Shelly Runyon There's a reason they call me honest Shell.
Played by Gary Oldman 
The Contender (2000) · 22 quotes
The Contender (2000) · 22 quotes
4th most-quoted character in The Contender (2000): in 6 of its 22 quotes
Most scenes with: Laine Hanson (3), Kermit Newman (3)
We're both sticking to our guns. The difference is, mine are loaded.
More lines from Shelly Runyon
2 quotes Shelly Runyon Shelly Runyon Take a magic marker, cross out the word "objectivity". Your constituents want you for your opinions, your philosophy, for you subjectivity.
Scenes with Shelly Runyon
3 scenes Shelly Runyon So, how are Will and the boy?
Let's forego the small talk today Shelly, I'm not in the mood.
Shelly Runyon Let the big talk begin.
It seems to me that all you can claim about me... claim, is that I had sex.
Shelly Runyon Deviant sex.
Oh, deviant? Who says it was deviant?
Shelly Runyon I do. What I say the American people will believe. And do you know why? Because I will have a very big microphone in front of me.
Shelly Runyon Greatness is the orphan of urgency, Laine. Greatness only emerges when we need it most... in time of war or calamity. I can't ask somebody to be a Kennedy or a Lincoln. They were MEN created by their times. What I... What I can ask for... is the promise of greatness. And that, Madam Senator... you don't have.
Well, then... I just wouldn't be using sex as leverage... if I were you, Sheldon. Because, you know, there's one thing you don't want. It's a woman with her finger on the button who isn't getting laid.
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