Sykes Quotes in Oblivion (2013)

Jack Harper: What Horatius said was, "How can a man die better / Than facing fearful odds"

Sykes: Drones! Get inside! Get inside!

Jack Harper: "For the ashes of his fathers / And the temples of his Gods"

Sally: I created you, Jack. I am your God.

Jack Harper: Fuck you, Sally.

Sykes: We're wasting our time. The drone will track him here.

Malcolm Beech: That's Sergeant Sykes. He thinks I'm a fool for having brought you here. I hope you prove him wrong.

Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: How'd you lose that arm?

Sykes: In the line of duty.

Sykes: What is this - a trench coat convention?

[on Kimble]

Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Does he have a reason to come after you?

Sykes: [sarcastically] Well, hell yeah I have a prosthetic arm. I must have murdered his wife right?

Sykes: Give me a break will you? I'll tell you what I told them a year ago, I wasn't in Chicago that night, fifteen people verified it.

Sykes: [while on the phone waiting outside CCH for Kimball] Ooh, wait... I marked him.

[last lines]

Sykes: I Didn't expect to find you here.

Deke Thornton: Why not? I sent them back; That's all I said I'd do.

Sykes: They didn't get very far.

Deke Thornton: I figured.

Sykes: What are your plans, now?

Deke Thornton: Drift around down here. Try to stay out of jail.

Sykes: Well, me and the boys got some work to do. You want to come with us? It ain't like it used to be; but it'll do.

Sykes: Say, back there in Starbuck. How'd my boy do?

Pike Bishop: Your boy? Crazy Lee?

Sykes: Yeah, C.L., Clarence Lee, my daughter's boy. Not too bright, but a good boy.

Pike Bishop: [thinks back on Crazy Lee agreeing to remain behind while the rest escaped] Why didn't you tell me he was your grandson?

Sykes: Well, you had enough things on your mind; besides he had to pull his own weight just like the rest of us. I just wanted to make sure he didn't let you down: run when things got hot. Huh? Huh?

Pike Bishop: No, he did fine... just fine.

Tector Gorch: Silver rings.

Dutch Engstrom: [upset] "Silver rings", your butt! Them's washers! Damn!

Lyle Gorch: Washers. Washers. We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!

Pike Bishop: They set it up.

Lyle Gorch: "They"? Who in the hell is "they?"

Sykes: [laughs hysterically] "They"? Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who "they" is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is "they?"

Pike Bishop: Railroad men... bounty hunters... Deke Thornton.

Angel: Would you give guns to someone to kill your father or your mother or your brother?

Pike Bishop: Ten thousand cuts an awful lot of family ties.

Angel: My people have no guns. But with guns, my people could fight! If I could take guns... I would go with you.

Dutch Engstrom: Hey, uh, how many cases of rifles did Zamora say was in that shipment?

Pike Bishop: Sixteen.

Dutch Engstrom: Well, give him one.

Pike Bishop: All right. One case... and one case of ammo; but you give up your share of the gold.

Angel: I will.

Pike Bishop: We know you will.

Sykes: I'm sure glad we got that settled.

Dutch Engstrom: [impressed] Well, I'd say those fellas know how to handle themselves!

Sykes: They been fightin' Apaches for a thousand years; That's a sure way to learn.

Pike Bishop: They ever get armed, with good leaders, this whole country'll go up in smoke!

Sykes: That it will son, that it will.

Lyle Gorch: They made damn fools out of us, Mr. Bishop! Gettin' so a feller can't sleep with both eyes closed for fear of gettin' his throat cut. Where in hell were you?

Tector Gorch: Now you listen to me, Lyle - You get up off your ass and help once in a while, I wouldn'a got caught near s'easy.

[the Bunch has just escaped from bounty hunters by blowing up a bridge]

Dutch Engstrom: At least we won't have to worry about Deke Thornton.

Pike Bishop: [laughs] Hell, no; not after ridin' a half a case of dynamite into the river!

Sykes: [calmly] Well, don't expect him to stay there! He'll be along... and you know it!

Dutch Engstrom: What's our next move?

Pike Bishop: Well, I figure Agua Verde's the closest... three days maybe. Then get the news and drift back to the border. Maybe a payroll, maybe a bank.

Dutch Engstrom: Maybe that damn railroad.

Tector Gorch: That damn railroad you're talkin' about, sure as hell ain't a-gettin' no easier.

Sykes: And you boys ain't gettin' any younger either!

[laughs]

Pike Bishop: We've got to start thinking beyond our guns. Those days are closin' fast.

Fallon: And your dad's what? He's a stockbroker?

Ray Cochran: Something like that. But I'm a self-made guy. I'm a self-starter. Just like you.

Fallon: That's funny. Cause these guys are always saying that to me.

Sykes: That's why we hang with him.

Rhodes: Self-made man.

Sykes: Come on, snap your fin. Snap it. You're not snapping it.

Don Lino: I'm snapping it, I'm snapping it!

Sykes: That's okay, a lot of great whites can't do it, yo.

Don Lino: Yo?

Sykes: Yo, what's up?

Don Lino: What's up with what?

Sykes: Yo-yo-yo, yo-yo-yo, yo-yo-yo-yo...

Don Lino: Hey, you say "Yo" one more time, and I'm gonna yo you.

Sykes: I'm sorry.

Sykes: [about Lenny] Look, all I'm saying is the kid ain't exactly no killer!

Don Lino: My Lenny is a killer, you hear me? A cold-blooded killer! Look at him!

[Lenny wiggles around on a bar stool]

Sykes: Now I have to pay Don Lino protection, so everything you owe me, you owe him!

Oscar: How do you figure that?

Sykes: Simple - the food chain!

[Pulls out chart]

Sykes: On top there's Don Lino, there's me, there's regular fish...

Oscar: And that's me!

Sykes: No. There's plankton, there's single-celled amoebas...

Oscar: And then me!

Sykes: I'm getting there, I'm getting there... There's coral, there's rocks, there's whale poop, and then there's you.

Oscar: That's messed up.

Oscar: Sykes, shut up! SHUT UP!

Sykes: Hey, that's good. That's good, I like that! Shut up, Lino! Ha! Shut up. Oh, kid, he wants to talk to you.

Oscar: [Whispers] No. I'm not here. I'm not here!

Sykes: Yeah, he's right here.

Oscar: [Sykes gives shellphone to Oscar] Hello?

Don Lino: [on phone with Oscar] Shut up? Shut up? You don't tell *me* shut up, I tell *you* shut up!

Don Lino: [hears phone dialing]

Don Lino: What?

Luca: Hi, how you doing? I'll have a large pie, everything on it, anchovies, meatballs, mushrooms...

Don Lino: Luca!

Luca: Oh... Uh, hi, Boss! What're you doing working at a pizza joint?

Don Lino: [shouts] Get off the phone!

Luca: But I'm hungry.

[hangs up]

Don Lino: [sighs] My guys are coming for you, Sharkslayer. They're going to tear you fin from fin!

Don Lino: I tell you what's what, and what?

Sykes: What?

Don Lino: What what?

Sykes: What what nothin'. You said what first.

Don Lino: I didn't say what first.

Sykes: You said "and then what?' and I said "what?'

Don Lino: No, I said "What, what?" as in "What, what?"

[pause]

Sykes: ...You said what first.

Sykes: My brother, my player, the shark-slayer!

Ernie: [on the phone] Syke's Whale Wash! You get a whale of a wash and the price... eh... is really, really low, considering how good the wash is.

Sykes: It's "oh my gosh!" "You get a whale of a wash, and the price, oh my gosh!"

Ernie: Got it!

[the phone rings, and Ernie answers it]

Ernie: Whale wash!

Bernie: Rhymes with gosh!

[both laugh]

Sykes: [chasing the brothers off] Get out of here, you two! Go be useless someplace else!

Sykes: [on the phone, while watching Oscar slay Lenny on TV] I don't think you understand how huge my client is. Turn on your TV right now!

Sykes: [still on phone and Oscar has been eaten by Lenny] Turn off the TV! Turn off your TV!

Sykes: [still on phone and Oscar escapes Lenny's mouth] Turn on your TV! What are you doing turning off your TV? Turn it back on!

Sykes: [on the phone] That's right, Lino! The Shark Slayer hired me as his agent! So I'm now, what I like to call, UNTOUCHABLE! And another thing - from now on you're gonna start paying ME protection!

Oscar: Sykes, the deal is off! That shark I killed was Don Lino's SON!

Sykes: I know! Ain't that great?

Oscar: Not if he finds out!

Sykes: Who's your Puff Daddy? Who takes care of you, huh?

Sykes: Ernie! Bernie! I want you to find the deepest, darkest hole in the ocean, and when you do, dig deeper and put him in it!

Sykes: So, Fagin. Did we bring something green and wrinkly to make Sykes happy?

Fagin: Sykes, I have an airtight kitty - plan. Plan! It's sweet and simple, the plan... Let me start over again.

Sykes: Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

Fagin: I got this kitty, see...

Sykes: What am I going to do with you, Fagin?

Fagin: Please, Sykes...

Sykes: If you don't have my money...

[he snaps his fingers and the Dobermans jump at Fagin; Dodger intercepts them and they fight]

Fagin: No, no, Sykes! Please, stop! Your money's coming tonight! It's coming tonight! It's from a rich cat - I mean, a cat from a rich family! They're coming with the money I owe you to get their cat back!

[Sykes snaps his fingers again; the Dobermans stop fighting, leaving Dodger unconscious on the floor]

Sykes: Well, looks like you're doing all right for yourself. I'm proud of you, Fagin. Yeah, you're starting to think big. You have twelve hours. And Fagin... this is your last chance.

Sykes: Three sunrises. Three sunsets. Three days, Fagin.

Fagin: [counting on his fingers] Three sunrises. Three sunsets. Three days. Three, three, three. That's nine. Nine?

Sykes: No, Fagin. Three.

Fagin: Three? Oh, you mean, just three days? Oh, my goodness! Oh, I'm having a bad day!

Sykes: Now, I lent you some money, and I don't see it. Do you know what happens when I don't see my money, Fagin?

[rolls up the car window on Fagin's neck]

Sykes: People get hurt. People like you get hurt. Do I make myself clear?

Fagin: [wheezing] Clear! Perfectly clear!

Sykes: [opens the car door to empty his ashtray, almost pushing Fagin off the pier] I don't think you grasp the severity of the situation.

Fagin: [hangs on to the sideview mirror to keep from falling] Oh, no, I grasp it. See? This is how I grasp.

[the mirror comes off and falls in the water]

Fagin: Accident! Accident!

[to Meehan]

Sykes: So my ass is on the line, and by my ass, I mean your ass.

Sykes: Well get it sorted, 'cause this lad has a bad habit of turning cash flow problems into blood flow problems.

[as the team starts to rise]

Danny Meehan: Hold up for Mr. Sykes.

[they resume their seats]

Sykes: Doc... was a different generation. And he saved all his life. And before he died, he had me sort out these.

[He places a box on the floor, tears it open, and lifts out a black "Mean Machine" uniform jersey. The team cheers]

Sykes: COME AND GET 'EM!

Sykes: There's a killer loose, a killer loose!