I feel like the wife of Napoleon on St. Helena.
The Ghost
Ewan McGregor · 32 quotes
Ruth Lang
Olivia Williams · 12 quotes
Adam Lang
Pierce Brosnan · 7 quotes
Rick Ricardelli
Jon Bernthal · 7 quotes
Amelia Bly
Kim Cattrall · 6 quotes
Paul Emmett
Tom Wilkinson · 4 quotes
John Maddox
Jim Belushi · 3 quotes
Robert Rycart
2 quotes
Police officer
1 quote
Most scenes together: Ruth Lang & The Ghost (6), The Ghost & Amelia Bly (6), The Ghost & Rick Ricardelli (5)
The Ghost Writer quotes
Page 3 of 4Perhaps I'll write my own memoirs. Ex-Prime Minister's Wife Tells All.
Use it? I think we should open the whole book like this. "I went into politics out of love, not love for a party or an ideology, but out of love for a woman."
Well all the words are there, they're just in the wrong order.
You name it, he ghosts it.
Your hair's all wet, you're drenched. Let me get you a towel. [Goes to bathroom and whispers in mirror] Bad idea.
[About his wall of framed photos]
Oh yes, the wall of ego. We all have one, our equivalent of the dentist's fish tank.
[At Rhinehart publishing house security check]
Who are you expecting to bomb you, Random House?
[Burying face in between The Ghost's face and shoulder]
I'm scared. I've never been scared in my life before, but I am now.
[Dictating to The Ghost]
Turned me on, indeed. Let's see, I was 23, something like that, a couple of years out of Cambridge. And I remember it was a Sunday afternoon, it was raining. I was still in bed. And someone starts knocking at the door. And, you know, I'd been out the night before and had a few drinks and what have you. So, I get the pillow and I put it over my head, and it starts up again. Knock, knock, knock, knock! And I get up, I'm swearing, I go to the door and there's this girl. She's soaking wet, but she just launches into this speech about the local elections. And that's it. I'm in love.
[On his head-of-state jet to The Ghost]
Spare me the bleeding-heart bullshit! Do you know what I'd do if I was in power again? I'd have two queues at airports: one for flights where we'd done no background checks, infringed on no one's civil bloody liberties, used no intelligence gained by torture. And on the other flight we'd do everything we possibly could to make it perfectly safe. And then we'd see which plane the Rycarts of this world would put their bloody kids on! And you can put that in the book!
[Reacting to an old picture of Lang, taken in his college days with a marijuana joint]
Let's hope he didn't inhale.
[Reading the first words of Adam Lang's manuscript]
"Langs are Scottish folk originally and proud of it. Our name is a derivation of 'long', the Old English word for tall, and it is from North of the border that my forefathers hail." Fu...ck.