Sam Lowry Yes... No... I don't know. I don't know what I want.
Played by Jonathan Pryce 
Brazil (1985) · 60 quotes
Brazil (1985) · 60 quotes
Most-quoted character in Brazil (1985): in 23 of its 60 quotes
Most scenes with: Jack Lint (5), Jill Layton (5)
Sorry, I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork. Where would we be if we didn't follow the correct procedures?
More lines from Sam Lowry
6 quotes Sam Lowry Sam Lowry Mr. Helpmann, I'm keen to get into Information Retrieval. Mr. Helpmann, I'm dying to get at this woman... no, no, no.
Sam Lowry Yes, I always used to wonder if she wore falsies. False ears...
Sam Lowry I assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. If you have any complaints which you'd like to make, I'd be more than happy to send you the appropriate forms.
Sam Lowry Have you got a 27B stroke 6?
Sam Lowry [to Jill]
You won't believe this, I know it's going to sound incredible, but I've been dreaming about you. No, not like that. I mean, I love you - in my dreams - I love you. And, uh...Extraordinary, isn't it?
Scenes with Sam Lowry
16 scenes Sam Lowry I only know you got the wrong man.
Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the *right* man. The wrong one was delivered to me as the right man, I accepted him on good faith as the right man. Was I wrong?
Sam Lowry Excuse me, Dawson, can you put me through to Mr. Helpmann's office?
Dawson
I'm afraid I can't sir. You have to go through the proper channels.
Sam Lowry And you can't tell me what the proper channels are, because that's classified information?
Dawson
I'm glad to see the Ministry's continuing its tradition of recruiting the brightest and best, sir.
Sam Lowry Thank you, Dawson.
Sam Lowry How are the twins?
Triplets.
Sam Lowry My, how time flies!
Bloody paperwork. Huh!
Sam Lowry I suppose one has to expect a certain amount.
Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
Sam Lowry My name's Lowry. Sam Lowry. I've been told to report to Mr. Warrenn.
Porter - Information Retrieval
Thirtieth floor, sir. You're expected.
Sam Lowry Um... don't you want to search me?
Porter - Information Retrieval
No sir.
Sam Lowry Do you want to see my ID?
Porter - Information Retrieval
No need, sir.
Sam Lowry But I could be anybody.
Porter - Information Retrieval
No you couldn't sir. This is Information Retrieval.
Sam Lowry It's not the machine. There's a mismatch on the personnel code numbers... Tuttle should have had £31.06, debited against his account, not Buttle!
Kurtzman
[horrified]
Oh my God, a mistake!
Sam Lowry Well at least it's not ours.
Kurtzman
[eagerly]
Isn't it? Whose is it?
Sam Lowry Information Retrieval.
Kurtzman
[smiling]
Oh, good!
Sam Lowry Are you alright?
Yeah.
Sam Lowry Well, you don't deserve to be!
Sam Lowry Is that one of your triplets?
Yeah, probably.
Get out of my cab.
Sam Lowry What? Just drive!
You touched me, nobody touches me.
Say, all wars have innocent victims.
Sam Lowry Well, all wars do -
Who is this war against, Sam?
Sam Lowry Well, terrorists of course.
How many terrorists have you met? Actual terrorists?
Sam Lowry Actual... terrorists? Well ... it's only my first day.
Sam Lowry You don't exist anymore. I've killed you. Jill Layton is dead.
[(Shows picture of Jill Layton's file with the words "DELETE" on it] [smiles]
Care for a little necrophilia?
Sam Lowry Better still, send it to Buttle, after all it's his cheque.
Kurtzmann I've tried that. Look at this/ [shows Sam a file] You see? The population census has got him down as dormanted. The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as deleted...
Sam Lowry Hang on. [goes to computer terminal and begins typing]
Kurtzman
...Information Retrieval has got him down as inoperative. And there's another one - Security has got him down as excised. Administration's got him down as completed...
Sam Lowry He's dead.
Kurtzman
L... [pause] Dead? Well, that's awful!
Kurtzman
[Kurtzman sits down and looks at refund cheque] [desperately]
We'll never get rid of the damn thing now! What are we going to do Sam?
Sam Lowry Remember me to Alison and the twins.
Triplets.
Sam Lowry Triplets? God, how time flies.
Sam Lowry I don't want dessert. I don't want a promotion. I don't want anything.
Mrs. Lowry
Of course you want something. You must have hopes, wishes, dreams.
Sam Lowry No, nothing. Not even dreams!
Sam Lowry I only know you got the wrong man.
Information Transit got to wrong man. I got the right man. The 'wrong man' was delivered to me as the 'right man.' I accepted him on good faith as the 'right man.' Was I wrong?
Sam Lowry You killed Buttle?
Sam, there are very rigid parameters laid down to prevent such things happening. It wasn't my fault that Buttle's heart condition didn't appear on Tuttle's file... We're going to have to bring Mr. Tuttle in, aren't we? And interrogate him at the same voltage as Mr. Buttle - and juggle the books in electrical banking.
Sam Lowry What has Tuttle done?
We suspect him of, uh, free lance subversion. Then all I need to wrap up the case is the Layton woman.
Sam Lowry What has she done?
Oh, she witnessed the Tuttle, uhm, the Buttle arrest and essentially is going around making wild allegations, obviously trying to exploit the situation. She's working for someone and I don't think it's us.
Sam Lowry [softly to himself]
A terrorist?
Sam Lowry Anyway, if I want you to trust me, it's only fair that I should trust you, right?
Doesn't it bother you the sort of things you do at Information Retrieval?
Sam Lowry What? I suppose you'd rather have terrorists?
How many terrorists have you met, Sam? Actual terrorists?
Sam Lowry Actual terrorists?
Yeah.
Sam Lowry Well, it's only my first day.
