Mr. X Quotes in Wanted (2008)

Mr. X: No one leaves the Fraternity, Cross.

Cross: I have a new perspective on the Fraternity.

Mr. X: Careful. You don't destroy something that's been around for a thousand years.

Cross: It's already destroyed. He broke the code. I have to stop this.

Mr. X: Really?

Cross: You know this.

Mr. X: So why don't you face me yourself?

[pause]

Mr. X: Never send sheep to kill a wolf.

Cross: They were just decoys. Goodbye Mr. X.

Ralph: Oh god.

Mr. X: There is no god. Nothing can save you now.

Mr. X: [as Hart is restrained on the operating table] I am just going to cut away your shirt. You don't mind? The pain when I am going through the layers of skin will not be unendurable. It is only when I am able to cut on the inside that you will realize you are having... an experience.

[He cackles under his surgical mask]

Mr. X: Wasn't it Nietzsche, who said that unendurable pain merges into ecstasy?

Jim Henderson: [as Henderson goes into X's lab] Hello, Doc!

Jim Henderson: [X turns the noisy machines off] How's the old throat specialist?

Mr. X: It will be a pleasure, Henderson, to work on your throat... someday.

Jim Henderson: [He laughs nervously] No, thank you, Doctor.

Jack Hart aka Quinn: I'll guarantee this: no matter what happens to me, this butcher shop won't be here tomorrow.

Mr. X: Neither will you.

Mr. X: Mary usually does the carving but tonight since you are our guest, you could do it, Henry.

Henry Spencer: Of course. I'd be glad to. So I just, uh... I just cut them up like regular chickens?

Mr. X: Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens.

Mr. X: I thought I heard a stranger. We've got chicken tonight. Strangest damn things. They're man made. Little damn things. Smaller than my fist. But they're new! I'm Bill.

Henry Spencer: Hello. I'm Henry.

Mrs. X: Henry's at LaPelle's Factory.

Mr. X: Oh. Printing's your business. huh? Plumbing's mine. For 30 years. I've seen this neighborhood change from pastures to the hell-hole it is now! I put every damn pipe in this neighborhood!

Mary X: Dad!

Mrs. X: Bill!

Mr. X: People think that pipes grow in their homes. But they sure as hell don't! Look at my knees! Look at my knees!

Mrs. X: Bill, please!

Mr. X: Are you hungry?

Mr. X: Well Henry, what do you know?

Henry Spencer: Oh, I don't know much of anything.

Mr. X: The girls have heard this before but... 14 years ago I had an operation on my left arm here. The doctors said that I wouldn't be able to ever use it. But what the hell do they know, I said. So I rubbed it for a half-hour every day. And slowly I could move it a little, and use it to turn a faucet... and pretty soon I had my arm back again. And now, I can't feel a damn thing in it. All numb! I'm afraid to cut it, you know?