Lieutenant Chris Sabian Quotes in The Negotiator (1998)
Lieutenant Chris Sabian Quotes:
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears Tower but I can't talk my wife out of the bedroom or my kid off the phone.
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Lieutenant Danny Roman: I like westerns, like Shane.
Lieutenant Chris Sabian: It's interesting that you pick one where the hero dies.
Lieutenant Danny Roman: What are you talking about? He doesn't die. He rides off into the sunset, and that kid says "Come back, Shane!"
Lieutenant Chris Sabian: That's a common misconception, in the last frame he's slumped over on his horse.
Lieutenant Danny Roman: So he was slumped, slumped don't mean dead.
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Lieutenant Danny Roman: You were wrong about me. What if I'm right about them?
Lieutenant Chris Sabian: But what if you're wrong about me?
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: You hurt one of them, you burn up any currency you have with me. They're all I care about. Getting you out of here alive... a distant second.
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: I can't believe this, I'm just surrounded by a room of people who wanna go in there and kill him. This is the guy who call you friend. I got nothing invested in this. I wonder why that is, or maybe someday we'll find out.
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: I'm a stranger to you. You have no idea what I am capable of.
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: Well I guess you think Butch and Sundance lived too.
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: You think killing a man gives you the right to negotiate with me?
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Lieutenant Danny Roman: You working?
Lieutenant Chris Sabian: Sort of. I was negotiating a truce between my wife and daughter.
Lieutenant Danny Roman: Then I'm proved to be easy by comparison.
Lieutenant Chris Sabian: It wouldn't surprise me in the least.
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: You okay?
Rudy Timmons: Does it look like I'm okay? I got a gun pointed to the back of my fucking head.
[Looks at Sabian's ski gear]
Rudy Timmons: Nice fucking pants, man.
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: I want you to apologize for telling your mother she looks...
[Sabian's daughter makes a huge gesture with her hands]
Lieutenant Chris Sabian: Wide.
[Sabian smiles and whispers at his daughter]
Lieutenant Chris Sabian: Wide's not a good word, how'd you like to be called wide?
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: "I can't believe this, I'm just surrounded by a room of people who wanna go in there and kill him. This is the guy who call you friend. I got nothing invested in this. I wonder why that is, or maybe someday we'll find out."
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Lieutenant Chris Sabian: [hanging up the phone on Danny Roman] Relax... he'll call back.
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