Empire Falls
2005 (TV)
Max Roby: (to Miles) To tell you the truth, I would rather have a complete idiot for a child than an ingrate.
Miles Roby: How does it feel, Francine? To know your husband shot himself in the head rather than spend one more minute on this earth with you?
John Voss: This is what I dream.
John Voss: (holds a gun at Tick Roby) This is what I dream.
Tick Roby: (to Miles) This is John Voss. Uncle David said we needed a new busboy. David Roby: (to Miles) Take a look at Brian. He looks like a walking appetite suppressant! Brian: (stumbles into back kitchen area) Hey, Miles! Miles Roby: Brian, come here for a minute. (looks at Brian's infected face) You gotta go home! Brian: What do you mean? I can't help it! Something bit me. I can still work. Miles Roby: Yeah, but people got to eat here. (takes Brian's busboy bin) Go home!
Francine Whiting: What can't be cured must be endured. Miles Roby: What can't be cured must be avenged.
Janine Roby: Don't be staring at my boobs, Miles. We were married 20 years, they never interested you the whole time.
Horace: I don't know if I've told you, Bea, but in my experience, most human beings are selfish, greedy, venal, unprincipled (with Bea) utterly irredeemable shit-eaters!
Miles Roby: I think Father Tom is making off with the cash box again. Father Mark: Yeah, I know. Don't worry, Ms Koss will fetch him. Ms Koss: Come back here, you old bat! Father Tom! Father Tom! Bring that back! Father Mark: Who says God has no sense of humor?
Bea: It's not that I think it's a bad idea, Miles. Like I told you, I'm game. But it's going to mean war. That woman will come after us. Miles Roby: Fuck her. Let her come.
Max Roby: You're ready to come home? Tick Roby: Can we? Max Roby: Ask your father, not me. Old men don't get to vote. Old men gotta keep their mouth shut and do as they're told like they're stupid.
Horace: I don't eat onions, Miles. I know you've been away, but I haven't changed. I read "The Globe," I write for "The Sentinel," I never send Christmas cards and I don't eat onions.
Charlene: (about Walt) Somebody, shoot him.
Janine Roby: People can change, and I'm changing. Bea: You're not changing, Janine, you're just losing weight.
Francine Whiting: What you really hate is the fact that I know you better than you know yourself. Miles Roby: Well, maybe I'll surprise you one day.
Walt Comeau: Put your sweater on, you look cold.
Father Mark: (about Max) He'd steal from God? Miles Roby: Yeah, he's pretty fearless as far as God's concerned. I don't know whether he's an atheist or he just thinks he'll be able to bullshit God like he does everybody else.
(about the growth on Horace's forehead) Max Roby: You should have that thing removed. Bea: Max. Horace: What thing? Max Roby: I'm always afriad it's going to explode when I'm talking to you. What would it cost you to have it cut off? Horace: Don't know, never looked into it. Max Roby: Oh, boy, I would have. If I had that thing growing out of my forehead, I'd had it looked into pronto. Horace: Oh, I don't know, Max. I think it might be the source of my intelligence. (Bea laughs) Horace: What if I had it cut off and then found that it was responsible for all my best ideas?