The Rum Diary (2011)
Johnny Depp: Kemp
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Quotes
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Paul Kemp : Oscar Wilde once said, "Nowadays, people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
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Paul Kemp : [Kemp and Sala are wandering down a pier late at night, high on hallucinogens] I thought I was losing grip in there. What did we take?
Sala : I don't know.
Paul Kemp : We need to get some more.
[Kemp stops to stare at a tank full of lobsters]
Paul Kemp : [quietly] That explains it... doesn't it?
Sala : Explains what?
Paul Kemp : The world... and us.
[he stares deep into the eyes of one particular lobster]
Paul Kemp : [voiceover] I wonder what it is you might think about our different worlds. He looked at me kinda sideways and said, "Human beings are the only creatures on Earth who claim a God, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. Does the world belong to no one but you?" And when he said it, I was taken aback. Not because of who was doing the talking. Because I finally understood the connection between children scavenging for food, and shiny brass plates on the front doors of banks.
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Moburg : Maybe I can interest you gentlemen in something else.
Paul Kemp : Like what? Death?
Moburg : Like the most powerful drug in the history of narcotics. I'm not at liberty to discuss or disclose; all I can tell you is: this stuff is so powerful, they give it to communists.
Paul Kemp : Who does?
Moburg : The FBI.
Sala : Why would the FBI get communists high?
Moburg : That I can't help you with.
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Paul Kemp : Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.
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Paul Kemp : Your tongue is like an accusatory giblet!
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Lotterman : What do you know about horoscopes?
Paul Kemp : Nothing.
Lotterman : Ah, well, if I can write one, you can. So it's every day with a special "Star's Star" featured Saturday with Betty Grable and Neil Sedaka, things like that. So here, everything you need is right there. It's called "Madam La Zonga Predicts."
Paul Kemp : What happened to Madam La Zonga?
Sala : He got canceled.
Paul Kemp : What do you mean, fired?
Lotterman : They raped him to death.
Paul Kemp : They raped him to death?
Sala : There are very few places on this island I decline to visit, but the toilets frequented by sailors on the west side of Candado Pier is one.
Paul Kemp : They raped him to death?
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Paul Kemp : Beasts of obesity. Asses that wouldn't feel an arrow. The great whites. Probably the most dangerous creatures on earth.
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Paul Kemp : Practically every major corporation hides its money offshore. And that is good news for us, because *we* are the the shore.
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Paul Kemp : Do you smell it? It's the smell of bastards. It's also the smell of truth.
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Paul Kemp : I don't know how to write like me.
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[from trailer]
Paul Kemp : We'll nail this bastard to his own front door.