The Best The Bartender Quotes

Danny: Man takes a drink. A drink takes the drink. And then the drink takes a man. Isn't it so, Dad?
The: Medicine. Medicine is what it is. Bona fide cure-all. The mind is a blackboard, and this is the eraser.

The: [Dan tries to talk about Wendy's death but Jack ignores this and offers him a drink] Maybe something warm... to push away such unpleasantries.
Dan: Don't you want to hear about it? She was your wife!
The: I think you've mistaken me for someone else. I'm just the bartender.
Dan: Oh, yeah. Just Lloyd the bartender... pouring joy at the Overlook Hotel.
The: I'll pour whatever you like, mister Torrance.
Dan: Oh, Dad... this drink will cost an awful lot!
The: Your money is no good here. Orders from the House.
Dan: It will cost more than money. It will cost me eight years... eight behind me and who knows how many in front of me.

The: [Jack takes a drink] A man tries. He provides. But is surrounded by mouths that eat and scream and cry and nag. So he asks for one thing, just one thing for him, to warm him up, to take the sting out of those days and the mouths eating and eating and eating everything he makes, everything he has. A family. A wife, a kid. Those mouths eat time. They eat your days on Earth.
[pours another drink]
The: Just gobble them up. It's enough to make a man *sick*. And this
[offers Dan the glass of whiskey]
The: ... is the medicine. So tell me, pup... are you going to take your medicine?
Dan: [tearfully] ... I'm not!
[Jack knocks the glass away, smashing it]

The: I apologize mister Torrance. I don't know where everyone is, but it will pick up.
Dan: Oh, I know where they are. And you're right... it will pick up.

The: If you don't mind my saying Mr Torrance, you seem... put upon.
Dan: Put upon?
The: Ain't that the way? Man just living his life, trying to do his work, is put upon... pulled into other people's problems. I see it all the time, if you don't mind my saying.