Quotes from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Boobs give us many useful things. Boobs give us milk, cheese... breasts nourish our young until the age where we can go out and hunt for them.

Birdie Jay: "I didn't even know that that word referred to Jewish people. I thought it was a generic term for 'cheap'."
Peg: "'Jewy'?"

He sends me his ideas that I'm supposed to...- You know what, you tell me: Genius or insanity?
"Uber for biospheres." I don't know. Okay. Maybe?
"AI in dogs equals discourse." Okay? I mean, all night long, they just keep...- But then, remember?
"Child equals NFT." We all laughed, but then the Crypto Kids app paid for this building.

Genius always looks like insanity at first.

My dear friends, my beautiful disruptors, my closest inner circle, we could use a moment of normalcy. And so you are cordially invited for a long weekend on my private island where we will celebrate the bonds that connect us, and I hope your puzzle-solving skills are whetted. Because you will also be competing to solve the mystery of my murder.

Everything is so woke these days, it's out of control.

Birdie: "This can't Shazam. It's a lamp!"
Claire: "I love you, Birdie."

Ladies and gentlemen, you expected a mystery. You expected a puzzle. But for one person on this island, this is not a game.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

If you have the power to eat alone in a restaurant, or sit alone in a cinema, then you have the power to do absolutely anything you want in life.

I worship Jürgen Klopp, so yes. He's a leader, he's kind of way beyond James Bond really.

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

And a little bird has told me, how should I put this delicately? You have a regurgitive reaction to mistruthing.

Marta Cabrera: "You're not much of a detective, are you?"
Benoit Blanc: "Well, to be fair, you make a pretty lousy murderer."

There is so much of me in that kid: confident, stupid, playing life like a game.

Benoit Blanc: "I'm here because someone dodged a very important question."
Elliot: "Who?"
Benoit Blanc: "Me."

Benoit Blanc: "It's a twisted web. And we're not finished untangling it, not yet."
Ransom: "What is this? CSI: KFC?"

Joni Thrombey: "Can we ask why? Has something changed?"
Benoit Blanc: "No."
Joni Thrombey: "No, it hasn't changed, or, No, we can't ask?"

Why is grief the providence of youth? I don't know. But I'd imagine that age deepens all feelings.

The family is truly desperate. And when people get desperate, the knives come out.

Meine Anwesenheit wird dekorativer Natur sein. Sie erleben mich als respektvollen, ruhigen, passiven Beobachter der Wahrheit.

Hey, if you got a second - stop staring at my boobs!

Even in the darkness, diamonds still shine.

Why would anyone want to be a pirate? It's the best thing there is. Wind in your back. The salty sea air. Loyal crew by your side.

What if everything that came from the past were influenced by the future?

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Don't exploit an advantage just because it emerges; wait until the optimal moment, then strike.

Ats Ayittey: "Excuse me but this is the quiet carriage."
Stefan Tovell: "Shut the f*ck up then."

"Hey. Do you like bad boys?"
"Sure do. Let me know if you find one."

Marcus: "My bike. It's gone. She took it."
Max: "So that's like Grand Theft Auto. Or Grand Theft Bike."

Aimee: "Did you know you need, like, sugar and flour and an oven to bake? And you don't shove it all in, you have to follow alle these rules."
Maeve: "Yeah, it's called a recipe."

I think love should come out of nowhere, sweep you up completely.

The people's rage. It is like an illness, an ulcer. And ulcers must be cauterized.

People say Hawkins is cursed. They're not way off.

Weems: "No doubt you'll find something that tickles your fancy."
Wednesday: "The last person who tickled me lost a finger."

I'm responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast!