Lord of War Quotes

Lord of War is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Lord of War completed its run in 1970.

It features Nicolas Cage, Norm Golightly, Andy Grosch, Christopher Eberts; Chris Roberts, Philippe Rousselet, and Andrew Niccol as producer, Antônio Pinto (composer) in charge of musical score, and Amir Mokri as head of cinematography.

Lord of War is recorded in English and originally aired in United States, and Germany. Each episode of Lord of War is 121 minutes long. Lord of War is distributed by Lionsgate Films.

The cast includes: Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlov, Eamonn Walker as Andre Baptiste Sr., Ethan Hawke as Jack Valentine, Bridget Moynahan as Ava Fontaine, Sammi Rotibi as Andre Baptiste Jr., Ian Holm as Simeon Weisz, Jared Leto as Vitaly Orlov, Yevgeni Lazarev as General Dmitri, Nicolas Cage as Irina Orlov, Liya Kebede as Faith, and Jasmine Sais Burgess as Gloria.

Lord of War Quotes

Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlov

• (Nicolas Cage) "I think I've been cursed, with the curse of invincibility."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I never sold to Osama bin Laden, not on any moral grounds, back then he was always bouncing checks"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Despite the other women, I always made love to Ava as if she was the only one."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Stop f***ing around. I want to talk to you, you read the newspaper? Everyday there's people shooting each other, you know what I do when I see that? I look to see what guns their using and I ask myself "why not my guns?""
• (Jared Leto) "Are you going to open up a gun shop?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "There are probably more of those in America than MacDonald's, even with all the gangsters around here the margins are too low"
• (Jared Leto) "You've worked out the margins?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Yeah forget gang wars the real money is in actual wars between countries, I made the first sale, we're already in business"
• (Jared Leto) "We?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I need a partner, I need you, we're brothers in arms"

• (Nicolas Cage) "How are you brother?"
• (Jared Leto) "I'm still the resident family f*** up."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Someone has to be."
• (Jared Leto) "She knows right? What you do, how you pay for all this? I didn't want to say anything."
• (Nicolas Cage) "She doesn't have to know, she understands she's a survivor like me."
• (Jared Leto) "She maybe a survivor but she's not like you, she really doesn't know how you pay for all this?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "We don't talk about it. How many car salesmen talk about their work? How many cigarette salesmen talk about their work? Both their products kill more people every year than mine, at least mime comes with a safety switch. Those guys can leave their work at the office, so can I."
• (Jared Leto) "My God you are good, you almost had me convinced."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Vitaly broke the cardinal rule of gun running. Never pickup a gun and join the customers."

• (Nicolas Cage) "You don't have to worry. I'm not gonna tell you a pack of lies to make me look good. I'm just gonna tell you what happened."

• (Nicolas Cage) "My son's birthday unlocked what the government would later describe, as a catalog of carnage."

• (Nicolas Cage) "What?"
• (Jared Leto) "We can't do this deal."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Why the f*** not? What's the matter with you?"
• (Jared Leto) "If we hand over those guns those people are going to die."
• (Nicolas Cage) "It's not our business."
• (Jared Leto) "They just killed a boy that was as young as Nicky."
• (Nicolas Cage) "It's what we've always known we can't control what they do."
• (Jared Leto) "Today we can."
• (Nicolas Cage) "What do you think they'll do to us if we back out? They'll kill us."
• (Jared Leto) "If we go ahead with the deal what'd you think they'll do to them?"

• (Borneo Officer) "We're with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Let me guess -- this isn't about the alcohol or tobacco."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm sorry I know it must be tough"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "It would be nice to have a couple more guests from my side of the family"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm sure your parents are watching right now"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "Thank you, but you don't believe that, remember? I know you, I know you're not everything you say you are. I don't want to ask a lot of questions I don't want to hear you lie, you take risks just promise me you won't risk us"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947. More commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I now shared even more in common with the leader of that country God seemed to have forsaken. We saw something in each other neither one of us liked, or maybe we were just looking in the mirror."

• (Nicolas Cage) "At 4 1/2 months old, a human fetus has a reptile's tail; a remnant of our evolution. Maybe that's what I couldn't escape. You can fight a lot of enemies and survive. But if you fight your biology, you will always lose."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Any friend of my brothers' is a -- a friend of my brothers'."

• (Nicolas Cage) "This is bulls*** money, this is small f***ing potatoes."
• (Jared Leto) "What'd do you want to do? Go more legit?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "No, more illegal."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I don't know how much Ava really knew or how much she ignored. She never asked why a guy in the transport business could afford to give her eighteen karat diamond ear rings I guess she didn't really want to hear the answer. She seemed content that I was a good provider and as far she was concerned: loyal"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Selling a gun for the first time is a lot like having sex for the first time. You're excited but you don't really know what the hell you're doing. And some way, one way or another, it's over too fast."

• (Nicolas Cage) "You can fight a lot of enemies and survive, but not your biology."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I have been running away from violence my whole life. I should have been running towards it. It's in our nature. Earliest human skeletons had spearheads in their heads and ribcages."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I thought you were watching out for these people?"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "How can I? You keep selling my helicopters you're too greedy. I can't hold him forever"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I've got paperwork"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "Not for the gun ships, selling military helicopters is a major violation"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Military helicopter, it's not a military helicopter, it's a "rescue" helicopter, the law is on our side"
• (Ethan Hawke) "You're always in the wrong place at the right time we've met before off the coast of Colombia what was the name of that freighter "Kono" or Kristol?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "The crew called that vessel a lot of names"
• (Ethan Hawke) "I need to see your papers"
• (Ethan Hawke) "you type this up yourself?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "The helicopter is to be used on humanitarian missions"
• (Ethan Hawke) "So you're a humanitarian?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Absolutely"
• (Ethan Hawke) "This is a military aircraft"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Not anymore, what can they do with military hardware but convert it into civilian use"
• (Ethan Hawke) "And this stuff over here?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "That's going to a different client at a different address"
• (Ethan Hawke) "So that's just a coincidence is that it? Do you take me for a complete f***ing fool?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Not complete, while I hesitate to tell you your job I must point out when shipped separately the weapons and aircraft comply with the current Interpol trade standards and practices"
• (Ethan Hawke) "We both that is an obscene bureaucratic loophole that's going to be closed any God damn day"
• (Nicolas Cage) "But it's not closed and there are men like you who respect the rule of law"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Some of the most successful relationships are based on lies and deceit. Since that's where they usually end up anyway, it's a logical place to start."

• (Nicolas Cage) ""beware of the dog"? You don't have a dog. Are you trying to scare people?"
• (Jared Leto) "No, it's to scare me; remind me to beware the dog in me. The dog who wants to f*** everything that moves, wants to fight and kill weaker dogs."

• (Nicolas Cage) "When I was a boy, my family came to America -- but not all the way. Like most Ukrainians, we congregated in Brighton Beach. It reminded us of the Black Sea. I soon realized we just swapped one hell for another."

• (Nicolas Cage) "It was the eighties and The Cold War was far from thawed, most of the deals were government to government and it was a mostly private club with a lifetime club president"

• (Nicolas Cage) "They say every man has his price but not every man gets it Interpol Agent Jack Valentine couldn't be bought, at least not with money, for jack glory was his 'price, most importantly I kept a number of intelligence people on the payroll to supply their colleagues with "counter intelligence.""

• (Nicolas Cage) "Even in hell, an angel sometimes makes an appearance. I've worshiped Ava Fontaine since I was ten years old, of course she didn't know I existed and I was starting to realize why."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Even before that night I started doing a lot of cocaine in West Africa. I never tried "Brown-brown" before but then I never killed a man either. I started to feel I've been cursed"

• (Nicolas Cage) "What was he doing here?"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "He was hoping to beat your offer, I told him to go have intercourse with himself"
• (Nicolas Cage) "You need to make more payoffs"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "Too many payoffs"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Don't worry, there more VCR's and cigarettes I left them in your car"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "Even your enemy was admiring your car, I'm the luckiest man alive"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Yes you are"

• (Nicolas Cage) "the pillaging didn't die with my uncle. After the wall came down thirty two billion dollars worth of arms were stolen and resold from Ukraine alone: one of the greatest heists of the twentieth century. I did the bulk of my business in Liberia "land of the free," originally established as a homeland for freed American slaves and has been enslaved by one dictator after another, since then, the latest dictator is American educated self-declared president Andre Baptiste Sr."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Vitaly, I need you to get out of the car I promised our parents, you're going to have a great time two Ford models checked in here last week and that cute weather girl has been here since July."

• (Nicolas Cage) "After the Cold War, the AK-47 became Russia's biggest export. After that came vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists."

• (Nicolas Cage) "the primary market was Africa, Eleven major conflicts involving twenty three countries in less than a decade. A gunrunner's wet dream. At the time the West couldn't care less, they had a white war in what was left of Yugoslavia."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Enjoy it."
• (Ethan Hawke) "What?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "This. Tell me I'm everything you despise. That I'm the personification of evil. That I'm what- responsible for the breakdown of the fabric of society and world order. I'm a one-man genocide. Say everything you want to say to me now. Because you don't have long."

• (Nicolas Cage) "The second rule of gun-running is always ensure you have a foolproof way of getting paid."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I am not a fool. I know that just because they needed me that day didn't mean they wouldn't make me a scapegoat the next."

• (Nicolas Cage) "try to get paid preferably in advance ideally to an offshore account, that's why I choose my customers so carefully, say what you like about warlords and dictators they tend to have a highly developed sense of order they always pay their bills on time"

• (Nicolas Cage) "The first and most important rule of gun-running is: Never get shot with your own merchandise."

• (Nicolas Cage) "What a cargo crew at Heathrow Airport does in a day, took a bunch of malnourished Sierra Leonean locals ten minutes."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I don't know how much Ava really knew or how much she ignored. She never asked how a guy in the transport could afford to give her eighteen karat diamond ear rings. I guess she didn't really want to hear the answer, she seemed content that I was a good provider and as far she was concerned: loyal"

• (Nicolas Cage) "What the f*** are you doing here?"
• (Eamonn Walker) "We're here for peace talks at the United Nations."
• (Nicolas Cage) "So at the same time you'd drop in on your arms dealer?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "We began to wonder where you went. You became a hard man to get a hold of, all of a sudden. It is a shame, my son and I were hoping to do some shopping while we are here in New York. These peace talks have made it very hard for us to supply arms, so it requires a man of your rare ingenuity."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I can't help you, I'm sorry."
• (Eamonn Walker) "I understand, but due to our current situation, we are prepared to be unusually generous."
• (Sammi Rotibi) "You still haven't brought me the gun of Rambo."
• (Eamonn Walker) "I will see you soon "Lord of War"."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I was so caught up in the deal, I never realized what was going on in Vitaly's head. Come to think about it, maybe I never really understood what was going on inside his head. One thing I do understand for certain is that Vitaly broke the cardinal rule of gun running: never pick up a gun and join the customers. Only half the guns and ammunition was gone so I was still entitled to half the diamonds,if I took them I was lost, if I left them I was still lost. The massacre played out exactly how Vitaly predicted but then half a dozen massacres happened Sierra Leone that week you can't stop them all, in my experience you can't stop any of them"

• (Nicolas Cage) "My wealth caught up to my lies about my wealth, even surpassed my lies. I could even afford to be patron of the arts."

• (Nicolas Cage) "They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails.""

• (Nicolas Cage) "He was selling guns before there was gun powder"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Mr. Weisz, a mutual friend, Eli Kurtsman from Brighton Beach import export said to contact you. I have business proposal that I thought we can perhaps discuss."
• (Ian Holm) "I don't think you and I are in the same business, you think I just sell guns don't you? I don't take sides"
• (Nicolas Cage) "But in the Iran Iraq war you sold guns to both sides"
• (Ian Holm) "Did you ever consider I wanted both sides to lose? You're in the wrong place my young friend, there's no place for amateurs"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Can I go now? You got nothing on me. Except cuffs."

• (Anatoly Orlov) "Is this how you want to be remembered?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I don't want to be remembered at all. If I'm being remembered, it means I'm dead."

• (Nicolas Cage) "You look a little lost is the world changing too fast?"
• (Ian Holm) "I'm here aren't I?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Not all of you I don't think, you've gotten so rich selling for the CIA that you can't seem to get that ideology out of your head"
• (Ian Holm) "The Cold War had its uses, it kept the tensions frozen, now it's harder to determine which side to go on, and things have become complicated"
• (Nicolas Cage) "No it's gotten simpler there's no place in gun running for politics"
• (Ian Holm) "This current state of chaos could last forever there has to be order instead of cutting each other's throats maybe it would be beneficial if we work together what'd you think?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I think you're the amateur now I think you should go with your instincts, your first instinct"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Hello darling."
• (Bridget Moynahan) "Hey baby, did you forget what time it is?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm sorry, how was your audition?"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "They're going in another direction: with someone who can act, is everything ok?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "They don't deserve you, it was a rough day at the office"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "When are you coming home?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Soon, how's Nicky?"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "Misses you we both do, it's lonely without you here you know I don't like nights ever since my parents."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I just wanted to call and hear your voice kiss Nicky for me."
• (Bridget Moynahan) "I love you."

• (Nicolas Cage) "What brings you to Saint Barthélemy?"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "Photo shoot, at least that was the plan I guess the photographer got stuck in Miami, hurricane though there's nothing on the news"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Those things can come out of nowhere"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "So, the job's been canceled so wouldn't you know it there's no flights back to New York until Tuesday"
• (Nicolas Cage) "You can hitch a ride with me if you'd like I'm leaving tomorrow, meanwhile why don't I take your picture?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I had no idea I'm sorry I didn't recognize you"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "Don't apologize I put clothes on for a living"
• (Nicolas Cage) "At least you're not taking them off"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "They would be if half the photographers had their way what'd you do for a living?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm in transport international airfreight mostly"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "Business looks good, where are you from?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I was born in the Ukraine but grew up in Brooklyn what about you?"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "Williamsburg"
• (Nicolas Cage) "If it weren't for that hurricane without it I never would've met you"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "This is not accident is it? It feels like fate"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I don't believe in fate"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "What do you believe in?"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Valentine wasn't the only one trying to put me out of business my uncle had turned down half a dozen rival arms dealers sometimes with offers better than mine but to Dmitri: you couldn't put a price on loyalty"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Growing up in Little Odessa murder was an everyday part of life Russian mobsters had migrated from the Soviet Union and when they came to America their violence came with them, there was always some gangster getting wacked in my neighborhood but I've never seen it with my own eyes I had this knack of showing up five minutes before something went down or five minutes after but not that day, it hit me it couldn't have hit me harder if I was the one who was shot, you go into the restaurant business because people are always going to have to eat that was the day I realized my destiny was laid to fulfill another basic human need"

• (Nicolas Cage) "There are two types of tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm not saying I didn't have setbacks. It's not called "gunrunning" for nothing. You've gotta be fast on your feet. Some revolutions blow over before the guns even get there. There's nothing more expensive for an arms dealer than peace."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Truce? What do you mean, truce, the guns are already on their way -- Peace talks -- All right, forget it. I'll reroute the shipment to the Balkans. When they say they're going to have a war, they keep their word."

• (Nicolas Cage) "You read the newspapers, Vit?"
• (Jared Leto) "Newspaper? It's always the same."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You're right. Every day there's people shooting each other. You know what I do when I see that? I look to see what guns they're using and I think to myself, why not my guns?"

• (Nicolas Cage) "A new breed of gun runner requires a new breed of a cop, he knew he didn't have to guard me, There was nowhere to go or maybe he was hoping the locals would tear me apart but they were too busy with the plane. It's like parking your car in certain neighborhoods in the Bronx, you just don't do it."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Where there's a will, there's a weapon."

• (Nicolas Cage) "For the first twenty odd years of my life Little Odessa was to me what it was to the Q train: the end of the line, oh I did lie about my name, it's not really "Yuri Orlov" there have been a few occasions in the twentieth century where it's been an advantage to be a Jew but in the seventies to escape the Soviet Union our family pretended to be Jewish, little about my life has been "kosher" since, my younger brother was just as lost as me, he just didn't know it yet, my father took his assumed identity to heart, he was more Jewish than most Jews which drove my Catholic mother crazy"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Selling guns is like selling vacuum cleaners you make calls "pound the pavement", take orders, by the mid-eighties my weapons were represented in eight of the world's top ten war zones, there's no problem living a double life it's the triple and quadruple lives that get you in the end,back then I carried a French, British, Israeli and Ukrainian passport and a student visa for the U.S. but that's another story. I also packed six different briefcases depending who I was that day and which region of the world I was visiting"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Most people are happy just to get out of jail. I expect to be paid to leave."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I was guilty as sin, but Valentine couldn't prove it. And he was the rarest breed of law enforcement officer. The type who knew I was breaking the law, but wouldn't break it himself to bust me."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I was the same man who was not good enough for you before, and I'm just not good enough for you now."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I was still living way beyond my means mortgaged to the hill using one credit card to pay off another, anything to keep Ava in the style to which she had, thanks largely to me, become accustomed to. Then suddenly all my Christmases came at once, whoever said it's better to receive never got a Christmas present like the one I got in 1991 from Mikhail Gorbachev. during the Cold War, the Red Army stationed nearly one million troops in the Ukraine because of its strategic military importance. The day after the wall came down the paychecks stopped coming. I was hoping Major General Dmitri Volkov would open a lot of armory doors and a lot of military bases for me for a start, he was family he was a highly decorated officer of the Red Army and was almost permanently s*** faced."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Ava looked at me directly in the eyes, in the same way I've looked in the eyes of thousands of customs officials, government bureaucrats, and law enforcement agents and she lied without flinching because she learned from the best. I can always sense when I'm being tailed. I know what to look for but then I've never been tailed by the woman I love."

• (Nicolas Cage) "The next Sabbath I went to temple with my father but it wasn't God I was trying to get close to. My contact at synagogue landed me my first Israeli made Uzi sub machine gun. I did have a natural instinct for smuggling contraband, fortunately back then a video camera was as big as a Bazooka"

• (Nicolas Cage) "The only option for Vitaly and I was "under the counter gun running", I got my first break in Lebanon after the suicide bombing but I wasn't the only local kid making good, when the United States leaves a war zone they generally don't take their munitions because it costs more to bring it back than buy new stock"

• (Nicolas Cage) "I had a flair for languages. But I soon discovered that what talks best is dollars, dinars, drachmas, rubles, rupees and pounds f***ing sterling."

• (Nicolas Cage) "The ones who know don't care anymore, and the ones who care don't know."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Most people are happy just get out of jail, I expect to be paid to leave but I was back: doing what I do best"

• (Nicolas Cage) "I have a feeling it wasn't exactly what Comrade Lenin had in mind when he advocated the redistribution of wealth. But I wasn't the only one offering a crash course in capitalism."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Even when I was up against an overzealous agent, I had a number of methods for discouraging a search. I routinely mislabeled my shipments "farm machinery." And I have yet to meet the lowly-paid customs official who will open a container marked "radioactive waste" to verify its contents. But my personal favorite is the unique combination of week-old potatoes and tropical heat."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I sell to leftists, and rightists. I sell to pacifists, but they're not the most regular customers. Of course, you're not a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen."

• (Nicolas Cage) "President Baptiste was my best customer but I was in no hurry to meet him. He had a reputation for routinely hacking off the limbs of those who opposed him. His seven year civil war has been described as a "sadistic relentless campaign of want and violence." That sums up Andy for me, If I thought I was scared of Andre Sr., I knew I was scared of Andre Jr., Like father like son. The guava doesn't fall too far from the tree. He was also a cannibal, they say Andre Jr. would eat a victim's heart while it was still beating: to give him super human strength, Monrovia itself it was like being on another planet, "planet Monrovia," from the temperature it was obviously a planet close to the sun. I rarely saw another white man and I never left town alone, outside of the town was the edge of hell. I didn't even want to gaze into it"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Oh, the new MP-5. Would you like a silencer for that?"

• (Nicolas Cage) "What's wrong?"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "I can't wear the clothes, I can't wear the jewelry, I can't drive the car, and I can't live in this house: everything's got "blood" on it."
• (Nicolas Cage) ""Blood" on it? What's the matter with you? Don't be so melodramatic."
• (Bridget Moynahan) "Don't be so melodramatic?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I told you it's political their liars, they lie they lie to make themselves look good, you can't trust them"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "It's not just them, don't worry. I didn't say anything to your family"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I sell people the means to "defend," themselves that's all"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "I see the news, the guns are bigger than the boys, please stop"
• (Nicolas Cage) "it doesn't matter if I stop, someone will take my place the next day"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "So let them"

• (Nicolas Cage) "What is this?"
• (Eamonn Walker) "A gift, he was trying to replace you"
• (Ian Holm) "I'm not here to supply his enemies, I'm here to supply his friends"
• (Eamonn Walker) "He killed your blood: your uncle, when he tried to kill you"
• (Nicolas Cage) "No"
• (Eamonn Walker) "No? You take part to have men killed but you don't want to do it yourself"
• (Nicolas Cage) "No"
• (Eamonn Walker) "This will be a bonding experience"

• (Nicolas Cage) "In the most AIDS-infested region of the globe; where 1 in 4 is infected; Andy's idea of a joke was to put a young Iman and a young Naomi in my bed; and no condom within a hundred miles."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I miss your Borscht, mom and dad say you're clean"
• (Jared Leto) "Yeah that's right, you've gone legit? That's hard to believe"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Because it's not true I'm leaving tonight on a job"
• (Jared Leto) "I can't, I have a girlfriend and I think she might be the one plus I'm thinking of opening my own place"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Maybe this will trip will help, its good money"
• (Jared Leto) "I've given my word"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Nobody has to know, we'll tell everyone we're going for a little R and R"
• (Jared Leto) "What do you need me for all of a sudden?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Everything's f***ed up more than usual. I can't trust anybody, I need you to watch my back"

• (Nicolas Cage) "The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I do rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of these men are the enemies of your enemies. And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss; the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year; sometimes it's embarrassing to have his fingerprints on the guns. Sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying. So. You call me evil, but unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names; Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other -- I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Those forty five years of mutual hatred between the east and west generated the highest weapons buildup in history. The soviets had guns coming out of the "demon hole", high stock piles now no enemy. The end of The Cold War was the beginning of the hottest time in arms dealing, the arms bazaar was open, guided missiles, unguided missiles, Mortars, Mines, armored personnel carriers whole tank divisions I even landed a squadron of helicopter gunships: the most sophisticated fighting machines built for a war that never happened, thanks to me they finally get to fire a shot in anger"

• (Nicolas Cage) "There's nothing better for an arms dealer than a combination of disgruntled soldiers and warehouses full of weapons."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Thank God there are still legal ways to exploit developing countries. The only problem with an honest buck is they're so hard to make; the margins are too low, too many people are doin' it."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Of course the U.S. army got a piece of the action army salaries were no better in the eighties than they are today and some of the brass like Lieutenant Colonel Southern needed to raise money for their own "private wars.""

• (Nicolas Cage) "From then on I was a one man operation. I never understood what separated the recreational drug user from the habitual drug user but for the grace of God it could've been me snorting lines as long as the Belt Parkway. However I wasn't entirely free of addiction myself, in my neighborhood the good get out, in our own ways we conquered our own worlds. It cost me twenty grand to book her for a fake photo shoot, another twelve to buy out the hotel. I nearly went broke trying to convince her I was anything but, I knew Ava wasn't the kind of woman that would seduced by a ride in a private jet unless you owned the jet, the plane was a rental, like the car and the suit I was standing in. At the last minute I bribed the crew for the paint job, luckily by the time we landed she wasn't looking anywhere but in my eyes"

• (Anatoly Orlov) "How many times did I tell you? I can't eat shellfish."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You're not Jewish."
• (Anatoly Orlov) "I like being "Jewish", I like the hat, and it reminds us that there is something above us, I like that. I'm going to temple"
• (Nicolas Cage) "You're not going to the temple, you go to the temple more than the rabbi"
• (Anatoly Orlov) "Don't forget to check the specials at The Palace."

• (Nicolas Cage) "You underestimate yourself Aleksei. You're the best. You're the s*** Aleksei, you're the s***. You're the s***. You're the s***."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Luckily we live in a world where suspicion alone does not constitute a crime."

• (Nicolas Cage) "There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"

• (Nicolas Cage) "It's made of a polymer composite, many of my clients feel they can get through airport security without seeing a lot of bells and whistles, personally I do not recommend that. On the other hand if you're looking for a traditional "real gun" there is no substitute of muzzle energy of a 357 magnum and of course it will never jam"

• (Nicolas Cage) "The problem with dating dream girls is that they have a tendency to become real."

Ian Holm as Simeon Weisz

• (Ian Holm) "The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition."

Ethan Hawke as Jack Valentine

• (Ethan Hawke) "He must be lying -- He's talking."

• (Ethan Hawke) "You have broken every arms embargo written there's enough evidence to put you away for consecutive life sentences you're going to spend the next ten years of your life going from a cell to a courtroom before you even start serving your time."

• (Ethan Hawke) "curiously, your brother's death certificate said he died of heart failure"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Falsifying a death certificate? That's not going to hold me"
• (Ethan Hawke) "You're right as usual you are right, it was your wife, your trophy wife that led us to the prize. It's not her fault she's just easier to follow than you are."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Have you seen today's paper?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Fake end-user certificates. Cut-out companies meticulously catalogued. There is hardly a warlord, dictator, despot anywhere in the world you're not on a first-name basis with."

• (Mbizi) "Can we make him disappear? Around here people disappear all the time"
• (Ethan Hawke) "No, don't do it"
• (Mbizi) "Look where we are, who will know?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "We will, his going to get what's coming to him"
• (Ethan Hawke) "what are you doing in Sierra Leone?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm on safari"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Oh really? You're hunting wildebeest with a Submachine gun?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "You also work with the park service? Hunting without a license? Is that the charge?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Why are we playing games? You traffic arms"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Trade"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Trade, traffic you get rich by giving the poorest people on the planet the means to killing each other"

• (Ethan Hawke) "I would tell you to go to hell, but I think you're already there."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Since you're so concerned with the law, you must know that I am legally permitted to hold you for 24 hours without charging you. You might ask why I would do that, and I can assure you it's not because I enjoy your company, because I don't. No. The reason why I will delay you for every second of the permissible 24 hours is I'm delaying your deadly trade and the deaths of your victims. I don't think of it as taking a day away from you, but giving a day to them. Some innocent man, woman or child is going to have an extra day on this Earth because you're not free. So I will see you in -- 23 hours and 55 minutes."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Do you know why I do what I do? I mean, there are more prestigeous assignments. Keeping track of nuclear arsenels; you'd think that be more critical to world security. But it's not. No, nine out of ten war victims today are killed with assault rifles and small arms; like yours. Those nuclear weapons sit in their silos. Your AK-47, that's the real weapon of mass destruction."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I don't want people dead, Agent Valentine. I don't put a gun to anybody's head and make them shoot. But shooting is better for business. But, I prefer people to fire my guns and miss. Just as long as they are firing. Can I go now?"

Sammi Rotibi as Andre Baptiste Jr.

• (Sammi Rotibi) "My father would like to meet you."
• (Nicolas Cage) "What an honor thank him but unfortunately I have other business it's a shame, I have a very busy schedule."
• (Sammi Rotibi) "It is not as they say "optional" my father is easily offended."
• (Nicolas Cage) "My schedule just freed up."

• (Sammi Rotibi) "Please, my father left a "welcome gift" in your room: enjoy."

• (Sammi Rotibi) "Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Part One, Two, or Three?"
• (Sammi Rotibi) "I've only seen Part One."

• (Sammi Rotibi) "What are you doing?"
• (Jared Leto) "Something for Yuri."

Liya Kebede as Faith

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Eamonn Walker as Andre Baptiste Sr.

• (Eamonn Walker) "They say that I am the lord of war, but perhaps it is you."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I believe it's "warlord.""
• (Eamonn Walker) "Thank you, but I prefer it my way."

• (Eamonn Walker) "Welcome to Democracy."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Democracy? What have you been drinking Andy?"
• (Eamonn Walker) "Heh, you have not seen the news. You know, they accuse me of rigging elections. But after this;"
• (Eamonn Walker) "with your Florida and your Supreme Court of Kangaroos, now, the U.S. will shut up forever."

• (Eamonn Walker) "Personally, I blame MTV."

• (Eamonn Walker) "I'm not going to pay your asking price we're not rich people besides the market is already flooded with your Kalashnikovs, do you realize in some parts of my country you can get one for the price of a chicken?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "But you can't look at the unitary price: you forget ancillary costs, end user certificates needs to be forged and notarized, shell companies set up, insurance purchase pilots and crews need to be hired, not to mention the bribes. You can't get a nut and bolt out of the eastern bloc without a bribe there's one for the nut another for the bolt, this isn't an inexpensive proposition"
• (Eamonn Walker) "I'm going to pay you in either timber or diamond stones."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'll take the diamonds because it's too hard to fit a tree trunk in my hand luggage. I know your plan for the new offensive, if you can delay a week, I can get you armored personnel carriers, they'd greatly reduce your casualties and give you a significant strategic advantage."

• (Eamonn Walker) "How do you do this? When their always watching all of my airspace?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Where there's a will, there's a weapon. Where's my f***ing money?"
• (Eamonn Walker) "When it is delivered"
• (Nicolas Cage) "It is delivered"
• (Eamonn Walker) "This is not for me"

Jared Leto as Vitaly Orlov

• (Jared Leto) "You f***. You f***ing f***. You f***- you f***ing f***. What the f*** is your problem?"

• (Jared Leto) "Oh God."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Always resort to your native tongue in times of anger. And in times of ecstasy."

• (Angel) "My name is Angel."
• (Jared Leto) "Her name really is Angel. Let's put her on the Christmas tree."

Bridget Moynahan as Ava Fontaine

• (Bridget Moynahan) "I don't care if it's legal. It's wrong."

• (Bridget Moynahan) "We have enough. You can stop now."
• (Nicolas Cage) "It's not about the money."
• (Bridget Moynahan) "What is it about?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm good at it."

• (Bridget Moynahan) "I don't believe you, can you prove any of this?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Your husband goes through a lot of trouble to make his business look legitimate perhaps especially to you. I don't expect we're going to find anything here today"
• (Bridget Moynahan) "So what'd you want?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "I was hoping you'd help me. I understand your parents died tragically, the illegal fire arms that were used to kill your mother and father were procured from men exactly like your husband."

• (Bridget Moynahan) "I feel like all I've done my whole life is be pretty. I mean, all I've done is be born. I'm a failed actress, a failed artist -- I'm not much good as a mother. Come to think of it, I'm not even that pretty anymore. I have failed at everything, Yuri -- but I won't fail as a human being."

Yevgeni Lazarev as General Dmitri

• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "I can't sell you government property I have to report"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Report to who? Moscow? As of last week Moscow is in a foreign country"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "There's a new flag so there's a new boss"
• (Nicolas Cage) "There is no new boss yet their all too busy squabbling over whose going to get the presidential holiday home at the Black Sea its beautiful show me your inventory how many Kalashnikovs do you have?"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "Forty thousand"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Is that a four? Doesn't look like a four to me, it looks more like a one"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "No it's a four"
• (Nicolas Cage) "It's whatever we say it is because no one else will never know the difference, ten thousand Kalashnikovs for an entire battalion your stocks are dangerously depleted you should order more from the factory"
• (Yevgeni Lazarev) "What happens if someone looks it up?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Then we'll cut them in"

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