A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Paul Bettany: Charles

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• Charles : Nothing's ever for sure, John. That's the only sure thing I do know.

• Nash : In competitive behavior someone always loses.

  Charles : Well, my niece knows that, John, and she's about this high.

  Nash : See if I derive an equilibrium where prevalence is a non-singular event where nobody loses, can you imagine the effect that would have on conflict scenarios, arm negotiations...

  Charles : When did you last eat?

  Nash : ...currency exchange?

  Charles : When did you last eat? You know, food.

  Nash : You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that?

  Charles : Yes. But pizza - now, pizza I have enormous respect for. And of course beer.

  [leaves] 

  Nash : [throws stuff down and follows]  I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer!

• Charles : So what's your story? You the poor kid that never got to go to Exeter or Andover?

  Nash : Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders.

• Charles : Her husband was too drunk to know he was too drunk to drive.

• Charles : [offering Nash a flask of whiskey]  Listen. If we can't break the ice, how 'bout we drown it?

• Charles : That Isaac Newton fellow was right.

  Nash : He was on to something.

  Charles : Clever boy.

• [showing Charles one of his window equations] 

  Nash : This is a group playing touch football. This is a flock of pigeons fighting over bread crumbs. And this is a woman chasing a man who stole her purse.

  Charles : John, you watched a mugging. That's weird.

• Charles : Mathematics... mathematics is never going to lead you to higher truth and you know why? Because it's boring!

• Charles : When's the last time you ate? You know... food.

• [John meets Charles' niece] 

  Nash : She's so small.

  Charles : Well, she's young, John. That's how they come.

• Charles : Is my roommate a dick?

• Charles : It's not my problem and it's not your problem. It's their problem. Your answers are not on that wall. They're out there, where you've been working.

• Charles : Officer, I saw the driver who hit me. His name was Johny Walker.

• Charles : The prodigal roommate arrives.

• Charles : I arrived last night. Right in time for English Department cocktails. The cock was mine. The tail belonged to a lovely young thing with a passion for D.H. Lawrence.