Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

Oliver

My mother wants me to join the company. Yeah, take my rightful place.

Laurel

I can't exactly picture you as master of the universe.

John Diggle

So how was your evening, sir?

Oliver

You mean after I said I had to go the bathroom at dinner and never came back?

Diggle

I guess from now on I'll be watching you pee.

Deadshot

I admire your work. Guess you won't be extending me any professional courtesy.

Oliver

We're not in the same line of work. Your profession is murder.

Deadshot

You've taken lives.

Oliver

For the good of others. You're out for yourself.

Oliver

You don't think much of me, do you?

Diggle

Actually, sir, I have a very high regard for how... perceptive you are.

Oliver

Thank you for coming.

Laurel

I care about the lives of other people, Oliver. Maybe you should try it sometime.

Oliver

[to the new body guard] I gotta go to the wash room, Rob.

Diggle

[to Rob] Oh, that boy's long gone man.

Diggle

You really did lose your mind on that island.

Oliver

Found a couple of things along the way.

Diggle

Like what? Archery classes?

Oliver

Clarity.

[shoots a rabbit] Dinner. Get.

Oliver

Ah, come... hey, I got an idea. Why don't you let me shoot that thing and you can go pick up the bloody, dead, disgusting animal.

[gives Oliver his bow] You try.

[speaks Mandarin]

Oliver

What does that mean?

You will die badly. [motions to the rabbit] Get.

Thea

And you get me this. I mean, it's an arrowhead.

Oliver

Oh, man. Thea, I bought that in the gift shop at the Beijing airport. Now I'm sort of happy I didn't buy you the shot glass with the panda on it, 'cause then you'd be worried I was Panda Man.

Laurel

Wow. I can't remember the last time I've been in this room.

Oliver

I can. Halloween, 2005. We were getting ready for Tommy's party.

Laurel

Ah. Yes. I wore those horrible fishnets.

Oliver

I thought you looked good.

Oliver

I think you have the wrong impression about what it is I do.

Diggle

You take out bad guys with a bow and arrow.

Oliver

I don't fight street crime. That's a symptom of what's wrong with this city; I'm trying to cure the disease.

Diggle

CEOs and crooked entrepreneurs, I get it. Listen, Oliver, I'm just saying maybe you can make a difference if you think beyond the scope of those pages. I'm sure your father wouldn't mind.

Oliver

No, you don't get it. My father died so that I could live. Live and make a difference by fixing the city that he and the people in this book ruined. Every name that I cross off this list honors that sacrifice.

Diggle

Oliver, there's more than one way to save this city.

Oliver

Not for me. Crime happens in this city every day. What do you want me to do? Stop all of it?

Diggle

Sounds like you have a narrow definition of being a hero.

Oliver

I'm not a hero.

Moira

I expect you to be there.

Oliver

I have plans.

Moira

That's fine. Brunch is tomorrow.

Thea

Hmm. inches from a clean getaway.

Moira

Well, you too, Thea.

Oliver

Snap.

Thea

Nobody says that anymore.

Oliver

What?

Oliver

You lied to me.

Diggle

You asked me to work with you, not for you. And when you did, you said it was because you understood the kind of man I am. Well, Oliver, I'm the kind of man who doesn't walk away when there's a chance to make a difference. And neither does Stan Washington. Oliver, I'm not finished talking. Where are you going?

Oliver

To make a difference. Let's catch some bank robbers.

Diggle

Please don't tell me you're going where I think you're going.

Oliver

Diggle, why do you even ask?

Oliver

I have a confession....I didn't want to go out with you tonight.

That makes two of us.

Oliver

I'm really glad that I did.

Helena

That makes two of us.