Bruce Robertson Quotes in Filth (2013)

[last lines]

Bruce Robertson: Same rules apply.

[from trailer]

Bladesey: What made you join the Force?

Bruce Robertson: Police oppression, brother.

Bladesey: You wanted to stamp it out from the inside?

Bruce Robertson: No, I wanted to be a part of it.

Bruce Robertson: Sometimes it takes a wrongdoer to show you when you are doing wrong.

Bruce Robertson: Scotland. This nation brought the world television, the steam engine, golf, whiskey, penicillin, and of course, the deep-fried Mars bar. It is great being Scottish. We're such a uniquely successful race.

[walks past a pregnant woman smoking, a woman stuffing food in her mouth, and a man drinking from a small bottle]

Bruce Robertson: I am on a murder case here. That's M-U-R-D-E-R, which spells S-E-R-I-O-U-S. So if I don't get my A-R-S-E in G-E-A-R, I'm in serious S-H-I-T, okay?

Chrissie: You're being so cruel!

Bruce Robertson: Love is cruel, Chrissie. Love is cruel.

Bruce Robertson: I kid you not, my sweet sweet friend.

Bruce Robertson: I think they've left me. I think my family have left me. I don't know how. I can't remember why. You see, there's something wrong with me. There is something seriously wrong with me.

Bruce Robertson: See, every time a woman drops her trousers: promotion. Every time a man drops theirs: disciplinary action. Where's the equality in that?

Bruce Robertson: Happy Christmas and all that shite.

Bruce Robertson: The games are always, repeat always, being played. But nobody plays the games like me. Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, soon to be Detective Inspector Bruce Robertson. You just have to be the best, and I usually am. Same rules apply.

[releases a small fart in room of fellow candidates]

Ray Lennox: Grass up?

Bruce Robertson: Or lock up?

Bruce Robertson: Someone is playing silly-billies.