Joshua Nolan quotes from Defiance

Joshua Nolan

Tommy, you hurt my daughter, your questions about God, they're gonna get answered personally.

Datak Tarr

[about Elah Bandik] This man is a deserter. He threw down arms and ran from the Volge.

Joshua Nolan

This man was brave to pick up arms in the first place! Plenty of men lose their nerve the first time in combat.

Joshua Nolan

Funny thing is he's not looking at me, Datak. He's looking at you and I'm the guy with the gun. Mr. Skevur. Ooh, well, that cut looks nasty. I think Datak's boys got here before me. I think they impressed on you the importance of not cooperating with me. Then I get to beat on you fruitlessly for a while until Datak swoops in, whispers in your ear, and all of a sudden, the information flows. [to Datak] I get to look like a big, dumb ape. You get to look like a hero. How close am I?

Datak Tarr

Close enough. But for the record, I had no intention of whispering in this disgusting man's ear.

Joshua Nolan

You know, I've had my eye on the wrong snake. You're the dangerous one.

Stahma Tarr

You're very sweet.

Joshua Nolan

Now, can I trust you to be a good girl and behave yourself while I'm gone?

Irisa Nyira

Probably not.

Joshua Nolan

There's my girl.

Joshua Nolan

So when did a nice boy like you start chasing bounties?

Eddie Braddock

Hard times, my friend, unlike you. I kind of like it though. I'm out in the fresh air. I keep my own hours. Shoot interesting people.

Tommy LaSalle

Thar she blows Captain, two points off the starboard bow.

Joshua Nolan

Stop reading Moby Dick!

Joshua Nolan

Just so we’re clear, anything happens to Amanda between now and the election, anything at all? She slips in the shower… chokes on a chicken bone… doesn’t matter. I will come to your house in the dead of night, press a pillow over your face and I’ll empty my gun into it.

Datak Tarr

And they say humans lack a sense of poetry.

Irisa Nyira

You draw a gun, you aim to kill.

Joshua Nolan

Yeah, I taught you that. Really gotta stop listening to me. I’m an idiot.

Irisa Nyira

We have one rule: we live or die together!

Joshua Nolan

It's a stupid rule.

Irisa Nyira

You burned off my hair.

Joshua Nolan

Nope, the explosion burned off your hair. I was blameless. Besides, short and sassy for those hot summer months. You wore it well.

Hmm, Nolan. Should have put it together. I've heard of you.

Joshua Nolan

And I've heard of Berlin. I've always wanted to visit.

You're a real happy cowboy, aren't you?

Joshua Nolan

Did you really just call me a happy cowboy?

It's written all over your face, the way you carry yourself. That jokey tough guy shtick. I bet you watched Star Wars a few hundred times when you were a kid.

Joshua Nolan

You know, we've been through a long, bloody war. Some of us have developed this thing called a sense of humor -

Bull shtak.

Joshua Nolan

- to help us stay sane.

You're not trying to paper over your nasty wartime past. We all have that. You're trying to hide the fact that you like where it dumped you out. Driving around in that busted-ass roller with your hot Chewbacca, chupping whores. Shooting people who cause you trouble. Call that hand cannon strapped to your side a blaster, and you've got the complete picture. You're living your fantasy, and it only took ten years of an apocalyptic war and the near destruction of the Earth's surface.

Joshua Nolan

Well, this is all very entertaining, if a little facile given that we've just met.

Admit it, you like the world just the way it is: a playground for a man who'd rather not grow up than face the fact that this doesn't work for most everybody else.

Joshua Nolan

So you got yourself paroled from Camp Reverie, huh? How exactly did you manage that?

Doc Yewll

Raw sex appeal.

Irisa

You're wrong.

Joshua Nolan

I'm never wrong.

Irisa

You're always wrong.

Joshua Nolan

I'm occasionally wrong. But my heart's always in the right place.