Joe Silverman Quotes in Hail, Caesar! (2016)

DeeAnna Moran: [Watching Joe working the seal to notarize] You must have very strong forearms. Is it hard... squeezing that thing like that?

Joe Silverman: Comes with the job, ma'am.

Stu Schwartz - Accounting: Joe will be the foster parent until such time as you adopt the child. Which you can do as soon as Joe takes possession of it.

DeeAnna Moran: And he's reliable?

Joe Silverman: I'm bonded, Miss.

Joe Silverman: Listen to yourself, man! You're moving to Shanghai for a girl! A *Chinese* girl for Godsakes!

Liam Liu: This is not just about the girl.

Joe Silverman: Then what is it?

Liam Liu: It just -- it *feels* right! I'm Chinese. I gotta go back to my roots.

Joe Silverman: [scoffs] All right, slow down, Kunta Kinte. You don't even speak Chinese. What the hell are you gonna do? What, drive a rickshaw?

Liam Liu: I can learn Chinese.

Joe Silverman: Learn Chinese?! Liam, you barely speak English!

Liam Liu: Don't call me Liam. Liam's my slave name.

Joe Silverman: Cute.

Liam Liu: Every time I go out on something, Joe, it's always for some Kung Fu Deli Store Computer Chinese...

Joe Silverman: You're a Chinese guy, you're gnna go for roles for little Chinese guys.

Liam Liu: That is bullshit, I was born in New York, how about a role for somebody in New York?

Joe Silverman: Nobody asked you to quit college and try your hands in the lucrative world of motion picture and television.

Liam Liu: What am I gonna do with a degree, I'm gonna spend 8 hours a day, trapped in a little cubicle, making one of those desktop zen guards.