Cillian Murphy: Damien
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Damien : It's easy to know what you are against, but quite another to know what you are for.
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Damien : I tried not to get into this war, and did, now I try to get out, and can't.
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Damien : The Treaty does not express the will of the people, but the fear of the people.
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Damien : And once again, with honourable exception, the Catholic Church sides with the rich.
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Damien : [loading revolver] I studied anatomy for five years, Dan. And now i'm going to shoot this man in the head. I've known Chris Reilly since he was a child. I hope this Ireland we're fighting for is worth it.
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Damien : Strange creatures we are, even to ourselves.
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Damien : Get out of my country.
The Interrogator : What is your name?
Damien : Get out of my country.
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Damien : How many British soldiers in the country, Tim?
Tim : Too many.
Damien : How many?
Teddy : About ten thousand, Damien.
Damien : Ten Thousand. Tans, artillery units, machine-gun car, cavalry...
Teddy : And many more besides. What's your point, Damien?
Damien : It's young men like Micheail we're talkin' about, Teddy.
Teddy : Micheail was a real Irishman, Damien.
Ned : You're a coward, Damien.
Damien : I'm a coward? And you're a hero, isn't it, Ned? You're gonna take down the British army with your hurley, is that it?
Rory : For Christ's sake, Damien. What about Micheail?
Damien : Look, Micheail was killed because he wouldn't say his name in English. Is that what you call a martyr, Teddy, is it?
Sinead : So we should all buy a one-way ticket to London, is that it, Damien?
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Chris : Promise me, Damien. Promise me you won't bury me next to him?
[points to Sir John]
Damien : The chapel. Do you remember, on the way up? Do you remember?
Chris : Yeah.
Damien : In there.
Chris : Tell Teddy I'm sorry. I'm scared, Damien.
Damien : [sighs] Have you said your prayers?
Chris : Yeah.
Damien : God protect you.
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Damien : [to Teddy] You have wrapped yourself in the fucking Union Jack! The butcher's apron, boy!
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Damien : We buried him in this chapel in the mountains. And I went down and... and I told his mother. His mother, who has cooked meals for me and her son. And when I told her she... she just looked at me. and then she went in and she put on her shoes. Then she came out and she said, "Take me to my child." And we walked for six hours and she didn't say one word. Then we got to the chapel.
[sighs]
Damien : And I showed her the grave. And I'd put a... cross and some flowers on it. And she turned to me and she said, "I never want to see your face again."
[sighs]
Damien : I've crossed the line now, Sinead.
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Teddy : [looking around Hamilton's study] Such a beautiful room, it's hard to imagine a man's scream from here. Ever seen fingernails ripped out with a rusty pliers, Sir John, hmm? All your learning, and you still don't understand.
Sir John Hamilton : Oh, I understand perfectly, Mr. O'Donovan. God preserve Ireland if ever your kind take control.
Damien : [trains his gun on Hamilton] Well, you'd better start getting used to the idea.
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Damien : Your presence here is a crime, a foreign occupation. You tell me what I'm supposed to do as a democrat. Turn the other cheek for another 700 years? Is that it?
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The Interrogator : You're not a bog cutter. Show me your hands. Show me your fucking hands!
Damien : What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Pull my fingernails off, is that it?
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Damien : It is too late, Teddy. You can't see it. You really can't see it. John Bull has got his hand down your pants, his fist round your bollocks and you can't see it?
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Damien : Micheail was killed because he wouldn't say his name in English. That what you call a martyr, is it, Teddy?
