Jim, didn't I teach you anything?
Yes. You taught me that people will do anything for a potato.
Jim Graham
Christian Bale · 12 quotes
Basie
John Malkovich · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Jim Graham & Basie (4)
Empire of the Sun quotes
What did you say your name was boy?
Jamie and I'm building a man-flying kite and writing a book called Contract Bridge.
Jim: a new name for a new life.
Dainty
Hey kid, would you like a Hershey bar?
Oh yes please Dainty!
Dainty
So would I kid. Have you got one?
[about the Japanese troops camped nearby]
It almost looks as if they're waiting for something to happen...
John Graham
Yes.
They didn't look angry or anything...
Maxton
It's not their anger; it's their patience.
[as Frank and Basie are about to leave him in the street]
Basie, first I could show you some rich pickings. Hundreds of houses left empty. I could show you some of the houses I lived in before Frank found me. They were luxuriant!
Luxuriant? You had good sense being born there, Jim. I'm sure there was good living.
There certainly was good living, Basie. There - there was opulence!
Heh heh. Opulence. Frank, we'll go and take a look at some of these houses. Let's go, Frank. Opulence.
Dr. Rawlins, do you remember how we had helped build the runway? If we'd died like the others, our bones would be in the runway. In a way, it's our runway!
Dr. Rawlins
No, it's their runway, Jim! Try not to think so much! Try not to think so much!
I was dreaming about God.
Mary Graham
What did he say?
Nothing. He was playing tennis. Perhaps that's where God is all the time and that's why you can't see Him when you're awake, do you think?
Mary Graham
I don't know. I don't know about God.
Perhaps He's our dream... and we're His.
If the Americans land, the Japanese will fight.
Dr. Rawlins
You admire the Japanese?
Well, they're brave, aren't they?
Dr. Rawlins
That's important, is it, Jim?
It's a good thing if you want to win a war.
Dr. Rawlins
But we don't want them to win, do we. Remember, we're British.
Yes. I've never been there.
We'll have to leave the camp.
That's the idea, Jim. First one side feeds you and the other side tries to get you killed, then it's turned around; it's all timing.
I could bring everyone back.
Learned a new word today: "Atom bomb". It was like a white light in the sky, like God taking a photograph.
Wah, ha ha! Go! P-51, Cadillac of the sky!