The Outfit Movie Quotes
Leonard
If we only allowed angels to be customers, soon we'd have no customers at all.
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Leonard
I'm not a tailor; I'm a cutter.
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Francis
Oh, are you a doctor now too?
Leonard
I was in the war.
Francis
At your age?
Leonard
The other war.
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[first lines]
Leonard
[narrating]
To the naked eye, a suit appears to consist of two parts, a jacket and trousers. But those two seemingly solid parts are composed of four different fabrics. Cotton, silk, mohair, and wool. And those fabrics are cut into 38 separate pieces. The process of sizing, forming, conjoining those pieces, requires no fewer than 228 steps.
[puts his kettle on to boil]
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Roy
Monk!
Roy
Who walks out into the cold, in December, in Chicago, without his coat?
Monk
I ain't good at riddles.
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Leonard
[narrating]
It's at the finishings that you must come to terms with the idea that perfection is a necessary goal, precisely because it is unattainable. If you don't aim for perfection, you cannot make anything great. And yet true perfection is impossible.
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Leonard
When a mistake's been made, I've always found it best to simply be up-front about it.
Francis
English, I didn't cut the boss' pants too short, I shot his son in the face.
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[last lines]
Leonard
Its not perfect. You have to make your peace with that.
[leaving his shop]
Leonard
How? Well, you sit at your board, you lay out your tools, and you start again.
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Leonard
You cannot make something good until you understand who you're making it for. All clothing says something.
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La Fontaine
[to Francis]
You're like a spoiled child who breaks their own toys rather than let other kids play with them
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Richie
Why'd you come here then?
Leonard
The war.
Richie
What, Kruats bomb your place?
Leonard
Worse. They're called blue jeans.
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Leonard
I want so bad to be good.
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Mable
Come with me.
Leonard
No.
Mable
No, come with me. You can show me things you've already seen.
Leonard
You will not spend you best years taking care of my remaining few.
Mable
I was taking care of myself just fine, you know. Oh, yes.
Leonard
Knowing you, I'm quite confident you'd have seen to the burials of each each and everyone of those murders. But then .. you'd no longer be pretending to be one. Would you?
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[last lines]
Richie
I'll show you about making a mess
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Leonard
I suppose I put--I put on these clothes, to convince myself I'm civilized.
Leonard
I want so bad to be good.
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Francis
These are the last words you're gonna hear. So I hope you remember them in Hell.
Francis
You didn't die because you're dumb, or 'cuz you're arrogant, or because you're slow.
Francis
It's because you're weak.
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Leonard
The finishing are mere inevitabilities.
Leonard
It's at the finishings where you must come to terms with the idea that Perfection is a necessary goal precisely because it is unobtainable.
Leonard
If you don't aim for perfection, you cannot make anything great.
Leonard
And yet, true perfection is impossible.
Leonard
So, at the finish, you must reconcile yourself to failure.
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