The Father Quotes in No Escape (1994)
The Father Quotes:
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The Father: You've got a terrible case of "nobody tells me what to do".
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'Farrah' the Mother: Why didn't you write your Ma?
Trinità : 'cause I don't know how to write. And you don't know how to read.
The Father: Yeah, he's got a point, there.
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Trinità : You leavin', right away?
Bambino: If you're stayin', yeah.
Trinità : Why don't you talk to him, Pa?
The Father: [to Bambino] Listen: if I was you, I'd drown him, right there in that tub.
Trinità : Hey, you ain't gonna take the old geezer up on that are ya? Ma!
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The Father: Listen, boys: the odds are pretty good that this generous old heart of mine is gonna stop tickin', mighty soon. But before I go, I wanna make sure that there's a good price on your heads.
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The Father: Maybe I want to get caught.
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The Father: Please don't see that boy again.
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The Father: I would have preferred doing otherwise. Or living otherwise. But I let myself get overcome by things. Things foreign to me. They settled in. Little by little. They destroyed my hope. They began to rule. You can understand that when I was young this wasn't the life I dreamed of. I didn't dream of this Iife because I wasn't this person.I was full of joy and energy. You didn't know me, Pierre. As soon as you were born, my youth fell apart. I have the impression that my life today doesn't correspond to my true nature. I have the impression I haven't changed. Still full of joy and energy. But unable to prove it to others. Alone in my joy and energy.
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[The military needs a dead body for counterintelligence.]
Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu: I can assure you that this is an opportunity for your son to do a great thing for England.
The Father: My son, sir, was a Scotsman. Very proud of it.
Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu: I beg your pardon?
The Father: Never mind. We're used to that. You English always talk about England when you mean Britain.
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The Father: Hubba, hubba boy let's get with it! I'm not going to tell you again, now get out here!
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The Father: No body in chains ever soared up to the sun.
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The Father: Love is the warmest place to be when it's cold outside.
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Recovery Man: You stole my sister!
The Father: She was my sister, too.
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Reda: Where is my cell-phone?
The Father: It's in a garbage can 200 miles away.
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Reda: Why didn't you fly to Mecca? It's a lot simpler.
The Father: When the waters of the ocean rise to the heavens, they lose their bitterness to become pure again...
Reda: What?
The Father: The ocean waters evaporate as they rise to the clouds. And as they evaporate they become fresh. That's why it's better to go on your pilgrimage on foot than on horseback, better on horseback than by car, better by car than by boat, better by boat than by plane.
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