Time Bomb (2008)
Jake Busey: Jason Philby
Quotes
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[first lines]
Jason Philby : Jake, stop screwing around. You're gonna run the battery down and we're gonna be stuck here forever.
Jake : Can we call a tow truck now?
Jason Philby : Hey, have faith in your dad, alright? I can fix this thing.
Jake : But that's what you said an hour ago.
Jason Philby : Stop being such a pessimist.
Jake : What's a pessimist?
Jason Philby : A pessimist is... some one who... doesn't believe in anything.
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Jane : Don't play dumb with me.
Jason Philby : Who's playing. You always used to say I was stupid.
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Jason Philby : We're broken down on the side of a road in Iraq. We're in a brand new shiny SUV. We might as well hang signs from our heads, saying shoot us, we're stupid Americans.
Bob : Stupid *crusading* Americans, man.
Jason Philby : Don't start with that shit.
Bob : [mechanically reciting] We're direct descendants of the Templars, here to reclaim the Holy Land in the name of the one true God, man.
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Jason Philby : I thought Buddhism was all about orange robes and shaved heads.
Bob : It's the notion of the eternal return. It postulates the continuing cycle of birth, death, and re-birth of an individual, ad infinitum, until such time as that person achieves enlightenment and is release from earthly suffering.
Jason Philby : So like deja vu all over again.
Bob : Yeah. All of human history repeating itself over and over, in every detail, from the fall of Rome to this very conversation.
Jason Philby : So we've been here before?
Bob : Uh huh.
Jason Philby : That *is* worse than diarrhea.
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Jason Philby : Don't let anyone tell you what to think, private.
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Jason Philby : You're crazy.
Bob : Am I crazy, or has the world gone mad?
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Bob : You know how people say, everything happens for a reason?
Jason Philby : Yeah, it drives me crazy.
Bob : It's better than the alternative.
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[last lines]
Burgess : This is your lucky day. My superiors have just informed me that you're going to be formally charged.
Jason Philby : So I'm free to go?
Burgess : No. You'll be remanded to a state psychiatric institution for psychological testing.
Jason Philby : On whose authority?
Burgess : You don't need to know.