50 Best Stellan Skarsgård Quotes

Darcy: Why are you smiling?
Dr. Erik Selvig: There is nothing more reassuring than realizing that the world is crazier than you are.

'Bootstrap': Wondering how it's played?
Will: I understand. It's a game of deception. But your bet includes all the dice, not just your own. What are they wagering?
'Bootstrap': Oh, the only thing we have. Years of service.
Will: So any crew member can be challenged?
'Bootstrap': Aye. Anyone.
Will: I challenge Davy Jones.
Davy: [Davy Jones is stepping down the stairs and as he does, barnacles and mussels hanging on the steps retract] I accept, mate

Davey: Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up at the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake... the Kraken!
'Bootstrap': No!

Jackie: Oi. Last holiday you took, you called me with heat stroke. From Scotland.
John: Told you I hate holidays.
Jackie: So get back to work, then. We made a promise to Erin's mother.

Erin: Morning.
[Her reflection appears in the mirror beside River's. She brushes her teeth as he brushes his]
Erin: Do you know your teeth are the last thing to rot, after bones, and hair, and skin?
John: George Washington wore hippopotamus teeth.
Erin: You've run out of Shreddies again.

John: The person to fear the most, is the one to whom you gave all your trust.

Baron: No Atreides shall live.
Piter: My lord, you gave your word to the witch, and she sees too much.
Baron: I said I would not harm them and I shall not. But Arrakis is Arrakis and the desert takes the weak. This is my desert. My Arrakis. My Dune.

Thor: You know, I had it all backwards. I had it all wrong.
Erik: It's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers. You start asking the right questions.
Thor: For the first time in my life, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do.
Erik: Anyone who's ever going to find his way in this world, has to start by admitting he doesn't know...

Saw: Thirty men.
Luthen: Plus Kreeygr.
Saw: For the greater good.
Luthen: Call it what you will.
Saw: Let's call it... war.

Seligman: I'm Seligman.
Joe: What a fucking ridiculous name.

Jackie: Rosa. That's a good name for a psychiatrist. I thought it went quite well.
[shaking her head]
Jackie: There's stuff you could have said. How long we've worked together, when we met, how I bug the shit out of you, how I won't give you any rest. Just stuff, stuff.
John: What are her credentials, references? Where does she come from, anyway?
Jackie: She done nine years with the Met and six years in Broadmoor.

Thomas: We trust to our peril. But to naught is to be alone. And then, oh the silence.
John: [tries to walk on past]
Thomas: [following] Is that why you keep us all so close? You see, I understand you, Inspector. I really do. This pretense of yours, but are you capable of anything more? Love all, trust few, do wrong to none. If only that were true.
Thomas: [blocking his path] So, wind her in slowly. Yes, pull her in close to your breast. Then once in your grasp, break her heart. Break her heart as you did to Stevie. You larter!
John: [grabbing him by the shirt] Why do you do this? Why do you do this?
Thomas: Because I am you. I am the darkest part of you. I am the heart-breaker. I am despair. I am death.
[grins]

Jane: Years of research, gone.
Darcy: They even took my iPod.
Erik: What about the backups?
Jane: They took our backups. They took the backups of our backups. They were extremely thorough.
Darcy: I just downloaded, like, 30 songs onto there.

Robert: I need access to the Vatican Archives.
Inspector: Professor, I don't think this is the appropriate moment.
Richter: Your petition has been denied seven times.
Robert: No, no. This has nothing to do with my work. The Path of Illumination is a hidden trail through Rome itself that leads to the Church of the Illumination, the place where the Illuminati would meet in secret. If I can find the Segno, the sign, that marks the beginning of that path, the four churches along it may be where he intends to murder your Cardinals. One every hour at 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00. Then the device explodes... at midnight. If we can figure out the first church and get there before he does, may be we can stop it. But I can't find the start of the path until I get into the Archives.
Richter: Even if I wanted to help you, access to the Archives is only by written decree by the curator and the Board of Vatican Librarians.
Robert: Or by papal mandate.
Richter: Yes, but as you no doubt have heard, the Holy Father is dead.
Robert: What about Il Carmerlengo?
Richter: The Carmerlengo is just a priest here, the former Pope's chamberlain.
Robert: Doesn't the power of the Holy See rest in him during Tempo Sede Vacante?
[all the Vatican police men look at each other, with various degrees of doubt and uncertainty]
Robert: Fellas... you called me.

Luthen: It don't matter what you tell me or yourself. You'll ultimately die fighting these bastards. Wouldn't you rather give it all at once, to something real?

Chrissie: What were you thinking? You're not on the case!
John: It's the same car.
Chrissie: Well, we'll leave that to forensics, shall we? You see psychs in the morning, like I asked you. Rosa, 9 AM. Be early. She'll only say what everyone else says.
[softly]
Chrissie: You can't bring Stevie back.
Jackie: [as River walks away] What does she know?
John: [chuckling] Exactly. Exactly!
[as Stevie turns to follow, we see that she has a gaping hole in the back of her head, and River is actually talking to himself]

Ira: I had an Aunt who used to talk to herself.
John: Did you like her?
Ira: She tried to strangle my Uncle Ralph.

Seligman: [narrating] During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

Jackie: You're jealous.
John: I'm not jealous. This isn't jealousy. I'm just trying to find out the truth. I'm trying to find out who did this to you. Who you ARE!
Jackie: Is it so surprising that I might have had a boyfriend?
John: You have your arms around him. You're smiling and you have your arms around him.
Jackie: Didn't you ever wonder?
John: You didn't tell. I didn't ask.
Jackie: And you weren't ever curious?
John: [Scoffs] The thought that... The thought that someone... And that he then... And he then... That he could be the person that did this to you... If it was sex you wanted...
Jackie: Then what? And you would have given it to me? If that had been true, then we would have... We would have...
John: We're born alone. We die alone.
Jackie: You always say that, but there's more to that quote, you know. I couldn't take my clothes off with the lights on. How was I ever going to take my clothes off for a man? For just any man? Sex is an itch you just scratch. But love... That's the itch so far down your back, you can't ever reach it with your own hand.

Cerdic: Wherever I go on this wrenched island, I hear your name. Always half whispered, as if you were... a god. All I see is flesh, blood. No more god than the creature you're sitting on.

Seligman: Love is blind.
Joe: No, no, no. It's worse. Love distort things. Or even worse, love is something you never asked for. The erotic was something that I ask for or even demanded of men. But this idiotic love... I felt humiliated by it. And all the dishonesty that follows.
Joe: The erotic is about saying yes. Love appeals to lowest instincts, wrapped up in lies. How do you say yes when you mean no? And vice-versa. I'm ashamed of what I became. But it was beyond my control.

Russell: Well I'll be damned.
Jim: No, Mr.Franklin you've just seen what it like *not* to be damned.

[Thor brings a drunken Selvig home]
Jane: What happened?
Thor: He's fine! We drank, we fought - he made his ancestors proud!
Jane: Put him on the bed.
Erik: [to Thor] Oh, I still don't think you're the god of thunder. But you ought to be!

Rosa: Even if you were just colleagues, there was love, perhaps?
John: [laughs] Love. I've been trying to remember what that feels like, to be in love. It's been a while. For whatever reason, it has passed me by. The closest I got felt like food poisoning.
[Rosa smiles]
John: In books and films and plays, it's always so compelling, so complex. There should be more than one word for love. I've seen love that kills and I've seen love that redeems. I've seen love that believes in the guilty and love that saves the bereaved. What we will do for love. Die for it, even.

[after Cynric's defeat by Arthur's knights]
Cerdic: We've lost the respect of the enemy.
Cynric: Father... I offer my life as payment for my disgrace.
[he offers his knife; Cerdic takes it, and holds Cynric's head tightly]
Cerdic: No...
[he makes a deep cut down Cynric's face, but does not kill him and throws the knife away]
Cerdic: Raewald. You're second-in-charge now.
[Raewald glows]
Cerdic: Yeah, you're like a son to me.
[Cynric stabs his knife into a nearby soldier; he falls, dead. Cynric stalks away. Cerdic laughs]

Luthen: Calm Kindness, Kinship, Love.
Luthen: I've given up all chance of inner peace.
Luthen: I've made my mind a sunless place.
Luthen: I share my dreams with ghosts.
Luthen: I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there is only one conclusion, I'm damned for what I do.
Luthen: My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape.
Luthen: I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.
Luthen: What, What is my sacrifice?
Luthen: I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them.
Luthen: I burn my decency for someone else's future.
Luthen: I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see.
Luthen: And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude.
Luthen: So what do I sacrifice? EVERYTHING!
Luthen: You'll stay with me, Lonni.
Luthen: I need all the heroes I can get.

Jim: You did it, pal, you did it...

Jack: Is this a dream?
'Bootstrap': No.
Jack: I thought not. If it were, there'd be rum.
'Bootstrap': [hands him a bottle of rum]

Jane: [about the mythology book] Where'd you find this?
Erik: The children's section. I just wanted to show you how silly his story was.
Jane: But you're the one who's always pushing me to chase down every possibility, every alternative.
Erik: I'm talking about science, not magic.
Jane: Well, "magic's just science we don't understand yet." Arthur C. Clarke.
Erik: Who wrote science-fiction.
Jane: A precursor to science fact!
Erik: In some cases, yeah.
Jane: Well, if there's an Einstein-Rosen bridge, then there's something on the other side. And advanced beings could have crossed it!
Erik: Oh, Jane.
Darcy: A primitive culture like the Vikings might have worshiped them as deities.
Jane: Yes! Yes, exactly. Thank you.

Richter: He said they'd be killed publicly.
Robert: Yes. Revenge... for La Purga.
Richter: La Purga?
Robert: Oh, geez, you guys don't even read your own history, do you? 1668, the Church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross... to purge them of their sins, and they executed them. Threw their bodies out into the street as a warning to others to stop questioning Church ruling on scientific matters. They radicalized them. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on... on retribution.

John: Where's your balls?
Chrissie: When did I ever need balls? When did balls ever make you a better detective? In 33 years in the force, that's what blokes say. Where's your balls? I got where I got. I did it, and I didn't need a pair of sodding nuts. Now piss off and let me do my shopping.

John: From the fortune cookie that River opens: "Do not go where the path may lead. Go where there is no path and leave a trail."

[after credits]
[Dr Selvig wanders around an underground base]
Nick: [greeting him] Dr. Selvig.
Erik: So, you're the man behind all this? It's quite a labyrinth. I was thinking that you had taken me down here to kill me.
Nick: I've been hearing about the New Mexico situation. Your work has impressed a lot of people who are much smarter than I am.
Erik: I had a lot to work with: the Foster theory, a gateway to another dimension... it's unprecedented...
[Fury doesn't respond]
Erik: ...isn't it?
Nick: Legend tells us one thing; history, another. But, every now and then, we find something that belongs to both.
[Fury opens a suitcase, which contains a small cube]
Erik: What is it?
Nick: Power, Doctor. If we figure out how to tap it, maybe unlimited power.
[Loki is seen in a reflection, smiling]
Loki: [whispers to Selvig] Well, I guess that's worth a look.
Erik: Well, I guess that's worth a look.

Jack: Too bad about Tim.
Justine: What about Tim?
Jack: That he got fired. he didn't last many hours in the business, but then again, it's a rather unpredictable one. You're a king one day and beggar the next.
[to Tim]
Jack: So, you go right back to wherever you came from, right, buddy?

John: Your questions. Yes I've taken medication before. No I've never disclosed this. Yes, Stevie helped me control my condition. No I've never been formally diagnosed. Yes, I'm aware this is a breach of police protocol. And when was the last time I spoke to a friend? I don't have any. The only one I have... had is dead, so... I'm a good officer. But in this world that's not enough. In this world, you have to be able to nod and smile and drink a pint, and say, "How was your day?" In this world no one can be different or strange or damaged. Or they lock you up. So what do I do know?
Rosa: You keep talking.

Kleya: [Kleya and Luthen are speaking over radio] Where are you?
Luthen: He wanted to reopen the offer.
Kleya: And did you close the sale?
Luthen: I did. It was more expensive than I hoped, but I wasn't in a position to bargain.
Kleya: So you're coming home?
Luthen: Depends. I'm most curious about the other piece.
Kleya: You should come home.
Luthen: Is it no longer available?
Kleya: No, it's very much on the table. The negotiations are ongoing, and our representatives are involved, but there's a number of other buyers on the ground and your presence would complicate the bidding at this point.
Luthen: We need that piece. We lose that and we'll have to close shop.
Kleya: There's nothing more you can do.
Luthen: That's never true.
Kleya: It's a crowded market.
Luthen: You need to think of the consequences of losing that piece to another collector.
Kleya: I'm preparing for every outcome.
Luthen: There's only...
[Communicator buzzing]
Kleya: Luthen? Luthen?

[first lines]
Fast: Can I take your order?
Jackie: Hurry up.
[pauses]
Jackie: Burger, extra cheese, no onions.
John: Uh, burger, uh, cheese, onion.
Fast: Window number two, please.
Jackie: [scoffing] Muffed it.

Ira: Revolver or Sgt. Pepper?
John: [softly] Sgt. Pepper.
Ira: [nodding] Agreed. I'll see you in the morning, then.
John: Yeah.
Ira: You'll be alright?
John: Yeah.
Jackie: [after Ira leaves River's apartment] Linda or Yoko?
John: Linda.
Jackie: 'Cause she's blonde?
John: [chuckling] No.
Jackie: [laughing] 'Cause she's blonde.
John: No!

Russell: What in God's creation?
Jim: Oh, not His. Ours.

Supervisor: My sacrifice? It means nothing to you, does it?
Luthen: I said I think of you constantly and I do. Your investment in the Rebellion is epic. A double life? Every day a performance? The stress of that? We need heroes, Lonni, and here you are.
Supervisor: And what do you sacrifice?
Luthen: Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love. I've given up all chance at inner peace. I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion, I'm damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my sacrifice? I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!

Dr. Erik Selvig: Your brother isn't coming, is he?
Thor: Loki is dead.
Dr. Erik Selvig: Thank God... I'm so sorry.

Jackie: And how many points, do you think, in a glass of wine?
John: Five?
Jackie: Three.
[slurps her drink]
Jackie: Nicoise salad, Petrie Express. A bit of tuna, a bit of egg, a few beans. A bit of olive. 19 points.
John: 19?
Jackie: All in the dressing.

John: There was a playground near my grandmother's house. No children. Not for miles. I used to think it was just for me. And I would see this old man looking down at me from his flat. And he would wave at me, and I would wave back. So one day I said to myself, I'll go and knock on his door. I'll speak to him. I was a very nervous boy. But still I walked over to his block of flats and knocked on the door. No one in. I walked back home across the playground and there I saw him, lying in the snow. I didn't know what had happened, but he was dead. And I ran so fast. To Mr. Ahlgren's house. That's what everyone did. And he said, "I'm a policeman. You're alright now." And he took me home. But what I could see that he could not... the old man came home with me and stayed. And talked to me. And I wasn't alone anymore.

Jane: [Darcy and Ian appear through a portal while kissing] Darcy!
Darcy: [She drops Ian] Jane!
Dr. Erik Selvig: Ian!
Ian: Selvig!
Darcy: Mew-mew!
[Mjölnir zooms by]

Joe: It's my own fault. I'm just a bad human being.
Seligman: I've never met a "bad human being."
Joe: Well, you have now.

Journalist: You are confident there will be justice, Inspector?
John: Well... All murderers are punished, eventually. Unless they kill in large numbers, and to the sound of trumpets.

John: You talk too much.
Ira: If I don't talk, then we have nothing but air.

John: Motive is easy. It's execution I'm talking about. That takes nerve. That takes experience. That takes someone who knows what it's like to extinguish life.
Jimmy: No comment.
John: [suddenly lunges at him]
Ira: River!
Jimmy: [nose to nose] You're mad.
John: No comment.

Cassian: Look, you got the money. I got the box. What else is there to talk about?
Luthen: I'll give you another thousand credits to tell me how you got it.
Cassian: [Chuckles] Another thousand?
Luthen: Done. How?
Cassian: You just walk in like you belong.
Luthen: Takes more than that, doesn't it?
Cassian: What? To steal from the Empire? What do you need? A uniform, some dirty hands and an Imperial tool kit. They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it.
Luthen: Can't imagine what?
Cassian: That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear.
Luthen: The arrogance is remarkable, isn't it? They don't even think about us.
Cassian: Us? I don't know you.
Luthen: Fair enough, but I know you. These days will end, Cassian Andor. The way they laugh. The way they push through a crowd. The sound of that voice telling you to stop, to go, to move. Telling you to die. Rings in the ear, doesn't it?
Cassian: Why don't you let me count that money?
Luthen: But they'll think about us soon enough.
Cassian: We should get moving.
Luthen: Soon enough, they'll have something else to listen to.
Cassian: You don't want to get caught with it!
Luthen: Oh, they'd hang me, would they? Take me up Rix Road and hang me in the square. Wouldn't be the first time, would it? Isn't that where they hung your father?
Cassian: [Draws and cocks weapon and points it] Who are you! What is this?
Luthen: [Cassian walks toward Luthen with his gun aimed] I said I know you. I know all about you. And yes, I want the box, and I'll leave with that if it's all I can get. I came looking for something more and I think I found it. I'd like you to come with me.
Cassian: [Cassian walks closer and points his gun in front of Luthen's head] How do you know about me?
Luthen: I was hoping for a more relaxed conversation but you're right, we don't have time. Contrary to what you told me, I doubt that you'll be sticking around. I know you killed two Corpos at Morlana-One, and I know they're coming for you. Seems like such a waste to let them have you. A waste of talent.
Cassian: [Cassian pushes gun between Luthen's eyes and whispers] Who are you?
Luthen: That's the wrong question. The right question is how much time do we have to get out of here.
Cassian: Why would I go anywhere with you?
Luthen: Don't you want to fight these bastards for real?

Beast: Uncle, how did we let this happen? How can the Emperor take everything we've built and give it to that Duke? How?
Piter: Don't be too sure, it's an act of love.
Beast: What does he mean?
Baron: When is a gift not a gift? The Atreides Voice is rising and the Emperor is a jealous man. A dangerous, jealous man.