Matt King Quotes in The Descendants (2011)

Matt King: I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father - you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing.

Matt King: [voice-over] Don't be fooled by appearances. In Hawaii, some of the most powerful people look like bums and stuntmen.

Matt King: [to Elizabeth] Goodbye, Elizabeth. Goodbye, my love, my friend, my pain, my joy. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

Matt King: One more question for you.

Brian Speer: Yes?

Matt King: Ever been inside my bedroom?

Brian Speer: Once.

Matt King: You could have had the decency to lie about that one.

Brian Speer: Alright, twice.

Matt King: Elizabeth is dying. Wait... Fuck you! And she's dying.

[first lines]

Matt King: My friends on the mainland think just because I live in Hawaii, I live in paradise. Like a permanent vacation. We're all just out here sipping Mai Tais, shaking our hips, and catching waves. Are they insane?

Matt King: You give your children enough money to do something, but not enough to do nothing.

Matt King: I'm the backup parent. The understudy.

Matt King: You little fuck! Do you get hit a lot?

Sid: I don't know, I've had my share.

Matt King: [to Alex] Your friend is completly retarded, you know that?

Sid: Hey man, I've got a little brother who's retarded! Don't use that word in derogatory fashion.

Matt King: Oh.

Sid: [laughing] No I don't have a retarded brother!

Alexandra King: Sid, you suck!

Matt King: [voice-over] Paradise? Paradise can go fuck itself.

Matt King: Nothing just happens!

Brian Speer: Everything just happens.

Matt King: Hey, I'm doing you a favor. I could go out there and fuck you up, so get a better attitude!

Matt King: You are about 100 miles from smart... no offense

Sid: You are mistaken counselor; I'm smart, you know, I have good hygiene; I'm a decent guitar player; I'm a good cook, I mean I cook food all the time; I'm Vice President of the Punahou chess club; and I always have weed.

Matt King: Your mother must be very proud.

Sid: It's possible.

Matt King: On the phone he can escape, in person, he's got nowhere to go. I wanna see his face.

Matt King: I'm worried about my daughters. I think there's something wrong with them.

Matt King: What is it that makes the women in my life destroy themselves?

Sid: [on Scott] That guy is a prick. Is he always like that?

Matt King: Yeah.

Scottie King: Shut up, you motherless whore.

Sid: Whoa! Whoa! Easy there, half pipe.

Matt King: Where'd you learn to talk like that?

[Scottie points to Alex. Matt and Sid give Alex a look]

Matt King: It's this a bad timing?

Kai Mitchell: Uh, no, no, we're just fighting.