Bryan Quotes in Taken (2008)

Bryan: [after electrocuting Marko] You either give me what I need or this switch will stay on until they turn the power off for lack of payment on the bill.

Bryan: A friend gave this to me. It's Albanian. You mind translating it?

Marko: [translates paper] "Good luck".

Bryan: You don't remember me? We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you.

Bryan: [Torturing Marko] I believe you. But that won't save you.

[Turns the electricity back on and leaves]

Jean Claude: Just like the old days.

Bryan: Would you have it any other way?

Jean Claude: Between you and me, no. But now that I sit behind a desk, the world looks different.

Bryan: You mean it looks boring.

Jean Claude: I mean different. Okay, a little boring. But is being retired any more interesting?

Bryan: It wasn't until my daughter disappeared in Paris yesterday. She and her friend were marked by a spotter at the airport. Albanians took her.

Jean Claude: How do you know this?

Bryan: I'm retired, not dead.

Jean Claude: And I assume you don't want to go to the police.

Bryan: I was told I have 96 hours. That was sixteen hours ago.

Jean Claude: Okay, first we should find the spotter.

Bryan: I found him. He's dead.

Jean Claude: You found him that way?

[Bryan stays silent]

Jean Claude: Bryan, you cannot just run around, tearing down Paris.

Bryan: Jean Claude, I will tear down the Eiffel Tower if I have to.

Bryan: I push one button and 38 agents are here before you have time to scratch your worthless balls.

Kim: Mom said your job made you paranoid.

Bryan: Well, my job made me aware.

Bryan: You come to this country, take advantage of the system and think because we are tolerant that we are weak and helpless. Your arrogance offends me. And for that the rate just went up 10%.

Bryan: [to Marko, while preparing him for torture] You know, we used to outsource this kind of thing. But what we found was the countries we outsourced to had unreliable power grids. Very Third World. You'd turn on a switch - power wouldn't come on, and then tempers would get short. People would resort to pulling fingernails. Acid drips on bare skin. The whole exercise would become counterproductive. But here, the power's stable. Here, there's a nice even flow. Here, you can flip a switch and the power stays on all day. Where is she?

Kim: Where are we?

Bryan: I told you. It's a surprise.

[Sheerah opens the door]

Sheerah: Hi.

Bryan: Hi.

[Kim stares at Sheerah, stunned to meet her face to face]

Bryan: [chuckles] When someone says 'hi,' it's usually polite to say 'hi' back.

Kim: H-Hi.

[after punching Marko in the face]

Bryan: Wake up! I need you to be focused!

[stabs Marko in the legs with metal rods]

Bryan: Are you focused yet?

Bryan: Really? Who's Beyoncé?

[pause]

Bryan: Just kidding.

[first lines]

Singh: Mr. Mills, how are you?

Bryan: I'm fine. How are you?

Singh: Very fine. I suppose you want to see it again?

Bryan: If you don't mind.

Singh: You know where it is.

Bryan: Oh yeah.

[last lines]

Sheerah: So I heard you want to be a singer?

Kim: I do.

Bryan: She does.

Sheerah: Well, come on in. Let's see what you got.

Dougal: You're such a pathetic lot, Yah, Sucks, Boo!

Bryan: And the same to you, Blue Bag!

[Laughs]

Ermintrude: Blue Bag!

Bryan: Blue bag! Stinky poo!

Ermintrude: BLUE BA-A-A-AG!

Buxton: Don't you dare mock my prime minister.

Zebedee: Prime minister? Don't make me laugh!

Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: You have a lot of deliveries today?

Bryan: I am the stork of fast food.

Bryan: Not exactly your dream job, eh?

Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: Got that right. You think I woke up this morning and said, 'Gee, I'd love to scrub fat vats! I'd love to smile and work with raw meat'?

Bryan: I'd respect your privacy more if you weren't so secretive.

Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: Well I'd tell you more if you didn't want to know so much.

George: Annie, it's a little nippy out, you might want to put on a sweater.

Annie: Dad, it's okay, I'm kinda warm.

George: Still, there's a chill in the air and you've been on a plane.

Annie: Dad, I'm fine.

Bryan: Annie, it is kinda cold out.

Annie: It is?

Bryan: Yeah.

Annie: All right, thanks, I'll get my jacket.

George: [voice-over] I thought maybe I should help smooth things over. So I took Bryan out for a drink. Thought we could have a talk, man-to-man. But as I sat there and listened to his side of the story... I realized this was a golden opportunity. If I ever wanted to get rid of Bryan MacKenzie, this was my chance.

Bryan: You know those banana shakes she likes to make, right? Well, that's why I thought she'd like a blender. I guess I can see her point. I mean, a blender does suggest a certain... reference to sexual politics, but... I swear, it never entered my consciousness at the time.

George: I believe you.

Bryan: You do? Would you tell Annie that for me, Dad?

George: [voice-over] This was where I was gonna lower the boom. But instead, I looked into his weepy eyes and found my self saying:

George: Sure, I'll tell her.

Bryan: Oh, good! 'Cause I know whatever you say she'll believe.

George: [voice-over] Not only was I not getting rid of the kid... I now found myself talking him into staying.

George: You know, Bryan, Annie's a very passionate person. And passionate people tend to overreact at time. Annie comes from a long line of major overreactors. Me. I can definitely lose it. My mother. A nut. My grandfather. Stories about him were legendary. The good news, however, is that this overreacting... tends to get proportionately less by generation. So, your kids could be normal.

George: [voice-over] As if that wasn't enough, I went on.

George: But on the upside, with this passion... comes great spirit and individuality... which is probably one of the reasons you love Annie.

Bryan: That's what I love most about her.

George: [voice-over] That's when it hit me like a Mack truck. Annie was just like me, and Bryan was just like Nina. They were a perfect match.

Bryan: I just wanna say that I'm an upstanding citizen. I've never been engaged before. I've never really been in love before. And I think Annie's the greatest person I've ever met. And I can't wait to marry her and one day have children, and grand children. And I'm going to do my best to be supportive of her dreams. She's a very gifted architect. I'm just thrilled that I met her. I love your daughter. The feelings I have for her are never gonna change. I'm here to stay.

Bryan: [reading his paper] My mom says my dad's eyes are brown because he's so full of sh - .

Teacher: [interrupts him before he swears] Bryan!

Carmen: When I realized Django was my spirit-mate, the animal world became so visible to me.

Joseph: As opposed to the vegetable and mineral worlds?

Penny: Now, who's' Django?

Bryan: Oh, that was Carmen's dog. He lived to be 24.

Penny: Oh.

Carmen: It was then that the gift blossomed in me. My third eye truly opened. What Django felt, I felt. I traveled through the world with him, seeing what he saw.

Russell: And what did he see?

Carmen: He saw things for what they are. He was connected to the prana.

Joseph: Oh, the prana.

Penny: Shut up, Joseph. You're such a tight ass. Do you have to be so one-dimensional?

Joseph: Excuse me for living in this dimension.

Bryan: Who killed Thursby?

Sam Spade: I don't know.

Bryan: Perhaps you don't, but you could make an excellent guess.

Sam Spade: My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs. Spade didn't raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front of a district attorney, and an assistant district attorney and a stenographer.

Bryan: Why shouldn't you, if you have nothing to conceal?

Sam Spade: Everybody has something to conceal.

Bryan: I'm a sworn officer of the law, 24 hours a day, and neither formality nor informality justifies you withholding evidence of crime from me. Except, of course, on constitutional grounds.

Sam Spade: [ranting] Now, both you and the police have as much as accused me of being mixed up in the other night's murders. Well, I've had trouble with both of you before. And as far as I can see my best chance of clearing myself of the trouble you're trying to make for me, is by bringing in the murderers all tied up. And the only chance I've got of catching them, and tying them up, and bringing them in, is by staying as far away as possible from you and the police, because you'd only gum up the works.

[turns to stenographer]

Sam Spade: You getting this all right, son, or am I goin' too fast for ya?

Stenographer: No, sir, I'm getting it all right.

Sam Spade: Good work.