‘the departed ( 2006 ) sentence starters ↪ taken from the film, film script, & original script. some have been slightly altered to work better out of context. yes i know it’s super long but i couldn’t help it. alter as you see fit. trigger warnings for religion, blood, death, violence, language
“you still on the straight and narrow?”
“you can tell a mick because he wakes up every day and smells the coffin.”
"what sort of man wants to be kept in his place?”
“i don’t know what to do for you.”
“don’t run into the fucking building fucking next time, you fuckin’ douchebags.”
“don’t tell me i’m looking at the first dickhead-american president of the united states!”
“fuck yourself. you’ll see what i’ll be. how i’ll end up.”
“you don’t need any help from me to be completely fucked.”
“rage issues, paramilitary fantasies, and lower median IQ.”
“if you had an idea about what we do we would not be good at what we do.”
“what’s that got to do with me?”
“i ain’t sure about him, either.”
“why didn’t you become an actor?”
“i think even if i were sigmund fucking freud i wouldn’t get an answer.”
“it’s not a strange question.”
“he’s dead, you know. i didn’t tell you.”
“are you trying to prove something to the family?”
“you have always questioned everything.”
“maybe. maybe not. maybe fuck yourself.”
“what was his name? the, ah, departed.”
“you’re a fucking genius.”
“it was in the papers.”
“and why are we graced with your presence?”
“i’m the guy who tells you there are guys you hit and there are guys you don’t. that’s not quite a guy you can’t hit, but it’s almost a guy you can’t hit, so i’m fucking ruling on it right now that you don’t hit him.”
“i mean fuck yourself.”
“welcome to the neighbourhood. ”
“they don’t run harvard law at night, last time i checked. ”
“and for that you have to take me to dinner.”
“shut your ass before you get a gun stuck up it.”
“when i hear about someone getting in touch with their true nature i always feel like i need a shower.”
“they say you really fucked up.”
"personally, i only come into places like this if i have to hurt somebody.”
“i’m sorry. it was necessary.”
“i saw a dead guy. i think i have post traumatic stress. you available for lunch?”
“he’s an idiot.”
“you’re a presentable guy, now that you’re not pretending to be a scumbag for some personal reason.”
“he gave me a fucking job!”
“informers. the world is all informers.”
“i was going for my fuckin’ cigarettes.”
“in this country we can eat a variety of items.”
“if you ask me another question, i’m going to kill you.”
“you’re rising in the world. what are you going to do?”
“the way you live, there’s not much question about the way you die.”
“the next time i see you, i’ll kill you.”
“mind your own fuckin’ business.”
“most of the people in the world do it every day.”
“that was a joke, [name].”
“it’s just a little while longer.”
“name me one thing that people do that doesn’t have some element of a clusterfuck.”
“you’re a mess. you need to talk to somebody?”
“i need to fucking talk to somebody.”
“get the fuck out of there now and don’t go back.”
“you look so relaxed.”
“can we afford an interior decorator? because even if i had time, i really suck at it.”
“when you’re younger, every year is a different personality with different costumes, different books. then you’re just finally the same old shit, and so is your life. that’s when you get married.”
“haven’t you been different people?”
“you calling the shots here?”
“do you know what it’s like to be the only person who can do anything, and to not be able to do it?!”
“people are liars. they want to be stars of their little films. reinvent what happened. pretend they had a snappy comeback when really they thought of it in the car.”
“no one’s more full of shit than a cop.”
“no one’s themselves, if anyone’s watching. sometimes i think that the happiest people are the ones who aren’t themselves even when they’re alone.”
“i was on a sailboat once in a stom. there were people who lost it. there were people who did their jobs. everyone sorts out.”
“maybe i don’t need you.”
“maybe we could play trivial pursuit or have an original-thought bakeoff and see who wins.”
“you did that because i said something true. congratulations.”
“it was a clumsy way to say that i was interested in your thinking.”
“this is fuckin’ america. it’s complicated, here. wake up.”
“don’t tell me how to do my job.”
“i’ll tell you to your face that you just didn’t do it.”
“some people never trust a guy with an immaculate record.”
“ladies see the wedding ring and how immediately that you must have some money and that your cock works.”
“reality’s important. appearances are more important.”
“no, no, no. jesus christ.”
“i don’t know what’s going on and i’m not sitting in this room without getting a tetanus shot.”
“the only one who could do what i do as well as i do is you.”
“if you make me fear for my life, i’ll put a fucking bullet in your fucking head as if you were anybody else.”
“if you’d handled this problem i wouldn’t be here.”
“fuck yourself.”
“i have a lot to learn from you.”
“you can … be one thing with one person, and someone else to another.”
“what the fuck do you want?”
“i’ve done a lot of bad things but i’ve never been a murderer.”
“i have unfinished business. i don’t know exactly what I’m going to do …”
“we all have an achilles heel.”
“it’s good to know people in high places.”
“you get to a certain age and it’s all about deciding to commit. sometimes not what you want. you have to want what you don’t. you keep wanting what you want and it’s chaos. what do you want?”
“you got a thing for rooftops?”
“i’m not your confessor. there’s no absolution.”
“i know who you used to be.”
“it’s the essence of cards. you play what you’re dealt, or you’re a fucking cheat.”
