We're No Angels (1989)

Sean Penn: Jim

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• Jim : [as Father Brown, he is asked to give a sermon to the town. He reads from a brochure stuck in his Bible that says "An Encounter with a Bear"]  Have you ever felt completely alone? Alone in a world of danger, and no one to rely on? Danger on every hand, in a world fraught with danger? And at the brink of death I felt in my pocket, and what did I find? What did I find?

  [Opens the brochure - it's an ad for guns] 

  Jim : What did I find? Nothing. There's nothing there. It's all in your head. They can take the money from you. They can take the position from you. I don't know, they can whip you, people turn their back on you. Everything happens to every body. And you ain't gonna find nothing in your pocket can stave it off, nothing can stave it off! Pain, affliction, we say, power. Power doesn't do it. Cause you never have enough. Money? I don't know, you know anybody has enough, still? Trouble befalls us, everyone has their sadness in their heart. Some people are meant to be hard. I don't know. It just seems like they are. We meet them.

  [holds up his Bible] 

  Jim : Is God good? I don't know. All I know is something might give you comfort. And maybe you deserve it. If it comforts you to believe in God, you do it, that's your business. People have guilty, you know, guilty secrets, well if that's yours, that you want to go believe in something, well that's not so bad.

  [the town claps and cheers] 

• Jim : The guy's going to die and that's it?

  Ned : What's your question?

  Jim : That that's the end of it? That he goes in that room...

  Ned : That he goes in that room and they light him up and that's the end of it. There's no eternal life for his soul and the cruelty of the world? Is that the thing? Is that your problem this fine evening?

  Jim : Yes.

  Ned : Why don't you talk to the chaplain?

  Jim : I'm talking to you!

• Jim : What's this?

  Young Monk : You don't know what that is?

  Jim : No.

  Young Monk : It's a clothespin.

  Jim : But, Father, why - why were you wearing it in your collar?

  Young Monk : Uh, uh, the thing of it is - is - you know what it is?

  Young Monk : No.

  Jim : It's a - reminder. Any of us could be snatched at any moment.

  Young Monk : Of course!

• Ned : Now, a dash across the river, and it's Free Street, baby.

  Jim : I'm with you, Neddy.

  Ned : Some booze and some broads and this country can kiss my ass!