Left Ear Quotes in The Italian Job (2003)

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Left Ear Quotes:

  • Left Ear: [observing the front gate to Steve's house. He sees guard dogs] Shit.

    [Speaks into his wire]

    Left Ear: This dude got dogs. I don't do dogs... I had a real bad experience, man.

    Charlie Croker: [from their Netcom Cable van] What happened?

    Left Ear: [speaking slowly to reiterate his point, irritated] I had. A bad. Experience. Damn it. "I'm" deaf!

  • [timing the getaway to Union Station]

    Handsome Rob: It's either bad traffic, peak traffic, slit-your-wrist traffic... you know, five people died from smoking in between traffic lights today.

    Left Ear: You know, they do have the Metrorail, Rob, you could always use that.

    Handsome Rob: Yeah, that'd be ideal for carrying a ton of gold now, wouldn't it, genius?

    Charlie Croker: What's your guesstimate?

    Handsome Rob: The last twenty times I done this journey, you've got an average of thirty two minutes and a top time of fifty, but if we had green lights all the way, we could do it in fourteen minutes.

    Stella: [poking fun] What? Couldn't get through traffic?

  • [as they are dangling from under the road way, after Left Ear's gotten all the explosives in place, and is about to insert the detonater]

    Left Ear: Just give me a minute.

    Charlie Croker: [impatiently] NOW?

    Left Ear: I'm about to insert this detonator tube, and if the brass touches the sides, we'll both be the last people we ever see.

    Charlie Croker: [suddenly looking very nervous] Take all the time you need.

    Left Ear: [after a long pause] Hey, Charlie?

    Charlie Croker: What?

    Left Ear: [pause] I love you, man.

    Charlie Croker: I love you too.

  • Charlie Croker: We set?

    Lyle: Yeah. I've enhanced the viewing matrix to track both the Cartesian coordinates and three altitude angles to give the exact position and orientation of our baby.

    Left Ear: We're in Italy. Speak English.

  • Handsome Rob: [after learning the value of the gold they've stolen] Twenty-seven million...

    Left Ear: Say it again, man.

    Handsome Rob: [louder] Twenty-seven million!

    Left Ear: Again!

    Handsome Rob: *Twenty-seven million!*

  • Left Ear: Damn.

    Steve: Where's my truck? What the fuck happened to my truck?

  • Lyle: [tell the other what he's planning to do with his share of the gold] I'm getting a NAD T770 digital decoder with 70-watt amps and Burr-Brown DACs.

    Left Ear: [confused] Yeah...

    Lyle: It's a big stereo. Speakers so loud, they blow women's clothes off!

    Handsome Rob: Now you're talking!

  • Left Ear: [reading from a guide book] "Learn the language of poetry, art, romance, sex..."

    Handsome Rob: Unlike you, my friend, I don't need a guide book. Can we go?

  • Lyle: [watching his screen] Metro just passed the station. You are clear for ninety seconds. Go!

    [the three MINIs all turn and drive along the sidewalks, dodging pedestrians]

    Charlie Croker: Come on, Steve.

    [the three MINIs make a left turn and travel down the stairs into the 7th and Metro station. They dodge commuters inside the mezzanine area]

    Lyle: Thirty seconds and counting.

    [They turn onto the platform, as a Blue Line train comes into the station]

    Lyle: Fifteen seconds, you're blocked in or you're paint on the train.

    Left Ear: Go, go, go, go!

    [They accelerate past a number of baffled Blue Line passengers inside the train]

    Charlie Croker: Stay right on me. This is gonna be tight.

    [He jumps his MINI in the tight space between the train and the wall. Stella follows. Left Ear produces some sparks as he makes the jump]

    Left Ear: Go-go-go-go-go-go!

    Lyle: You're gonna stop right... there.

    [he presses a button and chuckles to himself. The train comes to a stop at the end of the platform, and the overhead lines lose power. The entire train goes dark]

  • [Lyle isn't answering Charlie's calls]

    Handsome Rob: He only answers to "The Napster" now, Charlie

    Charlie Croker: Oh, no. I am not calling you The Napster.

    Lyle: Why not? You call him Left Ear.

    Left Ear: Well, I am.

    Lyle: And him Handsome Rob.

    Charlie Croker: Well, that's because he is Handsome Rob!

    Lyle: Well you can call me The Napster.

  • Lyle: [looking at his name on their new ID's] James Hymen? Come one, just once give me a cool name!

    Left Ear: A hundred and forty pounds? Try one sixty five!

    Handsome Rob: Try lifting some weights!

    [as everyone is leaving Lyle still notices his bike is still laying on the ground]

    Lyle: Hey, Charlie?

    Charlie Croker: Handsome? Think you can help him with his bike?

    Left Ear: Yeah, help Knievel set up for his next jump!

  • Left Ear: Okay, party people. Here's the status. There's an anti-scaling fence, hardened electro-plated steel. Yeah, I'll have to paint that up with some nitromon.

    Charlie Croker: Security on the property?

    Left Ear: An armed guard, here. A little rent-a-cop with a nine millimeter on his hip. But that booth, security booth looks prime for a chemical grenade.

    Lyle: Nitromon? Chemical grenades? That stuff's pretty hard to come by.

    Left Ear: Yeah, Lyle, it's a bear market. Shit!

  • John Bridger: I want to propose a toast. To us!

    Charlie CrokerLyleLeft EarHandsome RobSteve: Yeah!

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