Yates Quotes in The Last Castle (2001)

Yates: I thought there was one thing that you should know, when they take the castle the are going to hang the flag upside down.

Winter: [while in his office] Upside down?

Yates: It's the international sign of distress.

Winter: Yes I know what it means. Where exactly do the plan to get a flag?

Yates: They already have one... Yours.

Winter: My Flag?...

[goes to his flag box, sees that the flag is gone]

Winter: Peretz who was in here yesterday?

Yates: I took it you murdering fuck!

Winter: I thought you were smarter than that.

Yates: Ya I know you did.

Yates: My father was with you in Hanoi.

Irwin: [while in his cell] What's your name?

Yates: Yates.

Irwin: Yates? Sam Yates?

Yates: That's right.

Irwin: Good man.

Yates: Nah, he wasn't.

Irwin: After 30 years everyone's a good man. It's the law.

Winter: [while in his office] Tell me, Mr. Yates, how does a man like you get into West Point?

Yates: My father was a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, sir.

Winter: [with disdain] Oh, right. Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree.

Irwin: [while in his cell] Well, I thought your father was a good man. How's he doing?

Yates: He's dead.

Irwin: Oh. Sorry to hear that. What happened?

Yates: [pauses] He came home.

Yates: I've never crashed one before.

Yates: Be it ever so rat-infested, there's no place like home.

Yates: Did he tell you we're from some place far away?

Yates: I feel highly honored, but, I'm afraid I'm not much of a speechmaker. Nevertheless, Mr. Hammer, it was very nice of you to call on me.

Hammer: You must call on me some time! Yes, come up and see my flower beds. I'd like you to see my pansies. I have short pansies and long pansies. Next Spring I'm going to get some early bloomers.

Yates: I wouldn't dream of taking up any more of your time. I merely wanted to thank you all and, as I said before, I hadn't intended to make a speech at all.

Hammer: Well, you certainly succeeded.

Wilbur: So where do you see yourselves?

Health: Splitting up. I'd like to go with a family of realists.

Wilbur: Open-minded realists or close-minded?

Health: Open-minded.

Yates: And what about you, Emily?

Emily: I'll find my own way, which is the Lord's way. So, I guess the closeminded realists.

Yates: There are actually a lot of other options...

Emily: Close-minded realists.