The Ghost Writer (2010)

Ewan McGregor: The Ghost

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Quotes 

• The Ghost : I really don't think this is a good idea.

  Richard Rycart : You have no choice.

  The Ghost : Emmett must have told Lang I've been to see him.

  Richard Rycart : So what's he going to do about it? Dump you in the ocean?

  The Ghost : Well it happened before.

  Richard Rycart : Which means it can't happen again. He can't drown two ghost writers, for God's sake. You're not kittens.

• The Ghost : Did you ever want to be a proper politician in your own right?

  Ruth Lang : Of course, didn't you want to be a proper writer?

• The Ghost : Well don't tell me you're going to read it now.

  Richard Rycart : Not all of it, just the beginning. There's something very important about it.

  The Ghost : Yeah, it's the cure for insomnia.

• Amelia Bly : How's it going?

  The Ghost : [beaming]  Pretty well. He keeps calling me 'man'!

  Amelia Bly : He always does that when he can't remember someone's name.

• The Ghost : Look, l'm sorry. l should never have stayed in a client's house. lt always ends up with...

  Ruth Lang : With you fucking the client's wife?

• Amelia Bly : Are you ill?

  The Ghost : No, I'm aging. This place is Shangri-La in reverse.

• The Ghost : Forty thousand years of human language, and there's no word to describe our relationship. It was doomed.

• The Ghost : [reading the first words of Adam Lang's manuscript]  "Langs are Scottish folk originally and proud of it. Our name is a derivation of 'long', the Old English word for tall, and it is from North of the border that my forefathers hail." Fuuuck.

• The Ghost : You wouldn't happen to know if there are any flights leaving the airport tonight, would you?

  Motel Receptionist : Not unless you've got your own private jet.

  The Ghost : Ah, I lent it to my butler.

  Motel Receptionist : Haha, oh you Brits!

• [first lines] 

  The Ghost : You realize I know nothing about politics.

  Rick Ricardelli : You voted for him, didn't you?

  The Ghost : Adam Lang? Of course I did, everyone voted for him. He wasn't a politician, he was a craze.

• The Ghost : You ought not to be written out of history.

  Ruth Lang : Why not? Most women are.

  The Ghost : Then I'll reinstate you. I'll put in all the occasions that he's forgotten.

  Ruth Lang : How kind, like the boss's secretary who remembers his wife's birthday for him.

• The Ghost : Well all the words are there, they're just in the wrong order.

• Ruth Lang : Who are you?

  The Ghost : I'm your ghost.

  Adam Lang : Right...

  Ruth Lang : Don't worry, he isn't always such a jerk.

• The Ghost : I'd never guess you smoked.

  Amelia Bly : I only allow myself one. In times of great stress or contentment.

  The Ghost : Which is this?

  Amelia Bly : Very funny.

• The Ghost : [on phone to agent]  Some peace protesters are trying to kill me!

• Island Ferry Attendant : Single or return?

  The Ghost : Return. I hope.

• The Ghost : It's my first time in a private jet.

  Amelia Bly : Let's hope it's not your last.

• Ruth Lang : I suppose even ghosts must have feelings.

  The Ghost : We are sensitive spirits.

• Rick Ricardelli : [after hearing the writer's been mugged]  You're still okay to fly tonight?

  The Ghost : God's sake, Rick, I'm in shock.

  Rick Ricardelli : Well, here's another shock for you: for one month's work on a manuscript that's already written, Rhinehart, Inc. is willing to pay you $250,000 plus expenses. Window seat or aisle?

• The Ghost : [into mirror]  Bad idea!

• Rick Ricardelli : This is a great opportunity for you. Plus the money's good, your kids won't starve.

  The Ghost : I don't have kids.

  Rick Ricardelli : I do.