The Guard (2011)

Mark Strong: Clive Cornell

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• Gerry Stanton : [while Clive Cornell is handing the bent coppers a briefcase of money]  It's all there, yeah?

  Clive Cornell : Excuse me?

  Gerry Stanton : It's all there?

  Clive Cornell : No, it's not. I've skimmed a couple of grand off the top.

  Gerry Stanton : What?

  Clive Cornell : 'Course it's fucking all there. This is the pay-off, yeah? We pay you off, you and your pals keep your fucking noses out of our business. That's the dynamic in this situation. Why the fuck would I then cheat you out your money? Eh? Why would I do that? That doesn't make any sense. That'd defeat the entire purpose of the fucking interaction. Fuck me!

  [walks away angrily] 

• Clive Cornell : [at the aquarium]  I like sharks. They're soothing.

• Clive Cornell : I fuckin' hate bent coppers, I swear to God.

  Francis Sheehy : Did they try something?

  Clive Cornell : No, they didn't try something.

  Liam O'Leary : What's the problem, then?

  Clive Cornell : I'm just fuckin' sick and tired of the kind of people we have to deal with in this business.

  Liam O'Leary : What do you expect? We're drug traffickers.

• Clive Cornell : [loading in drug shipment]  Where the fuck did you find those three?

  Francis Sheehy : Oh, I put an ad in the paper saying, "Henchmen wanted."

• Clive Cornell : It's not often you come across that kind of integrity in our business. Yeah, we can't have that.

  Francis Sheehy : [looking at O'Leary]  We'll have to make sure he's out of harm's way.

  Liam O'Leary : Why's it always me, though?

  Clive Cornell : Because you're a psychopath.

  Liam O'Leary : I'm a sociopath, not a psychopath. They explained that to me.

  Francis Sheehy : What's the difference?

  Liam O'Leary : Don't know. It's a tricky one.

• Francis Sheehy : [dropping his binoculars]  Nothing. Tomorrow night's sell, we're good to go.

  [thumbs up] 

  Clive Cornell : I fuckin' hate that.

  Francis Sheehy : What?

  Clive Cornell : Americanisms. "Good to go."