Robert Durant Quotes in Darkman (1990)

Robert Durant: He's a cockroach; first you think you kill him and he pops right back up again!

Robert Durant: Tell us where to find the Bellasarious Memorandum, and we shall disappear... like a nightmare before the breaking day.

Louis Strack Jr.: Robert, I have good news and bad.

Robert Durant: Custom dictates that you render the bad news first.

Louis Strack Jr.: We have a little problem with Miss Hastings. It appears she has uncovered our alliance.

Robert Durant: No problem at all. And the good news?

Louis Strack Jr.: Your wife died.

[Busts out laughing]

Louis Strack Jr.: I'm joking, of course. No. The good news is that I know who's behind our little troubles of late. When you retrieved my memorandum, you failed to excise the good doctor.

Robert Durant: Westlake? He's extinct. I saw to it myself.

Louis Strack Jr.: He's alive. I don't like loose ends, Robert. Finish it.

Robert Durant: Where is he?

Louis Strack Jr.: I believe we have a guide.

Robert Durant: Now, let's consider my points, one by one. One. I try not to let my anger get the better of me.

[Durant cuts off one of Black's fingers. Black starts to sweat]

Robert Durant: Two. I don't always succeed.

[Durant cuts off another of Black's fingers]

Robert Durant: Three. I've got seven more points.

[Durant cuts off Black's third finger. Black screams]

Louis Strack Jr.: I'm glad you survived, Robert. I'd hate to see your kids deprived of a role model.

Robert Durant: They do look up to me.

Louis Strack Jr.: When I was young, my father made me work high steel. Just me and the indians, no-one else crazy enough to run around up here against the wind. $4.50 an hour. Call me crazy, sometimes I miss it! Life on the edge! Five inches wide, six-hundred-fifty feet down! High Steel! Oh, by the way, you don't have any kids, Robert.

[Strack pulls off a mask on Durant's face to reveal it is Darkman posing as Durant. Julie screams]

Louis Strack Jr.: Ha ha ha ha. You truly are one ugly son of a bitch. What do you think, Julie? Who's the real monster here? I destroy, to build something better! Whereas you? You're a man who destroys for revenge! Look! Look about you! It's all mine! Because I built it! I built it all!

Robert Durant: The name isn't Buddy, it's Durant. Robert G. Durant.

Robert Durant: [to his thugs] Shoot him!

Darkman: [posing as Durant] Shoot *him!*