Jesse Plemons movie quotes

View Quote It all starts with something... magnificent. A flower. Just a flower. Then a honeybee. Very fragile. Very complicated. The bee gathers pollen and deposits it in another flower's stigma. It's like sex but cleaner. And nobody gets hurt.

View Quote Welcome to the headquarters of the human resistance. Despite our general suspicion and disavowal of all extant governing bodies, and despite the fact that you, as an Andromedan, are not subject to the human rights guidelines detailed in the Geneva Conventions, we nevertheless endeavour to adhere to those guidelines out of the humanist principles to which they aspire.

View Quote [after slapping Michelle] Everybody denies it at first. And then they confess.

View Quote [George is crying]
Rose Gordon: What is it, George?
George Burbank: I just want to say... how nice it is not to be alone.

View Quote George Burbank: What you said about her boy tonight, Phil. It made her cry.
Phil Burbank: She had her ear to the door?
George Burbank: She was crying, Phil.
Phil Burbank: Well, hell. The boy had to snap out of it and get human. Just pointed it out, is all. She should damn well know.

View Quote Phil Burbank: You got a sore gut?
George Burbank: No.
Phil Burbank: It looks it pains you to hit two words together.

View Quote I'm all for civil rights but you can't cheat your way to equality. And you certainly can't shoot your way to it.

View Quote Bill O'Neal: A badge is scarier than a gun.
Roy Mitchell: Would you mind explaining that for me?
Bill O'Neal: Any **** on the streets can get a gun, sir. A badge is like you got the whole damn army behind you.

View Quote Roy Mitchell: Forgive me, I'm confused. So, this kid, Alex Rackley, was labelled an informant, and then killed... by an actual FBI informant. And we're just letting him walk for murder?
Leslie Carlyle: It's beautiful. He's on the lam, right? So, any time he goes into a Panther office, we get a warrant for harboring a fugitive. He's in the interview room right now with our liaison guys, planning the next stop on his little tour.
Roy Mitchell: Wow. That's, uh...
Leslie Carlyle: Takes a thief to catch a thief, Roy.

View Quote [about Lancaster Dodd] He's making all of this up as he goes along. You don't see that?

View Quote As the world becomes more and more confusing, we tend to focus on the things that are right there in front of us while ignoring the massive forces that actually change and shape our lives. And, with people working longer and longer hours for less and less, when we do have free time, the last thing we want is complicated analysis on our government, lobbying, international trade agreement, and tax bills. So it's no surprise that, when a monotone, bureaucratic Vice President came to power, we hardly noticed as he achieved a position of authority that very few leaders in the history of America ever had.