Arthur Frobisher quotes from Damages

Arthur

[to Walter about Patty] Don't engage with her. You step into the ring with that woman, she will cut your balls off and jam 'em down your throat. My advice, when she straps one on, bend over, bite down hard and just take it.

Arthur

[to Bearded Man] I am prepared to take responsibility, but you, you are still stuck in the past. I'm not. I'm free. Today, I am... I-I walk without fear.

Bearded Man

Well, there's always a solution.

Arthur

What kind of solution?

Bearded Man

A permanent one.

Arthur

What? Oh, God, no. What, you think that I would...?

Bearded Man

It wouldn't get back to you.

Arthur

Oh, we're-we're talking about a human life here. Sh-She's an innocent girl. She didn't do anything. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Bearded Man

Sometimes that's enough.

Ray

I'm worried the sun don't shine on the same dog's tail all week.

Arthur

I have no idea what that means.

Ray

It means we got lucky.

Larry Popler

Patty Hewes has ears, too. Maybe I'm talking to the wrong person.

Arthur

Larry, you don't want to threaten me. Take the money.

Larry Popler

I mopped your floors, you son of a bitch! 34 years I cleaned your shit.

Arthur

I know you don't give a shit about justice, Patty. So what do you want?

Patty

I want you disgraced. I want history to erase your every achievement. I want you to feel the disgust in your children's eyes when they look on you in shame.

Arthur

Has the videotape been put into evidence?

Bearded Man

I don't think so. No. Then maybe Patty Hewes doesn't have it.

Arthur

What are we doing, playing guessing games? There's a goddamn gun out there pointed right at me, and you don't know if it's loaded.

Arthur

I need facts. I need information, that's all I want.

Larry Popler

Mr. Frobisher, I know!

Arthur

No, you actually don't know! You don't know shit, and you've done shit... which is exactly what you're going to get from me. I ain't paying you a penny.

Larry Popler

I don't need your money, you prick!

Patty

So, think about it. But not for too long. If I don't hear from you by the end of the day tomorrow, I'm gonna treat some friends of mine at the Justice Department to dinner and a movie.

Arthur

You really enjoy this, don't you?

Patty

It's my job.

Arthur

Why do you hate me so much?

Manu Singh

Arthur, you have invited a jackal into your life. And it is the jackal's nature to hunt until he has made his kill.

Arthur

What's that supposed to mean?

Manu Singh

It means you have a choice -- you must either spend the rest of your life running from this man... or turn yourself in and face the repercussions of your past.