Eastern Promises (2007)
Viggo Mortensen: Nikolai
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Quotes
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Anna : Why are you doing this, why are you helping us?
Nikolai Luzhin : I can't become king if someone else already sits on the throne.
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Nikolai Luzhin : Sentimental value? Ah. I heard of that.
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Anna : My uncle has gone missing, since I told you about him translating the diary.
Nikolai Luzhin : Your uncle is fine, he is in Edinburgh, in a 5-Star Hotel. I was ordered to send him to Heaven with a bullet in his brain... instead I gave him a first class ticket to Scotland. He is old-school, he understands things... exile or death.
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Nikolai Luzhin : Kirill, we don't kill little babies.
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Nikolai Luzhin : I need you to take Semyon out of the picture. I want you to arrest him.
Yuri : Arrest him for what?
Nikolai Luzhin : Rape. The girl was 14.
Yuri : And of course she will testify?
Nikolai Luzhin : She is dead, but she had Semyon's baby. If you can prove baby was his, and girl was underage, that is statutory rape. You have baby, you need Semyon's DNA. For poetic reasons, I suggest you take his blood.
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Nikolai Luzhin : Forget any of this happened. Stay away from people like me.
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Nikolai Luzhin : [referring to Soyka] Okay. Now I'm going to do his teeth and cut off his fingers. You might want to leave room.
[Nikolai motions for Azim to go away, and then puts out his cigarette on his tongue]
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Nikolai Luzhin : Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things.
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Anna : So you've read the diary. How can you keep doing what you're doing?
Nikolai Luzhin : I'm just a driver.
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Anna : Have you ever met a girl named Tatiana?
Nikolai Luzhin : I meet lot of girls named Tatiana.
Anna : She was pregnant.
Nikolai Luzhin : Ah, in that case - no, I've never heard of her.
Anna : She died on my shift.
Nikolai Luzhin : I thought you did birth?
Anna : Sometimes birth and death go together. She came in with needle punches all over both arms. Probably a prostitute, at the age of fourteen. Do you think Semyon's son knew her?
Nikolai Luzhin : [growing agitated] I am driver. I go left, I go right, I go straight ahead - that's it.
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Nikolai Luzhin : Sometimes, if things are closed, you just, open them up.
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Nikolai Luzhin : [to Kirilenko] Stay alive a little longer.
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[repeated line]
Nikolai Luzhin : I'm the driver.
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Nikolai Luzhin : [Kissing Anna goodbye] Dasvidaniya, Anna Inanovna.
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Semyon : Soyka had brothers.
Nikolai Luzhin : Kirill has me.
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[after thawing Soyka's corpse]
Nikolai Luzhin : [to Azim] Are you finished cutting his hair?
[Nikolai takes out Soyka's frozen wallet]
Nikolai Luzhin : I thought you might want $6.50 from his pocket.
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Nikolai Luzhin : So what do you care? Slaves give birth to slaves.
