Friday 18 August 2017

Film quotes, #11: Runaway Train


MANNY: I'll tell you what you gonna do. You gonna get a job. That's what you gonna do, you're gonna get a little job, some job a convict can get, like scraping off trays in a cafeteria, or cleaning out toilets, and you're gonna hold onto that job like gold, because it is gold. Let me tell you Jack, that is gold, you listenin' to me? And when the man walks in at the end of the day, and he comes to see how you done, you ain't gonna look in his eyes, you gonna look at the floor because you don't want to see that fear in his eyes when you jump up and grab his face and slam him to the floor, and make him scream and cry for his life, so you look right at the floor Jack, pay attention to what I'm sayin' motherfucker. And then he's gonna look around the room, see how you done, and he's gonna say, oh you missed a little spot over there, jeez you didn't get this one here, what about this little bitty spot? And you're gonna suck all that pain inside you and you're gonna clean that spot, and you're gonna clean that spot until you get that shiny clean. And on Friday you pick up your paycheck, and if you could do that, if you could do that you could be president of Chase Manhattan, corporations, if you could do that. 
BUCK: Not me man, I wouldn't do that kind of shit. I'd rather be in fuckin' jail. 
MANNY: More's the pity, youngster. More's the pity.


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