Ronin (1998)

Sean Bean: Spence

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Quotes 

• Spence : You ever kill anybody?

  Sam : I hurt somebody's feelings once.

• Spence : You worried about saving your own skin?

  Sam : Yeah, I am. It covers my body.

• Spence : [drawing a diagram on the white board - two circles with arrows pointing at each other]  We got shooters here... shooters here. I'll tell you an old trick...

  Sam : Hey.

  [Sam puts his cup of coffee down on a table, walks over to the white board and rubs out Spence's diagram] 

  Spence : What's your problem?

  Sam : Draw it again. Draw it again. You're the ace field man, draw it again. It's a simple diagram, just draw it again, draw what you saw.

  [Spence just stands there] 

  Sam : Draw it again! Draw it again.

  [Spence still does nothing so Sam takes the marker pen off him and redraws his diagram] 

  Sam : Two shooters, car comes through here, shooters across from each other, kill each other dead. Oh my, where'd you learn that? Huh?

  Spence : In the regiment.

  Sam : What regiment was that?

  Spence : The 22nd Special Air Service.

  Sam : What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford? What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?

  Spence : I don't like your attitude.

  Sam : What's the color of the boathouse?

  Spence : Oh, fuck off!

  Sam : [moves closer to Spence, who backs away]  You got the gun, I'm unarmed. Do something. Go ahead, do something. Do something. Do something.

  [as he backs away, Spence bumps into the table with Sam's coffee cup on it, spilling hot coffee onto his leg. Sam grabs his neck and face and bends him backwards over a railing, completely overpowering him. He takes Spence's gun off of him, then releases him] 

  Sam : Tell me about an ambush? Tell me about an ambush? I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!

• [the arms dealers want to complete the deal inside a tunnel] 

  Sam : You aren't going in there?

  Spence : Yeah, I'm going in there. And so are you.

  Sam : Why am I going in there?

  Spence : Why? To protect me.

  Sam : There is no protection there. If it's a come-on, we're fish in a barrel. What are you doing? Why do they want you in there? What are you, crazy?

  Spence : You know, you think too hard.

  Sam : Nobody ever told me that before. But I wouldn't go in there.

• Spence : You ex-military?

  Sam : No, I got my job through The New York Times.

• Spence : [in French]  Don't make any sudden moves. Just because we're buying guns doesn't mean we didn't bring any.

• Spence : Got the swag, kept the money, job well done! That's a fact, that is a fact!

• Spence : [in the car, escaping from the scene of a shoot-out]  Almost a bit of raspberry jam back there, eh? A bit of raspberry jam back there!

• Spence : What do you use, weapons-wise?

  Sam : Hm?

  Spence : Weapons. I'm a weapons man.

  Sam : Weapons man?

  Spence : Yeah. They tend to settle the argument. So what do you favour?

  Sam : Oh, you know, it's a toolbox. I don't care, you put the tools in for the job, that's all.

  Spence : What?

  Sam : You know, I actually favour the old 1911.

  Spence : .45. Old gun.

  Sam : It served my country well. A long time.

  Spence : Your country. Not done too well though, have you, last few wars?

  Sam : Perhaps not, but at least we don't go around whining about it.

• Vincent : [in French to Sam; about Spence]  Don't let him get you down.

  Sam : It don't mean nothing to me.

  Spence : [in French]  I say what I think.

• Spence : [Sam asks Larry not to light a cigarette]  Bad for the night vision, yeah?