Naville Quotes in A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

Naville: You are going to go to work, my girl.

Celine: What?

Naville: You have spent the last quarter of a century watching the tide go in and out, but from tomorrow, you are going to work. Here, under my supervision. You're going to learn the essence of business. About money, and how it flows relentlessly back towards he who owns it. How to generate a profit from a loss, a loss from a profit, you are going to work. Now this may not strike you as very palatable. It may make you want to vomit. But you will, I assure you, get used to the taste. And pretty soon, you'll be spooning it down and asking for more like all the other kids.

Naville: Celine, why don't you give me the gun?

Celine: Because as he dreamt, I shall save his life with an arrow, an arrow of my love for him.

[she shoots Robert in the heart]

O'Reilly: Our fee for the recovery of your daughter is... one hundred thousand dollars.

Naville: That's a lot of money.

O'Reilly: Five thousand in advance. The rest is cash on delivery - no daughter, no dough.

Jackson: And naturally we'd operate a sliding scale, whereby if we only bring back part of your daughter, we only get part of the money.

O'Reilly: That's enough, Jackson.

Jackson: No, I mean if he's cut her ears off and we can't find them, we'll knock a couple thousand off the tariff. More for a limb, obviously.

O'Reilly: Jackson.

Jackson: Sorry.

Naville: You'll die for this, I swear to God, you will die for this!

Naville: Mayhew? Not with the ax.

Naville: I want her back.

O'Reilly: Don't worry, we'll get her.

Naville: And I want him dead.

O'Reilly: That's understood, Mr. Naville.

Naville: Good.

[He places the suitcase with the ransom cash on the desk. Jackson starts to take it, but Naville slaps a hand down on it]

Naville: And when it's over, I want *this* back.

[Robert desperately searches the cabin for the ransom cash to hold off his own execution]

Naville: We're just gonna have to face the truth, Robert, you don't have my money! And frankly, I don't care. It's just a detail.

[as Mayhew drags an axe across the floor]

Naville: As long as you understand, that it isn't the money, it's the principle.