Belfast (2021)

Jamie Dornan: Pa

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• Buddy : Daddy, do you think me and that wee girl have a future?

  Pa : Well, why the heck not?

  Buddy : You know she's Catholic?

  Pa : .... That wee girl can be a practicing Hindu, or a Southern Baptist, or a vegetarian Antichrist, but if she's kind, and she's fair and you two respect each other, she and her people are welcome in our house any day of the week. Agreed?

• Pa : Be good. And if you can't be good...

  Buddy : Be careful!

• Billy Clanton : The problem with people like you is that you think you're better than everyone.

  Pa : The problem with people like you is that you know you're not.

• Ma : [sitting with family in movie theater watching buxom women in skimpy prehistoric garb]  No wonder you brought us to this.

  Pa : It's educational for the boys.

  Ma : Aye. Raquel Welch is a hell of an education.

• Pa : It's a mad world.

  Frankie West : Well get used to it, we all live there now.

• Ma : You and me, we've known each other since we were toddlers. We've known this street and every street round it all our lives. And every man, woman and child that lives in every bloody house, whether we like it or not. I like it. And you say you've a wee garden for them boys? But here, they can play wherever the hell they like, 'cause everybody knows them, everybody likes them and everybody looks after them. If we go over the water, them people's not gonna understand a word we say. And half of them, they'll take the hand out of us for sounding different. And the other half, they'll hate us 'cause men here are killing their young sons on our streets. They'll think we don't give a shite. And you think they're gonna welcome us with open arms? What, and say, 'Come on in. Well done for stealing the house off of us'?

  Pa : Things change.

  Ma : Aye. They do.

• Billy Clanton : We'll keep it simple. You're with us or you're against us. Clock's ticking. You're a soft touch! Time for real Protestants to step up!

  Pa : Ach, you're no real Protestant. You're a jumped-up gangster and always were.

• Buddy : They're my chips!

  Pa : What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my own.

  Buddy : Granny says that. What does that even mean?

  Pa : You'll find out.

• Pa : And do you know where that is? Sydney.

  Will : Australia?

  Pa : Aye, that's right. Do you know about it?

  Will : Aye. They've got surfing and weird football. And they have kangaroos on the barbecue.

• Buddy : Was that our side that done all that to them Catholic houses in our street, Daddy?

  Pa : There is no our side and their side in our street. Or there didn't used to be, anyway. It's all bloody religion. That's the problem.

  Buddy : Then why are you sending us to church?

  Pa : Because your granny'd kill me if I didn't.

• Pa : Aren't you a silver-tongued charmer.

  Mrs Ford : It takes one to know one.

• Buddy : That was a lot of people that came to see him today.

  Pa : Aye. He was very popular. And he owed half of them money.

• Pa : You let them go now.

  Billy Clanton : No, I think if I do, one of them soldiers is gonna take my head off.

  Pa : If they don't, I will.

  Billy Clanton : Over their dead bodies.

• Pa : We could take trips back.

  Ma : And pay for it with what, Scotch mist?

• Pa : So the doctor says, 'Listen, John, I've got some bad news and worse.' And John says, 'Oh, no. What's the bad news?' And he goes, 'Well, you've only got 24 hours to live.' John says, 'That's, that's awful. What could be worse than that?' Doctor says, 'Well, I've been trying to get ahold of you since yesterday.'

• Pa : Whoo. You like that? How's that, then, Ginger Rogers, huh?

  Ma : Whoo. Come on you, Fred Astaire.

• Pa : Does that mean you and me have to start going to confession?

  Buddy : Probably.

  Pa : That's us two in trouble, then.

• Pa : You know, whatever happens, what you've done with these two, it's phenomenal.

  Ma : What are you talking about?

  Pa : You raised them. Not me. Not us. You.

• Buddy : Daddy, are you not gonna be a vigilante on our barricade?

  Pa : No more talk about bloody barricades. That whole nonsense will stop soon enough.

  Ma : I wouldn't be too sure about that.

  Pa : Hey, less of the long face, son. These two can go and pray for it to stop now, and we'll all go to the big picture house in town tomorrow, Daddy will pick the film, and we'll forget about this whole bunch of eejits before I have to go back to work.

• Pa : This is the time to think about making a new start.

  Ma : I know nothing else but Belfast.

  Pa : Exactly. There's a whole world out there. We can give these boys a better chance than we ever had. There's Commonwealth countries needing tradesmen. The government will give you assisted passage. We can get the whole family to the other side of the world for ten pound. We're living in a civil war.

• Ma : You bugger! Oh, you're a lying bugger!

  Pa : Aye, that's right, believe the taxman before you believe me!

  Ma : 'Cause I know you!

• Pa : Well, how'd it go with this?

  Buddy , Catherine : We got a gold star.

  Pa : Ah, good on yous!

• Pa : Kids the same age as ours are getting killed around the corner.

  Ma : Well, we'll be careful.

  Pa : You can't be with them 24 hours a day. You can't take away their childhood, either.

• Pa : Look, mind your nonsense for now, and I'll take youse all to the pictures tomorrow.

  Buddy : Brilliant! Robin and the 7 Hoods is on in the afternoon at the Capitol. Paddy saw it.

  Ma : Wait, is that gangsters?

  Will : It's a blinking musical.

  Buddy : No, it's not. There's Little John and swords and everything.

• Pa : [singing]  Hearts gone astray, Leaving hurt when they go, I went away, Just when you need me so, You won't regret, I come back begging you, Won't you forget, Welcome love we once knew, Open up your eyes, then you realize, Here I stand with my everlasting love...

• Pa : How do I get to the moon with only ten pound, three leaky umbrellas, and my bus pass?

• Pa : Moondance at seven-to-two. Has to win, don't you think?