The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Michael Douglas: Charles Remington
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Quotes
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John Patterson : Have you ever failed?
Charles Remington : Only at life.
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Charles Remington : Oh, you're right. The devil has come to Tsavo. Look at me! I am the devil.
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Charles Remington : Well, I'm a very considerate man. My mother taught me that.
[Samuel laughs]
Charles Remington : Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate?
Samuel : I don't believe you had a mother.
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[after they discover the Lion's Den filled with skeletons, and are terrified]
Charles Remington : Lions don't do this. Lions... never had a lair like this. They're doing it for the pleasure.
John Patterson : They'll know we've been here.
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John Patterson : You don't enjoy killing, do you?
[Remington ignores the question by taking a swig from his flask]
Hawthorne : Then why do it?
Charles Remington : Because I've got a gift.
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Charles Remington : We have an expression in prize fighting: "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit." Well my friend, you've just been hit. The getting up is up to you.
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Hawthorne : I wouldn't have thought bravery would be a problem for you.
Charles Remington : Well, you hope each time it won't be... But you never really know.
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Charles Remington : [melancholy] My life was shaped because someone invented gunpowder, and that's what took me around the world. But the memory that I wanted, that was the family that I lost.
John Patterson : You know Charles, you're a rather cheerful fellow when you get to know you.
[all start laughing]
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Abdullah : [gun to his head] I am a man of peace!
Charles Remington : You sound like a man who wants to live.