Clive Cornell Quotes in The Guard (2011)

Gerry Stanton: [while Clive Cornell is handing the bent coppers a briefcase of money] It's all there, yeah?

Clive Cornell: Excuse me?

Gerry Stanton: It's all there?

Clive Cornell: No, it's not. I've skimmed a couple of grand off the top.

Gerry Stanton: What?

Clive Cornell: 'Course it's fucking all there. This is the pay-off, yeah? We pay you off, you and your pals keep your fucking noses out of our business. That's the dynamic in this situation. Why the fuck would I then cheat you out your money? Eh? Why would I do that? That doesn't make any sense. That'd defeat the entire purpose of the fucking interaction. Fuck me!

[walks away angrily]

Clive Cornell: It's not often you come across that kind of integrity in our business. Yeah, we can't have that.

Francis Sheehy: [looking at O'Leary] We'll have to make sure he's out of harm's way.

Liam O'Leary: Why's it always me, though?

Clive Cornell: Because you're a psychopath.

Liam O'Leary: I'm a sociopath, not a psychopath. They explained that to me.

Francis Sheehy: What's the difference?

Liam O'Leary: Don't know. It's a tricky one.

Clive Cornell: [at the aquarium] I like sharks. They're soothing.

Clive Cornell: I fuckin' hate bent coppers, I swear to God.

Francis Sheehy: Did they try something?

Clive Cornell: No, they didn't try something.

Liam O'Leary: What's the problem, then?

Clive Cornell: I'm just fuckin' sick and tired of the kind of people we have to deal with in this business.

Liam O'Leary: What do you expect? We're drug traffickers.

Francis Sheehy: [dropping his binoculars] Nothing. Tomorrow night's sell, we're good to go.

[thumbs up]

Clive Cornell: I fuckin' hate that.

Francis Sheehy: What?

Clive Cornell: Americanisms. "Good to go."

Clive Cornell: [loading in drug shipment] Where the fuck did you find those three?

Francis Sheehy: Oh, I put an ad in the paper saying, "Henchmen wanted."