Most-quoted character in The Boys from Brazil (1978): in 7 of its 13 quotes
A line from Ezra LiebermanYou're not a guard now, madame! You are a prisoner! I may leave here today empty handed. But you... are not going anywhere.
Ezra Lieberman He was the chief doctor of Auschwitz, who killed 2.5 million people, experimented with children - Jewish and non-Jewish - using twins mostly, injecting blue dyes into their eyes to make them acceptable Aryans... amputating limbs and organs from thousands without anesthetics.
Ezra Lieberman Not Mozart. Not Picasso. Not a genius who would enrich the world. But a lonely little boy with a domineering father, a customs officer who was 52 when he was born. And an affectionate doting mother who was 29. The father died when he was 65 when the boy was nearly 14... Adolf Hitler.
Ezra Lieberman You know, there was a nurse here, an angel of mercy called Miss Hannah, who actually gives me cigarettes. You know what she said to me the other day? She said, "Mr. Lieberman, if you can escape Buchenwald, and you can escape those bullets, then a few cigarettes will not hurt you." (burns the list of Mengele's clones) Isn't that a nice thing to say?
Ezra Lieberman Did you kill Wheelock?
Professor Bruckner Cloning. What if I were to tell you that I could take a scraping of skin from your finger and create another Ezra Lieberman?
Ezra Lieberman I would tell you not to waste your time on my finger.
David Bennet No more deception now. No more blind alleys.
Ezra Lieberman It was Mengele. He's dead. It's over.
David Bennet The Doring boy isn't dead yet. Neither is Simon Harrington or Jack Curry or Bobby Wheelock. It took a little time, a little backtracking, a visit to Dr. Bruckner. But now we know... everything.
Ezra Lieberman And what are you going to do about it?
David Bennet Kill the boys. Brilliant man, that Mengele. I suppose he had all 94 of those names and addresses memorized.
Ezra Lieberman Now you are trying to fool me. You have been searching the room.
David Bennet He must have had a list.
Ezra Lieberman He did, now I have it.
David Bennet Give it to me.
Ezra Lieberman Why?
David Bennet We have the right and we have the duty.
Ezra Lieberman To do what? To kill children?
David Bennet Give me that list.
Ezra Lieberman You will have to take it from me. And when you do, you can add my name to the list.
David Bennet I don't mean you any harm.
Ezra Lieberman You will have to kill me, David. The first of those boys that you touch, I will turn you and your entire organization over to the police. I will do that.
David Bennet You would protect Hitler?!
Ezra Lieberman No. I will not slaughter the innocent, and neither will you. A fanatic you may be, but a murderer of young children you are not.
