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John Doe
Appears in: Seven
Date(s): Sept. 22, 1995
Award(s):
"Best Supporting Actor"
- National Board of Review
"Best Villain"
- MTV Movie Award
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - "What sick ridiculous puppets we are / and what gross little stage we dance on / What fun we have dancing and fucking / Not a care in the world / Not knowing that we are nothing / We are not what was intended."
- "Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention."
- "It seems that envy is my sin."
- "I visited your home this morning after you'd left. I tried to play husband. I tried to taste the life of a simple man. It didn't work out, so I took a souvenir... her pretty head."
- "She begged for her life and the life of the baby inside her."
- "Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. I won't deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner."
- "Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man... a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him; a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him, I picked the lawyer and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets! A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point. We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed... forever."
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| Lester Burnham Appears in: American Beauty
Date(s): Oct. 1, 1999
Award(s):
"Best Actor"
- Oscar
"Best Male Performance"
- BAFTA Film Award
"Outstanding Performance"
- Screen Actors Guild Award
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - "Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus."
- "We've met before, but something tells me you're going to remember me this time."
- "Remember those posters that said, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"? Well, that's true of every day but one - the day you die."
- "Let's all sell our souls and work for Satan because it's more convenient that way."
- "Look at me, jerking off in the shower... This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here."
- "I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday."
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Verbal Kint
Appears in: Usual Suspects
Date(s): Aug. 16, 1995
Award(s):
"Best Supporting Actor"
- Oscar
"Best Supporting Actor"
- National Board of Review
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
- "Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee, right off the trees I mean. That was good. This is shit but, hey, I'm in a police station."
- "Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze."
- "A man can convince anyone he's somebody else, but never himself."
- "How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"
- "Who is Keyser Soze?"
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Jack Vincennes
Appears in: LA Confidential
Date(s): Sept. 19, 1997
Award(s):
"Best Performance"
- BAFTA (Nomination)
"Best Actor"
- Empire Awards, UK
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - "Oh, lookee here: the great jerkoff case of 1953."
- "All right, college boy, I'll help. But there's a case you boys in Homicide don't care about, you think it's just another Hollywood "homo"-cide. Well, I don't. You help me with mine, I'll help you with yours. Deal?"
- "Oh, great. You get the girl, I get the coroner."
- "Why in the world do you wanna go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl killings... Lieutenant?"
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