtered. ibid. Leamas to Perry
That’s what the Party does for us – don’t you see – it organises our emotions. ibid. Nan Perry to Leamas
Bit by bit you’ll come across with the evidence that will kill Mundt. ibid. Control to Leamas
Fiedler, my dear Alec, is the lynchpin of our plan. ibid.
You’ve a paid defector on your hands – that’s me. ibid. Leamas to contact in Holland
She believed in free love – at the time it was all I could afford. ibid. Leamas to Fiedler
London couldn’t have run him [Mundt] without my knowing about it. ibid.
London sent you, didn’t they? ibid. Mundt to Leamas
You all know why we are here. This is not a trial but a tribunal convened especially by the presidium. ibid. chair of tribunal
For these charges we say there is no objective evidence and that Comrade Fiedler is intoxicated with dreams of power. ibid. Mundt’s advocate
I’ll tell you what you were never never to know. Mundt is London’s man – he is their agent. They bought him while he was in England. We’re witnessing the lousy end to a filthy lousy operation to save Mundt’s skin, to save him from a clever little Jew in Mundn’t own department who had begun to suspect the truth. ibid. Leamas to Nancy
There’s only one rule – expediency. ibid.