Nikander Quotes in Shadows in Paradise (1986)

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  • Nikander: [Nikander and Ilona are in a restaurant] Do you find it dull here? With me, I mean?

    Ilona Rajamäki: Why?

    Nikander: Just asking?

    Ilona Rajamäki: Take it easy, Nikander! Everything is OK today. I don't know about tomorrow. Maybe the weather will turn, or something. What do you want from me anyway?

    Nikander: Who? Me?

    Ilona Rajamäki: Yes, you!

    Nikander: Do you want to have more wine?

    Ilona Rajamäki: Answer me!

    Nikander: I don't want anything from anyone. I'm Nikander. Ex-butcher, now a carbage truck driver. Bad teeth and stomach, liver is hanging on! More than I can say about my head. No use asking what I want.

    Ilona Rajamäki: I only asked.

    Nikander: You're welcome!

    Ilona Rajamäki: It's cold in here.

    Nikander: I haven't paid attention to it.

  • Nikander: [Nikander meets Ilona and the third man] How are you, old man?

    Third Man: Alright.

    Nikander: Want me to smash your face?

    Third Man: No.

    Nikander: Get lost then, we've got to talk.

  • Pelle: [in Swedish] Do you have a cigarette, friend?

    Nikander: [in English] Not for you.

  • [first lines]

    Nikander: Friday!

    Co-worker: [co-worker is offering Nikander a drink] You want?

    Nikander: I'm driving.

    Co-worker: Listen, Nikander. We've been a team quite a while. But I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm getting tired and so is my heart.

    Nikander: What's the matter with it?

    Co-worker: What ever.

    Co-worker: I've got an idea - my own company. Five trucks to start with...

    Nikander: What does it end?

    Co-worker: The sky is the limit. The state and the banks will back us. I know everything about this game, but I'm not going to die behind the wheel.

    Nikander: Where, then?

    Co-worker: Behind a desk. And I need a good foreman.

  • Ilona Rajamäki: Let's go!

    Nikander: Where?

    Ilona Rajamäki: For a drive, out of Helsinki.

    Nikander: What, now?

    Ilona Rajamäki: Yes.

    Nikander: Ok. But I must see a friend first.

    Ilona Rajamäki: Why?

    Nikander: That's none of your business.

  • Co-worker: I've got a slogan already: "Reliable garbage disposal since 1986."

    Nikander: But that's now.

    Co-worker: That's why it catches the eye.

  • Nikander: The door's locked.

    Melartin: It usually is in jail.

  • Nikander: Be there at 6:00am tomorrow. You'll be on probation for a week.

    Melartin: Great. Now I've just got to be brave and call my wife.

    Nikander: Tell her you got a job.

    Melartin: It won't help. She'll hit me anyway.

    Nikander: Then why keep drinking?

    Melartin: Makes me feel good.

  • Nikander: Wait a minute.

    Ilona Rajamäki: I don't think it will work out.

    Nikander: What won't?

    Ilona Rajamäki: Anything.

  • Nikander: These are sheets and a towel.

    Ilona Rajamäki: I can see that.

  • Nikander: Remember that chick from the supermarket? Guess where she is now?

    Melartin: Where?

    Nikander: Sleeping in my bed.

    Melartin: Get back there then.

    Nikander: I can't.

    Melartin: What's keeping you?

    Nikander: Horror, fear and this job.

  • Ilona Rajamäki: Don't you know how to knock?

    Nikander: It's my apartment.

  • Melartin: My mother-in-law's babysitting tonight.

    Nikander: Oh yeah?

    Melartin: The four of us could go out together.

    Nikander: Where?

    Melartin: The classic thing: a movie first, then a bar, get drunk.

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