Sergeant Gerry Boyle Quotes in The Guard (2011)

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: There were gay lads in the IRA?

Colum Hennessey: Mmm... one or two.

[Shrugs]

Colum Hennessey: It was the only way we could successfully infiltrate the MI5.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, these men are armed and dangerous, and you being an FBI agent you're more used to shooting at unarmed women and children...

FBI agent Wendell Everett: Oh, fuck you, Sergeant!

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'm Irish. Racism is part of my culture.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Are the lights growing dim?

Liam O'Leary: Don't mock me.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's good enough for ya.

Liam O'Leary: There's so many... so many things I wanted to do.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Like what for fuck's sake? Running with the bulls at Pamplona?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: What are you reading?

Eileen Boyle: Oh.

[Shows Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov]

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Never got into the Russians. They take too long getting to the fecking point.

Eileen Boyle: Not even Dostoevsky, no?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Come on now, he was the main offender.

FBI agent Wendell Everett: You have anybody you want me to call?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Nah, I don't have anybody. Just pin a medal on my body like those boys coming home from Iraq.

FBI agent Wendell Everett: Fuck you again Sergeant.

Francis Sheehy: Who was up there firing that cannon?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: The FBI lad, probably hadn't had this much fun since they burned all those kids up in Waco.

FBI agent Wendell Everett: [Sergeant Boyle and FBI agent Wendell are driving at night. Boyle asks a question in a friendly manner, idle chat as getting to know each other. FBI agent answers] Two boys. Stocken is five years old and Hughie has just turned three months old. I've got a picture of them.

FBI agent Wendell Everett, Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [Boyle interrupts quickly] Don't want to see it.

FBI agent Wendell Everett: [agent seems confused] Excuse me?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [straight faced copper explains] I don't want to see it. Babies all look the same. The only time a baby doesn't look like every other baby is when it's a really ugly baby. So unless you're about to show me a photo of a really ugly baby then I don't want to see it.

FBI agent Wendell Everett: That's pretty fucking rude.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Maybe it is maybe it isn't.

Garda Aidan McBride: I'm on it sarge.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: "I'm on it Sarge." He thinks he's in fuckin' Detroit.

Garda Aidan McBride: [Sergent Boyle is stroking the crotch of the dead victim] I don't think that's appropriate.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Why don't you fuck off to America with your appropriate, fuckin' Barrack Obama.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I thought black people couldn't ski. Or is that swimming?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Listen, something's come up, and I'm not just talking about my cock.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: This is a Gaelic speaking region. Did they not teach you that at Langley?

FBI agent Wendell Everett: No, they did not teach us that at Langley. For the simple fact that Langley is the CIA, you idiot, not the FBI!

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I thought only black lads were drug dealers?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'm Irish sir. Racism is part of my culture.

Garda Aidan McBride: You got a call from Galway. You're to head in tonight to attend a briefing from a fella who's over from the FBI. Special Agent Wendell Everett.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: So what?

Garda Aidan McBride: Maybe it's about the murder. Maybe he's got a psychological profile on the killer or something.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's drug smuggling. Either that or they've had another fuckin' sighting of Whitey Bulger at some fuckin' museum.

Gabriela McBride: He's gay. Like when one man put's his...

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'm familiar with the mechanics of it, yea.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: You've taken' somethin'.

Eugene Moloney: I have not.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: You've taken somethin'. You didn't even act surprised, for fuck sake!

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Like the fat man said, if you have to be careful not to drink too much, it's because you're not to be trusted when you do.

[first lines]

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [red car speeds past his speed trap, tires screech, car crashes]

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [finds drugs in the pocket of dead teen] I don't think your mammy would be too pleased about that now.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [walks aside and swallows one of the pills] What a beautiful fuckin' day.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [interrupting the briefing] I thought only black lads were drug dealers?

FBI agent Wendell Everett: I'm sorry, what?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I thought only black lads were drug dealers? And Mexicans. What do they call them. They have a word for them.

FBI agent Wendell Everett: Yeah, there's a word for you too, sir. But I'm not gonna go into that right now. Anyway, as I was saying, these men are highly dangerous...

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [blurting out] Mules. Drug mules.

Gerry Stanton: That's enough of your guff now, Boyle. Apologize to the man.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Huh? Apologize for what?

FBI agent Wendell Everett: For your racist slurs, for one thing.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'm Irish, racism is part of my culture.

Liam O'Leary: [holding a gun on him] You should get a dog. Or a parrot, maybe. Something to raise the alarm, you know. Ned Kelly had a peacock.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I've always wanted a giraffe.

Aidan McBride: [entering the pub] Little early for a drink. You're still on duty. You've been gone all afternoon.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [playing a video game] You gonna continue to make a series of declarative statements, or are you gonna fuckin' tell me something?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [answering the door] Ah, listen, I think there's been a mix-up. You've the wrong night.

Gabriela McBride: I'm sorry?

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: You're from the agency?

Gabriela McBride: No. My husband is missing.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Oh, I'm sorry. Come in, come in.

[realizing he has no pants on]

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'll just slip into something a little less comfortable.

Sinead Mulligan: Now it can be revealed. I have very small breasts.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: That's okay, I have a very small penis.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's not as if you're that hard to please.

Eileen Boyle: Yeah, that's what they said to me at the orgy.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: What's a derringer?

Colum Hennessey: It's like a baby gun. One of the gay lads used to... used to like secreting it on his person, you know.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle: There were gay lads in the IRA?

Colum Hennessey: There are one or two. Well, it was the only way we could successfully infiltrate the MI5.