The Station Agent (2003)
Peter Dinklage: Finbar McBride
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Quotes
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Finbar McBride : It's funny how people see me and treat me, since I'm really just a simple, boring person.
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Finbar McBride : You said you weren't going to talk to me if I sat here, Joe.
Joe Oramas : I haven't said anything in like twenty minutes.
[Fin checks his pocket watch]
Finbar McBride : Nine.
Joe Oramas : You timed me?
Finbar McBride : Mm-hmm.
Joe Oramas : That's cold, bro.
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Joe Oramas : Do they have clubs for you people?
Finbar McBride : What?
Joe Oramas : You know, for train watchers.
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Joe Oramas : Hey, Olivia, you got a garlic press?
Olivia Harris : No.
Joe Oramas : How can you not have a garlic press?
Olivia Harris : [both she and Fin are smiling, looking at him] Still no!
Joe Oramas : Alright, you keep talking! I'm gonna go cook without the garlic press!
[turns back to kitchen]
Olivia Harris : [to Fin] I'm not used to having people in my house... especially loud people.
Finbar McBride : It's a nice house.
Olivia Harris : Yeah. David bought it as a get-away place... so I moved down here and got away.
Finbar McBride : Where did you used to live?
Olivia Harris : Princeton.
[glancing at Fin]
Olivia Harris : I know... I didn't get very far. But I just couldn't stay there another minute. Everyone looking at me... the poor woman whose son died.
[a bit of silence falls between them]
Olivia Harris : How about you? What made you pick Newfoundland?
Finbar McBride : [smiling mystically] I wanted to live near Joe!
[Laughter spreads out gradually from them]
Joe Oramas : [leaning over the rail, shouting] Guys!
[Fin and Olivia burst into laughter]
Joe Oramas : Would you come up here and talk? Seriously, this sucks!
[the two keep laughing crazily]
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[last lines]
Joe Oramas : It's the librarian fantasy, man. Glasses off, hair down, books flying.
Finbar McBride : She doesn't wear glasses.
Olivia Harris : Well, buy her some, it's worth it.
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Emily : Your First name is Finbar?
Finbar McBride : Yes.
Emily : My name is Emily.
Finbar McBride : [Uninterestingly] Hi.
Emily : [Charmingly] Hi.
[trying to get Fin's attention]
Emily : You have a nice chin.
Finbar McBride : [feeling awkward and finding words what to say] Thanks.
[Scene cuts to railroads where Fin and Joe are walking]
Joe Oramas : A nice chin?
[scroffs]
Finbar McBride : Yeah.
Joe Oramas : Seriously?
Finbar McBride : Yeah.
Joe Oramas : Fuckin' weird.
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Finbar McBride : I'm retired, actually.
Emily : Aren't you a little young to be retired?
Finbar McBride : No, dwarves retire early. Common fact.
Emily : Yeah, *lazy* dwarves.
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Finbar McBride : Well, there are people called train chasers. They follow a train and they film it.
Olivia Harris : Are you a train chaser?
Finbar McBride : No.
Olivia Harris : How come?
Finbar McBride : I don't know how to drive a car. And I don't own a camera.
Olivia Harris : That'd do it.
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Joe Oramas : Hey, man, let me ask you a personal question. You've had sex before, right?
Finbar McBride : Yes.
Joe Oramas : With a regular sized chick?
Finbar McBride : With a regular sized chick.
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Joe Oramas : Hey listen, if you guys do something later, can I join you?
Finbar McBride : We're not gonna do something.
Joe Oramas : No, I know, but if you do, can I join you?
Finbar McBride : We're not gonna do something later.
Joe Oramas : Okay, but, if you do?
Finbar McBride : Okay.
Joe Oramas : Cool.
[Fin tries to close the door, but Joe stops it]
Joe Oramas : You the man.
[Fin again tries to close the door, but Joe again stops it]
Joe Oramas : You the man.
[Fin finally closes the door]
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Finbar McBride : Here I am! Take a look. TAKE A LOOK!
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Joe Oramas : Trains are really cool.
Olivia Harris : They are.
Finbar McBride : [smoking marijuana] So are horses.
Joe Oramas : What?
Finbar McBride : I was just thinking that.
Joe Oramas : Give me the joint, man.
